One of the issues is around DNO’s getting permission to run the cabling required over private land – lots of charging sites built, but waiting (sometimes over a year) for the DNO to connect them to the grid. There’s a consultation here to run a new HV cables (pylons) from Northern Scotland to Dundee to enable hookup of more windfarms, necessary, but of course, all of the nimbys say it will spoil the view…I will be able to see it, but that’s fine, you can’t say you want to go green and be less reliant on gas, then moan when the infrastructure that’s needed might be seen (it’s 5 miles away, not over the back fence). The local town hall meeting was very negative, despite there already being pylon runs in the distance, one more would make sod all difference.
I went a couple of meetings last year for a new windfarm near me thats just going through planning. They initially sais they were building the tallest turbines in the UK, 250 metres high and 170 metres in rotor diameter. You can imaging the outcry by those who attended, even though you can get cheaper electricity living within a certain radius.
Anyway me being me said if there painted army camauflage and stick a light on top, they would blend in with the surroundings lol. Athough the folk attending wern’t happy with my idea, even though the company responsible wrote it down lol. Anyhow they have reduced the number of windmills from 26 to 21 and lowered their height considerably. Oh and the company has said the windmills will be standar colour white!