Vestas has set a course to produce zero-waste wind turbines by 2040, starting with a focus to improve the recyclability of blades. The Danish manufacturer will introduce incremental targets for recyclable blades from 44% today to 50% by 2025 and Read more…
Swedish energy farm has lodged plans for a second onshore wind farm in the north-east. The Clashindarroch II project would comprise 14 turbines, each nearly 600 feet tall, and would take shape on land near to the existing operational Clashindarroch Read more…
The return of proposals for a seven turbine wind farm in Caithness have prompted angry and despairing responses from local residents who believe an industrial “ring of steel” is tightening its grip on their community. Locals objected in the strongest Read more…
Last weekend the Italian cable manufacturing company, Prysmian, released a statement announcing to the markets that the Western Link High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) interconnector between Hunterston and Deeside had failed again, on the 10th of January. This grid link, Read more…
At the risk of getting boring! More Constraints. + different Video Wind farm fury – £3million a day taxpayers cash spent on NOT generating electricity WIND FARMS were paid as much as £3million per day to not generate electricity Read more…
More news on constraints in the Telegraph today as well. Wind farms were paid up to £3 million per day to switch off their turbines and not produce electricity last week, The Telegraph can disclose. Energy firms were handed more Read more…
Across Ireland pro-community groups have gone on the offensive, with the same object in mind: getting noise rules which are even vaguely relevant to the task and getting them properly enforced. Paula Byrne, the Ballyroan-based public relations officer with Wind Read more…
Wind turbines generate more cash when they’re switched OFF than when they’re working – with customers shouldering nearly £650 million in payments over a decade. So-called ‘constraint payments’, a sort of compensation, have been paid to energy firms in charge Read more…