Trade bodies announce new partnership aimed at driving net-zero transition
A trio of trade bodies have announced a new partnership to help promote and drive the transition to a net zero economy.
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Committee on Climate Change to publish net-zero blueprint in December
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has announced plans to publish a blueprint before the end of the year laying out the path for the UK to achieve net-zero.
Green energy supplier aims to lead UK’s home power market
Octopus Energy Ltd., the clean energy provider, plans to add millions of new customers this decade on a pace that could soon make it the U.K.’s largest energy supplier.
Aberdeen dolphin watching boost for green energy system
Plans to power a new Aberdeen attraction with a bespoke energy system have moved forward.
New Petrofac and Storegga partnership goes ‘above and beyond’ collaboration on Acorn project
Energy services firm Petrofac has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Storegga Geotechnologies in an effort to drive new clean energy developments.
Let’s use oil rig museum as platform to re-invent Aberdeen
As someone who has previously run for parliament, allow me to attempt a typical politician’s response. Converting a redundant oil platform into a major Aberdeen tourist attraction is a great idea which I support. Or, then again, perhaps not. It’s definitely one of the two. There: that’s my bases covered.
UK Government launches Hydrogen Advisory Council
The UK Government has launched a new Hydrogen Advisory Council as part of efforts to cut emissions.
The Path for Green Hydrogen: Hope or Hype?
Across the energy landscape hydrogen is generating a buzz, with major players praising its decarbonisation potential.
Business and political leaders make air pollution pledge
Business and political leaders from across England will launch a joint declaration to clean up air pollution as a national priority in a bid to "stop people dying needlessly".
Tesla, Tiffany and a toymaker make the cut in clean energy ETF
What do a luxury jeweler, a tech behemoth and a toymaker have to do with renewable energy?
Clean energy vs cyber-crime: Why a holistic approach is essential
While many countries are already taking decisive steps to try and reduce their carbon footprint, the global cost of inaction on climate change is estimated to reach US $23 trillion a year by 2020. But what more can the energy industry be doing to help bring about change?
Italy’s clean energy town asks why populists are abandoning it
Italy’s Five Star Movement used to rave about towns like Montieri, a village in the verdant Tuscan foothills that burns little coal or natural gas. Instead, the local power plant harnesses steam rising naturally from hot springs deep underground to generate electricity.
Shell markets gas with offset package as neutral for climate
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is attempting to market some of its natural gas as clean energy, packaging it with credits for eco-friendly projects that offset pollution coming from the fuel.
Outer Hebrides groups team up to utilise clean energy and reduce costs
Lews Castle College UHI and housing organisation Tighean Innse Gall on Lewis have linked up with the University of Oulu in Finland to develop a unique, energy initiative which could make a real difference to the lives of people, facing high energy costs in areas which have a challenging climate.
Clean energy spending boost ‘will save millions of lives’
An increase in global energy investment of seven per cent could prevent millions of deaths from air pollution a year by 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.
Total snaps up Belgian renewables firm
French energy giant Total has snapped up Belgian renewables firm Lampiris, acquiring all of the company's shares in an undisclosed deal.
UK now has more than 1m solar homes
The UK now has more than a million “solar homes” that get electricity or hot water from the sun, the industry has said.
UK and global clean-energy investment hits new records
New figures show record levels of investment in UK and global clean-energy projects. The Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) report says global spending hit an all-time high in 2015, with nearly £230billion invested. Worldwide installed generating capacity also peaked, thanks to 64 gigawatts (GW) of wind power and 57GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy, it adds.
“Game changing” renewable plan could place Africa as clean energy continent
Plans to roll out as much as 300 gigawatts of renewable energy across Africa by 2030 - twice the continent’s total supplies - have been announced.
AFC Energy focussed on the future with its fuel cell technology
A British company's revolutionary alkaline fuel system that is commercialising technology first developed in the 19th century is set to commission a pilot project that could launch it into the big league of clean energy producers.
Billions pledged for clean energy research at Paris climate talks
Government and business leaders will pledge billions of pounds to research and develop a technical fix to the planet’s climate woes at high-stakes negotiations in Paris. Clean energy technology is being promoted as the key to fighting global warming at the UN climate summit.
Next London mayor challenged to create ‘100% clean energy city’ by 2050
London could run on 100% clean energy by mid-century, with electric cars, solar power and energy efficient homes, it has been claimed.
And another decade slips by
How serious is either Scotland or the UK about developing our renewable energy potential? To listen to the endless rhetoric about "the Saudi Arabia of renewables" or to judge by the setting of ever more ambitious targets by Edinburgh and Whitehall for conveniently distant dates, the question might seem redundant.
Event to focus on low-carbon investment
AN INTERNATIONAL conference which will aid Scotland's low-carbon economy by helping projects, technologies and companies to access finance and funding has been backed by the sector.
North ready to tap into wind and wave energy
THE commercial development of wind and wave power in the Pentland Firth and waters around Orkney could pave the way for an economic bonanza.