UK Energy Department BEIS is to include floating wind in next year’s Contracts for Difference auction but is not planning a separate pot, it is understood. BEIS Secretary Alok Sharma appeared to indicate today at an Environmental Audit Committee hearing that floating would be given access to a standalone auction. Read more
A report, published today, has indicated that UK citizens view wind and solar power as critical to meeting net zero. https://www.climateassembly.uk/report/ (Chapter 8) The Path to Net Zero report is the final report published by Climate Assembly UK, set up to understand public preferences on how the UK should tackle Read more
The Scottish Land Court has granted SSE Section 19A permission to build parts of the 443MW Viking wind farm on crofting land. The decision, which is separate to the planning consent granted by the Scottish government last May, removes a remaining legal hurdle to the construction of SSE’s newer scheme Read more
They seem to have neatly avoided using the word Windfarm! SOME of the world’s most famous species are under in “catastrophic decline” driving wildlife to extinction including a seabird common to Orkney, an international study has found. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF’s) startling flagship Living Planet Report 2020 Read more
“Many within XR argue in favour of replacing fossil fuels entirely with renewables. I favour a pragmatic approach, rather than peer-group tribal pressure to stick to an outdated mainstream green line. Once you demand that all our power must come from wind and solar, you seriously constrain our options to Read more