£1bn Pembroke power plant: 'tough permit,' says agency

The Environment Agency has confirmed it has granted a permit for a gas-fuelled power station in Pembrokeshire but says it has imposed "tough standards".

Local incentives proposed for wind farms

Communities that approve new wind farms could get a financial reward from the government under a new scheme promised by Charles Hendry, energy minister.

Mr Hendry will say on Thursday afternoon that wind is part of the solution to “massive energy-security and low-carbon challenges” faced by the country but that he intends to give the policy greater “democratic legitimacy”. “At present too often a community can see what it will lose by having a wind farm in its midst but it cannot see what it gains,” he will tell an audience at Westminster Hall.