Two large wind farm projects off the Suffolk coast have been given consent by the Government. Once completed, the sites will consist of 142 offshore turbines and two controversial sub-stations at Friston in Suffolk. East Anglia One North and East Anglia Two, off the coast of Lowestoft and Southwold, have Read more…
Note: Constraint payments are only paid if National Grid order turbines to be shut down due to the Grid being unable to cope with the amount of power being generated. I concur with Aileen Jackson’s description of the planning process concerning “Wind Power” (Letters, 30 March) having witnessed at Read more…
National Grid ESO has awarded contracts to maximise renewable generation output and deliver consumer savings worth millions of pounds. The deals will see 11 companies with 15 generating units, including wind farms and battery storage, to provide “post fault” services. They will operate constraints management equipment designed to maximise renewable Read more…
Villagers in Normandy are fighting plans for a wind farm sited 800m from the Commonwealth war cemetery by the British D-Day landing beaches. Councillors in Bazenville, near Bayeux, voted this week to contest the scheme, which it is said would disturb the sanctity of the Ryes War Cemetery, where 652 Read more…