Please find attached, (below) the stop and enforcement notices issued by East Ayrshire Council for Sneddon Law windfarm. An enforcement notice takes 28 days to come into effect, so to stop any further unauthorised activity which may lead to damage of private water supplies, the Council have also issued a Read more
The Scottish and British governments have teamed up to pump £920,000 to fund a new advance offshore wind research project based around the Levenmouth demonstration turbine, near Edinburgh. This is already a demonstration hub for developers across the UK to test their designs on a 7-MW offshore wind turbine. The Read more
A US developer has sold a Highlands wind farm to a London-based investment trust – just 16 weeks after it began operating. Invenergy Renewables, based in Chicago, sold the Corriegarth wind-turbine farm to Greencoat Wind for £181 million. Greencoat bought farm turbine farm on the secondary market from Invenergy Renewables, Read more
One of the UK’s largest trade unions has reignited the debate over how to pay for the development of the growing renewables sector after it called for an investigation into a “rip off wind farm racket” centred in Scotland. Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/who-should-pay-for-renewable-energy-subsidies-in-scotland-1-4541015
Glenouther REP (a redesign of Harelaw REP which was Refused by Scottish Ministers in September 2013) was again refused by East Ayrshire Council in May 2016. The decision was appealed to the DPEA in August 2016 and was dismissed by the Reporter, Andrew Sikes in May 2017. It then became Read more