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DuneZED has unveiled proposals to develop a £40m solar energy farm and eco-holiday complex at the former Yelland power station in North Devon.
23-Dec-2010


Lifetime Recycling Village is planning to build a £640m energy-from-waste plant at Newton Mearns near Glasgow, employing up to 700 staff.
23-Dec-2010


Weir Group has acquired a 76% stake in Ynfiniti Engineering Services, the Spanish wind power firm with annual sales of £8.5m.
22-Dec-2010


Moray Offshore Renewables is considering Buckie, Nigg and Ardersier as potential locations for an onshore base to operate a £4.5bn energy project with 200 turbines in the Moray Firth.
20-Dec-2010


British Energy is to extend the life of its nuclear power stations in Heysham and Hartlepool until 2019, securing the future of up to 700 jobs at each site.
20-Dec-2010


Vattenfall, Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group have secured a £34m European grant to fund the development of a wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen over the next two years.
16-Dec-2010


Viridor has won permission from the Scottish Government to build a £200m 23MW energy-from-waste plant at Oxwellmains, Dunbar.
16-Dec-2010


ADAS and Enfinity are planning to develop 50MW of solar energy parks in 2011, and suitable sites are being sought in southern England and South Wales.
14-Dec-2010


Wellstream, the oil and gas services firm with 400 staff in Newcastle and 550 in Brazil, is to be acquired by General Electric of the US for £800m.
14-Dec-2010


New Earth Solutions has won permission to build a mechanical biological treatment facility in Widnes and a 10MW waste-to-energy pyrolysis plant at Winfrith in Dorset.
14-Dec-2010


Wood Group of Aberdeen is to acquire PSN for £660m, in order to create a combined energy services group with a global workforce of 22,000.
13-Dec-2010


Nevis Capital has acquired Shetland Wind Power, the supplier of small wind turbines with sites in Shetland and Stirling.
13-Dec-2010


Farmgen has submitted plans to build a £3m biofuels plant to supply energy to Kirkham Prison.
13-Dec-2010


Cornwall Council is to consider plans from Solar Securities for a £30m investment in two solar energy farms at Summercourt and Cubert over the next 18 months.
09-Dec-2010


Eco Environments is planning to open a new office in Oxfordshire, as part of the nationwide expansion of its energy solutions business.
09-Dec-2010


National Grid is to sell its Granite State Electric and EnergyNorth operations in the US to Algonquin Power & Utilities for £178m.
09-Dec-2010


Red Spider is planning to expand the 50-strong workforce at its Aberdeen-based oil production technology business to 60 next year.
09-Dec-2010


Vogen Energy has submitted revised plans for a £50m biofuels plant at Newport Docks, with the creation of 40 jobs.
09-Dec-2010


Petrofac is to invest up to £33m in Gateway Storage's plan to develop a £1bn gas storage network in salt caverns off the coast of Barrow by 2016.
07-Dec-2010


Mitsubishi Power Systems is to set up a wind power research centre in Edinburgh, as part of a £100m investment that includes the acquisition of Loanhead-based Artemis Intelligent Power and the creation of 200 jobs over the next five years.
06-Dec-2010


United Utilities is to create 250 new jobs at call centres in Warrington and Whitehaven, in order to transfer billing and payments work from abroad.
06-Dec-2010


Enviroparks has won approval to build a £120m energy-from-waste plant in Hirwaun by 2013, with the creation of 200 jobs.
06-Dec-2010


Bioflame of North Yorkshire has secured a £4.5m investment to fund the development of up to six biomass incinerator plants every year, and its 32-strong workforce will double next year.
06-Dec-2010


Marine Current Turbines is to submit plans next year for a £35m investment in a tidal energy farm at Kylerhea off the coast of Skye.
06-Dec-2010


Gaelectric has won planning approval to build a 15MW wind farm at Inishative in Co Tyrone, with the creation of 20 jobs.
02-Dec-2010


Siemens has won permission to build a 28,000 sq ft office and laboratory extension at its Withington site in Manchester, in order to create up to 170 new jobs in offshore wind farm technology.
29-Nov-2010


Ecotricity has won permission for a 1MW solar power station in Lincolnshire, which will be the first of a series of "Sun Parks".
29-Nov-2010


Glyndwr University is to help create 50 research jobs in North Wales, as part of a £4.4m solar energy collaboration with Bangor and Swansea universities.
29-Nov-2010


Gaia-Wind is to set up a £5m wind turbine factory in Glasgow, with the creation of 50 jobs.
25-Nov-2010


Centrica is planning to build a new wind turbine operations and maintenance plant at Grimsby Docks next year, employing up to 120 people.
25-Nov-2010


Forth Energy has submitted plans to build a 130MW biomass power plant at the port at Rosyth, with the creation of 40 jobs.
24-Nov-2010


Fendercare Marine Solutions is planning to set up a multi-million pound service and supply base for the energy sector on the island of Hoy in Orkney.
24-Nov-2010


OGN Group has won a £150m contract to build a North Sea platform for Apache Corporation, with the creation of 1,000 jobs in Wallsend over the next two years.
23-Nov-2010


Kier has acquired Beco, the Devon-based supplier of renewable energy sources based on photovoltaic technology, for up to £2.4m.
23-Nov-2010


Nationwide Solar and A Shade Greener are to create 300 jobs at their Barnsley-based solar panels installation business next year.
22-Nov-2010


Biffa is to submit plans to build a 34MW energy-from-waste plant at Westmill near Ware.
22-Nov-2010


Juwi Group of Germany is planning to create 60 jobs at a new Birmingham-based division over the next two years, in order to build 60MW of solar power projects.
22-Nov-2010


Utiligroup is setting up a new 8,722 sq ft office at the Clayton Green Business Park in Chorley.
22-Nov-2010


North Somerset Council is in discussions with Sunlec about the possibility of using a 45-acre site at Backwell near Bristol for a solar energy park.
18-Nov-2010


British Gas New Energy has bought the assets of Cool Planet Technologies, the Northamptonshire-based heat pump installation firm, for £0.5m.
18-Nov-2010


Intergen has won government permission for the £500m expansion of a gas-fired power station in Spalding, with the creation of 30 jobs.
17-Nov-2010


Vattenfall has won planning permission for the 56MW Ray Wind Farm project with 16 turbines in Northumberland.
17-Nov-2010


RBG, the Aberdeen-based oil services firm with 5,000 staff, is to be acquired by private equity firm Montagu for about £200m.
15-Nov-2010


Low Carbon Solar Partners and Energy4All have unveiled plans for a £14m solar energy farm at Westmill near Swindon.
15-Nov-2010


UK Coal is to relocate its Harworth Estates property division and 20 staff to the Advanced Manufacturing Park near Rotherham by the end of the year.
15-Nov-2010


North British Windpower has won Scottish Government approval to build a 144MW wind farm with 48 turbines in the Lammermuir Hills in the Borders.
10-Nov-2010


Farmgen has secured a £2.1m package with the Co-operative Bank to help fund the development of up to 50 anaerobic digestion power plants.
08-Nov-2010


Newton Energy UK has won permission from Nottinghamshire County Council to start drilling for oil at two sites near Radcliffe and Cropwell Butler.
04-Nov-2010


Shepherd Offshore Group is considering plans to redevelop the 150-acre former Hyundai factory site in Dunfermline into a renewable energy centre.
03-Nov-2010


BiFab has won a £12m contract to build two substations for RWE's Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm, securing 350 jobs at its site in Methil.
02-Nov-2010


Solar Technology PV Energy is to create up to 80 jobs at its Gloucestershire-based solar energy panels business.
02-Nov-2010


Abbey Renewables is planning to build a £13m 5MW solar energy farm on a 35-acre site at Wilburton in Cambridgeshire.
01-Nov-2010


RES has submitted plans for a 25MW wind farm with 11 turbines near Kirkcowan in Dumfries, as well as a 4-6MW extension to its project in Thruso.
01-Nov-2010


UKFast is to invest £12m in the development of up to 11 hydroelectric power plants in Wales and Scotland over the next five years, in order to supply electricity to its data centres.
28-Oct-2010


Petrofac has won a £500m contract from Total to build a gas processing plant at Sullom Voe, which will require up to 1,000 workers.
28-Oct-2010


Lincolnshire County Council has selected Waste Recycling Group as preferred bidder to build a £145m energy-from-waste plant at North Hykeham by 2013, with the creation of 33 jobs.
28-Oct-2010


Viridor has won planning permission to build a 24MW energy-from-waste incinerator at Ardley in Oxfordshire by 2014.
28-Oct-2010


The University of Nottingham is to seek permission to build a £10m wind farm with three turbines at Grove Farm.
28-Oct-2010


MeyGen is planning a 400MW tidal power development between Stroma and Caithness by 2020, as part of the Crown Estate's latest leasing round.
28-Oct-2010


Morgan Lambert, the Selby-based gas safety consultancy with 27 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
27-Oct-2010


Gamesa of Spain is to invest £133m in its offshore wind energy business in the UK by 2014, including a London headquarters, turbine factory, port maintenance services and the creation of 1,000 jobs.
26-Oct-2010


The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) is to provide £60m of funding to develop the infrastructure of ports for offshore wind projects.
26-Oct-2010


Crown Estate has approved plans from Eni to develop an offshore gas storage facility in the North Sea's Deborah field.
25-Oct-2010


Mabey Bridge has started recruiting 100 staff for its new £38m wind turbine tower manufacturing plant due to open in Chepstow in November.
25-Oct-2010


TCI Renewables has unveiled plans to build a wind farm with three turbines near Flag Fen in Peterborough.
25-Oct-2010


RES has announced plans for a £300m investment in the development of a biomass power plant at Alexandra Dock in Bootle by 2015, with the creation of 50 jobs.
25-Oct-2010


Swindon Council has unveiled details of a proposed £8.3m advanced thermal treatment waste-to-energy plant to be built at the Cheney Manor Industrial Estate.
25-Oct-2010


Cornwall County Council has identified a site in St Mawgan for a proposed solar energy park, and a construction tender will now be issued.
21-Oct-2010


Ecofirst has been contracted to build a £2m solar energy plant on a 120-acre estate at Long Sutton in Somerset by March 2011.
20-Oct-2010


The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has identified eight sites as suitable for new nuclear power plants, including Bradwell-on-Sea, Hartlepool, Heysham, Hinkley Point, Oldbury, Sellafield, Sizewell and Wylfa.
19-Oct-2010


Clipper Windpower, the wind turbine maker with a site in Northumberland, is to be acquired by United Technologies of the US in a £140m deal.
19-Oct-2010


Ecotricity of Stroud is to raise up to £10m in a bond issue to help fund the development of 1,000MW of green electricity generation capacity over the next ten years.
19-Oct-2010


Vogt Solar has unveiled plans to build a £13m 5MW solar energy farm on a 30-acre site at Bourn near Cambridge.
18-Oct-2010


New Earth Energy has won permission to build a 7.5MW gasification and pyrolysis plant at its site in Avonmouth by 2012.
18-Oct-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy has acquired a new nine-storey office building at One Waterloo Street in Glasgow, in order to set up a renewable energy headquarters with up to 600 staff.
11-Oct-2010


Scottish Coal has submitted plans to extend an opencast mining site at Loch Fitty near Kelty, with the creation of 52 jobs.
11-Oct-2010


EverGen is planning to triple the 11-strong workforce at its Huddersfield-based green energy technology business over the next three years.
11-Oct-2010


Valiant Petroleum is relocating its Woking office to an 18,000 sq ft unit at Victoria Gate.
07-Oct-2010


British Gas is creating 60 new jobs for insulation technicians at the Green Skills Training Centre in Tredegar.
07-Oct-2010


Enfinity is to expand its renewable energy operations in the UK from its new office at The Plaza in Liverpool.
06-Oct-2010


Covanta Energy is planning to build a 24MW energy-from-waste plant at Drumshangie, near Glasgow, by 2015.
05-Oct-2010


Lincolnshire County Council has approved plans from Alternative Use Group and Alchemy Farms to build a 12MW gasification plant fuelled by waste wood in Boston by 2012.
04-Oct-2010


Shropshire Council is in discussions with Wind & Solar Systems about plans to invest £60m in the development of five solar energy farms at Westbury.
04-Oct-2010


Corby Council is expected to receive plans from BeLa for the development of a 25-acre solar park at the Priors Hall Park housing scheme.
04-Oct-2010


European Forest Resources has unveiled plans for the development of a £100m wind farm with up to 30 turbines at West Calder in West Lothian.
04-Oct-2010


Krannich Solar is setting up a new headquarters and warehouse for its solar energy systems business at Suttons Business Park in Reading, with the creation of up to 20 jobs by next summer.
04-Oct-2010


Enterprise Group has acquired the gas and power meter installation and support operations in the Midlands and North of England of United Utilities.
04-Oct-2010


Derbyshire County Council is considering plans from Warwick Integrated Generation to build a £8m gasification plant at Pye Bridge Industrial Estate in Somercotes.
30-Sep-2010


Centrica is to acquire the gas and electricity services business of Connaught for £11m, including 600 staff, a training centre in South Wales and office in Bradford.
29-Sep-2010


TAG Energy Solutions has secured £20m of funding to expand its Haverton Hill plant in Billingham to manufacture offshore turbines, with the creation of an initial 100 jobs.
29-Sep-2010


Rockfield Energy Investments has announced a £50m investment in E-Gen of Berwickshire to help fund the development of hundreds of small-scale wind farms across Scotland.
28-Sep-2010


John Pointon & Sons has secured a £1.4m grant to help fund the development of a new £12m anaerobic digestion plant at its site in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, by October 2011.
27-Sep-2010


Waste Recycling Group is planning to invest up to £1.5bn in the development of recycling and energy recovery facilities at its nationwide network of 259 waste management sites.
27-Sep-2010


Rotawave is seeking a suitable location on the Isle of Wight for a new factory, having won a £8m contract from Global Bio-Coal Energy of Canada to supply a machine that produces "green coal" from wood.
27-Sep-2010


West Coast Energy has won planning approval for a wind farm with 12 turbines at Tirgwynt in Powys by 2013.
27-Sep-2010


ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall have unveiled details of a proposed 7,200MW wind farm called East Anglia ONE off the coast of Suffolk, which will create hundreds of jobs.
23-Sep-2010


Carbon Free Developments has submitted plans to build a wind farm with nine turbines at Earlseat in Fife, which would create 150 jobs for apprentices.
21-Sep-2010


Blue-NG, the Bath-based company planning to develop up to eight biofuel power plants, is expected to be fully acquired by 2OC with the sale of National Grid's 50% stake.
20-Sep-2010


Gaelectric has won planning permission to build a new £18m 11MW wind farm at Cregganconroe in Co Tyrone.
16-Sep-2010


Moray Offshore Renewables and Beatrice Offshore Windfarm have unveiled plans for the development of two offshore wind farms with up to 400 turbines near Caithness, which would create hundreds of jobs.
15-Sep-2010


Centrica is said to be in negotiations to acquire a further 80,000 sq ft of office space at the Oxford Business Park.
15-Sep-2010


Iberdrola of Spain has announced plans to invest £3bn in renewable energy in Scotland over the next two years.
14-Sep-2010


Motherwell Bridge is forming a strategic partnership with Entec Biogas of Austria to expand into the UK anaerobic digestion sector by tendering for large-scale projects.
13-Sep-2010


Wingas Storage has won government approval to set up a new underground gas storage facility at Saltfleetby in Lincolnshire by 2011.
13-Sep-2010


Edgeley Green Power is to submit plans to Adur District Council for a £12m power plant fuelled by vegetable oils at Shoreham Port, which would create 20 jobs.
09-Sep-2010


Dana Petroleum is to acquire Petro-Canada's interests in two oil production hubs in the Central North Sea Triton Area and the Scott Telford Moray Firth fields for £240m.
08-Sep-2010


ScottishPower Renewables is planning to install an additional 75 turbines at its Whitelee wind farm near Glasgow by 2012, with the creation of up to 200 jobs.
08-Sep-2010


Kedco has won permission from Enfield Council to build a £45m biomass plant fuelled by waste wood at Edmonton in London.
06-Sep-2010


ENER-G is setting up a 10,000 sq ft office at the Studley Point development in Birmingham.
06-Sep-2010


Harland & Wolff of Belfast has won a £20m contract from Siemens to build two sub-station platforms for an offshore windfarm, with the creation of up to 40 jobs.
02-Sep-2010


Cornwall Council is to consider plans for the development of a geothermal energy plant at the Eden project.
02-Sep-2010


RPS Group is to acquire Boyd Exploration Consultants, the Canadian oil and gas and mining consultancy with 26 staff, for up to £8.5m.
01-Sep-2010


Moy Park's Rose Energy consortium has won permission to develop a chicken litter-fuelled biomass power plant at Glenavy in County Antrim, with the creation of 30 jobs.
01-Sep-2010


Premier Oil is to invest £320m in the development of its oil production assets in the North Sea and elsewhere over the next few years.
31-Aug-2010


B9 Coal is forming a consortium to build a carbon capture and storage project as part of the DECC's demonstration competition, and a potential site is Rio Tinto Alcan's Lynemouth plant in Northumberland.
31-Aug-2010


XEMC of China is considering plans to set up a £95m wind turbine assembly plant in Northern Ireland, with the creation of more than 600 jobs.
26-Aug-2010


Marine Current Turbines and RWE Npower are to submit a planning application for a £70m 10MW tidal energy project off Anglesey in September.
25-Aug-2010


Amec has won a £60m contract from EDF Energy to extend a gas storage site at Warmingham near Crewe by July 2012.
23-Aug-2010


Forth Energy has submitted plans to build a biomass-fuelled power plant at the Port of Dundee, with the creation of 60 jobs.
19-Aug-2010


Solon SE is to build a 1.3MW solar power plant near Bissoe in Cornwall, in partnership with 35 Degrees.
19-Aug-2010


Helius Energy has announced plans to build a 100MW biomass power plant on a 20-acre site at the Port of Southampton.
18-Aug-2010


Ernst & Young is to create more than 100 jobs at its new clean energy and technology division.
17-Aug-2010


Geothermal Engineering has won approval to build a £40m geothermal power plant at St Day in Cornwall by 2013.
17-Aug-2010


Corus is planning to build a £31m factory to produce wind farm structures at its former site on Teesside, with the creation of 200 jobs.
16-Aug-2010


Covanta has unveiled plans to build a 65MW energy-from-waste incinerator at Rookery South Pit in Bedfordshire.
10-Aug-2010


Sembcorp UK and SITA UK have unveiled plans to build an energy recovery plant at the Wilton International site on Teesside, with the creation of about 50 jobs.
10-Aug-2010


Tidal Energy is to set up a £1.4m tidal power pilot project at Ramsey Sound in Pembrokeshire.
09-Aug-2010


Sharp Corporation is to invest £30m in the expansion of its solar cell modules factory in Wrexham, with the creation of an unspecified number of jobs.
03-Aug-2010


ATH Resources has sold its regeneration business to a new company called RecyCoal for an initial £6.5m, in order to focus on surface mining.
02-Aug-2010


Haven Power is planning to create 140 new jobs at its electricity supply business in Ipswich over the next 18 months, having submitted plans to expand its office.
02-Aug-2010


United Utilities is to sell its 50% stake in the Meter Fit non-regulated gas and electricity meter ownership business to its joint venture partner Marlin Acquisitions for £119m.
02-Aug-2010


Senergy Alternative Energy of Aberdeen has acquired SGC Engineering, the US energy services firm with 70 staff.
02-Aug-2010


Monsal has secured £14m to expand its Mansfield-based energy-from-waste technology business, including additional sales and engineering staff to add to the 40-strong workforce.
02-Aug-2010


British Gas is to create 50 new jobs at its call centre in Southampton by the end of the year and a further 40 at a new insulation depot.
28-Jul-2010


Ferguson Group is to invest £75m in the expansion of its energy industry support services business over the next three years, including a new headquarters in Kintore.
28-Jul-2010


PSN is to create an initial 70 jobs at its Aberdeen-based energy services business, having won a £200m contract from Shell for dismantling work in the Brent field.
27-Jul-2010


TEG Group has formed a joint venture with Albion Ventures to build a £4.5m anaerobic digestion plant in Glenfarg, Perthshire.
26-Jul-2010


Eon has won planning permission for a new 105,000 sq ft office scheme on Burton Street in Nottingham.
26-Jul-2010


Air Products is planning to build a 49MW waste-fuelled power plant near Billingham, with the creation of up to 50 jobs.
21-Jul-2010


ICE Renewables is planning to double its workforce in Northallerton to 40, having won a £35m contract to supply and install wind turbines for Vergnet Groupe.
21-Jul-2010


Peel Energy has unveiled plans to build a £70m 20MW biomass energy plant fuelled by recycled wood at Barton Bridge in Trafford by 2014, with the creation of 15 jobs.
19-Jul-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy is linking up with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to develop offshore wind farms and electric car technology, with the creation of 100 jobs at its engineering centre in Glasgow.
19-Jul-2010


Real Ventures has unveiled plans to build a £130m biomass power plant at Newport on the Isle of Wight by 2013, with the creation of 235 jobs.
19-Jul-2010


Stobart Group has acquired parts of the business of Amenity Horticultural Services, the East Sussex-based supplier of woodchip biomass fuel, for £2m.
19-Jul-2010


Cyclamax has won planning permission to build a 15MW gasification plant at the London Sustainable Industries Park in Dagenham by 2013, in order to process 120,000 tonnes of waste a year.
14-Jul-2010


Statoil is considering sites off the coasts of Fraserburgh and the Isle of Lewis for the development of floating wind farms, in order to use its new Hywind turbine technology.
14-Jul-2010


D1 Oils has sold its 50-acre biodiesel refining site in Bromborough to Organic Waste Management for undisclosed terms.
12-Jul-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy has revived plans to build a carbon capture and storage facility at its gas-fired power station in Peterhead.
12-Jul-2010


The Welsh Assembly has approved plans from Sunrise Renewables to build a 9MW wood-fuelled pyrolysis plant at Barry Dock.
12-Jul-2010


Able UK has unveiled proposals to develop a £400m wind turbine manufacturing and renewable energy centre near Immingham, with the creation of up to 10,000 jobs.
12-Jul-2010


Bolsterstone has won approval to build a £10m wind farm with four turbines at Willowbank Farm near Bicester.
08-Jul-2010


Amec, Balfour Beatty and Areva have won a contract worth up to £1.5bn from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to build a nuclear waste processing plant at Sellafield by 2018.
07-Jul-2010


The Scottish Government has announced grants totalling £13m for five marine energy projects being planned by RWE Npower Renewables, Aquamarine, OpenHydro, AWS Ocean Energy and Ocean Flow Energy.
07-Jul-2010


Viridian is to sell Northern Ireland Electricity, including NIE Powerteam, Powerteam Electrical Services and 1,300 staff, to ESB for £1bn.
07-Jul-2010


BG Group is to sell the Ballylumford gas-fired power station in County Antrim to AES Corporation for £99m.
05-Jul-2010


Energetics Networked Energy is setting up a new utilities infrastructure operation in Halesowen, with the creation of 100 jobs over the next three years.
01-Jul-2010


Copeland Council has approved plans from the University of Manchester to develop a £20m nuclear research centre at Westlakes Science Park near Whitehaven, with the creation of 40 jobs.
01-Jul-2010


XPD8 Solutions, the Aberdeen-based oil services firm, has undergone a £6m management buy-out backed by Maven Capital Partners, and plans to double its 30-strong workforce over the next three years.
30-Jun-2010


Utility Partnership Limited (UPL) is planning to expand the 137-strong workforce at its infrastructure and energy consultancy with 66 new jobs over the next three years, and has acquired a new office and warehouse in Wentloog.
30-Jun-2010


Infrastrata has agreed a deal with eCORP International of the US to help fund its Portland and Islandmagee gas storage projects in Dorset and Northern Ireland.
29-Jun-2010


Stornoway Trust is in discussions with Amec about proposals to build a wind farm with about 30 turbines on Lewis.
29-Jun-2010


Scottish Resources Group is planning to raise £25m in a stock market listing to fund the expansion of its coal mining and wind farm operations.
28-Jun-2010


Encore Oil is set to announce a major oil discovery at the Catcher prospect off the east coast of Scotland.
28-Jun-2010


Electricity North West is to acquire United Utilities Electricity Services, in order to create one group to own and maintain its network.
28-Jun-2010


Active Energy is planning to double the workforce at its electricity transformers factory in East Kilbride to 60 over the next two years.
28-Jun-2010


McKinnon & Clarke has acquired Encore, the energy risk consultancy with 80 staff, for £6.3m.
28-Jun-2010


RWE Npower Renewables has won approval to build the 3MW Cia-Aig hydroelectric power plant at Achnacarry near Inverness, with the creation of 20 jobs.
23-Jun-2010


Euro Garages is looking to expand its petrol forecourts into southern England with the acquisition of groups of sites.
22-Jun-2010


Iggesund Paperboard is planning to build a biomass power station fuelled by wood chip at its plant in Workington.
21-Jun-2010


Fulcrum Group, the provider of gas connection services, is to be sold by National Grid to cash shell Marwyn Capital 1 for a nominal sum.
21-Jun-2010


Eneco has unveiled details of its proposed £3bn wind farm development off the coast of Dorset, which will include up to 300 turbines by 2018.
21-Jun-2010


Intertek is to acquire Expertises Technologies & Services Analyses, the French oil inspection company with 120 staff, from Air Liquide for £6.3m.
16-Jun-2010


Kent County Council is to consider plans from Evonik New Energies and HES Biopower to build a 25MW biomass plant fuelled by waste wood at Ridham Docks.
15-Jun-2010


ATH Resources has won planning approval for a new coal mine at Duncanziemuir in Ayrshire, with the creation of 36 jobs.
15-Jun-2010


Greenspan Agency has unveiled plans to develop a wind farm with three turbines as St Fergus Moss in Buchan.
14-Jun-2010


Dana Petroleum is to acquire Petro Canada Netherlands, the North Sea exploration and production company, from Suncor Energy for £270m.
14-Jun-2010


Renewable Energy Generation has acquired the 4.9MW St Breock wind farm in Cornwall from Eon Climate & Renewables for an initial £2.8m.
14-Jun-2010


Petrofac has acquired TNEI Services, the energy consultancy with 50 staff in Newcastle and Manchester, for £7.5m.
14-Jun-2010


The University of Glamorgan is creating 20 jobs for scientists at its newly-launched CymruH2Wales hydrogen technology research project.
10-Jun-2010


Composite Energy has won permission from Wrexham County Council to start test drilling for methane gas at a site on Hollybush Lane.
10-Jun-2010


Shell has confirmed plans to relocate 1,600 London-based staff to a 187,000 sq ft office at Canary Wharf.
10-Jun-2010


Energybuild, the South Wales-based mine operator, is to be acquired by Western Coal Corp of Canada in a £54m deal.
10-Jun-2010


British Gas is to create 80 jobs at a new insulation solutions depot due to open at Prologis Park in Coventry in July.
08-Jun-2010


TruRead, the Cheshire-based smart metering firm with about 100 staff, has been acquired by Gazprom Marketing & Trading of Russia for undisclosed terms.
08-Jun-2010


Westinghouse Electric Company is to set up a permanent office at Matrix Park in Chorley, in order to benefit from the planned nuclear reactor building programme.
08-Jun-2010


RWE Innogy is linking up with Siemens to build a £1.6bn offshore wind farm with 160 turbines off the coast of Llandudno by 2014.
07-Jun-2010


Rix Petroleum is creating 20 jobs at its new fuel distribution depot in Market Drayton.
07-Jun-2010


Stockton Council has approved plans from RWF to build a new gas pipeline from Redcar to Port Clarence, securing 45 existing jobs and creating 15 new ones.
07-Jun-2010


Peel Environmental is linking up with Covanta Energy to build a £500m industrial waste recycling and energy recovery park at Stanlow in Cheshire, with the creation of up to 1,000 jobs.
02-Jun-2010


Corus Colors is to create 160 jobs at Shotton in North Wales to fund the commercial development of its new solar power technology.
01-Jun-2010


Cumbria County Council has approved plans from a farming co-operative to develop a £2m anaerobic digestion energy plant at Kirkbride by 2011.
01-Jun-2010


Pulse Tidal has selected Kyle Rhea on the west coast of Scotland as the site for its first offshore power station, and could start generating the first 1.2MW of renewable electricity by 2012.
27-May-2010


BGlobal is to acquire Utiligroup, the Blackburn-based provider of energy data management and process solutions, for up to £13m.
27-May-2010


London Array has selected the port of Ramsgate as the construction and operations centre for the development of the London Array offshore wind farm.
26-May-2010


Midmar Energy has won permission to drill exploratory oil wells at Bidborough in Kent in 2011.
26-May-2010


National Grid is to raise £3.2bn in a rights issue to fund improvements to its electricity and gas transmission networks, allowing the connection of 20GW of renewable projects.
25-May-2010


ENER-G Switch2 is planning to create 20 jobs at its metering and billing technology business in Saltaire over the next year, and will relocate its warehouse and production facility to a larger site in the Aire Valley.
24-May-2010


Scotwaste and Banks Developments are planning to build a £25m combined heat and power plant at the Pond Green Energy Park in Bathgate.
24-May-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy has sold the 30MW Ardrossan Windfarm in Ayrshire to private equity firm Terra Firma for £28m.
24-May-2010


Kingspan Renewables is investing up to £47m in the expansion of its solar energy products business in Portadown, with the creation of 163 jobs over the next five years.
20-May-2010


Orchard is recruiting a national sales force for the expansion of its Brighouse-based energy consultancy, and new regional offices will open in Glasgow and Cardiff.
20-May-2010


Co-operative Bank is to lend up to £200m to renewable energy projects this year and will expand its renewables department in Manchester and create a new team in Scotland.
20-May-2010


The Scottish Government has identified 25 potential sites for the development of offshore wind farms after 2020.
20-May-2010


Broadview Energy has won permission from Stockton and Hambleton councils to build a wind farm with five turbines near Hilton.
19-May-2010


RWE Npower Renewables is to increase its workforce in Powys from 14 to 26 over the next three years, and an additional office will open at Parc Derwen Fawr in Llanidloes.
19-May-2010


Ecotricity is planning to develop a network of solar energy farms across southern England by 2020, and expects to announce the first 25-acre site within weeks.
17-May-2010


Corus is to invest £6m in a coal exploration project at its Port Talbot plant in South Wales over the next three years.
17-May-2010


PNE Wind of Germany is to invest £500m in wind farm projects across the UK over the next three years, and will open an office in Scotland later this year.
17-May-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy is to build a £13m biogas waste treatment plant at Barkip in North Ayrshire, as part of a £100m investment in similar projects across the country.
17-May-2010


Crown Estate has approved plans from Dong Wind UK, Vattenfall Wind Power, SSE Renewables and RWE Npower Renewables for the expansion of four wind farms off the coasts of Liverpool, Cumbria, Kent and Suffolk.
12-May-2010


Ecotricity is looking into the possibility of building a wind farm with nine turbines at Murcott in Oxfordshire.
12-May-2010


Lancaster City Council is to consider plans for the development of a £7.4m wind farm on the Lancaster University campus.
10-May-2010


Climate Exchange, the carbon emissions exchange operator, is to be acquired by Intercontinental Exchange of the US for £395m.
04-May-2010


White Group of Manchester is investing £3m in the development of a new plant to produce "refuse derived fuel" to supply to Tarmac's Buxton cement plant.
04-May-2010


Ensus is planning a multi-million pound investment in environmental improvements to its recently-opened bioethanol plant on Teesside.
29-Apr-2010


Amec is to create up to 100 jobs in Aberdeen, having won a North Sea oil consultancy contract from Xcite Energy Resources.
28-Apr-2010


Petrofac has acquired CO2DeepStore, the Aberdeen-based carbon dioxide capture and storage company.
28-Apr-2010


Eon is to relocate its Nottingham office from Newland House to a new 105,000 sq ft building on the Guildhall site by June 2012.
27-Apr-2010


Envar is seeking permission to build a £10m green energy plant fuelled by organic waste in Feltham, with the creation of 12 jobs.
26-Apr-2010


The Scottish Government has approved plans from Osspower for the development of four new hydroelectric power plants near Loch Lomond.
21-Apr-2010


Stiebel Eltron is linking up with Scientiam of Birkenhead and the Skills Funding Agency to set up a Green Energy Training Centre at the Wirral International Business Park in Bromborough later this year.
20-Apr-2010


Bibby Offshore has raised £34m to fund the acquisition of a dive-support vessel for its Aberdeen-based offshore operation, with the creation of up to 240 jobs.
19-Apr-2010


Rix Petroleum is to submit plans to Breckland Council to build a £1m oil depot on the Victory Business Park in Attleborough.
13-Apr-2010


Infinergy has unveiled proposals to build a wind farm with five turbines at Wellow on the Isle of Wight.
12-Apr-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy is setting up a new 60,000 sq ft regional depot for 150 staff in Hedge End, Hampshire, having won a £225m contract to operate street lighting for three councils.
12-Apr-2010


RWE has won approval from North East Lincolnshire Council to build a £205m biomass power plant in Stallingborough by 2013, with the creation of 70 jobs.
12-Apr-2010


Crown Energy has started work on the development of a new 10,000 sq ft headquarters for 90 staff at Heap Brow in Bury.
12-Apr-2010


Viridor has submitted revised plans to build an energy-from-waste plant at Ardley in Oxfordshire.
12-Apr-2010


Sparrows Offshore is to create up to 35 jobs at its Aberdeen-based oil services business, having won a number of new lifting and handling contracts.
12-Apr-2010


East Devon District Council has approved outline plans from St Modwen Developments and Hallam Land Management to build a low-carbon energy centre near Exeter Airport to supply renewable energy to the Cranbrook and Skypark developments.
12-Apr-2010


David Brown Gear Systems is considering plans to build two new factories in Scotland to manufacture components for offshore wind turbines, which could create hundreds of jobs.
12-Apr-2010


Wind Prospect has won government permission to build a 36MW wind farm with 18 turbines at Green Rigg Fell in Northumberland.
08-Apr-2010


BioGen Power has won planning permission to build a £100m energy-from-waste plant in Bradford by 2013, with the creation of 45 jobs.
07-Apr-2010


Helius Energy has won permission to build a 100MW biomass power plant at Avonmouth Dock near Bristol.
07-Apr-2010


Caledyne is planning to expand the 17-strong workforce at its Aberdeen-based oil services business to more than 30 over the next two years.
07-Apr-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy is to acquire natural gas assets in three regions of the North Sea from US-based Hess for £278m.
06-Apr-2010


The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has approved plans from Wainstones Energy to build a 1,520MW combined cycle gas turbine power plant at Carrington, Greater Manchester, by 2013.
06-Apr-2010


The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has awarded a £5m grant for the development of a marine renewables business park at Hayle in Cornwall.
01-Apr-2010


Wind Prospect Developments is looking into the possibility of building a wind farm with seven giant turbines at Oldbury-on-Severn in South Gloucestershire.
01-Apr-2010


Eon and RWE are set to choose Wylfa on Anglesey as the site for the first nuclear power station development under their Horizon Nuclear Power joint venture, which will create up to 1,000 jobs.
30-Mar-2010


International Paper and Integrated Energy Systems International are planning to set up a £60m renewable energy centre at the former paper mill in Inverurie, including a biomass fuel plant and the creation of 150 jobs.
30-Mar-2010


Siemens is to invest £80m in the development of an offshore wind turbine production facility, with the creation of about 700 jobs, and sites are being considered in the North East and East coast.
30-Mar-2010


General Electric is planning to set up a £99m offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant in the UK, with the creation of 500 jobs at an undisclosed location and a further 450 jobs at other sites.
29-Mar-2010


British Gas is to proceed with plans to start installing smart energy meters in homes across the country this year, with the creation of up to 2,500 jobs.
29-Mar-2010


TAG Energy Solutions has secured a £1.5m grant from One North East to support a planned £20m offshore wind turbine production facility in Billingham, which will create 110 jobs.
29-Mar-2010


CompactGTL is setting up a test and training centre for its oil production technology business at Wilton on Teesside, increasing its 32-strong workforce with ten new jobs.
25-Mar-2010


Islandmagee Storage has submitted plans for the development of a £250m undersea gas storage facility at Ballylumford in Northern Ireland.
24-Mar-2010


Nuvia is to relocate the headquarters of its nuclear services business from Risley to a 35,000 sq ft unit at Birchwood Park near Warrington by 2011.
24-Mar-2010


Yorkshire Forward is to provide funding of up to £3.8m for the development of a renewable energy hub at Killingholme Marshes in South Humber.
23-Mar-2010


Scottish Power Renewables has submitted plans to build a 396MW 132-turbine wind farm at Kilgallioch Forest in Dumfries & Galloway.
22-Mar-2010


Total has won government approval for the £2.5bn development of the Laggan and Tormore gas fields, which will create hundreds of jobs in the Shetland Islands.
22-Mar-2010


The Crown Estate has given the go-ahead for ten wave and tidal power projects totalling up to 1.2GW in the Pentland Firth and Orkney waters by 2020, at a cost of up to £4bn.
17-Mar-2010


Southern Electric is to create 260 jobs at its new customer service and IT centre in Havant by July.
16-Mar-2010


RWE Npower is to invest £100m upgrading the turbines at the 680MW Little Barford gas-fired power station in Cambridgeshire by 2012.
15-Mar-2010


Living Fuels is to invest up to £2m in the expansion of its depot near Thetford this year, due to rising demand for the transformation of waste cooking oil into fuel.
15-Mar-2010


Warwickshire County Council has approved plans from Merevale & Blythe Estates to build an energy-from-waste processing plant at Baxterley, capable of processing up to 80,000 tonnes of organic waste a year.
11-Mar-2010


Global Energy Group has acquired the fabrication division of Sovereign Oilfield out of administration, securing about 400 jobs in Aberdeen and Dunfermline.
11-Mar-2010


Emerald Biogas is planning to build an anaerobic digestion plant fuelled by food waste in Newton Aycliffe, which could create up to 150 jobs.
08-Mar-2010


BP has unveiled plans to invest £1bn a year in the North Sea, in order to maintain oil production levels until 2020 and secure the future of more than 3,000 jobs.
04-Mar-2010


Mitsubishi Power Systems is to invest up to £100m in a wind power research facility in north east England, with the creation of 200 jobs.
01-Mar-2010


Waste Recycling Group is planning to install wind turbines at some of its 100 landfill sites, as part of a £100m investment by Spanish parent FCC.
01-Mar-2010


British Gas is to set up a nationwide network of cavity wall and loft insulation depots, with the creation of 1,100 jobs.
01-Mar-2010


Gamesa of Spain is considering plans to set up a wind turbine factory in the UK.
25-Feb-2010


Iberdrola of Spain is planning to set up an engineering centre for low-carbon energy projects in Glasgow this year, with the creation of up to 250 jobs, as part of a £4bn investment in the UK over the next three years.
25-Feb-2010


Helius Energy is seeking suitable sites across the country for the development of biomass power plants, and hopes to build at least one plant on Teesside.
25-Feb-2010


The Northwest Regional Development Agency is to help fund the creation of a new £16m nuclear research facility called C-NET at the University of Manchester, with the creation of 22 jobs.
24-Feb-2010


Wind Power Renewables has submitted plans to build a £11m wind farm with three turbines at the Eye Industrial Estate in Suffolk.
24-Feb-2010


RES Group is to relocate its Glasgow-based renewable energy development office from Academy Park to Pacific Quay.
24-Feb-2010


Shell is to set up a 200,000 sq ft office at 40 Bank Street in London's Canary Wharf, in order to provide space for about 2,000 staff during the redevelopment of the Shell Centre headquarters.
22-Feb-2010


DONG Energy of Denmark has announced plans to build a 300MW biomass power station fuelled by waste wood near Queen Elizabeth Dock in Hull.
22-Feb-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy is to create 60 new jobs at its customer services centre in Perth.
22-Feb-2010


Gaelectric has won planning permission to build a £5m wind farm with six turbines at Carn Hill in Newtownabbey by 2011, which is one of several projects it is currently planning in Northern Ireland.
22-Feb-2010


North British Windpower has won planning permission to build a 49MW wind farm with 20 turbines at Corriegarth Estate near Inverness.
22-Feb-2010


Oilennium is planning to recruit ten additional staff at its Norfolk-based online training business this year, in order to train offshore energy workers to use mechanical equipment.
18-Feb-2010


The New & Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) has unveiled plans to build a £30m wind turbine testing facility in Blyth, Northumberland, by the end of 2011, and will consider competing designs from Converteam of Rugby and HORIBA Instruments of Northampton.
18-Feb-2010


British Airways is linking up with Solena of the US to build a jet fuel plant fuelled by household waste at an undisclosed site in East London over the next four years.
16-Feb-2010


Sigma Offshore of Aberdeen is planning to launch a new mooring system for oil and gas production vessels and create up to 140 jobs by the end of the year.
16-Feb-2010


Plasrec is planning to build a £4m synthetic diesel plant at its site in Shildon, County Durham, and hopes to eventually create up to 100 jobs to enable it to build 50 plants a year.
16-Feb-2010


The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has approved plans from the Gateway Storage Company to invest £600m in 20 offshore gas storage caverns near Barrow-in-Furness by 2014.
15-Feb-2010


The National Trust is planning to set up small-scale renewable energy schemes in many of its 350 historic properties, in order to reduce its fossil fuel consumption by 50% by 2020.
15-Feb-2010


The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has named South Wales as a leading centre for the development of hydrogen energy, including a £6.3m investment at the University of Glamorgan and the creation of 86 jobs.
15-Feb-2010


Scottish & Southern Energy is planning to create a further 80 jobs at its new £2.5m regional office at St Phillips in Bristol over the next two years.
15-Feb-2010


Technip of France is to locate the head office for its North Sea offshore renewable energy business in Aberdeen, employing 20 staff initially.
10-Feb-2010


British Gas is to proceed with plans to develop five biomethane demonstration projects, including partnerships with Thames Water, Potters Waste, Adnams Brewery, GWE Biogas and Dillington Biogas.
08-Feb-2010


Green Compliance has acquired CEA Link, the South Yorkshire-based provider of energy compliance services, for up to £1m.
08-Feb-2010


Carbon Trust is to award £22m to six companies involved in the development of wave and tidal energy, including Aquamarine Power, Atlantis Resources, Marine Current Turbines and Pelamis Wave Power.
04-Feb-2010


Xanthus Energy is considering plans to build a new factory in the North East to manufacture offshore wind turbines, which could create up to 300 jobs.
03-Feb-2010


Windpower Wales is to submit plans to Conwy County Council to build a 50MW wind farm with 18 turbines at Denbigh Moors.
01-Feb-2010


Eaga is planning to create a further 100 jobs at its Tyneside-based environmental support services business this year, and will launch a new division to install domestic solar roof panels.
01-Feb-2010


Tullow Oil has raised £925m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its oil production operations in Uganda.
28-Jan-2010


Sea-Cargo is setting up a new marine support base at Matthews Quay in Aberdeen to offer more services to the offshore oil and gas sector, with the creation of an unspecified number of jobs.
26-Jan-2010


Centrica Energy is to set up a new upstream headquarters at its recently-acquired Venture Production office in Aberdeen, with the relocation of 20 jobs from Windsor and the creation of 20 new jobs.
26-Jan-2010


Cape Offshore Aberdeen is to create 80 new jobs, having won a £150m contract to provide additional maintenance support services to BP installations in the North Sea.
25-Jan-2010


City of Edinburgh Council is to consider proposals from Muirhall Energy to set up an anaerobic digestion plant at the Clifton Trading Estate, in order to recycle up to 40,000 tonnes of food waste a year.
25-Jan-2010


Soco International has raised £102m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its oil exploration activities in Thailand, Vietnam and West Africa.
21-Jan-2010


Waste Recycling Group is planning to set up an energy-from-waste plant at the Solutia chemicals site in Newport by 2014.
18-Jan-2010


Skykon is planning to create 200 jobs at its Welcon Towers wind turbine manufacturing business at Machrihanish, as part of a £14m expansion programme.
18-Jan-2010


IGas is planning to develop up to 50 small-scale coal-bed methane production facilities near large factories and office buildings by 2014, and its first site will be at Ellesmere Port.
14-Jan-2010


King Street Energy has won government permission to develop a 240m cubic metre gas storage facility in ten underground salt caverns in Northwich.
14-Jan-2010


The Scottish Government has approved plans for the development of the £80m 52MW Baillie wind farm near Thurso, while the Rothes wind farm near Elgin will expand from 50MW to 95MW.
13-Jan-2010


The University of Nottingham is planning to set up a £5m 30,000 sq ft energy research centre at its Jubilee Campus, providing space for companies working in the carbon reduction sector.
13-Jan-2010


Black & Veatch has won a £75m contract from United Utilities to develop a biogas electricity generation plant at the Davyhulme wastewater treatment works in Manchester.
07-Jan-2010


Spencer Ogden Energy is planning to create a new energy recruitment consultancy with up to 100 staff at offices in London and Aberdeen.
06-Jan-2010


Northumbrian Water and RWE Npower are to build a £2.5m hydroelectric power station at Selset Reservoir in County Durham.
06-Jan-2010


Farmgen is to invest £20m in the development of up to nine anaerobic digestion plants across the country, starting with sites at Warton in Lancashire and Silloth in Cumbria.
06-Jan-2010


McKinnon & Clarke, the Dunfermline-based energy consultancy with about 370 staff in 18 countries, has sold a majority stake to private equity firm Lyceum Capital in a £22m deal.
05-Jan-2010