Tesla’s giant battery in Australia In the Guardian yesterday: ‘Scottish Power is to undertake the most ambitious battery power project in Europe in an attempt to unlock the potential of the UK’s wind and solar farms. The company will connect an…
(c) Trip Advisor In Insider yesterday: An Edinburgh hotel has become the first in the UK to be battery-powered. The Gyle Premier Inn at Edinburgh Park has installed a five-tonne battery which will charge from the national grid during off-peak…
My headline is a shameless rewording of the title of a US piece in CleanTechnica on March 4th, which naturally made me think of Scotland. Much has been said and written about the weakness in our massive growth in renewables,…
As you know, we’re increasingly producing too much energy from our wind farms and marine turbines: ‘Scotland Sets [Another] New Wind Power Record’ ‘Wind farms powered 4 million Scottish homes last month’ and there are only 2.4 million ‘households’ in Scotland When…
As you know, we’re increasingly producing too much energy from our wind farms and marine turbines: ‘Scotland Sets [Another] New Wind Power Record’ ‘Wind farms powered 4 million Scottish homes last month’ and there are only 2.4 million ‘households’ in Scotland When…
As you know, we’ve had many days, weeks, of electricity supply from wind power at well over the 100% demand level. However, we remain susceptible to the Trumpian critique that we cannot rely on wind every day, even in Scotland.…
(c) http://expeditionsonline.com Scotland is to host the next meeting of the Arctic Circle Forum on 19th-21st November 2017 in the Assembly Rooms. The event is to be named ‘Scotland and the New North’ and will have an emphasis on innovation,…
(c) shetland.org I was amazed to read that, ‘in this day and age’, the 55 islanders on Fair Isle sometimes had to face periods of outage between 11pm and 7am if there had not been enough wind to generate power.…
In Energy Voice today: ‘The Scottish Government has recently set out the opportunities for hydrogen in its Energy Networks Vision and is now mapping locations in Scotland where hydrogen projects are best suited. With Germany already operating the world’s first…
We’ve had numerous reports of Scotland’s wind-farms producing more than 100% of the country’s demand and, twice recently, doing so for whole months. See, for example: Scotland’s wind turbines provide enough energy for 189% of Scottish homes on nearly every…
Talking-up Scotland 