Some very interesting news pulsed across the wires today, and since it's Friday I thought I'd share it with you.
Mitsubishi have teamed up with Scottish and Southern Energy to create a 'specialist green energy centre' - which could result in the creation of 100 jobs, according to this report in Glasgow's Evening Times.
With ever-greener noises emanating from the administration across the Atlantic, there could be no better time for developments like this. And it's no small venture, either - the number of jobs figure quoted is likely imho to be on the conservative side, and the quote from Mitsubishi's side isn't from some regional manager or PR but from no less than Akio Fukui, chief executive officer of Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe, who says "I am delighted to have the opportunity to work even more closely with colleagues from SSE in these very exciting areas of low carbon technology".
While the report maybe isn't quite as specific as I'd have liked, in terms of what the collaboration is likely to bring, it's definitely news story of the week for me, and one that we'll be following here with avid interest as it develops.
My initial thoughts are that a teaming-up of a Japanese company of this stature and a green energy provider could bring benefits that haven't even been dreamed up yet. That is what's known as synergy: when the effect of the whole exceeds the sum of the parts.
Green Scotland

