Britain risks becoming in thrall to Beijing due to its growing reliance on renewable energy, a new Lords report has warned. A House of Lords committee warned that Britain is becoming too dependent on China for the supply of rare earth elements used to manufacture wind turbines and components for Read more
…. and from our man in Kintyre this morning. As the song goes, two out of three ain’t bad …. unless you are a wind turbine! Blade fell off ….. this is at Duecheran Hill, where you can walk the Kintyre Way or indeed enjoy the delights of MTB’ing. Turbines Read more
Rishi Sunak pledges not to build more onshore wind farms “Wind energy will be an important part of our strategy, but I want to reassure communities that as prime minister I would scrap plans to relax the ban on onshore wind in England, instead focusing on building more turbines offshore,” Read more
The latest edition of National Grid ESO’s Future Energy Scenarios report was released this week, setting out the energy system operator’s detailed vision for how the net zero transition could accelerate https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4053329/story-britains-energy-transition-unfold-told-charts
The Scottish Government’s Bulletin of Scottish Independence featured a large picture of an English wind farm on the front page by mistake, and it was underlined. Last month, the first minister presented the first of a series of papers she said would present and discuss the issue of Scottish independence. Read more
Households face being charged higher energy bills in calm weather when wind turbines are not operating at full capacity under plans drawn up by the Government. Consumers who use electricity when the wind is blowing hard could pay less than at other times as part of proposals to more effectively Read more
Carbon game up? Calculations of the carbon footprint of Scotland’s 3,848 commercial wind turbines by Aberdeen University scientists has revealed that 4.9 million tons of greenhouse gases have been released into the atmosphere as a result of digging up ancient peat bogs and felling trees to carpet our country in Read more
Our Chairman, Graham Lang in the Mail today. https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scottish-mail-on-sunday/20220717/282299618893530