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06/03/2023

The Renewable Apprentices Helping Keep Our Turbines Turning

ScottishPower Renewables’ first ever onshore wind apprentices helped the company mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week by highlighting the benefits of a career delivering a clean, green energy.

06/03/2023

Lowestoft kittiwake hotels open for business

Renewable developers Vattenfall and ScottishPower Renewables have just completed construction of a kittiwake ‘hotel’ with new nesting structures in the port of Lowestoft, for around 430 pairs of black-legged kittiwakes

23/02/2023

Whitelee Windfarm gives cancer survivor ‘will to live’ – and...

A Scottish cancer survivor has become the world’s first ‘turbine bagger’ after walking thousands and thousands of steps to tick off all 215 wind turbines at the UK’s largest onshore windfarm – ScottishPower Renewables’ Whitelee Windfarm – as part of her recovery.  

14/02/2023

Kate Will Help Shape the Future of Scotland's Renewable Ener...

Kate Turner, ScottishPower Renewables’ Director of Policy and Regulation has been re-elected to the Board of Scottish Renewables, the industry body for renewable energy in Scotland.

02/02/2023

Evolution not revolution will deliver an energy market fit f...

Energy has been a consistent theme in headlines in recent months and will be an area of continued focus as the UK government’s Review of Electricity Market Arrangements continues. It aims to ensure that the design of the electricity market is fit for the purpose of maintaining energy security and affordability for customers alongside the transition to Net-Zero. 

25/01/2023

SCOTTISH RENEWABLES BOARD ELECTION

Our ScottishPower Renewables Director of Policy and Regulation, Kate Turner, is standing for election to the RenewableUK Board. She explains below why she is seeking the support of RenewableUK members.

22/12/2022

East Anglia ONE: Keeping the Christmas lights on

The team who run the East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm will be working hard at its Lowestoft base throughout Christmas so homes have the power they need.

29/11/2022

Hats off to ScottishPower’s first head of offshore developme...

ScottishPower Renewables has appointed its first-ever Head of Offshore Development for Scotland following its unrivalled success in Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind Leasing earlier this year.

28/11/2022

SQY is the limit for turbine tech trial at Whitelee

ScottishPower Renewables has successfully trialled an innovative new turbine blade access platform at its Whitelee Windfarm, the largest onshore windfarm in the UK.

11/11/2022

BBC Careers Tour

Thanks to the BBC, I had the amazing opportunity to go ‘back to school’ today as part of the ‘BBC 100 Share Your Story’ career tour to talk to high school pupils about working in the creative industries and the opportunities that can offer.

28/10/2022

£50M boost for ScottishPower Renewables’ communities

Local people and places across the UK have now benefited from ScottishPower Renewables community funding to the tune of more than £50 million thanks to the power of wind.

25/10/2022

Charlie Jordan: Celebrating Wind Week 2022

Wind Week is a great opportunity to celebrate everything we do as a renewables business and showcase how working to deliver a cleaner, greener and better future, quicker benefits us all.

19/10/2022

SPR hosts island drop-in events for new MachairWind offshore...

Local people on Islay, Colonsay, and Jura will get the opportunity to find out more about a new offshore windfarm being developed by ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) at a series of drop-in events being hosted on the islands next week.

18/10/2022

Reflecting on Floating Offshore Wind Conference 2022

It was great to see the industry come together in person for Scottish Renewables’ and RenewableUK’s Floating Offshore Wind Conference.

07/10/2022

Windfarm blows in multi-million pound community fund for Cai...

People and communities across Caithness are set to benefit from a new £3.75 million community fund created by ScottishPower Renewables’ Halsary windfarm.

23/09/2022

‘Incredibly rare’ underwater discovery could anchor windfarm...

The underwater discovery of a distinctive wrought iron anchor found at the bottom of the southern North Sea during survey works for ScottishPower Renewables’ East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm has been hailed as an “incredibly rare” find.

 

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