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In a report on the UK’s net zero needs, the National Infrastructure Commission says there is “no public policy case” for hydrogen to be used to heat individual homes or other buildings. In its second National Infrastructure Assessment, a five-yearly review, the commission makes a series of recommendations to transform Read more
Landmark funding to unlock renewables investment. Strategic investment to help create thousands of green jobs and deliver the full economic potential of offshore renewables projects is to be delivered over the next five years. Up to £500 million will leverage private investment in ports, manufacturing and assembly work to support Read more
The site is on a large area of open moorland grazing located within the Kilpatrick Hills, northeast of Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire A proposed wind farm development comprising up to ten wind turbines of approximately 7 megawatts (MW) each, with a maximum blade tip height of up to 250m, and Battery Read more
Sutherland green hydrogen scheme sparks fears among locals By Sandra Dick Journalist For a short spell in the mid-19th century, the rolling hills and gushing burns that cut through Strath Brora in Sutherland were tinged with golden promise. Having struck gold, the rush began: prospectors arrived from Australia and California, Read more
Who really benefits from the pylons? Hoorah for Norman McNab’s assertion that we already have too many wind pylons, and more particularly that “sadly many foreign venture capitalists and wealthy landowners are on a win-win ticket while trivial financial benefit and damage is Scotland’s reward” (Letters, October 13). I Read more
SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies have announced all Vestas turbines at the 1075MW Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Scotland are now fully operational. The wind farm comprises 114 V164-10.0MW turbines and is situated 27 km off the Angus coast in the North Sea’s Firth of Forth. Seagreen is Read more
Costly renewables At last Joyce McMillan accepts that ‘independence is irrelevant until we fix the climate’ (Perspective, October 13). However, it appears that SNP supporters have yet to recognise that ‘Scotland has no massive energy wealth’ since electricity is three times more expensive than gas, hence not only is Read more
Island communities could get cut-price electricity from locally owned wind farms as part of plan for a new nationalised clean energy company. But Torcuil Crichton, the party’s Western Isles candidate, has admitted the task of ditching fossil fuels in favour of renewables will “make building HS2 look like a Hornby Read more