A Saudi court sentenced five people to death for the murder of government critic Jamal Khashoggi but ruled that last year’s assassination wasn’t premeditated and said it didn’t have enough evidence to incriminate two top officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
By Tim Mills, investment director, the Angel CoFund
The opportunities and challenges of green energy investment have been gently simmering under the surface for decades. However, the past year has seen the temperature rise on environmental issues, which may have brought both the challenges and opportunities to a boiling point.
Two Aberdeen streets have been named among the most expensive in the country, while the Granite City has been recognised as the wealthiest region in the UK.
A £1 billion undersea energy cable to transmit renewable energy from the north of Scotland to the rest of the country has been hailed as a “critical” part of the country’s fight on climate change.
A consultant has quit an influential chemical engineering committee after just four months due to a disagreement about messaging around the climate emergency.
Households could face an extra £4 charge on their energy bills after a series of supplier failures in the sector left customers and rivals to fill a black hole.
Energy firms are sometimes keeping customers on hold for more than half an hour before they can get through - and around a fifth typically take over 10 minutes to pick up, according to Which?
Energy bills look set to fall next year after Ofgem slashed the revenues that network companies are allowed to collect by nearly £1 billion as the cost of borrowing fell.
Energy giant Npower has announced plans to restructure its UK business, leading to the loss of up to 4,500 jobs and the closure of a number of call centres.