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WIN-170-2007 – Faw Side Community Wind Farm – NPF4 Hearing Session Wednesday, 25th January 2023 at 10:00am   https://dpea.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/738541

Community Windpower Limited (CWL) has reduced the number of turbines at its Scoop Hill Community Wind Farm development to 60. The reduction in turbines is part of a redesign of the project, originally submitted to the Scottish Government and Dumfries Read more…

Specialist police officers are being drafted in from the mainland to escort convoys of Viking Energy windfarm components to the construction site. SSE Renewables and Vestas said the first convoys would start on Monday, 6th February, and run until the Read more…

Not quite… Fraser Grant has excelled himself with his latest sermon for an Independent Scotland away from the shackles of Westminster (Letters, 21 January). He says: “Scotland produces the vast bulk of the UK’s oil and gas” but the Scottish Read more…

Some households with smart meters could be eligible for discounts if they cut their use of electricity between 5 and 6pm today. The National Grid ESO (electricity system operator) is, for the first time, activating the “demand flexibility service (DFS)” Read more…

PLANS for three wind turbines to be erected at a site on the Ardeer peninsula have been withdrawn as the developers seek to “reconsult with the local community” and refine the proposals. Renewables firm The Farm Energy Company submitted a Read more…

FOREIGN governments including China and overseas firms with interests in Scotland’s offshore wind farm revolution are already enjoying more than £200m in annual profits, the Herald on Sunday can reveal. Ministers have come under fire for failing to properly cash Read more…

The complexity of cases and small staff numbers have been blamed for a council’s failure to decide on a string of wind farm applications in its area. It has resulted in a number of Dumfries and Galloway projects being taken Read more…