Some of Scotland’s biggest ‘local’ wind farms are owned as far afield as the Cayman Islands and Canada, The Ferret can reveal, prompting claims the Scottish Government is “misleading” the public over its community energy targets. The Scottish Government has a target to bring much more “community or locally owned” Read more…
SNP ministers have been accused of “selling the family silver” after it emerged they had used a £750 million fund built up from selling offshore wind plots to plug their budget gap. Shona Robison set out her spending plans last week with the Nats facing a £1.5 billion black hole. Read more…
We hope you have a great one despite the weather. As always, this year’s Xmas card was created by our Chairman Graham Lang. We hope it gives you a chuckle. The wind industry hate humour!
Xmas comes but one a year! Faw Side Wind Farm refused. Dumfries and Galloway/Scottish Borders. Congratulations everyone concerned! Ministers’ decision Taking into account the above assessment the Scottish Ministers consider there would be significant landscape and visual impacts, and subsequent residential amenity effects, and impacts on defence interests at Eskdalemuir Read more…
Thank you for signing up for the presentation on Planning Appeals with the DPEA. We hope you found the event useful, even if you could not make it on the day, we hope you find these resources useful. Please pass this email on to any staff from your organisation which may Read more…
Renewable energy company BayWa r.e. has received planning approval from the Scottish Government for Corriegarth 2 Wind Farm, near Gorthleck and south east of Foyers. An extension to the already-operational Corriegarth Wind Farm owned by Greencoat UK Wind, the consented scheme could produce enough domestically-sourced renewable energy to meet approximately Read more…
Norway’s Statkraft and its partners will pay reindeer herders millions of dollars to avoid having to tear down part of a huge onshore wind project that was found to violate their human rights, although a dispute with another group rumbles on. A deal was struck this week between Statkraft and Read more…
The Scottish Government has given the green light to the developers of a proposed 16-turbine wind farm in Sutherland. The way is now clear for ESB Energy – the main gas and electricity supplier in Ireland – to build Chleansaid Wind Farm on a site on Dalnessie Estate, to the Read more…