Senior Tories are drawing up a secret plan to cut green taxes as part of a radical overhaul of the energy industry designed to reduce customers’ bills. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10391198/Coalition-at-war-over-energy-policy-as-Tories-plan-to-cut-green-taxes.html
Foreign-owned firms are building expensive turbines offshore but there is a far more efficient alternative http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10389434/Mini-nukes-beat-monster-wind-farms-on-every-count.html
Wind farms have scarred the British landscape and turned the public against the renewable energy agenda, an Energy Minister has conceded. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467726/Energy-Minister-Greg-Barker-We-wind-farms-wrong-place.html
Steven Vass Deputy Business Editor, Sunday Herald CORRIEYAIRACK Pass, a couple of miles south of the base of Loch Ness, has seen an unusual flurry of activity lately. The tranquillity in this thoroughfare between the Great Glen and Strathspey since Read more
Iain Macwhirter Columnist The SNP’s final annual conference before Scotland’s Day of Destiny, as Alex Salmond calls the independence referendum, went rather better than expected. Aware that they risked squandering their main media showcase of the year, ministers unlocked the Read more
Siemens has now installed a market-ready version of its new 6 megawatt (MW) gearless wind turbine on the test site of the power utility SSE, the UK’s largest generator of renewable energy. http://www.offshorewind.biz/2013/10/14/uk-siemens-installs-6-mw-wind-turbine/
Magnus Gardham Political Editor NICOLA Sturgeon has announced a plan to cut the average family’s fuel bill by £70 if Scots vote for independence in next year’s referendum. The Deputy First Minister responded to growing public anger over soaring gas Read more
As the first turbine farm is dismantled, meet the victorious villagers whose six-year mission has crucial implications for other campaigners http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10389104/Wind-farms-A-triumph-to-put-wind-in-your-sails.html