“With the numbers being mooted by National Grid, we do not think we’d be able to get the project away,” Viking Energy chairman Alan Bryce tells the BBC.

“We have a big advantage in Shetland with regards to the level of output,” Bryce says. “But that’s not enough in itself to overcome the charges that we would be facing if they were as high as they are mooted, and if the level of revenue support was no higher than what you would get for a mainland wind farm.”

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