Comments about Amplitude Modulation (AM) made during yesterday’s Energy Bill committee meeting by the Minister of State for Energy, Andrea Leadsom MP: Open link below > scroll forward to 16:19:20 > listen for 3 minutes……or more if you wish http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/9fda76d1-d379-4bba-8e1a-d54f9d194051?in=14:00:07 Parliamentlive.tv Energy Bill [Lords] Committee Note: Andrea Leadsom warmly congratulates Read more
SSE has announced plans to shut most of its Fiddler’s Ferry coal-fired power plant in April, wiping 1.5 gigawatts of power capacity from the UK grid and worsening the looming energy crisis next winter. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/12139151/UK-energy-crisis-deepens-as-SSE-plans-early-plant-closure.html
The 174 turbine Hornsea project will span an area five times the size of Hull It is being carried out by a company owned by the Danish government Critics say the annual subsidy to the wind farms will inflate energy bills http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3430970/World-s-biggest-wind-farm-set-built-Grimsby-Project-featuring-turbines-600ft-high-covering-160-square-miles-create-2-000-jobs.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Work may start on a university’s windfarm before it is established how interference with radar at the nearby military airfield will be avoided. St Andrews University warned the project is at serious risk by a delay in agreeing a radar mitigation scheme with the Ministry of Defence to protect Read more
David Knox, News Editor Community groups are forming an alliance in a bid to block an invasion of wind farms along the southern Borders. Last week’s Border Telegraph revealed that Partnership for Renewables is planning to site up to 90 turbines on three sites between the Carter Bar and Newcastleton. Read more
The following link will allow you to view a copy of the updated information. http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/energy-and-climate-change-committee/
North Devon Council said it had spent an estimated £60,000 carrying out monitoring work at the 22-turbine site at near West Down since 2012. http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/fullabrook_noise_costs_are_revealed_1_4402267
A press release by Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft reports how offshore North and Baltic Sea wind turbines need to be in operation for 25 years before they become profitable, but that they are prone to shortened lifespans due to rust from the harsh sea environment. http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.0c2SBtfz.dpbs