Scotland’s solar power capacity went up by more than a quarter over the past year, new figures show. WWF Scotland and the Solar Trade Association, which jointly published the statistics, welcomed the expansion, and called for the Scottish Government to encourage even greater uptake of the technology.
The company responsible for decommissioning the former nuclear plant at Dounreay has confirmed it has shipped 11 tonnes of radioactive material to Cumbria in its most recent financial year.
Aberdeen based engineering firm Plexus created a stir in the wellhead industry this year with the launch of its mould-breaking Python technology, but it was always 2016 that the company anticipated it deploying in earnest.
Dounreay Site Restoration (DSRL) confirmed it has sent 11 tonnes of “breeder” material - consisting of radioactive uranium - to Sellafield’s Magnox reprocessing facility last year, representing about a quarter of the material stored on site.
Communities across Scotland received a record sum of more than £10million from green energy projects in 2015, the country’s energy minister said yesterday. Fergus Ewing said it had been a “bumper year” for community energy, but anti-wind farm campaigners said the sum was unimpressive when stacked up against the profits raked in by multi-national energy firms. Green energy production is growing north of the border. According to new figures, Scotland reached its target for community or local ownership projects five years early.
The Scottish Government said the renewables industry has helped to put £10million back into the Scottish community following a record year. Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said there were now more than 150 projects on the community renewables register with millions of pounds paid out to communities from renewables developments. Meanwhile a target for community or local ownership of renewables was met five years early, with 508MW of capacity now operational.
Data from sports tracking app Strava have revealed cyclists and runners are using Scottish renewable energy tracks to rack up the miles.
Scotland’s alternative-energy industry has warned of continuing political headwinds despite new figures revealing that renewables were the single-biggest source of electricity last year.
Ocean Installer has netted an offshore wind contract with Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke offshore Germany in the southern sector of the North Sea.
Oil spill responders have a new weapon in the fight to clean up hydrocarbon spills - graphene.
SSE and the Scottish Government have both revealed they plan to appeal against a legal ruling on a planned 67-turbine windfarm. The move comes after a judge said the government’s decision to approve Stronelairg windfarm was “defective”. A review had originally been sought by the John Muir Trust.
The developer behind the proposed wind farm off the coast of the Trump International golf resort has raised £237million in the sale of another offshore energy project.
Miners at the UK’s last remaining deep-coal pit sang as they travelled underground for their final shift this morning.
Drastic cuts to solar subsidies are damaging investor confidence, MPs have warned in a letter to the Government.
The role technology can play in helping oil and gas firms to cut costs will be a key element of the SPE Intelligent Energy (IE) expo taking place in Aberdeen next year.
Vattenfall is in the midst of a restructuring after being hit by massive write-downs in the value of its traditional generation business as well as a fall in energy prices. The utility, which is wholly owned by the Swedish state, was affected by £3billion write-downs on its coal and gas-fired assets in Europe in 2013.
The Orkney firm behind plans for the world’s biggest tidal turbine said yesterday it had secured a further £5.7million for the project. Kirkwall-based Scotrenewables Tidal Power (STP) said the massive two megawatt floating device, which is about 250ft long, was nearing completion at Harland and Wolff (H&W) shipyard in Belfast. It is due to be launched early next year before being towed to the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney for the start of grid-connected testing.
The Government has been accused of “huge, misguided cuts” to clean energy after it announced reductions of almost two-thirds to subsidies for solar panels on homes.
The European Commission has approved state aid compensation for energy intensive industry which is estimated to be worth £300 million a year, including £45 million to steel companies.
The Government has been accused of “huge, misguided cuts” to clean energy after it announced reductions of almost two-thirds to subsidies for solar panels on homes. The move, which ministers say is necessary to curb rising costs of green energy on consumer bills, comes just days after the UK backed the world’s first universal agreement to avoid dangerous climate change by bringing down greenhouse gas emissions. Reductions in payments under the “feed-in tariff” scheme for energy generated by new small-scale renewables are not as severe as originally proposed in the summer, when ministers floated an 87% cut for domestic solar electricity compared with current levels.
Subsidies for small scale solar panels on homes are to be cut by 64%, the Government has announced. Reductions in payments under the “feed in tariff” scheme for energy generated by new small scale renewables are not as severe as originally proposed in the summer, when ministers floated an 87% cut for domestic solar electricity.
Atlantis Resources has struck a deal to acquire two projects from Scottish Power Renewables UK for its tidal development company. The deal for Tidal Power Scotland (TPSL) is estimated to be around £6.6million, or 3,859,703 shares, which equates to around 6% of the issued share capital. Atlantis said as part of the transaction, TPSL will acquire Scottish Power Renewables entire tidal portfolio, comprising the 10MW Sound of Islay site and the 100MW Ness of Dunscaby site.
Cuts to renewable energy subsidies would be a betrayal of the UK’s commitment to the Paris climate deal and a “slap in the face” for successful community schemes, Labour said.
The search is on for proposals that can make a big impact in cutting costs and increasing efficiency in the oil and gas sector.
Alex Salmond has stepped up his war of words with Donald Trump, describing the US billionaire as a “three-time loser” after his latest court case was thrown out.