New 2MW lithium ion battery promises to help balance grid and support renewable energy on the Scottish island http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2288950/orkney-powers-up-uks-first-large-scale-grid-battery
World leading farm scale wind turbine manufacturer Gaia-Wind today announced the introduction of the “Self Raising Tower”. The new hinged and motorised tower makes the Gaia-Wind 133 the biggest small wind turbine (rotor diameter) that can be installed without heavy machinery. http://www.farminguk.com/news/Gaia-Wind-Cook-up-Self-Raising-Tower-_26232.html
Germany’s green energy revolution is losing steam. The shift towards renewable energy is facing mounting resistance. http://www.thegwpf.org/germans-grow-sceptical-shift-renewables/
Germany has ambitious plans of erecting huge offshore wind parks in the North and Baltic Seas with the hope of generating lots of natural, climate-friendly energy. The Riffgat offshore wind park, comprising 30 monster turbines located some 15 kilometers from the North Sea island of Borkum, is such a wind Read more…
Businesses, cooperatives, local authorities, schools and housing associations should be given financial support to install medium-sized renewable energy generating systems – such as solar arrays, wind turbines and district heating systems – because of the benefits these projects can bring to communities and the country as a whole, MPs on Read more…
Might Offshore Group Newcastle, which builds foundations for windfarms, rethink its generous donations to the Conservatives, after David Cameron’s new-found zeal for fracking? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/citydiary/10240955/City-Diary-Will-Camerons-generous-green-energy-donor-become-fracked-off.html
Press and Journal By Stuart Findlay A north councillor has accused a planning committee of costing the public a “fortune” after decisions on two windfarm developments in Caithness were postponed for councillors to visit the sites. Highland Council’s north planning application committee met yesterday to determine the applications, which the Read more…
ENERGY companies in Scotland were paid almost £2 million not to generate electricity on one day this month. A total of £1.84m in constraint payments was given to 28 wind farms north of the Border because generation was outstripping demand on August 3. The National Grid said the payments could Read more…