MARK WILLIAMSON A London-based renewable energy investor has bought the Stroupster wind farm in Caithness in an £85m deal and underlined its appetite for more acquisitions in spite of cuts in official support for renewable energy schemes. Greencoat UK Wind has acquired Stroupster from Bay Wa a month after the Read more
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Wind turbines generate infrasound that can cause serious health problems. The infrasound from wind turbines can carry through the air for tens of kilometres. This was verified in the measurements carried out in Finland. The National Association of Citizens against Giant Windmills – has recently released an extensive report on Read more
The John Muir Trust and the Wild Land Research Institute at Leeds University have produced a new graphic animation showing the dramatic change in Scotland’s landscape over the past 20 years as a result of the expansion of the wind-power industry. Watch the new graphic film here: Read more
Norwegian energy giant Statoil has appointed a Scottish contractor to provide the suction anchors to the world’s first floating wind farm – its Hywind offshore floating wind farm off Peterhead. Statoil will install a 30 MW wind turbine farm on floating structures at Buchan Deep, 25 km offshore Peterhead, harnessing Read more
After Chancellor George Osborne completed his financial spending statement today in the Westminster parliament, the UK Government announced that that its £1 billion ring-fenced capital budget for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Competition is no longer available. This immediately resulted in N. Sea oil giant Shell and its Perth-based Read more
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has slashed its forecasts for new renewable power capacity by more than a third over the next decade, Carbon Brief analysis shows. http://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-government-quietly-slashes-renewable-energy-forecast