Scots industrial magnate Jim McColl was among the VIP guests at the recent opening of the new Moventas factory in Finland. Moventas – which manufactures gears for wind-turbine generators – is part of McColl’s Clyde Blowers Capital group and this new factory will create up to 100 new manufacturing jobs. Read more…
Norway’s state-owned oil company is in preliminary talks aimed at securing planning permission to build a second floating offshore wind-turbine farm in Scotland. Equinor – still better known as Statoil – successfully developed the technology for, and installed, the world’s first floating offshore wind-farm off Peterheid last year. It said Read more…
A £1 million German-built wind turbine has been left to burn itself to destruction after being hit by a lightning strike in Cambridgeshire. Turbulent summer heat storms led to several lightning strikes across southern England in the past 48 hours – including the strike at at Ransonmoor wind farm, near Read more…
Planning officials have recommended refusal for a set of “overly prominent and overwhelming” turbines in southern Scotland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-44314954