SgurrEnergy is an engineering

Engineering

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 consultancy specialising in renewable energy

Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...

 projects. The company is based in Glasgow

Glasgow

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, UK and also has offices in Beijing

Beijing

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, China

China

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; Pune

Pune

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, India

India

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; Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

France

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; Wexford

Wexford

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, Ireland

Ireland

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; Portland

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

, Maine

Maine

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; and Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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. It was established in 2002 by company directors Ian Irvine and Steve McDonald. The company specialises in wind farms, marine

Marine (ocean)

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 farms, bioenergy

Bioenergy

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 systems, hydro

Hydroelectricity

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 energy and solar energy.

SgurrEnergy was a supplier of technical advice to Airtricity

Airtricity

Airtricity was founded in 1997 in the Republic of Ireland and now is a renewable energy company owned by Scottish and Southern Energy...

 on the Braes of Doune

Braes of Doune

Braes of Doune Wind Farm is a wind farm located close to Stirling, Scotland and opened in 2007. The farm was built by Alfred McAlpine and is run by Airtricity....

 wind farm in Stirlingshire

Stirlingshire

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. This wind farm is a milestone

Milestone

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 as it makes the UK the 8th country in the world to meet the target of having at least 2GW of installed wind energy capacity. SgurrEnergy personnel have given presentations on industry related matters at several conferences and workshops.

SgurrEnergy personnel provided ongoing technical support to ScottishPower on the development of Europe

Europe

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’s largest onshore wind farm, Whitelee. Located 20 miles south of Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

 the wind farm became operational in 2009. SgurrEnergy provided technical due diligence

Due diligence

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 on the wind resource at Q7 offshore wind park off the coast of The Netherlands. This project is the world’s first bank financed wind park. In addition SgurrEnergy provided lenders Dexia and Rabobank with technical advice on the €153M Thorntonbank offshore wind farm off the Belgian coast. They are also providing technical advice on the construction of the first Western-financed

Finance

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 wind farm

Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...

 to be built in China

China

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