A community wind energy project involving benefits for local people has been blocked by the High Court. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/111902/community-wind-turbine-project-blocked-high-court/
MPs on the House of Commons’ Scottish Affairs Committee are set to grill British Energy Minister Amber Rudd over the sudden U-turn by the UK government to abandon its commitment to the £1 billion carbon-capture project in Peterhead. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/mps-issue-amber-alert-for-uk-energy-minister-over-peterhead-carbon-capture-u-turn/
Below is an extract from yesterday’s Scottish Affairs Committee meeting which is published in today’s Scottish Energy News. For those who were unable to watch it live, catch up by visiting http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/scottish-affairs-committee/inquiries/parliament-2015/renewable-energy-scotland-15-16/ Orkney Renewable Energy Forum seeks new inter-connectors to UK to export excess reneweable energy Scottish and Read more
James Delingpole, hot on the hypocrisy trail, pops up a fair and reasonable poser: who protects Britain’s birds from its Royal Society for the Protection of Birds? https://stopthesethings.com/2016/06/09/james-delingpole-who-protects-britains-birds-from-the-rspb/
Attached is a response from the Low Carbon Contracts Company to an FOI request regarding Contracts for Difference (CFD). SAS has received permission to publish the letter in the hope it will remind others to ensure that any windfarm developer with a CFD is actually providing concrete evidence of reaching Read more
This year’s conference presentations and photos are now available to download. The eagle eyed among you may spot the SAS members who attended! http://www.all-energy.co.uk/
by Iain Ramage Highland councillors yesterday nodded through a radically revised windfarm proposal without a debate despite claims that they had not been provided with key information. Two leading activists had written to members of the north planning committee to highlight their point. Due to the scale of the 19-turbine Read more
National Grid has confirmed that next winter (2016-17) will be the first time since the current market arrangements began in 2001 that it has not forecast a surplus margin of spare power plants in the UK market and has instead forecast “negative margins”. As a result, it has already contracted Read more