Independent Planning Review: A team led by Kevin Murray Associates, the University of Dundee and including Dr Ian Cooper of Eclipse Research Consultants, was appointed by the Scottish Government, acting on behalf of the independent Review Panel, to undertake an analysis of the written evidence submitted to the Scottish Government’s Read more…
The European Investment Bank has put in £500 million to fund a new Caithness-Moray link which will improve connections between Scottish wind, wave and tidal renewable energy schemes and the national grid. The new power link will help secure the supply of electricity in the Highlands and beyond for generations Read more…
A Swiss-registered conglomerate has won an order worth more than $250 million to deliver a 220-kilovolt (kV) high-voltage cable system that will connect the Hornsea-1 offshore wind turbine parc in the North Sea to the UK mainland grid. $250m cable contract to connect Britain’s biggest offshore wind turbine parc goes Read more…
Revealing these milestones in a raft of energy statistics published today, a spokesman for DECC said: “Our plan is working: we’re delivering affordable, secure and low carbon energy for hard-working families and businesses. UK generates 25% of electricity from renewable energy, but Scots race ahead to reach 57.7%
Scotland has met a key target for renewable energy consumption, according to official figures. Statistics published by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change show 57.7% of Scottish electricity consumption came from renewables in 2015 – 7.7% ahead of the 50% target. The SNP welcomed the figures and pledged Read more…
I AM grateful to Alan J Sangster (Letters, March 29) for his response to my letter (March 25) seeking verifiable facts supporting the ability of renewables to consistently provide stable base-load capacity over the national grid. Unfortunately he fails to provide a single actual fact in relation to my question. Read more…
The planning committee of Scottish Borders Council has lodged an objection to the extension of a wind farm near Stow. The controversial bid comes from Wind Prospects Development 2 Ltd which wants to add seven turbines, up to 110 metres high, to the array already operating at Longpark, just south Read more…
SIR – Mary Young’s letter regarding aviation safety was extremely worrying. When planning councillors think that they know more than the experts at the Ministry of Defence regarding the safe siting of wind turbines you have to ask ‘are they living on the same planet as the rest of us?’ Read more…