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Major changes to renewable energy subsidies are expected to redirect money to wind farms built at sea while on shore and solar subsidies will be reduced http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/10493349/Onshore-wind-farm-subsidies-will-be-cut.html
More people are in favour of fracking for shale gas in the north west than opposed, a BBC survey suggests. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25157239
Plan to be announced by Danny Alexander, who will also detail schedule for sale of Government’s stake in Eurostar rail link as part of privatisation £20 billion of assets by 2020 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/nuclearpower/10492999/Second-new-nuclear-plant-given-go-ahead-for-as-Government-sells-off-Eurostar-stake.html
Prompted by fuel poverty, local authorities in Britain and Ireland are generating their own cheaper power http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/04/councils-generate-own-power-big-six-energy-fuel-poverty
The government is to make big changes to the way it subsidises renewable energy, the BBC has learned. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25210963
Onshore wind farms are the most established large-scale source of renewable energy in the UK. Wind turbine noise is of two sorts, mechanical (deriving from gearboxes, generators, auxiliary equipment etc) and aerodynamic (in flow turbulence at the front of the blade, airfoil turbulence at the trailing edge and tip of Read more
Onshore wind firm Falck Renewables has sold a 49% stake in five of its Scots windfarms to a Danish investment find for more than £150million http://www.energyvoice.com/2013/12/falck-sells-minority-stake-scots-windfarms-153m/
How good it was seeing wind industry skullduggery exposed on the front page of today’s Telegraph. But there’s plenty more where that came from, I can assure you. The way the noise regulations governing the wind industry have been rigged by vested interests is one of the great public health Read more