ENERGY sources should be cheap and reliable but wind power is neither. http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/522937/Daily-Express-wind-power-tax-cutting-Tories-English-devolution?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+daily-express-express-comment+%28Daily+Express+%3A%3A+Express+Comment+Feed%29
Around £50,000 of damage has been caused by vandals who caused a 230-foot mast, put up as part of a proposed wind farm plan, to crash to the ground in the hills above Greenock. Windfarm company 2020 Renewables are offering Read more
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) – the UK’s largest renewable energy body – and the Solar Trade Association (STA) have decided to formally end their affiliation after three and a half years of successful http://www.scottishenergynews.com/uk-renewable-energy-and-solar-power-associations-agree-to-separate/
There is perhaps no greater nightmare for government and industry than the spectre of blackouts. In the 1970s, rolling power cuts caused by coal strikes led to the three-day working week and the eventual collapse of government. Since then, keeping Read more
Cheaper energy from fossil fuels can help poorest out of their desperate situation WHETHER Alan Sangster’s dream of the future (Letters, October 13) is a flight of fancy I cannot tell. Certainly, a continental super-grid gathering and distributing renewable energy Read more
The next meeting of the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (SPREEE) is due to take place on Thursday 30 October at 12.30pm in Committee Room 4 of the Scottish Parliament. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/holyrood-mps-to-debate-future-of-scottish-renewables/
If action is not taken now, the next government will have to explain why it let Britain’s lights go out http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/11157454/An-energy-policy-that-makes-little-sense.html
Villagers in Rhu have opposed a proposed five turbine wind farm – because they believe any cash generated by the project will not be spent in the village. http://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/thisweek/articles/2014/10/13/512264-rhu-villagers-unite-against-wind-farm-proposals/