EXPERTS believe demand for high-quality family housing in Edinburgh may see the Ministry of Defence generate upwards of £50 million from their three sites in the capital.

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The Israelis have a major new energy project in the works called High Dam, a reference to Egypt's Aswan High Dam.It involves a 'dam' in the Mediterranean near the Israeli port of Ashdod that will export electricity to Europe via an undersea electricity cable linking Israel to Cyprus and then relayed via a second cable to Greece and the rest of Europe. The electricity will be generat...

A wind farm has been paid £1.2 million not to produce electricity for eight-and-a-half hours. That’s £999 per MWh when if they’d been producing they’d only have got £100. High winds (but not too high) mean that all the little windmills were spinning madly. So there’s just too much juice for the grid to absorb,

BBC The government has unveiled plans for every home in Britain to be equipped with smart meters by the end of 2020. Smart meters allow suppliers to remotely record customers' gas and electricity use, and let consumers see how much energy they are using. Some 26 million electricity and 22 million gas meters will need to be fitted at a cost of £7bn. When the government announces somethin...

A new electricity deal will save taxpayers up to £10 million a year and help public bodies go greener. Scottish Power and SSE have been awarded innovative new contracts to supply electricity, available to the whole Scottish public sector.

Last week I unveiled the coalition government’s proposals for the most radical reform of the electricity market since privatisation in the 1980s. The plans set out in the White Paper aim to keep the UK’s lights on and consumer bills down and shift the economy away from a high-risk, high-carbon future. With a quarter of

to my British readers whose electricity provider is EDF (mine was when I was in London) for keeping my electricity bills low. They are, very, and that is not only because an awful lot of France's energy is nuclear. Sarko has decreed that electricity prices should go up by only 2% here, so the electricity companies are going to make up the difference from their customers in other countries. Ta...

I take issue with Libby Brooks, who says that apprenticeships "struggle for credibility in the eyes of young people as well as employers" (Generation Crunch need more than just McJobs, 16 January). Apprenticeships are transforming the lives of ordinary men and women: they are the route from low qualifications and no career to high skills and good prospects for almost a quarter of a million people....

Scotland must generate 80 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, First Minister Alex Salmond has announced, raising the target to a new high from the prev