Advice has gone out to communities in Dumfries and Galloway to accept wind farms as a certainty of the future and reap the benefits they bring. http://www.gallowaygazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/no-avoiding-more-turbines-1-3392749
There are fears a glut of planning applications for windfarms could be landing on council planners desks across Cumbria after news that government subsidies are to be phased out. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.1132559
Scottish Government Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead will today (30 April) set out the ‘green gains’ of Scottish independence in a major speech at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/rural-affairs-secretary-sets-out-vision-for-scotlands-greener-future-with-independence/
The renewable energy industry in the UK has attracted almost £30 billion of private sector investment since 2010 – enabling the industry to sustain over 100,000 jobs in 2013 and deliver 4.2% of UK energy. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/already-supporting-100000-jobs-uk-renewable-energy-sector-is-set-for-64-billion-of-investment-by-2020/
CAMPAIGNERS have hit out at plans to build a renewable energy substation on a historic Scottish battlefield. The Battle of Prestonpans 1745 Heritage Trust is strongly opposing plans by two renewable energy companies to construct a huge electric substation on the site in East Lothian. Executive Trustee Arran Johnston said Read more
I NOTE there are plans to produce renewable power by placing solar panels around Glasgow (“Glasgow’s solar power mission”, The Herald, April 28). I have roof solar panels, and they produce the power predicted by the installer and due to subsidy in the form of the Feed-in Tariff, are financially Read more
FARMERS are being urged to get the ball rolling with wind turbine installations after the Conservative Party vowed to axe public subsidies for new onshore wind. http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/renewables/farmers-could-bear-brunt-of-tory-wind-farm-plans/63993.article
Energy giant SSE has been challenged to publish a timetable for new connections from Scotland’s islands to the national grid. It follows the publication of an independent report commissioned by the Scottish and UK governments on what action is needed to help deliver electricity grid connections necessary to unlock the Read more