An independent Scottish wind-power developer – which has teamed up with the mostly-nuclear French nuclear giant EDF – is this week launching a series of ‘hearts and minds’ public exhibitions about its 250-MW new Highlands wind farm. Glasgow-based Force-9 Energy wants to erect 47 new wind turbines for the proposed Read more…
The renewables menu at this blog can be found at http://www.hebrideswriter.com/category/renewables/ Let’s get back to windfarms, shall we? It’s been a few weeks since I wrote anything about it but there has been a lot going on, in terms of the fight between the crofters and French multinational EDF for Read more…
Scottish Ministers have granted planning consent to SSE’s hugely controversial Strathy South Wind Farm proposal for Sutherland in the Highlands. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/170151/rspb-desperately-disappointed-government-approved-a-windfarm/
For those of you who couldn’t be there or didn’t see it being streamed live on the internet, you can now watch at leisure https://dpea.public-i.tv/core/portal/home Unfortunately cross examination of the expert witnesses took so long, there was no time for the third party objectors to give evidence. The Inquiry will Read more…
Highland Council Wind Farm (Generating station of >50 < 100 MW Capacity ) http://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationSearch.aspx
Max Total MW Of Development Applied For: 160 Max Turbine Height: 135 Number Of Turbines Applied For: 47 Highland Council http://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationSearch.aspx
Construction Of 13 Wind Turbines With 12 Up To 149.5M Tip Height And One Up To 132M Tip Height Including Ancillary Development http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=117338
Government statistics released today have shown growing public support for wind, tidal and wave energy and the renewables sector overall. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/169954/new-uk-statistics-see-soaring-attitudes-to-wind-and-marine-energy/