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The London Array - the world's biggest offshore windfarm - is within months of being fully operational. Andrew Williams reports on overcoming adversity on the high seas
12 years ago
Six bidders have qualified to compete for the high-voltage transmission link for the West of Duddon Sands offshore windfarm, off the Cumbrian coast.
Disarray in government energy policy thinking emerged this week as a leading think-tank warned that UK renewable electricity targets outstrip the "practical upper limit" for wind power on grounds of cost and carbon reduction.
Vattenfall has got the go-ahead to add up to 17 turbines to its Kentish Flats array, it was announced yesterday.
Scottish Power Renewables' plan to build a 288MW windfarm on the border between Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire moved forward today, as the Scottish Government granted planning consent.
13 years ago
Nuclear power has traditionally been a low-carbon rival to offshore wind, but perhaps the nuclear experience could teach wind a thing or two, say Michael Kruse and Julia Heizinger
Ecotricity's plans for the fourth largest onshore windfarm in England have been approved by the secretary of state.
Anti-wind flyers that claimed turbines could give people panic attacks and migraines have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency.
In the first week of the committee stage of the Energy Bill, we heard evidence from key parties: investors, the renewables industry, generators, the big six supply companies, the Climate Change Committee, non-governmental organisations, and civil society. We even heard evidence from the minister.
SSE is selling four windfarms for £140 million to a fund managed by Greencoat Capital, it announced today.
Onshore windfarms owned by Scottish Power Renewables have set a new generation record.
SSE broke the 2GW barrier for peak renewable generation during high winds and heavy rain last month, it announced yesterday.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has given climate change minister Greg Barker ministerial responsibility for planning decisions, a move that means he will determine EDF's Hinkley Point C nuclear power station application.
The offshore transmission regime is "extremely generous" to investors at the expense of consumers, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report out today.
Good Energy has bought an onshore windfarm site in Doncaster from RWE Npower Renewables for £3 million, it announced today.
Good Energy has today launched the UK's first local electricity tariff for customers who live within two kilometres of the company's Delabole windfarm in north Cornwall.
Four wind turbines are to be built at a Wessex Water sewage works in Bristol by the end of the year, it has been announced.
Eon's failure to consult neighbouring local authorities over plans to build a 700MW windfarm off the East Sussex coast have led to the application being withdrawn.
Eon has struck a deal with a boat-building company for four vessels to service its offshore windfarms.
