A judge has dismissed a judicial review challenge against the award of planning permission to Vattenfall’s 77MW Clashindarroch 2 wind farm in Scotland. Conservation group Wildcat Haven had sought to reverse the permit decision amid concerns about the development’s impact on Scottish wildcat habitats in the Clashindarroch Forest. It argued Read more…
Tough balance Paul de Leeuw makes makes an important point about the need to increase infrastructure investment in the energy sector (Perspective, 7 February). He is certainly correct to say that we require to strike the difficult balance between affordability, sustainability and doability and that the UK will require Read more…
Renewable energy producer SSE PLC has said the bad weather that hampered its wind farms’ power generation last year could delay the completion of the major Dogger Bank A wind farm. In a Q3 trading statement today, the firm said that construction of part of the world’s largest offshore wind Read more…