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Urgent – Planning Committee will decide this Tuesday
Please attend the Council Chambers, Town House, Haddington for 10 am on Tuesday 7th May to support our community wind turbine planning application. The planning committee will decide on our application at 10 am and your presence will show how the community feel. If planning consent is granted, we will pursue the option of raising part of [...]
Community turbine on tour
With help from the people of East Lammermuir we are able to display our plans for the community wind turbine in the villages around East Lammermuir. Wed 5th Dec - Friday 7th December - Innerwick Village Hall Friday 7th Dec Oldhamstocks Village Hall Saturday 8th December – Stenton Village Hall – postponed More dates to follow… [...]
Blackcastle/Cocklaw Hill community wind turbine – exhibition
We have applied for planning permission to put a community wind turbine on Blackcastle/Cocklaw Hill. Details of this proposed community wind turbine will be on display, all week, from Monday 19th November at Bleachingfield centre. On Thursday 22nd November we will hold a questions and answers session between 3pm and 7pm. The exhibition will be [...]
Crystal Rig 3 – a wind farm with community potential – version X
The other entry was a bit…. long! Sorry about that. We think it’s only fair to put all the information out there so people can make their own minds up. In short, what we are saying is… The Crystal Rig wind farm is growing bigger and the next stage, Crystal Rig 3, will add another [...]
Crystal Rig 3 – a wind farm with community potential
The proposed Crystal Rig 3 wind farm extension will be an important test of how we feel about wind turbines. Do we prefer them if we benefit from them? Does community ownership of wind turbines increase our acceptance of them? Will East Lothian Council become a pathfinder for locally owned energy? Earlier this year Lord [...]
Avoid talking about problems if you don’t have the solution Mr Trump
On the 25th April media attention focused on Donald Trump giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s inquiry into the renewable energy targets. Another man giving evidence at the same inquiry was a more composed and reserved gentleman, Graham Lang representing Communities against Turbines (CATS). When asked the big question about how Scotland should deal with [...]
Scottish forests meet community needs through wind power
On the 26th April 2012 Harper Macleod LLP (legal advisors to Fred. Olsen Renewables) will host the Scottish Highland Renewable Energy Conference in Inverness. It will be attended by Jeremy Sainsbury (director at Natural Power and Chairman of Scottish Renewables); Community Energy Scotland and the key note speaker is Fergus Ewing MSP Minister for Energy, [...]
The politics of locally owned energy
The latest news on community energy within the Scottish Political arena is a very positive one. Recent activity has resulted in a confirmation of cross party support of locally owned energy. More information about the debate is available here but this is our summary. The first bit is very political, scroll down for the views of [...]
Final results from community consultation
The final results of the community consultation are available. Not much has changed since we published the early results. We needed to find out how people felt about community wind turbines and what they thought about our idea for a community wind turbine on Cocklaw Hill. Final Results community consultation We decided it would be [...]
Why an Enercon E48 at 500kW not 800kW?
There are few reasons for an Enercon E48 500kW community wind turbine. Wind The “wind resource” is very good and suits a larger class 1 wind turbine. Bankability We need to get a commercial loan to buy the wind turbine. The bank wants to know the wind turbine and manufacturer are reliable. This makes the [...]
