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Holders of “mini-bonds” issued by Future Renewables Eco, a wind farm investment company, are braced to lose more than half their investments after it collapsed into administration on Sept 17. It owned 10 wind turbines across Britain and was funded by 750 bondholders who ploughed £24m into the company between Read more
SSE Renewables is set to file a scoping report in the next few days for the 4.1 gigawatt Berwick Bank “super project”, which will see up to 307 of the world’s tallest and most powerful turbines – standing up to 355m from sea level to blade tip – built in Read more
This current crisis is a mere harbinger of the candle-lit future that awaits us if we do not change course My article for The Daily Mail: Had it not been so exceptionally calm in the run up to this autumn equinox, one could call the energy crisis a perfect storm. Read more
So sorry to inform you all of the passing of Nigel Willis from Lochwinnoch who fought so bravely against wind farm developments in North Ayrshire in order to save his beloved Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park. Our thoughts are with his family
Hans J Marter Residents in the Newing area of South Nesting say they feel wind farm developer SSE Renewables might try to “fob us off” after receiving “no real answers to our queries, concerns and fears”. The group of residents approached the owners of the Viking Energy wind farm earlier Read more
Wind farms paid nearly £2m to switch off – even as customers face soaring energy bills Turbines stopped over three days because electricity they would have produced could not have reached regions that needed it Constraint payments are made by the National Grid to balance supply and demand across the Read more
Former London banker Alexander Pohl worked for years for one of the world’s greenest banks. Idealistically driven he financed big wind and solar farms genuinely convinced he was making the world a better place. Gradually he woke up to the fact that today’s green is a broken system. He gave Read more
A SCOTTISH technology firm has hailed £700,000 investment to roll out a new product it believes will transform the maintenance of windfarms. Dundee-based Edge Solutions has developed an “ultra-tough and aerodynamically optimal erosion shield”, named armourEDGE, in collaboration with INEOS Styrolution, which quickly and simply repairs eroded wind turbine blades. Read more