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The family behind G & J Jack Seafoods, of Fraserburgh, has sold a three-turbine wind farm, near Stonehaven, for nearly £3.3 million in cash. The bumper sum – almost £1.1m per turbine – is in addition to the new owner taking on a loan worth about £990,000. Details of the Read more
Can we remind everyone that our Petition to the Scottish Parliament will have its second Hearing tomorrow morning. It is fifth on the Agenda so likely to be debated around 10.30am https://www.parliament.scot/…/mee…/2022/cppps6222/agenda You can watch live on Parliament TV https://www.scottishparliament.tv/
With last month’s closure of the Hunterston B nuclear plant on the North Ayrshire coast and Torness in East Lothian scheduled to shut down by 2028, Scotland’s long history of nuclear electricity generation is coming to an end. It was an industry that employed thousands of skilled workers and at Read more
As the deadline for submissions to the Scottish Government’s Onshore Wind Policy Statement has now passed, we are publishing the Scotland Against Spin submission to the Consultation. We sought permission to respond in a pdf format rather than complete the electronic response form as it allowed us to comment on Read more
More than £5bn worth of transmission infrastructure upgrades have been recommended for the north of Scotland by the UK grid operator. National Grid Electricity System Operator’s 2022 Network Options Assessment outlined the plans, which are in line with the UK government’s ambitions to generate 40GW offshore wind by 2030 and Read more
Nuclear partner MSP Liam Kerr did well to explode the myth that nuclear power is expensive, but then claims that onshore wind farms are ‘part of the solution’ (‘SNP is wrong to pour scorn on a move to low-carbon nuclear’, Scotsman, 28 January).Nuclear power provides clean base-load electricity but cannot Read more
Confusion over National Grid I NOTE the report by Martin Williams on the economic implications of offshore wind development in the seas around Scotland. I am a retired senior manager from the electricity networks industry and was intensively involved in the commercial restructuring of the British grid system at the Read more
As we enter the New Year, the British public faces a perfect storm of cost of living pressures: rising inflation and property prices and — perhaps most serious of all — rocketing energy costs. According to Ofgem, households are paying an average of £1,277 for their gas and electricity — Read more