The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced a £240m investment in the UK’s offshore wind sector. The investment is part of a wider strategy, led by GIB, to strengthen the UK offshore wind sector by allowing developers to recycle capital into new projects and by attracting new investors into Read more
The coalition’s industrial strategy is little more than “economic tinkering“ that will fail to tackle the trade deficit, according to a report. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/69702/report-calls-government-end-offshore-wind-farm-investment/
An energy giant has come under fire over proposals for two new windfarms. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/save-loch-urr-group-hits-4707507
Mountaineers have called on First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to ensure her government lives up to its promises by rejecting two controversial wind farm proposals in Sutherland. http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Mountaineers-ask-for-Scottish-Government-to-keep-to-keept-its-promises-by-rejecting-Sallachy-and-Glencassley-Wind-Farm-proposals-27112014.htm
YOUR report claiming renewables have now overtaken nuclear as Scotland’s main source of electricity (“Steps on road to cutting reliance on fossil fuels”, The Herald, November 27) fails to differentiate between the concepts of energy and power. While the total electrical energy produced by renewables did indeed exceed that from Read more
A planning application for eight wind turbines at 100m high at Larbrax, Leswalt has been withdrawn. As reported in the Galloway Gazette last week, PNE Wind UK Ltd intend to develop the site eight kilometres north of Portpatrick and eight kilometres west of Stranraer. However, this week the company requested Read more
Written by Pete Bevington The final legal battle over the future of Shetland’s planned 103 turbine Viking Energy wind farm has been provisionally set for 18 December. Anti-Viking campaign group Sustainable Shetland agreed unanimously at a meeting on Tuesday to go ahead with an appeal in London’s Supreme Court. The Read more
By Neil Macphail Western Isles planners have controversially approved erecting a wind turbine 30 miles from a military radar base despite a history of being taken to court by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Council chief executive Malcolm Burr warned councillors of that recently the local authority lost a High Read more