Scottish government gives £1.5million boost to offshore wind
Offshore wind businesses are to benefit from £1.5 million of Scottish Government funding aimed at boosting new technologies in the sector.
Offshore wind businesses are to benefit from £1.5 million of Scottish Government funding aimed at boosting new technologies in the sector.
Scotland has met its annual climate-change target for the first time, the latest greenhouse gas emission figures show.
Redundant North Sea workers who retrain as teachers will be guaranteed employment for four years under a Scottish Government scheme.
A visit by ministers to Aberdeen yesterday was welcomed as a “strong signal” that the Scottish Government was “open for listening” to the region’s oil and gas industry.
The North Sea oil industry has a long future with “good times ahead” if it can work past the current downturn, according to Holyrood Economy Secretary Keith Brown.
Scottish ministers will travel to Aberdeen tomorrow to meet with key oil and gas figures to hear how the industry is coping to the oil price crash.
Pressure is growing on the Scottish Government to explain their position on fracking after the controversial practice was approved south of the border.
Pressure is growing on the Scottish Government to explain their position on fracking after the controversial practice was approved south of the border.
News that the consortium of developers led by SSE have committed the final £2.6billion investment decision for the 588MW 84-turbine Beatrice offshore wind farm in Scotland has been welcomed by politicians.
Fracking opponents have welcomed Fergus Ewing’s removal from the Scotland Government’s energy brief and called on his successor Keith Brown to ban the divisive gas extraction technology.
Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled her new Cabinet in a reshuffle which has removed Fergus Ewing from his energy role.
The SNP’s flagship scheme to help redundant oil and gas workers retrain as teachers has been branded “little more than a publicity stunt” amid reports that jobseekers are being turned away.
Metals firm Liberty House has signed a deal to buy two mothballed Lanarkshire steel plants.
The effectiveness of strategically designated areas with incentives to attract certain types of businesses have fallen short of expectation, a new report has found.
OneSubsea said it plans to invest £1.8million in a new research and development project to help grow its global presence, creating five new jobs and safeguarding a further 35 positions.
The Scottish solar industry has called on Holyrood to pave the way for an energy transformation in Scotland with the power of the sun playing a key role.
Politicians have reacted to the Oil and Gas UK Activity Survey, published today.
The politician who led a committee looking at the oil and gas industry said there will be a “revival” in the North Sea. MSP Murdo Fraser spoke after the findings of a report by the Scottish Government’s economic committee were made public.
The Scottish Secretary has called for a “reboot” of the relationship between the UK and Scottish governments after May’s Holyrood elections.
Interest from a metals group in Tata Steel’s two mothballed Lanarkshire plants is a “positive step” for those aiming to keep them open, the business minister has said. Fergus Ewing insisted there was a “degree of optimism” after Liberty House emerged as a potential buyer for the Dalzell and Clydebridge works.
The Scottish Government has cut funding for fuel poverty by more than a 10th, according to Labour.
Hundreds of homes are to benefit from a new £10.6 million energy project aimed at cutting fuel poverty.
The Scottish Government said the renewables industry has helped to put £10million back into the Scottish community following a record year. Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said there were now more than 150 projects on the community renewables register with millions of pounds paid out to communities from renewables developments. Meanwhile a target for community or local ownership of renewables was met five years early, with 508MW of capacity now operational.
An Aberdeen technology firm has won a £1.2million Scottish Government grant to develop an innovative subsea power generation system. East Coast Oil and Gas Engineering (ECOG) has invested £3.9million in the autonomous electrical power technology which has been designed to reduce the cost of repairing or replacing umbilicals after all-too common power failures.
The Scottish Government has invited tenders for a research programme into the potential impacts of onshore unconventional oil and gas extraction.