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Renewable energy needs the green light to reach full potential



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Published Date: 20 March 2008
By JASON ORMISTON
Chief executive of Scottish Renewables
WHEN the energy giant Scottish & Southern Energy bought Dublin-headquartered Airtricity earlier this year for £1 billion it not only demonstrated the strength of Scotland's energy industry – but also rewarded a handful of Scottish entrepreneurs.
In 2000, a small band of wind-farm developers were working out of an office in Greenock for Airtricity Scotland. Fast forward eight years, and the Glasgow office now employs scores of people and has a significant portfolio of major projects.

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  • Last Updated: 19 March 2008 8:32 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Unimpressed one,

20/03/2008 08:35:58
"Renewable energy needs the green light to reach full potential"

Let's start by removing massive public subsidies that the renewables get and see then how far their potential reaches.
2

Unimpressed one,

20/03/2008 08:38:07
"creating a significant amount of wealth"

Like this:

"LAVISH subsidies and high electricity prices have turned Britain’s onshore wind farms into an extraordinary moneyspinner, with a single turbine capable of generating £500,000 of pure profit per year.

According to new industry figures, a typical 2 megawatt (2MW) turbine can now generate power worth £200,000 on the wholesale markets - plus another £300,000 of subsidy from taxpayers.

Since such turbines cost around £2m to build and last for 20 or more years, it means they can pay for themselves in just 4-5 years and then produce nothing but profit.

The lucrative outlook has led to a surge in planning applications for new windfarms. There are already 165 wind farms operating 1,944 turbines in Britain but another 34 are under construction, a further 118 have planning consent and 220 are under consideration, according to new figures from the British Wind Energy Association.

If they are all built it would mean up to 4,000 more turbines being constructed across Britain - a prospect that is also generating a wave of protest."

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nabodican,

Rural Scotland 20/03/2008 09:38:16
Jason Ormiston is full of "merde du tauraux" in his support for the wind industry, and that is what he means when he uses the buzz word "renewables"
The only jobs that these useless monstrosities have provided are either in the developers offices or in Germany and Denmark. Ant community that has these things forced on them by incompetent councillors and planners who appear to be fully paid up members of the wind industry are having their house values dropped - if they can sell them at all and their tourism businesses are losing money because of them.
On top of this the public at large are seeing massive increases in their electricity bills because of the subsidies Jason Ormiston buddies get.
I really wish he would crawl back into the hole from whence he came and take his wind buddies with him.
This wholesale destruction of the Scottish landscape is unforgivable and it is high time this paper in particular told the truth to the Scottish people and stopped condoning the lies of the likes of Jason Ormiston.

 

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