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News

News

  • Cross-border firm launched

    RM ENERGY, a new joint partnership between Scottish-based Realise Renewables and East Anglia-based Mosscliff Environmental, opened for business last month, with a mission to become a major provider of renewables solutions to rural Scotland.

  • Don't use children to pass windfarm plans

    WINDFARM PROTESTORS have accused a wind energy development firm of using schoolchildren to distribute pro-windfarm material to their parents.

  • Has the wind bubble burst?

    SPEAKING TO farmers and landowners in recent months appears to indicate a marked trend in the belief that the time has passed for investing in renewable energy in the form of wind power.

  • Wind – and hot air

    SCOTTISH politicians are once again at each other's throats over renewable energy policy, with Scots Tories accusing the 'wind-obsessed' SNP of pushing through planning appeals in favour of turbine developments.

  • Share the wind billions

    BLIND DEVOTION to the old structure of the energy business is gifting the cream of Scotland's renewables revolution to multinational companies – and leaving farmers, landowners and their communities getting paid 'peanuts'.

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Wind Power

Wind Power

  • C and F launch heavyweight turbines

    EIRE TURBINE manufacturers C and F Green Energy has launched its biggest machines yet, with a new range of heavyweight machines rated between 200 and 250kW.

  • Wind-powered water treatment

    AN ARRAY of 10 small-scale wind turbines have been installed at Scottish Water's Stornoway waste water treatment works.

  • When the turbine stops...

    WIND TURBINE installers cannot offer the same troubleshooting expertise as a machine's manufacturer – no matter what promises they might make before things go wrong.

  • Gaia sets sail ...

    AT A distance of over 16,000 kilometres, the despatch of an 11kW Gaia-Wind turbine to the South Sea island of Tonga sets the furthest ever distance for an export order for the Scottish-Danish company.

  • Full power at Easter Howlaws

    FOR BORDERS farmer, Mervyn Wallace, the journey to completion of his two wind turbines hasn't all been plain sailing – but he is now delighted with the look and performance of the finished articles.

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Solar Power

Solar Power

  • Off-grid farmers are the future

    IN THE future, more and more farmers will go completely "off grid", disconnecting from their power supplier and becoming self sufficient.

  • Sunshine and ice cream

    FAMILY-RUN ice-cream makers Mackie's are determined to become one of the greenest companies in Britain, and with the installation of solar panels adding to their existing wind turbines, it seems they are well on their way.

  • Solar PV – FITs of indecision

    FOLLOWING THE slashing of the tariff subsidies for photovoltaic (PV) generation, last month's massive Ecobuild exhibition and conference in London provided powerful evidence – if it was needed – that reports of the death of the UK solar PV industry are most definitely premature.

  • The sun and the pain...

    HAS THE sun now set on the UK's solar PV industry or not?

  • Solar subsidy slashed

    FARMERS PLANNING a solar power installation on their shed roof need to either hurry up – or think again.

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Biomass

Biomass

  • HWEnergy look south

    SCOTTISH BIOMASS heating specialists HWEnergy has announced a partnership deal with North Yorkshire's Pennine Biomass.

  • Biomass can boost broilers

    POULTRY production is an intensive 45-day process, with a significant energy demand.

  • Wintry weather boosts Scottish firewood sales

    WITH TEMPERATURES down, and snow and ice lingering, forestry owners across Scotland are coping with an upswing in the demand for firewood.

  • HW Energy seals public biomass deal

    Scotland's longest established biomass heating specialist, Fort William-based HW Energy, has been ranked number one in the Scottish Government's framework for installing wood fuel systems in public sector buildings.

  • Don't buy gas – burn your wood

    "STOP SENDING money out of your estate and look at your internal wood resources, its suitability, accessibility and profitability." So says wood fuel specialist Ben Tansey, director of Northumberland based re:heat.

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Hydro Power

Hydro Power

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