June 2016

Following the historic vote to leave the EU, there are now a wide range of possible outcomes for the UK’s energy sector in respect of its regulatory and market options, and its relationship with the EU, writes Chris Gotts. These will all have differing implications for investment and trade, and Read more

HAVE I missed something? First we had Mars – the chocolate maker not the planet – telling us it was sending power from Moy wind farm, the one that killed the protected osprey a few weeks ago, to all of its production sites across the UK. Now we have Nestle Read more

About 40 jobs at the Arnish yard on Lewis will be supported by a £100milion SSE wind-energy turbine contract, it emerged yesterday. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/112765/arnish-turbine-work-expected-support-40-jobs/

The Small Wind Co-op is seeking to raise £1.4 million to build two 100kW community-owned farm-scale wind projects in Scotland which come pre-approved for the government feed-in tariff subsidy. Small Wind Co-op launches £1.4m community energy funding drive for Inverclyde wind farms

National Grid is recruiting cash-strapped NHS hospitals to fire up their emergency generators and turn down their air conditioning systems when power supplies are scarce. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/19/national-grid-recruits-nhs-hospitals-to-help-keep-the-lights-on/

SIR, – The news that e.on is leaving Glenmoriston and taking with it the threat of 18 unwanted industrial turbines from the loch Ness Ring of Steel is welcome indeed, but what a way to do it. By slinking away without telling anyone, they show how far removed these multi-national Read more

The chief executive of the Renewable Energy Association – the biggest such trade body in the UK – has welcomed the call by MPs to break up the National Grid monopoly. MPs on the Commons’ Energy Committee made the call in their report last week on Low Carbon Infrastructure, to Read more