Month: May 2013
Where’s the progress?
I’m worried. I think there’s something going badly wrong with our energy industry and particularly with the development of renewables. Let me explain why.
Firstly, I was really quite shocked to read in a blog by Prof Brian Ashcroft of Strathclyde University that he believes that around 70% of …read more
EMEC’s Customer Base has little UK content.
EMEC – the European Marine Energy Centre – on Orkney is a facility Scotland should be proud of. In the nearly 10 years since it opened its doors it has achieved a solid reputation and is now involved in a number of overseas collaborative projects.
This is good for Scotland …read more
UK Oil & Gas Industrial Strategy – It’s good to talk.
The Government’s latest attempt at a strategy for oil and gas was published in March but its impact was somewhat diluted by the announcement on the same day of yet another change of Energy Minister.
The poor bloke that drew that particular short straw for the least stable …read more