Case Study: Eneco UK
Eneco UK - In 2008, Eneco opened an office in Warwick to grow a portfolio of renewable energy projects in the UK. To support this growing portfolio in Scotland, Eneco opened in 2013 an additional office in Dochfour, near Inverness. From these a dedicated UK team oversees onshore wind projects in Scotland. There is 20 Eneco staff in total and 6 of these are based in Inverness.
The projects;
Wind
Fully operational
Tullo and Twinshiels Wind Farms, 42MW, located in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire
The Burn of Whilk Wind Farm 22.5MW, located west of Wick, Caithness
Lochluichart Wind Farm fully, 69MW located in The Highlands
Under construction
Moy Wind Farm 60MW based in the Highlands
Proposed
Macritch Hill, a proposed 54MW wind farm located …show more content…
Headline facts;
• Eneco has invested £36.8 million into the Scottish economy * since 2008
• £524,250 has been given in community benefit * (Tullo £110,150, Twinshiels: £113,820 Lochluichart: £300,280)
• Eneco has spent £24.8 million on local Scottish construction contracts* Lochluichart £3.5m
Tullo: £1.6m, Twinshiels: £7.7m, B.o.W £2.5 million, Moy £9.5)
• Eneco’s assets cover the north, south, east and west of Scotland
• Eneco is still committed to Scotland and the renewable energy market despite the Governments U-turn.
Why did you choose Inverness?
Eneco’s head office is based in Rotterdam, Holland. When we set out the UK business we had an opportunity to purchase our first asset, Tullo in Aberdeenshire Scotland. As our portfolio of assets started to grow we asked the question ‘can you operate these projects remotely, can you do them from Rotterdam?’ We needed to have a consolidated Scottish team that could look after our Scottish assets and we felt it was necessary to have an operations team based in Scotland. It needed to be local and that is very much the ethos of Eneco. It’s really about been on the ground and operational and that’s why we have a business located in Inverness. We still felt it was important to have our head office based in Warwick as we need to be central to London, where we do a lot of business and close to the airport …show more content…
For us, it’s about location and having our assets based in the north, south, east and west of Scotland it was more logical to have an office in Inverness. You could have argued why not Edinburgh or Aberdeen, but Inverness for us, as a business has everything we need. I can only see Inverness going from strength to strength as a tourist destination and as a place to do business. What we were keen to do was to use a local office rather than a serviced one. Dochfour, where our Inverness office is based brings economic benefits, there are a lot of renewable business in that particular business park and the ethos is there for us; with the biomass boiler. Fergus Ewing time wrote to us when we first started the business there to thank us for using a local business. Everything we do is local from local community engagement around our wind and solar farms to using a local office
The projects;
Wind
Fully operational
Tullo and Twinshiels Wind Farms, 42MW, located in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire
The Burn of Whilk Wind Farm 22.5MW, located west of Wick, Caithness
Lochluichart Wind Farm fully, 69MW located in The Highlands
Under construction
Moy Wind Farm 60MW based in the Highlands
Proposed
Macritch Hill, a proposed 54MW wind farm located …show more content…
Headline facts;
• Eneco has invested £36.8 million into the Scottish economy * since 2008
• £524,250 has been given in community benefit * (Tullo £110,150, Twinshiels: £113,820 Lochluichart: £300,280)
• Eneco has spent £24.8 million on local Scottish construction contracts* Lochluichart £3.5m
Tullo: £1.6m, Twinshiels: £7.7m, B.o.W £2.5 million, Moy £9.5)
• Eneco’s assets cover the north, south, east and west of Scotland
• Eneco is still committed to Scotland and the renewable energy market despite the Governments U-turn.
Why did you choose Inverness?
Eneco’s head office is based in Rotterdam, Holland. When we set out the UK business we had an opportunity to purchase our first asset, Tullo in Aberdeenshire Scotland. As our portfolio of assets started to grow we asked the question ‘can you operate these projects remotely, can you do them from Rotterdam?’ We needed to have a consolidated Scottish team that could look after our Scottish assets and we felt it was necessary to have an operations team based in Scotland. It needed to be local and that is very much the ethos of Eneco. It’s really about been on the ground and operational and that’s why we have a business located in Inverness. We still felt it was important to have our head office based in Warwick as we need to be central to London, where we do a lot of business and close to the airport …show more content…
For us, it’s about location and having our assets based in the north, south, east and west of Scotland it was more logical to have an office in Inverness. You could have argued why not Edinburgh or Aberdeen, but Inverness for us, as a business has everything we need. I can only see Inverness going from strength to strength as a tourist destination and as a place to do business. What we were keen to do was to use a local office rather than a serviced one. Dochfour, where our Inverness office is based brings economic benefits, there are a lot of renewable business in that particular business park and the ethos is there for us; with the biomass boiler. Fergus Ewing time wrote to us when we first started the business there to thank us for using a local business. Everything we do is local from local community engagement around our wind and solar farms to using a local office