By Alison Little The Government vowed yesterday to keep its promise to end new public subsidies for onshore wind farms. The move came after anger that ministers were considering an “outrageous” plan to dodge the pledge – an industry proposal for wind farms to keep qualifying for a guaranteed fixed Read more
Renewable energy company Ecotricity have lodged an appeal to the Scottish Government after Dumfries and Galloway Council delayed dealing with their California windfarm proposal. It is a move that has outraged Save Wigtown Bay – the action group whic is opposed to the windfarm plans for Stroans Hill, near Carsluith. Read more
Even though it has more than 600 wind turbines, Orkney – the ‘wind farm capital of Britain’ – can’t export excess electricity to the UK because of lack of inter-connector links Even though it has more than 600 wind turbines, Orkney – the ‘wind farm capital of Britain’ – Read more
Simon Bain, Business Correspondent I & H Brown has seen expansion out of Scotland pay off with a two-thirds rise in turnover to £55m, while pre-tax profit rose 75 per cent to £2.1m. The Perthshire-based landowner and civil engineer currently has a £28m order book, up from £23m a year Read more
The public aren’t fools. If the Government wants them to pay for the construction of inefficient wind farms, let it admit to it http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/12155935/A-rebranded-wind-farm-subsidy-is-still-a-subsidy.html
Ministers may break pledge to stop funding onshore turbines with consumer subsidies http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/12156171/Revealed-the-great-wind-farm-tax-con.html
Further to your article regarding the demise of the hen harrier, it would be an interesting exercise to produce a map of where raptors are in decline and lay it over a constructed wind farm map to see if there are any similarities (Hen harriers virtually extinct in the northeast Read more
Despite the reduction in Feed in Tariff (FiT) support for UK wind energy, turbine installations will continue to provide considerable returns (also in the form of energy savings) for both landowners and commercial users. http://www.farminguk.com/News/Still-considerable-returns-to-be-made-despite-reduction-in-support-for-wind-energy_38651.html