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Energy & business services: • Partners kicked off a piece of work this week to look at short/ medium/ long term opportunities for the north mainland to gain further economic benefit from oil & gas work, particularly focusing on the continuing interest around west of Shetland oil & gas developments, for which locations like Scrabster […]
Energy & business services: • The application to redevelop harbourside buildings in Wick as an Operations & Maintenance base for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm project has been approved by Highland Council. http://sse.com/newsandviews/allarticles/2017/01/wick-telford-buildings-returning-to-maritime-use/ This is another milestone for the project, and should enable the £10M construction work to begin shortly to redevelop two buildings on the […]
Energy & business services: • Good to see news yesterday (Thursday) that the second phase of the Meygen project has reached financial closure, allowing construction to take place in the inner sound of the Pentland Firth in 2017. The project will be taken forward by Stroma Tidal Power Ltd, a wholly owned company of Atlantis […]
Energy & business services: • I met this week with RES Offshore, who are working on the Dounreay Tri project, which is seeking consent to build a floating offshore wind demonstrator at a site north of Dounreay. Myself and Alan Ogg of North Highland College met with Senior Developer Jack Farnham to discuss the potential […]
Energy & business services: • Representatives of the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd were in Wick yesterday (Thursday 24th) to give a public update on progress with the project, and perhaps more specifically with plans to use Wick harbour as the Operations & Maintenance base for the project. The event was very busy, and it was […]
Energy & business services: • Following the successful installation of turbine support structures last month, this week marks another milestone in the development of tidal energy in the Pentland Firth, with the installation of the first tidal turbine in the MeyGen project. The turbine, the first of four in the initial phase of the MeyGen […]
Energy & business services: • The vessel Olympic Ares arrived in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth this week to install the first of the turbines for the MeyGen tidal energy project. As previously highlighted here the turbine support structures and ballast blocks were successfully installed during October, bringing welcome work to the area […]
Enabling activities: • Colleague Andrew Johnston, Director of the Highlands and Islands Science Skills Academy, was in Caithness this week, and it was good to catch up with him to discuss progress with the “Newton Rooms” concept, which has seen a network of facilities established in Norway to give practical, hands-on experiences of learning programmes […]
Energy & Business Services: • Last week saw Dounreay Trì Ltd submitting its application to Marine Scotland for consent to develop a floating offshore wind demonstration project at a site around 6km north of the Dounreay site. You can view the project’s various supporting documents at the website of Swedish parent company Hexicon: http://hexicon.eu/projects/dounreaytri Tourism, […]
Energy & Business Services: • The Beatrice Offshore Windfarm project is one of the largest private sector investments in Scotland, and to illustrate the sheer scale of the work the consortium has produced a short animation, which is available to view at https://vimeo.com/186162042 Also this week, lead partner SSE has broken ground on the site […]