Wind farm
December 9, 2007
The Ben Aketil Wind farm appears to be up and running. When we drive towards Portree, just before passing through Edinbane, you get a good look at the whole setup. I personally think the windmills don’t look bad in the landscape. They have an air of elegance over them, especially when they’re working.
It also appears that the community offering for buying shares in the farm is a success, although I also read in this weeks issue a letter to the editor of the West Highland Free Press, in which the setup of the farm was considered as not going far enough. The writer of the letter stipulated that this wind farm should have been owned by the Skye community and that its proceedings should have benefited the Skye community primarily, e.g. buy the produced energy directly from the farm at a discount. In the current setup, the energy produced by the farm is sold to the National Grid and the wind farm is just an “investment opportunity”. I thought the letter had some strong points.
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