INDUSTRY body Scottish Renewables has warned that the wave and tidal power sectors face being squeezed out of the market because they are not winning enough contracts to sell their power. Speaking at the organisation’s Marine Conference in Inverness yesterday, director of policy Jenny Hogan said that while the marine Read more
MARK WILLIAMSON SCOTTISHPower is on track to award contracts worth a record £1 billion plus for work and services in Scotland in the current year amid strong investment in areas such as renewable energy and smart meters. The Glasgow based power giant said around 2,400 firms have won contracts for Read more
The Chinese government isn’t building any new wind turbines because most of the new electricity created was wasted, causing serious damage to the country’s electrical grid. http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/29/china-stops-building-wind-turbines-because-most-of-the-energy-is-wasted/
By Jamie Ross A north-east potato farming firm has been told it has no grounds to lodge an appeal for a failed wind turbine scheme. Farmers Inicio-Fresco Ltd have been knocked back again in a long-running application to install three 252ft turbines at Cairnandrew, near Banff, after the Scottish Government Read more
A Highlands council is to carry out a public consultation on its wind turbine farm energy planning policy. The planning and regulatory services committee at Moray Council has agreed to a nine-week public consultation which will run until mid-November 2016. The draft guidance provides an update to the 2013 version Read more
A row has blown up between a respected economist and one of Scotland’s leading conservation bodies over the effect of wind farms on tourism. The march of giant turbines across some of the country’s most iconic landscapes has been blamed for damaging rural economies but a recent report by Edinburgh-based Read more
Britain must accept that major parts of its offshore wind farms will be manufactured abroad, Danish giant Dong Energy has said, as new figures reveal the vast scale of subsidies it is set to receive from UK consumers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/10/danish-firm-reaping-wind-farm-subsidy-bonanza-says-uk-must-accep/
Ilona Amos Golden eagles living close to one of Scotland’s first major wind farms are thriving, according to a pioneering 20-year study. Monitoring of the protected birds of prey, which nest near the 65-turbine Beinn an Tuirc wind farm in Argyll, has shown the scheme has had no adverse impact Read more