By Cheryl Peebles St Andrews University’s windfarm plans have been dealt a blow by councillors’ refusal to let a cable be laid linking it to the national grid. The university asked for the go-ahead to run a 33,000 volt cable nine miles underground between St Andrews and Kenly, near Boarhills, Read more
A new wind farm proposal for eight 126.5m-high turbines on Fala Moor, between the A68 and A7 trunk roads, is being put forward by Greenock-based company Gilston Hill Farm. The land in question lies north-west of Gilston Farm, near Heriot, and is in an area much favoured by renewable energy Read more
AS news breaks of yet another tagged eagle lost to satellite tracking in the Monadhliath mountains (“RSPB fears golden eagle is latest victim of ‘raptor persecution’”, The Herald, August 11), I am left wondering how it is that the Scottish Government can leap to the defence of eagles, with stern Read more
The Small Wind Co-op community energy project to build two small wind farm turbines in Inverclyde has already raised more than 75% of the investment needed. It has raised more than £525,000 towards building the 2 x 100kW turbines at Kellybank, near Wemyss Bay, with supporters investing sums ranging from Read more
Scott Wright, Deputy Business Editor SCOTTISH Renewables has seen a 15 per cent slump in membership after the deployment of new electricity generating capacity from renewables dropped to its lowest level since 2010. The trade body highlighted the “extremely challenging” conditions facing the sector as it reported membership numbers had Read more
“The Institute of Acoustics has published its preferred method of measuring and rating amplitude modulation (AM) in wind turbine noise. Known as the Reference Method, it is essentially a development of the Hybrid Reconstruction Method that was described in a discussion document published by the Institute’s Amplitude Modulation Working Group Read more
Due to the successful running of the Noise Training for Planners delivered by Environmental Protection Scotland originally run in May, the Local Energy and Consents Branch felt it would be beneficial to have EPA rerun this training for their benefit and have invited SAS to take part in the training Read more
The membership of the increasingly wind-dominated Scottish Renewable trade association has fallen by 20% since the UK government announced its cut in subsidies for new onshore wind farms in May last year, while staff numbers have also been trimmed. According to figures issued by the Glasgow-based company, it presently has Read more