Lindsay McQuade has been named CEO of ScottishPower Renewables (SPR), succeeding Keith Anderson who takes on a beefed-up leading role in parent group ScottishPower.

McQuade – previously SPR’s director of policy and innovation – takes charge of one of the UK’s leading renewables players, with a 2GW-plus wind portfolio and major offshore projects underway such as the 714MW EA1 off eastern England.