Renewables

Offshore wind farms will be allowed to charge more for the power they create at the next auction round

'Complete failure' at auction sees Tories hike prices for offshore energy

BBC Scotland reported on the figures showing Scotland would have some nine per cent of the EU's offshore energy potential

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Wee Ginger Dug: New data is great news for Scotland. Just not according to BBC

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Blades are lifted onto a turbine at the consumer-owned Kirk Hill wind farm in Ayrshire

Turbines set up at 'UK's largest consumer-owned wind farm' in Scotland

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Scottish Renewables boss issues damning verdict on 'scale' of Brexit impact

Scottish Renewables boss issues damning verdict on 'scale' of Brexit impact

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Workers on offshore wind projects in the UK face 'extremely complex' visa rules from the Home Office

UK visa rules pose 'significant' risk to offshore wind industry, top lawyer says

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Rishi Sunak announced U-turns on a raft of the UK's climate commitments

COMMENT Richard Murphy: What Rishi Sunak got wrong – and how Scotland can get it right

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Humza Yousaf was quizzed on the matter at FMQs

Officials deny 'manufacturing facts’ after renewables correction by First Minister

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Stephen Flynn said the failure risks Scotland's renewable and economic future

Scotland's renewable future 'at risk' after 'monumental failure' from Westminster

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Whitelee outside Glasgow, Europe's largest onshore windfarm, officially opened in 2009

COMMENT Lesley Riddoch: Overlooked Humza Yousaf pledge showed chasm between Scotland and UK

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Scottish Renewables said more pylons are needed to ensure a renewable energy future

Urgent need to build more electricity pylons in Scotland, says trade body

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Neil Gray is both the Wellbeing Economy and Energy Secretary in the Scottish Government

Three key takeaways for Scotland from GERS 2023 – from top SNP Cabinet Secretary

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The company has been a 'leading developer of tidal energy solutions for several years'

Jobs lost as Edinburgh tidal energy company falls into administration

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Political leadership requires bold moves on energy - a reality the UK Government doesn't understand, writes Tommy Sheppard

COMMENT Energy remains our best argument for independence

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The reservoir at the Cruachan pumped-storage hydro site on Loch Awe

Fears Tory inaction will see Scottish renewables investment 'evaporate'

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to visit Scotland on Monday

SNP respond as Tories look to FINALLY fund key Scottish energy project

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Offshore wind alone generated more than total amount of renewables generated 10 years ago

UK produces record level of renewable electricity

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Renewables must be at the heart of Scotland's future, writes Richard Murphy

COMMENT Richard Murphy: Scotland shouldn't risk its renewables being exploited by London

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Cruachan Power Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric station

Industry tells Rishi Sunak to act for key Scottish renewables projects

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A general view of wind farm

comment Kenny MacAskill: As nations benefit from our renewables we lose out

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Sir Keir promises to make the UK a green superpower on the back of Scotland's resources

Letters If Labour win power, energy-rich Scotland will keep getting ripped off

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Banks Renewables is looking to build a new wind farm near the M74 in South Lanarkshire

'Trailblazing' Scottish wind farm project applies for planning approval

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A wind farm in the Borders is looking to extend its lifespan beyond 2025

Bid to extend lifespan of Scottish wind farm facing closure in 2025

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A visualisation of a tidal stream turbine

'Chance to change the world': Scots firm welcomes LSE report into renewable potential

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Orbital Marine's O2 tidal turbine is based out of Orkney

SPECIAL REPORT Scotland 'has more tidal stream capacity than rest of world combined'

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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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