Plans for a windfarm in the Fens were unanimously rejected by West Norfolk Council. More than 100 villagers from Marshland St James and the surrounding villages filled King's Lynn town hall earlier this week and cheered as each member of the committee recorded their opposition to plans to build a 19- turbine windfarm.

A spokesperson from npower renewables explained the the turbines, at The Hollies farm in Croft, are not working yet despite the building work being finished last year. Any movement has been the result of tests.

A campaign to stop a wind farm planning application from being approved in Daventry has been reignited following a further application. ...property development company, Bolsterstone Innovative Energy, has now applied to put up six wind turbines between Brixworth and Hanging Houghton, on the western side of the A508. A group who lobbied to stop the first proposal, called Stop The Brixworth Wind Farm!, is now gearing up for another fight.

A Council battle to pull the plug on a power company's plans to build a £3million wind farm near Kingsbridge is likely to land taxpayers with a £70,000 bill. And there could be more similar bills to come, one worried district councillor warns.

Home wind turbines are generating a fraction of the energy promised by manufacturers, and in some cases use more electricity than they make, a report warns today. The results of what is thought to be the most comprehensive study undertaken of the industry show the worst performers provided just 41 watt-hours a day - less than the energy needed for a conventional lightbulb for an hour, or even to power the turbine's own electronics.

Established by Aberdeenshire farmer Maitland Mackie, the Wingen scheme intended to raise £10 million from donors in the rural sector to start Europe's largest energy company, with the profits channelled back into the rural economy. But following a review last week, Mr Mackie has closed the scheme as potential investors found their savings hit by the economic downturn, while the group's advisors doubted it would be able to raise enough money from banks to build enough turbines.

The application for what could be one of the biggest windfarm developments in the UK has been submitted to the Government. npower Renewables has submitted their plans for the proposed windfarm on land near to Llanbrynmair. The Carnedd Wen application would see the creation of a windfarm containing 65 turbines, each standing around 137 metres tall, with a generating capacity of between 130 and 195 MW.

Since the Christmas much of the U.K. has experienced sub-zero conditions. John Constable, research director at the Renewable Energy Foundation, said wind has been generating at a sixth of total capacity for much of the last couple of weeks, dropping to almost zero at times. Power generator E.On said wind energy supplies have dipped 60 per cent in the last couple of weeks, when compared to the previous two weeks in December. The absence of wind has caused the country's wind farms to grind to a halt ...

Whatever it was happened at the weekend left the turbine without one of its 20m blades and another bent and gnarled. Ecotricity, the turbine's owners, cannot yet explain what happened. Dale Vince, founder of the renewable energy company, said on the BBC's Today programme that, whatever hit the blades it was "probably the size and weight of a cow".

Campaigners fighting plans to build a wind farm near Bottesford were shown overwhelming support at an action meeting held in the village on Wednesday. BLOT - Belvoir Locals Oppose Turbines - organised the meeting to inform villagers about Ridgewind's plans to build eight 310ft turbines between Bottesford and Normanton.

A local council has refused a request to postpone a meeting to debate a controversial application for 19 wind turbines in Fenland but their decision will not be binding. ...Anti wind turbine group FLAT today urged opponents of the scheme to step up their opposition and hope that as many as possible will attend the meeting "to show their opposition to the scheme."

A report written by the council's principal planning officer detailed eight reasons for refusing planning permission for four 328ft high turbines on a four hectare site on Mynydd James mountain between Cwmtillery and Blaina. ...These included worries over the stability of the ground on which the turbines would be built, the visual impact on the area and the negative effect on tourism.

The British wind industry has been told to use lower figures for the amount of carbon emissions being saved by wind turbines. A long-running dispute between wind developers and the anti-wind lobby has culminated in the British Wind Energy Association being asked to use a figure half that being claimed. ...The importance of the carbon savings figure comes as wind developers are seeking to persuade planners of the benefits of their projects, compared to the various negative impacts put forward by opponents.

The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has agreed to scale down its calculation for the amount of harmful carbon dioxide emission that can be eliminated by using wind turbines to generate electricity instead of burning fossil fuels such as coal or gas. The move is a serious setback for the advocates of wind power ...A wind farm industry source admitted: "It's not ideal for us. It's the result of pressure by the anti-wind farm lobby."

Plans to build the world's biggest offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary are under threat unless the Government boosts incentives for renewable energy investment, it is claimed. The London Array project is not the only one in jeopardy. Without an overhaul of the rewards system, the offshore installations vital to meeting ambitious EU environmental targets will simply not get built, energy suppliers are warning.

Appeals to the High Court - to reverse the decision by planning officials to refuse the application - have now been dropped by London-based firm Your Energy. The news has come as a huge relief to the action group, who have fought hard for the past five and a half years to stop the green energy development impacting on Scotton, Northorpe and Blyton.

The Welsh Assembly Government had called for a public inquiry into the Gwynt y Môr project but this was rejected by energy minister Ed Miliband at Westminster. Now Clwyd West Tory AM Darren Millar has written to Mr Morgan asking for the Assembly Government to seek legal advice over a possible judicial review of the decision.

The company behind plans to build a wind farm at Podington has challenged the result of a public consultation. Bedford Borough Council has just finished asking residents about the proposal at Airfield Farm, and received just 216 comments in support compared with 441 objecting. But energy firm Nuon Renewables has released a report of its own, claiming a majority of local residents - 66.5 per cent - support the bid to create a three-turbine wind farm at Airfield Farm.

First it was a lorry park for 3,000 trucks. Then there was the small issue of a sludge recycling centre. Now locals have been left stunned by plans for a wind farm too. It never rains on a site between Aldington and Sellindge, it seems, but it pours. However, the latest plans for a wind farm have been mocked...because, say residents, there is not enough wind to power them.

The West of Duddon offshore wind farm will provide 500MW of electricity, enough to nearly double Britain's existing offshore electricity-generating capability. Around 370,000 homes will be powered by the wind farm. Edmund Brooks, the Chamber of Shipping's deputy director general, told politics.co.uk the government's approval for offshore wind projects was problematic for shipping firms. "To use the famous analogy, you wouldn't put a wind farm in the middle of the M1, would you?" he said.