A SCOTS energy firm, part-owned by the public, is the latest energy supplier to face collapse as concerns grow it could run out of funding by the end of this month. The warning comes just days into the New Year and after 26 energy providers shut down in 2021. Clydebank-based Read more
OFFICIAL figures slipped out by the Scottish Government over the holiday period underlined the huge challenges it will face achieving its renewable energy ambitions as the risks it will frighten off investment in vital gas fields increased. The Energy Statistics for Scotland report which was issued on December 23 showed Read more
Two Dumfriesshire windfarms could see an increase in both the number of turbines and their tip heights. South Lanarkshire-based Muirhall Energy Ltd has submitted two Section 36 applications to vary the planning consents for the Hopsrig and Loganhead windfarms. They are adjacent to the company’s 10-turbine windfarm project at Crossdykes Read more
I REFER to Alasdair Galloway’s letter of December 29 and in particular his statement that Scotland has 25 per cent of Europe’s wind power resource. While that may be true, it is certainly not an economic advantage. Although wind energy is abundant, harnessing it and converting it to a constant Read more
A hearing into a controversial windfarm proposal in the Glenkens is due to take place in March. Hundreds of people have objected to Falck Renewables’ plans for seven turbines at Mochrum Fell near Corsock. The firm has asked the Scottish Government to step in as the council failed to issue Read more
Transmission cables from the 24 offshore wind farms around the UK — which have a combined value of nearly £7.7bn — are all owned by companies with links to corporate tax havens. A Ferret investigation has found that five companies which part-own the cables — HICL Infrastructure, 3i Group, International Read more
In June 2011, 18 months before going off to serve Her Majesty in another capacity, former energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne made a remarkable speech in which he asserted that the Government’s green policies, far from costing households, would actually save us money. “Green growth,” he said, can Read more
Britain’s electricity generation went through an unfortunate phase last year. According to the UK-based website Carbon Brief, it got dirtier for the first time in years as renewable sources failed to provide sufficient power to help the nation’s economy recover from lockdown restrictions. More coal and gas had to be Read more