Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm, be equipped with a battery to store power from the wind farm in Spring 2018. The purpose is to “teach” the battery when to hold back and store electricity, and when send power to the grid, thus increasing value of the power. Read more
Ruth Davidson, MSP, the Conservative Party leader in Scotland, should answer ‘for the long list of Tory failures on green energy’. On the eve of her speech at a Scottish renewable industry ‘green energy’ event, the SNP last night said her party’s commitment to renewables “is not even skin deep”. Read more
Two new wind turbines near to an Aberdeenshire castle were given the go-ahead yesterday despite concerns the area had reached “saturation point” with the eco-technology. Objectors told visibility ‘not reason in itself’ to block windfarms
Renewable energy is front and centre of global hopes of avoiding existential threats from climate change. Yet Australia has no commissioner for climate change, but we do have a windfarm commissioner. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/29/how-to-catch-wind-turbine-syndrome-by-hearing-about-it-and-then-worrying