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A Caithness councillor has claimed that residents in the Reay area are being subjected to “corporate bullying” over the scale of wind farms planned for the surrounding area. Councillor Matthew Reiss said villagers fear being almost encircled by turbines and he accused renewable energy companies of “utter insensitivity to the Read more
WIND turbines should be put up around the greens at Cardross Golf Club instead of putting solar panels on the clubhouse roof, a council officer has suggested. The club is contesting a decision by Argyll and Bute Council officials to deny them permission for more than 100 photovoltaic panels on Read more
The end of BiFab feels like the return of Thatcher. A flashback to a darker time when the very breath of Scotland’s beating industrial body was choked out of us. Factory closure followed factory closure and the sheer weight of industrial collapse crushed all opposition. Back then it was Read more
he world’s first detailed route map to ending a nation’s use of fossil fuels is both “ambitious and affordable”, according to the UK government’s official advisers, and would see half of the cars on the road being electric by 2030 and 10,000 giant wind turbines in the North Sea. The Read more
THE UK has recently been experiencing high atmospheric pressure and dropping temperatures. Consequently we have been maxing out on our power import capability from Europe, presently 4000MW, have restarted ageing coal power stations and highly-polluting Open Cycle Gas Turbines to support rising demand of typically 40000MW and upped gas generation Read more
By Mark Williamson Group Business Correspondent SCOTLAND’s power giants will learn today if the regulator has agreed to their demands to dilute price control proposals which they have warned could choke off investment in support of the drive to cut carbon emissions. Ofgem will announce the outcome of a consultation Read more
BayWa RE has completed the sale of the 24MW Inverclyde wind farm to James Jones & Sons and London-based Gresham House Asset Management. The eight-turbine facility, located south of Greenock and west of Port Glasgow in Scotland, is the UK’s first subsidy-free wind farm. The Inverclyde wind farm also has Read more
An Bord Pleanála in August 2019. However, the planning authority has concurred with the original decision of Donegal County Council. The proposed development would, they concluded have facilitated and supported the achievement of European and National renewable energy and climate change policies. However, the Board considered that the development would Read more