The spirits of Duns Christmas Lights committee have been lit up thanks to a £10,000 grant from the Blackhill Windfarm Fund. http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local/all-news/duns-gets-10-000-christmas-lights-grant-1-3149064
Senior Tories are drawing up a secret plan to cut green taxes as part of a radical overhaul of the energy industry designed to reduce customers’ bills. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10391198/Coalition-at-war-over-energy-policy-as-Tories-plan-to-cut-green-taxes.html
Foreign-owned firms are building expensive turbines offshore but there is a far more efficient alternative http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10389434/Mini-nukes-beat-monster-wind-farms-on-every-count.html
Wind farms have scarred the British landscape and turned the public against the renewable energy agenda, an Energy Minister has conceded. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467726/Energy-Minister-Greg-Barker-We-wind-farms-wrong-place.html
Steven Vass Deputy Business Editor, Sunday Herald CORRIEYAIRACK Pass, a couple of miles south of the base of Loch Ness, has seen an unusual flurry of activity lately. The tranquillity in this thoroughfare between the Great Glen and Strathspey since the days of the Jacobites has been disturbed by a Read more
Iain Macwhirter Columnist The SNP’s final annual conference before Scotland’s Day of Destiny, as Alex Salmond calls the independence referendum, went rather better than expected. Aware that they risked squandering their main media showcase of the year, ministers unlocked the box marked “November White Paper” and sprung a few policy Read more
Siemens has now installed a market-ready version of its new 6 megawatt (MW) gearless wind turbine on the test site of the power utility SSE, the UK’s largest generator of renewable energy. http://www.offshorewind.biz/2013/10/14/uk-siemens-installs-6-mw-wind-turbine/
Magnus Gardham Political Editor NICOLA Sturgeon has announced a plan to cut the average family’s fuel bill by £70 if Scots vote for independence in next year’s referendum. The Deputy First Minister responded to growing public anger over soaring gas and electricity prices by pledging to remove energy-efficiency costs from Read more