Siemens and EDF are joining a coalition of local leaders in the UK to lobby the Chancellor Rishi Sunak to pledge £5bn toward renewable energy and energy efficiency. By unlocking private sector investment, this would net a return of £100bn to support the British economy, including potentially £40bn for energy Read more
A growing north-south divide could risk future investment in major renewable energy projects worth billions of pounds to Scotland, according to a leading industry figure. By Perry Gourley The concern centres on the way charges are levied for using the GB-wide electricity transmission system which makes it more likely Read more
Wind energy is considered to be one of the most promising forms of renewable energy. Yet, each year, wind turbines are responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of airborne animals such as bats which die from collisions with turbine blades. To find a constructive way out of this Read more
The East Ayrshire town of Dalmellington has been known down the years for its coal mining, curling and weaving activities. From 2023 it may be more famous for the 50-turbine wind farm that will loom over the countryside a few miles down the road. This new 240MW South Kyle facility Read more
Since when did the industrial scale slaughter of Birds and Bats, by the million, become ‘clean green’ energy? Every year in Spain alone – according to research by the conservation group SEO/Birdlife – between 6 and 18 million, yes million, birds and bats are killed by wind farms. They kill Read more
Herald letters Lyndsey Ward discusses bird and bat collisions with wind turbines (letters July 8th) and I will expand on that. In 2016 Exeter University published a study suggesting that 80,000 bats annually are killed by UK turbines extrapolating to two million globally. A Stanford 2016 study suggests that 4.1 Read more
Another letter in the Scotsman today from Ian Moir.
A proposed North Sea offshore wind farm project has posted multi-million pound losses despite being years away from construction. Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm, a 72-turbine development planned off the coast of Angus, reported more than £16 million in pre-tax losses in its 2019 full year accounts. The project made Read more