SAS was informed yesterday at the DPEA Stakeholders’ Forum that they now have a customer survey form on their website but they have only received 20 responses. We offered to publicise it on our website and FB page. It is aimed at anyone who has taken part in a DPEA Read more
British Gas owner Centrica will not launch a legal bid to challenge the Government’s new windfall tax, its chairman said on Tuesday. But Scott Wheway warned of “long-term problems” if the tax is expanded to include power generators. He added that the company welcomes the support the Government has announced Read more
Fiddling UK Stuart Smith wonders what would happen should there be a referendum on England becoming Independent (Letters 4 June). Constraint payments of £1 billion have been paid over the last ten years to the foreign owners of wind turbines located in Scotland. So they are paid to produce Read more
Plans for a £150m factory near Hull which will make materials for magnets used in electric cars and wind turbines have been approved despite objections. The plant, which will process rare earth materials, will be built next to the existing Saltend Chemical Park. More than 30 objections to the factory Read more
REBECCA McQuillan’s article (“Renewable power is cheap so why are we being ripped off?”,The Herald, June 3) exhibited a very poor level of background research and a too-ready acceptance of renewable energy industry myth and misconception. Even a cursory examination of recent wind farm operators’ accounts lodged at Companies House Read more
A man has died at a construction site for a wind farm converter station in Shetland. The 23-year-old was injured at the site in the Upper Kergord area of Shetland at about 10:15 on Sunday, police said. Emergency services went to the location but the man died at the scene. Read more
“Here the whole sky is smoke,” the writer Joseph Roth noted as he travelled through the Ruhr, Germany’s old industrial heartland, nearly a century ago. “It hangs in a grey pall over the land that has made it and that continues to make more of it … It is sacrifice, Read more
Rishi Sunak consults on plans for North Sea oil and gas tax to cover only profits on electricity generated from fossil fuels By Edward Malnick, Sunday Political Editor 4 June 2022 • 10:00pm Rishi Sunak had previously suggested all profits from electricity generation could be hit, regardless of the Read more