November 2014

A MORAY wind farm development has been given the green-light. http://www.northern-scot.co.uk/News/Kellas-turbine-plan-set-in-motion-14112014.htm

194-turbine project likely to be radically scaled back and may be scrapped amid funding concerns and local opposition http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11234261/Plans-for-3bn-Navitus-Bay-wind-farm-off-Jurassic-Coast-in-doubt.html

Scott Wright Group business correspondent INFINIS Energy, the renewable company chaired by former SSE boss Ian Marchant, has lifted operating profits by nearly one third and paid its first interim dividend in the six months ended September 30. The first-half results came as Mr Marchant declared the outcome of the Read more

I WAS recently informed by a charity worker, who delivers food to the needy in Scotland, that more and more people who come to them are having to request items that do not require cooking or hot water to prepare because they do not have the money to afford electricity Read more

Mike Wade Alex Salmond’s vision of a Scotland powered entirely by renewable energy by 2020 has been dismissed as “nonsense” by one of the UK’s leading energy economists. In an interview with The Times Dieter Helm, professor of energy policy at the University of Oxford, insisted it did not make Read more

Anti-wind farm campaigners are gearing up to fight plans for another batch of turbines near Loch Ness. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/68835/loch-ness-wind-farm-fierce-opposition/

A homeowner near the north-east village of New Deer was left bewildered yesterday after a wind turbine has crashed to the ground through the night. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/401329/wind-turbine-topples-over-near-new-deer/

John Bynorth Crofters on Skye have backed plans for a £55 million, 14-turbine wind farm to be built in ­partnership with the community. The Glen Ullinish Wind Farm on Government-owned land between Ose and Struan at Allt Dughaill will be able to generate 42MW, enough electricity to supply 23,000 homes Read more