SSE has accepted a £50,000 out of court settlement with the John Muir Trust in relation to expenses incurred during the judicial review of the consent decision for 240MW Stronelairg wind farm. http://renews.biz/107051/sse-settles-stronelairg-expenses/
New regulations will come into force on 16 May 2017, implementing the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) European Directive 2014/52/EU. http://www.brodies.com/blog/environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brodies%2Fplanningblog+%28PlanningBlog%29&ct=t(PAS_Ebulletin_31_July7_30_2015)
WHEN confronted with the scandalous cost of constraint payments to windfarms when their generation is surplus to requirement, the wind industry correctly points out that all generation technologies are constrained off from time to time and are all compensated for their losses by National Grid (NG). This is a brief Read more