A report led by the Electricity Networks Commissioner Nick Winser has emphasised the urgent need to build power lines faster to avoid wasting the benefits of renewable energy projects

It is reportedly the second time that a blade failure has hit the 175MW Bjorkvattnet wind farm in Sweden

The firm plans to build a ‘hydrogen hub’ at its 539MW wind farm in Glasgow

Banks Renewables has submitted a proposal to install a lithium-ion battery to Barnsley Council for approval

Ofgem has picked the company that will own and operate the tranmission link to an offshore wind farm in Yorkshire. Transmission Capital Partners has been given the licence for assets worth £172.3 million for the next 20 years. The 210MW Westermost Rough wind farm, located eight kilometres off the coast of Yorkshire, has 35 wind turbines. The winner – a […]

Big six player EDF Energy has gone into busiess with Siemens and Van Oord to build their first windfarm in the UK. The 2.3MW turbines will be supplied and installed by Siemens, while Netherlands-based Van Oord will provide the Balance of Plant. Once up and running the windfarm on Teeside will have the capacity to […]

Scottish and Southern Energy has ditched plans an offshore wind farm in Scotland. The company has halted work on the windfarm at Kintyre following consultations that highlighted potential problems regarding the project’s impact on nearby Campbeltown Airport, local communities and recreational sailing in the area. SSE will however press ahead with a windfarm off 13km […]

E.ON today revealed that it has won the exclusive right to examine two plots of land owned by the Forestry Commission Scotland for wind power projects. E.ON estimates that the areas of land, in the north and west of Scotland, have the potential to generate around 500MW, or enough renewable electricity to power over 270,000 […]

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne will today open an £11m upgrade of the UK’s first commercial windfarm. Delabole windfarm in Cornwall is owned and operated by 100% renewable electricity firm Good Energy and it provides the company with 20% of the total power it supplies to its 26,000 customers. The company has run the windfarm since […]