Scotland has officially switched on the Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm. “Hywind will provide clean energy to over twenty thousand homes and will help us meet our ambitious climate change targets,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said. The 30 megawatt wind farm, operated by Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA and Masdar Abu Dhabi […]
By Carey Wedler The Guardian reported last Tuesday that Lulu, the full-grown whale who died, “was a member of the UK’s last resident pod and a postmortem also showed she had never produced a calf. The pollutants, called PCBs, are known to cause infertility and these latest findings add to strong evidence that the pod […]
A tiny, scenic island lying off Scotland’s west coast is truly a model for sustainable, off-grid living. With no mainland electricity connection, the Isle of Eigg gets its electricity from the water, the wind and the sun. After decades of using diesel generators, in February 2008 the residents of Eigg officially switched to their own […]
By Amanda Froelich Slowly but surely, it is becoming fact that households and entire countries can run on clean, renewable energy. Costa Rica, for instance, ran on renewable energy sources for 285 days in 2015 and achieved similarly in 2016. Additionally, Denmark produced 160 percent of its energy needs in one day in July of […]
Wind power is skyrocketing across the globe. In Scotland, wind turbines provided more than 1.2 million megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity to the National Grid in March, according to an analysis of WeatherEnergy data by WWF Scotland. To translate, that’s enough renewable electricity to power 136 percent of Scottish households, or 3.3 million homes. The […]
By Owen Agnew Rod Read, an engineer and stay-at-home dad, lives on the remote Isle of Lewis in Scotland. For the past seven years, he’s been designing a kite that he thinks could revolutionize wind power. His prototype, a series of spinning rainbow-colored rings, stands out against the gray Scottish sky. On a good day, […]
Locally-owned renewable energy projects are beneficial for communities in more ways than just reducing carbon pollution. Just look at Scotland. About 300,000 Scottish homes are powered with 595 megawatts of clean energy thanks to the government’s support of community and locally-owned renewable projects, according to a government report. That’s a 17 percent increase from the […]
Scotland, already a renewable energy powerhouse, has launched the first and largest free stream tidal power project in the world. MeyGen The MeyGen tidal stream project, operated by Edinburgh-based tidal developer Atlantis Resources Limited, aims to deliver 398 megawatts of energy—harnessed purely from water currents—to the grid. The goal of the project is to help […]
Wind energy had a banner day in Scotland. Thanks to an unseasonably windy Sunday, wind turbines generated more electricity than the country actually needed. Gale-force winds helped provide a record 106% of Scotland’s electricity needs on Aug. 7. Flickr After analyzing data from WeatherEnergy, the environmental group WWF Scotland announced that wind turbines generated more […]
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