NOT unusually at this time of year some cynical observer of the Scottish Government’s agenda for the advancement of renewable power generation, notices that calm weather undermines its case, when wind is the predominant renewable source at this early stage of the transition away from fossil fuels. George Herraghty does Read more
LIKE most folk at Christmas, I enjoyed tucking into my turkey with all the trimmings. It takes a few hours in a hot oven to bring out the flavour, so what was heating our electric ovens all around the country? Certainly not the wind industry, its extortionately expensive fleet was, Read more
A community-owned wind farm will be built in the Western Isles after a fundraising campaign passed its target. Two turbines to be constructed at Criongrabhal in North Uist as part of a renewables project are expected to cost about £3.5m. The project is mainly being funded by commercial loans. The Read more
IT is reported that it has been a good year for the generation in Scotland of renewable energy (“A record year for energy from renewable sources”, The Herald, December 21). Paul Wheelhouse, our Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands since all of June this year, erstwhile Minister for Environment Read more
By Jamie Merrill A Cambridge academic who stole £1m from a government green-energy project has been jailed for four years. Dr Ehsan Abdi-Jalebi, 37, was stopped by Border Force officers at Heathrow with £100,000 in cash in a Thorntons Continental chocolate box as he boarded a flight to Tehran in Read more
Written by Bloomberg An Italian construction company just sold its lease to develop a wind farm in waters off the New Jersey coast for $215 million, about 21,000 percent more than it paid only three years ago. Toto Holding SpA’s U.S. Wind unit, which paid about $1 million for the Read more
*Case Update 21 December 2018* The decision on this application has been issued. Scottish Ministers give notice that they have refused consent for this proposed development. http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=118007
By Brian Donnelly RENEWABLE energy specialist Greencoat has moved to secure a further wind farm stake in south west Scotland. Greencoat UK Wind said it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Douglas West wind farm from Cheshire-based Blue Energy. Completion is expected to take place early next year, Read more