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Crown Estate Scotland has closed the window for applications under its Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round, dedicated to offshore wind projects that will directly reduce emissions from oil and gas production and to small scale innovation projects, including alternative outputs such as hydrogen.

Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, who has made competitive bidding for the provision of government services a priority, the Administration has begun to take serious steps to expand competition for federal grants. This is wise policy. Besides promoting basic fairness, competitive bidding encourages greater efficiencies and cost savings.

Oil, gas, and offshore wind This week's INTOG (The Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas) leasing announcements got me thinking about the rather curious state of play interface between renewable energy and oil and gas majors.

Crown Estate Scotland has opened a pioneering offshore wind licensing round which will help reduce emissions from offshore oil and gas infrastructure.

The new OneNote design is now in beta testing at Microsoft. The software company hinted at the design shift last year, saying it would merge its OneNote and OneNote for Windows 10 apps into a single OneNote app.