• 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'.

  • Farm Energy Event cancelled

    THE FARM Energy Event 2012, planned to take place on Tuesday December 4 has been cancelled.

  • Free renewables advice

    FARMERS CAN receive free renewable energy advice by visiting special events in Scotland.

  • Focus on windfarming

    SCOTTISH FARMERS wanting to find out more about farmscale windpower could do worse than put November 1 in their diary for a trip to Glasgow to attend the free conference and exhibition being staged by RenewableUK.

  • 'Sleeping giant' awakes

    RENEWABLE HEAT Incentive consultations launched last week by DECC Minister Greg Barker have been hailed as a "major step forward".

  • Time to pull green policy together

    NFU SCOTLAND has called on the Scottish Government to help drive 'greater cohesion' across the agri-renewables sector to capture the enormous potential that exists to generate energy on-farm.