Wind farms were paid more than double the market price to stop generating electricity this week, despite the country facing an increased risk of blackouts this winter. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/utilities/12122543/Windfarms-paid-double-the-market-price-to-cut-power.html
WITH four principal harbours and a total of some 41 piers, harbours and slipways, Argyll and Bute has its own unique set of challenges and priorities. As Argyll and Bute councillor Alistair MacDougall explains, between them the council’s various assets cater for a wide range of interests, from ferry traffic Read more
Mark Latham, Deputy Business Editor Plans to build what could be Scotland’s first major offshore wind farm took a step forward on Tuesday with the announcement that an equity consortium is now in place to build the massive £2 billion Neart na Gaoithe development. Global wind and solar company Mainstream Read more
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