Plans for a wind farm to power 25% of the houses in Scotland were announced yesterday.
The project, which is still subject to planning permission from the Scottish Executive, will be run in conjunction with the Shetland Islands’ council, who will own a 50 per cent stake in the site through their subsidiary Viking Energy. The council will plough all profits from the venture back into the local community.
The farm will have approximately 300 wind turbines, covering 90 square kilometres of landand producing around 600 megawatts of power. The plan is to connect the farm to the Scottish mainland using a cable which will run underneath the sea.
No doubt we need this on one level, but it is more “big power” – rather than the small local generation schemes that would attach people to their power and think about its usage…
Yes, I am in favour, but with reservations.
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