Britain was forced to rely on new “last resort” measures to keep the lights on for the first time on Wednesday after coal power plants broke down and wind farms produced less than one per cent of required electricity. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11975069/Power-plant-breakdowns-force-National-Grid-to-issue-alert.html
Fred. Olsen Renewables has awarded the contracts for the supply of wind turbines and balance of plant on its Brockloch Rig Wind Farm development (otherwise known as ‘Windy Standard II’) at Carsphairn Forest in Dumfries and Galloway. Senvion has been selected to supply 30 of its 2.05MW turbines, while balance Read more
Electricity generating is scheduled to start in 2017 from Hywind Scotland – the world’s largest floating wind power turbine. Norwegian oil giant Statoil will install a 30 MW wind turbine farm on floating structures at Buchan Deep, about 15 miles offshore from Peterhead – harnessing Scottish wind resources to Read more
The first phase of Orkney’s new fully funded community wind turbine scheme will go live on the islands this month, with farmers and landowners at 20 properties set to benefit from deeply discounted electricity for at least 20 years. Hamsin Wind – which aims to install over 60 single Read more
As the technical team at Stirling-based Natural Power has been developing new models for more accurately predicting wind farm performance, investment in new high performance computing has enabled the business to produce results from its most advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models at wind farm scale within five to six Read more
National Grid has issued a notice to the energy industry asking for more generation to be brought on to the system following “multiple plant breakdowns”. The power firm said the move was not an indication that there was an immediate risk of blackouts, but it is the first time such Read more
Kleinknecht has thoroughly examined the German Energiewende (transition from fossil fuels and nuclear energy over to renewables) and given the project an overall grade of “poor”. http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.UYzFKjLX.dpbs
Statoil said yesterday the groundbreaking renewable technology it is bringing to Scotland has the potential to supply the entire world with clean energy. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/92250/statoils-floating-wind-turbines-to-power-the-world-with-clean-energy-starting-with-scotland/