The UK’s latest auction for back-up electricity cleared well below expectations, casting doubt on how much new capacity will be built to avoid winter supply shortages in the future. The National Grid’s website showed Thursday’s auction for 2021-22 supply cleared at £8.40 per kilowatt (kW)/year, below the £15 to £25 Read more
Councillors in Dumfries-shire have been told that a proposed 20-turbine extension to an existing wind farm with 66 turbines is ‘not too noisy’. Officials at Dumfries and Galloway Cooncil have advised them to approve the application by Fred Olsen Renewables to enlarge its Windy Standard wind farm at Brockloch Rig, Read more
Ilona Amos Wind farms erected in scenic landscapes could be a turn-off for tourists, according to a report. https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/wind-farms-at-beauty-spots-linked-to-slump-in-visitors-1-4687307
It’s easy to dismiss opposition to the siting of wind farms as the predictable reaction of the determined Nimby. Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/leader-comment-turbines-must-not-threaten-tourism-1-4687361
MPs have warned the Government not to drop its manifesto pledge to block onshore wind farms after ministers suggested the rules could be relaxed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/11/government-warned-not-drop-manifesto-pledge-block-onshore-wind/
A MARTIAN visiting Earth might wonder how inhabitants that had invented nuclear power, were deliberately putting themselves in the position of having to rely on the weather for electricity, having made no progress with wave and tide, and were now contemplating dropping large weights down mine shafts as another possible Read more
A date has been set for a public inquiry into a wind farm near Hawick opposed by Scottish Borders Council. A 10-day hearing into the 15-turbine Birneyknowe project will start on 5 March at Minto Golf Club. Banks Renewables said the project could provide a £2.5m community benefit fund to Read more
More than 100 turbine blades owned by Scottish Power are to be taken out of service this spring to repair damage – ironically caused by wind power and sea-spray. A total of 108 turbines in the company’s Duddon Sands wind-power farm need attention for ‘leading edge erosion problems’. The Read more