A bizarre legal challenge is set to hold up the third UK offshore wind auction until the end of this month, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
A huge Highland wind project has pushed the UK to the top of the European installed capacity league table.
A group of the biggest firms operating in the UK's renewables sector has written to the new Minister of State for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) asking him to reconsider his party's position on onshore wind.
Scotland's biggest wind farm was opened yesterday by the Duke of Rothesay in Wick, in the north-east of the country.
A mammoth 84-turbine wind farm has contributed £460 million to the Scottish economy and created more than 7,000 jobs during the three year development construction of the project.
Building one of Scotland’s largest infrastructure projects hasn’t been easy, yet Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm boss Steven Wilson said finishing it virtually problem-free as “undoubtedly the proudest moment” of his career.
A Scottish wind energy developer has pledged to offer one of the “biggest cash injections” the Highlands has ever seen.
The two organisations agree to a 50/50 joint venture which will look to build three of four Dogger Bank offshore windfarms off the coast of Yorkshire.
