Vestas has set a course to produce zero-waste wind turbines by 2040, starting with a focus to improve the recyclability of blades. The Danish manufacturer will introduce incremental targets for recyclable blades from 44% today to 50% by 2025 and 55% by 2030. Further initiatives will be launched to address Read more…
Swedish energy farm has lodged plans for a second onshore wind farm in the north-east. The Clashindarroch II project would comprise 14 turbines, each nearly 600 feet tall, and would take shape on land near to the existing operational Clashindarroch wind farm in Aberdeenshire. Vattenfall hope to have the second Read more…
The return of proposals for a seven turbine wind farm in Caithness have prompted angry and despairing responses from local residents who believe an industrial “ring of steel” is tightening its grip on their community. Locals objected in the strongest possible terms to the progress of the The Drum Hollistan Read more…
Last weekend the Italian cable manufacturing company, Prysmian, released a statement announcing to the markets that the Western Link High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) interconnector between Hunterston and Deeside had failed again, on the 10th of January. This grid link, which is a joint venture between Scottish Power Transmission (SPT) Read more…