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The Port of Ardersier has submitted plans to the Highland Council, Marine Scotland and Transport Scotland for consents needed to make the site a major European manufacturing port for the offshore wind industry. A renewables jobs boom could result in the Highlands if plans to turn the Port of Ardersier into a manufacturing ‘super-hub’ for offshore wind turbines get the go-ahead.

Sensors, imaging, industry & health will be the focus for three new Innovation Centres to be set up across Scotland's central belt. Two will base in Glasgow, where the University has received the Scottish Funding Council pledged of £10m over the next 5 years to support the IC-SIS (Innovation Centre – Sensor and Imaging Systems)

Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission – part of SSE – is not only contracting for refurbished power stations, but has now asked Ofgem for permission to install cable that will connect to the onshore substations at Spittal in Caithness (red route) and Blackhillock in Moray and be able to transmit 1,200MW of electricity

As UK energy regulator Ofgem is to impose a £10.5m fine on utility giant SSE for prolonged and extensive mis-selling of gas and electricity over two years (the largest ever imposed on an energy supplier by the watchdog) hard at work Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission has awarded four contracts with a cumulative value of £600m for new electricity substations in Northern Scotland

Moray region councillors are backing controversial plans for the world’s largest offshore wind farm off the Scottish coast – on the basis that purported economic benefits far outweigh any objectors’ concerns about visual and environmental impact. The £4.5billion project of 339 turbines, some reaching 670ft above sea level, would lie in the Moray Firth east of Caithness, covering a total of 114 square miles that may not be renewable after such intrusion.

A proposed biomass plant in Speyside, Scotland has been described as ‘unsustainable’ by local residents. The plant has been proposed by Estover Energy as part of a Speyside Renewable Energy Partnership and, if approved, would prove CHP to the local electricity grid and heat to a nearby Scotch distillery. Proposals have already been submitted to Moray council.

Of Scotland's important kittiwake population one breeding colony is now extinct, others predicted to disappear within three years. Although one of the world's most abundant seabirds,they decline at an alarming rate, numbers having more than halved since the mid 1980s across the UK. The Scottish breeding population has declined by almost two-thirds.

UK research, that in Scotland includes Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities, is to develop smart machines that think for themselves and will receive a £16m boost thanks to a major partnership between the government and industry. This research includes safe ways of monitoring in dangerous environments, as in deep sea installations and nuclear power plants, or ‘nursebots’ that assist patients in hospitals, and aerial vehicles to monitor national borders or detect pollution.

The Portable Sign language Translator (PLST) software App, expected will be available next year, is in pilot development at the University of Aberdeen's spinoff Technabling. Already with 10,000 different coded gestures (thus words) it promises a local, national and international communications approach for dthe eaf or hard of hearing and opens up the world for the young.

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