IPCC staging mega-review of renewables
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to push ahead with a full assessment of renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation for completion in 2010.
Published: 05/05/2008
IoD to get insight into renewable energy
NORTH-EAST members of the Institute of Directors (IoD) will hear about the region’s renewable-energy potential during their next get-together in Aberdeen.
Published: 07/05/2008
All-Energy renewables showcase comes to town– miss it at your peril
ALL-ENERGY kicks off on May 21. While the renewables community has certainly taken note and the show has, as a result, expanded into two halls, it is not so sure that the oil & gas community is paying as much attention as it should.
Published: 05/05/2008
Shell signs US deal to crack biofuels challenge
Shell has signed up to a joint research and development agreement in the US that is intended to make biofuels more efficient and greener.
Published: 05/04/2008
Global wind capacity set to rocket by 2012
The Global Wind Energy Council is forecasting that the global wind market will grow by more than 155% to reach 240GW (Gigawatts) of total installed capacity by 2012.
Published: 05/04/2008
Top drawer line-up promised for All-Energy 2008
EU RENEWABLE energy targets; the final report on the Transmission Access Review; important moves for microgeneration and heat; work progressing so well on the Glendoe hydro project that Scottish and Southern Energy is looking at more hydro projects; the launch of the Renewable Fuels Transport Obligation; the impending launch of Scotland’s Hydrogen Futures Study; frenetic activity in the wind, wave and tidal sectors – it’s certainly “all systems go” on the renewables front.
Published: 05/04/2008
Exxon sets extended reach record
ExxonMobil has claimed a new world record for extended-reach drilling with its Z-12 well drilled on Sakhalin 1 in the Russian Far East.
Published: 03/03/2008
Japan claims hydrogen first
KYUSHU University in Japan is establishing what it says will be the world’s first graduate programme in hydrogen energy technologies.
Published: 21/03/2008
Carbon Trust launches Pyrolysis Challenge
THE Carbon Trust is calling for expressions of interest from potential partners within the scientific community to collaborate in the development of a world-class commercially viable pyrolysis oil upgrading process.
Published: 21/03/2008
Ernst & Young search on for entrepreneurs
If you haven’t already done so, there is still just enough time to enter the new energy category at Ernst & Young’s Scotland Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards 2008.
Published: 21/03/2008
