February 2016

This article, in Nature magazine, ought to have been front page news – and might have been, had it suggested that global warming was worse than we had thought. Instead, it underlines the sound science behind an inconvenient truth: that there has been a 15-year hiatus in global warming. To Read more

Britain will be forced to rely on imports and costly emergency measures to prevent blackouts, official data suggests http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/12175367/UK-energy-supply-forecasts-into-the-red-for-first-time-next-winter.html

We need to start thinking today about the future of our wind turbines, according to Dr Athanasios Kolios and María Martínez Luengo from Cranfield University http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/43817/the-end-of-the-line-for-today-s-wind-turbines/

Noise issues a key factor at windfarm group meeting. Crediton Courier – 26 Feb 2016

There is an old Scots saying that tells us: “If you always do whit you always did: You’ll always have whit you always hid (had).” In short; we have to be willing to change our approach if we want to be on top of any situation. http://www.farminguk.com/News/Time-to-look-beyond-the-Feed-in-Tariff-for-Farm-Scale-Wind_38819.html

The RES application for Aberarder Wind Farm is due to be decided at Highland Council’ s planning committee on Tuesday (1 March) – precisely 50 weeks after the application was submitted Highlands council to decide on RES Aberarder wind farm – 50 weeks after plan was submitted

In response to the changing renewable energy market in the UK and the move towards significantly reduced and zero subsidies for onshore wind projects, a wind consultancy has developed a package of measures to extend the typical 20 year life expectancy for a wind project. Durham-based Wind Prospect, has developed Read more