Picture a cold and dark wintery evening in November and millions of householders across the country are switching on their kettles at the same time after a long day at work but suddenly there is a big problem. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/utilities/11844750/Electricity-network-in-uncharted-territory-as-blackouts-loom.html
Labour and Lib Dem peers seek to remove Energy Bill clause that would end Renewables Obligation support http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2424737/lords-table-amendment-to-block-onshore-wind-subsidy-cut
IT is galling to hear politicians like SNP complaining about effects of Government austerity measures on people-s lives when one of biggest costs we have to face is higher-than-necessary increases to our electricity bills caused by SNP policy on renewables such as wind and solar-generated power. The subsidies we pay Read more
Graham Brown Planners have finally lost their patience with the operators of the largest windfarm in Angus. The Courier can reveal a deadline for a detailed update on the submission of a noise monitoring report for the eight-turbine Ark Hill development near Glamis passed in the latest stage of a Read more
Investors are pulling back from wind farms in Nordic nations as the lowest electricity prices in 12 years cut the profitability of new projects. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-04/wind-farm-investment-plunges-with-power-prices-in-nordic-region
Andrew Watkin, Head of the Energy and Marine team at national property consultancy Carter Jonas, responds to the Department for Energy & Climate Change’s (DECC) consultation on the review of the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) from January 2016 as released yesterday, on an “industry which is already stretched to breaking point” http://www.farminguk.com/news/Government-assault-to-kill-off-renewable-energy-support-under-the-FiT-warns-Carter-Jonas_36905.html
The fate of Bute Community Power’s plans for two wind turbines at the island’s Auchintirrie farm will be decided at a meeting in Rothesay later this month. http://www.buteman.co.uk/news/local-headlines/date-set-for-rothesay-wind-turbine-hearing-1-3876916
A landscape architect for Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) was grilled yesterday during a planning inquiry about the true wildness of land close to a proposed north windfarm. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/685912/qc-grills-landscape-architect-over-wild-land-at-windfarm-inquiry/