How we're going to keep our transport going and keep ourselves warm in the future is a topic for discussion that can so easily become overheated - no pun intended - because of the range of sometimes diametrically opposing views on issues including good old climate change, peak oil, shale gas, impact on food supplies and so on and so forth.
American company Sapphire Energy, a world leader in algae-based green oil production, working with the Linde Group, are to commercialise a new industrial-scale conversion technology needed to upgrade algae biomass into oil.
An ageing field in the Middle East is getting a production leg-up through the use of solar panels developed by an American company to help extend oil recovery.
University of Adelaide researchers have developed a new nanomaterial that could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations by behaving like a sponge, it is said.
NEL has invested £250,000 in a new erosive flow centre at its Glasgow base. The facility is the first in the UK to offer the complete range of erosive flow services, including flow testing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), operation and performance assessment.
A city's suburbs could hold the solution to dwindling fuel supplies by producing enough energy to power residents' cars and even top up power resources, pioneering new research has found.
The operators of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant may dump radioactive water into the ocean once its toxicity is brought within legal limits, it has emerged.
US company Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) says its PowerBouy technology has the potential to redefine power platforms in the offshore oil and gas sector.
GA Drilling, an SME located in Bratislava, Slovakia and London, has recently completed a three-month feasibility project to investigate the potential of a continuous casing while drilling technology called ContiCase.
Scotland’s struggling fishing fleet could be given a new lease of life servicing offshore wind turbines around the country.
Vestas Wind Systems, the Danish turbine maker that’s been unprofitable for two years, will focus on completing a restructuring program to restore earnings, incoming chief executive officer Anders Runevad said.
An Argyll grandmother who went to the United Nations to challenge the UK government’s windfarm policy has claimed a notable victory.
Anti-windfarm campaigners have accused an energy giant of trying to manipulate the planning process to build more turbines in the Highlands.
Power generation group APR Energy says it won a 72 percent increase in new contracts in the first half of the year, easing the pain of lower revenue and profit.
The site of a planned substation for the European offshore Wind Deployment Centre in Aberdeenshire contains traces of asbestos, it has emerged.
Russia has repeated an offer to help Japan clean up its Fukushima nuclear station after the operator of the diaster-stricken facility decided to seek outside help.
The UK Government has backed new technology that stops windfarms interfering with crucial radar systems – a development is being hailed as a “huge step” for renewable energy.
A Moray shipbuilding business which had moved into the renewable energy market has gone into administration, with the loss of almost 70 jobs.
Aberdeen wireline and well-intervention technology specialist Wireline Engineering said yesterday it had secured work worth more than £700,000 in Asia after investing in an office and supply base in Malaysia.
Solar equipment firm Renewable Energy Corporation is to improve its bond repurchase offer as it looks to get the go-ahead for a planned restructure.
An internal Government review into the impact of renewable energy generation is examining whether wind farms hit rural house prices.
Renewable energy providers have been warned they must show their fuel is from sustainable sources or face losing government support.
Finance Secretary John Swinney has claimed that a public perception that all windfarm applications are approved is a “myth”.
Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems is to replace its CEO after posting a worse-than-expected loss.
Money poured into wind power will one day be almost the same as the banking crisis, a Scottish MEP claimed last night.