Jeremy Hunt closes loophole that allowed turbine owners to benefit from surging prices Wind farms will be prevented from keeping excessive profits after an overhaul of subsidy rules designed to hold down bills. Ministers have closed a loophole that allowed turbine operators to take advantage of surging electricity prices Read more
With just two months to go until All-Energy 2023 in Glasgow – the UK’s largest energy and renewables event – Alex Irwin, Property and Infrastructure Associate at Shepherd and Wedderburn examines one of the key areas of this year’s conference: onshore wind power https://www.heraldscotland.com/…/23390825.energise…/
Incompetence on offshore wind ALAN Carmichael (Letters, March 15) challenges Douglas Cowe to “advance a credible case for continuing to entrust our abundance of assets to Westminster”. Well, the case is perhaps made by looking at our track record of managing those assets which are under our control. Has Mr Read more
The International Conferences on Wind Turbine Noise website has just been updated. You can now download all proceedings up to 2017 free of charge. Proceedings from 2019 onwards cost £55.00 Note that, even for a free set of proceedings, you must first select the Conference you are interested in https://www.windturbinenoise.eu/content/conferences/ Read more
Dirty secret Sir David Attenborough tells us that “nature is in crisis” (Scotsman, 13 March) and wildlife charities, including the RSPB, have joined together to warn us that wildlife and wild places are being “destroyed at terrifying speed” . We know wind farms both on and offshore play their part Read more
The UK Government recently published a policy paper – Nationally Significant Infrastructure: action plan for reforms to the planning process – setting out plans to speed up the planning and delivery process for large-scale infrastructure projects, including offshore wind farms. This was welcomed, especially as we know the average timeline Read more
It’s an uncomfortable dilemma that has cast a long shadow over the sustainability credentials of a green form of energy. For while wind turbines may project a carbon friendly image, when it comes to their manufacture, the steel, concrete, and plastics that go into making them take their toll on Read more
HYDROGEN NOT THE ANSWER OUR weather in recent days raises the question again of how best to fuel our future to address the sometimes-clashing objectives of addressing net zero whilst ensuring the UK engineers a secure and reliable electricity grid network for us and future generations. In the calm and Read more