When it comes to wind power, the Government evidently hopes that out of sight means out of mind. Subsidies for the onshore turbines that many regard as a blot on the landscape are to be reduced, while those for offshore wind farms are to rise. With this move, the Coalition Read more
WITH Centrica threatening to pull the plug on a £2bn offshore wind farm if the government did not increase already exorbitant subsidies, ministers agreed to do just that. Yesterday, they announced they would slow the planned reduction in the guaranteed strike price for offshore wind by adding £5 to the Read more
Ministers are hoping to halt the creep of wind farms across the countryside by offering larger cash incentives to build them at sea. George Osborne has secured a 5 per cent cut in wind power subsidies amid increasing concerns about the hostility turbines have caused in rural areas, and to Read more
Proposals to erect a number of wind turbines at Fife Council-owned sites have been delayed to allow time to consult with local communities. Councillors have also demanded more information about how sites were chosen for potential development. Consultants Phenix Renewable Energy and council officers assessed 50 sites and selected 25 Read more
Wind farm developers will abandon several smaller schemes as a result of cuts announced yesterday to the subsidies for onshore turbines, according to the wind industry trade body. Renewable UK said that “the politics” surrounding turbines was undermining investor confidence. The Government redirected some of the subsidy previously earmarked for Read more
By Pilita Clark, Jim Pickard and Gill Plimmer A renewable energy company warns that it will cancel some onshore wind farms because of subsidy cuts, even as ministers vow to put infrastructure at the heart of economic plans. “It is almost inevitable there will be projects we will be knocking Read more
A BID by American tycoon Donald Trump to argue against the Scottish Government in a major wind farm project on Shetland was rejected by civil appeal judges yesterday. Mr Trump has already gone to court to challenge plans for an offshore wind farm in Aberdeen Bay two kilometres from his Read more
Steven Vass Deputy Business Editor, Sunday Herald A GROUP of academics whose views on green energy underpinned a central plank of the Better Together campaign has published a shock U-turn report arguing that independence now offers the best way to meet Scotland’s renewables targets. In February Dr David Toke of Read more