Scotland's marine energy industry was today the focus of the Government's Energy and Climate Change Select Committee (ECCC) investigation into wave and tidal renewables, as it visited the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney.
Five areas of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) have been nominated by oil and gas operators as potentially suitable sites for carbon dioxide storage, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said today.
ENERGY companies will write "urgently" to more than 200,000 customers in the north and north-east to tell them how to save money on their utility bills before winter arrives.
WORK to remove redundant electricity pylons from the Cairngorms National Park started yesterday.
EIGHT wind turbines could soon be towering more than 150ft above the Mearns.
ABERDEEN'S oil industry chaplain is leaving his post after less than a year.
DEESIDE residents will be able to find out more about renewable energy during a free event in Banchory next week.
THE petroleum explorers of the future will be given a helping hand to search out the Earth's remaining oil and gas reservoirs, thanks to a new partnership between the industry and Aberdeen University.
THE final designs for a nine-turbine windfarm on Donside will go on show to the public next month.
FOUR brave employees of a global oil services firm will jump out of a plane at the weekend - from 10,000ft.
An Irish company is to take over a Scottish wind turbine manufacturer which crashed into receivership just days after it admitted a defect with one of its generators.
The Met Office has launched a weather forecasting tool aimed at the wind energy sector.
Plans by a marine energy device producer and RWE npower renewables to install and operate Wales's first tidal energy farm have moved a step closer.
A group of business leaders from the growing offshore wind industry have been named as heading up a task force to reduce costs in the sector.
SCOTLAND'S first commercial wavefarm could be built off the Western Isles within four years.
A SMALL Strathspey community company is planning a three-turbine windfarm which could eventually fund a range of activities in the village.
Tata Steel said today it is to invest £2million in its Hartlepool tube works and has forged a supply deal with a German manufacturer in a bid to meet demand in the offshore wind turbine jacket market.
An Orkney-based environmental consultant is hoping to expand its overseas work on the back of Scotland's lead in marine renewables.
HUNTLY residents will have the chance to view plans this month for a windfarm they would partly own.
Business leaders from across the north-east will be gathering on Monday for Robert Gordon University's 2011 entrepreneurship dinner.
A £1.2million training initiative has been set up to tackle skills shortages in the renewables industry.
A CONTROVERSIAL bid to build a windfarm in rural Aberdeenshire has been backed by councillors.
A PUBLIC protest against high road fuel prices in the Western Isles is being staged tomorrow.
ARGENT Energy Group, a waste-to-energy biodiesel producer, has secured a £4million funding package from the Royal Bank of Scotland and a further £2.95million from the bank's asset-financing division, Lombard, to help with its development.
SCHEMES to develop locally-owned community renewable energy projects in the north and north-east have been awarded nearly £2million in loans.