Category: News & Updates

NESO (National Energy System Operator) are working on various strategic and spatial plans to guide future energy infrastructure across the UK. Check out the helpful explainer videos in the link below to find out more.

From 16 January 2026, the Energy Consents Unit introduced a new update to their online portal to make it easier for members of the public to submit representations on energy consent applications in Scotland. This modernised system will replace the existing representations process and is designed to:

Enabling works to construct a slip road off the A1 and other road works are due to begin shortly. To support this work, traffic management will be in place in the Bilsdean area to enable them to move materials to and from site. Tuesday 20th – Thursday 22ndJanuary: Traffic lights at the narrow road sections on…

SSE has successfully secured a 20-year contract for 1.4GW of low carbon offshore wind power from Phase B of its Berwick Bank Wind Farm project in the UK’s seventh Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round, announced today. 

Onshore Planning Application – 275kV Cable Works Berwick Bank Wind Farm is an offshore wind project located in the Firth of Forth with a grid connection at Branxton, near Innerwick in East Lothian. As part of our proposals to develop and construct Berwick Bank Wind Farm, we are required to install different elements of onshore…

One of our four community ambitions is that a public or community transport service should be re-introduced to link the villages with Cockburnspath and Dunbar. We are holding a workshop on this theme on the evening of Thursday 22nd January in Stenton Village Hall, 6-9pm, to explore options together. Community Transport Association and East Lothian…

Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm is now fully operational, and its owners, EDF power solutions UK and ESB, have committed to providing community benefit funding of £270,000 per annum, rising with inflation, for the expected 25 year lifespan of the wind farm. This funding will be administered by Foundation Scotland. In recognition of the particular…

Belltown Power have let us know that their application for 15 wind turbines and a battery storage facility is now proceeding to Public Local Inquiry (“PLI”) after East Lothian Council raised an objection to the Proposed Development in September 2024. As per the PLI process, the project has recently moved from the Energy Consents Unit…

Following on from the Energy Efficiency workshop in October, alongside Sustaining Dunbar and Insulate Innerwick’s work, you now have the opportunity over the coming weeks to have your home surveyed with a thermal imaging camera for free by a trained member of Sustaining Dunbar’s Community Heat Team. East Lammermuir’s ambition is for “all properties within…