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Colin Donald Business Editor, Sunday Herald Siemens, the dominant supplier of turbines to the UK’s onshore and offshore wind market, is to expand its operations in Scotland by establishing a new projects and construction hub in Livingston, the Sunday Herald can reveal. The company, which already employs 600 people Read more
ONE of Scotland’s most senior environmental campaigners has declared his support for independence. Dr Richard Dixon, the director of Friends Of The Earth Scotland, said he will vote yes for independence in next year’s referendum. The 49-year-old said: “I am still listening to both sides, but I’m at the stage Read more
WIND power on Scotland’s three major islands is to be given a boost by ministers in an effort to make it less costly to send renewable energy to the mainland. Energy Secretary Ed Davey will announce today that the guaranteed price for wind power in Orkney, Shetland and the Read more
REF was the first organisation to draw attention to the excessive prices demanded by windpower to reduce output (constraint payments), and the resulting publicity is in part responsible for the fall in prices, though these are still, in our view, excessive. http://www.ref.org.uk/ref-blog/299-constraint-payments-misunderstandings-and-misrepresentations
Support for the European Union’s climate and energy policy eroded further Friday as the Czech Republic became the latest member to denounce subsidies for clean but costly renewable energy and pledged to double down on its use of fossil fuels. http://www.thegwpf.org/czech-republic-abandons-renewable-energy-eu-climate-policy-crisis/
Briefing sums up new techniques used to build climate models that will be included in forthcoming IPCC report http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/13/met-office-tools-global-warming
Only a tiny fraction of the Scottish Government’s modern apprentices have found places in the renewable energy sector, it has emerged. http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2013/09/renewables-sector-employs-handful-modern-apprentices/
Giant wind turbines are to be transported through Dundee on the way to Aberdeen on oversized lorries. http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/wind-turbine-test-run-troubles-in-dundee-1.130590