Managing director of local energy consultancy Voar, Daniel Gear, shares his thoughts on navigating Shetland’s resource ownership in the wind and hydrogen age
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EDUCATION officials have held meetings with the energy industry to find out how Shetland College can support future local skills and research requirements.
This has included talks with SSE, which is developing the Viking Energy wind farm, and also those behind the proposed Orion ‘energy hub’ project which focuses on a raft of initiatives such as hydrogen production.
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Shetland College principal Jane Lewis said talks have also been held with Shetland Space Centre.
The matter was raised at a meeting of the Shetland College board on Thursday by North Mainland councillor Emma Macdonald.
She said it was “really important” to engage with the industries which could play a significant role in Shetland’s economy in the future.
Updated: 01/02/2021, 8:06 am
Gunther Newcombe is project leader on Orion
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West of Shetland operators are working with “serious intent” to get huge new oil projects “to a net zero outcome”, according to the head of a major clean energy scheme on the islands.
Gunther Newcombe is the project leader on Orion (Opportunity Renewables Integration Offshore Networks), announced last year as the “Shetland Energy Hub” with aspirations to turn the islands into a green energy beacon.