The Scottish Energy Minister wants to accelerate the deployment of renewables to deal with rising energy costs. Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, told ScottishRenewables Offshore Wind 2022 that now “more than ever” the country needs to re-examine its energy system. Matheson, speaking in Glasgow on Read more…
Stakeholders will be aware that DPEA has been striving to maximise proportionality and efficiency in its handling of inquiry cases. In doing so we have introduced a model timeline for the period leading up to and beyond inquiries, with a target of all such cases being reported on within 50 Read more…
In a letter to the East Lothian Alba MP, Treasury minister Helen Whately refers to the benefits which the Beatrice offshore wind project has brought to his constituency. But Beatrice is off Caithness – and Mr MacAskill believes she has mixed up Wick and Innerwick. He had been seeking talks Read more…
Sweeteners Alex Irwin, senior solicitor in the Renewable Energy Team at Davidson, Chalmers Stewart LLP, waxes lyrical about Community Benefit Schemes (Friends of The Scotsman, March 7, “Renewable Energy Projects can be transformational for communities across country”). She writes: “Community Benefit Schemes have been popular with developers who want Read more…
The madness in Ukraine has dramatically fast-forwarded issues that were already in the making. Soaring energy prices, over-reliance on imported gas, storage which is essential to facilitate the growth of renewables … the list goes on and on. The madness in Ukraine has dramatically fast-forwarded issues that were already Read more…
By working closely with communities where renewables projects are based, a developer can create economic opportunities in the vicinity of a project, tap into local knowledge and enhance support for the development. Five years ago, when the Scottish Government launched its renewable energy strategy, it hoped that by 2020 at Read more…
A greater awareness of the ever-growing danger to the efforts of our governments to keep the peoples of the world who inhabit colder climes provided with warmth and light may, sadly, be one of the benefits from the present crisis in Ukraine. Germany, for example, is entirely dependent on Read more…
Some more good news! The Scottish Ministers give notice that they have refused consent for this proposed Development. APPLICATION FOR CONSENT AND DEEMED PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF GLENSHERO WIND FARM NEAR LAGGAN WITHIN THE PLANNING AUTHORITY AREA OF THE HIGHLAND COUNCIL The decision is not available Read more…