‘We want to hear a Scottish voice’ on every overseas renewables project, trade body chief says
A future vision for exporting energy sector talent would “hear a Scottish voice” on every overseas renewables project, according to a trade body boss.
A future vision for exporting energy sector talent would “hear a Scottish voice” on every overseas renewables project, according to a trade body boss.
Renewables generated more than 40% of Britain's power in the first three months of the year - overtaking fossil fuels for the first time, analysis shows.
A £2 billion Scottish wind farm development is to resume construction after the project was halted following the coronavirus pandemic.
Renewables could be a “safer-haven for long-term investment” if the UK continues to shoot up the global clean energy attractiveness index, a new EY report has claimed.
Over the past five years, the Asia Pacific region made up over three-quarters of global power demand growth, and led the world in wind and solar capacity installations.
Ensuring measures to boost economies after the pandemic are "green" will create more jobs and better financial returns, as well as tackle climate change, experts have said.
After this crisis, there will be an opportunity to have an honest conversation about the future. The truth is that, despite the fact that there is almost universal acceptance of the need to move to a completely renewables-based electricity supply, it has been becoming increasingly difficult to invest in Scotland’s most successful renewable technology: onshore wind.
Swedish renewable energy firm Vattenfall is set to build its largest UK onshore wind farm in Scotland.
A giant Shetland wind farm project has received a significant shot in the arm after an energy regulator said it is ready to rubber stamp proposals for an energy link with mainland Scotland.
French oil and gas giant Total has scooped 20% of solar power awards during the most recent tender process.
A "large majority" of future renewable energy projects could be based in Scotland, according to analysts for a energy research firm.
Renewable energy accounted for the lion's share of global power expansion last year, outstripping oil and gas growth by more more than double.
North Sea oil and gas “must be part of the response” to Scotland’s economic woes once a solution to the coronavirus outbreak has been found, a trade union has said.
Scottish marine energy firm Simec Atlantis Energy has scooped a £1.5 million grant from the Scottish Government to develop its Meygen tidal turbine project.
A community-owned wind farm charity has announced it will use all its free cash for this year to set up a pandemic support fund for the local community.
French oil and gas giant Total is to build a £13 million battery-based storage project for the development of renewable energy in France.
Coal power developers risk wasting hundreds of billions of pounds as new renewables are now cheaper than new coal plants around the world, a report warns.
This is a Budget like no other in recent times. Delayed due to a surprise general election, the first under Prime Minister Johnson, being delivered by a Chancellor appointed less than a month ago, and happening within a challenging geopolitical and economic environment.
Scientists claim to have developed solar power technology that produces energy even when it is cloudy and wet.
The UK’s move towards renewable energy sources has helped drive a faster rate of decarbonisation in the past decade than anywhere else in the world, according to a new study.
Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) is "developing a detailed action plan" for North Sea emissions reduction, the representative body's top boss has revealed.
Australia is set to add a record amount of renewable power in 2020, driven by growing corporate demand for clean electricity and to fill generation gaps created by the retirement of aging coal-fired plants.
UK energy giant SSE has confirmed it will complete the £500 million sale of its energy services arm to Ovo Energy today, clearing the way for the firm to focus on its renewable energy portfolio.
Jim Smith, Managing Director of SSE Renewables, calls on the UK Government to recognise the unique opportunity of COP26 and help shape the climate change fight.