Denmark’s government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial “energy island”, which is to be built 50 miles (80km) offshore, in the middle of the North Sea. The island to the west of the Jutland peninsula will initially have an area of 120,000 sq metres – Read more
Michael Pollitt, a business economist at the Judge Business school, Cambridge University, said that while 35 jobs are created in the broader recycling industry for every £1m invested, only 10 jobs are created by opening a gigafactory (battery factory). In the windfarm sector £1m creates just two jobs. The average Read more
Letter in today’s Scotsman.
In this short vlog – first aired as a webinar for Scottish Renewables’ member The Big Partnership on January 29, 2021, Director of Communications and Strategy Nick Sharpe runs through: Where the industry is in Scotland today The current policy positions of our most-deployed renewable energy technologies The challenges that Read more
So as expected an appeal has been lodged over the rejected proposal for two 4.7MW turbines, a 5MW solar array and battery storage at the St Fergus gas terminal in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. http://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=121411 You’ll remember this story from last year https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/2700052/objectors-win-fight-to-halt-creation-of-new-north-east-wind-turbine-and-solar-farm-development/?fbclid=IwAR3tP-3lJA_nGiR6X5nJR_0NFPrlW0CryXyVcdfUS7N2gQPqzBM4WKahLq4
Energy company SSE has said it still expects the coronavirus will cost it around £200million in full-year operating profit. The Scotland-based group revealed that electricity output from its gas-fired generation plant was eight per cent higher in the last nine months of 2020 than in the same period the previous Read more
The Western Isles Planning Applications Board has given its backing to a series of recommendations supporting revised proposals for the Stornoway Wind Farm Development, and concluding that there is ‘no public interest’ in a Public Local Inquiry being held into the matter. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar is now set to Read more
REVOLUTION, a short sharp history of Scottish wind power and its future path was written by Todd Westbrook, editor of ReNEWS the industry paper for 11 years and managing director for 3. He gives coverage to the struggles of anti wind farm campaigners including Scotland Against Spin Chairman, Graham Lang Read more