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Hainsford Energy is planning to build a wind farm with seven turbines on the north side of the River Blyth in Northumberland, including the country's largest turbine of 163 metres. 24-Dec-2007 Endeavour International is to invest about £45m in the expansion of its oil and gas exploration and production operations in the North Sea next year. 24-Dec-2007 Ecotricity has unveiled proposals to build a new £10m headquarters at the Tricorn House site in Stroud, providing space to more than double its 130-strong workforce. 20-Dec-2007 EnCore Oil has raised £12m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its oil and gas exploration and development programme. 19-Dec-2007 UK Coal has submitted plans to Telford & Wrekin Council to extract 900,000 tonnes of coal from a new opencast mine near the Wrekin in Shropshire, with the creation of 40 jobs. 19-Dec-2007 Eaga is planning to expand its team of 68 domestic energy assessors to 150 by the end of next year, following the introduction of Home Information Packs. 19-Dec-2007 Scottish Coal is seeking approval to extract 450,000 tonnes of coal from a 173-hectare opencast site at Auchencorth in the Borders. 18-Dec-2007 South Hams District Council is to consider plans from Greyfield Timber to set up a sawmill and biomass fuel business at Dartington in Devon, with the creation of ten jobs. 18-Dec-2007 Oilexco has announced a capital budget of £340m for its North Sea oil and gas exploration and production business in 2008. 18-Dec-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy has won planning permission to build a £55m 40MW wind farm at Achany in Sutherland by 2010. 18-Dec-2007 Euro Garages, the Lancashire-based chain of 70 petrol stations with 400 staff, is looking to sell the business for an estimated £90m. 17-Dec-2007 British Energy is to invest a further £90m in extending the life of nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point B in Somerset and Hunterston B in Ayrshire by five years to 2016. 12-Dec-2007 Derby City Council is planning to build a £1.5m hydroelectric power plant by the River Derwent, in order to encourage local businesses to reduce carbon emissions. 11-Dec-2007 Allerdale Council is to consider plans from Flimby Wind Energy to build a £7.5m wind farm with three turbines at Flimby Hall Farm. 11-Dec-2007 UK Coal has confirmed plans for a £55m investment at Thoresby Colliery in Nottinghamshire, securing the future of 500 jobs until 2018. 11-Dec-2007 Greenpark Energy has won approval to build a gas-powered electricity plant at a disused mineshaft in Longton, Staffordshire, by 2009. 11-Dec-2007 Infinergy has announced plans for the development of a wind farm with six turbines at Masters Pit near Wareham in Dorset. 10-Dec-2007 The Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) is considering plans to expand the offshore wind farm industry from 8 gigawatts to 33 by 2020, including up to 7,000 turbines. 10-Dec-2007 Canatxx LNG has won permission to build a liquefied natural gas plant at the former Amlwch chemical plant on Anglesey, with the creation of 60 jobs. 07-Dec-2007 Fabricom Offshore Services is planning to set up an oil platform maintenance base in North Tyneside by next February, with the creation of up to 250 engineering jobs. 07-Dec-2007 Ofgem has said that £5bn should be invested in improvements to the UK's gas distribution networks over the next five years, as part of the price controls set for National Grid, Scotia Gas Networks, Northern Gas Networks and Wales & West Utilities. 04-Dec-2007 Scottish Power is to run a £2.5m pilot project to store carbon dioxide from Longannet power station in Fife under the seabed in the Firth of Forth. 04-Dec-2007 BP Lubricants is to close the Castrol UK oil and industrial cleaners factory in Hyde with the loss of up to 50 jobs. 29-Nov-2007 North Tyneside Council is in discussions with a new company called Goes on Green about proposals to develop a biodiesel production plant near the Port of Tyne ferry terminal, which could create up to 30 jobs. 29-Nov-2007 British Energy has selected eight preferred sites to build new nuclear power plants, including Sizewell in Suffolk, Hinkley in Somerset, Dungeness in Kent, Bradwell in Essex, Heysham in Lancashire, Torness in East Lothian, Hunterston in Ayrshire and Hartlepool. 28-Nov-2007 Prenergy Power has won government approval to build a £400m wood-fuelled power station at Port Talbot by 2010. 22-Nov-2007 Suffolk Coastal District Council has approved plans from Your Energy for the development of a wind farm with six turbines at Parham Airfield by 2010. 21-Nov-2007 Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping is planning to expand the workforce at its Aberdeen-based oil and gas survey business from 145 to 200 over the next nine months. 21-Nov-2007 National Grid is planning to invest about £10bn in UK gas networks, pipelines and electricity networks over the next five years, and a further £6bn will be spent in the US. 19-Nov-2007 Star Energy, the operator of five onshore gas storage sites, has received a £200m takeover approach from Petronas of Malaysia. 15-Nov-2007 Centrica is looking to invest significant sums in new onshore and offshore gas storage projects, in order to almost double the UK's storage capacity by 2010. 15-Nov-2007 UK Atomic Energy Authority is to shed 75 jobs at Winfrith in Dorset and 25 at Harwell in Oxfordshire early next year, due to a fall in funding from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. 12-Nov-2007 Staffordshire County Council is seeking a suitable site in the south of the county for a new waste incinerator, in order to treat household waste and generate power. 12-Nov-2007 ATH Resources has won government permission to start work on the Muir Dean opencast coal mining project in Fife next spring, with the creation of up to 118 jobs. 08-Nov-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy is to create 50 jobs at its Scottish Hydro-Electric energy business at Hillington in Glasgow by the end of the year, with vacancies in sales, administration and customer service. 05-Nov-2007 Eon UK and Lunar Energy have unveiled plans to build one of the world's largest tidal power stations off the coast of Pembrokeshire by 2011, including a series of 60ft turbines on the sea floor. 02-Nov-2007 Chevron is expected to set up a corporate head office at Freshwater's 30,000 sq ft office scheme at Cavendish Square in West London next year. 02-Nov-2007 EDF Energy has won approval to build a £600m 1,300MW gas-fired power station at West Burton in Nottinghamshire. 31-Oct-2007 Thermomax is to shed up to 50 of the 185 jobs at its solar energy equipment factory in Bangor. 29-Oct-2007 Oceanlinx of Australia is looking to raise up to £30m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its renewable energy business, which includes the development of wave power devices for a project off the Cornish coast. 29-Oct-2007 BP is to shed about 350 jobs in Aberdeen over the next six months, with office-based staff and contractors being hardest hit. 25-Oct-2007 CLS Dual Fuel is to relocate its County Durham-based LPG Autogas systems business and 12 staff to Meadowfield by the end of the year, and the workforce will grow to 24 next year. 25-Oct-2007 British Energy has announced the temporary closure of two nuclear reactors in Hartlepool and Heysham due to boiler problems. 23-Oct-2007 BT is planning to invest £250m in the development of a series of wind farms to meet 25% of its electricity needs by 2016, and planning permission is being sought for test masts in Orkney, Shetland and the Goonhilly site in Cornwall. 19-Oct-2007 Eon has won government approval to build a £350m gas-fired power station at Drakelow in Derbyshire by 2011, with the creation of 70 jobs. 18-Oct-2007 Global Energy of the US is looking to build the UK's largest coal gasification plant at the Westfield Development Centre in Fife, partly funded by a $350m initial public offering. 18-Oct-2007 Nautical Petroleum has raised £20m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its North Sea oil exploration programme. 18-Oct-2007 NM Rothschild has been appointed by PX Group to conduct a strategic review of Teesside Power Station, which could lead to the site being put up for sale for more than £300m. 17-Oct-2007 ABS Biodiesel is planning to build a £21m biofuel production facility at Avonmouth Docks by October 2008, with the creation of about 50 jobs. 16-Oct-2007 Haven Power, the Ipswich-based energy supplier with 50 staff, is to open a new office building with capacity for 150 staff at the Ransomes Europark early next year. 15-Oct-2007 Sonhoe has announced plans to build a £2bn crude oil refinery at Wilton International on Teesside by 2014, with the creation of up to 400 jobs. 11-Oct-2007 Providence Resources has announced a "significant" oil and gas discovery in its Celtic Sea Hook Head concession off the coast of Ireland. 11-Oct-2007 Devon Wind Power has won government approval to build a 66MW wind farm with 22 turbines at Fullabrook Down in North Devon. 10-Oct-2007 Clifford Jones Timber is investing £2.5m in a new 20,000 sq ft fuel pellets factory in North Wales, with the creation of 15 jobs. 10-Oct-2007 Peel Holdings is considering proposals to build a tidal barrage on the River Mersey by 2020, in response to a government report looking at the potential of energy generation at estuaries throughout the country. 10-Oct-2007 Barrow Borough Council is to consider plans from Gateway Storage Company for the development of a £500m underground gas storage scheme 15 miles off the Cumbrian coast by 2011. 10-Oct-2007 Co-operative Bank is planning to invest £400m in green business projects across the country, including wind farms, recycling and biofuels. 10-Oct-2007 Burren Energy, the independent oil company, has received a £1.5bn takeover approach from Eni of Italy. 10-Oct-2007 RWE Npower is to invest £8.4m in the development of a carbon-capture plant at its Aberthaw coal-fired power station in Wales by 2010. 10-Oct-2007 Wood Group is to relocate its Aberdeen-based oil services business and 1,200 staff to a new £55m 150,000 sq ft headquarters on North Esplanade West in autumn 2009. 09-Oct-2007 Clipper Windpower has secured a £5m One NorthEast grant to set up a wind turbine production centre in Blyth, with the creation of 25 engineering jobs. 08-Oct-2007 Eon is to close its office at Whersted Park in Ipswich in summer 2008 with the loss of up to 339 jobs, in order to centralise its business sales and service teams at the main site in Coventry. 05-Oct-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy is planning to invest £600m in coal, gas, hydro and wind electricity generation projects over the next few years. 03-Oct-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy is planning to create up to 800 jobs at its new electricity supply operations centre in Thatcham, Berkshire, over the next two years. 02-Oct-2007 Iberdrola has won approval from the Scottish Parliament to build a £10m wave power plant off the Orkney Islands. 01-Oct-2007 EnergieKontor is to submit plans to build a wind farm with 24 turbines on Haslingden Moor near Oswaldtwistle. 26-Sep-2007 Black Rock is to raise £2m in a share placing to fund its oil exploration programme in Colombia. 26-Sep-2007 The University of Plymouth is to set up a £15m marine renewable energy centre, in a joint venture with the University of Exeter that will support the planned £28m wave hub project off the Cornish coast. 25-Sep-2007 The Carbon Trust has announced £3.5m of funding for projects to reduce the cost of renewable energy generated from the sea. 25-Sep-2007 Loughborough University is linking up with the universities of Nottingham and Birmingham to develop a New Energy Technologies Institute, as part of a £1bn government-backed project to research the future of green energy. 21-Sep-2007 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is to consider plans from PurePower for the development of a £6m wood-fuelled power station at Eastern Green near Coventry. 19-Sep-2007 The South West Regional Development Agency has won planning permission for the £28m Wave Hub development off the North Cornwall coast, in order to provide a wave power test site for companies including Fred Olsen, Eon and Ocean Prospect. 18-Sep-2007 Sempra Energy, the US energy services company, is planning to set up a 38,000 sq ft office at 155 Bishopsgate in London. 13-Sep-2007 National Grid is considering plans to sell off its £800m property division, which includes 554 buildings, 3,000 acres of land and 80 staff. 13-Sep-2007 Spark Energy, the gas and electricity supplier, is to relocate its headquarters from Edinburgh to Selkirk, with the creation of up to 150 jobs over the next four years. 11-Sep-2007 Scottish Power has won permission to build a 213MW wind farm with 71 turbines at Harestanes in Dumfries & Galloway by 2010. 11-Sep-2007 British Energy has confirmed plans to relocate about 200 staff from Renfrew and Livingston to a new headquarters at the Glasgow South Orbital building in East Kilbride next spring. 06-Sep-2007 Valiant Petroleum has raised a further £20m from investors to expand its North Sea-based oil exploration and production business. 05-Sep-2007 Rhondda Cynon Taff Council is to receive plans from EnviroParks to build a £60m recycling centre to transform waste into energy at Hirwaun, Aberdare, with the creation of up to 200 jobs, and up to 250,000 sq ft of business accommodation will be included. 03-Sep-2007 The Greater London Authority is inviting energy and utility management companies to bid for a £10m contract to improve the energy efficiency of up to 100 public sector office buildings. 03-Sep-2007 Airtricity has won permission from Dumfries & Galloway Council to build a £32m wind farm with 11 turbines on Whiteside hill near Sanquhar. 31-Aug-2007 Eon has announced plans to build a 300MW offshore wind farm with up to 83 turbines off the East Yorkshire coast. 30-Aug-2007 Ecotricity has raised £32m of funding to build five new wind farms in Lincolnshire, Somerset, Bristol, Shipton and Manchester. 29-Aug-2007 Gaz de France is linking up with Ineos to invest £350m in the development of a gas storage facility at the Stublach site in Cheshire between 2009 and 2013. 29-Aug-2007 The Department of Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) has shortlisted the Midlands, the North East and Scotland to host the proposed £1bn Energy Technologies Institute, and a final decision will be announced next month. 23-Aug-2007 Centrica is to shed a further 300 back-office jobs at British Gas by the end of the year, on top of the 500 already planned. 21-Aug-2007 BCB Environmental Management is to invest £18m in the development of a plant to transform waste into power at its site in Tockwith near York. 21-Aug-2007 Carron Energy has won government approval to build a £400m 800MW gas-fired power station at Newport in South Wales by 2010, which will create up to 650 jobs. 21-Aug-2007 Shell is to create a further 150 jobs at its shared service operation in Glasgow, in order to expand the existing 500 staff currently providing accounting services to sites worldwide. 20-Aug-2007 UK Coal has secured government approval for the regeneration of the former Gascoigne Wood mine in Selby, which will create new office and distribution facilities. 20-Aug-2007 ATH Resources has submitted plans to Dumfries & Galloway Council to extract 1.3m tonnes of coal at its Rigg mine near Kirkconnel, which would create more than 100 jobs. 16-Aug-2007 Centrica is considering plans to build another 800MW gas-fired power plant at one of its existing sites in Kings Lynn or Peterborough. 14-Aug-2007 Fife Council is to consider plans from Scottish Enterprise Fife for the development of a £3m hydrogen-powered renewable energy research centre at Methil docks. 13-Aug-2007 RWE Npower is to proceed with plans to build a £800m gas-fired power station near Pembroke Dock, in addition to a proposed plant at Staythorpe in Nottinghamshire and a £60m investment at the Didcot power station. 13-Aug-2007 BP has confirmed plans to start relocating 1,000 staff to its new offices in Aberdeen during the first quarter of 2008. 13-Aug-2007 UK Coal has won planning permission to mine 3m tonnes of coal at Kellingley Colliery near Pontefract, securing the short-term future of 700 jobs until a £60m investment in the pit's Beeston seam is complete in a few years. 09-Aug-2007 Energetix has raised £12m in a share placing to fund the development of a domestic boiler that generates electricity. 02-Aug-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy is to create 100 new customer services jobs at its Perth headquarters, and a further 200 jobs will be created at other sites throughout the country. 31-Jul-2007 Venture Production has raised £150m from private equity investors to fund the acquisition of oil and gas fields in the North Sea. 23-Jul-2007 BP is to relocate its BP Alternative Energy business to a 40,000 sq ft office at County Hall in London SE1. 23-Jul-2007 Scottish Power has unveiled plans to start using cereal and willow crops to fuel Longannet and Cockenzie power stations by 2009. 20-Jul-2007 Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping has raised £13m from the sale of an equity stake to CGG Veritas of France, and the proceeds will be used to fund the expansion of its Aberdeen-based exploration technology business. 20-Jul-2007 UK Coal is considering plans to invest up to £50m at the Thoresby Colliery in Nottinghamshire, in order to extend its life and open up new coal reserves. 20-Jul-2007 Eon is in discussions with Sheffield and Rotherham councils about proposals to build a £60m biomass power station at Blackburn Meadows by 2011, using wood, willow and elephant grass as fuel. 20-Jul-2007 Leeds City Council is to receive plans from Banks Developments later this year to build a wind farm at Hook Moor in Micklefield, with up to eight turbines. 19-Jul-2007 Calor is to close part of its gas distribution centre in Ellesmere Port this summer with the loss of 25 jobs, in order to transfer cylinder filling and customer service to other sites. 12-Jul-2007 RWE Npower is to proceed with plans to build a £190m 90MW offshore wind farm at Rhyl Flats in North Wales, and the 25 turbines will become operational in 2009. 11-Jul-2007 Energybuild is planning to raise £17m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of coal mines in the Neath and Dulais valleys. 04-Jul-2007 BP is to invest £56m in a joint venture with D1 Oils, in order to develop biodiesel crops such as jatropha. 02-Jul-2007 Doosan Babcock has won a £550m contract to provide a mobile workforce of skilled engineering and technical staff to support British Energy's generating stations across the country. 29-Jun-2007 Northumbrian Water is to invest £32m in the development of a thermal hydrolysis digestion system at the Bran Sands sewage works near Middlesbrough, in order to produce fuel for the generation of renewable electricity. 27-Jun-2007 BP is linking up with Associated British Foods and DuPont to build a £200m biofuels plant at Saltend, Hull, by 2009, with the creation of up to 85 jobs. 27-Jun-2007 Energy & Power Consultants, the technical consultancy for the energy, utilities and capital industries, is setting up an office at the Baglan Bay Energy Park in South Wales, with the creation of 30 jobs. 26-Jun-2007 Nviro Cleantech is planning to raise up to £15m in a flotation in July to fund the commercialisation of "clean technologies" developed at universities. 25-Jun-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy is to relocate about 1,800 call centre and administration staff from Drayton and Leigh Park to the former Autoliv site in Havant over the next 18 months, and a further 700 new jobs will be created by 2011. 22-Jun-2007 Qserv is to recruit 180 additional onshore and offshore staff by the end of next year, taking the total workforce at its Aberdeen-based oilfield services business to 500. 19-Jun-2007 Yorkshire Forward is to invest £8.7m in the development of an Environmental Energy Technology Centre at the Advanced Manufacturing Park at Rotherham by autumn 2008, in order to support new companies in the low-carbon energy technologies market. 18-Jun-2007 Shell and Exxon are looking to sell North Sea oil fields that produce about 54,000 barrels a day, with the transfer of about 400 onshore and offshore Shell staff. 18-Jun-2007 EDF Energy has won a £1bn contract to supply renewable energy to 300 government departments over the next four years. 18-Jun-2007 Argent Energy is planning a flotation on Aim that will value its biodiesel production business at about £70m. 18-Jun-2007 EnCycle is planning to develop a network of nine recycling centres across the country over the next five years, in order to generate energy from food waste. 14-Jun-2007 AES Kilroot is to invest £150m in a new gas-burning power station at its site near Carrickfergus in County Antrim by 2010, with the creation of up to 80 jobs. 11-Jun-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy has submitted plans for the development of a £200m 205MW wind farm at Lewis in the Western Isles. 11-Jun-2007 Silverstone Energy of Aberdeen has raised £47m in a share placing to fund its North Sea oil exploration programme. 06-Jun-2007 United Utilities is looking to sell its electricity distribution assets in the North West for up to £1.4bn, in order to focus on water. 06-Jun-2007 EnCycle has won permission to build a £80m recycling plant in Stallingborough by next spring with the creation of 40 jobs, in order to generate electricity from food waste. 04-Jun-2007 Oilexco of Canada has announced a major oil discovery at its Huntingdon prospect in the North Sea, which could hold up to 85m barrels of recoverable crude. 30-May-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy is planning to create about 100 jobs at its customer service centre in Havant, Hampshire, over the next few years. 24-May-2007 National Grid is to proceed with plans to build a £410m 1,000MW undersea power cable between the Isle of Grain and the Netherlands by 2010, and has also announced plans to generate electricity from waste heat produced by its gas network. 23-May-2007 Island Oil & Gas has raised £14m in a share placing to fund its drilling programme in the Celtic Sea. 22-May-2007 Your Energy is set to win approval from West Lindsey District Council to build a wind farm with eight turbines at Laughton, near Gainsborough. 22-May-2007 Scottish Power is considering plans to invest £1.5bn in the conversion of the coal-fired power stations at Longannet in Fife and Cockenzie in East Lothian to use clean coal technology. 18-May-2007 Regen SW is working with Farm Energy2 over proposals to build a £3bn offshore wind farm off the coast of North Devon by 2018, and the Atlantic Array scheme would have 350 turbines. 18-May-2007 Nukem, the nuclear services company with 900 staff in Warrington, Harwell, Dounreay, Dorset and Cumbria, is expected to be sold to an overseas buyer for more than £120m. 17-May-2007 Ensus is looking to build a second bioethanol plant, either on Teesside or another location in Northern Europe. 16-May-2007 Aminex is planning to raise £17m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its oil drilling operations in Tanzania and Egypt. 16-May-2007 Eco2 has won planning permission for the Fochriw Wind Energy Project at Gelligaer Common near Merthyr Tydfil, including two turbines. 15-May-2007 BP is to announce a £4m training investment that will involve sending hundreds of engineers on mid-career courses at the University of Manchester. 15-May-2007 RWE Npower has unveiled proposals to build a £2bn 2,400MW coal-fired power station at Blyth in Northumberland. 14-May-2007 PV Crystalox Solar is planning to raise £50m in a flotation in June to fund the expansion of its solar energy components business, which includes sites in Oxfordshire and Germany. 10-May-2007 Oxonica is to shed 13 of the 30 jobs at its Kidlington-based fuel additives business, following the loss of a £6m contract with Petrol Ofisi of Turkey. 07-May-2007 TMO Renewables of Guildford has raised £15m from various institutions to fund the development of an ethanol plant at Dunsfold Park, fuelled by straw and food waste. 07-May-2007 British Energy is to invest £4.5m in safety improvements at the Hunterston nuclear power station in Ayrshire. 03-May-2007 Npower is to create a further 300 jobs at its call centre at the Whitehouse Business Park in Peterlee this year. 03-May-2007 Circle Technical Services is to create 100 new jobs at its oil services business in Aberdeen, Singapore, Australia and the US, as part of a £20m expansion programme that will create a new abandonment and decommissioning business unit. 02-May-2007 Scottish Power has submitted plans to Fife Council to build a £60m biomass power station in Kincardine by 2010, with the creation of 70 jobs. 27-Apr-2007 Agri Energy has unveiled plans to build a £50m biodiesel plant at Blackbridge near Milford Haven, with the creation of 80 jobs. 25-Apr-2007 International Power Group is to set up a new global headquarters for its waste-burning technology business in the North East, with the creation of an initial 50 jobs, and is considering a site in Blyth. 24-Apr-2007 Neath Port Talbot Council is to consider plans from Bryn Bach Coal to extend an opencast coal mine at Henrhyd Farm in Pontardawe. 23-Apr-2007 Englefield Capital is looking to sell its one-third stake in Zephyr, the owner of 17 wind farms with an estimated valuation of £850m, having appointed corporate finance firm Lexicon to handle the sale. 23-Apr-2007 Scottish Power has acquired the five-turbine Wolf Bog wind farm project in County Antrim for £10m, and production is due to start in spring 2008. 20-Apr-2007 EDF Energy is to create a further 200 jobs at its customer contact call centre at Doxford International in Sunderland. 20-Apr-2007 Intelligent Energy has secured a £9m cash injection to fund the expansion of its Loughborough-based fuel cell power systems business. 19-Apr-2007 Orion Group is to create 60 jobs in Inverness, Aberdeen and Glasgow over the next three years, having won a contract to supply 1,000 skilled workers to the Shell Pearl gas project in Qatar. 19-Apr-2007 Genesis Petroleum has raised £10m from a share issue to fund its oil drilling programme, which currently includes nine UK offshore blocks. 18-Apr-2007 Shell has agreed a deal for the use of its gasification technology in the 900MW coal-fired power station being planned by Powerfuel at the Hatfield colliery near Doncaster. 18-Apr-2007 North Lincolnshire Council has approved plans from Bioethanol Ltd for the development of a bioethanol production plant on the Humber Bank at Immingham by 2009. 17-Apr-2007 Providence Resources has raised £17m in a share placing to fund oil exploration projects in the Celtic Sea, Nigeria and the Singleton field in West Sussex. 12-Apr-2007 Shell is to invest £350m in improvements to the St Fergus gas processing plant in Aberdeenshire, the Mossmorran plant in Fife and the Braefoot Bay plant on the Firth of Forth. 11-Apr-2007 Natural Power is to extend the headquarters of its Galloway-based renewable energy consultancy business, and the workforce will rise from 32 to 65 by 2011. 11-Apr-2007 James Fisher Nuclear has won planning permission to extend its factory in Egremont, in order to test robotic machinery for use in radioactive parts of Sellafield, and the workforce will rise from 20 to 40. 10-Apr-2007 BGlobal is to raise £7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its energy meters business. 10-Apr-2007 BG Group is to close its Microgen Technology business in Peterborough with the loss of about 59 jobs, having been unable to find a manufacturer for its micro-combined heat and power technology. 06-Apr-2007 Carmarthenshire Council has approved plans from Catamount Cymru CYF for the development of a wind farm with ten turbines on farmland near Brechfa Forest. 29-Mar-2007 Neath Port Talbot Council is to consider plans from Unity Power for the development of an underground coal mine and railhead at the former Newlands colliery in Kenfig. 27-Mar-2007 AFC Energy is planning to raise £5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the commercial development of alkaline fuel cells that run on hydrogen. 27-Mar-2007 EDF Energy is to expand into a second site in Exeter with the creation of about 300 jobs. 26-Mar-2007 Xodus, the oil and gas engineering consultancy, is investing £0.2m in the expansion of its Aberdeen headquarters. 23-Mar-2007 The Scottish Executive is to offer an extra £3m of grants for biomass energy schemes, taking the total fund to £10m. 21-Mar-2007 The University of Glamorgan is planning to set up a £1.7m hydrogen fuel research and demonstration centre at the Baglan Energy Park. 16-Mar-2007 Eon and Lunar Energy have announced plans to develop one of the world's largest tidal stream power stations off the west coast of Britain by 2010, and a number of potential sites are being considered. 16-Mar-2007 Community Windpower has won planning permission from East Lothian Council for the development of a £50m wind farm with 16 turbines at Aikengall. 16-Mar-2007 ATH Resources is seeking planning permission to extract up to 1m tonnes of coal from a 62-acre site near its Grievehill operation in Ayrshire. 15-Mar-2007 Ensus has secured an investment of £250m to fund the development of a bioethanol plant at the Wilton International site near Middlesbrough by 2009, including £90m of private equity from Carlyle Group and Riverstone. 15-Mar-2007 The Scottish Executive has approved plans to expand the Windy Standard wind farm in Dumfries & Galloway with 30 new turbines. 14-Mar-2007 RWE Npower has confirmed plans to build a £1bn 1,600MW coal-fired power station at Tilbury in Essex by 2013. 14-Mar-2007 Wood Group, the energy services group, is considering plans to expand the workforce at its Glasgow office from 200 to 300 by the end of the year. 08-Mar-2007 UK Coal is to submit plans to extract more than 900,000 tonnes of coal from new open-cast mines in Shropshire. 02-Mar-2007 Worcestershire County Council is supporting plans from CJ Day Associates to build a £5m biomass power plant on Tenbury Industrial Estate by 2008. 23-Feb-2007 Novera Energy has won planning permission to build a wind farm with 12 turbines on a former RAF airfield near Driffield, East Yorkshire. 23-Feb-2007 Airtricity and Fluor have won a contract for the development of the £1.2bn 500MW Greater Gabbard wind farm 16 miles off the Suffolk coast, and work is due to start in 2009. 21-Feb-2007 Valiant Petroleum has raised £15m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its North Sea oil exploration and production business. 21-Feb-2007 The Scottish Executive has awarded grants of £13m for nine wave and tidal power projects, including £4m for Scottish Power's £10m wave farm at the European Marine Test Centre in Orkney. 21-Feb-2007 Blackpool Council is being consulted by the Department of Trade & Industry on plans by Cirrus for the development of an offshore wind farm with up to 90 turbines at Shell Flat Sandbank. 19-Feb-2007 Integrated Subsea Services is looking to treble the 32-strong workforce at its Aberdeen-based oil services business, following a £15m investment in eight remotely operated vehicles. 19-Feb-2007 Western Isles Council has approved plans from Amec and British Energy for the development of a £500m wind farm with 176 turbines on the Isle of Lewis. 19-Feb-2007 Spice is to raise £20m in a share placing on Aim to fund the expansion of its gas maintenance business. 19-Feb-2007 Centrica is seeking government permission for a £400m wind farm project off the Lincolnshire coast, and hopes to start construction in 2009. 16-Feb-2007 British Energy is seeking partners to work on the development of new nuclear power stations, and believes there is space for expansion at both Sizewell in Suffolk and Hinkley in Somerset. 15-Feb-2007 Npower Renewables is seeking planning permission from Allerdale Council to build a £10m wind farm at Hellrigg near Silloth. 12-Feb-2007 Eclipse Energy has won government approval to develop a £280m hybrid wind and gas energy project in the Irish Sea. 12-Feb-2007 Tower Colliery is planning to relocate most of its 260-strong workforce to the nearby Aberpergwm drift mine, as the existing site at Hirwaun is due to close early next year. 09-Feb-2007 Banks Developments is to submit plans for a wind farm at Darrington, near Pontefract, including up to eight turbines. 07-Feb-2007 Sharp Manufacturing is to invest an estimated £9.3m in the expansion of its solar energy systems factory in Wrexham, with the creation of an unspecified number of jobs. 06-Feb-2007 TS Marine of Aberdeen is planning to expand its subsea oil and gas services business with a £130m investment in two specialist vessels and an increase in its global workforce from 80 to 200 by 2009. 06-Feb-2007 ITM Power has unveiled plans to build a 15,000 sq ft hydrogen fuel cells factory near its site on the Sheffield Business Park by early next year. 05-Feb-2007 RWE Npower is planning to build a £800m gas-fired power station in either Pembroke or Nottinghamshire by 2009, and Alstom will be the main contractor. 05-Feb-2007 Green Spirit Fuels is planning to build a bioethanol plant at the Huntsman Tioxide site on Grimsby's Moody Lane, fuelled by 650,000 tonnes of wheat a year. 01-Feb-2007 UK Atomic Energy Authority has won permission from Highland Council to build a £100m radioactive waste treatment plant at Dounreay, and work will start in 2008. 24-Jan-2007 Green Biologics has secured funding of £0.6m to develop a method of producing biobutanol for use as a biofuel for transport. 24-Jan-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy is forming a partnership with Shetland Islands Council to develop a £1bn community wind farm with 200 turbines, and a planning application is expected later this year. 22-Jan-2007 The Scottish Executive has announced a £7.5m grant scheme to help organisations convert heat and power systems from oil fuel to wood over the next 14 months. 22-Jan-2007 Scottish & Southern Energy has won planning permission to build a £40m wind farm at Toddleburn in the Scottish Borders. 22-Jan-2007 The East of England Development Agency is to help fund the development of a £7m offshore wind energy centre at Ness Point in Lowestoft by mid-2008, which will house about 30 companies involved in offshore energy. 19-Jan-2007 Talisman Energy is to sell its non-operated interests in the Brae assets in the UK North Sea to TAQA Bratani for £280m. 18-Jan-2007 Neath Port Talbot Council is to consider plans from Acorn Power to build a £450m gas-fired power station in Port Talbot by 2011, with the creation of 160 jobs. 17-Jan-2007 Abengoa is to submit plans to North East Lincolnshire Council to build a £290m bioethanol plant in Stallingborough by 2009, with the creation of 70 jobs. 17-Jan-2007 PowerGen is planning to create a further 150 jobs at its call centre in Nottingham, as well as 70 jobs at its site in Bolton. 16-Jan-2007 Scottish Enterprise has announced plans to set up a renewable energy park and £2.7m energy efficiency demonstration centre in Methil, Fife, by the end of the year. 16-Jan-2007 Helius Energy is planning to list on Aim with a market capitalisation of up to £20m, in order to develop its biomass power business. 15-Jan-2007 Expro International, the oilfield services company, is setting up an 11,000 sq ft office in Forbury Square, Reading. 08-Jan-2007 Sedgefield Borough Council is considering plans from Eon to build a £26m wind farm with ten turbines at Butterwick Moor. 05-Jan-2007 Novera Energy is to acquire the 50% stake in Novera Macquarie Renewable Energy Joint Venture held by Macquarie Renewables for £30m, including landfill gas and biomass renewable energy assets at 59 sites. 02-Jan-2007 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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