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Biggest Community Solar Farm Project in Scotland Moves Forward

Biggest Community Solar Farm Project in Scotland Moves Forward

A major new community solar project is coming to the Isle of Arran in Scotland. The 6 megawatt Glenkiln solar farm will be Scotland’s largest entirely community-owned solar farm. The £5 million ($6.48 million) project proposal recently gained planning approval and will move forward in securing construction financing, Energy Global reported. According to Arran Community […]

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    Mosquitoes Newly Spreading in Scotland as Temperatures Rise, Scientists Say

    Mosquitoes Newly Spreading in Scotland as Temperatures Rise, Scientists Say

    Scotland’s climate hasn’t historically been supportive to large mosquito populations, as it tends to be cooler. But now, scientists have discovered widespread populations of mosquitoes around Scotland, and they fear warming temperatures could lead to increasing public health risks from mosquito-borne diseases. Scientists at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Virus Research found 16 different […]

    Scotland Restores Its Peatlands to Keep Carbon in the Ground

    Scotland Restores Its Peatlands to Keep Carbon in the Ground

    By Joe Lo The burning Amazon rainforests, with their jaguars, monkeys and colorful birds, have grabbed global attention in a way the destruction of the world’s mossy peatlands never has. Yet protecting the world’s peatlands, which store at least twice as much carbon as forests, is critical in the fight against climate change. Peatlands, also […]

    Scotland Bans Plastic Cotton Buds

    Scotland Bans Plastic Cotton Buds

    It may seem innocuous to flush a Q-tip down the toilet, but those bits of plastic have been washing up on beaches and pose a threat to the birds, turtles and marine life that call those beaches home. The scourge of plastic “nurdles,” as they are called, has pushed Scotland to implement a complete ban […]

    Scottish Wind Power Is So Efficient, It Could Power Two Scotlands

    Scottish Wind Power Is So Efficient, It Could Power Two Scotlands

    Scotland produced enough power from wind turbines in the first half of 2019, that it could power Scotland twice over. Put another way, it’s enough energy to power all of Scotland and most of Northern England, according to the BBC — an impressive step for the United Kingdom, which pledged to be carbon neutral in […]

    World’s First Offshore Wind Battery Installed at Floating Farm

    World’s First Offshore Wind Battery Installed at Floating Farm

    A revolutionary battery has been successfully installed at the Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm located about 15 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast. With the 1.2-megawatt storage system known as “Batwind” in operation, it will be possible for the first time to store energy produced from an offshore wind farm, developers Masdar […]