Offshore energy leader attacks payouts
Highland Council's new policy for offshore energy developments has come under fire from an industry leader.
Highland Council's new policy for offshore energy developments has come under fire from an industry leader.
Directors at north-east firm SeaEnergy contemplated winding the company up as part of a review of the business, its new chief executive said yesterday.
One of the world's leading oil and gas logistics companies is giving a helping hand to the campaign to bring a Maggie's cancer centre to the north-east.
Work has started on a £6million bioenergy plant at a Moray distillery.
One of Scotland's biggest energy companies has said that holding off the independence referendum until late 2014 is creating increased investment risks.
Highland Council has agreed to retrospectively carry out risk assessments on wind turbines erected in school playgrounds after child safety concerns were raised this week.
A war of words has broken out over plans to build a major windfarm at a famous Buchan landmark.
Aberdeen City and Shire will underline its commitment to the industry later this year with its largest showcase of renewable-energy businesses at the All-Energy show.
Farmers in the Highlands have won funding from Europe's Leader initiative to help them develop wind energy schemes.
A Scottish renewable energy trade group has warned Highland Council it risks losing valuable community benefits due to its new windfarm policy.
Aberdeenshire councillors will be asked to approve a plan to build two wind turbines at East Leylodge Farm, near Kintore, despite more than 40 objections.
A Moray chartered-vessel company said yesterday the rise of Scotland's renewable-energy industry had trebled its turnover in three years.
More than 200 people have signed a petition against a windfarm south of Inverness.
Councillors are to make a decision on plans for a 13-turbine windfarm in Moray by the end of the year.
Windfarm campaigners have condemned councillors for backing a series of rural Buchan turbine projects despite warnings they may affect RAF radar equipment.
Power company SSE has applied to build Scotland's largest hydro electric scheme - including the country's largest dam - in the Great Glen.
Campaigners against proposals for a windfarm on a Moray moor held a protest outside a consultation meeting yesterday.
The first subsea electricity cable between Scotland and England could be operational by 2016 after the organisations behind the project agreed a £1billion contract.
One of Scotland's leading conservation charities has lodged an objection to a 22-turbine wind development in Sutherland.
An independent Scotland could build up a £30billion investment fund on the back of renewable energy, Alex Salmond claimed last night.
THE Ministry of Defence is waging war against green-energy schemes in rural Buchan.
Scotland's first near-shore commercial marine power development off the coast of Orkney has been approved.
The leader of Highland Council has rejected claims the local authority takes a chunk of community benefit from windfarm development.
Aberdeen-based technology firm Gas2 said yesterday it had received £5.5million of funding to develop a system which could open up remote gas reserves.
Renewable-energy firms developing marine and tidal projects in Scotland have been urged to apply for government funding.