Energy North

Highland Council is set to consider a potential bid for Dounreay to host the world's first nuclear fusion power station later this month.

A decision to reject Hill of Forss wind farm branded "a big missed opportunity for the local workforce, businesses and the environment."

Caithness residents and others in the Highlands could get up to 100 per cent funding to install solar panels and battery storage.

North MSP Gail Ross has announced she is to take up a new role at Dounreay after the election.

PICTURES: Energy firm SSEN Transmission says "excellent progress" is being made on its massive construction site near Noss Head.

Plans have been revealed for a major upgrade at Wick harbour which will strengthen its role as an energy port.

Offshore wind will offer "significant opportunities" for the local economy over the next decade, according to Eann Sinclair of HIE.

THE company behind the MeyGen tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth has achieved "a huge milestone" after installing a turbine in Japan.

A councillor says wind farm developments off the north coast could generate the biggest investment in the county since the coming of atomic power.

North MSPs Rhoda Grant and Donald Cameron have secured a meeting with the administrators of BiFab to discuss future options for the Arnish yard.

The company behind the MeyGen tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth has a new boss.

A far north anti-wind farm campaigner is disappointed in a poll that showed only a slender majority in favour of halting further developments.

Scottish Government ministers are ignoring local views when it comes to determining applications for wind farms in the far north, it has been claimed.

A Highland farmer is to grow the largest woodland to be approved by Scottish Forestry this century.

With tens of millions of pounds having been paid to energy firms to switch off turbines, we ask if you want a stop to new wind farms in the far north

Tidal energy equipment, based on the MeyGen model in Caithness, is due to be installed at a site in Japan next month.

Electricity has been exported to the national grid for the first time from the new wind farm at Halsary, south of Spittal.

PICTURES: A renewable energy company has completed a £38,000 programme of environmental improvements at Wick's riverside area.

Work on the expansion of the MeyGen tidal project helped SIMEC Atlantis Energy secure the national Champion of Renewables Award.

Dounreay has joined the Game Changers programme as it looks for innovative ways to decommission the hazards on the site.