Scotland took a step closer to its net zero carbon goals today [17th March 2021] with the announcement of over £30m of UK Government funding for a suite of initiatives linked to the Acorn carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. The industry match funded initiative, called Scotland’s Net Zero Infrastructure (SNZI) programme, brings together academic…
Storegga, the parent company of Pale Blue Dot, the lead project developer of the Acorn Project, today announced an important round of international investment in the independent UK carbon reduction and removal company. GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund and Mitsui & Co. Ltd., a global trading and investment company, have become new investors in Storegga, alongside a…
Pale Blue Dot’s carbon capture and storage project, Acorn, has been voted Transition Economist project of 2020, by industry analysts PE Media Network. The award celebrates the leading lights and most important playmakers from across the global energy sector in the last year. Acorn was credited for its CCS project based on the North East…
St Fergus in North East Scotland could be home to critical net zero infrastructure. Image Credit: Shell Pale Blue Dot, the lead developer of the Acorn carbon capture and storage and hydrogen project in Scotland warmly welcomes today’s announcement of a further investment in low carbon technology. Nick Cooper, CEO of Pale Blue Dot, said, …
The Hydrogen in Scotland report published in September 2020 summarises that Scotland could be producing 121 TWh of hydrogen by 2050 through a combination of hydrogen supplied from the reforming of natural gas with carbon capture and storage (blue hydrogen) and the electrolysis of water (green hydrogen). Acorn Hydrogen will initiate large scale hydrogen production…
A perspective from Sam Gomersall, Pale Blue Dot Energy’s Hydrogen Champion Scotland could be producing 121 TWh of Hydrogen by 2050, sufficient to meet all its own needs and exporting to Europe. Hydrogen is key to meeting Net Zero and rapid action is required to address climate change. Acorn Hydrogen will initiate large scale hydrogen…
We are very pleased to announce that on Friday 14th August we were awarded the ‘Energy Transition for Future Generations’ award at the Offshore Achievement Awards. On receiving the award during the online ceremony, PBDE Managing Director Alan James said: ‘It has been great to see over recent years the profile of the energy transition…
The Acorn carbon capture and storage and hydrogen project has been named as a major energy transition initiative set to receive support from the Scottish Government to help drive forward Scotland’s ambitious Net Zero carbon targets by 2045. The funding, which is part of a five year, £62m package will be provided by a new…
Two Scottish decarbonisation projects have attracted seed funding from UK Research and Innovation to conduct further work on CO2 reduction programmes, aimed at helping Scotland meet its ambitious Net Zero target by 2045 and the UK to meet its target by 2050. Scotland’s Net Zero Infrastructure project, led by Pale Blue Dot Energy, in partnership with…
Pale Blue Dot Energy, the project developer behind Acorn CCS and Acorn Hydrogen, is delighted to have been awarded funding from the second phase of the UK Government’s Hydrogen Supply Competition. This award will support 13 months of engineering studies, to progress the technical and commercial plans for the Acorn Hydrogen project at the St…