Inverness loses out on hosting the headquarters of GB Energy, according to news reports

Inverness has lost out on becoming the headquarters for the new UK government-backed energy company as it is now being reported that it will go to Aberdeen.

According to BBC Scotland the company will be based in the north east but may have smaller satellite offices in other parts of Scotland with the corporation citing Glasgow and Edinburgh as possible locations.

Fergus Ewing: Snubbing Inverness for GB Energy HQ ‘not only unfair but illogical’ as the ‘the Green freeport is located in the Highlands’

Local politicians and business leaders have been pushing for the HQ to come to Inverness as it is already the home of the Highland green freeport and as the north is home to a huge swathe of the prospective renewable energy.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to make the official announcement of the company’s base in the coming weeks.

GB Energy is designed to help fund new and existing green technology but it will not supply power to homes.

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