The UK Government has hit back at union claims that British bill payers are footing the bill for idle turbines. The GMB union called for an end to what it called the “scandal” of energy bill payers stumping up more than £100 million to subsidise idle windfarms. GMB said a Read more…
By Jeremy Sainsbury, Director, Natural Power, and Director, Scottish Renewables RURAL post offices have long been a lightning rod for changes taking place across society. Easier access to finance online, the rise of the direct debit and the increasing accessibility of car ownership rendered many branches redundant. Rural businesses, as Read more…
By Simon Neville Building wind farms in England is pointless because it isn’t windy enough, the boss of Britain’s biggest wind power firm has said. Keith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, which supplies gas and electricity to nearly five million homes, said he will put up more turbines – Read more…
Scots turbines get most of National Grid payoff Mark Macaskill Green energy companies were handed record sums to switch off turbines in 2018, with some Scottish wind farms generating millions of pounds to “discard” up to a third of potential output. Analysis of data published by National Grid shows that Read more…
A third of the UK’s electricity came from renewables in 2018 as overall power generation fell to its lowest levels since 1994, analysis shows. Wind accounted for 17% of the total power generated last year, while solar contributed 4% and burning plant material or biomass for electricity produced 11%, the Read more…
ANYONE taking the letters by Alan Sangster and Malcolm Orton (December 31) at face value will have gained a very distorted view of Britain’s electricity system. Both play up the multiplicity of renewable sources, yet the fact is that there is very little coming onstream in Scotland at scale except Read more…
A third of the UK’s electricity came from renewables in 2018 as overall power generation fell to its lowest levels since 1994, analysis shows. Wind accounted for 17% of the total power generated last year, while solar contributed 4% and burning plant material or biomass for electricity produced 11%, the Read more…
The Advertising Standards Authority have upheld another complaint against Good Energy: https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/good-energy-ltd-a17-1.html