Around 21 companies, from Dumfriesshire to Orkney, are working on offshore renewable energy projects in Scotland, England, the EU and further afield, according to a new report.
Scottish Renewables’ Supply Chain Impact report spotlights several companies that include Global Energy Group (GEG), Leask Marine, Aerial Vision and Partrac.
GEG has invested £90m to develop a world-class port facility at Port of Nigg in the Cromarty Firth with further investments planned.
Leask Marine is an Orkney marine services company that has worked on more than 22 offshore wind farms across Europe and, from 2019, North America.
Drone services provider Aerial Vision, of Lanark, had another busy year after being drafted in to inspect Equinor’s turbines off the coast of south east England.
Glasgow outfit Partrac has developed specialist buoys that are being used to measure sea conditions at the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) project.
The company has grown from a team of just three to 20 after using its foothold on NnG to secure more offshore wind work.
The case studies in the document represent a snapshot of the offshore wind sector’s activity in Scotland as projects like Beatrice, the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre in Aberdeen Bay and NnG build out and begin to generate power.
Also included in the publication is a section focusing on the growing range of support organisations which have been set up to make supply chain businesses more competitive in this global industry.
They include the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council and the DeepWind and Forth and Tay Offshore clusters, which bring together developers, SMEs, enterprise agencies, local authorities, government and trade bodies like Scottish Renewables.
Scottish Renewables CEO Claire Mack said: “The growing number of businesses involved in the offshore wind sector in Scotland demonstrate just the tip of the iceberg of what the future holds.
“With the help of organisations like the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council and the two offshore wind clusters the stage is set for companies working in this space to succeed on projects not just in Scotland and the rest of the UK, but across the world as other economies seek to decarbonise their energy systems.”
Publication of the Supply Chain Impact report was supported by EDF Renewables and SSE Renewables.