Tim Webb The amount of potential electricity from onshore wind farms that has been allowed to go untapped has more than doubled this year because the grid cannot cope. Developers have received payments of £19 million not to generate 215 gigawatt hours enough electricity to supply nearly 50,000 households Read more
By Richard Watt A windfarm comprising 22 turbines of up to 125 metres in height could be proposed for the border of Angus and Perthshire. Edinburgh firm the Wind Prospect Group has submitted a scoping application to Angus Council for a development at woodland on Knockton Hill, Glen Isla. Knockton Read more
By Laura Paterson Anti-windfarm campaigners have accused an energy giant of trying to manipulate the planning process to build more turbines in the Highlands. SSE Renewables has a 20-turbine windfarm at Fairburn in Ross-shire, but wants permission for a further 12 turbines just over half a mile away. Instead of Read more
THE chairman of ice cream and renewable energy business Mackie’s has highlighted some of the key lessons he has learned that have helped the business prosper over four generations of family ownership. Maitland Mackie underlined the importance for family businesses to embrace change in a speech at the University Read more
It used to be trendy to join protests against new motorway extensions. So-called environmentalists climbed trees and set up camps to block the bulldozers. Now, the latest focus for the green protesters and their celebrity backers is shale gas. Anti-fracking groups are mobilising across the UK, feverishly protesting that shale Read more
EXECUTIVES at British Polythene Industries have warned high energy costs in the UK are putting the company off making major capital investments in its domestic market. http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/company-news/bpi-warns-energy-costs-are-deterring-uk-investment.1377683192
Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has submitted plans for a £190m 50-turbine wind farm in the south west of Scotland to the Scottish government. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-23867100
Trade body unfazed by tribunal declaring UK’s renewable energy plans may be in breach of Aarhus Convention http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2291250/un-ruling-will-not-threaten-wind-farms-industry-says