Supported by Industrial impact the power of Scotland’s renewables sector Wind Service at E.ON INTRODUCTION Climate and Renewables Despite daily headlines on energy, climate change and the growth of renewables, few people appreciate the scale of the transformation which is steadily underway in our energy sector. In just eight years Scotland has almost tripled its Glasgow and Edinburgh are home to large power utilities renewable energy capacity, and made a massive dent in as well as some of our most cutting-edge science, the country’s carbon emissions as a result. research and innovation organisations – companies like Limpet Technologies and Neo Environmental are The industrial benefits of this strategic transformation developing unique products which are already being are as impressive as the environmental ones: exported across the globe. renewable energy is driving innovation and clean growth across Scotland. Research by Scottish Renewables in December 2016 showed Scottish renewable energy businesses like these The sector currently employs 21,000 people, from have been involved in projects worth £125.3 million in 43 entrepreneurs who’re designing new ways to capture countries in every continent bar Antarctica. energy from nature, consultants who make projects viable, E.ON in Scotland lawyers who negotiate contracts, a supply chain which In the south of Scotland, organisations like Natural Power builds wind farms, hydro plant and solar farms and an and Green Cat Group are nurturing workforces skilled army of highly-skilled engineers and technicians who in providing the development support that renewable E.ON, through its renewables arm E.ON Climate and multiple turbine manufacturers/types across Europe. If maintain our green energy infrastructure. energy projects need to thrive, while construction of Renewables, proudly operates four onshore wind farms you own or operate a wind farm in Scotland and would like key infrastructure projects like the Clyde wind farm has and one biomass plant in Scotland. From Caithness in to have custom made services to fit your site’s specific This document takes a snapshot of the industrial impacts brought investment and jobs to one of the country’s least- the North to Dumfries & Galloway in the South, E.ON is needs, E.ON wind services can offer them. of our new renewable energy economy, showcasing how populated areas. also committed to further development within Scotland the sector has built on Scotland’s existing strengths to and continues to search for new growth activities in the Having extensive experience of owning and operating both deliver the industries of the future, raising and sharing The industrial impact of Scotland’s renewable energy onshore wind market. onshore and offshore wind farms, E.ON understands your prosperity among communities across the country. sector can be felt across the whole country. goals and needs as an owner, and has built up significant In addition to this traditional approach of development, engineering competences and operational excellence on In the north, businesses like Leask Marine, Green Marine With the active backing of government, and the construction and operation; E.ON also offers wind farm wind generation assets over many years. and Aquatera are expanding to cater for the growth of determination of industry, renewable energy can solutions to other wind farm owners. renewables both onshore and offshore. continue to deliver the modern industrial benefits of our Customers will also benefit from inhouse capabilities commitment to tackle climate change, bring secure, Service with an owner’s eye – such as our global procurement organisation to access On the Western Isles, BiFab’s work at Arnish for the affordable energy to the UK and assist in the shift to a affordable spare parts, as well as utilising innovative tools Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm is providing skilled work for cleaner, more sustainable energy system. the mantra for every E.ON service and management systems that have been built and used 80 local people. offered for your windfarm on E.ON’s global fleet over the years to optimise wind farms’ operations and maximise site production. In the north east, firms like Ecosse Subsea Systems The wind service organisation at E.ON provides full are using expertise gained in the oil and gas industry to scope and tailor-made solutions to wind farm owners on For further information please visit www.eon.com capitalise on the growing offshore wind market. Follow us on Instagram at e.on_se Follow us on twitter at @eonenergyuk INDUSTRIAL IMPACTS 3 4 3 5 2 6 ORKNEY ISLANDS 1 NOVA INNOVATION 1 2 AQUATERA 3 EUROPEAN MARINE ENERGY CENTRE 7 4 Green Marine 5 leask marine shetland isLANDS 6 Scotrenewables 7 BEATRICE OFFSHORE WIND FARM 8 Global Energy Group, Nigg 8 9 AES SOLAR 9 10 European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre 15 11 ECOSSE SUBSEA SYSTEMS 12 GFG Alliance 13 hwenergy 14 SSE 10 11 15 Hywind Scotland 16 ENERCON 12 17 ITPENERGISED 13 18 LIMPET TECHNOLOGY 19 eDF RENEWABLES 20 MUIRHALL ENERGY 21 SIEMENS GAMESA 14 22 SCOTTISHPOWER RENEWABLES 23 WOOD 24 neo environmental 21 25 22 1 25 Renewable Parts 23 16 24 17 26 cs wind 18 12 19 27 windhoist 20 28 28 WHITELEE WIND FARM OPERATIONS CENTRE 29 29 Green Cat Group 27 30 CLYDE WIND FARM 30 26 31 natural power 31 INDUSTRIAL IMPACTS 5 CONTENTS Highlands and Islands 9-19 NORTH EAST SCOTLANd 20-21 MID SCOTLAND and FIFE 23 WEST SCOTLAND 24 CENTRAL scotland 25-26 LOTHIAN 27-29 GLASGOW 30-31 SOUTH SCOTLAND 32-35 6 INDUSTRIAL IMPACTS INDUSTRIAL IMPACTS 7 Highlands and Islands CS Wind UK’s turbine tower manufacturing Green Marine plant in Argyll is the Scotland’s marine energy sector Green Marine’s installation of the ANDRITZ HYDRO only one of its kind in Hammerfest’s ‘HS1000’ turbine in the waters off Orkney is built on expert supply chain the UK in 2013 marked a world first and showed the company’s businesses like Green Marine. expertise perfectly: never before had a catamaran barge been moored in a tidal stream to deploy a tidal turbine. The award-winning firm supplies vessels and engineering and planning expertise to allow developers Based within the hub of marine renewables in to install and maintain their marine technology devices Stromness, Orkney, Green Marine operates across the safely and successfully. UK and Europe and has a turnover from renewables of around £2.3 million. Green Marine’s history is in the fishing industry, where the company’s founders operated a fleet of vessels from 12 metres to over 100 metres in length. The company diversified into renewable energy in 2012, investing heavily in new vessels and training as the sector developed. CS Wind UK CS Wind UK’s turbine tower produce offshore wind towers between 2017 and 2019; another with EDF Renewables with potential to provide manufacturing plant in Argyll is the towers for the company’s 1.6GW pipeline of Scottish only one of its kind in the UK. projects and a third which will see it co-operate over potential future contract and supply opportunities with The site, which was bought by the South Korean- Swedish utility Vattenfall. headquartered CS Wind Corporation in 2016, is seeing rapid growth. The business has diversified from manufacturing towers for onshore wind turbines into the growing offshore wind market, opening a lucrative new income stream. Around 100 people are employed at CS Wind’s Machrihanish site near Campbeltown, with that number expected to rise as additional orders are secured. The company has signed an agreement with Siemens to 8 INDUSTRIAL IMPACTS INDUSTRIAL IMPACTS 9 Nova Innovation European Marine Energy Centre Tidal energy company Nova EMEC is the world’s leading centre Currently testing at EMEC’s tidal test site are Scotrenewables’ 2MW SR1-2000, (the world’s most Innovation deployed the for testing wave and tidal energy powerful floating tidal turbine, surpassing over 1GWh world’s first fully operational, converters at sea. of generation in 2017) and OpenHydro’s Open Centred commercial, grid-connected Turbine (the first tidal energy technology to generate The Shetland Tidal Array is unique in not only power into the UK grid). At EMEC’s wave test site is Wello Having hosted 19 companies, with 30 prototypes so far, offshore tidal array in the being a world first, but also in the way in which it Oy’s Penguin wave energy converter, which has been more marine energy devices have been trialled at EMEC’s was developed: start small, think big, move fast. operating on site since installation in March 2017. Bluemull Sound in Shetland in Orkney facilities than at any other site in the world. 2016. In 2017, Nova successfully This strategy is positioning Nova Innovation as a trailblazer in tidal energy technology. Nova is Developers which completed tests at EMEC in 2017 The centre offers purpose-built, accredited grid-connected installed the array’s third turbine. leading the EnFAIT Project, an EU-funded Horizon include Nautricity’s contra-rotating tidal turbine, Tocardo’s test berths for full-scale prototypes (at the Fall of Warness 2020 flagship project, which will ultimately expand T2 tidal turbine and EC-OG’s Subsea Power Hub. for tidal developers and Billia Croo for wave developers), the array to six turbines. as well as test sites in less challenging conditions for use EMEC also hit the headlines in 2017 producing the world’s by smaller-scale technologies, supply chain companies The Edinburgh-based company designs, builds and first tidal-powered hydrogen. The ramifications of this and equipment manufacturers (at Shapinsay Sound and tests tidal energy turbines at its base in Leith. milestone are enormous: the hydrogen is carbon neutral Scapa Flow). Nova, which was founded in 2010, has grown to (as it has been generated by renewables and emits no employ 34 people in Edinburgh, Shetland and Wales CO2) and can be used for transport, heating, agriculture, and aims to be the world’s leading tidal energy or turned back into electricity.