A cross party group of local MSPs recently wrote to the Scottish Government to make the case for land at the former nuclear site becoming the site of a planned specialist blade facility for the decommissioning, and recycling, of old wind turbine blades. Colin Smyth, Oliver Mundell, Emma Harper and Read more
UK energy minister on Thursday condemned the behavior of wind-farm operators who have routinely overestimated how much power they’ll generate — a practice that adds to consumers’ bills, according to electricity traders and market experts. Andrew Bowie was responding to a Bloomberg News report that found dozens of the country’s Read more
The UK is in the midst of a green energy transformation, with more than 40% of its electricity coming from wind power as of December. But wind can be unpredictable and the grid can’t always handle the power wind turbines generate on blustery days — and so to protect the Read more
Offshore wind also blamed for the “killing and injuring of sea birds” in this article. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24087023.puffins-thrown-lifeline-scottish-sandeel-fishing-ban/?fbclid=IwAR0s0NZ0of1fehkvfsbj0REYMa-mLa4r2c8c4U4i_-iRea93A5yBcVGUl3A
Scotland missed a target for offshore wind farm jobs by 90 per cent – with Holyrood ministers warned radical action is needed to secure the green jobs revolution. Economic think tank Future Economy Scotland (FES) said the country risks failing to create enough clean energy jobs to offset the loss Read more