• Scottish Windfarm Bird Steering Group launches tomorrow
  This week sees the launch of the Scottish Windfarm Bird Steering Group. This is a joint partnership between the Scottish Government, Scottish Natural Heritage, RSPB Scotland and four of the countries major developers of large scale windfarms: Vattenfall, RES, SSE …
• British Public Support for Renewables Increasing
  A series of surveys published over the course of this week has revealed that the UK public’s support of renewable energy has increased despite the concerted efforts of some elements of the media. Firstly the Department of Energy and Climate …
• UK completes construction of world’s largest offshore wind farm
  This week the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the London Array, finished construction in UK waters. This now means that both the world’s biggest onshore and offshore wind farms are now supplying electricity to British homes. The London Array was …
• Community Benefits
  It is frequently the case that any mooted renewable energy development will also propose to establish a community benefit of some sort. Most often this benefit takes the form of an annual charitable donation or  annual funding given to a …
• A Good Week
  Last week saw good news for us here at Intelligent Land Investments as we saw five of our sites gain planning approval over the course of a few days. This acceleration of sites coming through the planning process is the …
• A good week for Wind Energy
  There was good news for the UK wind industry this week as a YouGov poll published in last weeks Sunday Times revealed that support for renewable energy remains extremely high with the British public. The poll from the country’s most …
• Onshore Wind has Potential to Deliver Sizeable Economic Benefits to Wales
  A report published this week has revealed the opportunities onshore wind presents for Wales if the country is able to achieve it’s renewable energy targets. The report, entitled ‘Economic Opportunities for Wales from Future Onshore Wind Development‘ was produced in partnership between …
• Launch of Tory Pro-Renewables Group
  Earlier this week, an influential group of Conservative MP’s , self described as ‘Progressive’, called on their party to fully embrace green policies and make them a cornerstone of the electoral campaign in 2015. The 2020 Group published a strategy document calling …
• Scottish Renewables Industry set to surpass £1 billion investment for 2012
  It was announced this week that investment levels in the Scottish renewables industry are at record breaking levels. In the first six months of 2012 alone over £900 million was invested into the industry; £801 million of which went into …
• Government confirms commitment to Renewable Energy
  Last week the UK Government underlined it’s commitment to renewable energy by announcing a funding commitment for future years. In total £7.6 billion pounds will be made available to the renewables industry between the years 2015-2020. This sum will be …

“The offshore wind industry is seeking leadership and immediate support from government and the Scottish Government is determined to provide that...”

Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister

“When money is short, we should ruthlessly prioritise those areas of public spending which are most likely to support economic growth, including investments in our transport and green energy infrastructure.”

George Osborne, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer

“Scotland has unrivalled green energy resources and our new national target to generate 80% of electricity needs from renewables by 2020 will be exceeded by delivering current plans for wind, wave and tidal generation.”

Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister

“We need to do for energy what we have done for mobile phones: real choice for consumers in one European marketplace.”

José Manuel Barroso, European Commission President

“The larger the renewables industry in Europe becomes, the sooner European industry can benefit from economies of scale, ultimately making renewables more competitive.”

Paul Rübig, MEP

“Renewables have gone from being a sideshow to being the key solution, together with energy efficiency, for the transition to a low-carbon economy.”

Willy De Backer, Head of the Greening Europe Forum, Friends of Europe