ELECTRICITY giants SSE and ScottishPower are at loggerheads with their southern rivals over efforts to further delay reforms to a transmission charging system that penalises power generation north of the Border. Amid thinly veiled threats that green energy projects will Read more
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing today announced the establishment of an Expert Commission on Energy Regulation in an independent Scotland. The Commission will be chaired by Robert Armour OBE, an energy lawyer working in the power sector in Scotland for the Read more
GEORGE Osborne, the Chancellor, said that in 2015-16 up to £5.3 billion, raised through a levy on people’s energy bills, would go to support low-carbon energy projects. So there you have it, despite the renewables propaganda machines and the developers Read more
ELECTRICITY giants SSE and ScottishPower are at loggerheads with their southern rivals over efforts to further delay reforms to a transmission charging system that penalises power generation north of the Border. Amid thinly veiled threats that green energy projects will Read more
Simon Bain Business Correspondent/Personal Finance Editor When Sutherland crofters were asked to support a wind farm on land they had an interest in more than 10 years ago, Tom Robinson decided to get behind the project. It led to him Read more
Lets take a technology, spend billions on it, Pay for it from taxpayers and household bills, Drive up fuel poverty. Ignore the carbon footprint of extensive manufacturing per turbine, Create toxic lakes mining for the rare metals required, Don’t count Read more
A community leader has accused renewables companies of treating East Lothian residents as “second-class citizens” after they unveiled plans to add about 40 more wind turbines to the Lammermuir Hills. But East Lothian Council’s environment spokesman believes the plans could Read more
In response to the piece on community benefit and Newburgh Community Trust; Murdo Fraser is calling a spade a spade. Community benefit is an inducement to buy support for a planning application and is one way of trying to make Read more