The giant Beatrice offshore windfarm in the Moray Firth has been given a major boost after being offered a contract for difference under the Government’s energy reform plans. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/04/boost-beatrice-giant-scots-windfarm-project-lands-energy-deal-government/
A wind farm developer’s campaign to raise interest from businesses in the South West of Scotland has had an ‘incredible response’ after it signed up a century of firms, the company behind the proposed scheme said today. http://www.gallowaygazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/centurion-batting-for-wind-farm-1-3383709
(Reuters) – The British government on Wednesday awarded investment contracts under a new subsidy regime to eight renewable energy projects, including five offshore wind farms and three biomass plants. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/23/uk-britain-renewables-idUKBREA3M0AI20140423?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&rpc=401
David Cameron has indicated he will look at cutting subsidies for onshore wind farms in the future. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10780657/We-must-cut-onshore-windfarm-subsidies-says-David-Cameron.html
YOUR correspondent David Bridge (Letters, April 21) is unhappy that an 11-turbine wind farm at Freasdail has been consented. As an objector, he is entitled to be. I take issue, however, with his parting comment that “we shall remember that the SNP were the culprits”. It is simply wrong to Read more
by SHAN ROSS A FAULT at a substation has been identified as the cause of a massive power cut which left more than 200,000 properties across the north of Scotland without electricity last week. Finance Secretary John Swinney told MSPs the blackout had been due to a faulty electronic relay Read more
The Republic of Ireland has officially dropped its plan to massively invest in renewable energy wind farms in the Irish Midlands – creating up to 30,00 new jobs – the electricity from which was to have been exported to England. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/ireland-drops-massive-renewables-plan-to-export-electricity-to-england/
The company bidding to build a 13-turbine wind farm at Tressady near Rogart are appealing against the Highland Council’s decision to refuse planning permission. http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Developers-to-appeal-over-Tressady-Wind-Farm-refusal-22042014.htm