News Elsewhere contains mainly articles we have permission to republish from Views of Scotland and Country Guardian. You can learn more about these organisations by visiting: http://www.countryguardian.net/ and http://www.viewsofscotland.org/. Occasionally we will also post news from elsewhere on the web.
Don’t panic on global warming THE fact that the recent increase in global warming is man-made is beyond dispute and I certainly do not query it. However the planet is still warming as we emerge from the last ice age. What I think must be in dispute is the Read more
Battery Energy Storage Systems or BESS are the hoped for answer to the problem of variable renewable energy (VRE) generators such as wind farms or solar parks. The idea is that when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining these industrial batteries will release their stored electricity Read more
A new project tracking seabirds with AI technology has started at Vattenfall’s offshore wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. Working with Norwegian AI start-up Spoor the project will trial new technology to document how seabirds interact with offshore wind turbines. Spoor’s ground-breaking AI technology has been developed to Read more
Mapping machines Mark Boyle (Letters, 13 September) says George Herraghty’s letter about windfarms shows he “gloats” when wind power fails. Mr Herraghty simply pointed out that wind power is an unreliable energy source. One of the best things anyone could have on their smartphone is the Ordnance Survey Maps Read more
Property consultants Galbraith has put a 60MW wind farm development in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, up for sale. The offer is likely to be of interest to specialist institutional investors and developers, Galbraith said. In preparation for progressing with a formal planning application, the potential wind resource has been measured Read more
The decision by offshore windfarm developers to boycott the UK Government’s latest support round for renewables firms underlined the threat to hopes of a boom off Scotland. However, the remedies proposed by the administration’s many critics could impose a heavy burden on energy bill payers across the UK, who are Read more
Wind whoppers Re: your story “Blades from Scotland’s first wind farm sent into storage” (11 September), how absurd. That the ruinously expensive decommissioning was not previously considered shows how ludicrous the whole ever-so-green, subsidy-farming scam really is. During the recent hot spell wind farms were barely able to supply the Read more
Politicians should stop endorsing an energy source that isn’t particularly clean or secure, and won’t bring down prices The MPs who have forced Rishi Sunak into a U-turn on onshore wind power love to repeat the favourite slogan of the wind industry: “wind is cheap”. “Cheap, clean, secure,” says Sir Alok Sharma. Read more