This week, Hamish, Ed and Mark discuss the latest entry of an oil giant into the bidding process for ScotWind, as TotalEnergies planted its flag in the … seabed… With just a month before the application window closes, we mull whether some oil giants might be conspicuous by the absence.
Oil and gas giant TotalEnergies, formerly Total, has become the latest company to confirm its involvement in Scotland’s upcoming offshore wind leasing round.
BP says it is focused on producing a winning application for the ScotWind licensing round.
Developers behind a North Sea wind farm are celebrating a major milestone after it exported green electricity to the grid for the first time.
Regulators are considering a “ScotWind”-type leasing round in the North Sea for wind projects to power oil and gas platforms.
SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies has outlined his confidence in a bigger domestic supply chain emerging alongside a fast-growing UK offshore wind energy industry.
BP has launched a portal to help the Scottish supply chain find and bid for work on offshore wind farms.
BP is expected to enter into Scotland’s offshore wind market by bidding for acreage in the ongoing ScotWind leasing round, according to The Times.
More than a dozen north-east businesses have been selected to take part in an initiative designed to help firms capitalise on Scotland’s offshore wind expansion.
InfraStrata’s chief executive says he expects the company to be a “major player” in Scotland’s emerging offshore floating wind sector.
It’s several decades since I first wrote about the Crown Estate and its enormously influential hold over Scotland’s coastal waters. At that time, it was a virtually unknown subject. Today, it is more relevant than ever.
Scotland has given a ten-fold increase to maximum bids for its offshore wind auction, ScotWind, after Big Oil flexed its financial muscles last month.
Nicola Sturgeon has acknowledged the latest delay to Scotland's offshore wind leasing round was “deeply unwelcome” among renewables investors and developers.
The past decade has been a tough one for Scotland’s offshore wind sector.
A further delay to the ScotWind leasing round risks the loss of billions of pounds of investment, a leading trade body has warned.
The potential for Scottish businesses to produce commercial scale concrete foundations for floating wind projects is to be explored by a new partnership.
The closing date for ScotWind applications has been pushed back in order to carry out a review of the “option structure” for the leasing process.
BP is “likely” planning entry into the Scotland offshore wind market, according to an industry expert, after securing a landmark move into the UK sector.
A newly formed floating offshore wind company is planning to submit a bid for the ScotWind leasing round.
Global Energy Group’s new group chief executive has described the firm as “probably the best positioned organisation in the whole of the UK” to make the most of the expansion in offshore renewables.
Ørsted has announced its intention to bid in the forthcoming ScotWind leasing round, which opened to applicants last week.
A major leasing round expected to generate more than £8 billion of investment in Scottish offshore wind projects opened to applicants today.
Disruption can bring opportunities, and those businesses which have a mindset of accepting opportunities thrown up from the unwelcome disruption caused by Covid-19 will survive and thrive, while new businesses will emerge to capitalise on these opportunities.
Two of Europe's leading renewable energy developers have announced plans to team up in order to “unlock the potential” of floating offshore wind in Scotland.
The recent publication of the timetable for the Scotwind leasing round that will start the next stage in the development of offshore wind in Scotland, shortly followed by the UK Prime Minister’s 10 Point Plan, has focused minds on what a green recovery really means for the communities and businesses north of the border.