Details of our proposed Red John pump storage hydro project in Scotland’s Highlands were released this week with a number of outlets including the BBC and The Times picking it up. Plans for a new 400MW pumped hydro scheme east … Continue reading →

A new report from the consultancy firm Vivid Economics in partnership with Marki Aunedi from the Imperial College engineering faculty has stated that the UK power system can decarbonise by 2030 without the requirement of new biomass, nuclear or carbon … Continue reading →

Bavaria in southern Germany – which already sources 43% of its energy generation from renewables – last week saw the unveiling of a new multi-million euro project consisting of a battery storage system combined with a pump storage hydro plant … Continue reading →

Crown Estates Scotland has published a paper which includes a draft leasing process to encourage new offshore wind farms in Scotland’s waters claiming that it is necessary to ensure new projects are built from to second half of the 2020s … Continue reading →

As the UK continues on its inexorable path to a carbon free energy world, the questions around how this is achieved and the paths that should be taken become ever more pertinent. With the continued closure of large, dirty coal … Continue reading →

Star Renewable Energy were one of the star turns (please excuse the terrible pun) at Scotland’s All-Energy Exhibition and Conference last week. Thousands of professionals from throughout the industry attended the showcase event in Glasgow and local low carbon water … Continue reading →

The ILI office have taken a keen interest in SSE’s plans to increase their Coire Glas pumped storage hydro-electric project.  The energy company have sought approval from the Scottish Government to change their proposals from the approved 600MW-capacity (approved in … Continue reading →

This week the National Grid confirmed that Britain did not use coal to generate electricity from Saturday morning to Tuesday afternoon, our longest streak since the 19th century and only a few days after the previous record of 55 hours … Continue reading →

The British Geological Society are funding a new project looking into the possibility of benefitting from the vast reservoir of warm water that fills a web of disused mines underneath Glasgow. The naturally heated water that currently populates these mines would … Continue reading →

A new study into the intermittency of renewable energy and how to resolve the issue has concluded that there may be three methods by which consistent power could be achieved. The research was carried out by Mark Jacobson, a professor … Continue reading →