THE preferred location for a new electrical sub-station, which would connect to an offshore windfarm east of the Firth of Tay, has been named as land next to Cockenzie Power Station’s coal handling plant http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/roundup/articles/2014/04/04/493885-windfarm-substation-bid-for-cockenzie-power-station-coal-store-site/
By Christopher Rae The public are to be given the chance to view plans for a groundbreaking new clean energy project off the north-east coastline next month. Norwegian energy giant Statoil will give locals the chance to look over plans for its Buchan Deep scheme, 12 miles off the coast Read more
Work begins next week on a Perthshire farm to build Scotland’s first community-owned co-operative wind turbine. http://www.fwi.co.uk/articles/04/04/2014/144021/co-op-turbine-project-spreads-risk-and-rewards.htm
National Grid made special payments of £300m over the last 12 months to big energy companies – sometimes for switching off their power stations in an attempt to “balance” the system. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/03/gas-company-payments-dwarf-similar-windfarms-national-grid
Who is winning the clean energy race? The British wind industry, says new report/Renewable Uk http://www.renewableuk.com/en/news/press-releases.cfm/who-is-winning-the-clean-energy-race-the-british-wind-industry-says-new-report
Ireland’s DP Energy is set to become Europe’s largest independent developer of tidal stream projects after taking over the lease from Perth-based Scottish & Southern Energy’s from the Crown Estate. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/new-blow-for-scots-renewables-as-sse-sells-orkney-wave-project-to-irelands-dp-energy/
A number of Labour and Liberal MSPs in the Scottish Parliament have combined to question the government’s National Planning Framework – which is likely to form the policy for determining controversial wind-parc planning applications in ‘wild land’ areas in Scotland. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/opposition-msps-question-scottish-wind-farm-planning-policy/