The SNP published its priorities for energy in Europe yesterday, promising to campaign for better support for marine renewables, to push for reform of the Emissions Trading Scheme and to work towards a nuclear energy free future for Europe. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/snp-publishes-energy-priorities-for-europe/
The world’s first community-owned tidal power turbine in Scotland has started exporting electricity to the local grid, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing revealed today. http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/World-first-for-community-tidal-scheme-cac.aspx
Decisions on funding two pilot schemes to capture and bury carbon emissions from power stations need to be fast-tracked after a decade of delay, MPs have urged. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/power-station-carbon-capture-call-1.380149
Plans have been unveiled for the development of a Hywind Scotland Pilot Wind Turbine Park 25km off the Peterhead coast. http://www.buchanobserver.co.uk/news/business-directory/world-s-first-floating-turbine-park-planned-near-peterhead-1-3417269
LYBSTER construction company John Gunn & Sons has secured a million pound contract with SSE contractor RJ McLeod as part of a wind farm development in Sutherland. http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Gunns-land-1m-wind-farm-contract-20052014.htm
By Ann-Marie Parry Campaigners fear plans for three 242ft-high wind turbines will ruin views of Aberdeenshire’s most famous landmark. Proposals to plant the devices at the foot of iconic Bennachie have been branded “a disgrace” and a threat to one of the last unspoiled areas of the north-east. But the Read more
MSP Alex Johnstone (Conservative, North East Scotland) has this week tabled question for answer in the Scottish parliament on causes of last month’s power black-out which cut off electricity to 200,000 homes in the Highlands and Islands. His question asks ask the Scottish Government ‘whether it has undertaken any further Read more
A POLITICAL party set up to stop the spread of wind farms has folded – because its leaders are too busy fighting turbines on their own doorstep. The Alliance Party of Scotland was launched in Inverness last year to fight the Government’s renewable energy policy and the expansion of wind Read more