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RenewableUK chief executive Hugh McNeal
already happening in the east, setting an example to the often-polarised national industries, an audience of supply chain companies was told.
SHARING THE SAME STAGE
COLLABORATION ACROSS THE ENERGY SECTOR – THE KEY
A renewables industry leader called for technologies across the energy sector to work more closely with each other and speak with one voice to maximise job and business opportunities
RenewableUK chief executive Hugh McNeal said the energy industry needed to represent itself as one sector containing different technologies.
ENERGY LEADERS
Speaking to an audience of offshore wind, oil & gas and nuclear leaders and supply chain companies, he said that, in a post-Brexit world: “We can’t afford to focus inwards and focus on the value of different technologies. We have to focus on supporting you, conference delegates, to grow all of your businesses,” he told supply chain companies at the biggest energy event in the east of England.
“All of us who work in energy must work together and we must take responsibility to end public attacks on one technology or another. There also needed to be an end to political parties supporting one technology over another,” he added.
BALANCED APPROACH
“We need a balanced approach – one which recognises business and
employment opportunities from all energy sectors. It is unique in this part of the world – here in the east of England, you uniquely represent all of these sectors so it’s even more important here and it is clear that you already embrace this in the east.”
SNS2017 CONFERENCE
He congratulated the East of England Energy Group (EEEGR) for mixing networking opportunities with serious policy debate at its SNS2017 conference, Opportunities through Energy Transition in Norfolk.
“An end to playing for political advantage at the expense of other sectors was especially important now the industry needed to maximise every opportunity,” he affirmed. The UK energy industry could learn
a lot from the ‘forward thinking’ east of England, industry leaders told the biggest energy event to be staged in the region. Forward thinking, innovation and collaboration of different technologies – offshore and onshore oil & gas, renewables and nuclear - to speak with one over-arching energy voice was
Different technologies denigrating others to promote themselves and served just to obstruct progress, the East of England Energy Group (EEEGR) SNS2017 was told. National leaders representing offshore oil & gas, nuclear, renewables and onshore oil & gas from Scotland and London shared the same stage to discuss Energy Transition in the East and beyond at the Norfolk Showground. More than 1,100 delegates from across the UK and Europe attended the two- day event at the Norfolk Showground reinforcing the east of England’s position as an international centre of importance in the oil & gas, offshore wind, nuclear and developing market of decommissioning.
RENEWABLES – A MAINSTREAM INDUSTRY
Hugh said renewables was now a $300billion mainstream industry – when in 2010, renewables were marginal technologies. He continued: “What has been achieved in renewables in the East of England in places that have been crying out for new business and investment is really striking,” and he ‘namechecked’ companies CWind, Seajacks, 3sun, Rotos360 and James Fisher Marine Services for the fast growth and investment they had secured. “By ‘genuine risk taking and
entrepreneurship’ they had driven investment and brought skilled jobs to areas like Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft that needed new investment. There was much to be learned from the unique all-energy mix of the East of England and how a single energy voice can speak for different technologies,” Hugh concluded.
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