Construction at Innogy’s planned 50MW Glen Kyllachy wind farm in the Scottish Highlands is suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Innogy said it had been ready to start turbine foundation work this month on the twenty-machine merchant wind farm but decided to close the site on 24 March in line Read more
The scale of the environmental destruction wreaked by giant wind and solar farms is out of all proportion to the economic benefits they provide; if any. Apart from the subsidies they attract, STT can’t think of any. Wiping out entire forest habitats is all part of our ‘inevitable’ transition to 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?fbclid=IwAR2-tXrsURycmBUw7IPCu1miuXi7qLZrNLXblRjiUJCee-PqgyX7UqB7rIc
New Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has named MP for Doncaster North Ed Miliband as shadow secretary for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy. Miliband, who led the Labour Party between 2010 and 2016, is chair of the Institute for Public Policy Research’s Environmental Climate Justice Commission and served as Read more
By David Leask Chief Reporter – Herald Scotland’s drive to build its wind power industry completely stalled in the second half of last year. With record-breaking levels of renewable electricity on the UK grid, wind turbines in Scotland have played a key role in a green energy revolution. However, Read more
Thousands of British homes will be paid to use electricity during the day for the first time, as wind and solar projects produce a surge in clean energy during the coronavirus lockdown. On Sunday morning, windfarms contributed almost 40% of the UK’s electricity, while solar power made up almost a Read more
Before you read this article you may want to do some research: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environment-impact?fbclid=IwAR00LooMlzOXKYYykG8KdZHTswAz0N6h0RpOiMCJ3ETKPKYLwu5UwqSmnXo https://interestingengineering.com/will-lithium-be-the-next-oil?fbclid=IwAR0dZ7UQb9f6PIfl00e_fudRcYdiVjmWcz5MSimPhosvThU48l8qnhQu8-E Exclusive by David Leask @leaskyHT Chief Reporter, The Herald The question comes as surely as a rainy day in Scotland. Talk – or write – about renewable energy or the climate emergency and somebody will, inevitably, Read more
Scotland exported a record £745m worth electricity last year as wind power increasing becomes the country’s second North Sea Oil. New official statistics show more than 17,000 gigawatt-hours was transmitted to England and Wales in 2019, more than ever before. The net exports are so high they would have powered Read more