News and events

Lerwick Port Authority Signs MOU with ESB

Newcombe to stand down as ORION Project Coordinator

Climate festival begins at Clickimin

Project wins award for creating a Hydrogen Highway from Scotland to Rotterdam

Lerwick Port Authority joins the ORION Clean Energy Project

Council’s Climate Change Programme secures Net Zero funding

Plenty to talk about at net zero discussion event

Islands Growth deal signed

How can we reach net zero? Shetland News hosts climate change event

Major funding boost as UK Government pledges nearly £27m for new Fair Isle ferry

Viking Energy shipments continue as first tower parts arrive

Council’s energy development principles set in stone

North Sea players plan Scotland to Rotterdam 'Hydrogen Highway'

Project launched to create Hydrogen Highway from Scotland to Rotterdam

Council sets out community benefit expectations as offshore wind developers visit the isles

BP, Equinor and Ithaca Energy team up on West of Shetland electrification

Offshore wind developers urged to protect fishing industry ahead of visit to isles this week

Council invites energy survey responses

Three ScotWind Clearing project agreements confirmed

EnQuest continues with plans to ‘transform’ oil terminal site in push to net zero

Fuel poverty could hit anyone earning under €120k on these remote UK islands

Offshore wind leases ‘huge boost’ to plans for large-scale hydrogen production

North Sea floating wind giants boost Shetland bid to 'replicate oil & gas with green hydrogen'

Three Shetland ScotWind projects announced

BBC The Compass - Green Energy: Some Inconvenient Truths

SIC keen to hear about interest in developing land around Sullom Voe

Major renewables boost as three isles wind farms given subsidy

Biggest renewables auction accelerates move away from fossil fuels

Worley, Voar, Wood Mackenzie publish study into Shetland energy hub

Shetland and North East Scotland Techno Economic Study

Macdonald and Manson make history as they take on top council jobs

Six Scottish islands to become carbon neutral by 2040

It’s hard to go green if you’re facing the red

East of Shetland front-runner for ScotWind clearing round

It’s all happening in Shetland? Brochure outlines ways governments can invest in isles

The remote Shetland Islands are a surprising leader in the race to net zero

Shetland transition plans dealt blow after island misses out on ScotWind

Visit by UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Worth having conversation on fixed links, government’s Scotland minister says

HUGE Webinar: Scotland – Transitioning from Oil and Gas Industry – The Case for Green Hydrogen

Councillors can help industry ‘capitalise on direction world is going in’

Small island, big ambitions

Terminal transition, wellbeing fund, Viking investment, turbine blade recycling, community benefit and more…

The islanders who brought a Shetland flavour to COP26

COP26 | Scotland: Hydrogen Supply Chain Challenges | Scotland Climate Ambition Zone

ORION energy project costs council £850k so far

SIC welcomes plans for huge floating wind farm as Aker releases more details

New name for renewable energy forum in transition to net zero

New website for ORION Project

People of Energy: Joseph Najduch

£500,000 project to help Shetland Islands’ maritime industry achieve Net Zero

Turning oil and gas assets into ‘offshore energy hubs’ could save billions, says industry veteran

Climate change: Shetland's power struggle between oil and wind

How Shetland's ambitious ORION project is planning an energy revolution

Building a world-leading clean energy island in the northern-most region of Scotland

Seven net-zero North Sea projects scoop £34m of funding

Shetland steps up to climate change

ORION project welcomes new faces, organisations, and opportunities

Clean energy project keen to engage with marine industry

Shetland hydrogen scheme seeks local support

ORION Marine Workshop

Winds of change for Shetland

OGUK Industry Conference

Westminster Energy, Environment, & Transport Forum policy conference

Strathclyde university joins Shetland clean power drive

Strathclyde University partners with Shetland renewables project

Shetland Islands: A driving force in clean, renewable energy

Looking up at ORION: Shetland’s green hub

Net Zero Technology Centre Insight60

Shetland’s green hydrogen future

Hydrogen – a future for the isles beyond petroleum?

The winds of change