Funding for some combined heat and power schemes is cut with just three weeks’ notice, causing outrage among the renewable energy industry and farmers http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/brexit-climate-change-renewable-energy-subsidies-cut-theresa-may-decc-eu-referendum-a7171801.html
DENMARKs Dong Energy has said the Brexit vote has not dimmed the company’s enthusiasm for the UK offshore renewables market after growing profits from wind farms by two thirds http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/14663704.Danish_windfarm_giant_says_it_remains_keen_on_UK_after_Brexit_vote/
Dozens of people turned out at a public meeting last week to express their opposition to plans for a controversial wind farm south of Hawick. http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/local-headlines/opposition-to-wind-farm-mounts-1-4194899
THE new study by BiGGAR Economics (“Wind farms have no negative impact on tourist industry, study shows”, The Herald, August 3) does not succeed in its objective of undermining claims that wind farms drive down tourism. It has significant methodological weaknesses and, perhaps more importantly, a major conceptual weakness. It Read more…
Written by Jeremy Cresswell Concern over bats being killed by onshore wind turbines has been growing for several years and that worry has just been further reinforced by research in Germany. Wind turbines attract bats, apparently, or at least one species. They seem to appear particularly appealing to female noctule Read more…