Phasing-out of coal and nuclear reactors without alternatives will combine to create a supply crunch in a decade’s time, report predicts http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/26/engineers-warn-of-looming-uk-energy-gap
Senior lawmakers from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling bloc called for limits on subsidies for renewable energy in Germany as output expanded faster than the electricity grid can absorb the additional flows. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/merkel-allies-call-for-renewable-curbs-as-wind-overwhelms-grid
Renewables – promoted so vigorously to the rural sector as a land of opportunity and social responsibility – have lost much of their gloss, not least because of rates for Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) for solar and onshore wind being slashed, degression across Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) rates for biomass, and Read more
The Government has cut subsidies for wind farms “to appease climate change sceptics”, an MP has claimed. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/government-cutting-wind-farm-subsidies-10787152
Dounreay Trì Ltd. is seeking to demonstrate a multi-turbine floating wind farm located approximately 6 km off the coast of Dounreay, Scotland. http://nawindpower.com/dounreay-tri-looks-to-demo-floating-wind-farm-offshore-Scotland
A £2 billion windfarm development off the coast of Fife is teetering on a knife edge as a deadline to reach financial close looms. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/business/news/neart-na-gaoithe-windfarm-developer-mainstream-renewable-power-ready-to-go-1.921439
JENNY Hogan (Letters, January 22) takes George Herraghty (Letters, January 21) to task for misrepresenting the contribution that renewables make to energy production in Scotland. She claims that, during 2014 as a whole, wind power provided 2 per cent of all electricity. Doubtless some will accuse me of oversimplifying the Read more
By Patricia Hawthorn On the day of Scottish Renewables’ Offshore Wind Conference in Glasgow, and in the week so many of us have celebrated the life and works of the wonderful Robert Burns, I find myself reflecting on the well-kent words: “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft Read more