Residents living in a Highland beauty spot are fighting plans for almost 150 battery energy storage system (BESS) units being built within 400m of their homes.The area in the Kyle of Sutherland earmarked for the containers would be bigger than two football fields.Opponents say the proposed Inveroykel development will also Read more
Ed Miliband is preparing to blanket reservoirs and lakes with solar farms as part of .Labour’s push towards net zero. The Energy Secretary will launch a consultation to make it easier to build , after a report that hailed their potential as a clean energy source. Floating solar schemes use Read more
There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies – everything from AI to wind turbines, as well as cellphones, electric vehicles and defense systems – depend on critical minerals. But many of the communities where those minerals are Read more
With almost one thousand wind turbines either in operation, consented or at various stages of the planning system in the Scottish Borders concerned residents are calling for an inquiry into the use of asbestos in their manufacture.The plea comes as it emerged that Scottish Government was unaware that the cancer-causing Read more
The SNP’s Energy Secretary was slated over her refusal to meet campaigners worried about huge energy projects until just weeks before the Scottish Parliament Election. Gillian Martin provoked anger in her Aberdeenshire West constituency by failing to listen to local concerns about pylons and wind farms being built. Some of Read more
Puffins could be at risk from an ‘ecological catastrophe’ wrought by the new wind farm https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15763939/Ed-Miliband-puffins-worlds-largest-wind-farm.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawRZU-hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeHovvRzVZsstDq4kfCjH6wW4KCyn5herkfnN8jaOVe58rq0Nq3_tkTnYSE5Q_aem_M7o6JfuUXYG8uSsRtXPmrg
Perthshire wind farm protesters are demanding Holyrood election candidates scrap the developments over the “detrimental” impact on rural landscapes.The campaigners are fighting two new proposed sites at Glen Lednock and Glen Tarken near the border of Stirlingshire, and Perth and Kinross, at Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.The plans Read more
On 16 April 2026, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (“DESNZ”) and Ofgem published a to address NESO’s reforms allowing connection to the grid . (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/connections-reform-delivery-update-and-battery-capacity/open-letter-from-desnz-and-ofgem-on-connections-reform-delivery)In essence, there are too many BESS projects which have already been consented. The DESNZ letter calls on developers to review the Read more