ScotWind will unlock a raft of “fantastic opportunities” for the north-east of Scotland the head of a local energy transition organisation has predicted.
Ex-Petrofac chief executive Ayman Asfari has snapped up the former chairman of Shell for his offshore wind business Venterra Group.
Scotland’s renewables industry has been reacting to the results of the much anticipated, £700 million ScotWind leasing round.
A project pipeline of more than 50 years in offshore wind could be secured thanks to the ScotWind seabed auction, according to a northern port.
BP, Shell and SSE Renewables have been selected to build the next generation of Scottish offshore wind farms.
SSE Renewables has confirmed its intent to bid in the Dutch government’s upcoming 1.4 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind tender, set to open in the first half of 2022.
The results of Scotland's first offshore wind leasing round in more than a decade are expected to be released in a matter of days.
For the first time ever, the giant fleet of UK wind farms are earning the government money.
Turbine commissioning has been successfully carried out at one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms.
A renewables expert believes the scale of interest in developing floating offshore wind in Scotland proves that the technology is more than a passing fancy.
The Biden administration on Wednesday outlined an array of initiatives to advance clean energy, including plans to hold the largest-ever sale of offshore wind farm rights in U.S. history and accelerate the construction of new power lines to transmit renewable electricity across the nation.
A new initiative has been launched to help enable the coexistence of offshore wind farms with a thriving marine environment.
Petrofac has appointed a new head of offshore wind operations and maintenance to bolster its offering in new energies.
Aberdeen South’s SNP MP Stephen Flynn has slammed the UK Government over what he is calling the “great Scottish renewables robbery”.
Ineos has agreed a long-term deal with Eneco for the supply of power from the SeaMade offshore wind farm in Belgium.
Peterson has been awarded a logistics contract from Petrofac to support the offshore installation phase of two 700 megawatt (MW) transformer platforms for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore grid.
It is claimed that low wind speeds may just be one of a “myriad” of factors that have led to truncated green energy production in Europe in recent months.
A German-headquartered company has been chosen by Shell to supply electrolysers for a green hydrogen project in the Netherlands.
The G+ Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation (G+) has today announced Jakob Nielsen as its new chairman.
In May 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released Net Zero by 2050: a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector, the first comprehensive study of how to transition to a net zero energy system by 2050, while ensuring stable and affordable energy supplies, universal energy access, and enabling robust economic growth.
The new owner of Aberdeen marine and risk consultancy Marex is targeting its next phase of growth amid a shift into the renewables sector.
The New Year is a time for staying close to home so, in that spirit, I will take a look at some energy-related issues that affect the Western Isles and will come to a head in 2022.
Building an additional 10GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 is an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle that makes up Scotland’s plans to try to reach Net Zero. ScotWind will be ground-breaking both in terms of size and opportunity.
It’s been 20 years since Ørsted (at that time called Dong Energy, and very much a major oil & gas company) commissioned Vindeby in Denmark, which was the world’s first offshore wind farm. It took another 10 years from this modest start (5MW, powering just 2,200 homes) for the offshore wind industry to really start to take off.
North entrepreneur Roy MacGregor has pointed to strength in diversity as the key to future success for his Global Energy Group (GEG).