GB Energy to be headquartered in Aberdeen

The office for a caller UK government-backed vigor institution volition beryllium successful Aberdeen, BBC Scotland understands.

GB Energy volition not proviso powerfulness to homes, but volition assistance money caller and existing cleanable technology, arsenic good arsenic tiny and medium-sized renewable vigor projects.

It is besides planned for the assemblage to person smaller outer offices successful different parts of Scotland - perchance including Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to officially denote the firm’s authoritative location successful the coming weeks.

Aberdeen is already location to swathes of the UK’s lipid and state and offshore upwind industries.

GB Energy was 1 of Labour’s cardinal predetermination pledges and was ever planned to beryllium based successful Scotland.

However, the nonstop determination was not initially known and was not included successful the King’s Speech astatine the commencement of Sir Keir's government.

Labour had antecedently promised the program would bring “a immense number” of skilled jobs to the country.

Under its remit, GB Energy would put successful upwind and star projects, arsenic good arsenic newer technologies including floating offshore windfarms, hydrogen and c seizure and vigor storage.

It would beryllium funded done an extended windfall taxation connected lipid and state firms, which Labour claimed would rise astir £8.3bn implicit the adjacent 5 years.

The enactment has said antecedently it would not contented caller lipid and state licences, but besides said it would not overturn existing permits.