Plans for windfarm off Kincardine coast/Energy Voice
Plans for a floating windfarm nine miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire could be lodged with Marine Scotland early next year. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/10/plans-windfarm-kincardine-coast/
Offshore wind industry must ‘get some deals done’, says Green Investment Bank chief/Business Green
UK offshore wind power developers must start closing investment deals during the next 18 months in order to drive momentum that will ensure Britain continues to operate a world leading sector, the chief executive of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) Read more
Dr Capell Aris: Is our present wind fleet really fit for purpose?/Conservative Home
Dr Capell Aris has worked as a reactor physics specialist, in information technology systems and is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. http://www.conservativehome.com/thinktankcentral/2014/10/dr-capell-aris-is-our-present-wind-fleet-really-fit-for-purpose.html
Wind farms ‘will never keep the lights on’: Study claims turbines are ‘expensive and deeply inefficient’/Daily Mail
Wind farms produce 90% of potential power output for only 17 hours a year Families and businesses have paid billions to subsidise building of turbines Tories have pledged to end subsidies as Britain is set to meet EU targets http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2808868/Wind-farms-never-lights-Study-claims-turbines-expensive-deeply-inefficient.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Ian Macfarlane: Coalition is sticking to reduction in renewable energy target/The Guardian
Industry minister says that because electricity consumption has fallen 15%, the RET must be reduced by the same amount http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/26/ian-macfarlane-coalition-is-sticking-to-reduction-in-renewable-energy-target
The hidden costs of relying on wind power/The Telegraph
Fossil fuel is still required to manage and maintain wind farm equipment http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/11186511/The-hidden-costs-of-relying-on-wind-power.html
EXPOSED: How a shadowy network funded by foreign millions is making our household energy bills soar – for a low-carbon Britain/Daily Mail
Shadowy pro-green lobbyists working at every level of the Establishment Organisations are channelling tens of millions of pounds into green policies Elite lobby group linked to Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the WWF Current energy policies shaped by the Read more
Homes missed by wind farm survey – Helensburgh Advertiser
Residents have hit out at the developers of the proposed five-turbine Helensburgh wind farm – after they didn’t receive a survey sent out to all home owners via Royal Mail asking their opinions on the development. Alexander Clark and Susan Read more