Known as the East Anglia THREE, the planning consent granted today allows for the instillation of 172 ‘next generation’ turbines, each of which stands 247 meters in height.
In June alone, the nation's wind turbines generated over one million megawatt hours of electricity—enough to power 118 percent of Scottish households.
New technology has enable the World's first floating wind farm to be constructed and the platform has emerged, for its first public viewing, off coast of Scotland.
Scottish wind turbines sent more than 1.2 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid in March. The turbines produced enough electricity to meet the electrical needs of 136 % of Scottish households.
If you want a template for making renewable energy work in the here and now, look no further than the Scottish island of Eigg, which is powered almost completely by wind, solar, and hydro technology.
A new, 50MW floating offshore wind farm just got approved.
Scotland had achieved two new solar power ‘milestones’ during 2016, with over 200MW of installed capacity solar photo-voltaic (PV) systems at over 50,000 locations across the country.
The U.K. government has funded an energy storage trial on a wind farm using an electrical innovation: a battery. The new device, a vanadium redox flow battery, is believed to be able to revolutionize the global renewables sector.
Renewable energy advocates celebrate another victory this week as officials launched the world’s first large-scale tidal energy farm off the coast of Scotland.
On Aug. 7, Scotland’s wind turbines produced 106 percent of the electricity used nationwide on that day.
SPACE tourism from Prestwick is a step closer after a US firm at the cutting edge of spaceflight design struck a deal with the Ayrshire base to bring manned launch services to Scotland.
Congratulations, kilt-wearers, and descendants of William Wallace! Your country's seas are about to become the proud guardians of the world's largest floating wind farm.
