Alternative energy sources
Alternative energy sources
Cut in charges to boost green energy firms
ENERGY regulator Ofgem is poised to hand the Scottish renewables sector a substantial benefit by lowering the cost of transmitting the power generated from wind and wave technology.
2 CommentsEnergy ambitions renewed as Scotland wins fuel fund
LEITH’S future role at the centre of renewable energy development and Edinburgh’s chances of hosting the Green Investment Bank have been given a major boost by a compromise deal ending a cash wrangle between Westminster and Holyrood.
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£100m boost for renewable energy projects in Scotland
AN EXTRA £100 million will be made available to support green energy projects in Scotland after a deal was stuck between Holyrood and Westminster.
1 CommentFirst Minister hails energy plant deal
THE First Minister has welcomed a multi-million-pound deal to buy a Scottish fabrication facility in a move that saves 60 jobs and could create another 200.
1 CommentScottish Hydro boss brings good news on energy bills
AN energy boss has offered hard-pressed Scottish consumers hope that any rise in next year’s bills will be kept to a minimum.
Energy firms in deal to develop carbon capture at Peterhead
TWO major energy firms are to work together in a bid to develop carbon capture and storage technology in Aberdeenshire.
13 Comments‘Fracking’ for gas given the green light
A FIRST licence for the controversial gas drilling technique known as fracking has been granted in Scotland – with more likely to follow.
33 CommentsFirms ‘missing out’ on renewables cash
TRADE body Scottish Renewables has warned that businesses are “missing out” on chances to make money from alternative energy.
SNP and wildlife charity accused of ‘scaremongering’ over isles’ tugs
The Scotland Office has accused an environmental charity and the SNP of “irresponsible scaremongering” over their criticism of a decision to withdraw funding for two emergency tugs.
Taxpayers' cash used to build road for developer
QUESTIONS have been raised over the use of £1 million of public money to help fund a route to be used to access a wind farm.
Moulton snubs Scots wind over high grid costs
VENTURE capitalist Jon Moulton has delivered a blow to Scotland's green energy plans, saying he will not invest any of a £200m infrastructure fund in this country because of high grid connection costs.
Wind farms paid £900,000 to turn off
Six wind farms were given six-figure payments to switch off their turbines because the Scottish grid network could not absorb all the energy being produced.
New turbine will produce affordable tidal energy
A TEAM of engineers have developed a turbine which they claim will produce the world's first domestically affordable electricity from tidal energy within a year.
End of an era for coal and oil as renewables are about to be king renewable energy will be king
RENEWABLES will overtake oil, gas and coal as the world's main energy source by 2025, according to a new survey of operators.
Richard Dixon: Scotland could have 100 per cent green energy by 2020
THE history of renewable electricity targets in Scotland is instructive in considering how credible the current crop of manifesto promises are.
Nautricity ready to test 'economic' tidal device
A STRATHCLYDE University spin-out company has developed a marine technology device, which it claims will produce the world's first domestically affordable electricity from a tidal source within the next year.
Background: Strong opinions dominate planning concerns
FEARS over the damaging impact a major windfarm development would have on one of Scotland's leading hotels saw the plans thrown out by councillors only last week.
Renewables are 'only answer' to energy gap
SCOTLAND must embrace renewables as there is no alternative to new forms of energy generation, given the world's dwindling reserves of oil, coal and uranium, a senior industry figure has argued.
Green energy target ruining Scotland's landscape, warn experts
OPPOSITION to the Scottish Government's pledge to produce 100 per cent of the country's electricity from renewable sources by 2020 grew last night as environmentalists and energy experts united to condemn the plan.
Renewable energy targets not met despite billions in investment
BILLIONS of pounds in grants to the wind industry have failed to assist the UK in meeting its renewable energy target for 2010, prompting one industry organisation to call for a review of what it describes as "infeasible" green energy ambitions.
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