If passed, the bill would mean “no tax-payer funded payments in excess of the prevailing wholesale price” would be made to new offshore projects. http://www.windpoweroffshore.com/article/1329545/uk-parliament-debates-end-offshore-subsidies
DEVELOPERS in charge of the proposed extension to the wind farm at Little Raith have gone to the Scottish Government in a bid to get their plans pushed through. http://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/cowdenbeath/articles/2015/01/16/521625-kennedy-appeal-to-holyrood-over-little-raith-delay/
Following the unexplained collapse of a wind turbine at a Northern Ireland windfarm last week, one local politician has raised concerns over safety at windfarms closer to home. Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP David Mundell is asking the Scottish Government, the Health & Safety Executive and Council Building Control to Read more
Written by Pete Bevington Plans to build a massive wind farm in Shetland took a “significant” step forward this week when the government agreed to speed up the timetable for making the project viable. Both UK and Scottish governments have put their full weight behind cutting the cost of exporting Read more
Colin McNeill A WINDFARM has begun operating again after it was temporarily closed when a piece of equipment was found at the road side. It was at first thought that the three-metre long fibreglass component had fallen off one of the 19 turbines at Longpark windfarm during high winds at Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent Energy giant SSE plc, now accepts it can lay a 100 miles subsea cable from Caithness to Moray for £118m less than it had originally calculated. SSE’s Scottish Hydro Electricity (SHE) Transmission Ltd had applied to Ofgem for permission to charge its customers £1,236.2m to finance Read more
A conservation group is objecting to plans for Bonhill’s first wind turbine over fears it could lead to a ‘rash’ of wind farms in the Vale. Smith Harris, represented by the engineering and environmental consultancy firm the Waterman Group, wants to install a single turbine up to 45 metres tall. Read more
Jane Candlish Campaigners against a windfarm on the edges of the Cairngorms National Park have urged the Scottish Government to reject the plans. Save the Monadhliath Mountains (SMM) has made its final submission to ministers about the Allt Duine windfarm. It is in response to further information lodged by developers Read more