With millions in funding secured, ETZ Ltd, a not-for-profit company tasked with spearheading North East Scotland’s energy transition ambition, has unveiled its plans to build a transformative Energy Transition Skills Hub that aims to equip the workforce of the future with the skills industry needs to deliver the low-carbon transition.
Battery manufacturer AMTE Power, which has a plant in Thurso and plans for a ‘megafactory’ in Dundee, has had its share trading temporarily suspended on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Rivtide Power, a subsidiary of MWNW Consulting Ltd, has been awarded a £100,000 SMART: SCOTLAND feasibility study grant by Scottish Enterprise to further develop its tidal energy technology.
Almost half of Glasgow’s residents could heat their homes by connecting to a district heating network as part of a drive to switch to sustainable energy across the city.
Edinburgh-based tidal energy firm QED Naval has secured funding through the UK government’s AR5 programme, with the potential to generate £30 million in gross value added (GVA) for company over the next three years.
Engineering consulting group COWI has been awarded a contract by renewable energy company Drax to provide consultancy services to support works in advance of the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the expansion of an existing pumped storage hydro-electric generation station located beneath Ben Cruachan in Argyll.
Scottish engineering and consulting services provider Wood Group has secured a c.£260 million ($330m) partnership agreement with Harbour Energy, a UK producer of oil and gas in the North Sea.
Civil engineering contractor Global Infrastructure (Scotland) Ltd. has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract by SSEN Transmission for the design and construction of two strategic storage facilities in Dundee and Inverness.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission (SSEN) and National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) have reached another significant milestone in the development of a new subsea electricity superhighway, as planning consents for all the onshore and offshore elements of the project have been granted by all three local planning authorities.