Electricity generating is scheduled to start in 2017 from Hywind Scotland – the world’s largest floating wind power turbine. Norwegian oil giant Statoil will install a 30 MW wind turbine farm on floating structures at Buchan Deep, about 15 miles offshore from Peterhead – harnessing Scottish wind resources to Read more
The first phase of Orkney’s new fully funded community wind turbine scheme will go live on the islands this month, with farmers and landowners at 20 properties set to benefit from deeply discounted electricity for at least 20 years. Hamsin Wind – which aims to install over 60 single Read more
As the technical team at Stirling-based Natural Power has been developing new models for more accurately predicting wind farm performance, investment in new high performance computing has enabled the business to produce results from its most advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models at wind farm scale within five to six Read more
National Grid has issued a notice to the energy industry asking for more generation to be brought on to the system following “multiple plant breakdowns”. The power firm said the move was not an indication that there was an immediate risk of blackouts, but it is the first time such Read more
Kleinknecht has thoroughly examined the German Energiewende (transition from fossil fuels and nuclear energy over to renewables) and given the project an overall grade of “poor”. http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.UYzFKjLX.dpbs
Statoil said yesterday the groundbreaking renewable technology it is bringing to Scotland has the potential to supply the entire world with clean energy. https://www.energyvoice.com/otherenergy/92250/statoils-floating-wind-turbines-to-power-the-world-with-clean-energy-starting-with-scotland/
COUNCILLORS have approved a major onshore transmission works servicing the Beatrice wind farm in the Moray Firth. http://www.northern-scot.co.uk/News/Moray-Firth-wind-farm-gets-connection-go-ahead-02112015.htm
The operators of the UK’s largest community wind farm, Point and Sandwick Power, have called for 40MW of national grid space to be ring-fenced for community energy projects in the Western Isles. Councillor Angus McCormack, the Chairman of Point and Sandwick Power, made the comments following the announcement that marine Read more