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Published Date: 03 May 2009
By Rosemary Gallagher
GREEN energy trade body Scottish Renewables is searching for a chief executive after current boss Jason Ormiston was poached to join Swedish energy firm Vattenfall.
Ormiston, chief executive since October 2007, will leave at the end of June to take up his new post as communications manager of Vattenfall's wind business in the UK.

The former business journalist will be based in Edinburgh, where the firm will e
stablish a second UK base. It is Europe's fifth largest generator of electricity and already has operations in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland, Sweden and London.

Ormiston said: "I'm a bit sad about leaving Scottish Renewables, but it's in really good shape and works hard across the sector." The organisation is now recruiting a replacement.

Vattenfall Wind Power recently launched its Fresh Start UK campaign. It has acquired two companies in the wind power industry, signed a partnership with Scottish Power Renewables and bought the Thanet offshore wind project, just off England's south-east coast. Thanet will generate renewable household electricity for 240,000 homes once it starts operating in 2010.

Anders Dahl, head of Vatenfall Wind Power, said: "Our ambition is to increase wind power production from 1.5 TWh as it stands today to 49 TWh by 2030.

"Great Britain will be responsible for approximately one third of the 49 TWh. It's a tough challenge that we've accepted, but we will succeed in achieving our goal."

The Scottish Government has set a target of 50% of electricity coming from renewable sources by 2020.



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nabodican,

Rural Scotland 03/05/2009 07:36:37
Oh dear, the chief spin doctor of the windies joins Vattenfall, the Swedish lot who bought Amec and friend of Brian Wilson. That is the bunch responsible for the Edinbane fiasco.
No doubt the West Highland Free Press will be singing his praises.
With a bit of luck the British people will see through this wind nonsense and send the likes of Vattenfall packing.
2

Greenheatman,

TAIN 03/05/2009 10:20:39
Why is the 99.999% of the public so gullible?

Vattenfall want to instal another 6000MW of these useless windmills - so where will they go?

A four turbine matrix takes up about 0.772 square miles or 200 hectares of land so 3000 @ 2MW will take up 2,316 square miles of land.

That is just Vattenfall's remit for the UK although most of it will come to Alec Salmond's "Saudi Arabia of renewables"

Poor man really believes that wind and marine power will replace thermal power stations fuelled by atom splitting. He is now 'excited' by the prospect of shipping liquified CO2 under 6 atmospheres of pressure below the triple point of -56.6C all across Scotland and out into the North Sea!

And, of course, these pressurised pipelines will never leak of be punctured by a mechanical digger! Maybe the 'lobby group' that talked him into it forgot to mention the ticking lethal timebombs that will be crisscrossing Scotland until the coal runs out - then what?

I have already offered Scotland a means of generating ALL of Scotland's electricity, and then some, that does not involve burning anything!

It is called Gentec WATS.

I am still awaiting an official reply from either Jim Mather of Alex Salmond.
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03/05/2009 12:12:18
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nabodican,

Rural Scotland 04/05/2009 07:17:05
Why on earth was comment 3 removed??????????
It was perfectly true and fair.
Perhaps J O has friends in the Scotsman as well as the wind industry!!
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nuergy,

24/06/2009 20:35:45
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