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Gamesa: drops Tayside, looks at Leith

Wednesday 7th December 2011
Above Dundee Courtesy:dundeerenewables.com Below Leith Courtesy:http://www.guardian.co.uk/edinburgh/2011/jan/31/edinburgh-leith-biomass-plant-application-forth-energy

Gamesa's is reported to have taken Tayside off its shortlist of two sites for a major new manufacturing facility and reminds that having wind doesn't mean Scotland will get associated work, although the Spanish renewables giant has now added Leith to its considerations.

According to a BBC News report the £130m investment with 1,000 direct Gamesa jobs on offer and a further 800 in the supply chain (in and around the new plant)  Scotland is still under consideration for Gamesa's new turbine manufacturing plant.

Gamesa is looking at "the characteristics of port infrastructure and the area, but the key will be included in how close are the projects of our customers, supply chain development, possible expansion of infrastructure, ease of logistics work, etc."

Possible Dundee is too far from the 'large' northern wind farm developments or those off the east of Scotland, or it may lsimply ack space for expansion and for suppliers. But Leith - now offered by Forth Ports whilst also taking into consideration the infrastructure program recently announced by Scottish Enterprise - is being considered as an alternative site that merits thorough evaluation by Gamesa.

Forth Ports owns both Dundee and Leith docks (along with Grangemouth and the four main ports in Fife) and appears to be giving priority to investment in the Edinburgh docklands. Having signed a deal to develop Leith, alongside its owner and the city council, Scottish government's economic development agency seems to think the same.
Scotland, it is pointed out has has only one turbine-making plant based at Campbeltown, and in administration three times in three years.  

But Clyde Blowers has made a major investment in Glasgow to manufacture its recently acquired fusion drive system of gears, presumably good news for the Clyde Port Authority which operates out of Greenock, Glasgow, Ardrossan, Hunterston, Fort William and Rosyth.
 

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