The proposed wind turbine at the Bairds Malt facility in Arbroath has been refused by Angus Council Development Management Review Committee. Bairds Malt is a long-standing and significant employer in the local area, having 57 Angus employees and supply contracts with more than 1000 farms; 230 of them spread throughout Read more
Written by Hans J Marter The operator of the oil industry airport at Scatsta has objected to a proposed wind farm development in the nearby island of Yell on the grounds of aircraft safety and potential operational impacts. Serco says the Beaw Field wind farm, which would have 17 145-metre Read more
Lewis Wind Power (LWP) – a joint venture between engineering and construction group Amec Foster Wheeler and EDF Energy Renewables – has bought new wind farm acreage on the Isle of Lewis as it seeks to sell output into the wider UK grid via a planned sub-sea cable. LWP’s acquisition Read more
Weekly statistics for wind turbine appeal decisions. https://beta.gov.scot/publications/wind-turbine-appeal-decisions-statistics/
A working group of the Institute of Acoustics (IoA) has published a report setting out a new method that it hopes will be adopted by the industry as a way of rating instances of amplitude modulation in wind turbine noise. A 3dBA penalty could be introduced if amplitude modulation (thumping) Read more
David Ross The island of Gigha is to play an important role in pioneering work to find a way to store power generated by wind turbines, which could revolutionise the global green energy industry. The island is host to the first community-owned grid-connected wind farm in Scotland, the ‘Dancing Ladies’, Read more
Noise Training Workshop for Scottish Government Energy Consents and Deployment Unit Staff Atlantic Quay, Glasgow 19 August 2016 SAS was delighted to be invited to this Workshop which had previously been run in May for Planners. Graham, Marion Lang and Aileen Jackson attended. Dr Bernadette McKell Divisional Director (Acoustics), Jacobs Read more
News of bird and bat deaths at wind farms have reduced to a trickle. Does that mean that a solution has been found? Yes, it has, but it’s not what you think. Wind turbines are every year more numerous and the massacre they cause is ever increasing. What has changed Read more