A missed opportunity
Orkney gets wave power. These were being built at Arnish, and the wave farm was to have been constructed off the West Coast of Lewis, but the power can be fed into the grid via the connection at Dounreay.
Look's like we are on the back foot already...
Look's like we are on the back foot already...
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If we have truly missed this opportunity then it is a disaster for this community, and not something for snide remarks. Planning alone cannot make companies come here. If the infrastructure doesn't exist and if there are more convenient alternatives elsewhere, then business will go there.
We could become the renewables capital of Europe if the community so wanted, so to brush aside the opportunities from wave power is very short sighted.
Personally, if I wanted to invest £££millions into an economy, the Western Isles wouldn't be it. Yes it is a beautiful place but it is full of people who find it impossible to think forwards instead trying to ensure that nothing ever changes, whilst everyone else just passes them by. Orkney and Shetland have much better tourism industries than us AND they are investing in wind and wave technologies, yes you can have it all if you just have the will to make it happen.
so... orkney doesn't have wind farms...?
According to the BWEA, there are 10 turbines operational in Orkney rated at 18.6 MW.
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