Onshore wind power projects could make a return to the hard-fought competition for subsidies as Conservative energy ministers warm to turbines following sharp falls in offshore wind costs. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/10/04/onshore-wind-poised-comeback-tories-warm-lower-costs/
NEW Cummock Community Council (NCCC) are ready to do battle against the latest windfarm proposals for the area at Pencloe. http://www.cumnockchronicle.com/news/15570015.We_are_almost_surrounded/
By Jamie Buchan Perth and Kinross Council is demanding payment from developers behind a rejected windfarm scheme. In a highly unusual move, the local authority has tabled a claim for expenses from the landowner leading the controversial Strathallan project. Council bosses argue they shouldn’t be left out of pocket fighting Read more
A wind farm in Dumfries and Galloway is now generating enough power to supply half the electricity needs for Nestle’s operations in UK and Ireland in a 15-year deal with the global confectionery manufacturer. The Sanquhar wind farm produces 30MW of energy from the Danish-built turbines for Community Windpower – Read more
IT HAS been revealed that a wind turbine which has caused years of “anguish and distress” for residents in Castlewellan has breached required noise limits at a nearby residential property. http://www.outlooknews.co.uk/articles/news/60980/inspectors-find-turbine-breaches-noise-limits/ Problems with audible noise from turbines are all too common in Scotland. NOISE BULLETIN SEPT/OCTOBER 2017 by kind Read more
Sir, Hugh McNeal of the wind industry trade association (Letters, September 27) has understood neither our statistical study of offshore wind capex, nor Jonathan Ford’s remarks on this issue (Inside Business, September 25). Read more https://www.ft.com/content/949ff02c-a539-11e7-b797-b61809486fe2
Plans for a wind farm on the same site in the Borders as a project previously rejected by the Scottish government have been refused by councillors. Gilston Hill Wind Farm Ltd wanted to put up seven turbines on land north west of Gilston Farm, near Heriot. A 16-turbine project in Read more
PUPILS from Sanquhar Primary School were visited by one of the companies involved in building the new local windfarm. http://www.cumnockchronicle.com/news/15564039.Sanquhar_pupils_get_lessons_on_windfarms/