Earlier this month saw the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) daily carbon price hit €40. The EU ETS has been in place since 2005 and covers power and heat generation; energy-intensive industry sectors (including oil refineries, steel works and production of iron, cement, etc); and commercial aviation. For many years the carbon price traded below €10 but since 2018 the price had increased more than three-fold.
In years to come, when we reflect on 2020, it is evident that COVID-19 will be the topic that immediately leaps to mind in what was a challenging year for us all.
John Swinney has been accused of “dithering” over a coronavirus quarantine exemption for oil and gas staff amid growing anger over a lack of clear answers for workers and their families.
Intrepid podsters one-and-all waded into the thick of the Covid-19 quarantine debate this week – should Scottish oil workers have to do time in hotels on return from overseas jobs? Or should they just hop on a train from London and hope for the best?
Subsea technology firm OceanTools, of Aberdeen, has shipped a first batch of equipment it says could help save thousands of people if another tsunami struck south-east Asia.
It’s a familiar Hollywood plotline; the single-minded person who confronts obstacles, struggles with strangers and ends up being tossed on the scrap heap, but keeps fighting to bring their dream to fruition.
Nicola Sturgeon said today that the Scottish Government would “consider” excusing Scots from having to quarantine in hotels on their return from overseas oil jobs.
Carbon Neutral Energy (CNE) has brought in a marine and shipping sector veteran with a bulging contacts book to help speed up the fledgling green battery firm’s growth.
By Paul Steen, UK Head of District Energy, Ramboll
With the net zero transition looming ever closer and the eyes of the world turning to the UK ahead of COP 26, the time is now to put in place an integrated, detailed energy strategy. The long-awaited Energy White Paper published by the Government late last year gave impetus to many priority actions, but momentum has to continue to build to answer the urgent questions and detailed aspects to delivering these bold visions in the run-up to the COP.