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Energy provider SSE has delivered a blow to the UK’s offshore wind sector after admitting it was cutting investment due to a lack of confidence. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/03/sse-slashes-offshore-wind-investment-admitting-lack-confidence-sector/
Energy giant SSE will freeze energy prices until at least 2016, but will axe 500 jobs and shelve three offshore wind farm developments in the process http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sse-freezes-energy-prices-axes-500-jobs-3-offshore-wind-farms-1441849
Jody Harrison Reporter CALLS have been made for a halt to the growing number of wind-farm developments in one of Scotland’s most picturesque areas. A coalition of 50 community councils in Dumfries and Galloway have written to First Minister Alex Salmond and the local authority to ask for a moratorium Read more
By Alistair Whitfield THE green-energy firm behind the Brown Muir windfarm scheme has pledged not to add any more turbines to the controversial development. Vento Ludens has promised that, if it is given permission to build a dozen 420ft masts south of Elgin, it will not apply to erect any Read more
The latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due out next week. If the leaked draft is reflected in the published report, it will constitute the formal moving on of the debate from the past, futile focus upon “mitigation” to a new debate about resilience Read more
Plans to erect a 50 metre-high mast in Auchtertool have been approved by councillors. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/windfarm-testing-mast-approved-at-auchtertool-1.285553
Developers are facing an Angus Council thumbs-down for a green scheme they claim could generate a £1 million-a-year community windfall. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/angus-council-planners-recommending-refusal-of-nathro-hill-windfarm-1.285550
German company gives boost to offshore wind industry with £160m investment Manufacturing company Siemens is to invest £160m in wind turbine production and installation facilities in the UK, creating 1,000 new jobs. The German company had been working on plans to invest £80m, which would have led to 700 jobs, Read more