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Alex Salmond published this week Scotland’s strategy for the oil and gas industry targeting higher long-term recovery rates from the UKCS, greater exports from the Scottish supply chain and £30 billion annual sales by 2020.

The UK Government has committed the Country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Details have emerged this month on what may replace the unpopular CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme ("CRC").

Early last year the Prime Minister dropped the "E-bomb" on British motorists, announcing a ban on cars powered wholly by petrol and diesel from 2030, and on the sale of new hybrid...

The introduction of a new UK tax on renewable and nuclear electricity generators was confirmed in the recent Autumn Statement. Given the cost of funding the Energy Price Guarantee and the Energy Support Scheme...

Ofgem recently approved Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) modification proposal P415, a significant move that aims to facilitate access to the wholesale electricity market...

The nuclear energy sector has entered into 2022 high on political agenda, as policymakers attempt to calibrate the sector's role in the race to net zero.

The Lands Tribunal for Scotland has found in principle that compensation payable under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 4 to the Electricity Act 1989...

FEW activities are more environmentally destructive than mining. But South Africa's economy was built on mining.

In a significant move within Spain's energy sector, Iberdrola, a prominent Spanish electric utility, has initiated legal proceedings against Repsol, the country's leading oil company.

The CCL is a tax on business and public sector energy use. The general rule is that supplies of electricity to non-domestic customers are subject to a levy of £5.54/MWh.

The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005 (OSCR) come into force on 6th April 2006. OSCR will replace the previous 1992 Regulations, subject to a number of transitional arrangements.

Nostrum Oil & Gas plc (the "Company") is an English-incorporated company and is the ultimate parent of a corporate group operating in the oil & gas business in Kazakhstan (the "Group").

According to a March 2023 report from IRENA (the International Renewable Energy Agency), ocean energy is one of the technologies that must be scaled up for the energy system to reach full decarbonisation.

For many in the energy sector, it's not just potential energy reserves which remain untapped, but also data reserves.

A recent DECC consultation proposes amendments to the Offshore Chemicals Regulations 2002 (OCR) and the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005 (OPA) so that the Secretary of State may take action against operators of offshore installations for the unintentional release of chemicals.

The UK is one of the shining lights on wind energy. According to the article below, "wind power supplies more than a quarter of the UK's electricity needs.