Orkney Renewables
Orkney Renewables Ltd specialises in installing Kingspan and Aircon Wind Turbines in Orkney, Caithness, and the Scottish Mainland.
Orkney Renewables can help by carrying out all the work, from grid connection and planning applications through to digging foundations and laying concrete, or can help you cut costs by assisting you to carry out some of the work yourself.
Our background comes from Electrical/Mechanical Installation, having 50 years of electrical home-ware knowledge, as well as 20 years’ experience of travelling worldwide working with large scale electrical/Mechanical projects (i.e. Satellite antennas). This helps to ensure we have the knowledge and understanding for offering such new and innovative experiences. As we all giving us a variety of knowledge and experience, it also helps to ensure an expert job and finish.
Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA)
The Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) and ORCA Marine offer a comprehensive archaeological service of interest to the likes of industry, communities, government agencies, developers and landowners. ORCA staff have years of experience in all types of archaeological work throughout Britain and abroad, but particularly in Scotland and especially the Highlands and Islands. All team members are suitably qualified professionals with a variety of academic qualifications at undergraduate, masters and doctorate level.
ORCA and ORCA Marine’s commercial and research capabilities include environmental impact assessments, historic environment consultancy, management and mitigation plans, environmental and archaeological geophysics, geomatics, laser scanning, standing building survey, archaeological evaluation, watching briefs and excavation, environmental archaeology (especially analysis of faunal bone, pollen, peat, waterlogged and charred plant remains), marine archaeology, interpretation of marine remote sensing data, exploration geophysics (including collection of sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiling data), archaeological sciences, geoarchaeology and diving science.
ORCA and ORCA Marine’s research and applied research projects include the well-publicised work on the Ness of Brodgar; the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site Geophysics Programme; Scapa Flow shipwrecks; and Project Adair. The units also work with the construction industry, utility companies, energy developers, the public sector and community outreach programmes. ORCA and ORCA Marine have been closely involved with several marine renewable energy developments in Orkney Waters, the Pentland Firth and off the Western Isles, as well as subsea cable and gas pipeline projects off Shetland and in the North Sea, and with electricity infrastructure projects such as the construction of grid cable connections and converter stations.
REWIRED Ltd
The Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Islands Renewable Energy Development Ltd, or REWIRED Ltd, is a wholly owned trading subsidiary of the Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre Development Trust.
REWIRED Ltd is a company whose sole purpose is to operate the 900 kW community wind turbine on Kingarly Hill in Sourin, Rousay, which started generating renewable energy in October 2011. The income from this project is returned to the Development Trust to be used for projects which benefit the community.
Robert Gordon University
Established in 2018, RGU Orkney focuses on remote, rural and island perspectives supporting a broad range of research, teaching and entrepreneurship activities. Themes include health and wellbeing, transport, built environment, digital heritage, creative business, the graduate apprenticeship programme, and the Arctic. Through this innovative satellite initiative, the University is committed to engaging in activities that support Orkney’s social, economic and environmental ambitions.
RGU Orkney objectives: 1. Research and knowledge exchange that harnesses RGU expertise to address local challenges and opportunities in Orkney; 2. Supporting the development of skills, educational and entrepreneurship opportunities in Orkney, aligned to the needs of local stakeholders that offer an excellent student experience and support social and economic regeneration; 3. Creating an evidence base to influence and impact policy and practice in other island and remote rural regions, through innovative research and teaching programmes
S & JD Robertson Group Limited
Renewable energy wind & solar projects – operator and developer.
Property development and management services.
Shapinsay Development Trust
Shapinsay Development Trust was formed by the residents of Shapinsay in 2002. It has a range of aims including the provision of facilities and services, the advancement of education, preservation of the environment and promotion of Shapinsay’s trade and industry – all to the benefit of the community of the island. All Shapinsay residents over the age of 18 can apply for membership of the Trust. The Trustees are then elected from within the membership.
Shapinsay Renewables Ltd. (SRL) is a wholly owned trading subsidiary of the Trust. SRL operates the community owned turbine with the main purpose of passing the profit generated to SDT for the benefit of the community of Shapinsay.