Earlier this year the UK Government announced that onshore wind would be eligible to compete in the fourth Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation round in 2021, a welcome outcome which will help ensure onshore developments will play a prominent role in the ‘green recovery.’ The CfD announcement is a positive Read more…
A TRADE union has called for a halt to new offshore wind farms until a local supply chain is established. GMB London echoed the growing anger from GMB Scotland after it was announced last week that contracts to supply turbine jackets for SSE’s offshore wind farm, Seagreen, in Angus, were Read more…
UK company National Grid Ventures and Dutch/German transmission system operator TenneT are working together to explore the feasibility of connecting Dutch and UK wind farms to the energy systems of both countries via subsea interconnectors. The development would be the first of its kind for the UK and the Netherlands Read more…
FOLLOWING the news that BiFab has not been successful in securing any contracts related to SSE’s Seagreen offshore wind farm, Cowdenbeath MSP Annabelle Ewing has written to the Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, airing her concern that none of the contract has come to Fife. Speaking this afternoon, Read more…
IT was only when the heavy machinery finally moved in to start digging up the central mainland to construct roads, compounds and quarries for the Viking Energy wind farm, that many local folk came to realise the sheer amount of peat that needs to be shifted to make room for Read more…
Wind turbines and solar farms drive down house prices Countries that invest in renewable energy production face frequent opposition from local homeowners. Using a detailed housing transactions dataset covering the whole of the Netherlands since 1985, this column compares the overall impact that wind turbines and solar farms have on Read more…
The diggers have moved into Shetland to start the construction of Viking Wind farm Excellent prints by Paul Bloomer Art https://www.paulbloomer.com/recent-work.html Shadowed Valley- As the land cutters move in – all that can run or fly moves out
All of the turbine jackets for Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm will be fabricated thousands of miles from the North Sea despite a Government-supported bid by Fife’s BiFab. The firm has failed to win any work on the multi-billion pound Seagreen offshore wind farm project, located just a few miles Read more…