April 1, 2022

Milder, less windy weather has been blamed for a fall in renewable energy production in Scotland last year. Ministers had hoped that the country would be generating the equivalent of 100% of its “gross electricity consumption” from renewables by 2020. It reached 98.6% that year, but in 2021 the figure Read more…

wo large concrete batching plants associated with the Viking Energy windfarm have been given the go ahead, despite councillors’ previous refusal. The Scottish government this week approved two appeals from Viking developer SSE, overruling the SIC’s decisions from last year. SSE claimed the council’s planning committee had shown a “fundamental Read more…