August 11, 2024

Within weeks, work is expected to begin on a 121-mile (195-kilometre) clean energy “superhighway” designed to channel green electricity from Scotland’s rich renewable resources to the north of England.  https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/11/labour-go-ahead-for-march-of-the-pylons-promises-to-spark-conflict?fbclid=IwY2xjawElWtlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcMNSMR353i4jeJE0pyTa09DOhy0Zs-hPgjVC86v3I0SApNCCJTtTHIRsw_aem_KyJxYLu7epJPjlFiPpL1sQ

Ed Miliband’s mission to achieve a net zero electricity system by 2030 isn’t lacking in ambition. But even if he can muster the will and investment needed, the Energy Secretary’s plan currently faces a more prosaic barrier – the country’s creaking power grid. Despite huge wind farms coming online in Read more…

GIANT wind turbines taller than London’s Gherkin building are to be built across Britain’s countryside after Ed Miliband rejected calls to impose a height limit. The Energy Secretary’s decision means turbines as high as 850ft can be built on hills and fields – far taller than the City skyscraper, which Read more…