The most affordable option for a fully renewable electricity supply in Europe is based on solar parks and onshore windfarms, a new study by the Potsdam-based Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies finds. However, this solution requires some 97,000 square kilometres of land, or roughly 2% of the total area of Read more
Engineers have successfully installed the first offshore electrical infrastructure at Moray East, one of the largest offshore wind developments in Scotland. The offshore substation platform (OSP) contains all of the technology required to transmit electricity generated by the wind turbines onshore. It was installed on top of the three legged Read more
The government has chosen 17 projects that will receive funding of up to £50,000 each to respond to some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including climate change.One of the projects aims to fast track the construction of large-scale offshore wind farms in the Celtic Sea from 2025 onwards.The South Read more
AMID widespread agreement that wind power will play an important part in the transition to a lower carbon energy system there are questions to be answered about how the costs should be shared. Last week a successful renewables investor provided an indication of how keen financial institutions are to invest Read more
Up to 12 wind turbines up to 180m to tip height Wind Farm (Generating station of >50 < 100 MW Capacity 3km north of Walkerburn in the Scottish Borders Ref: ECU00002111 http://www.energyconsents.scot/ApplicationDetails.aspx?cr=ECU00002111&fbclid=IwAR0CN7IaYIuzgSislMnxx-BRyRhRSpMrGc-2rdK4cb-pVA1V_m0L0pOrQ68
Smart management of turbines Switching to managing the output of wind farms to make them more efficient, there is a team of researchers at Birmingham University Enterprise so successful that they have filed for a patent to protect their intellectual property. Their system developed to control the storage and release Read more
Article in today’s Mail on Sunday including a quote from our Chair, Graham Lang.
IN February 2019 Scottish Power CEO Keith Anderson said energy prices would fall “in a few years” due to the expansion of renewables. Last week we heard bogus statements saying that wind farms that haven’t been built yet would pay money back to the consumer. Yet my electric bill just Read more