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The information below comes from the
UK Activity Report.
Warwick Energy has won government approval to build the £500m Thanet wind farm off the Kent coast by 2008, including 100 turbines. 19-Dec-2006
Shell, Eon and Core have won government approval to build the £1.5bn London Array wind farm in the Thames estuary by 2010, including 341 turbines. 19-Dec-2006
Centrica is planning to shed 700 British Gas back office jobs, 340 British Gas Services jobs, 270 corporate jobs and relocate the headquarters from Stockley Park to Staines. 18-Dec-2006
Cynar is working with Oldmeldrum-based Environmental Services to set up a £4m recycling plant in Peterhead to transform waste plastic into diesel, and hopes to establish 15 similar plants across the country. 15-Dec-2006
Drax is planning to invest £100m at its coal-fired power station in Yorkshire, in order to revamp the turbines and cut carbon emissions. 14-Dec-2006
EDF Energy Networks is planning to expand its customer service centre in Ipswich by April 2007, with the creation of 70 jobs, and up to 30 staff could relocate from its site in Sussex. 13-Dec-2006
Eon is to proceed with plans to build the £325m Robin Rigg offshore wind farm in the Solway Firth, and work on the 16 turbines is due for completion in spring 2009. 11-Dec-2006
UPM-Kymmene is planning to build a £59m renewable energy power plant at its Caledonian paper mill in Irvine, Ayrshire, with the creation of up to ten jobs. 06-Dec-2006
Scottish & Southern Energy is planning to relocate its Southern Gas connections business and 150 staff from Crawley to St Lawrence House in Horley over the next two years. 06-Dec-2006
Weatherford, the oil services company, is to set up a new £19m headquarters at Altens in Aberdeen by 2008, and plans to create 500 new jobs over the next five years. 06-Dec-2006
Infinis, the Northampton-based renewable power company with almost 200 staff at 60 sites, is expected to undergo a £800m sale or flotation, under plans being prepared by parent company Terra Firma Capital Partners. 05-Dec-2006
D1 Oils has raised £49m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Middlesbrough-based alternative fuels business. 04-Dec-2006
Chemostrat is to relocate its oil exploration technology business and 14 staff from Llanfyllin to a new 4,800 sq ft laboratory and office at the Buttington Cross Enterprise Park in Welshpool next spring. 30-Nov-2006
Wood Group Engineering is to create 35 new jobs in Aberdeen, having won a £2m contract from Statoil for a feasibility study into the Trestakk subsea field development. 30-Nov-2006
Miller Argent (South Wales) has secured approval from the Court of Appeal to proceed with the Ffos-y-Fran mining project at Merthyr Tydfil, which will involve the extraction of 10m tonnes of coal over 15 years. 29-Nov-2006
Total has confirmed plans to invest £200m in the expansion of the Lindsey Oil Refinery by summer 2009, securing the future of 535 jobs in the Grimsby area. 24-Nov-2006
MCS Group is planning to relocate its subsea engineering business to a larger site on the Aberdeen Science & Technology Park, and expects to expand the workforce over the next two years. 22-Nov-2006
Balcas has secured £5m of government funding to build a £24m wood-fuelled energy plant at the Cromarty Industrial Park on the Cromarty Firth. 17-Nov-2006
Halliburton is seeking planning permission to build a new £20m headquarters for 600 staff at the Kirkhill Industrial Estate in Aberdeen by 2008. 16-Nov-2006
QED International is to create 40 engineering jobs at its Aberdeen-based oil services business, while up to 300 additional jobs are being created following the award of a £100m contract in Kazakhstan. 16-Nov-2006
Compact Power has secured a £5m government grant to build a £20m energy-from-waste plant in Bristol by 2008. 16-Nov-2006
Renew Tees Valley is providing assistance to Ensus with proposals to build a multi-million pound bioethanol plant on Teesside by 2008, and Ensus is also said to be looking to raise £80m in a flotation on Aim. 14-Nov-2006
Castle Point Council is to consider plans from Rainbow Fuels for the development of a biodiesel production plant in Canvey. 09-Nov-2006
Swalec is to create 50 new customer service jobs at its gas and electricity call centre in Cardiff by the end of the year. 09-Nov-2006
Centrica is planning to build a £1bn clean-coal power station on Teesside by 2012, and will conduct a feasibility study over the next two years. 09-Nov-2006
Total has announced two "significant" oil discoveries in the UK sector of the North Sea, and the Jura West site east of Shetland could start production in 2008. 08-Nov-2006
SeaDragon Offshore is to start construction of large offshore oil rigs at the Haverton Hill shipyard in Billingham in 2007, with the creation of up to 600 jobs, and is also considering plans to raise up to £79m in a flotation on Aim. 06-Nov-2006
Venture Production is to invest £70m in the development of a new 33km North Sea pipeline to export oil from its fields in the Greater Kittiwake Area by late 2007. 06-Nov-2006
Dunbeath Wind Energy, a joint venture between RDC Scotland and Falck Renewables, has submitted plans for a £35m wind farm with 22 turbines at Dunbeath in the Highlands. 03-Nov-2006
Eon has won government permission to build a new £350m gas-fired power station on the Isle of Grain in Kent, and construction work could start in 2007. 02-Nov-2006
The Department of Trade & Industry is in discussions with BP, Chevron, Exxon, Total and Dong about the possibility of exploiting the oil and gas reserves to the west of the Shetlands. 02-Nov-2006
Scottish & Southern Energy is to invest up to £2.5m a year in the new Energy Technologies Institute being planned by the government, in order to accelerate the commercial development of low-carbon energy technologies. 01-Nov-2006
Egdon Resources is planning to demerge its gas storage business at Portland Bill in Dorset with a listing on Aim next year, and has also raised £12m in a share placing. 01-Nov-2006
Tesco is seeking planning permission to install 12 large wind turbines and 31 smaller turbines at stores throughout the country. 01-Nov-2006
John Pointon & Sons is planning to start producing biodiesel from waste animal fat at its site in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, over the next few years, having invested £5m in the development of new technology. 31-Oct-2006
Talisman Energy has announced plans to develop the Duart and Galley oilfields in the North Sea, with production from Duart starting by the end of next year. 26-Oct-2006
Express Power is seeking a suitable site in Wales to build a £45m biomass power plant, which would create up to 40 jobs. 25-Oct-2006
British Nuclear Group is to be sold off by the government in four separate parts, including the management of Sellafield, the older Magnox reactors, a stake in the Aldermaston weapons complex and Project Services decommissioning. 25-Oct-2006
SLP has secured the future of hundreds of Lowestoft-based jobs, having won a multi-million pound contract to help build oil platforms for Maersk Oil Qatar. 24-Oct-2006
UKAEA Dounreay is planning to shed 500 of the 2,000 jobs at the Dounreay nuclear site in Caithness over the next five years. 23-Oct-2006
Subsea 7 is to build a new headquarters at the Arnhall Business Park in Aberdeen by mid-2008, with the relocation of 850 staff from existing sites and the creation of 100 new jobs. 23-Oct-2006
Shell is to create 100 new jobs at its financial shared service operation in Glasgow over the next year, having secured a £1m regional selective assistance grant from the Scottish Executive. 23-Oct-2006
Npower is creating 220 jobs at its recently-opened call centre in Peterlee by the end of the year. 19-Oct-2006
Galliford Try has won a £79m contract from Scottish Power to build the Whitelee Wind Farm at Eaglesham Moor near Glasgow. 19-Oct-2006
G24 Innovations is to set up a £60m solar cells factory at Wentloog Park in Cardiff next year, with the creation of up to 300 jobs over the next three years. 18-Oct-2006
Ineos Enterprises has secured a Scottish Executive grant of up to £9m to fund the development of a biodiesel production plant in Grangemouth by 2008. 18-Oct-2006
Eon is to invest £1bn in the expansion of the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent, including two new 800MW supercritical units. 13-Oct-2006
Biofuels Corporation has announced plans to build two more biodiesel plants next to its existing site on Teesside by the end of 2008, increasing the workforce from 50 to 100. 12-Oct-2006
Prenergy Power has submitted plans to the DTI to build a £400m 350MW wood-fuelled power station in Port Talbot, with the creation of up to 150 jobs. 12-Oct-2006
Viridian, the main electricity supplier in Northern Ireland with a valuation of £1.5bn, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed financial company. 09-Oct-2006
British Nuclear Fuels is looking to sell off its trading and marketing division, having appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers to oversee the sale. 04-Oct-2006
Tanaris has announced plans to build a £30m wood-fuelled power station at Lochaber near Fort William, with construction work starting next year. 04-Oct-2006
Losonoco of the US is planning to build a £60m bioethanol plant in Billingham by the end of 2008, with the creation of 80 direct and 220 indirect jobs. 03-Oct-2006
Seadrill Engineering, the Norwegian oil drilling technology company, is opening an office in Blyth, and the 16-strong workforce will rise to 60 over the next three years. 28-Sep-2006
Helius Energy has agreed a deal with Wartsila BioPower of Finland to develop up to 13 combined heat and power plants across the UK, with Helius handling the finance and marketing and Wartsila the technology. 26-Sep-2006
Ceres Power is seeking a suitable site to set up a multi-million pound fuel cells factory by 2008, and discussions are taking place with a number of regional development authorities. 26-Sep-2006
Ineos ChlorVinyls has unveiled plans to build a new combined heat and power plant at Runcorn by 2010, as part of the £390m expansion of the site. 25-Sep-2006
Inetec is to submit plans to build a £50m waste-fuelled power station in Immingham, which will be the first of up to ten plants fuelled by food and packaging waste provided by Northern Foods, Greggs and Greencore. 25-Sep-2006
Shell has won planning permission to build a new £25m "centre of excellence" in Aberdeen by 2009, providing space for about 1,000 staff. 22-Sep-2006
Venture Production is looking to double its North Sea oil and gas reserves and production by 2008, focusing on smaller fields that are considered uneconomic by the major oil companies. 20-Sep-2006
The Department of Trade & Industry is seeking expressions of interest from the private sector to match its proposals for a £500m investment in the planned Energy Technologies Institute. 19-Sep-2006
Wood Group Engineering is to create new jobs having won a £50m contract to service BP oil and gas terminals in Teesside and Dorset, but the previous operator Aker Kvaerner Engineering Services will shed up to 60 jobs. 18-Sep-2006
Renewable Energy Holdings is looking to expand the power generated from its green energy projects from 30MW to 150MW by the end of 2007, including new landfill gas projects and sites in Poland and Hungary. 18-Sep-2006
D1 Oils is to invest up to £8m in the development of a biodiesel production plant at Bromborough on Merseyside during 2007, having acquired a 47-acre site from Lubrizol. 18-Sep-2006
Argent Energy is seeking permission to build a £45m biodiesel plant in Ellesmere Port by 2008, with the creation of 50 jobs.. 15-Sep-2006
Helius Energy is to submit plans to build a £100m 65MW biomass power station on the outskirts of Grimsby, with the creation of up to 20 jobs. 15-Sep-2006
PowerGen is to create 100 new jobs at its call centre in Rayleigh, Essex, following a recent decision to close sites in India. 12-Sep-2006
Virgin is considering plans to offer biodiesel fuels to car drivers in the UK, and its new Virgin Fuels subsidiary has acquired a £32m stake in US-based alternative energy company Cilion. 11-Sep-2006
United Utilities is considering the future of 258 staff at its Vertex outsourcing call centre in Knowsley, as energy company PowerGen is said to be planning to take its work back in-house. 08-Sep-2006
The Scottish Executive has announced a £6m fund to invest in renewable energy projects in the east of Scotland, under the name of the Sigma Sustainable Energies Fund. 06-Sep-2006
Egdon Resources is to seek planning permission next year for a gas storage cavern under Portland Bill in Dorset, which could hold up to 1bn cubic metres of gas. 05-Sep-2006
Wood Group is to create 130 jobs at its newly-opened oil and gas engineering office at the Nova Technology Park in Glasgow by the end of the year. 04-Sep-2006
BG Group has announced a major gas condensate discovery in the central North Sea, with estimated recoverable reserves of up to 275m barrels. 04-Sep-2006
Chevron is to set up a new technology centre in Aberdeen early next year, with the creation of 100 jobs, in order to provide research and technical services to its global oil and gas business. 01-Sep-2006
Highland Fuels is planning to expand the 120-strong workforce at its Inverness-based fuel supply business with an unspecified number of new sales and administration jobs. 29-Aug-2006
Vestas Celtic Wind Technology has shed 40 of the 170 jobs at its wind farm components factory in Kintyre. 28-Aug-2006
BP is in negotiations to set up three new offices in the Thames Valley, including 60,000 sq ft in Swindon, 73,000 sq ft in Stockley Park and 90,000 sq ft in Staines. 28-Aug-2006
RWE Npower is considering plans to convert the oil-fired Littlebrook power station in Kent to run on palm oil. 23-Aug-2006
Novartis is to submit plans for the £4.5m development of three wind turbines at its Humber Bank site. 23-Aug-2006
Joy Mining Machinery has secured a £37m order to supply coal cutting and ancillary equipment to Powerfuel, to be used in the revival of the Hatfield pit near Doncaster. 22-Aug-2006
National Grid is seeking permission to invest £60m at the St Fergus gas terminal in Aberdeenshire, in order to install two electric-powered compressors. 22-Aug-2006
Production Services Network is planning to create 400 new jobs at its Aberdeen-based oil contracting business by the end of the year. 21-Aug-2006
The Department of Trade & Industry is to provide £4.5m of funding to the £20m Wave Hub wave energy scheme off the coast of Cornwall. 21-Aug-2006
Px has won a contract from Greenergy Biofuels to operate a biodiesel plant at Immingham. 18-Aug-2006
Eon UK is to submit multi-million-pound plans to East Riding Council to build ten gas storage caverns at Whitehill Farm on the Holderness coast by 2010. 18-Aug-2006
ITM Power is planning to expand its hydrogen fuel cell energy research centre in Sheffield and recruit a new commercial team in Cambridge. 17-Aug-2006
Genesis Oil & Gas Consultants, the Aberdeen-based company with 200 staff, is to relocate from Queens Road to Albyn Place over the next few months. 16-Aug-2006
Fife Council is considering plans from the DMF Biodiesel consortium for the development of a £40m biodiesel production plant at Rosyth. 09-Aug-2006
Scottish Power has sold the Knapton power station in North Yorkshire to RGS Energy of the US for £15m. 08-Aug-2006
ConocoPhillips has secured government permission for the £140m expansion of its power plant at Immingham, in order to boost electricity generation by 50%. 07-Aug-2006
Camcal has shed about 50 of the 80 jobs at its renewable energy projects factory at Arnish Point on the Isle of Lewis. 21-Jul-2006
Wind Prospect has won approval from the Scottish Executive to develop a £33m wind farm with 19 turbines near Stow in the Scottish Borders by spring 2008. 19-Jul-2006
Novera Energy is to acquire six wind farm projects from Renewable Energy Development, taking its total portfolio to 30 sites with a potential capacity of 800MW. 18-Jul-2006
Wirral Council is to consider plans from Biossence for the development of a £60m combined waste treatment and energy recovery plant at Hooton Park in Ellesmere Port. 14-Jul-2006
Scottish & Southern Energy and ESB International have announced plans to build a £400m 850MW gas-fired power station at Marchwood near Southampton by 2009. 13-Jul-2006
Fuelture of Glasgow has secured a £0.3m investment to fund the development of a nationwide network of self-service LPG fill-up points. 12-Jul-2006
Anglesey Aluminium is in discussions with the Welsh Assembly Government about the possibility of building a 300MW biomass power station, in order to secure the future of its factory when the Wylfa nuclear plant closes in 2010. 12-Jul-2006
The Carbon Trust is to raise £75m to establish a venture capital fund that will invest in renewable energy technologies for small and medium-sized companies. 11-Jul-2006
Co-operative Group is aiming to become a significant generator of renewable energy over the next three years, developing a number of wind farm schemes that will provide electricity to the National Grid. 10-Jul-2006
British Nuclear Group is to create up to 70 new jobs at the Bradwell nuclear power station site in Essex, in preparation for the start of the final decommissioning stage in September. 07-Jul-2006
Subsea 7 of Aberdeen has won a £600m contract to develop and operate two subsea vessels for Shell, which will create hundreds of new jobs. 05-Jul-2006
Ascot Environmental has won a contract to build a £18m power plant fuelled by recycled waste near the Shanks Eco-Deco site in Dumfries by 2008. 03-Jul-2006
Stockton Council is to consider plans from Tees Valley Biofuels to build a £47m oilseed processing plant at Vopak's bulk liquid storage terminal at Seal Sands, with the creation of 45 jobs. 30-Jun-2006
Bioflame is planning to start up a new green energy plant fuelled by forestry waste in North Yorkshire in August, and Yorkshire Forward aims to support a further 14 similar small-scale units across the county. 30-Jun-2006
BP is looking to sell its Coryton refinery in Essex, including the related distribution terminal and bitumen business, as part of a strategy to reduce the size of its European refining network. 28-Jun-2006
Ocean Power Delivery has raised £13m from a consortium of investors to fund the expansion of its wave energy business. 27-Jun-2006
Herefordshire County Council is looking into the possibility of setting up a £25m environmental technologies business park at New Mills in Ledbury, in order to produce biofuels from local crops. 22-Jun-2006
Cheshire County Council has approved plans from Ineos Enterprises to develop a North Sea gas storage plant at Stublach Grange Farm near Northwich. 22-Jun-2006
British Energy is to invest £20m at its nuclear power station in Hartlepool, including the development of a new simulator facility to improve training, as part of a £250m investment programme across the group. 22-Jun-2006
Western Isles Council has approved plans for the development of a £120m wind farm with 53 turbines at the Eishken Estate on Lewis. 19-Jun-2006
PowerGen is planning to create 450 jobs at call centres in Bedford, Leicester, Nottingham, Rayleigh and Bolton by the end of the year, in order to reduce the level of outsourcing in India. 19-Jun-2006
Centrica is to proceed with plans to build a £400m gas-fired power station at Langage near Plymouth, and Alstom will start construction work within a few months. 19-Jun-2006
British Gas is to recruit 500 apprentices this year, and a new training centre will open at Dartford in Kent next month. 19-Jun-2006
Riverside Resource Recovery has secured government approval to build a new 72MW energy from waste power station in Belvedere, south-east London. 16-Jun-2006
Western Isles Council is planning to transform a £10m waste management plant in Stornaway into a factory to produce hydrogen for homes, vehicles and industry. 15-Jun-2006
UK Coal is considering plans to mothball the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire with the loss of up to 310 jobs, having been unable to secure a new sales contract. 14-Jun-2006
Global Marine Energy has raised £4m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its international oilfield services business. 13-Jun-2006
British Nuclear Group is creating 40 new jobs to help decommission the Chapelcross nuclear plant near Annan, with vacancies for general workers, project managers and construction engineers. 12-Jun-2006
BP is looking to sell off 50 petrol station sites around the country to franchisees for about £50m. 12-Jun-2006
Melrose Resources is to raise £75m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its oil and gas exploration and production business. 12-Jun-2006
EDF Energy is considering plans to relocate hundreds of staff in the south-east to new offices later this year, with 150 East Grinstead-based staff likely to move to Crawley and Hove. 09-Jun-2006
Balfour Beatty and Morgan Sindall have formed a consortium that has been selected as preferred bidder by Northern Gas Networks for a £420m contract to replace gas mains in Yorkshire, Cumbria and the north-east. 08-Jun-2006
Ithaca Energy is to raise about £30m in a flotation on Aim to fund the development of gas fields in the North Sea. 05-Jun-2006
Scottish & Southern Energy is looking into the possibility of building a £350m clean coal power station at Ferrybridge in Yorkshire by 2011. 02-Jun-2006
Viridian has announced plans to develop a new £120m electricity interconnector between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, in order to double cross-border capacity. 31-May-2006
Eon is to recruit at least 600 electrical engineers, fitters, craftsmen and technicians over the next three years, in order to maintain and expand its electricity networks. 29-May-2006
Marine Current Turbines is considering plans for a flotation on Aim, having appointed KPMG to review its strategic options. 26-May-2006
The Scottish Executive is to invest a further £20m in renewable energy over the next two years, including biomass, marine and offshore wind energy. 25-May-2006
Newport City Council has received plans from Severn Power to build a £400m gas-fired power station at the former Uskmouth B site by 2009. 25-May-2006
Vireol is to spend up to £100m on the development of bioethanol plants on Teesside and Humberside by 2008, and they will be built by Vogelbusch of Austria. 25-May-2006
Renewable Energy Systems is seeking permission to develop a wind farm with 13 turbines near Balsham in South Cambridgeshire. 19-May-2006
Compact Power has sold the lease and planning permission for a waste to energy plant at Dargavel in Dumfries to Scotgen for £0.8m. 18-May-2006
Airtricity, the wind farm developer, is seeking a suitable site in Inverclyde to set up a new UK headquarters for its 20 staff, and 30 new jobs will be created over the next three years. 18-May-2006
Ineos Enterprises is considering plans to set up a new biodiesel plant on the site of its oil refinery in Grangemouth by 2008. 17-May-2006
Eon is said to be planning to build a £1bn coal-fired power station near Killingholme in Lincolnshire by 2011, using carbon sequestration technology to bury emissions in former offshore gas fields. 17-May-2006
Northern Petroleum has raised £20m in a share placing to fund its exploration work in the Netherlands. 17-May-2006
Geotrupes is planning to raise £7m in a flotation on Aim, in order to seek opportunities in wind power, biomass and hydro-electricity. 16-May-2006
The Department of Trade & Industry is looking to reform the planning system to allow the development of up to 10 new gas storage facilities, in order to improve the security of energy supplies. 15-May-2006
Biofuels Corporation has raised a further £7.9m in a share placing, and £1m of this will be invested in a new biofuels plant near its existing site on Teesside. 11-May-2006
Venture Production has secured government approval to develop the Mimas gas field in the southern North Sea. 10-May-2006
BP is looking to sell its Dutch oil exploration, production and infrastructure operations, which employ 120 staff, by the end of the year. 10-May-2006
Ecotricity and ABB have announced proposals to develop a £13bn offshore electricity Supergrid that would link 2,000 wind turbines in the southern part of the North Sea. 08-May-2006
Robotic Technology Systems is to demerge its nuclear power consultancy into a new company called International Nuclear Solutions, which will have a market capitalisation of about £25m. 08-May-2006
Solar Century has secured a £5.5m investment from VantagePoint Venture Partners and Scottish & Southern Energy to fund the expansion of its solar panels business. 08-May-2006
ITM Power has raised £29m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of its hydrogen fuel cell technology. 05-May-2006
Petrofac, the oil and gas services company, is to consolidate its Aberdeen-based operations at a new 80,000 sq ft office in Consort House from August 2007. 05-May-2006
Coal International has acquired an additional 36% stake in Energybuild Holdings, the Neath Valley-based coal producer, and will support EBH in planned fund raisings and apply for admission to trading on Aim later this year. 03-May-2006
Excelerate Energy is seeking planning permission to develop a £30m GasPort facility to import liquefied natural gas to Teesport. 02-May-2006
Scottish Power has won planning permission to build a £300m wind farm with 140 turbines at Whitelee near Glasgow by 2009. 02-May-2006
Venture Production and its partners are to invest about £1bn in the North Sea over the next five years, including the acquisition of more unwanted oil and gas assets from the majors. 27-Apr-2006
UK Coal is to shed 70 of the 300 jobs at the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire, but plans to close the site have been dropped. 20-Apr-2006
Faroe Petroleum has raised £23m in a share placing to fund its drilling programme in the North Sea and the Faroes. 18-Apr-2006
Vetco Gray is recruiting 70 additional staff at its oil services business in Aberdeen, and has just transferred 120 support staff to a new 26,000 sq ft site at the Aberdeen Science & Energy Park. 13-Apr-2006
Oxford Catalysts is planning to raise £15m in a flotation on Aim to fund the commercial development of clean power from fossil fuels and renewable sources. 12-Apr-2006
RWE Npower is conducting a feasibility study to build a clean-coal power plant at Tilbury on the Thames estuary by 2016, at an estimated cost of £700m. 12-Apr-2006
British Nuclear Group, the nuclear clean-up division of British Nuclear Fuels, is to be sold off by autumn 2007, under plans announced by the government. 03-Apr-2006
Central Networks is to create 150 new jobs at its electricity distribution operations in Gloucester, Worcester, Tipton, Moor Green, Stoke, Hinckley and Sleaford over the next 18 months. 31-Mar-2006
Scottish Coal is planning to shed 150 jobs from its 800-strong workforce, and could mothball some of its nine opencast mines. 27-Mar-2006
Eco2 has secured a £100m finance deal for the development of its Western Wood Energy biomass plant in Port Talbot and for other renewable energy projects. 23-Mar-2006
British Energy, the nuclear power company valued at more than £10bn, is expected to be privatised after the government announced it was prepared to sell part of its 65% stake. 23-Mar-2006
Craig Group, the Aberdeen-based energy services and shipping company, is to invest £12m in the expansion of its fleet of offshore support vessels. 21-Mar-2006
UK Atomic Energy Authority is cutting 105 jobs at the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness. 20-Mar-2006
Novera Energy is to receive a £5m government grant to set up a plant in east London to generate energy from waste, and is also looking to expand its onshore wind projects. 16-Mar-2006
Balcas is to seek planning permission to build a £20m biorenewable energy plant in the north of Scotland. 14-Mar-2006
BP is to close its property department with the loss of some of the 500 Sunbury-based jobs, in order to transfer the work to other departments. 13-Mar-2006
The Scottish Executive is considering plans from Natural Power Consultants for the development of a £50m wind farm with 22 turbines near Dalmally in Argyll. 10-Mar-2006
Centrica is planning to start selling gas and electricity to industrial customers in Germany later this year, and will employ 15 staff at an office in Dusseldorf. 07-Mar-2006
Hunting is to open a new site for its Hunting Energy division in Montrose, with the creation of 20 jobs. 06-Mar-2006
Maersk Oil is looking to recruit reservoir engineers, geophysicists and geologists in Aberdeen, as part of a strategy to expand its oil and gas business in the UK North Sea. 02-Mar-2006
Clean Air Power has raised £10m in a share placing to fund the development of a truck fuel that is a mixture of natural gas and diesel. 28-Feb-2006
Tesco is to build a £13m biodiesel production plant in Immingham by the end of the year, in partnership with Cargill and Greenergy. 28-Feb-2006
British Energy is planning to invest more than £250m in productivity improvements at its eight nuclear power plants over the next year. 27-Feb-2006
Ceramic Fuel Cells of Australia is to raise £37m in a share placing to fund the development of a new factory in Europe, with North Wales and the north of England being likely locations. 24-Feb-2006
Maxsys, the Walsall-based developer of clean fuel technology, has secured a £1.5m investment from Aloe Private Equity, and now plans to create 20 new jobs and expand the business abroad. 22-Feb-2006
Stag Energy is seeking strategic partners for the development of a £500m offshore gas storage facility in the Irish Sea. 22-Feb-2006
Equator Exploration has raised £143m in a share placing to fund its oil exploration activities in Nigeria. 21-Feb-2006
Your Energy is planning to set up a wind farm with 16 turbines at Sixpenny Wood near Gilberdyke in East Yorkshire. 13-Feb-2006
Hardy Oil & Gas is to raise £15m in a share placing to fund exploration programmes in India and Nigeria. 13-Feb-2006
South West Regional Development Agency has selected Ocean Power Technologies, Ocean Prospect and Fred Olsen as development partners for a proposed £15m wave energy farm off the coast of Cornwall. 06-Feb-2006
Anglesey Council is considering plans from Anglesey Biogas to invest £4m in a power plant fuelled by waste from the local food industry, which would create 27 jobs. 02-Feb-2006
Scottish Gas is to recruit 250 additional customer sales staff at its call centre on Alexandra Parade in Glasgow by the end of the year. 02-Feb-2006
UK Coal has submitted plans to extend the opencast coal mine at Stobswood near Ellington, Northumberland. 01-Feb-2006
Scottish & Southern Energy is contributing £2.4m to the newly-launched £6m Sigma Sustainable Energies Fund, which will invest in renewable energy companies in the east of Scotland. 01-Feb-2006
Phoenix Natural Gas is to lose its monopoly over gas supply in the Belfast and Larne areas, under plans announced by the Energy Minister to open up Northern Ireland's market. 31-Jan-2006
Tower Colliery is to close its coal mine near Hirwaun in south Wales within three years with the loss of up to 375 jobs. 30-Jan-2006
Gasol is planning to raise up to £3m in a share placing to invest in the global oil and gas sector. 30-Jan-2006
British Gas is to transfer up to 160 administration and data processing jobs from Cardiff to India, but most of the affected staff will be offered jobs in call centres. 25-Jan-2006
The Scottish Executive is to consider proposals from Wind Hydrogen for the development of a £150m wind farm at Ladyland Moor in north Ayrshire, including up to 125 turbines. 25-Jan-2006
Inetec is linking up with Greencore to set up a network of biofuel conversion plants to transform the food company's organic waste and packing material into electricity. 25-Jan-2006
Renewables East is looking to position East Anglia as the centre for the UK's biofuels industry, which could lead to the development of 13 plants and 10,000 associated jobs in production, transport and agriculture. 19-Jan-2006
Scottish Borders Council has approved plans from Scottish Power and RES UK for a £30m 35-turbine extension to Dun Law wind farm near Soutra. 19-Jan-2006
Cornwall County Council is to award a £500m 30-year contract to Sita to generate energy from waste on a site yet to be agreed. 19-Jan-2006
Shell is forming a strategic joint venture with Oil & Natural Gas Corporation of India, which will involve co-operation in exploration, production, new technology and the possible construction of refineries and petrochemical plants. 19-Jan-2006
Marches Wood Energy Network and Energy West Midlands are considering proposals to use surplus wood from Birmingham's parks and gardens to help fuel public buildings. 18-Jan-2006
Helius Energy is looking to build up to three renewable energy power plants in the UK, fuelled by crops from around the world. 18-Jan-2006
Southampton City Council is to consider plans from Solent Sustainable Energy to build a £50m combined heat and power plant at Southampton docks, in order to supply power to schools, residential homes and council properties. 18-Jan-2006
UK Atomic Energy Authority is forming a partnership with Amec and CH2M Hill to compete for the decommissioning of 20 civil nuclear sites, in preparation for the liberalisation of the £56bn market later this year. 17-Jan-2006
Centrica has submitted plans to Castle Point Council for the development of a £200m liquefied natural gas import facility at Canvey Island by 2010. 09-Jan-2006
Marine Projects International is looking to buy Resolution, the £53m Teesside-based ship used to develop offshore wind farms, from Mizuho International. 05-Jan-2006
Endeavour International is planning to invest up to £29m in North Sea oil and gas exploration and development this year. 03-Jan-2006
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