Coverage of energy policy, renewables, oil and gas, and the future of Scotland’s energy sector.
ALL HAIL ANDY BURNHAM. Andy Burnham has spoken. From the People’s Museum no less. More Lennon than Leninist, we are
THIS SERIES HAS DOCUMENTED four failures: a planning system processing twenty hyperscale applications without cumulative assessment; a cost framework that
THERE IS A STRUCTURE that will accompany every large data centre built in Scotland, and it does not appear prominently
SCOTLAND IS A WET COUNTRY. That is the perception – the hills, the lochs, the rain that defines the national
WHEN A DEVELOPER applies for planning permission to build a 500 megawatt data centre in rural Scotland, the application will
TWENTY HYPERSCALE DATA CENTRES are currently working their way through Scotland’s planning system. If they are all built, their combined
I HAVE SPENT much of my working life in the North Sea oil and gas industry, and although I am
THE CONSERVATIVES will win the next General Election. That’s not me saying it but energy expert Kathryn Porter, who is
THE SPAT THAT HAS CLOSED the Straits of Hormuz has highlighted the UK’s vulnerability to imported oil and (particularly) gas.
AS THE GRANGEMOUTH REFINERY edges toward closure, the UK faces a pivotal moment in energy, industry, and geopolitics. For decades,