Anyone in Scotland looking at Norway’s achievements in the energy technology sector couldn’t help but wonder how another small country of around 5.5 million people has managed to create so many high value, high skill companies.
On the face of it, there is a paradox. Rachel Reeves has inherited a massive black hole in public spending. Large scale infrastructure projects are being cut, left, right and centre.
Great British Energy will be a publicly-owned energy company, designed to drive clean energy deployment, boost energy independence, create jobs and ensure UK taxpayers, billpayers and communities reap the benefits of clean, secure, home-grown energy.
TMO4+ queue reform will revolutionise outdated grid connection process and clear the way for renewable energy.
Labour’s manifesto called for Britain to become a "clean energy superpower" and they have wasted no time in reaffirming their policies and priorities.
In the same week as the Paris Olympics will officially start, the UK Government launched GB Energy, the public energy company focused on advancing and delivering the UK’s clean energy ambitions.
We analyse which hotly anticipated locations in Scotland now most likely be chosen for the headquarters of GB Energy
As a CEO in the offshore wind industry, I’ve welcomed the ambition from our new Labour government on green energy.
RSK renewables director Kit Hawkins outlines how the incoming Labour government can accelerate the UK renewables rollout.
Keir Starmer must now pay attention to the energy sector or risk the UK becoming a renewables backwater, writes Nick Dalgarno, Eastern Hemisphere managing director, energy & power, Piper Sandler.
Policymakers must recognise the critical role of sustained oil and gas investments in Scotland's energy transition, writes Dr Yakubu Abdul-Salam.
In May, Energy Voice carried a story about deteriorating safety in the offshore wind industry, citing among other sources, the safety organisation G+ that had just released the data-set for 2023.
I’m rapidly becoming immune to the disappointment I feel on an almost daily basis by the news on renewables technology development and manufacturing coming out of Europe, North America, the Far East and Australia and New Zealand, but not Scotland.
By this weekend, only one poll will have mattered. The implications for the energy sector will be massive; for relative degrees of good or ill.
Tailored and flexible ways of achieving safety training standards are required for the modern energy workforce to thrive and adapt to the future of energy production, says Ewen Hay, director of products & services at OPITO, the global safety and skills organisation for the energy industry.
The energy sector is rarely free from the spotlight, but with a potential change of political leadership on the horizon next month, there has been even more talk about the future of the North Sea in the battle to win votes.
The energy industry and the North Sea has loomed ever-larger on the political radar. As parties vie for votes ahead of the UK General election on 4 July, leading industry lawyer Graeme Clubley offers his analysis on the impact on the sector of each group's manifesto policies.
Today is International Women in Engineering Day, which celebrates the amazing work of female engineers around the world.
The 60 biggest players in global banking have stoked the oil and gas industry to the tune of almost $7 trillion since the Paris Agreement signed in December 2015 at COP21.
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called on Wednesday for a “windfall” tax on the profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming, calling them the “godfathers of climate chaos”.
You have to go back half a century since energy featured as a major General Election issue.
About ten years ago the writer and New Yorker magazine cartoonist Tom Toro published his now famous cartoon showing three children and an adult around a campfire in the middle of a desert with the caption “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
In April 2022, the United Nations’ Climate Report declared it was ‘Now or Never’ to limit global warming to 1.5C.
The UK government has instituted nearly a 50% increase in the minimum salary threshold for those arriving into the country under the Skilled Worker visa route.
The UK can unlock significant future growth opportunities in offshore wind – but only if industry and government work collaboratively to support a positive investment climate.