SSE Renewables has been granted consent for the 125MW Cloiche wind farm in the Scottish Highlands. The developer has welcomed the decision by Scottish Ministers to grant Section 36 planning consent for the 29-turbine Cloiche facility. SSE Renewables will now focus on progressing the project through the final stages of [...]

Construction activity to build Scotland’s largest airport-based solar farm is underway following the completion of the development phase of the project.   Glasgow Airport, in partnership with energy transition adviser and developer Ikigai Group, has completed the development phase and the subsequent financial close for a 20MW array with Zestec [...]

Alerion Clean Power has entered into an agreement with a consortium including Welsh renewables developer Pennant Walters to develop the permitted 35MW Foel Trawsnant wind farm in Neath and Port Talbot, South Wales.   The companies will cooperate on planning conditions, construction, grid connection and other matters over the next 12 to 24 [...]

RES has submitted a Section 36 planning application for its 19-turbine Longcroft Wind Farm proposal, located approximately 9km north of Lauder in the Scottish Borders.   The 125.4MW project, which went public in March 2023, has since been through detailed site assessment work and two rounds of public consultation.   [...]

Orsted and FuturEnergy Ireland have been granted planning approval from An Bord Pleanala for the 121MW Coom Green Energy Park in County Cork.   The site, an onshore wind development project located near the Bottlehill waste facility, has the potential to power the equivalent of 80,000 homes and displacing up [...]

Swedish developer Vattenfall has taken an investment decision to start building a 67MW onshore wind farm in Velinga, outside Tidaholm, in the south of the country. Construction will start before year end and the site will be ready for commission in early 2026. The 12-turbine project will have an annual [...]

• Sainsbury's has committed to buy 100% of the electricity produced by newly opened Longhill Burn Wind Farm • Sainsbury’s commitment to purchase energy produced over next 15 years will see it invest millions of pounds in renewable electricity • State-of-the-art turbines are the largest and most powerful available onshore [...]

Octopus Energy’s generation arm has announced investments in two solar developers in Ireland and Portugal to create 250MW of new capacity. It will enable the companies to build over 100 new solar projects on rooftops and sites of businesses said the company, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and boosting energy [...]

Scotland’s solar energy industry has welcomed Holyrood’s announcement it is committing to significantly increasing the amount of solar energy generation in Scotland by 2030 by up to 6GW. The pledge to a minimum of 4GW and an ambition of 6GW will mean a more than tenfold increase in the number [...]

Balmoral has launched its HexDefence designed to significantly mitigate jacket foundation scouring around fixed wind turbines. Building upon the success of the product development work used for monopile structures, which integrated seabed protection and flow reduction to minimise operational costs and prevent cable failure, Balmoral's latest innovation specifically targets jacket [...]

The world's largest offshore wind farm has started producing electricity for the first time. Power from the first turbine at the Dogger Bank project, which is construction in the North Sea, is now being sent to the UK's national grid. In total 277 turbines will be powered-up at the location, [...]

The Awel y Môr project off the coast of Llandudno ranks as the biggest renewable energy infrastructure investment in Wales for more than a decade. The project will invole building 50 giant turbines to a height of 0ver 330m, which once operational by 2030 will provide enough electricity to power [...]