The decision by offshore windfarm developers to boycott the UK Government’s latest support round for renewables firms underlined the threat to hopes of a boom off Scotland. However, the remedies proposed by the administration’s many critics could impose a heavy burden on energy bill payers across the UK, who are Read more
Wind whoppers Re: your story “Blades from Scotland’s first wind farm sent into storage” (11 September), how absurd. That the ruinously expensive decommissioning was not previously considered shows how ludicrous the whole ever-so-green, subsidy-farming scam really is. During the recent hot spell wind farms were barely able to supply the Read more
Politicians should stop endorsing an energy source that isn’t particularly clean or secure, and won’t bring down prices The MPs who have forced Rishi Sunak into a U-turn on onshore wind power love to repeat the favourite slogan of the wind industry: “wind is cheap”. “Cheap, clean, secure,” says Sir Alok Sharma. Read more
So how close are we? AS rural communities and the countryside come under increasing pressure from wind farm developers who are enjoying a free-for-all destroying Scotland’s best asset, its unique landscape, can anyone actually tell us in percentage terms our current progress towards net zero? I have emailed the Government Read more
The UK’s largest wind farm developer has ruled out building new onshore wind farms in England and Wales in a blow to the Government’s net zero plans. Alistair Phillips-Davies, chief executive of SSE, said his company was “unlikely to build a single wind farm” in England or Wales despite the Read more
Dr John Constable, energy editor of Net Zero Watch, said: “The CfD auction results are symptomatic of a wider failure of wind power around the world. The industry is in a crisis from which it is unlikely to recover, because its costs are simply too high to be sustainable. The Read more
Advocates for increasing Britain’s reliance on wind power often claim that, on top of its green benefits, it will reduce prices and boost energy security. Massive planned increases in capacity are thus described as an undeniable win-win, with the arguments of critics ignored. But a debate over the virtues of Read more