‘Clean energy is the biggest economic opportunity of our time’, Ed Miliband declared at this month’s Labour Party Conference. As a freshly minted government, the party has firmly nailed its colours to the energy mast and they are unapologetically green. Just a week prior, the Energy Secretary issued a rallying cry to take on ‘the blockers, the delayers, the obstructionists’.
The West of Orkney wind farm has brought in a new PhD student to help improve access to the project site with better weather forecasts.
While it is far from being a nascent industry, offshore wind remains in its relative infancy compared to oil and gas (O&G), both in terms of development and decommissioning.
The UK has become the first G7 nation to completely phase out coal power, bringing to an end a 142-year era of burning the fossil fuel for electricity generation.
The developers of the major Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Norway have completed the CO2 receiving and storage facilities.
National Grid and SSEN Transmission have broken ground on the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) subsea transmission cable that will connect Peterhead in Scotland to Drax in England.
The offshore wind sector is critical to achieving net zero goals and ensuring energy security.
Octopus Energy has said it aims to invest £2 billion in UK clean energy projects between now and 2030.
Scotland’s renewable energy generation in the first half of 2024 reached a record high of 18,084 GWh, the latest statistics show.
The UK named four companies, including a division of Rolls Royce Plc, to proceed to the next stage of a contest to build the country’s first small modular nuclear power plant, a potentially key technology for reaching net-zero emissions.
RWE has confirmed Lamprell as the supplier of 184 transition pieces for its UK Norfolk Vanguard West and Vanguard East offshore wind farms.
The wait for pumped storage hydro cap and floor clarity continues as government says industry will learn more ‘in due course’.
Green hydrogen has become a “premium clean fuel” due to the high cost of production, with the nascent fuel “energy intensive but expensive” and increasingly valuable as an energy store, according to UK National Infrastructure Commission commissioner Nick Winser.
US energy giant GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) has completed an expansion of its grid solutions business in Stafford, England to meet growing demand for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable in the offshore wind sector in the UK as well as Europe, Asia and North America.
A group of leading climate scientists have called on the UK government to pause its £1 billion investment plans for carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) over concerns that the technology is unproven.
Aberdeen's Peterson Energy Logistics grew its footprint in the renewable energy and nuclear sector which powered growth in turnover and profits last year.
The UK's major energy company isn’t the be all and end all as the Energy Profits Levy, combined with a potential removal of tax allowances, still hangs over the sector like the Grim Reaper stalking its next victim.
ScottishPower Renewables has confirmed Lowestoft as its long-term centre for UK offshore wind operations, purchasing a site located within an area planned for regeneration named PowerPark.
The UK energy sector has welcomed confirmation that GB Energy's headquarters will be based in Aberdeen, but called for more clarity over the government's energy policy.
The UK government has confirmed Aberdeen will host the headquarters of GB Energy, but questions over its exact role still remain.
CEO of ThinkPR and co-founder of Women in New Energy (W.I.N.E) reflects on the past 20 years of running her energy-focused marketing firm. Along with celebrating the company milestone this year, it also marks the second W.I.N.E conference on the 26th of September following the hugely successful inaugural event in 2023.
House prices along the Beauly-Denny transmission line have grown at similar rates to others in the region, suggesting the project’s pylons have had minimal negative effects on property values, new research has said.
Swedish firm Aira is investing heavily in the Scottish market as it aims to take a million British homes off gas.
Bridges and Bottlenecks is the latest podcast series by Energy Voice Out Loud in partnership with DNV. Each episode looks to address the hard-hitting issues within the energy transition. Technology exists that will be the bridge to take us there, but there are still a number of bottlenecks that stand in the way of progress.
John Swinney has said that Scotland has “big ambitions” on climate change after the country was chosen for the third time to help lead a global climate action network.