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Committee contacts
Mark Hobbins CEng FEI Chartered Energy Engineer
Chair
Gary Howorth MEI
Secretary
Dr Douglas Harris CEng MEI
Treasurer
Events and training
2024 SafetyOn Stakeholder Forum
05/12/2024
2023 SafetyOn Stakeholder ForumThe 2023 annual SafetyOn Stakeholder Forum will take place on 30th November 2023 at the Edinburgh International Co...
Publications and documents
What's new?
Tidal power technologies win ringfenced CfD funding in the UK
08/12/2021
The UK government is to invest £20mn/y in tidal stream electricity as part of its renewable energy auction scheme, potentially starting a new chapter ...
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 fi...
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 Nort...
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 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 Co...
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