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A word of warning for those of you who are scrutinizing wind turbine/farm applications at the moment or in the future. Blades are getting longer in order to sweep a greater area and generate more profit. DO NOT just look Read more…

Installation of a wind farm comprising up to 14 wind turbines of up to 200m to tip height and associated infrastructure & Battery Storage. The Site lies along an undulating ridge adjacent to the existing Hadyard Hill wind farm. The Read more…

A Caithness councillor is seeking more details about a proposed wind farm off the north coast which he says would “dwarf” the Beatrice project in terms of turbine height. A planning application has been lodged with Highland Council for a Read more…

Nature enthusiasts fear that a “wildcat wonderland” will be lost forever if plans to almost double the size of a wind farm near Huntly are given the go-ahead. Wildcat Haven campaigners appealed for Aberdeenshire Council to oppose plans for a Read more…

Bodinglee Wind Farm – Pre Application South Lanarkshire Council Ref: ECU00002212 The development of a wind farm of over 100MW but not exceeding 300MW on land at Bodinglee, located to the south east and south west of Douglas, South Lanarkshire. Read more…

A huge landslide into rivers in Donegal and Tyrone which started on the site of a new windfarm has been described as “catastrophic” by the Loughs’ Agency. Thousands of tonnes of peat bog, trees and vegetation were swept into the Read more…

The European renewable energy company, ERG is committed to helping the Scottish government progress its goal of achieving a zero-carbon economy by 2040. ERG, which is currently developing four wind farms in the UK, is already in the top ten Read more…

The renewables industry has produced a report countering Audit Office findings that single wind turbines in Northern Ireland receive “excessive subsidies”. It complained when the Northern Ireland Audit Office produced its work in 2020. The auditors found that a turbine Read more…