Young people working for Siemens Gamesa, ScottishPower Renewables and BAM Nuttall, among others, were honoured last night at the virtual Scottish Renewables 2021 Young Professionals Green Energy Awards.
The event, which would normally take place as a black-tie event in Glasgow, was hosted online for a second year with more than 300 guests tuning in to the broadcast-quality live awards show.
Winners include offshore wind farm engineer Eishar Bassan of Siemens Gamesa, for her role in changing workplace culture for the better.
Her work has seen a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy implemented across the company’s worldwide operations.
Anthony Kinsella of ScottishPower Renewables was the Innovator Award winner for his work on virtual synchronous machines, which could change the way the electricity system is managed in the future.
A YEAR ago, politicians, experts and activists from across the globe committed to 2020 being the year when we took the bold, clear and radical action needed to tackle climate change once and for all. But, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic very quickly disrupted everything we knew – our ways of working, how we would travel around our city and even our shopping habits. While less people were jetting off on summer holidays, more people were avoiding public transport and taking their cars on essential business. We saw a staggering increase in single-use plastics as businesses and individuals tried to get to grips with new guidelines and across Scotland much of that waste was being exported to other countries to be dealt with. While our news headlines and our lives were focused on an enemy we weren’t expecting, the climate emergency rampaged on and 2021 must be the year we do something about it. We must see it as an opportunity, as our city and country begins to recover, because we d