Plans to build a facility on Tyneside to make foundations for wind farms has been postponed due to “lack of confidence” in the industry. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-30853143
Swedish energy company Vattenfall is going to extreme lengths for the sake of its Danish windfarms – buying up whole villages in rural Denmark, razing them to the ground and replacing the buildings with wind turbines, Børsen reports. http://cphpost.dk/news/company-s-extreme-wind-strategy-towns-today-turbines-tomorrow.12279.html
The UK’s renewable energy sector will not meet its 2020 targets it has been claimed. http://www.energylivenews.com/2015/01/16/renewable-energy-unlikely-to-meet-2020-target/
The MP for Christchurch says building more offshore wind farms is a “manic proposal” and should be halted because they are propped up with taxpayer subsidies while their profits are funnelled overseas. http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Offshore-wind-farms-manic-proposal/story-25880195-detail/story.html
If passed, the bill would mean “no tax-payer funded payments in excess of the prevailing wholesale price” would be made to new offshore projects. http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/1329545/uk-parliament-debates-end-offshore-subsidies
DEVELOPERS in charge of the proposed extension to the wind farm at Little Raith have gone to the Scottish Government in a bid to get their plans pushed through. http://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/cowdenbeath/articles/2015/01/16/521625-kennedy-appeal-to-holyrood-over-little-raith-delay/
Following the unexplained collapse of a wind turbine at a Northern Ireland windfarm last week, one local politician has raised concerns over safety at windfarms closer to home. Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP David Mundell is asking the Scottish Government, the Health & Safety Executive and Council Building Control to Read more…
Written by Pete Bevington Plans to build a massive wind farm in Shetland took a “significant” step forward this week when the government agreed to speed up the timetable for making the project viable. Both UK and Scottish governments have put their full weight behind cutting the cost of exporting Read more…