The UK’s onshore wind power industry may have been dealt a huge blow by new government policies announced last week, but this apparent setback should instead be seen as an opportunity. Elsewhere in Europe local, cooperative wind power is flourishing – could your town be next?
http://theconversation.com/could-local-crowd-funded-turbines-be-the-future-for-uk-onshore-wind-42570
We publish content from 3rd party sources for educational purposes. We operate as a not-for-profit and do not make any revenue from the website. If you have content published on this site that you feel infringes your copyright please contact: webmaster@scotlandagainstspin.org to have the appropriate credit provided or the offending article removed.
MPs are being urged to back North Sea oil and gas to help the UK meet its climate obligations as well as boosting jobs, communities, and the economy. Energy industry leaders, trade union bosses and Read more
Industry insiders fear the grid operator Neso’s plan will bypass Scotland’s offshore pipeline, putting investment in floating wind farms at risk SNP ambitions to inject £96 billion of cash into Scotland’s renewables sector are in Read more
IN the process of making us dependent on the weather for our electricity, we are ignoring, or perhaps even accepting, the visual destruction of our fine Scottish landscape, and its effect on tourism. We are Read more
2 Comments