Iphone & iPad app to check the stats

This app allows you to view the UK's electricity generation, separated by generation type. The average generation for the last 5 minutes and half hour can be viewed, as well as the total generation in the last 24 hours.

Three new Turbines get planning approval in Steelend

Another three Wind Turbines have recently obtained Planning Permission, this time in Steelend.

Below is the latest map. Click here to see it in detail.

Letter from Bernard Ingham to Chris Huhne - Energy Secretary (The Times, 7th march)

Dear Chris

I've been meaning to write this letter for some time.

I am assured on all sides that you have a very good brain and are "an evidence-based economist". Unfortunately, this does not square with your energy policy. It has more inconsistencies in it than holes in a colander. I am not ungrateful now that you have cleared the way for the private development of nuclear power -. My particular interest. You have certainly come off your untenable opposition to it, which is a blessing. But to suggest that you are in favour of it is pure spin. You will contemplate it only if not a penny of public subsidy is involved.

This would be fair enough, especially as the nuclear industry is not, to my knowledge, seeking subsidies, if you were not simultaneously pouring riches beyond the dreams of avarice at a time of straitened national finances into largely useless renewable sources of energy, notably wind and solar. You are able to do this only because the taxpayer is riot being asked to throw good money after bad. Instead, the consumer has to foot the mounting bill. So much for concern about fuel poverty: I've space for only one more inconsistency:

If you are in the business of the security of electricity supply, why wind (which is totally unreliable) and solar (no use at night)? Especially when engineers have serious doubts about how much wind the national grid can take without blowing a gasket. .In short, your energy policy sadly lacks evidence of brainpower. It certainly will not deliver your declared objective of securing low- carbon electricity supplies in an affordable way: Only nuclear can deliver that. It's so elementary that I worry about you.

Bernard Ingham

Wind farm developer accused of 'desperate attempts' to exaggerate support for plans - The Courier

A wind farm developer has been accused of hiring lobbyists to back its bid to build turbines on a Fife hillside.
West Coast Energy is using PR firm Invicta Public Affairs as it attempts to gain planning permission for seven 120-metre high turbines on Clatto Hill, between Kennoway and Kingskettle.

Following a sudden spate of letters of support to Fife Council after several months of objections piling up, campaigners Clatto Landscape Protection Group claimed the firm was making "desperate attempts" to create the impression of support for its project.

Read full article in The Courier

Another 60m Wind Turbine in Planning on road to Saline - Please object!!

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Councillors consider bid for 600ft Methil wind turbine — amid concerns over noise level

Proposals to create a massive wind turbine just off the Fife coast are to come under the spotlight this week when councillors consider their formal response to a consultation on the project.

Read full article in the Courier, click here

Impact on UK Farming

Average age of UK farmer is 55 so payments from Wind Turbines are their retirement. What will happen to farms? Food prices are already increasing, UK government recognises the need to produce more of our own food, this directly opposes the Wind Turbine policy. Farmers make more from wind farms than farming. The UK is in danger of losing its “Food Security” and being reliant on other countries to feed its population.