Sponsored by
Provost helps to raise profile of local firms
Aberdeenshire Provost Jill Webster with Alistair Reid, Aberdeenshire Council's Industry Support Executive for Energy and Energetica.
ABERDEENSHIRE’S Provost has given her support to local businesses at a major conference on offshore wind technology.
Councillor Jill Webster helped to raise the profile of what the area has to offer at the Scottish Renewables Offshore Wind & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition in Aberdeen last week.
The event, which featured around 60 exhibitors and more than 800 participants, ran at the city’s Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC).
It is the first year in which Aberdeenshire Council has taken a stand at the exhibition, in a bid to raise awareness of what the local area has to offer to the international offshore wind industry.
Council staff spoke to visitors and other exhibitors to promote the area’s three main harbours at Peterhead, Fraserburgh and Macduff and offer support to local companies involved, or seeking to become involved, in the growing offshore wind industry.
The Provost visited the conference to find out more about the opportunities available in offshore wind energy, and what the council is doing to support local and international businesses.
She said: “The offshore wind industry continues to grow and businesses in Aberdeenshire are in a great position to take advantage of the opportunities that creates.”
Email to a friend
Print this page
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Inverurie
Saturday 25 May 2013
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 4 C to 18 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: West
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 9 C to 16 C
Wind Speed: 13 mph
Wind direction: South west
