EUROPEAN leaders have agreed to cut, by 2030, greenhouse-gas emissions in the 28-nation bloc to at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels. The deal is aimed at countering climate change and setting an example for the rest of the world ahead of key international climate negotiations next year. A Read more
TIDAL-POWER company Atlantis Resources has raised £5 million, which will partly fund its involvement in the MeyGen tidal-stream renewable-energy project in the Pentland Firth. The AIM-listed firm said it raised the sum, which excludes expenses, by conditionally placing 12.5 million new ordinary shares at 40p each. They will represent about Read more
Consumers will be forced to pay higher energy bills to fund policies that simultaneously tax coal plants to the brink of closure and then pay them to stay open, the head of Britain’s biggest energy supplier has warned. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/11183161/Energy-paradox-how-your-bills-will-rise-to-phase-out-coal-power-plants-and-to-keep-then-running.html
A renewable energy firm is claiming a shot in the arm with more than 100 letters of support for its wind farm proposal at Birneyknowe. Banks Renewables, of Hamilton, whose 15-turbine bid centres on a site between Hawick and Bonchester, is “delighted” with the positive feedback, and speaking to the Read more
EU leaders vow to slash carbon emissions by 40 per cent by 2030 but do not impose national renewable energy targets By Emily Gosden, Energy Editor Britain will no longer be forced to build wind and solar farms from 2020, under a new EU climate change deal that leaves countries Read more
The community-owned wind turbine development on Islay has taken another step forward with the arrival on the island of the 330kW Enercon wind turbine. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/islay-gets-ready-to-blow-its-own-turbine/
Simon Gray, of the East of England Energy Group, is sure another operator will take over the Galloper Wind farm project after RWE pulls out. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/groups-united-against-misguided-perthshire-windfarm-plans-1.642714
By Mark Mackay Conservation groups, residents, mountaineers and politicians have united in the fight to protect Highland Perthshire’s wildlife and natural environment. Hugely controversial plans for an industrial scale windfarm in the heart of some of “Scotland’s most precious wild lands” have led to almost unprecedented opposition. The application by Read more