Cairndow’s Our Power, affiliated to the Here We Are Centre (HWA) has already been hitting the headlines for its success with its first renewable energy scheme, a community-owner biomass energy generation scheme.
It has now had more success, winning the Royal Bank of…
Marine Current Turbines - which has already deployed a similar tidal energy system in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough, has confirmed its intention to apply to the Crown Estate for a lease on an area in the Pentland Firth. It wants to…
Cairndow’s Our Power Community Interest Company (CIC), in Mid Argyll, has been shortlisted by Scottish Renewables Gree Energy Awards for the Best Community Initiative, sponsored by EON Ltd.
Our Power, part of the Here We Are initiative at Cairndow, set up the…
The Pentland Firth, between the north coast of the Scottish mainland the the Orkney Islands holds six of the top ten UK sites for tidal energy. The First Minister, Alex Salmond, has described it as ‘the Saudi Arabia of renewable…
[ November 18, 2008; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ]
| November 18, 2008 | ||
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Starting at 10.00am on Tuesday 18th November in The George Hotel in Inveraray, there will be a Public Enquiry to examine the issue of the wind farm planned for Stachain, near the Dam up in Glen…
Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, is promoting the establishment of a Super Grid making available surplus energy from renewable energy power plants in the North Sea operated by Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.
Speaking at a publication of…
Since February this year, the Isle of Eigg has had a £1.6m renewable power system in operation, using a blend of hydro, wind and solar power. It can generate over 95% of Eigg’s annual energy needs and has battery storage…
On Wednesday this week (29th October) the Scottish Parliament voted by 65 - 30 in favour, with 16 abstentions on a Scottish Government motion that the British-Irish Council should support a proposal by Scottish Ministers to lead work on renewable energy.
Anything…
Enterprise Minister Jim Mather has confirmed that he has been in talks for several weeks with a Danish company showing an interest in the Vestas wind turbine plant in Campbeltown.
One hundred workers at the plant were to lose their jobs…
Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP and Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism was today opening two wind farms in Dumfries and Galloway - Dalswinton and Minsca. These are both Scottish and Southern Energy sites and will between them provide 66MW of…
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