Westminster’s intervention in the electricity market risks “mothballing a series of multi-billion pound” green energy projects, a major investor has warned. Community Windpower says the “US and EU are doing all they can” to attract renewables spend, while the UK is “doing all it can to deter it” by imposing Read more
A PLANNED windfarm near Dufftown will not be built because the site is “not best suited” to one. The abandoned Glenlivet Wind Farm development would have featured 11 200-meter turbines, generating over 84MW of green energy. The firm behind the plans, Fred. Olsen Renewables, said the development would have provided Read more
Herald letters Face the real risks of wind farms AS politicians of all colours herald the massive expansion of offshore and onshore wind, we have to wonder if their heads are so deeply buried in the sand that they do not see or hear of the environmental catastrophe being reported Read more
Today’s NPF4 Hearing is for WIN-110-2 Clashindarroch II Wind Farm – Wednesday, 8th February 2023 at 10:00am https://dpea.public-i.tv/…/webcast_interactive/746877
National Grid stood down its order for two coal power plant units to be warmed up yesterday evening, easing concerns of a supply crunch this week following frosty weather last weekend and a drop in wind power generation. Alongside colder weather, erratic wind power generation has tightened operating margins for Read more
MINISTERS have come under fire after it was revealed that just one Scottish Government building is making use of eco-friendly heat pumps despite the SNP drive to ban fossil fuel boilers. It comes as the government accepted that the pathway to net zero for Scotland requires a rapid large-scale decarbonisation Read more
One new onshore wind farm in England with just two turbines, having 1MW of combined capacity, was built last year. That’s according to new analysis by RenewableUK, which suggests ten new onshore wind projects were installed across the UK in 2022, adding 318MW to the installed onshore capacity – these Read more
Few people can be so rooted in the Upper Deveron Valley as Martin Sheed, a ninth-generation farmer at Aldunie. His family have lived in this remote and beautiful spot since the first Mrs Sheed and her seven sons arrived in the glen to found a dynasty in 1670. Their bones Read more