Around 4.9GW of commercial offshore wind farms are currently under construction in Europe but the sector has slowed down and could continue to contract in the next two years. http://www.energylivenews.com/2014/07/15/two-year-offshore-wind-slowdown-ewea-warns/
Council planners have recommended refusal of a five-turbine wind farm for land outside Kirkcudbright. The Barcloy Hill project by RES UK and Ireland Limited has been met with 800 letters both in support and objection, with 550 against the plans. Those against the sceheme claim there is a saturation of Read more
Sunday Mirror columnist Carol Malone says: “our finest hours down the centuries have been together but maybe the marriage really is over” http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotland-power-dismantle-300-year-union-3848912
Britain risks widespread electricity blackouts unless it improves the network’s ability to balance intermittent supply from renewable energy sources, a leading engineer has warned. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/britain-faces-blackouts-unless-green-balance-improves-leading-engineer-warns-9602512.html
UK energy regulator Ofgem has given the green light for a new subsea electricity interconnector between Moray and Caithness which will bring 1.2 gigawatts of Scots renewable energy onshore to the UK grid. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/600-new-scottish-energy-jobs-to-be-created-after-ofgem-approves-1-2b-subsea-electricity-link-and-cuts-transmission-charges/
Anti-wind farm campaigners won the latest battle against a huge development near Dalmellington. And now they have urged Scottish Ministers to give the 50-turbine plan for South Kyle a final boot into touch. At a special Planning Meeting on Friday, councillors agreed to the recommendations from council officers to OBJECT Read more
Campaigners fighting against plans to build an electricity substation in an Aberdeenshire village have claimed they been left in “limbo”. The majority of residents in Blackdog united to fight proposals for the substation, which is planned for a former landfill site, and be connected to an 11-turbine development at Read more
I hear Chris Bunyan wants to “sit around the table” with Sustainable Shetland. I don’t believe his dream will become reality. Sustainable Shetland is in all likelihood the largest ever constituted community group in the history of the Shetland Islands and represents over 800 individuals. Bunyan and his little band Read more