Scotland’s finance secretary has promised to explore adding “conditions” to future offshore wind farm projects to include local businesses and jobs, following a summit at Holyrood yesterday.
Derek Mackay said the Scottish Government would investigate options for including the provision of more supply chain companies, after a Scottish manufacturing firm was overlooked in favour of foreign firm for a number of high profile north-east offshore wind contracts.
Scottish Energy minister Paul Wheelhouse claimed local firms were seeing a “poor market share” from offshore wind projects, adding that the current situation “isn’t good enough”.
