Rotating wind turbine blades can cause brightness levels to vary periodically at locations where they obstruct the Sun’s rays. This can result in a nuisance when the shadow is cast [...]

For over a decade, the UK’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme has been the backbone of renewable energy investment, offering generators a guaranteed strike price in exchange for building clean [...]

Introduction Developers of tall buildings and wind turbines have a seemingly endless list of hurdles to overcome before their projects can be built. Some of these are perhaps intuitive, such [...]

Onward 2030 Work Package 3 (WP3) has been produced with the aim of seeking agreement on a strategy for mitigating the impacts of wind developments on aviation systems, mainly Primary [...]

Electronic Conspicuity (or EC) is a term used to describe aircraft that can be identified by electronic means (further details below). Currently, EC is not mandated in the UK, unlike [...]

What are the Onward 2030 Work Packages? Onward 2030 has been founded to ensure that up to 20GW of new onshore wind, as set out in the Onshore Wind Sector [...]

There is currently 316 MW of operational onshore wind capacity in the UK which was commissioned more than 25 years ago (1), and a further 1,125 MW which was commissioned [...]

Planning applications for wind developments consider many aspects to ensure that any proposed wind development does not cause a significant and detrimental impact to the surrounding environment. One of the [...]

A basic aviation feasibility check is mainly designed to answer a simple question, “Are there any showstoppers from an aviation perspective?”. This should identify potential aviation risks that could affect [...]

When a wind development is proposed, be it a single turbine or a larger project, potential impacts upon military aviation activity must be investigated. For the focus of this article, [...]