The Inch Cape offshore wind farm, a joint venture between ESB and ... It holds a 50-year lease with Crown Estate Scotland and has secured 15-year contracts with the Low Carbon Contracts Company ...

Two other wind farms in Scotland, which had won contracts in previous rounds, rebid and secured new contracts. A fifth of the UK’s operational offshore wind farms are in Scotland, with almost ...

Scottish wind farms have been handed an astonishing £380million for not generating electricity as so-called ‘constraint payments’ reach a historic high. It is the first time the payouts for ...

Part of one of Scotland's oldest hydro electric power schemes could be extended. Foyers Power Station on Loch Ness opened in 1974, but hydro electricity has been generated in the area since the late ...

Scottish Power said it planned "hybrid technology" by adding solar panels to wind farms. Similar proposals have also been submitted for sites in England. The company said it would also install ...

Ensuring access to affordable and clean energy across Scotland. No fuel costs and no pollution. So, what’s the catch? Well, wind farms can be expensive to build. Wind turbines also need an ideal ...

But the Highland village of Beauly, near Loch Ness, is threatened with ... power south via new lines of pylons from Scotland’s burgeoning wind farms in the far north. At the centre of the ...

At the head of beautiful Loch Long in Argyll sits one of Scotland's biggest plastic problems ... It used to be collected by the bucketload to fertilise farm land, but that's no longer possible ...

Controversial plans for a “semi-closed” salmon farm in pristine waters within Loch Lomond national park must be rejected, an MSP has urged. Ariane Burgess of the Scottish Greens claimed an ...

The financial close for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm, developed by ESB and Red Rock Renewables as equal joint owners, has ...