October 2019

Scottish Renewables Monthly Briefing is available on their website. https://www.scottishrenewables.com/publications/scottish-renewables-monthly-briefing-october-2019/

A £8.5 million refinancing deal has secured the future of Scotland’s biggest community-owned wind farm and linked community projects. The 6.9MW windfarm on South Uist estate generates an average of 22,695 MWh a year, enough to supply 850 tenant crofters with electricity and provide an income for the communities of Read more

Public hearings on plans to extend the Crystal Rig wind farm project on Lammermuir Hills are expected to be held at the start of next year. The plans to move into phase four of the project with a further 11 wind turbines, some of which will be up to 200 Read more

Community wind farm charity Point and Sandwick Trust is making a “significant contribution” in the fight against climate change in the Outer Hebrides, according to Scottish Natural Heritage. Not just because it owns and operates the biggest community-owned wind farm in the UK, producing 9MW of green energy from its Read more

Four energy suppliers have been issued with final orders to compel them to make £14.7 million in outstanding payments they owe to comply with the Renewables Obligations schemes by 31 October 2019. The companies missed the original deadline of 1 September 2019 and have not provided Ofgem with adequate assurances Read more

Latest Growth Deal for Scotland unveiled By Michael Settle UK Political Editor ALISTER Jack will today announce at the Conservative conference in Manchester a new Growth Deal for Scotland, the ninth, amounting to £25 million for Argyll and Bute. To date, the UK Government has committed £1.4 billion to the Read more

A “noisy” wind farm in Furness could be given the green light to continue operating for another decade despite being at the centre of scores of complaints. The operators of the Askam and Ireleth wind farm want to keep it running until August 2029 after its 20-year-old permission expired this Read more

Many will remember when this hit the headlines in 2011 In China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html 2019 headlines: China Wrestles with the Toxic Aftermath of Rare Earth Mining https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-wrestles-with-the-toxic-aftermath-of-rare-earth-mining