Tag: ScottishPower

Channel 4 and ScottishPower partner to showcase greener living

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4’s newly-formed Creative Solutions unit is partnering with ScottishPower for new campaign, George Clarke’s Amazing ‘Green’ Spaces. Featuring Channel 4’s Amazing Spaces presenter George Clarke, ScottishPower’s campaign builds on the popular show to demonstrate the ways people can elevate homes through green,  smart energy solutions,  in turn creating Amazing ‘Green’ Spaces. This campaign builds on ScottishPower’s green journey with its announcement in 2018 that it was the first integrated energy company in the UK to generate 100% green electricity – and continues to showcase its expertise in greener living. From solar panels and…

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ScottishPower vision for green hydrogen fuels hub at port of Felixstowe

Stuart Mitchell

ScottishPower, with Hutchison Ports, is exploring the opportunity to develop, build and operate a multi-hundred MW green hydrogen production facility at the Port of Felixstowe – with the potential to decarbonise industry and transportation in the region. Both companies have set out their vision to help create a greener port, which could provide clean fuel for customers at Britain’s busiest container port.   Plans are being developed to use green hydrogen for onshore purposes, such as road, rail and industrial use, with the potential to create liquid forms, such as…

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ScottishPower launches biggest ever recruitment drive with 1,000 new green jobs

Stuart Mitchell

ScottishPower is launching its biggest ever recruitment drive, with at least 1,000 new jobs to be filled in the next 12 months. The announcement follows a record number of green energy infrastructure projects secured by the company in the first half of 2022. The projects, all integral to delivering the UK’s ambitious Net Zero Targets, include: Securing contracts for a record 16 renewable energy projects – offshore, onshore and solar – across the UK in the Allocation Round 4 process. Totalling 2.1 GW, these projects will almost double the company’s…

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Revolutionary ‘fishing net’ recycling project to help reduce plastic and protect the planet

Stuart Mitchell

A revolutionary recycling scheme that’s supports the retrieval of nets from harbours and beaches is being launched by Keep Britain Tidy. This scheme will reduce waste and plastic pollution, preserve marine life and support local communities.  Funded by the ScottishPower Foundation, the ‘Ocean Recovery Project’ will be rolled out to harbours across Scotland and the North-East of England to protect marine biodiversity and habitats, which are key in tackling the climate crisis.   It will address the issue of lost – or ‘ghost’ – fishing nets, which make up around…

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Major British companies come together to accelerate the electrification of transport in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Seven major British companies, including the operators of some of the largest commercial vehicle fleets in the country – bp, BT, Direct Line Group, Royal Mail, ScottishPower, Severn Trent and Tesco – have come together to work to help accelerate the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across the UK. The UK’s ambitions for electrification of road transport are world-leading and, in a report published today, the seven companies – working together as the Electric Vehicle Fleet Accelerator (EVFA) – have outlined a series of urgent actions needed from both…

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