Turbine firm Senvion has inked a major deal with SSE to provide upkeep and services to four onshore windfarms in the north of Scotland. The contract will see the German wind turbine manufacturer provide 107 turbines across SSE’s Gordonbush, Achany, Fairburn and Strathy North windfarms. Senvion said it was Read more…
Felicity Lawrence and Ella McSweeney Workers hired to build the flagship £2.6bn Beatrice offshore windfarm in Scotland have included migrants without proper immigration documents paid a fraction of the UK minimum wage, the Guardian can reveal. Offshore windfarming is one of the UK’s biggest growth industries, hailed by both the Read more…
Sir, Any organisation like Scottish Renewables can commission a poll or a survey that will produce the results they want (hence the headlines suggesting that more than two thirds of rural Scots back wind farms). Only the most avid and misguided of wind farm enthusiasts will actually believe it. Read more…
Sir, – I must admit it, the wind was well and truly taken out of my sails when reading the news this week. ScottishPower has announced that it would soon rely on 100% wind energy to power our homes. Now, as we all know, wind speeds in Scotland can vary Read more…
I read with interest your article entitled ‘Fortunes are blowing in the wind …’ (News, October 14). In the box headed “Wind energy factfile” it was stated that “there are about 750 wind farms in Scotland capable of generating up to 5,700 megawatts of energy, which is slightly higher than Read more…
A council has agreed to formally object to proposals for a major wind farm in the Lowther Hills. The application will be considered directly by Scottish ministers because of the scale of the development. A Dumfries and Galloway Council report said the scaled-back 30-turbine scheme had addressed some concerns about Read more…
ONCE again we have to endure the wealthy wind industry’s trade association, Scottish Renewables, roll out one of their astonishing propaganda press releases trying to convince the policy makers that rural Scots support more onshore wind development (“Support for wind farms”, The Herald, October 18). This is an industry that Read more…
Section 36 application to construct and operate a wind farm with a generating capacity in excess of 50MW comprising up to 20 wind turbines and associated infrastructure, of which two have a ground to blade tip height of 140m, eight have a ground to tip height of up to 149.9m Read more…