The unexpected collapse of a giant wind turbine earlier this year that scattered debris across a wide area in Northern Ireland was put down to a fault in its systems for controlling the blades, the company said. http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/feb/turbine-collapse-cause.cfm
A row has broken out within the wind power industry over the future of small wind farm installations in the UK, and the subsidies that should be paid to them. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/13/truth-behind-wind-turbines-subsidies-power-row
Buildings close to the Glenchamber wind farm in Dumfries and Galloway will receive a discount on their electricity bills. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-31458779
To launch its final report of this Parliament, Fuelling the debate: ECC Committee successes and future challenges, the Westminster Energy and Climate Change Committee is holding a consultation in London on 12 March for energy investors, specialists and campaigners to discuss future challenges and opportunities in energy and climate change Read more
THE letter from Ian W. Thomson (February 12) relates to a personal experience following a brief loss of electricity supply. I believe that it is not appreciated fully that without a reliable supply of electricity the structure of society as we currently know it would fail instantly. This Read more
IN the early evening of last Saturday, our home was suddenly cast into total darkness. That is quite an alarming event in the middle of winter, all the more so because of its rarity, given the security in supply to which we have become accustomed in this country Read more
Councillor Ian Chisholm has written to Kennedy Renewables to enquire about restricted site access at Little Raith. The SNP councillor contacted Jonny Kennedy, managing director of the company, after being made aware of issues with access at the wind farm site by a disabled constituent. Cllr Chisholm has Read more
Alan Taylor Writer LAST summer, on the day that Germany walloped Brazil in the World Cup semi-final, I travelled by ferry from Aberdeen to Shetland in order to gauge what the islanders were making of the forthcoming independence referendum. It was my fourth visit and I was not Read more