PEOPLE fighting to protect the area around Culloden from giant pylons (“Conservationists fight the second battle of Culloden”, The Herald, May 10) should take a trip to Beauly – so named by Mary Queen of Scots, who remarked “c”est un beau lieu” (“what a beautiful place”’) when she visited Read more
THE MAKER of Mars bars and Snickers has announced a partnership with energy provider Eneco UK to power its 12 UK factories with electricity generated from the new, 20-turbine Moy Wind Farm, located just south of Inverness. The 60 megawatt Eneco UK site will generate the equivalent of 100 per Read more
MPs have again rejected a Labour Energy Bill amendment to widen the grace period criteria for wind farms affected by the early closure of the Renewables Obligation. Energy Secretary Amber Rudd’s motion to block shadow energy spokesman Lord Grantchester’s amendment 7TB was passed by 286 votes to 260. Labour’s latest Read more
Fergus Ewing, Scottish Energy Minister, has called on the Tory UK government to ‘change course’ over its renewable policies have result in the UK crashing out of the World Top 10 list of most investor-attractive nations for investment in renewables. As revealed yesterday in Scottish Energy News, the EY Renewable Read more