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Dear Sir, On the very day Grant Shapps MP is appointed as the new Energy Secretary for energy security, I couldn’t help but notice that after 20 years and countless Billions in subsidies the entire wind industry is struggling to supply the National Grid with 4%! George Herraghty Lothlorien Read more
Energy betrayal In the good old days of public ownership, we had a gas board and electricity and coal boards. Their task was to keep the power coming, so they planned ahead and built new power stations as they were needed, and the government simply paid the bill. Everything Read more
The review of Noise Guidance for Onshore Wind Farms has been published (ETSU-R-97). Only 10% of Councils had the time to responded to the Consultation which confirms their lack of resources and the immense pressure they are under. It confirms what campaigners have been saying for decades: ETSU is outdated, Read more
Westminster’s intervention in the electricity market risks “mothballing a series of multi-billion pound” green energy projects, a major investor has warned. Community Windpower says the “US and EU are doing all they can” to attract renewables spend, while the UK is “doing all it can to deter it” by imposing Read more
A PLANNED windfarm near Dufftown will not be built because the site is “not best suited” to one. The abandoned Glenlivet Wind Farm development would have featured 11 200-meter turbines, generating over 84MW of green energy. The firm behind the plans, Fred. Olsen Renewables, said the development would have provided Read more
Herald letters Face the real risks of wind farms AS politicians of all colours herald the massive expansion of offshore and onshore wind, we have to wonder if their heads are so deeply buried in the sand that they do not see or hear of the environmental catastrophe being reported Read more
Today’s NPF4 Hearing is for WIN-110-2 Clashindarroch II Wind Farm – Wednesday, 8th February 2023 at 10:00am https://dpea.public-i.tv/…/webcast_interactive/746877
National Grid stood down its order for two coal power plant units to be warmed up yesterday evening, easing concerns of a supply crunch this week following frosty weather last weekend and a drop in wind power generation. Alongside colder weather, erratic wind power generation has tightened operating margins for Read more