Orkney Tourism Week – Orkney Renewable Energy Workshop
This event is available exclusively to members of Destination Orkney, Orkney Renewable Energy Forum, Orkney Crafts Association and Orkney Food & Drink.
Presented by Orkney Renewable Energy Forum and EMEC, in collaboration with Creative Orkney and Orkney Food & Drink, the aim of the workshop is to engage with Orkney’s tourism, creative, and food & drink sectors to consider how Orkney’s world-leading role in renewable energy can:
- support local businesses to make energy savings
- integrate sustainability into marketing
- arm businesses with key stats and anecdotes, integrating renewables into the Orkney Plc story for which we are all ambassadors
Refreshments will be provided.
Register by 3pm Friday 22nd November
This event is free to attend but advance booking is required. Register here.
Programme
Time | Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | Welcome | • Gareth Davies, OREF Chair |
| 12:05 | Orkney renewables: setting the scene • History: Renewables in Orkney • Leading the world: Marine energy and the hydrogen economy • Key stats and databases (Microwind, EV, solar) | • Gareth Davies, Aquatera • Neil Kermode, EMEC |
| 12:30 | Renewables in action: renewables integration into other sectors: • Distilleries and renewables • Orkney Isles Preserves & wind energy • Using renewables as a marketing tool in the self-catering sector • Jewellery and hydrogen | • Stephen Kemp (Orkney Gin) • Stuart Brown (Deerness Distillery) • Glynis Leslie (Orkney Isles Preserves) • Steve Sankey (The Peedie House) • Martin Fleet (Sheila Fleet Jewellery) |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:20 | How can renewables help your business? • EVs • Batteries • Hydrogen | • Jeremy Patterson (OREF), • Mark Hamilton (Solo Energy) • Neil Kermode (EMEC). |
| 13:45 | Funding opportunities | • Stuart Allison (Orkney Islands Council) |
| 13:50 | Orkney Plc: integrating Orkney’s world-leading renewables status Discussing ideas to make the most of Orkney’s world leading status. | Breakout session |
| 14:20 | Next steps: • Summary of discussion points and actions points • Next event: March 2018 | |
| 14:30 | Close |
About Orkney Tourism Week 2018
Ushering in a new era for Orkney Tourism
Orkney’s first ever Tourism Week aims to inform and inspire both local tourism businesses and the wider community, and represents an ongoing drive to ensure that Orkney achieves its full tourism potential while also carefully managing the destination.
