A major windfarm project has been rejected by councillors following a considerable backlash from residents. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/creag-a-bhaird-windfarm-scheme-blocked-by-councillors-1.853966
The cost of renewable energy subsidies will rise from £3.1 billion to £9.4 billion by the end of 2020 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11483899/Green-levies-on-energy-bills-to-treble-by-2020-because-of-renewable-targets-official-figures-suggest.html
The UK government has denounced a new report by the independent and influential Centre for Policy Studies think-tank that claims renewable energy policies will turn out to be ‘the most expensive policy disaster in modern http://www.scottishenergynews.com/independent-think-tank-claims-renewable-energy-is-the-most-expensive-policy-disaster-in-modern-british-history/
Press Release 20 March 2015 For immediate release Party leaders challenged on mountain and wild land protection As General Election approaches, public need to be able to decide which party deserves their vote As the General Election draws closer, party leaders at Westminster and Holyrood have Read more
Willowind Energy Ltd say they are looking forward to a Scottish Government decision on the Linfairn proposals. http://www.troontimes.com/news/ayr/articles/2015/03/19/527533-willowind-hit-back-over-windfarm-ko/
The UK gas and electricity market regulator OFGEM has fined Perth-based generator SSE £100,000 after SSE’s pricing signals resulted in it receiving excessive constraint payments. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/scottish-southern-energy-fined-100000-for-fiddling-its-own-power-bills/
Press release Renewable Energy: the most expensive domestic policy disaster in modern British history In a new report Central Planning with Market Features: how renewable subsidies destroyed the UK electricity market, published Wednesday 18 March, Rupert Darwall shows that recent energy policy represents the biggest expansion of state Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent Donald Trump is pressing ahead with his multi-million pound golf development in Aberdeenshire despite having vowed not to “invest another penny” until plans for a nearby offshore wind farm were abandoned. According to the American tycoon the primary developer Vattenfall, is no longer able Read more