Renewables

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
A NEW paper outlining the “galling” ownership of Scotland’s renewable energy resources by other countries’ state-owned companies has been published.

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

Scotland is energy rich yet fuel poor

LETTERS What good has green energy been to Scots?

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

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

NorFrame's Aberdeenshire factory will be powered by silage

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

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

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?

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

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

Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshire. Photograph: PA

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

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

Scotland has 24% of Europe’s total renewable resources in wind and tidal

Letters We cannot let Tories pawn Scotland's resources like they did in 1970s

Renewable bosses are calling for the UK and devolved governments to improve the data available in time for the 2023 report

Scotland's renewable energy sector supports more than 27,000 jobs

The wind farm has been given the green light

New wind farm set to provide clean electricity to 21,000 homes

Figures from the National Grid have revealed that since the start of April, the UK has actually been a net exporter of electricity to Europe

Letters The National Grid is effectively holding people in UK to ransom

The Seagreen offshore windfarm project has supported up to 141 jobs at the Port of Nigg during its construction. Picture: SSE Renewables

Scotland's biggest offshore wind farm starts producing energy

Lord Frost said that wind power is 'medieval technology' and called for the next prime minister to embrace nuclear energy and fracking

Truss-backer Lord Frost in call to ditch 'medieval' renewables and embrace fracking

AMTE Power develops batteries for the electric vehicle market

Dundee picked as preferred site for battery 'megafactory', creating hundreds of jobs

Nicola Sturgeon at Whitelee wind farm. Photograph: PA

ScottishPower to hire at least 1000 new workers amid renewables boom

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, the two contenders to be the next prime minister, have been asked to explain their positions on 'rip-off' transmission charges

Fix 'rip-off' charges holding back Scotland's energy sector, Tory hopefuls told

Shetland will become part of the British grid system by 2023

Letters Claim Shetland will become more 'energy secure' doesn't stand up to scrutiny

The report called for a five fold investment in net zero

Scotland's just transition to net zero is hampered by the Union, report says

The price of offshore wind has hit record lows

Price of offshore wind power falls to new record low

Environmental campaigners are calling on the government to end support for hydrogen technologies

EXCLUSIVE Scottish Government urged to ditch ‘high cost, low efficiency’ hydrogen fuel

Dundee University’s anchor designs would aid the installation of floating turbines

Scottish university makes bid to revolutionise wind energy with floating turbines

The Beatrice Wind Farm is productive

LETTERS Caithness residents get little benefit from ‘the mighty Beatrice’

Ian and Mary Sinclair were ahead of the game with their wind turbine

COMMENT Ian Sinclair: Caithness can be engine powering whole of Scotland

Many Scots are engulfed in a fuel poverty crisis

COMMENT Dr Keith Baker: Highlands and Islands can help end fuel poverty for all

Alan Brown said nuclear power won't help with the current cost of living crisis

UK Government urged to ditch 'obsession' with nuclear power and focus on renewables

Scotland has 'vast' renewable energy resources

Improvements to grid to better connect England to Scotland's 'vast' energy resources

Could Scotland's tidal sea lochs hold the key to generating an immense amount of renewable energy?

Letters Oil and gas firms should lead the just transition, not just pay lip service

The Tories’ energy policy is nuts, but so is the SNP’s

Letters The Tories’ energy policy is nuts, but so is the SNP’s

Cruachan hydro electric power station in Argyll

Letters UK energy policy is inefficient, unsuitable, destructive and unfair

Offshore it is very windy, and in times of calm, sunny weather solar power will be in production

Letters Energy-rich Scotland does not need new nuclear power plants

Energy Secretary Michael Matheson sets out the plans

New Scottish fund pumps £5m into carbon capture amid UK failings

At less than one tenth of the output of Hinkley Point C, it goes without saying that small modular reactors are more affordable, but are they good value?

Letters Nuclear industry is giving high-risk small modular reactors the hard sell

SNP MSP survey finds North Sea workers need more support for renewables switch

SNP MSP survey finds North Sea workers need more support for renewables switch