Plans to meet all Scottish energy needs through renewable sources by 2020 are challenging. Our expert panel discussed how it could be achieved http://www.theguardian.com/big-energy-debate/scotland-energy-crisis-next-without-nuclear
ENERGY Minister Fergus Ewing has blown away plans for a new wind farm near Oxton. http://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/roundup/articles/2014/05/27/498820-oxton-windfarm-blown-out/
by Douglas Lindsay, with Dr Ian Shackleton, senior lecturer at the Glasgow School of Politics and Football SNIP A vision of Scotland covered in giant wind turbines, all of which stand idle, as barely a zephyr of wind crosses the country, was presented this morning, but it wasn’t a page Read more
DAVID Watson is correct to highlight the fact that the capacity of hydro-electric pump storage is difficult to expand significantly to provide “base-load” back-up for a renewables-based power supply system for Scotland (“We still do not have a solution for storing energy from renewables”, Herald Agenda, May 26). However, I Read more