Two projects in the North of England aimed at sequestering carbon and producing hydrogen have won the full-throated support of the UK government and a pledge for nearly £22billion over the next 25 years.
Stephanie Broadley, Training and Competency Manager at Bilfinger Engineering and Maintenance UK and Chair of the ECITB Employer Network Steering Group (ENSG) for Connected Competence, discusses the importance of breaking down barriers to mobility within the energy industry by creating a safer and competent workforce.
Analyst Wood Mackenzie believes "where there’s a will, there’s a way" in achieving a consensus on an improved system of taxation despite differences of opinion between government, industry and North Sea investors.
Aberdeenshire’s Safelift Offshore is looking to open a new fabrication facility and create jobs through a £1million investment to mark its 30th anniversary.
The "independent" National Energy System Operator (NESO) starts its mission to deliver a "safe, secure and affordable energy system capable of supporting net-zero".
A mismatch between supply and infrastructure has led to severe delays — up to a decade in some cases —for renewable energy projects looking to connect to the UK’s energy grid which is struggling to keep pace with rapid growth.
Over 270 women and men came to the event in Aberdeen to celebrate the need for diversity, equity and inclusion in the energy transition and how we can get there.
By Mark Owen-Lloyd, director at Photovolt Development Partners
‘Clean energy is the biggest economic opportunity of our time’, Ed Miliband declared at this month’s Labour Party Conference. As a freshly minted government, the party has firmly nailed its colours to the energy mast and they are unapologetically green. Just a week prior, the Energy Secretary issued a rallying cry to take on ‘the blockers, the delayers, the obstructionists’.
By Catherine Leaf, Safetec waste management specialist
While it is far from being a nascent industry, offshore wind remains in its relative infancy compared to oil and gas (O&G), both in terms of development and decommissioning.
The UK has become the first G7 nation to completely phase out coal power, bringing to an end a 142-year era of burning the fossil fuel for electricity generation.
The developers of the major Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Norway have completed the CO2 receiving and storage facilities.
National Grid and SSEN Transmission have broken ground on the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) subsea transmission cable that will connect Peterhead in Scotland to Drax in England.
The UK named four companies, including a division of Rolls Royce Plc, to proceed to the next stage of a contest to build the country’s first small modular nuclear power plant, a potentially key technology for reaching net-zero emissions.