Southern Scotland
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Publications and documents
Energy Academy ORIGIN and Beynod EHO Nov 2016 Redacted
11 Jun 2018
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Scotland’s First Smart Hydrogen Microgrid
11 Jun 2018
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Smart Grid presentation - Dr Khaled Ahmed, Oct 18
05 Nov 2018
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Latest news
Scottish tidal power firm installs turbine in Japan
14-02-2021
Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) has installed one of its Scottish-built tidal turbines in the Goto Island chain in Japan. The tidal turbine clocked its first 10 MWh of generation within the first ten days of operation and is now producing clean electricity in Japan.The project included leasing tidal gen...
Underwater cable to deliver renewable power from Scotland to England
10-12-2020
Three companies – SSE, ScottishPower and National Grid – are developing plans to deliver an underwater electric ‘super-highway’ that will see the North Sea become the hidden powerhouse of Europe. The Eastern Link will be made up of some of the world’s longest subsea HVDC cables with a combined capac...
New HVDC interconnector to link Shetland to UK grid
10-09-2020
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has won an order from Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Transmission to enable what is said to be Europe’s first multi-terminal high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnection. The link, which will connect Shetland to the UK transmission system for the fir...
New UK renewables schemes, mainly offshore wind, win record low support contracts
21-09-2019
Twelve new renewable energy projects, nearly all offshore or sited on Scottish islands and together providing 6 GW of generating capacity, have won Contracts for Difference (CfDs) under the government’s renewables support scheme. For the first time, these projects are expected to come online below m...
EI President points to growth economies as focus for climate action and opportunity for UK Plc
27-03-2019
With global energy demand set to soar as billions of people in lower and middle-income countries move into the middle classes, EI President Malcolm Brinded CBE FREng FEI earlier this month set out to the Southern Scotland branch the opportunities for UK plc in addressing this acute challenge.In his ...
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