A  Carmarthenshire livestock farmer has installed a wind turbine on his 100 acre  farm to diversify income and reduce costs after securing funding from HSBC’s Wales Agriculture team.

Green Highland Renewables, the Perth based specialist developer of small to medium scale hydro schemes, has expanded its operations in Scotland with the addition of new senior staff and the opening of a new office in Inverness.

There are huge differences in the quality of service offered by energy companies to people generating their own electricity according to a new survey. Strong winners and losers emerged when renewable energy website YouGen asked people who have installed solar panels, hydro or wind turbines what they thought of their Feed-in Tariff (FIT) supplier.

Albion Ventures has announced the investment of £1.3m in partnership with Wales-based developers Dragon Hydro to fund a 300kW hydropower scheme in Gwynedd.

Renewable energy will play an increasingly integral role in the future of Welsh farming, is one of the key messages to emerge from the Royal Welsh Show.

A company behind two hydro projects recently opened in Scotland is hoping to inspire other developers to follow suit.

A community group from Belper, Derbyshire, has come top of the Co-operative’s Community Energy Challenge beating off over 120 challengers.

Energy minister Charles Hendry says that the latest UK energy statistics released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that the UK is ‘powering ahead’ in the field of renewable energy.

The National Trust has been recognised for its efforts in reducing energy use and carbon emissions with an Ashden Award.

A community co-operative has awarded the contract to supply a hydro-electric turbine for a sustainable energy scheme nearWhitbyto fellow Yorkshire-based business, JN Bentley.

REA chief executive, Gaynor Hartnell, gives an initial response to today’s Feed-in Tariff Consultation “The government certainly needed to take steps to stabilise the Feed-in Tariff and we welcome this consultation. The ultimate aim should be tariffs that deliver a reasonable and stable rate of return and which fall in line with cost reductions in technology. Whether the government has got those calculations right, is another matter. The solar tariffs fall so steeply that by July this year they could be lower than those for wind and hydro. It is a tall order – and solar companies have been vocal in their disbelief.