Coverage of energy policy, renewables, oil and gas, and the future of Scotland’s energy sector.
ONE OF REFORM‘S GREATEST STRENGTHS is its no-nonsense, down-to-earth approach to policy. Nowhere is this robust common sense more visible
FIVE ENERGY FROM WASTE (EfW) INCINERATORS, the plants already in the planning system when Scotland introduced its 2022 moratorium, are
THE FOLLOWING ANALYSIS demonstrates that current energy policy contravenes Scottish climate change and emissions legislation on almost every criterion. The
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