The Government has extended a further £100m lifeline to the struggling energy industry as it attempts to stave off a wave of bankruptcies. The cost of the loan will trickle down to household bills in spring 2021, after the money is paid back by the suppliers. The Department for Business Read more
A series of unwelcome records were broken over the Bank Holiday weekend period, from Friday the 22nd to Sunday the 24th of May, 2020. (i) Constraint payments made to wind power to reduce output within the Balancing Mechanism were £9.3 million – the highest ever paid for any three-day Read more
An offshore wind test facility based off the coast of Aberdeen has received more than £70 million in subsidy since it became operational, according to new data. Vattenfall’s Aberdeen Bay wind farm, also known as the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), started generating power in July 2018. The 11-turbine Read more
A completely new application for Mochrum Fell Wind farm in Dumfries and Galloway will be filed shortly (due to an appeal court ruling) to: Increase turbine tip heights from 126.5m to 149.9m Accommodate an increase in rotor diameter from up to 103m to up to 140m; Remove the most prominent Read more
A Tory minister has been accused of taking Scots for fools after he claimed that handing a £3billion wind farm contract to Denmark would create hundreds of jobs. Gary Smith of the GMB union said of energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng: “Does he think our heads button up the back?” Smith Read more
Scottish manufacturing firm Burntisland Fabrication (BiFab) is likely to miss out on the bulk of the work for a North Sea wind farm project, which has changed hands in a multi-million pound deal. French oil and gas giant Total today announced the purchase of a 51% stake in the 120-turbine Read more
Mike Moore’s Planet of the Humans has incensed renewable energy rent seekers, climate cultists and the mainstream media, alike. Its narrative – that subsidised renewable energy is just a playground for crony capitalists and the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time – doesn’t sit well with the tribe Read more
UPDATE You might remember our recent post Important Note for Planning Applications by John D. Campbell QC https://scotlandagainstspin.org/2020/05/a-note-from-a-legal-contributor-2/ Mr Campbell considered that this decision may find its way to the Supreme Court as it is not good news for the growing number of applications to Councils which simply seek to Read more