Renewables

Green hydrogen is produced using renewable electricity

Scottish scientists use AI to supercharge renewables technology

First Minister Humza Yousaf with SSE's Finlay McCutcheon at the Sloy site

Plans to convert hydro station on Loch Lomond into renewables project unveiled

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Scottish wind farms are paid hundreds of millions every year to shut down and stop producing energy

SPECIAL REPORT Scottish renewable power 'utterly wasted' as wind farms paid to shut down

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SNP MP Philippa Whitford asked Tory minister John Lamont about pumped-storage hydro power

Scots Tory minister red-faced after showing ‘ignorance’ of key renewable technology

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Alyn Smith says Scotland is locked out of a key European energy group because of the UK's 'arrogance'

EXCLUSIVE Scotland locked out of key European energy group by UK 'arrogance'

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UK Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps, and a shot of the Cruachan energy project, which could be expanded

EXCLUSIVE 'Mind-boggling' UK Government silence as Scottish renewables industry urges action

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An expansion of the Cruachan energy project is one of the developments on the cards

Six Scots renewables projects to deliver 15,000 jobs – if UK steps up, report says

Grant Shapps is the Tory government's Energy Secretary

Six times Westminster has failed Scotland's energy sector spelled out by SNP

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Labour MSP Mercedes Villalba asked Green Skills Minister Lorna Slater about the 'passport'

Key part of 'just transition' plans faces six-month delay, minister confirms

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The grants support communities within 10 kilometres of participating windfarms

£100k windfall helps return historic bandstand to former glory

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Michael Newton (left) and Robin Winstanley (right) from Banks Renewables with Katie Stuart-Cox of Abingdon Development Group

Community groups receive more than £300,000 from wind farm funds since Covid

Shona Robison (second from left) has cast doubt on one of Humza Yousaf's key leadership pledges

EXCLUSIVE Yousaf-backer casts doubt on one of his key leadership pledges

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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Sir Keir Starmer, shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband and MSP Colin Smyth during a visit to the Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast

Labour promises of Scottish renewable jobs boost branded ‘laughable’

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A pumping station for hydrogen-powered cars in Berlin, Germany

Letters Green hydrogen would have a limited place in a fully decarbonised economy

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Over 1000 offshore oil and gas workers have set out their demands for a just transition plan

Oil workers, climate groups and trade unions set out demands for just transition plan

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Independence is a necessity if all of Scotland's people are to benefit from our renewable energy wealth

COMMENT Why only independence can offer Scotland an energy-secure future

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Karen Anne Hutton and the Hill of Towie wind farm in Moray, a project on which she worked

EXCLUSIVE Why diversity in the workforce can be a strength for Scotland's renewable industry

COMMENT It's time to end the long and damaging legacy of energy control by Westminster

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Nicola Sturgeon checks out an onshore wind farm

COMMENT Jonathon Shafi: How the SNP lack clear vision for Scotland's renewables future

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Scotland has the potential to be energy-rich in renewables after ditching oil and gas

Can Scotland still be energy rich after ditching oil and gas?

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Scotland is replete with renewable energy but Westminster is holding us back

COMMENT Scotland can be an energy powerhouse but not within the Union

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Scotland has the potential to mine critical minerals essential for a clean energy future, according to experts

EXCLUSIVE Why mining for critical minerals could be the key to Scotland's energy independence

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The McCrone series launches today

FULL REPORT This is what Westminster doesn't want you to read: The McCrone Report in full

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Whitelee windfarm is the largest on shore windfarm in the UK

The science behind why Scotland is so energy rich

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Drilling for rare metals needed for renewables gets underway in Aberdeenshire

Drilling for rare metals essential to renewables gets underway in north east

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A future 'ScotWind II' must keep Scottish energy in public hands and be run for the public good

COMMENT Scotland may have lost billions in the ScotWind deal - here's what should happen now

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Kenny MacAskill has published a report looking into which state-owned firms have stakes in Scotland's renewables industry

China, UAE, France: Report details state-owned energy firms operating in Scotland

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The UK Government is to give oil and gas firms generous tax relief on investment into offshore wind energy

Taxpayers set to pay to power oil and gas platforms in North Sea

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Scotland is energy rich yet fuel poor

LETTERS What good has green energy been to Scots?

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Much controversy followed the opening of the Cumbrian coal mine

COMMENT Douglas Chapman: Coal’s green legacy can put National Energy Company back on agenda

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The effect of the floods in Pakistan is still being felt months after the waters receded

COMMENT Lorna Slater: There's still time to transform our economy for the sake of the planet

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NorFrame's Aberdeenshire factory will be powered by silage

Scottish company to build factory powered by silage in 'UK first'

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Net Zero Secretary Michael Matheson claimed hydrogen is 'Scotland’s greatest industrial opportunity since oil and gas'

Doubts cast over how 'realistic' Scottish Government's hydrogen plans are

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Sunart resident Catriona Hunter receives her £150 cheque from SCR Director Andy Hughes

EXCLUSIVE Highland community energy firm gives local families a Christmas bonus payment

Joe Biden has pledged to lower US greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and Scottish firms could benefit

COMMENT How will an epochal shift in Joe Biden's America impact on Scotland and Europe?

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A new report has shown Scotland has the highest level of green job creation in the UK

Scotland leading UK in green job creation, according to new report

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Oil and gas profits could be used to invest in Scotland's renewable sector, according to an economist

Oil and gas boom will 'accelerate' Scotland's green energy revolution

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Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk

EXCLUSIVE Tories’ ‘Great British Nuclear’ body to leave ‘toxic legacy for centuries’

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Profits from a community windfarm project in Argyll and Bute are helping tenants with the cost-of-living crisis

Scots get £130,000 cost-of-living aid from community windfarm

Left to right: Dr Andrew Cowell with student engineers Scott McCulloch, Adam Friend, Jamie Whitehead and Rebekah Edgar

Flatpack wind turbine invented by 15-year-old Scot to help communities in Kenya

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A decarbonisation project on Iona has won a £50,000 prize to help locals cut reliance on fossil fuels

Island community wins prize for 'UK-first' decarbonisation project

The surging price of gas is pushing up energy costs across the UK

ENERGY CRISIS Overhaul UK energy system and save up to £18bn a year, Tories told

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The Westminster-manufactured crisis in the energy sector has left the UK uniquely exposed

COMMENT Unionist 'gotcha' is nothing of the sort – The REAL Scottish Politics

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Scotland and the UK are world leaders in offshore wind power, and look set to stay that way

SPECIAL REPORT SNP accused of 'misinformation' over Scottish wind power – so what are the facts?

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Independence the way to meet green energy targets, says environment minister

Minister expertly sums up why independence is key to fighting climate change

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Scotland could be up for a £22bn boost to its economy in its drive for net-zero

Net zero Scottish economy up for £22 billion boost in drive to reach net zero

Maggie Chapman has said Tess White was making a 'baseless accusation' as she said the Greens do not like Aberdeen and the North East

Energy Greens hit back at claims they 'don't care' about north-east renewable potential

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Sustainability and external affairs manager at Banks Renewables Robin Winstanley

Wind farm fund saves community hall on brink of closure

Dungeness B nuclear power station on the south Kent coast

EXCLUSIVE Tory plans mean Scots 'may fund English nuclear plants even after independence'

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Energy Secretary Michael Matheson said that hydrogen could help Scotland reach its net-zero targets

Hydrogen could be Scotland's greatest ‘opportunity’ for net zero targets

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Solar power is far cheaper than its fossil fuel alternatives

LETTERS For once Jacob Rees-Mogg is actually in the right - and Liz Truss should listen

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A record 18,568 GWh of renewable energy was generated in Scotland in the first half of 2022

Record amount of renewable electricity generated in Scotland, 'great' figures reveal

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Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshire. Photograph: PA

Tories target wind farms with revenue-capping rules in 'strange' new policy

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Ian Blackford said that the focus should be on the brighter future Scotland could have with independence, not 'process'

EXCLUSIVE Focus on 'process' of indyref2 won't help win vote for Yes, Ian Blackford says

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