The main commerce physique for the UK’s offshore energies trade, have launched a documentary which shines a lightweight on the UK employees main the cost to internet zero vitality provide.
Produced in partnership with Scotland-based documentary maker Thomas Hogben, ‘The Time is Now: the UK’s altering vitality trade’ intimately captures the hopes, fears and ambitions of a few of the folks engaged on the frontline of the UK’s vitality transition.
The movie launches on-line as we speak following two screening occasions which passed off in Aberdeen and London, at which key political stakeholders, vitality producing corporations, commerce unions and members of the workforce got here collectively to listen to firsthand from these working tirelessly to assist the UK and Scottish Governments obtain their ambitions to grow to be internet zero when it comes to carbon emissions by 2050 and 2045 respectively.
From Aberdeen and Glasgow, to Teesside, the Humber and Derbyshire, the movie takes viewers on a journey into the vitality communities of the UK, giving an perception into the non-public lives of these making an attempt to decarbonise the oil and gasoline trade in addition to increasing into wind, hydrogen and carbon seize and storage.
The offshore vitality sector already employs over 160,000 folks UK-wide; Robert Gordon College analysis estimates that this quantity will rise to round 200,000 folks by 2030. This quantity contains creating offshore wind, hydrogen, carbon seize and storage, in addition to very important ongoing oil and gasoline actions to handle persevering with demand[i].
The documentary additionally explores a few of the steps already being taken by the sector to scale back its personal emissions and decarbonise the UK’s infrastructure – together with the electrification of offshore platforms and growing using carbon seize and storage of emissions.
Alix Thom, Workforce Engagement Supervisor at OEUK, mentioned:
“This movie reveals the true folks working day in and day trip to rework the UK’s vitality system. They’re nice examples of the sector’s stars, addressing the most important challenges going through society as we speak by making use of their ingenuity, dedication and conviction.
“We hope that this movie demonstrates the varied vary of expertise we’ve working in vitality, and the broad vary of fascinating roles accessible.”
[i]Offshore Vitality Workforce Transferability Assessment by Robert Gordon College, Could 2021.
