December 16, 2015

Justices reject US presidential candidate’s legal challenge over 11-turbine project that will ‘spoil the view’ from his Scottish golf course http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/12053028/Donald-Trump-loses-wind-farm-battle-at-Supreme-Court.html https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2015-0160-press-summary.pdf https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2015-0160-judgment.pdf Para 20. A question remains as to why Parliament, when creating the new regulatory regime in the 1989 Act, should have imposed duties in Schedule 9 on Read more

Households face paying almost £80 a year to subsidise wind and solar farms and other renewable power schemes because ministers are failing to control the budget for green levies. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4642213.ece

The chairman of Bute Community Power says the company’s Auchintirrie wind turbine plans are still their best chance of using renewable energy to benefit the island.   http://www.buteman.co.uk/news/local-headlines/auchintirrie-still-our-best-hope-says-bcp-chairman-1-3976400

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has today (Tuesday) announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Levenmouth 7MW demonstration offshore wind turbine in Methil from Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI). http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/new-role-for-methil-turbine-as-research-group-takes-control-1-3976121

Norwegian utility Statkraft has pulled the plug on new offshore wind investment as part of a wider adjustment to future spending. The company said this morning the rethink was forced by a change in financial terms from its owner the Norwegian government. “The most material change is that Statkraft will Read more