Britain added more onshore and offshore wind capacity than any other country in Europe last year at 2.8GW, latest industry figures show The UK continued to lead Europe in new wind power last year, adding 2.4GW of both onshore and offshore capacity as turbine installations rose more than a quarter Read more
What will soon be the world’s biggest offshore wind farm – Orsted’s 1.4GW Hornsea 2 – will power green hydrogen production under a programme newly-awarded additional funding by the UK government. The Gigastack project, led by ITM Power, aims to deliver zero-carbon hydrogen via ‘stackable’ 5MW electrolysers produced in gigawatt-scale Read more
A LONG-awaited environmental advisory group which will cast an eye over the planned Viking Energy wind farm site is set to have its first meeting in the coming months. The group has been mooted since the early days of the wind farm project and its developer is now in the Read more
The two 50MW batteries are located near the village of Minety in Wiltshire and are currently being developed by two Chinese state-owned companies Shell has set its sites on using a major 100MW battery in Wiltshire to provide back-up electricity to the UK grid, with the oil giant today announcing Read more
No-one should underestimate the importance of the planning appeal process. Appeals consider and determine some of the most contentious and, indeed, some of the most important developments so far as the Scottish economy is concerned. Unfortunately, it is a system with flaws and we really need to have an open Read more
REGARDLESS of whether there is any scientific merit in the theory of global warming, the remarkable thing is that the British Government is making no positive effort to prepare for the elimination of fossil fuels from our economy. Certainly, ministers have announced when new conventional cars and hybrids will be Read more
Scottish Power is launching a new tariff in which it guarantees that 100% of the electricity will come from its own renewable energy projects, to mark it out from so-called “greenwashing” energy deals that are not as clean as they seem. The consumer group Which? found that many suppliers are Read more
A LARGS councillor says new turbine developments in the area could breathe fresh life into bids to protect community centres and libraries. Independent Ian Murdoch wants cash from a proposed new wind farm in Skelmorlie to be diverted into efforts to save vital resources. He says accessing funds being made Read more