Floating turbines win big among ScotWind’s 24.8GW of awards
Scotland’s government is looking forward to pocketing bidding fees of around £680 million from ScotWind, the nation’s first round of offshore plot leasing for...
Four big battery plants to ease Scotland’s clean transmssion
Over 1GW of new power storage was announced this morning for Scotland's transmission grid.
Innovators Xenobe revealed plans for three amp hotels with a combined...
Celtic seas: Sturgeon opposes Cambo, as its minority owner Shell snaps up Irish floating...
After months of equivocation, Scotland’s First Minister this week confirmed her opposition to drilling the vast Cambo oil field, but stressed the final decision...
Cambo revived, as Ithaca Energy pays £ 1.5 billion for owners Siccar Point
The controversial Cambo oil and gas field 75 kilometres west of the Shetlands re-emerged as a probable extraction operation today, as Ithaca Energy bought...
“Set the controls for ten times more sun”: Holyrood MSPs take a shine to...
Lawmakers from five parties have pledged support for Scotland to reach between 4GW and 6GW of solar power-making capacity by 2030, up from 0.4...
Wholesome hydrogen hubs for Highlands hailed by h-enterprise starting with an “H”
A regional network covering almost a third of Scotland offering stations making and refuelling vehicles with green, electrolysed hydrogen, is on the cards, following...
Gas operating profits rise fourfold at SSE during six months to September
Operating profits from the gas and thermal energy division alone of vertically integrated generator-retailer SSE soared to £248million on an adjusted basis in the...
“Scots, Tera-watt hey!” Holyrood to plug in 20GW more green capacity by 2030, ponders how...
Scotland’s devolved government has unveiled plans to accelerate still further the heady growth already seen in the nation’s clean generation capacities.
The ruling SNP’s “Energy...
Insolation nation: Scots government opens up to the sun
Scotland’s devolved coalition government has pledged to harness more of the nation’s solar energy potential, promising to “co-design Holyrood’s draft solar vision” with installers...
Dry cells, in the wet: seaborne battery charges beneath Orkney’s waves
An ambitious collaborative project to power subsea equipment with wave power and subsea energy storage has taken to the seas off the north of...
Scots on top: renewable output up 55% in September quarter, capacity up 11% in...
Scotland’s output of renewable electricity rose 55.3% year on year for the three months to September 2022, on the back of an annual 11.4%...
BG braves dreich Scots skies, extends solar PV offering. Sassenach hames, and aw!
Fans of bonny Scotland’s often inclement weather observe that "today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky".
Under brighter conditions, in contrast, the nation’s mams & grans comment...
Whitehall’s £31.6 m floats turbines higher
Eleven offshore wind farms equipped with floating turbines are to benefit from grants totalling £31.6 million, the government announced today.
D-BEIS’s Floating Offshore Wind Demonstration...
ABB and Gravitricity mine potential of hoist-delivered batteries
Energy storage innovators Gravitricity have signed a development deal with global engineers ABB designed to advance both parties' hoists-as-batteries offer.
Re-opening old mine shafts across...