Those on the UK climate gravy train keep telling us what we should do to cut greenhouse gasses but never reveal what other countries are doing – or rather, not doing. Germany has approved a new gas project. The US, the world’s largest oil producer, pay slip service to Net Read more…
First Minister John Swinney says he hopes to avoid the £460m raid on a long-term investment fund announced by Finance Secretary Shona Robison to balance the books this year. He said so as he officially opened the onshore maintenance base in Buckie for one of Scotland’s biggest offshore windfarms – Read more…
DPEA Stakeholder Group This is just a quick note to advise you that due to an unprecedented number of new appeals being received by DPEA, there may be some delays to our handling of cases and dealing with submissions. I’d be grateful if you could make those you represent on Read more…
Today the government proudly announced the “success” of the sixth allocation round (AR6) of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme. I have already talked a little here about what CfDs involve, and Paul Homewood has dissected the nonsense that is AR6 here so I don’t propose to talk much about Read more…
A PLAN to install “huge” 200-metre-high wind turbines in the Lammermuir Hills has been opposed by East Lothian Council, as councillors claimed that the county had already taken more than its fair share of energy projects. Belltown Power UK Wind Limited is the latest company to bring forward proposals for a Read more…
Ed Miliband is preparing to scrap the UK’s much-vaunted target for building 55 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity by 2030, according to reports. Chris Stark, who previously ran the government’s advisory Climate Change Committee, and who now works for Mr Miliband’s “Mission Control” leading on decarbonisation, is to publish Read more…
Greg Jackson, Chief Executive Officer of Octopus Energy, has called for an end to payments made to wind farms to stop generating electricity. https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/09/06/octopus-boss-calls-for-end-to-payments-for-wind-farms-to-stop-generating-power/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFI6SFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHexOnHhq6sy9K8I0uk3qW0UNkrPgCvOUKnlqzf9MFGYHVKp-c6voZ6CeTw_aem_4Yp6saQFoTz30tlXZtdG_g
The owner of Scone Palace is bringing forward plans for a major wind farm development on land six miles west of Dunkeld. Scone Estates has partnered with wind farm developer Muirhall Energy for the project at North Logiealmond. The proposed wind farm plans are for up to 20 turbines capable Read more…