The future of offshore wind power generation in the UK is in serious doubt, as the government’s plans to encourage new windfarms are over-expensive and flawed, a new thinktank study has found. The left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research has found that the government has done too little to attract Read more
THE glacial process of making the National Grid feasible for renewable energy producers in Scotland’s remote regions is gathering pace. The energy regulator Ofgem announced its plan to bash heads together in an effort to sort out the high cost of pumping renewable energy into the UK transmission network back Read more
After months of angst and debate over the omission of the term “climate change” from the draft version of the new geography curriculum for key stages 1-3, the Department for Education has today released the new wording. The two versions remain virtually word-for-word the same, except for this section of Read more
Mining company Hargreaves has been accused of cherry-picking the best bit of Fife’s opencast mines. Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie made the claim after it was announced that the company had opted out of buying Blair House mine near Oakley even though it had purchased three other interests in Read more
TWO wind turbines the height of Dunfermline’s clock tower are planned for a Cairneyhill farm. Edinburgh-based Fine Energy has applied for permission for the 34.6-metre (113ft) turbines, as well as an access track and associated infrastructure, to be built at Remiltoun Farmhouse at Sunnyside http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/roundup/articles/2013/07/08/463498-two-wind-turbines-the-height-of-dunfermline-city-clock-planned-for-cairneyhill/
Ms Thorburn, of Wind Prospect (Advertiser, June 27), claims that 71% of Scotland is in favour of wind farms. She should surely be more sceptical that means anything at all. Having claimed that a majority of Midlothian supported their proposal based on a telephone poll, within six weeks 1080 people Read more
Repower said the closure of its offices in Aarhus were part of a global programme to adjust “site structure as well as our logistics and our number of personnel”. In April, the company announced it was to cut around 750 jobs globally and reduce costs by EUR100 million by the Read more
It was the moment for green energy to shine as the biggest offshore wind farm in the world, 12 miles off the Kent coast, opened with a high profile fanfare. But as renewable energy chiefs raised a glass in celebration, Prime Minster David Cameron – while rejoicing the London Array Read more