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Green recovery: UK urged to accelerate 'just' transition from North Sea oil and gas

Green recovery: UK urged to accelerate 'just' transition from North Sea oil and gas   With thousands of UK-based oil and gas workers on furlough and the sector's economic recovery likely to be slow, policymakers are facing calls to cap North Sea fossil fuel production and reskill communities for low-carbon industries. Think tank IPPR has today (3 December) published a new...

SGN H100 Fife project gets green light

SGN H100 Fife project gets green light   On Monday 30th November SGN received the go-ahead to build a world-first hydrogen heating network at Methil in Scotland. The SGN plans for H100 Fife, a pioneering project that will demonstrate 100% green hydrogen heating in homes for the first time, have been approved by Ofgem. This game-changing project will provide the crucial evidence to inform widespread deployment of 100% for domestic heating.  Replacing natural gas with hydrogen a...

Pioneering Renewable Energy Village Earmarked For North East Scotland

Pioneering Renewable Energy Village Earmarked For North East Scotland   Plans have been unveiled to construct a large-scale renewable energy park in the north east of Scotland, designed to deliver between 150 – 200 megawatts of green energy to supply to the Scottish grid, with the capacity to power tens of thousands of homes across the north-east of Scotland. It is estimated that 1500 jobs will be created to build the energy park while a further 250 permanent jobs will be cre...

Risk management key to floating wind 'moving rapidly' into mainstream energy mix

Risk management key to floating wind 'moving rapidly' into mainstream energy mix   Floating wind power could contribute significantly to the global decarbonisation effort through to 2050 and beyond, if industry standards and risk management are streamlined as the technology scales-up during industrialisation, according to a new report from DNV GL. The consultancy sees over 250GW of deepwater wind being added to the worldwide offshore fleet as costs fall 70% to a global aver...

Catapult research warns of North Sea job losses

Catapult research warns of North Sea job losses   Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and OGTC, formerly the Oil and Gas Technology Centre, have released new analysis showing North Sea energy sector jobs could fall by at least 20% in the coming years without urgent investment in the clean technologies needed to create a net zero offshore energy system. The organisations have called for up to £416bn of investment over the next 30 years in a Net Zero North Sea, which they say co...

INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW TOYOTA MIRAI – Hydrogen car of the future!

INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW TOYOTA MIRAI – Hydrogen car of the future!   Second generation of Toyota’s ground-breaking, zero emission hydrogen fuel cell electric sedan New Mirai built on Toyota’s modular GA-L platform, enabling improved system packaging and a more spacious, five-seat cabin New platform allows for an extra (third) hydrogen fuel tank to be added, contributing to a 30% increase in the car’s driving range to around 650 km Focus on building mor...

Top renewable energy projects crowned at virtual Scottish Green Energy Awards

Top renewable energy projects crowned at virtual Scottish Green Energy Awards   More than 800 people tuned in to see 13 winners announced Chief Executive of industry body says shortlist highlights the “phenomenal skillset” of Scotland’s renewable energy industry   An underwater robot which is changing the game for offshore subsea inspection processes has been handed a top award by Scotland’s renewable energy industry tonight (Nov 26). Rovco was ann...

World’s biggest offshore wind farm takes a £5.5bn step forward

World’s biggest offshore wind farm takes a £5.5bn step forward   SSE and Equinor have announced they have reached financial close on the first two phases of the Dogger Bank project off the coast of East Yorkshire, after securing a £5.5bn deal. The three phase project is a joint venture by the two energy businesses that is scheduled to complete in March 2026 and to produce enough clean energy to meet for  six million UK homes each year (5% of the UK’s de...

Equinor and partner reach financial close on world's biggest offshore wind farm

Equinor and partner reach financial close on world's biggest offshore wind farm   Dogger Bank wind farm owners, Equinor and SSE, have today announced financial close on the first two phases of the project, representing in aggregate the largest offshore wind project financing to date globally. “Reaching financial close on the two first phases of Dogger Bank is a major milestone, demonstrating our commitment to profitable growth within offshore wind. The extensive interest...

REACTION: Changes announced to the Contracts for Difference scheme

REACTION: Changes announced to the Contracts for Difference scheme   The Government has today set out a number of changes to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme ahead of the 4th allocation round (AR4) next year, which will support up to 12GW of new renewable energy capacity. Responding, Morag Watson, Director of Policy at Scottish Renewables, said: “Reaching our net-zero target will require using the diverse range of renewable technologies we have available here in S...

UK energy technology MOU to support China’s growth in offshore renewables

UK energy technology MOU to support China’s growth in offshore renewables   TUS-ORE Catapult Research Centre and UK Energy Technology Platform join forces to support China’s growth in offshore renewable energy and showcase innovative UK energy transition technologies. The TUS-ORE Catapult Research Centre (TORC), a joint venture between the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and TUS Wind in China, has joined forces with the UK Energy Technology Platform (ETP),...

The world can reach the climate goals by a balanced economic development

The world can reach the climate goals by a balanced economic development   Equinor’s 10th Energy Perspectives report describes how the world can reach the climate and sustainability goals by a more equitable distribution of economic growth and contributions from developed countries to climate actions and development also in emerging markets. “2020 has been an extraordinary year. The impacts of Covid-19 have led to a considerable decline in energy demand, energy prices a...

ENI looks to North Sea Offshore Wind Tender

ENI looks to North Sea Offshore Wind Tender   Italian oil and gas major Eni will enter Norway's upcoming offshore wind tender through a newly-formed joint venture with Norwegian energy investor HitecVision. The JV, called Vårgrønn, has a long-term ambition to install renewable energy projects with a capacity of about 1GW by 2030. Eni will own 69.6% of the company with HitecVision holding the remainder. “This new joint venture is part of Eni’s overall...

BP, Orsted launch green hydrogen project at German oil refinery

BP, Orsted launch green hydrogen project at German oil refinery   BP and Danish renewable energy group Orsted have partnered to develop zero-carbon hydrogen at a German oil refinery, BP's first full-scale project in a sector that is expected to grow rapidly. The project will produce so-called green hydrogen at the Linden refinery in north-west Germany through the electrolysis of water using wind power from the North Sea. It is in its early stages and initially aims to build...

Australia Could Lead The $11 Trillion Hydrogen Boom

Australia Could Lead The $11 Trillion Hydrogen Boom   Back in July, the European Union unveiled a hydrogen strategy that immediately captured the imagination of the renewables world and was hailed as the most ambitious hydrogen plan ever.  The EU's ambitious new hydrogen strategy laid out plans to install 40 gigawatts of electrolyzers within the region's borders and also support the development of another 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen in nearby countries that have the ca...

BP hydrogen and offshore wind investments are on their way

BP hydrogen and offshore wind investments are on their way   CEO Bernard Looney said that the company is preparing to make its first moves imminently. BP hydrogen and offshore wind investments are preparing to be made in the very near future. In fact, bids are expected during the next six months with a particular focus on H2 activity, according to the CEO of the major oil company, Bernard Looney. Looney discussed the company’s intentions to “probably” bid on of...

How Total and BP are leading the green energy charge among oil majors

How Total and BP are leading the green energy charge among oil majors   Should oil companies be investing in solar, wind, battery technology and networks of electric vehicle charging stations? Maybe, in the broader view of themselves as energy companies. And especially if the consumer shifts to EVs faster than expected, crushing demand for transportation fuels. It comes down to whether they’re focused on the product or the customer. If the customer is demanding different k...

Iberdrola to invest £67 billion in 'energy revolution' by 2025

Iberdrola to invest £67 billion in 'energy revolution' by 2025   Spanish wind energy group Iberdrola plans to invest 75 billion euros (67.7 billion pounds) in its renewable energy production, grids and retail operations by 2025 to capitalise on growing global demand for clean power, it said on Thursday. Countries and companies the world over are seeking to cut emissions to combat climate change, buoying renewables-focused companies including Iberdrola. Pursuing the...

40,000 Jobs over 30 years in the North Sea Revolution

40,000 Jobs over 30 years in the North Sea Revolution   The future of the North Sea is worth 40,000 more jobs and £20bn to the UK economy by 2050 - through a clean energy revolution A leading think tank report suggests that the net rise in jobs would come through diversifying to renewables and takes into account a long-term decline in the North Sea's oil and gas industry. The think tank Policy Exchange says that the government must put the North Sea at the heart of its...

Could Scotland ever be 'the Saudi Arabia of renewables'?

Could Scotland ever be 'the Saudi Arabia of renewables'?   "As Saudi Arabia is to oil, the UK is to wind" - that's how Boris Johnson described the country's potential to capitalise on renewable energy recently. For Scotland, it's not the first time comparisons have been drawn with Saudi Arabia. Back when he was first minister, Alex Salmond said Scotland had the potential to be the "Saudi Arabia of renewables". With a year to go until Gl...
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