Piclo – the collaboration between energy startup Open Utility and green energy provider Good Energy – has teamed up with the Eden Project to pilot the UK’s first online market for renewable energy, allowing consumers and generators to buy and sell renewable energy directly. Piclo brings the ‘sharing economy’ to Read more
A plan to create a new community-owned wind farm on Lewis to benefit communities in the Stornoway Trust Estate area is taking form. Eighteen community groups – including Community Councils, Grazings Committees and Residents Associations across the Trust area – have signed up to become part of a consortium to Read more
What will soon be the world’s biggest offshore wind farm – Orsted’s 1.4GW Hornsea 2 – will power green hydrogen production under a programme newly-awarded additional funding by the UK government. The Gigastack project, led by ITM Power, aims to deliver zero-carbon hydrogen via ‘stackable’ 5MW electrolysers produced in gigawatt-scale Read more
Plans for a wind farm in the Scottish borders have been rejected for a third time over “environmental harm” fears. Proposals to put up turbines north west of Gilston Farm, near Heriot, first surfaced almost a decade ago. It was initially refused by a Scottish government reporter – but revised Read more
Irn-bru maker AG Barr said it expected profit within the top end of market forecasts amid signs of progress on efforts to turnaround the business following a challenging summer. Adjusted pre-tax profit was expected to be just ahead of £37m, with revenue at about £255m, down from £279m last year, Read more
When there is a collision between different government policies with the same purpose the result is sure to be messy, and the chances are that the benefits arising from both policies will be compromised and perhaps lost altogether. The Scottish Government, for example, aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through Read more
Mammoth Highland offshore wind farms are footing a bill of around £20 million more per year than English projects to connect to the grid, according to the builder of what will be Scotland’s biggest wind venture. The levied regime in the UK, called transmission charging and set up by the Read more
Customers have been forced to pay electricity companies almost £650m over the past decade – not to produce power. The cash is compensation for periods that wind turbines are switched off at short notice and usually happens to avoid overloading the UK’s National Grid. Since 2009, power firms have been Read more