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Kirsteen Paterson
Trade bodies slam Westminster for ‘inaction’ in saving Scottish renewables firm
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Kirsteen Paterson
14th March 2018 -- Yesterday trade organisation RenewableUK added its voice, calling government decision-making a “key factor” in the fall of one of the sector’s “best-known and most iconic companies”. The Feed-In Tariff – designed to encourage renewable power by rewarding the generation and export of power from green devices – is due to close to new applicants next March and RenewableUK says the failure to set out future policy is “having a serious impact”.
Gaia Wind: Scottish wind-turbine maker collapses amid ‘Westminster cuts’ to renewables
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Kirsteen Paterson
Gaia-Wind, which celebrated the roll-out of its 1000th device from Glasgow last April, has appointed a provisional liquidator. The company moved its operations to Scotland from Denmark seven years ago and had clients in countries including Tonga, Australia and Italy.