By Jeevan Vasagar in Berlin Germany’s exports would have been €15bn higher last year if its industry had not paid a premium for electricity compared with international competitors, according to an analysis published on Thursday. Despite Germany’s strong export performance Read more
by Victoria Allen A WIND farm developer has been banned from handing out leaflets claiming that turbines could increase the value of nearby houses. West Coast Energy, which is hoping to build a wind farm in the Scottish Borders, used Read more
David Ross Highland Correspondent CAMPAIGNERS are calling on developers planning a wind farm near the Cairngorms National Park to abandon the project. The Save Monadhliath Mountains (SMM) group welcomed last week’s decision by SSE to drop its plans for a Read more
NEW investment in the marine energy sector will help establish a global engineering hub in Edinburgh, the Scottish Government has said. Tidal power company Atlantis Resources Corporation is to receive £2 million from the Renewable Energy Investment Fund (REIF) to Read more
As a Barrhead resident, I was extremely relieved when the fight by Gateside and Barrhead residents against a planning application – for a wind turbine at Woodneuk Farm on the Fereneze Braes above Barrhead – resulted in the refusal of Read more
Banks Renewables, the proponents of a wind farm with massive turbines (132 metre tip height) that will threaten the historic landscape of the Sidlaw hills (which includes Macbeth’s Castle) have recently claimed the wind farm will enhance wildlife. SOSCampaign on Read more
REPEATED and ever-escalating claims are made by politicians and Scottish Renewables about the benefit to the Scottish economy including the thousands of Scottish jobs to come from renewables development. However, in a recent announcement relating to the Neart Na Gaoithe Read more
Colin McInnes While the focus of the UK nuclear sector is on the new-build programme, recent results from EDF remind us that existing nuclear capacity is still a major player in the UK energy scene. Their nuclear fleet is now Read more