Dong Energy says it is now convinced UK government will back offshore wind power despite recent cuts to renewable energy sector subsidies http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/03/major-offshore-wind-operator-plans-6bn-uk-pound-investment-2020
David Ross NINE controversial wind farms have been refused or blocked in the past 18 months because they were planned for areas which are designated as wild land. The developments would have seen more than 192 more turbines erected in some of the more remote and rugged parts of the Read more
The FDP Free Democrat party in the state of Hesse (central Germany) writes in a press release how local utilities and communities are suing wind park development company JUWI, accusing it of “making unrealistic promises” regarding wind energy projects, and calls them “highly speculative business with enormous risks for public Read more
I THOUGHT your leader writer was being somewhat pusillanimous (“There are no easy answers on poverty”, The Herald, December 30). Of course there are easy answers for a party which promotes itself as being the only party which can be relied upon to protect the powerless, the weak and the Read more
We’re awash with the black stuff – so we should celebrate the fact that the pessimists got it wrong http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/12075342/The-collapse-in-the-price-of-oil-is-a-challenge-to-the-old-world-order.html
Thanks in large part to wind and solar energy, not only have German electricity prices paid by consumers skyrocketed over the past years, thus casting a large number of homes into home fuel poverty, but also the supply itself is rapidly becoming precarious and unreliable. http://notrickszone.com/
By Liz Rougvie Plans to create what would have been the first windfarm of its kind in Scotland on rural farmland near Pitscottie have been abandoned. Edinburgh-based Temporis Wind had lodged an application with Fife Council for three 46m shrouded turbines on Ladeddie Hill. But the plans prompted dozens of Read more
By Vanessa Allen Wind turbines produced just 10 per cent of their energy capacity during almost a fortnight of the last three months, it was claimed yesterday. Monitors tracking the energy generated from Britain’s wind farms found 12 days when output dropped to 10 per cent of capacity or less, Read more