OREF Member, Martin Lee will present a short history of why standards are needed for the connection of generators to public electricity networks and why there are some major changes happening around 2017 to 2019. He will outline the changes which people need to … Read More
OREF Member, Community Energy Scotland (CES) is supporting Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited (IES), Our Power and London Business School, on an Innovate UK project called CEDISON which is looking at peer to peer trading via the use of novel block chain technology etc. as … Read More
The Orkney Renewable Energy Forum (OREF) believes that 2018 will be a critical year for renewables in Orkney with major decisions locally and nationally set to determine whether and how the many benefits and achievements of the last 30 years are going to continue. … Read More
Orkney is at the forefront of marine renewable energy and is also well on the way to becoming a renewable system test bed. However, we are also extremely vulnerable to changes in policy and the vagaries of business decisions as just witnessed by the … Read More
The OREF AGM will be held in Room LL1, ICIT, Stromness at 7pm on Tuesday 6th June. OREF Business Members will provide a Show and Tell consisting of short presentations explaining their company’s renewables progress and achievements over the last year. Please do come … Read More
The 2nd Orkney Electric Vehicle Show will be hosted by Robert Llewellyn (of ‘Red Dwarf’, ‘Scrapheap challenge’ and ‘Fully-Charged’ fame) at the Picky Centre on Saturday 6th May. There will be test drives from 9am in the car-park by OREF member Eco-cars. From 2pm … Read More
On Tuesday 18th April, OREF held an open meeting to discuss the recently published draft Sustainable Orkney Energy Strategy. The dedicated team that attended the meeting comprehensively reviewed the draft document and commented on its approach, structure and content. The conclusions reached were unanimous … Read More
On 17th April, OREF hosted a meeting with Stephen Mark Williams, Executive Director of the Energy Technology Partnership (ETP). This organisation co-ordinates and promotes the capacity of 12 Scottish universities in the energy sector. They have a number of initiatives and activities that relate … Read More
On 4th March OREF met with EV owners to discuss Orkney’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy. In 2014 OIC produced a strategy that planned how to encourage the adoption of EVs. At that time there were about a dozen. In 2015 we sent our ‘No … Read More
The February meeting returned again to the politics of sustainable energy. There are a number of consultations around at present that OREF would like to respond to. The first relates the future organisation of the roles previously fulfilled by The Crown Estate in Scotland. … Read More