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Scots and Irish cooperate on ocean energy
Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland have united forces to accelerate the expansion of ocean energy.
read more... 05/09/2016
Scotland: The UK should help secure the future of the hydropower sector
The Scottish Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse, has declared recently during a visit at a £ 12 million pumped hydro storage plant at Foyers, near Loch Ness, that the UK government must cooperate with Scotland in order to secure the future of the hydropower sector. He also underlined that last year, hydro generation attained a new record level of 5,780GWh, up 6.3 per cent if compared to 2014 data.
read more... 26/08/2016
RWE launches £12 million hydropower station in Scotland
A hydropower station valued at £12 million has officially been launched in Scotland.
read more... 25/08/2016
Scotland and wind turbines reached an important milestone
For the first time on record, wind turbines alone in Scotland provided 39.5 GW of electricity to the National Grid, the equivalent of the country’s total electricity needs. The electricity consumption of the country was 37.2 GW, revealing that wind turbines have generated more electricity than was used in the whole of Scotland on a single day.
read more... 15/08/2016
Scotland ranks second in reducing emissions in Western Europe
Scotland has attained the second biggest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cut in Western Europe.
read more... 02/08/2016