The Scottish Government recently launched a consultation on a revised energy strategy. The existing policy is to produce the equivalent of 100% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2020. The new policy is to produce the equivalent of 50% of all energy consumed from renewable sources by 2030 – Read more
I WOULD again like to respond to Andrew H Mackay’s incorrect assertion that “renewable technologies are adding to CO2 emissions’ (Letters, Feb 13). National Grid, the company that operates our electricity network, recently dismissed Mr Mackay’s claims in his original letter as “spurious” to a Holyrood committee, and have reported Read more
Almost 6,000 new full-time equivalent jobs could be created in the Western Isles if the construction of two planned Lewis Wind Power turbine parcs – already approved by the local cooncil – go ahead. This is the key conclusion of a cost-benefits analysis compiled by BVG Associates, an independent energy Read more