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An energy storage plant in Fife has been brought into operation in a move that will help secure a £400,000 boost to revenues for the firm that developed it. Harmony Energy Income Trust announced that the Little Raith Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) site at Lochgelly has been “energised”. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23862164.raith-hull-sites-secure-400-000-boost-developer/?fbclid=IwAR1_qy5wILfcaVjsnBA1QZn-Bo1UOzADkS-Znjiqe1nfyqn5yBbdb_vrh9c

In a report on the UK’s net zero needs, the National Infrastructure Commission says there is “no public policy case” for hydrogen to be used to heat individual homes or other buildings. In its second National Infrastructure Assessment, a five-yearly review, the commission makes a series of recommendations to transform Read more

Landmark funding to unlock renewables investment. Strategic investment to help create thousands of green jobs and deliver the full economic potential of offshore renewables projects is to be delivered over the next five years. Up to £500 million will leverage private investment in ports, manufacturing and assembly work to support Read more

The site is on a large area of open moorland grazing located within the Kilpatrick Hills, northeast of Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire A proposed wind farm development comprising up to ten wind turbines of approximately 7 megawatts (MW) each, with a maximum blade tip height of up to 250m, and Battery Read more

Sutherland green hydrogen scheme sparks fears among locals By Sandra Dick Journalist For a short spell in the mid-19th century, the rolling hills and gushing burns that cut through Strath Brora in Sutherland were tinged with golden promise. Having struck gold, the rush began: prospectors arrived from Australia and California, Read more

  Who really benefits from the pylons? Hoorah for Norman McNab’s assertion that we already have too many wind pylons, and more particularly that “sadly many foreign venture capitalists and wealthy landowners are on a win-win ticket while trivial financial benefit and damage is Scotland’s reward” (Letters, October 13). I Read more

SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies have announced all Vestas turbines at the 1075MW Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Scotland are now fully operational. The wind farm comprises 114 V164-10.0MW turbines and is situated 27 km off the Angus coast in the North Sea’s Firth of Forth. Seagreen is Read more