Iain Macwhirter I am a great fan of the writing of George Monbiot, the environmental campaigner, but the Guardian headline on his column made me wince. “Warning: your festive meal could be more damaging than a long haul flight”. That’s a prime example of the Christmas catastrophism that afflicts sections Read more
Windfarm operators in Carrick have collected payments totalling over £1m this month alone as a result of turbines switching off. Scotttish Power Renewables who operate the Arecleoch and Markhill windfarms near Barrhill and Scottish and Southern Energy who operate the Hadyard Hill windfarm near Dailly are paid constraint payments when Read more
From: Department of Energy & Climate Change First published: 27 August 2015 Last updated: 18 December 2015, Part of: Low carbon technologies, Energy industry and infrastructure licensing and regulation and UK energy security https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-a-review-of-the-feed-in-tariff-scheme?dm_i=378V,4XV1,2WYDXZ,EG60,1 MCS have reviewed the Government response to the Feed-in Tariff consultation and have produced a Read more
Natural Power – the Stirlng based renewable energy developer – has forecast that combined installed capacity for on- and offshore wind power in the UK will grow by more than 10% every year for next five years. With a cumulative CAGR of +11% each year until 2020, that would result Read more
Peter Swindon, Group Investigations Writer An initiative which sees green energy businesses claw back millions of pounds in taxpayers’ cash is to be scrapped. The Renewable Energy Generation Relief Scheme (regrs) currently offers qualifying companies rates rebates of up to 100per cent. It cost 7.3million last year, more than double Read more
Lang Banks Late in the evening on Saturday 12 December, the gavel came down on the Paris climate agreement. After two weeks of intensive negotiations, not to mention two decades of UN climate talks that have paved the way to global action, a deal was struck that saw more than Read more
Martin Williams CAMPAIGNERS are lobbying for better conservation of Scotland’s internationally acclaimed countryside while it emerged an area the size of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire has been lost to development over five years. Conservationists are putting fresh pressure on Holyrood ministers to agree to more national parks to help protect the Read more
MPs have published the three areas of work by which the House of Commons Energy Committee aims to hold Energy Minister Amber Rudd to account – with the top priority being the UK’s climate-change targets. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/energy-mps-to-hold-amber-rudd-to-account-on-uk-climate-change-targets-after-paris-summit/