The planning meeting on SSE’s application for a two year extension for their Hunterston turbine site has been brought forward to Wednesday August 23. http://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/fairlie/15462696.Turbine_D_Day_decision_moved_forward/
Renewable electricity generation was a record 24.8 TWh in 2017 Q1 – an increase of 5.1 per cent on the 23.6 TWh in 2016 Q1. Renewables’ share of electricity generation was 26.6 per cent in 2017 Q1 – up 1.0 percentage points on the share in 2016 Q1, reflecting Read more
Please be advised that East Ayrshire Council has, as of Wednesday 9 August 2017, served Stop and Enforcement Notices on Community Windpower, and other interested parties, in relation to the works which have been undertaken on site to date and the non-compliance with Condition 36 of planning approval 13/0198/PP (Private Read more
Wind farm owners in Scotland are making out like bandits The Scottish wind-power racket
A new book on the renewable energy industry in Scotland – ‘Scotland Shows The Way Forward’** – is due to be published next month. Authors GEOFF WOOD and Dr. KEITH BAKER of the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at Glasgow Caledonian University analyse the effects of Scottish devolution Read more
The idea that all cars in Britain should be fully electric within a relatively short space of time is so silly and potentially damaging that it is hard to know where to start criticising it. But let us start with the most serious flaw; where is the electricity to Read more
The Brit-govt. has approved plans by Scottish Power to build a new 1.2 gigawatt offshore wind farm. The East Anglia-3 development – to be built 46 miles off the coast – will consist of up to 172 turbines and will meet the electricity needs of 890,000 homes per year. The Read more
Scottish wind turbine scientists will be lending their expertise to a project aimed at developing better ways to store renewable energy. SPIRE 2 is a £6 million cross-border initiative in the UK being funded by the EU’s INTERREG VA programme, led by Ulster University. A University of Strathclyde team, led Read more