This is the tale of two countries, one with abundant, cheap energy and the other with scarce, expensive energy, set to get more expensive and less plentiful. Yet, it is the first country that has declared an energy emergency and is pulling out all the stops to increase energy supply Read more
John Swinney rejected a call from his civil servants to admit misleading MSPs over the amount of Scotland’s electricity that came from renewables, a dossier has disclosed. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/swinney-refused-admit-misleading-msps-181618957.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&tsrc=fb
The green energy gravy train is running out of steam for the Viking windfarm after its controversial constraint payments were slashed following public outcry. https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2025/01/31/is-it-the-end-of-the-green-energy-gravy-train-for-viking-windfarm?fbclid=IwY2xjawIKBQpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVUDipuEChqmWl7Bbzh1t5KjYutFmGdd0HmTGM0yOcrBGoiccR7lWhWMhA_aem_sR_sB2rCaLRfSwwEAVjbjg
Wind power generation in Germany – Europe’s largest wind producer – is on track to record its longest stretch of below-normal production since early 2021 due to a spell of low wind speeds since October. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germanys-weak-winds-stoke-europe-wide-power-market-worries-maguire-2025-01-29/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIG6F1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU6g-23Kd-Q8xN2VtldGbpCVDPWhDgI3c1eRTqXFzjaFD75325crbNQU2A_aem_jlHbrnXnXJaDSTSyv4NglQ
LET’S hope Vicky Allan’s article (“‘Kept in the dark’? Concern deepens over Scottish mineral mines”, January 19) serves as a wake-up call for “green” campaigners. In fact, many graphic documentaries have pointedly revealed that wind and solar installations are entirely parasitic: they cannot be produced without using enormous quantities of Read more
The myth that the green energy transition is inevitable and will make cheap electricity for everyone is one of the most dangerous self-delusions of the global elite. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/25/no-green-energy-revolution-pretending-makes-us-poor/?fbclid=IwY2xjawICOG1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVzc1xmkKpc9HYNw3JxDeVsE-y5snyrZPLd3MIwTv-Eh3dTCLCyky_Gwng_aem_IeBCrR6mmH5OO81_3huz_w
John Constable, of the Renewable Energy Foundation, a charity, said: “Under Ed Miliband, the electricity consumer has been consistently sacrificed to meet arbitrary targets and favour wind and solar generators through over-generous subsidies and scandalous constraint payments. When the UK’s climate policy collapses, politicians, Ed Miliband prominent among them, will Read more
I watched Wednesday’s Holyrood debate on the attempt to railroad miles of pylons and square miles of substations through north-east Scotland and lack of consultation with campaign groups. The night before SSEN didn’t turn up at a Stonehaven Community Council meeting on the topic and neither did local MSP and Read more