Scotland

This is an increase of 14% year-on-year across the country, which has set a target of 100% by 2020.

Funding will be used for the development of company’s 80MW subsea hub in the Pentland Firth off Northern Scotland and will allow 40 tidal turbines to be connected to a single power export cable

The £4m investment at Mackie’s of Scotland will fund the installation of a freezer powered by ammonia made from on-site biomass boilers

Women are only half as likely as men to favour nuclear power, with 29% supporting it compared with 56% of men, according to a new poll

The firm claims the station will be ‘the only refueling stop between Aberdeen and Sheffield’

A new Scottish National Party-Scottish Green Party deal will also see an extra £45m funding going to low carbon projects

UK aid-funded platform Energise Africa has already helped to reduce Africa’s annual carbon dioxide emissions by 100,000 tonnes

A new e-bike station has opened in Bannockburn as part of the UK’s first cross-regional electric bike sharing scheme

A study of 3,500 green spaces suggests urban parks can be used to generate significant amounts of energy by capturing the heat in the ground

Transport and Environment Convener Councillor Lesley Macinnes said: ‘Introducing LEZs is crucial to our plans to tackle poor air quality in the city and its negative impact on health and wellbeing’