A report commissioned by the Taxpayers Alliance has found that Scotland is overcharged by more than £1 billion annually in green taxes. That is the sum over and above what the Government in Westminster pay back to support schemes to…
Energy Minister Jim Mather is to hold a meeting with Vestas’s President and Vice President of Government Relations on the company’s plan to close its wind turbine plant at Campbeltown in Kintyre. The meeting is to be in Glasgow and…
After his Friday 22nd meeting with all parties interested in maintaining and developing the engineering and administrative skills grown at the closing Vestas wind turbine plant at Campbeltown, Minister for Energy, Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, sent us the following statement,…
The Westminster Government’s Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has announced that it does not intend to use its legal powers under the 2004 Energy Act to reduce National Grid transmission charges for renewable energy generators in Scotland’s…
It was revealed today that the Westminster Government has a variable price structure for firms adding power to the National Grid. Windfarms and other renewable energy producers in the Scottish Highlands and Islands are charged sixty pence per kilowatt generated -…
It would be hard to send a more defensive signal than Vestas’s announcement that it is prepared to meet local representatives - if they travel to the company HQ in Denmark. Key players in the race to retrieve something from…
The announcement yesterday that Vestas was to close its subsidiary company’s operations in wind turbine tower manufacture at Campbeltown was accompanied by news that it is to shift its investment to a development plant in the Isle of Wight. In…
The Danish owners of the Vestas wind turbine tower manufacturing business at Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre have just announced that they are to close the facility because it is not making a profit. The announcement comes at a…
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