Planning Aid Scotland is holding a series of 3 events for our volunteers, community councils, community groups, members of the public and development trusts at which we would like to hear your views on how the Scottish planning system should be reformed. These events will help inform PAS’s written submission Read more
The UK’s energy market is unfit for the modern age, a new report from the Adam Smith Institute argues. http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/energy-environment/power-up-the-framework-for-a-new-era-of-uk-energy-distribution/
National Grid had to take drastic action yesterday to keep the lights on, resorting to an emergency measure that pays businesses to cut their electricity usage after ageing coal power plants temporarily broke down and wind farms stood idle. http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1371525/theres-electricity-crisis-energy-companies-will-blamed/
More than 100 green groups warn that changes to tax relief on community solar and wind projects will be the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for their prospects http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/05/treasury-tax-plans-will-decimate-community-energy-projects
By Blair Dingwall Plans to build a 260ft mast on an Aberdeenshire estate have been rejected by councillors due to flight safety fears. Aberdeenshire Council’s Marr area committee had been recommended by its own officers to grant the plans for an anemometer mast on the Glendye Estate, near Strachan. However, Read more
A new report co-authored in the Westcountry exposes “two decades of deception” from the wind industry about the effect of turbines on health of near neighbours, an MP claimed. The Independent Noise Working Group (INWG) has used its study to call for an overhaul of the way wind farms noise Read more
Britain was forced to rely on new “last resort” measures to keep the lights on for the first time on Wednesday after coal power plants broke down and wind farms produced less than one per cent of required electricity. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11975069/Power-plant-breakdowns-force-National-Grid-to-issue-alert.html
Fred. Olsen Renewables has awarded the contracts for the supply of wind turbines and balance of plant on its Brockloch Rig Wind Farm development (otherwise known as ‘Windy Standard II’) at Carsphairn Forest in Dumfries and Galloway. Senvion has been selected to supply 30 of its 2.05MW turbines, while balance Read more