Don’t need the ferret for this. All the planning applications and so on state who they are owners and operated by and most are online.
This country and I mean Scotland and the UK doesn’t do national energy infrastructure. We do foreign shareholders infrastructure and the best part is half of it is owned by other states who can’t believe we are stupid enough to do it at all !!!
As for the rest as owned by a local company or directors. A while ago I got curious so looked up a bunch of well known farmers and estates in my part of the world. They ALL have wind farm companies, most are inactive and have done nothing but they all have a registered wind business and a few hydro so that come the right opportunity they can be on it. And yeah of course they’ll sell out when it’s built. PE and investment banks can’t be fucked buying a project, but they very much can be fucked buying an operating wind farm with guaranteed profits. And frankly who’s going to turn down a few million upfront instead of waiting 10 or 20 years.
The issue is as a nation we have never understood the real value of owning our own energy supplies and nationalising them or at the very least having a wealth fund based on a share of taxing them.
>The largest local project now owned outside Scotland was the five-turbine, 12.5MW Craig Wind Farm near Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway. It is directly owned by Craig Wind Farm Limited whose local directors resigned in 2012.Craig Wind Farm Limited is now registered at an address in London, and its parent company is Temporis Renewable Energy LP, which has its registered office in the Cayman Islands according to the most recent accounts.
And so it begins. A future where there are thousands and thousands of turbines all over Scotland, and yet the citizens do not benefit from this abundance of electricity, and continue to be cold and damp.
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Don’t need the ferret for this. All the planning applications and so on state who they are owners and operated by and most are online.
This country and I mean Scotland and the UK doesn’t do national energy infrastructure. We do foreign shareholders infrastructure and the best part is half of it is owned by other states who can’t believe we are stupid enough to do it at all !!!
As for the rest as owned by a local company or directors. A while ago I got curious so looked up a bunch of well known farmers and estates in my part of the world. They ALL have wind farm companies, most are inactive and have done nothing but they all have a registered wind business and a few hydro so that come the right opportunity they can be on it. And yeah of course they’ll sell out when it’s built. PE and investment banks can’t be fucked buying a project, but they very much can be fucked buying an operating wind farm with guaranteed profits. And frankly who’s going to turn down a few million upfront instead of waiting 10 or 20 years.
The issue is as a nation we have never understood the real value of owning our own energy supplies and nationalising them or at the very least having a wealth fund based on a share of taxing them.
>The largest local project now owned outside Scotland was the five-turbine, 12.5MW Craig Wind Farm near Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway. It is directly owned by Craig Wind Farm Limited whose local directors resigned in 2012.Craig Wind Farm Limited is now registered at an address in London, and its parent company is Temporis Renewable Energy LP, which has its registered office in the Cayman Islands according to the most recent accounts.
And so it begins. A future where there are thousands and thousands of turbines all over Scotland, and yet the citizens do not benefit from this abundance of electricity, and continue to be cold and damp.
Disappointing.