Communities living near new onshore wind turbines and solar farms should be given 100 per cent discounts on their energy bills, Tory MPs have said. The 1922 backbench committee on business, energy and industrial strategy has recommended a tiered system to provide an incentive and compensate people for renewable energy Read more
Our thanks to Stephen Lucking for his latest stats on constraint payments. I attach two documents setting out the latest data on this issue. One is a spreadsheet and the other a short word document. Obviously the figures vary with wind speeds but when these are low and constraint Read more
A wilderness on the Isle of Skye has become the latest battleground in a bitter debate over the impact of wind turbines on Scotland’s most spectacular landscapes. Proposals for 53 turbines, each with a height of 200 metres (685ft), at Ullinish Glen in the northwest of the island, will turn Read more
Pumped up Green MSP Patrick Harvie has admitted that his back-of-a-fag-packet plan for the replacement of domestic fossil fuel heating systems may not be suitable for 40,000 rural homes. Mr Harvie is in for a big shock in the coming years. He is about to find out that a significant Read more
Maybe it’s the energy sector equivalent of trickle-down economics but I’m not impressed by the crumbs we’re getting from the renewable energy table. Green power is a remarkable bounty and I want to know where our fair share is. Recently, I saw both Labour/Tory East Lothian Council and the SNP/Green Read more
Twelve huge wind turbines would unacceptably impair the outlook between a far north stretch of the NC500 and the sea, according to Highland Council’s landscape officer. Anne Cowling has joined scores of residents of Armadale in opposing the plans drawn up by Brookfield Renewables UK Ltd. The company is bidding Read more
SCOTTISH Borders Council (SBC) has chosen not to raise any objections to a proposed new wind farm earmarked for land a few miles outside the region. The global energy company Renewable Energy Systems (RES) has now submitted a planning application to Dumfries and Galloway Council in support of the Bloch Read more
A Caithness community councillor has claimed it would be “complete madness” for Marine Scotland to approve an offshore wind farm near Dounreay. David Craig, of the Caithness West Community Council (CWCC), is concerned that consent for the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm would lead to radioactive particles in the seabed Read more