Consumers will be forced to pay higher energy bills to fund policies that simultaneously tax coal plants to the brink of closure and then pay them to stay open, the head of Britain’s biggest energy supplier has warned. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/11183161/Energy-paradox-how-your-bills-will-rise-to-phase-out-coal-power-plants-and-to-keep-then-running.html
A renewable energy firm is claiming a shot in the arm with more than 100 letters of support for its wind farm proposal at Birneyknowe. Banks Renewables, of Hamilton, whose 15-turbine bid centres on a site between Hawick and Bonchester, is “delighted” with the positive feedback, and speaking to the Read more
EU leaders vow to slash carbon emissions by 40 per cent by 2030 but do not impose national renewable energy targets By Emily Gosden, Energy Editor Britain will no longer be forced to build wind and solar farms from 2020, under a new EU climate change deal that leaves countries Read more
The community-owned wind turbine development on Islay has taken another step forward with the arrival on the island of the 330kW Enercon wind turbine. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/islay-gets-ready-to-blow-its-own-turbine/
Simon Gray, of the East of England Energy Group, is sure another operator will take over the Galloper Wind farm project after RWE pulls out. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/groups-united-against-misguided-perthshire-windfarm-plans-1.642714
By Mark Mackay Conservation groups, residents, mountaineers and politicians have united in the fight to protect Highland Perthshire’s wildlife and natural environment. Hugely controversial plans for an industrial scale windfarm in the heart of some of “Scotland’s most precious wild lands” have led to almost unprecedented opposition. The application by Read more
By Richard Watt An Angus Council committee has bunkered an appeal over a wind turbine overlooking a golf course. Plans for the 250-foot turbine by the 10th hole of Forfar Golf Course, Cunninghill, were refused by the local authority in July and a meeting of the council’s development management review Read more
By David Kerr Scaled down plans for a windfarm above Loch Ness met with a mixed reaction when they were put on show to the public. Energy developer RES revealed their new plans for the Culachy Windfarm yesterday in Fort Augustus. The company had initially wanted to build 25 turbines Read more