Please help Denise Davis yet again fight off a proposed large windfarm. The image below is to scale and shows the 126.5 metre turbines as they would appear 1400 metres across the valley from her house. Denise says :- Druim Ba Sustainable Energy proposed a large-scale wind farm in Read more
We are climbing on the wind power bandwagon just as other countries are jumping off. http://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnists/wind-power-as-a-form-of-green-energy-is-far-from-green
A contractor has been appointed to lay the foundations for a major green energy project off the north-east coast. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/peterhead/765526/floating-wind-turbine-project-in-peterhead-progresses/
The largest windfarm ever proposed for Angus is hanging in the balance because the sums may not add up, it has emerged. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/campaigners-totally-confident-macritch-hill-windfarm-won-t-get-off-the-ground-1.913143
SSE has allocated a fund of £1 million for the benefit of community groups across the Highlands as part of its community benefit programme from its onshore wind farms. Applications of over £10,000 will be accepted from non-profit making organisations, community groups and charities based within the Highland local authority Read more
The Siemens SWT-3.2-101 and other models of the Siemens D3 turbine to be installed in the Scottish onshore wind projects. Siemens has been awarded orders for three onshore wind projects in Scotland, supplying up to 50,000 households in South and North Ayrshire and Lockerbie. For the Dersalloch wind farm in Read more
Prominent energy industry expert Dick Winchester has criticised the decision by Chancellor George Osborne to withdraw a £1 billion grant for long-planned Carbon Capture and Storage scheme in Peterhead. The Conservative Party had earlier made a manifesto commitment ahead of the 2015 general election to deliver the project. The shock Read more
A growing number of companies are urging the UK Government to rethink plans to cut green renewable energy subsidies, as the Paris climate-change talks are about to get under way. The Financial Times is reporting that a wide range of businesses – including some of Britain’s biggest companies – have Read more