Top Dogger! SSE and Equinor top out £9 billion moolah mountain of world’s No1...

‘Topping out’ is a term from building, celebrating the installation of a new structure’s highest, final element.  Porting the phrase this morning into wind...

Begorrah and be-Bezos! Amazon to off-take Ørsted’s wind power from Ulster turbines

A yet-to-be-built 16 MW wind farm at Ballykeel, Northern Ireland saw its business case gold-plated today, as developer Ørsted pledged to sell the planned...

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...

Speedster SSE accelerates Net Zero programme, commits £ 12.5 billion by 2026

Generator-retailer SSE pressed its pedal heavily to the environmental metal today, committing £12.5 billion from identified resources by 2026, on the way to attaining...

Holyrood consults on green H2, as bank warns world “50% short of electrolyser capacity...

The world will fall short by as much as half in the electrolyser capacity it needs to meet by 2030 the planet's green hydrogen...

World’s most powerful turbines could power Vattenfall’s 3.6GW farms in North Sea

With rotors a massive 236 metres in diameter, the world’s biggest wind turbines could be generating power off Norfolk from 2024, if Vattenfall gets...

World’s biggest floating wind farm boosts Scotland’s grid, as RWE pledges £ 15 Bn

Six turbines floating up to 80 metres above the North Sea bed have started spinning current into Britain’s grid, developers Grupo Cobra have confirmed. Hailed...

SSE pledges £153 million to enter offshore wind in Japan

SSE Renewables has allied with one of Japan's biggest wind power developers, to pursue offshore projects around the nation’s islands. The Perth-based generator-developer today said...