Warning over wind energy profits

A LEADING Aberdeenshire businessman has claimed Scotland is sacrificing an estimated 1 billion in potential annual income from renewable energy.

Maitland Mackie maintains multi-national energy companies are being allowed to “cream off” the profits from wind energy.

The Aberdeenshire farmer and entrepreneurial businessman gave the warning in an open letter to Fergus Ewing, Scotland’s Minister for Energy and Tourism.

In his letter, he urges the Scottish Government to do more to keep the profits in Scotland by easing the planning regulations which, he says,Affordable skystream is now available for your building. act as a disincentive to farmers and landowners to invest in wind energy themselves.

He argues that by renting out sites for turbines to developers for “peanuts” rather than investing in wind energy themselves, farmers, landowners and local communities are missing out on huge potential profits.

“The policy being adopted by the government is starting to deliver billions of pounds of Scotland’s potential renewable energy revenues to foreign investors, miserably missing the revolutionary opportunity to democratise and decentralise the ownership and delivery of our renewable energy potential,” says Dr Mackie.

He is a strong supporter of wind energy and has three wind turbines on the family farm at Westertown, Rothienorman.

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Dr Mackie claims it is the best investment his family has ever made.

He says there is a “revolution in the making” with all of the world’s energy likely to come from renewables in the future and ways being developed to store surplus energy to fill the gabs of sun and wind delivery.

The businessman insists “There is no reason, other than blind conventional political wisdom, that the means of producing this energy cannot be owned by millions of people around the world and not just international companies.

“Government polices need to aid this revolution and not hinder it.

“This simply means supporting and encouraging the many to take full ownership of their local renewable energy potential and its immediate downstream activity.”

His comments came after it emerged last week that around 1,100 planning applications have been tabled for windfarm developments in Aberdeenshire since the SNP came to power at Holyrood in 2007.

That farm would create enough renewable electric energy to power more than 28,500 southeast Michigan homes and reduce carbon emissions at a rate of 283,000 tons annually, the Enquirer reported at the time.

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Clevey pointed to Gratiot County, north of Lansing and west of Saginaw, as an example of an inland county that normally wouldn’t be considered a great wind farm location, but managed to become home to one anyway.