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Scottish First Minister Demands Certainty for Offshore Wind

Scotland has an abundance of wind both onshore and offshore, and has many onshore wind farms that are contributing to Scotland’s green future, such as Whitelee wind farm in East Renfrewshire – Scotland’s largest onshore development. But the First Minister for Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, is concerned that the UK government budget allocation for offshore wind is… Read the rest

Biennial Wind Turbine Noise Conference 2015

There have already been five previous international conferences on wind turbine noise. The first one was in 2005 and they take place every two years. This year, it will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, the host for last year’s successful Commonwealth Games. It is anticipated that it will be even more successful than the previous conference,… Read the rest

Small Scale Wind Turbines and Scotland

While the UK seems to be whipping itself into a frenzied panic about the possibility of Scotland voting itself out of the Union of Scotland England & Wales and becoming an independent country, a news story from Scotland achieved little publicity: Last week Scotland revealed its plans to follow a model for small scale wind turbines.… Read the rest

Scotland Commissions Study into Wind Turbine “Sickness”

There are numerous independent reports debunking so called wind turbine sickness. While the visual impact of living too close to an operating wind turbine are understood, the more esoteric claims of headaches, sleep deprivation and effects on livestock breeding have almost always been found to be false. So it’s somewhat surprising that one of the most… Read the rest

New Wind Power Projects Approved for Scotland

Scottish ministers have approved two wind farm projects that together could provide power to more than 100,000 homes. One is a 54-turbine extension to the existing SSE Clyde wind farm in South Lanarkshire: The extension to the Clyde wind farm, which is located to the east of Abington, will generate up to an additional 171MW, enough… Read the rest

BT Buys 50% Output from Scottish Wind Farm

BT, the giant communication company, has agreed a £300m deal to buy enough energy to meet the needs of all its Scottish operations for the next 20 years from a wind farm being completed in the Borders. The company will buy 50% of the electricity generated by the 48-turbine Fallago Rig scheme near Lauder, which is… Read the rest

Plans “Floated” for Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm

Plans have been unveiled for a floating offshore wind farm project in Scotland. The Kincardine offshore wind farm is a proposed demonstrator floating project located near Aberdeen, approximately eight miles from the coast. The proposers are called Pilot Offshore Renewables. This is an Aberdeen-based joint venture between an offshore wind developer and consultancy firm MacAskill Associates… Read the rest

Renewable Energy Islands

While it may be some time before a mainland country will be totally powered by renewable energy, some islands dotted around the globe are doing their bit for reducing the carbon footprint. Let’s look at El Hierro and Eigg. El Hierro is the smallest of the Spanish Canary Islands and located off the coast of Africa. … Read the rest

Trumped Trump turns from Scotland to Ireland

Although US billionaire Donald Trump has vowed to continue his fight against the offshore windfarm project near his Scottish golf resort after he lost a legal challenge to the plans, he is casting his eyes away from Scotland to Ireland. The background, as can be seen from earlier articles posted here, is that proposals to build… Read the rest

A Free Wind Turbine for You!

Are you a landowner in Northern Ireland (or Scotland or Italy) with planning permission in place for a wind turbine of 200kW or higher – 30-metre tower height – 26 metre or larger rotor diameter and a grid connection offer in place? If you are, then you’ll know that the final piece of the jigsaw you… Read the rest