Inch Cape Offshore Windfarms Ltd (ICOL) sparked a storm of protest after unveiling plans to construct the concrete building north of Meadowmill, on top of the Battle of Prestonpans site. http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/prestonpans/articles/2014/05/11/497772-further-consultation-on-plans-for-substation-on-historic-battle-and-waggonway-site/
PAYMENTS to green energy firms under a controversial government scheme that compensates them for wasted power have soared by more than 1,300%. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/scotland/article1409570.ece
by TERRY MURDEN A UNIVERSITY spin-out company is poised to become the first tidal energy technology developer to produce commercially viable electricity. Tests are now being carried out at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney on a turbine device and mooring system developed by renewable energy engineers in Glasgow. Read more
Sigrid Rausing, owner of the Granta publishing house and one of Britain’s richest women, says that with great wealth comes great responsibility By Mick Brown Sigrid Rausing is one of the wealthiest women in Britain. SNIP Sigrid Rausing also owns a 40,000-acre estate in the Monadhliath mountains in the Scottish Read more
Proposals that would have seen three wind turbines built at Chapelton Farm have been turned down by South Ayrshire Council. The turbines which would have each been 67m in height were set to be built on a slope of High Chapelton hill, situated 3.5km east of Turnberry and 8.3km north Read more
PLANS for a £45 million wind farm in the hills above Greenock have been scaled back, the Tele can reveal. http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/greenock/articles/2014/05/10/497906-45m-wind-farm-plan-is-to-be-scaled-back/