The Scottish Government has awarded over £10 million to support innovative large-scale low carbon local energy projects. Scot.Govt invests £10m CARES cash in large-scale low-carbon energy projects
Just when we think the world can’t get any madder, along comes something to show that we haven’t yet seen the half of it (who, three years ago, could have predicted the rise of Isil or Donald Trump?). Another such moment came last Monday when our energy minister Andrea Leadsom Read more
Concerns over a “missing” document were raised yesterday at the Cairn Duhie inquiry for a wind farm north of Grantown. The four-day public inquiry is being held at the town’s Grant Arms Hotel in the town into the plans for 20 turbines up to 110 metres high at the site. Read more
Plans for a 62m-high wind turbine near Kennoway have been approved. Councillors on the Central Fife planning committee agreed that the 500kw structure could stay at Kilmux Farm for 25 years. Planning officer Kathleen Illingworth said the turbine complied with established policy on size and impact on the landscape and Read more
by Iain Ramage A developer is challenging Highland Council’s rejection of a slimmer windfarm for a beauty spot on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park. Councillors blocked a revised, 13-turbine, Tom nan Clach scheme proposed for the Dava Moor by Infirnergy, in January on the grounds that the development Read more