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	     	<title><![CDATA[Solid as a rock]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/solid-as-a-rock-1.1146885?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[THE SECRET of great comedy, it is often said, is in its timing.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Investing in wind]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/investing-in-wind-1.1146881?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[SCOTLAND’S FARMWIND superpower VG Energy has formed a new partnership with renewables developer Vigor, unlocking “significant funds” for investment in turbine projects.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Whisky in the car]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/whisky-in-the-car-1.1146879?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[THE WHISKY industry annually produces 1600 million litres of pot ale and 500,000 tonnes of draff – and a new Scottish company reckons those byproducts can be turned into a new, cleaner and better form of biofuel.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Comparing apples with apples]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/comparing-apples-with-apples-1.1146876?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[WHEN COMPARING farmscale wind turbine models, many of the people I talk to are very keen on the published ‘power rating’ of the generator.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Evoco’s turbulence upgrade]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/evoco-s-turbulence-upgrade-1.1146875?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[DECEMBER’S GALES exposed a design flaw in the Evoco 10 wind turbine, forcing the manufacturer to issue a “brake and isolate” notice on all its turbine.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Xzeres a success at Larroch]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/xzeres-a-success-at-larroch-1.1146872?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[MARTIN WALLACE has recently installed two Xzeres turbines on his Larroch Farm at Monreith near Port William, Dumfries and Galloway, via VG Energy.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[The sun and the pain...]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/the-sun-and-the-pain-1.1146869?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[HAS THE sun now set on the UK’s solar PV industry or not?]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Get the site right]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/get-the-site-right-1.1146866?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[HIS BACKGROUND in upmarket retail has left Andrew Douglas Miller with a fundamental objection to anything even remotely reminiscent of “hard selling”.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Ulster urged to plant trees]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/ulster-urged-to-plant-trees-1.1146863?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[NORTHERN IRISH farm minister, Michelle O’Neill, has called on landowners to help increase woodland cover across the country by planting more trees.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[A low risk route to renewables]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/a-low-risk-route-to-renewables-1.1146861?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[AS THE old saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat – and farmers looking for a stake in the wind energy sector should not forget that there are alternatives to spending their own cash on a turbine.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[All-Energy conference returns to Aberdeen]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/all-energy-conference-returns-to-aberdeen-1.1146860?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[ALL-ENERGY, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference returns to Aberdeen on May 23 and 24 this year.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Testing time for turbines]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/testing-time-for-turbines-1.1146188?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[IT HAS been a wild winter for the farmscale renewables sector in Scotland.
Out in the real world, it suffered a right old battering from Mother Nature, who, as a subscriber to The Scottish Farmer (obviously), had clearly tired of reading turbine manufacturers’ boasts, and decided to run her own wee test of toughness.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Green light for Irish turbine Invasion]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/green-light-for-irish-turbine-invasion-1.1143560?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[IRISH WIND turbine manufacturer, C and F Green Energy, has started 2012 on a high, as its cutting-edge farmscale machines officially join the list of turbine marques approved for the UK’s Feed-In Tariff payments.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Time for a turbine sector reality check]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/time-for-a-turbine-sector-reality-check-1.1131648?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[IT IS to be hoped that the tribulations of Proven Energy and the companies linked to it will serve as a much-needed reality check for everyone involved in the farmscale wind turbine business.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:44:05 +0100</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Scaled focus on quality]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/scaled-focus-on-quality-1.1131639?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[SCALED ENERGY director, Andrew Douglas Miller, knows all about running a business based on quality – having spent more than 20 years in charge of famous department store Jenners.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:14:03 +0100</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Proven Energy calls in the receivers]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/proven-energy-calls-in-the-receivers-1.1124586?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[SCOTTISH WIND turbine manufacturer Proven Energy Limited has gone into receivership.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:38:05 +0100</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Proven Energy has a problem]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/proven-energy-has-a-problem-1.1123939?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[SCOTTISH WIND turbine manufacturer Proven Energy was this week teetering on the brink of financial collapse, following the emergence of “acute” technical problems with its flagship P35-2 farmscale machine.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:52:06 +0100</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Solar panel competition winners]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/solar-panel-competition-winners-1.1123934?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[THE DONALD family of Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, are the lucky winners of The Scottish Farmer and BritishEco Scotland competition for a £10,000 Solar PV System.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:14:04 +0100</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Gaia pioneer tops 100,000kWh]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/gaia-pioneer-tops-100-000kwh-1.1123901?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[TURBINE PIONEER Malcolm Bronte-Stewart is the first Gaia-Wind turbine owner in the UK to have generated more than 100,000kWh of energy.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:22:03 +0100</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Look again at your wood fuel resource]]></title>
	     	<link>http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/renewables/2.1031/look-again-at-your-wood-fuel-resource-1.1123894?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[ONE OF the renewable energy targets that the UK has set itself for 2020 is that 12% of the country’s heat requirements will come from renewables – equivalent to a six-fold increase on current levels.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:14:06 +0100</pubDate>
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