PLANNING officials have refused permission for two wind turbines in the hills between Greenock and Loch Thom. http://www.inverclydenow.com/photostream/12778-wind-turbines-in-regional-park-rejected
Businesses will be offered compensation to shut down for four hours a day National Grid had planned to introduce this measure in winter of 2015 Fires and other setbacks put some of UK’s biggest generators out of service Two nuclear power plants are offline and unlikely to be running Read more
Mark Williamson Group Business Correspondent LITHGOWS returned to the black in 2013 when the company made good progress in the renewable energy sector but suffered fallout from the demise of the Buckie Shipyard. Accounts for the family-owned group filed at Companies House show Lithgows made £46,000 pre-tax profit in the Read more
Growth in renewable energy is at risk of slowing down over the next five years unless governments reduce the uncertainty over their climate change policies, a new report has warned. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/policy-uncertainty-threatens-to-hold-back-renewables-says-international-energy-agency-2/
An application to erect a wind turbine at Woodheads Farm, Greenlaw has been unanimously approved. http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local-news/all-local-news/greenlaw-wind-turbine-approved-1-3528663
The council is set to seek legal advice over the way it wants windfarm cash handled across the region. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/concerns-over-windfarm-cash-4152220
A massive windfarm development in the Outer Moray Firth has won Scottish Government approval. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/north-of-scotland/332892/moray-firm-recieve-approval-for-three-new-offshore-wind-farms/
Lord Nicol Stephen is resurrecting controversial plans to build a windfarm in Aberdeenshire – just months after he was ruled to have breached parliamentary conduct rules over his green energy interests. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeenshire/332211/north-east-peer-breached-conduct-rules/