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6 days ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
Scottish Enterprise has announced plans to establish an energy transition hub in Abu Dhabi to help Scottish companies enter the United Arab Emirate’s clean energy sector. SNP deputy First Minister Kate Forbes made the announcement during a trade visit to the Gulf country this week. While exact details are still to be released, the hub aims to provide businesses with a base in the country for 12-18 months.
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1 week ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded a charter agreement to Aberdeen-headquartered OEG Group to help develop the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm. In addition, Caister-based NR Marine Services also received a deal to provide ships for the project. Combined, both companies’ agreements are worth more than £16 million, with the vessels operating out of the port of Lowestoft.
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1 week ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
Power company VPI has called for clarity to progress the Viking carbon capture and storage (CCS) project and help drive the future of heavy industries in the Humber. VPI requested a signal from the UK government in its upcoming comprehensive spending review that it will be selected as an anchor emitter for the CCS project. The group owns the nearly 1.3GW Immingham thermal power plant, which provides power to the Humber’s two large oil refineries.
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1 week ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
Equinor and Orsted have warned that the effects of wake loss on their projects could cost them up to £363 million in lost revenues. Both developers have submitted financial impact assessments warning that the development of the Outer Dowsing offshore wind farm could have knock-on effects on several of their own developments, including the major Hornsea projects. TotalEnergies, Corio Generation and Gulf Energy Development are currently looking to create Outer Dowsing.
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1 week ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
Ingrid Huldal has joined Archer Well Services as vice-president for UK, Africa and Caspian as the company aims to strengthen its presence in late-life asset support and energy transition markets. In her new role, Huldal will oversee operational delivery and strategic expansion across this key region, with a strong emphasis on plug and abandonment (P&A), and brownfield optimisation in the UK North Sea.
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2 weeks ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded the contract to create the substation and jacket foundation for its East Anglia Two offshore wind farm to HSM Offshore Energy. Under the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract. HSM will deliver the 5,100-tonne offshore high-voltage substation and its 3,700-tonne jacket foundation for the 960MW windfarm off the coast of Suffolk.
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2 weeks ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
Britain could be in line for a swathe of new “super-batteries” in the coming years, under plans to boost investment into renewable energy storage. Regulator Ofgem is launching a new funding scheme to make it less risky to develop and invest in large-scale storage projects, including so-called “water batteries”. The projects, officially called pumped storage hydropower, are a way of storing energy using reservoirs.
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2 weeks ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
Global share prices have fallen after US president Donald Trump introduced sweeping tariffs on a vast range of the country’s trading partners. Fears about the impact that these tariffs could have on the global economy meant that shares on stock markets around the world started to dip when they were first announced on Thursday 3 April. Friday 4 April saw these loses grow, and when markets opened after the weekend, shares feel even further.
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2 weeks ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
The introduction of zonal pricing by the UK government could put 8,000 jobs and £30 billion of investment in onshore renewables in Scotland at risk. Research performed by Biggar Economics for the Fairer Energy Future campaign group explored Scotland’s 10GW onshore wind project pipeline. With 1GW expected to be built per year between 2030 and 2035, this will support around 800 new jobs in Scotland during the construction phase and a further 200 jobs per gigawatt during operations.
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2 weeks ago | 
energyvoice.com | Michael Behr
More than 300 jobs will be created as a result of a £450-million investment programme in north Scotland’s electricity distribution network. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Distribution (SSEN) said the jobs will be created as it announced the names of the contract partners with which it is working across nine sub-regions of the north Scotland network area. It is hoped the work will boost network resilience. The area has a harsher climate compared with the rest of the country.
