Not only do wind farms provide expensive energy, they can be pretty unpopular. At least one in six wind farms have led to complaints about noise causing a lack of sleep or just being "dreadfully irritating". At one wind farm the company switch off the turbines when they turn in a certain direction, in order to keep the noise down! Yet there are still complaints about noise ("like a train that neve...

Well it's been another corker of a Bank Holiday. It hasn't actually rained but it came very close and the wind was cold enough to keep most people indoors. After getting well wrapped up against the cold I did venture out and about for a brisk walk. I try to keep an eye on things as well as I can but St.Hilda Ward is so spread out it's not that easy. The size of the ward is one reaso...

With a smaller dependence on bank loans than other industries, the wind energy sector believes it will be among the first to emerge from the recession, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) said at the opening of its annual conference yesterday (16 March).

Agreement to provide hi-tech components for hundreds of wind turbines in America.

A RESCUE package is being considered to try to save a troubled wind-turbine manufacturer.

The new offices of marine renewables development company SeaEnergy in Aberdeen has been opened. SeaEnergy is the latest marine renewables development company to choose Scotland as the base for its drive to develop, own and operate large-scale offshore wind farms globally. It is also among nine major developers and consortia which have just been granted exclusive development rights, by the Crown Es...

Regulators pushed a British bank into wind-up for the first time in more than two years, with the closure of Southsea Mortgage & Investment

HUNDREDS of new Scottish jobs could go overseas unless the Scottish Government steps in to help a Midlothian company making state-of-the-art wind turbines, Labour MSP Rhona Br

When you sign up for a Bank Account, or take out a Bank Credit or Debit Card, did your bank tell you that they would be storing all your details with a 3rd party data processing company in a warehouse in Essex? I bet they didn't.

SCOTLAND'S renewable energy aspirations have been dealt a serious blow after the parent company of the country's largest wind turbine manufacturer filed for insolvency