Why we are doing what we are doing

This site has been created because we are concerned about inappropriately large wind turbines.

We are not anti-wind or anti-renewables and we haven't objected to the smaller developments in the area. However, recently there have been projects at various stages of planning that are three and four times the size of any of the turbines that are currently in the area. Unlike the existing Turbine projects, these benefit the few, to the massive detriment of the community.

Friday, 6 May 2011

Windfarms paid cash to switch off - bbc.co.uk

Six Scottish windfarms were each paid up to £300,000 to switch off their turbines due to excessive supply, it emerges.

The turbines, at a range of sites across Scotland, were stopped because the grid network could not absorb all the energy they generated.

Details of the payments emerged following research by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF).
The REF said energy companies were paid £900,000 to halt the turbines for several hours between 5 and 6 April.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/uk-scotland-13253876 
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