Orkney Islands Council is calling for urgent talks with ministers after news that a new grid connection to export green energy to the mainland is being postponed until 2018.
A cable running from the west coast of Orkney to Caithness had been expected in 2016. But power firm SSE says the cable linking wind, wave and tidal energy developments in Orkney to the mainland will not be completed until 2018 at the earliest.
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