Sweden’s Vattenfall raised a huge question mark over the viability of UK offshore wind as it halted plans for a project due to form part of one of the world’s biggest developments on profitability grounds in the face of soaring costs. The utility group today (Thursday) said it will stop Read more
There is a lot of publicity regarding SPEN’s Closing Submission to the recent public inquiry for a 132kV overhead pylon line (OHL) from Kendoon to Tongland The most recent events were triggered by a letter which Paul Swift of Galloway without Pylons sent to the DPEA which was published Read more
Last week we were alerted by Paul Swift of Galloway with Pylons to the fact that the applicant’s (Scottish Power Energy Networks) closing submission to the public inquiry for a 132kV overhead pylon line (OHL) from Kendoon to Tongland had not been published on the DPEA website as it was Read more
The chief executive of Centrica has called for a wider roll-out of hydrogen for heating and power generation in a bid to combat the intermittency of renewables. Writing on LinkedIn, Chris O’Shea – who also serves as chairman of Centrica’s (LON:CNA) upstream arm Spirit Energy – said swings in the Read more
Power Point Stephen Flynn, the SNP Leader at Westminster, provided no data on how he will achieve “sustained economic growth with independence” (your report, 17 July) when the 45,000MW of windmills, announced in the SNP Energy Paper issued in the spring, will produce no electricity when the wind fails Read more
Wind farms are far from green YOU carry an article on the destruction/reconstruction of the Hagshaw wind farm (“Scotland’s first commercial windfarm to be repowered”, The Herald, July 14). I note that the powers that be in SSE Renewables seem to be under the illusion that their efforts in Hagshaw’s Read more
Last week we posted an update on our Petition to the Scottish Parliament along with our latest submission in response to the Planning Minister. Since then, due to evidence being received from one of our members of disgraceful behaviour from an Applicant’s legal team directed at his own community group Read more
More than 100 of the UK’s biggest energy companies will tell Rishi Sunak this week not to back off the green agenda after a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned of catastrophic effects on the economy of continued overreliance on gas. The energy sector is becoming so Read more