Dear Sir, So, the Scottish Energy Minister “Calls for urgent action to link wind farms to the grid” (Press and Journal 16th June). Gillian Martin MSP need to be politely reminded that ‘capacity and potential’ without any wind won’t keep the lights on. In fact, the very day she called Read more
It’s a busy week with two Inquiries underway, the Roundtable and Debate at Holyrood and the 3 day International Wind Turbine Noise Conference in Dublin. The Conference details, including Abstracts can be found on their website. There are large number of papers on health this year. We will publish the Read more
Wind power blow I have been monitoring the flow of electricity between Scotland and England during the past few days which shows Scotland to be consistently importing electricity and up to a massive 2.8GW at times. This is significantly more than half the average Scottish electricity demand of around 5GW. Read more
Onshore Windfarm Roundtable – June 20th, 15:00 – 16:00 Agenda · Opening remarks from Alexander Burnett MSP · Introduction from each attendee. · What changes should be made to planning process for windfarms greater than 50MW? · What compensation should communities get for hosting large onshore windfarms? · Concluding Read more
Dear sir, Good luck to Kate Forbes MSP in her role as ‘ambassador’ for ‘green’ Highlands (Press and Journal June 9th). Her task to protect the environment, biodiversity and the ‘Nature Crisis’ could take some doing, particularly as her own SNP colleagues repeatedly rubber stamp wind farm applications Read more
The entire western world has enumerated and adopted gigantic development targets with this unproven technology, and that without having a scientific basis for the overall scope of consequences for HSE (health, safety and environment). It is almost unbelievable, and we know of no other industry that have been allowed such Read more
Energy strategy Mark Stewart’s article on how we finance our energy transition (Scotsman, 14 June) was very interesting. To some extent he is correct to say: “The availability of risk capital to make manifest changes is still incredibly difficult to secure.” He is not correct if government provided the Read more
LONDON 15 June– Britain wasted enough wind generation last year to power a million homes, because investments in, and planning approvals for electricity grid upgrades are not keeping up with the rapid growth of wind power development – finds a report published today by the financial think tank Carbon Tracker. Read more