The people of Angus and Perthshire will be offered the chance to own a wind turbine, thanks to a new local renewable energy cooperative. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/community-invited-to-invest-in-glen-isla-wind-turbine-cooperative-1.298382
A record £8.7m was paid to turn wind farms off last month This compares to about £10,000 in March 2013 The so-called ‘constraint payments’ were made by the National Grid because too much electricity was being generated The Renewable Energy Read more
Councillors have registered their objections to a 24-turbine wind farm close to Lauder Common, which the Scottish Government will decide will be built or not. The detrimental impact of the development on the landscape character and on visual amenity will Read more
Britain’s wind power boom is based on assumptions that have proved wrong and subsidies that are unsustainable Published at 12:01AM, April 3 2014 Except when it carries dust from the Sahara, wind is relatively clean. It has the additional advantage Read more
Nigel Lawson was right after all. Ever since the Centre for Policy Studies lecture in 2006 that launched the former chancellor on his late career as a critic of global warming policy, Lord Lawson has been stressing the need to Read more
A £228,000 community benefit fund, linked to SSE’s Strathy North wind farm which is currently under construction, will open for applications from local groups in the Strathy and Armadale area on 11 April. http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Strathy-wind-farm-benefit-launched-02042014.htm
David Cameron is considering going into the next election promising restrictions on the construction of windfarms. Which areas currently have the most? http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/apr/01/where-are-the-uks-windfarms
Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing, MSP, is set to take part in a debate on wind farms and planning issues in a debate organised by Scotland Against Spin. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/scottish-energy-minister-agrees-to-wind-parc-debate-with-scotland-against-spin/