Data released today by wind energy policy group, Wind Europe, has recorded a 25% increase in offshore wind in 2017, with the UK a significant contributor to the growth. UK and Northern Europe responsible for 25% growth in offshore wind
In reaction to a slump in the small-scale energy sector, ten member organisations have joined forces to call on the UK Government to set out the future of the Feed-in Tariff. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/162842/ten-member-organisations-join-forces-calling-government-action-feed-tariff/
Plans for a new centre for manufacturing, logistics and energy on Scotland’s west coast have received support from a Big Six gas and electricity provider as its owners prepare the site for significant development. Hunterston Port and Resource Centre is being developed by Peel Ports, which has appointed. E.ON to Read more…
Holly Watt Hundreds of crofters are fighting an attempt by the energy giants EDF and Wood Group to build a windfarm on the island of Lewis. More than 200 crofters have objected to proposals to build on communal land close to Stornoway, the biggest town in the Outer Hebrides. The Read more…
Scotland should create an environmental court, which would allow communities to contest government decisions on major windfarm applications and quickly resolve issues like pollution of rivers and the wider countryside. The new policy commitment from the Scottish Conservatives would also see a streamlining of environmental cases which currently take too Read more…
SCOTLAND AGAINST SPIN Westermost, Ceres, Cupar, Fife, KY15 5LD Scotland Against Spin is a community of interest formed in 2013 with a wide membership throughout Scotland and further afield. The common purpose is to protect the interests of communities and individuals against wind farm and individual turbine developments that may Read more…
JEREMY Peat gave an excellent review of steps for long-term strategy to enhance the Scottish economy (“Why we need a longer term strategy for the economy”, Herald Business, February 5). However, lack of space surely meant he could not include a review of the energy policies that underpin any Read more…
WARNINGS were made about the need for satellite phones at an isolated windfarm site A YEAR before a man died after becoming stranded. http://www.cumnockchronicle.com/news/15913578.Safety_questions_asked_over_satellite_phones_at_Afton_wind_farm/