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Reform’s threat to tear up government support for wind and solar developers would fall foul of contract law, it has been claimed. https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2025/07/reform-told-green-contracts-would-be-ironclad/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLnYEVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjFAYPWwyzX3Ruiv8hK-t3Qpf0fBqjy7cci91UMKucMopOzbO99-7SP_6wkc_aem_Z4G9Mw8hmNiP3hk6T0hOOQ
OVO has announced plans to create a new business division, OVO Renewables, to repower the UK’s ageing onshore wind fleet. The energy supplier said the new venture would oversee the redevelopment of existing wind farms using modern technology to extend their lifespan and boost generation output. OVO Renewables’ first phase Read more
Ed Miliband has opened the way for a fleet of new gas-fired power stations to back up Britain’s wind and solar farms. He has told the National Energy System Operator (Neso) – the UK’s grid operator – that by the end of the decade it must keep 40 gigawatts (GW) Read more
The Herald Don’t blow a fortune on EVS THE Government is poised to announce a £700 million fund to encourage people to buy more electric cars, which will include cash for infrastructure such as pavement gullies for cables to enable roadside charging and grants to make them cheaper to buy. Read more
Unfortuntely a lot of damage will be done by 2029. Send In the Clowns
A SOUTH Scotland MSP has spoken out in the Scottish Parliament about the pressure facing local communities forced to repeatedly fight back against industrial-scale wind farms. Craig Hoy, who will stand as the Conservative candidate for Dumfriesshire in the 2026 election, raised the 60-turbine Scoop Hill development, a few miles Read more
DURING this current heatwave when we need electricity for air conditioning the most, I couldn’t help but notice the wind industry has gone off on holiday. The entire fleet of thousands of entirely parasitic, demonstrably useless giant wind turbines littering our once-beautiful countryside is barely able to provide the National Read more