EXCLUSIVE: Adapting national grid to re-charge 700,000 battery powered vehicles (BPVs) will add £200 million to Scots electricity bills, MSPs told – Scottish Energy News

  MSPs yesterday considered that age-old philosophical conundrum: which came first – the chicken or the egg – in terms of battery powered vehicles (BPVs) and a massive and hugely-expensive re-configuration of the national electricity grid.. And the answer is? It depends. And the other answer is that it’s all Read more

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Trio of Scottish renewable energy companies to pilot new sensor technologies at Fife demonstration wind-turbine Scottish Energy News

A trio of Scottish renewable energy innovators are to test sensor technologies that could be deployed on offshore wind farms around the UK at the Levenmouth offshore wind demonstration turbine in Fife. Supported by £220,000 Scot-Govt. funding, the programme enables those pioneering companies to develop solutions to support growth in Read more

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Campaigners call for MSPs to ‘Keep it Wild’ – John Muir Trust

Representatives of the John Muir Trust were joined by members and supporters outside Holyrood yesterday at a gathering to show MSPs support for the idea that Scotland’s officially recognised Wild Land Areas should be a no-go zone for large-scale commercial wind farms. https://www.johnmuirtrust.org/latest/news/1382-campaigners-call-for-msps-to-keep-it-wild

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