Separatists are going to great lengths to present Scotland as a renewable energy superpower – felling millions of trees in the process The outcry over the Scottish executive’s admission that 15.7 million trees have been felled on publicly owned land since 2000 to make way for wind turbines has been Read more
By Stephen Norris Galloway Without Pylons co-ordinator Paul Swift says part of SP Energy Networks’ closing submission “must be challenged in fact” The company behind a controversial Stewartry pylon project has been accused of making a false statement to the public inquiry into the scheme. The Scottish Government has vetoed Read more
GreenPower is progressing a planning application for a sister wind project, up to 66MW, to its existing Carraig Gheal wind farm in Argyll, Scotland. A planning application will be submitted for Barachander in early 2024 following public and statutory consultation, alongside detailed environmental assessment. GreenPower has submitted a scoping report Read more
Sweden’s Vattenfall raised a huge question mark over the viability of UK offshore wind as it halted plans for a project due to form part of one of the world’s biggest developments on profitability grounds in the face of soaring costs. The utility group today (Thursday) said it will stop Read more
There is a lot of publicity regarding SPEN’s Closing Submission to the recent public inquiry for a 132kV overhead pylon line (OHL) from Kendoon to Tongland The most recent events were triggered by a letter which Paul Swift of Galloway without Pylons sent to the DPEA which was published Read more
Last week we were alerted by Paul Swift of Galloway with Pylons to the fact that the applicant’s (Scottish Power Energy Networks) closing submission to the public inquiry for a 132kV overhead pylon line (OHL) from Kendoon to Tongland had not been published on the DPEA website as it was Read more
The chief executive of Centrica has called for a wider roll-out of hydrogen for heating and power generation in a bid to combat the intermittency of renewables. Writing on LinkedIn, Chris O’Shea – who also serves as chairman of Centrica’s (LON:CNA) upstream arm Spirit Energy – said swings in the Read more
Power Point Stephen Flynn, the SNP Leader at Westminster, provided no data on how he will achieve “sustained economic growth with independence” (your report, 17 July) when the 45,000MW of windmills, announced in the SNP Energy Paper issued in the spring, will produce no electricity when the wind fails Read more