Energy

For the first time, since records began in January 1997, the UK is importing no energy from Russia.

The UK’s largest regional airline has thrown its weight behind the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport bid and said the Scottish Highlands can provide a “key building block” in the drive to decarbonise the country’s air transport system.

Aberdeen-headquartered PD&MS Group has secured a three-year operations and maintenance (O&M) contract with Vattenfall to support its European offshore wind portfolio for an undisclosed sum. The contract, which also has options to extend for a further two-year period, will see the engineering

ScottishPower has announced its biggest ever recruitment drive, with at least 1,000 new jobs to be filled in the next 12 months.

A House of Commons committee has said that the government should set-up "urgently sets up a cross-departmental taskforce... to respond to the energy price crisis and wider cost-of-living".

The secretary general of oil producers group OPEC, Mohammad Barkindo, has passed away. A pivotal figure in the global oil sector, he served as secretary general of OPEC since August 2016.

Scottish renewables company Renewco Power has announced its expansion into the US with the acquisition of several key projects. Renewco has agreed on a deal to acquire a 1.5GW pipeline of early stage utility-scale solar projects alongside 500MW of battery storage projects from Beaufort Rosemary, a V

The Business Growth Fund (BGF) has exited Ellon-based Aubin Group following an agreement to sell their stake to Italmatch Chemicals.

Plans for an innovative £20 million facility in West Dunbartonshire to turn waste plastic into hydrogen, which will be the first of its kind in Scotland, have been approved.