The full significance of the Treasury’s increasingly firm grip on spending to support renewables, culminating in the announcement of a moratorium on new subsidies for renewables is now becoming apparent. UK Renewable Electricity: Dead, Alive or Living Dead?
Exclusive by Margaret Taylor Business correspondent and personal finance editor TROUBLED engineering firm BiFab, which was bailed out by a £15 million Scottish Government loan just months ago, is facing a fresh threat to its survival after being hit with a multi-million pound lawsuit. In November hundreds of BiFab workers Read more…
A 74-year-old man has died after he became stranded in heavy snow while working on a wind farm in East Ayrshire. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42788417
Funding constraints collide with switch to low-carbon electricity generation https://www.ft.com/content/4c91e10e-fc60-11e7-9b32-d7d59aace167
Community Windpower is mulling a plan to build a 343MW onshore wind farm which would straddle the local government border between Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders. There is a de facto planning moratorium on new onshore turbine farms in England. The Cheshire-based developer has initiated scoping for up to Read more…
This information does not include section 36 applications or wind turbine planning applications called-in by Scottish Ministers. https://beta.gov.scot/publications/wind-turbine-appeal-decisions-statistics/
Plans for a major wind farm straddling the boundary between the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway have been unveiled. Community Windpower wants to construct 49 turbines in its Faw Side project. The company said it would bring an investment of about £256m into the community and wider area. However, Read more…
A wind turbine operator has been fined tens of thousands of pounds after one of its wind turbines made too much noise. http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/fined-51000–having-loud-14156575#comments-section