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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RI_LxnZYM0&feature=youtu.be Evidence presented by a Danish farmer who’s livestock has been decimated since several turbines, the closest being approx. 1,000m, began operation a couple of years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RI_LxnZYM0&feature=youtu.be
The latest Energy and Environmental Newsletter, is now online. https://www.masterresource.org/alliance-for-wise-energy-decisions/awed-energy-environmental-newsletter-january-25-2016/
Statement by Kaj Bank Olesen at the public meeting in Isenvad, Denmark on November 25, 2015. http://en.friends-against-wind.org/testimonies/wind-turbines-it-can-happen-to-humans-too
The Scottish Energy Minister has visited the MeyGen project tidal power project in Caithness to see at first-hand the role that Scottish companies in the supply-chain are playing in the construction of the largest planned tidal development project in the world. Scottish Energy Minister welcomes supply-chain opportunities at MeyGen, the Read more
Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution is ‘on course’ to invite bids to secure the future of Shetland’s electricity supply after Lerwick power station stops generating. SSE to seek bids to generate electricity for Shetland islands