First Minister set to open Scotland’s largest energy transition skills hub

The brand new £10 million facility, on the site of a dilapidated former dairy, is the transformational anchor project of the Skills Campus in the city’s Energy Transition Zone (ETZ) and will support 1000 people into energy transition jobs in the first five years of its operation.

The facility’s opening marks the official handover of the hub from ETZ Ltd, the private sector-led and not-for-profit organisation spearheading North East Scotland’s energy transition ambition, who have led the project’s delivery, to North East Scotland College (NESCol), who will operate the facility.

Maggie McGinlay, ETZ Ltd Chief Executive, responded: “The opening of this transformational facility marks an important step in our ambition to cement the city and wider region’s position as an internationally recognised hub of energy excellence.”

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