All Posts Tagged With: "Wind Farm"

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday the global economic downturn would not affect a government drive to reduce the country’s carbon emissions. However, an industry executive cast doubt on the ability of the UK’s existing power transmission network to cope with planned increases in wind power output. Brown told a wind energy conference [...]

Energy firm Ecotricity has produced more environmental information to support its application for a wind farm on land at Shipdham, near Dereham.
A public inquiry to re-determine the planning permission, which was finally granted for two 100m towers on land near Wood Farm following appeal in 2006 but then quashed, will be held in December but [...]

An offshore wind farm installation specialist has prepared for rapid growth in the industry by buying a new installation platform.Danish company A2SEA, which worked on the Scroby Sands wind farm, has bought a new rig, which will be named Sea Worker, so it can carry out more installations in a wider variety of conditions.The new [...]

The siting of offshore windfarms will take fishermen’s views into account in future, the Crown Estate has affirmed.As the owner of the sea bed, the Crown Estate decides where offshore projects are installed, though it has said that it will consult more closely with fishermen to avoid disturbing fishing areas.Chairman of two fishermen’s societies Ivan [...]