Concerns over ‘the ring of steel’ forming round the Cairngorms National Park have one again been aired but planning committee members have said they are powerless to do much about it. Renewable Energy Systems (Ltd) is seeking consent for 16 turbines with a maximum height of 149.9m to the tip Read more…
Scotsman letters The closure of Cockenzie Power Station in East Lothian in 2013 is a distant memory for some but it still holds an important lesson for the oil and gas industry. COP26 was full of cheap talk on the need for a great green transition from fossil fuels to Read more…
NEW artist impressions of Scoop Hill windfarm released by campaigners have been labelled as ‘misinformation’. Save Our Hills Moffat (SOHM) have created their own artist impressions of the visibility of turbines from the town based on designs and documents released by Community Windpower Limited (CWL). The group is planning to Read more…
Power company SSE Renewables has been accused of leaving a Sutherland road like a “patchwork quilt” after it was used for months by wind farm construction traffic. Brora cyclist Sandy Crawford claimed that over 60 per cent of the areas damaged on the single-track Strath Brora road by Gordonbush Extension Read more…
New technology to exploit low-level wind energy is due to be deployed in Glasgow with £10,000 of backing from the Energy Technology Partnership. Wind panels developed by green solutions provider Katrick Technologies will be deployed at Glasgow Airport and across the campus of the University of Strathclyde upon completion of Read more…
To meet its energy requirements, the UK needs the Cambo production much more than Scotland. The hardware will be built abroad with the bulk of profits and taxes flowing to London or offshore despite the UK government’s oil and gas tax regime being the most generous on earth. In 2020 Read more…
Neilston turbine lights in the mist.
Douglas West Wind Farm Extension – Consented South Lanarkshire Douglas is approximately 2.68km south-east of the nearest turbine and Coalburn lies approximately1.56km to the north. Erection of 13 wind turbines (up to 200m maximum blade tip height) with a total generating capacity of 78MW, associated infrastructure, plus around 20MW of Read more…