Reframing of energy debate urged at Offshore Europe preview event
“The debate shouldn’t be oil and gas versus renewables. It should be oil and gas plus renewables."
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Environmental tech firm Recycl8 bags Scottish Enterprise grant
Environmental services firm Recycl8 is launching a recruitment drive after it secured a six-figure sum from Scottish Enterprise.
Powering ahead towards offshore opportunities
In terms of the economic opportunity, many of our skills developed around oil and gas over decades can be applied to offshore wind in areas such as surveying, installation, operations and maintenance and health and safety.
Five key themes for Green Heat
Heat pumps won a seal of approval from the panel, but the verdict on hydrogen was more bleak for meeting domestic demand.
Turning up the dial on the energy transition
We are heading into another challenging 12 months for the energy sector. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic, shrinking economies, severe weather events and geopolitical shocks, namely Russian’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine, are being felt keenly.
Exclusive: three in four Scottish energy firms now involved in renewables, survey finds
An overwhelming majority of energy firms in Scotland are now involved in low carbon and renewables, according to a new survey.
Big hopes for Clearwell’s decommissioning technology
North-east energy services company Clearwell Technology is ramping up testing of a tool it says may halve oil and gas decommissioning emissions and costs.
Hydrogen opportunity could evaporate
During a recent visit to the USA the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon gave a speech at the Brooking Institute in which she expressed extensive support for the proposition that hydrogen will be an essential part of the move away from fossil fuels.
Simec secures £2.5m loan for MeyGen redeployment
Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) has secured a £2.5 million loan from Scottish Enterprise to support further tidal turbine redeployment at its flagship MeyGen project.
ScotWind: First mover advantage is pointless if you’re not actually first
I’m a little bemused. Inevitably the ScotWind lease awards were going to trigger all sorts of claims about how the Scottish offshore wind supply chain will gain from this huge project, but nobody seems prepared to explain exactly how this will happen given that we don’t actually have a supply chain of any note particularly when it comes to the high value hardware.
Hoping for winds of change
With the results of the first ScotWind offshore licensing round now imminent, it is perhaps worth having a wee cogitate about what the sustainable benefits or otherwise could accrue to Scotland.
Whisky galore! – Will Scotland benefit from the distillery decarbonisation drive?
The whisky industry has been quick to recognise the potential for green hydrogen to reduce its carbon footprint.
Scottish – German collaboration project to unlock £17bn green hydrogen market
It is hoped an ambitious international collaboration project could unlock access for Scottish firms to a multi-billion pound green hydrogen market.
Sentinel Subsea secures new investment from Alba Equity, Scottish Enterprise
Sentinel Subsea has secured a six-figure investment from Alba Equity and Scottish Enterprise as it continues to develop its technology for the monitoring of subsea wells.
Cromarty Firth simply ‘the best’ for offshore wind marshalling and assembly capacity
The Cromarty Firth has been named in a new study as the best location for a marshalling and assembly hub to support large-scale expansion of Scotland’s offshore wind industry.
Supply chain coming to terms with export finance support withdrawal
Pinpointing which stage of grief the UK oil and gas supply chain currently sits at it is complicated.
Oil and gas supply chain must not be sacrificed on COP26 altar
As Big Oil becomes increasingly regarded as a pariah, so attitudes are changing in a number of Western governments towards support for smaller nations looking to develop their fossil fuel resources.
Carbon capture keypart of our integrated energy
If you take all the different energy industries, solutions and technologies laid out like a jigsaw it would create a colourful picture of where Scotland is today, with each key element playing an important part in our net-zero future.
£500k grant to support 10 Scottish jobs at Norwegian software firm Aize
A £513,000 grant from Scottish Enterprise will help Norwegian industrial software company Aize create 10 new jobs in Scotland.
Ex-Scottish Enterprise energy chief returning to quango as chief executive
A former Scottish Enterprise (SE) head of energy has been appointed to lead the economic development quango as chief executive.
Exclusive: Energy Transition Zone proposed by Sir Ian Wood appoints CEO
A new company tasked with realising Sir Ian Wood’s vision of an Energy Transition Zone in the south of Aberdeen has found its CEO.
There’s more to electrolysis than electrolysers: Tulloch lifts lid on OGTC hydrogen intentions
The global hydrogen technology manufacturing pie is going to be huge, according to Martyn Tulloch, OGTC head of energy system integration.
£400m to build a greener recovery with fair salaries
Development agency Scottish Enterprise (SE) has announced it will spend £400 million in the next year safeguarding and creating employment.
OGTC and funding partners to invest £1m to scale up ‘game-changing’ hydrogen technologies
“Game-changing” technologies designed to accelerate the production, transportation, storage and utilisation of hydrogen could be in-line to receive significant funding.
A Just Transition looks unlikely
The decision by the French company EDF to award London-based InfraStrata a contract for eight of the 56 foundation jackets for the NnG offshore wind farm has got a lot of people extremely excited.