SPONSORS OF EAST OF SCOTLAND
FLOATING TURBINE WIND PARK Norwegian company, Statoil, have also set their sights on our shores to build a new floating turbine wind park. This innovative approach to offshore wind sees the turbine anchored with cables to the seabed, rather than using the traditional method of driving piles. The Scottish Government has been so interested in this approach to design and invention that they have offered an enhanced Renewable Obligation Certificate (the industry’s financial support scheme) to encourage more of this kind of development.
HUNTERSTON TEST SITE Progress is also underway with a new three-turbine test site at Hunterston, thanks to an investment of £20 million from SSE and Scottish Enterprise. The test centre will be located at the port of Hunterston on the coast of North Ayrshire, a site already earmarked for potential renewables supply chain development in the National Renewables Infrastructure Plan.
EUROPEAN OFFSHORE WIND DEPLOYMENT CENTRE
A decision on the planning consent for an eleven turbine European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre can be built off Aberdeen Bay, is expected later this year from the Scottish Government. This too could help Scotland move a step closer towards achieving our ambition of becoming a global centre of excellence for offshore wind technologies, replicating the success achieved at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney for the wave and tidal sector.
INVESTMENT
Major investments like these are coming thick and fast into this industry. Technip, Subsea 7, Repsol, NGenTec, Samsung, Global Energy Group and Mitsubishi have all announced commitments to invest millions of pounds into Scotland, creating jobs and training opportunities for people across Scotland.
FUTURE GROWTH
In Dundee, SSE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Forth Ports, Scottish Enterprise and Dundee City Council which could create up to 700 jobs in manufacturing for offshore wind.
Samsung are proposing £100 million and creating 500 jobs in Fife, Technip made Aberdeen its European HQ with an investment of £10 million and 300 jobs, while smaller, homegrown companies such as NGenTec continue to invest in potential game-changing technology.
More recently, Areva, one of Europe’s leading green energy players, announced its intention to locate its UK manufacturing based on the East Coast of Scotland, creating up to 750 jobs. Crucially, one of the key factors that drew it to Scotland was the emerging cluster of manufacturers and a strong offshore supply chain.
STRONG SUPPLY CHAIN It’s this kind of depth and breadth of opportunity across the country that will inevitably encourage a strong supply chain of businesses and individuals to link themselves into this industry that is burgeoning at a rate of knots. The offshore wind sector will need more people to work in a huge variety of areas, including mechanical, civil and electrical engineering, health and safety, environmental assessment, project management and construction.
This growing workforce will help deliver the ambitions for the sector and enable Scotland to take centre stage as a critical destination for the research, development and construction of renewable energy technologies. We have the natural resources in our environment and in our people to make this a reality and the story is only just beginning.
Lindsay Leask Scottish Renewables
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