SPONSORS OF EAST OF SCOTLAND
MAD FOR MARINE ENERGY WIND FOR SOUTH EAST SCOTLAND
The waters off the South East of Scotland are set to become an European hot spot for offshore renewables and Royal HaskoningDHV’s team, based in Edinburgh and Glasgow, are a key part of this drive.
Royal HaskoningDHV is supporting several of the largest offshore wind developments in the UK. The offshore applications for the first phase, of over 1GW of offshore wind for the Firth of Forth Round Three Zone being developed by Seagreen Wind Energy (a joint venture between SSE and Fluor Limited) has recently been submitted to the Scottish Government.
OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY SUPPORT Royal HaskoningDHV, the international engineering and environmental consulting firm have nine offices in the UK. Working out of their Edinburgh and Glasgow offices
COLLEGE INVESTS IN RENEWABLE FUTURE
With the renewables industry predicted to generate not just energy but £100billion over the next 10 years, Dundee College is taking steps to ensure people have the skills to fill the jobs needed to maintain this business.
SKILLS SHORTAGE
Having already identified a skills shortage in the industry, the college committed to ensure the infrastructure needed, in terms of the training and expertise, is in place to encourage growth in this industry in the city.
SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIES INSTITUTE Dundee College has launched SI2 – the Sustainable Industries Institute, by merging the expertise to be found in the construction, engineering and science departments.
“We see our commitment to the renewable energy as being vital to both
Paolo Pizzolla, Royal HaskoningDHV’s EIA project manager says: “Working on such a large site off the coast of Angus and Fife was a real challenge. This is one of largest infrastructure projects planned in Scotland, spanning the wind turbines up to 70km offshore to an onshore grid connection 20km inland to Tealing in Angus. As you can imagine there have been a number of environmental and consenting challenges to overcome.”
Alistair Davison
the growth of the industry and the future of certain trades and crafts in this area,” said Dr David Gourley, director of curriculum development with SI2.
“We already have training facilities for welding and fabrication – two crafts which have been supporting the North Sea oil and gas industry since the very first rigs were towed to
the Forties and Brent fields in the early 1970s.
“These skills are equally essential for the installation and maintenance of wind turbines.
“This area is set to be at the centre of renewable energy with offshore wind- turbines creating employment in the near future.”
ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE In November Dundee College launched the Arc, a £500,000 centre of excellence for engineering, its Kingsway Campus.
LEADING CONSULTANCY IN SCOTLAND Scotland’s charge towards predicable energy from the sea is being led from many firms in South East Scotland. Royal HaskoningDHV are one of Scotland’s leading consultancies supporting the wave and tidal boom across Scotland. Frank Fortune Royal HaskoningDHV’s Technical Director leading many of these projects said: “We’re delighted to have been at the forefront of tidal and wave energy project development for over nine years now. We’re proud to be providing environmental consultancy services to support the consenting of a number of ‘world first’ developments including two very large tidal power projects in Orkney, the world’s largest wave power projects in Lewis and two further tidal arrays in the west of Scotland.”
“The buzz in the marine energy sector is all about Scotland at the moment and our team in Edinburgh and Glasgow are plugged in and ready to help.” concludes Fortune.
Alistair Davison, Royal HaskoningDHV
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The Arc offers a capacity to accommodate 40 welding students.
REACHING OUT
Dundee College is also carrying the renewables message beyond its own students.
At a recent Engineering 4 Life event, local S3 school pupils were introduced to a series of technologies connected with the renewables industry including calculating optimum performance of wind turbines – using table-top models.
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