A PROPOSED new wind farm meets the needs of North Ayrshire Council’s declared climate emergency say the firm behind the development. Rigghill Wind Farm Ltd have applied for a permission to proceed with a controversial development of ten 150 metre high turbines between Largs and Skelmorlie. They believe the council’s Read more…
This is the startling moment an entire landscape moves from one side of a hill to another during a peat slippage in Northern Ireland. The unsettling incident was witnessed by a surprised passerby and caught on camera, as a number of mature trees rapidly glided down a slope at Meenbog Wind Read more…
THE story of energy, and our relationship with it, is a long journey that reaches way back to darker, colder days. If, however, it once took longer to reach those lightbulb moments and illuminate the way forward, recent history has seen sudden and sustained flashes of brilliance. These gamechangers in Read more…
The impact of lockdown measures on electricity demand will be in the spotlight when Scottish energy giant SSE updates investors this week. The construction of the Viking wind farm on Shetland is part of SSE’s major investment programme to help the UK’s green recovery from coronavirus. The Perth-headquartered group has Read more…