COMHAIRLE nan Eilean Siar has warned that a delay in progress of wind technology for remote islands is putting ‘the future of a new islands industry at huge and unacceptable risk’.
The council has said that the Western Isles stands to ‘lose out on the huge opportunities of the renewables industry’ if a lack of assistance from the UK government continues.
Western Isles Council, which has worked closely with both UK and Scottish governments to prove the case for island wind, says it will generate electricity at a ‘significantly lower cost’ than nuclear and offshore wind.