March 12, 2015

Conservative plans to effectively ban new onshore wind farms will lead to higher energy prices for consumers, Tim Yeo, the senior Tory backbencher has claimed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/11465812/Onshore-wind-farm-ban-will-raise-energy-prices-Tory-MP-Tim-Yeo-warns.html

    Lang Banks paints a bucolic image of a Scotland free from any non-renewable power stations (Agenda, The Herald, March 10). Yet the crux of Mr Banks’s argument is that Scotland can afford to dispense with all its baseload and dispatchable power sources (which account for about two-thirds of Read more