April 2020

More of the usual renewable energy propaganda from the Guardian: You’d be forgiven for thinking that the world will soon be 100% powered by renewable energy at this rate. But, of course, the Guardian is misleading its readers by solely looking at CAPACITY and not GENERATION. Full article: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/renewable-capacity-rose-slightly-last-year-guardian-gets-excited/

Industrial wind power has landed in the “it seemed like a good idea, at the time” pile of monumental human failures. Producing electricity at the whims of mother nature means wind power has absolutely no commercial value, at all: strangely, power consumers want electricity as and when they need it, Read more

As night follows day, rocketing power prices are the inevitable consequence of the inevitable transition to subsidised and unreliable wind and solar. The burden of all that glorious virtue signalling falls disproportionately on those on low and fixed incomes. Add the normal path of decrepitude, frailty and illness to impecuniousity Read more

    To be read by anyone interested in: Pre-application consultation with communities, Duration of planning permission Documents for public inspection Neighbour notification, public and site notices and hard copy documents Decision-making: committee meetings, local reviews and schemes of delegation https://www.gov.scot/publications/planning-procedures-and-covid-19/

The UK Government timetable for its offshore wind power auction will not be delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced that the consultation deadline for its Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction will not be affected beyond its current deadline. The consultation period, Read more

The recent column by the Southern Alberta Group for the Environment (SAGE) promoted wind and solar technologies, based on a series of half truths and omissions. SAGE stated that renewable technologies generate more energy per energy input, ignoring the energy needed to build, operate, maintain and decommission all “backup” electricity Read more

Garbet Wind Farm – Pre application. 4km southeast of Dufftown and adjacent to the boundary line with Aberdeenshire Moray Council Wind farm comprising up to 14 turbines with battery storage compound and associated infrastructure. Max turbine height – 200m ECU ref. ECU00002041 http://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationSearch.aspx

  APPLICATION FOR SECTION 36 CONSENT UNDER THE ELECTRICITY ACT 1989 AND DIRECTION FOR DEEMED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER SECTION 57(2) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997 OF THE SECTION 36 CONSENT TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE KENNOXHEAD WIND FARM EXTENSION IN THE SOUTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL PLANNING AUTHORITY AREA Read more