
| BBC presenter to host Big Green Challenge final in Highland capital BBC Newsround presenter Laura Jones visits Inverness next month to host the final of the Big Green Challenge where four schools will battle it out before a panel of top judges. | |
| Scottish researchers awarded £1m marine renewables funding A million pound funding package to create a world-leading Centre of Excellence in marine renewables, has been made to Heriot-Watt University and UHI Millennium Institute by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC). | |
| Power of the Highlands and Islands on show in Aberdeen The increasing strength of the Highlands and Islands renewable energy sector will be on show in Aberdeen this week when 22 businesses from the region exhibit at All Energy - the UK's largest energy conference and exhibition - on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 May. | |
| Winning entries from the Renewables' art competition Way back at the beginning of March, a magazine entitled 'Let's Talk Renewables' was distributed to households across the Highlands and Islands. The magazine contained a challenge from the Renewables family for children across the region. | |
| Home in sight for Energy Technologies Institute The short list has now been announced for the clean energy innovation centre. Bids from five outstanding university organisations have today been short-listed to host the UK's new Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). | |
| Power produced by Beatrice wind farm The world's first deepwater wind power project has come online near the Talisman Energy operated Beatrice Oil field in the Inner Moray Firth area of the UK North Sea. | |
| Schools battle it out for place in Green Awards Final Eight schools from the Highlands and Islands are to battle it out for a coveted place in the final of the region’s first debating competition tackling one of the most talked-about subjects of the 21st century – renewable energy. | |