Welcome to the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG)

‘Pioneering Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG) is at the cutting edge of the UK race to build a credible sustainable energy footprint.

AREG is a highly unusual and innovative private public partnership that not only acts as a catalyst to change, especially with regard to the transfer of upstream oil & gas expertise to offshore renewables, it also undertakes flagship projects, not least the Aberdeen offshore wind demonstrator project and Energy Futures Centre.

AREG  was launched almost 10 years ago, when offshore renewable were barely on the UK energy agenda, and is perfectly placed to position the North-east of Scotland on the global green, sustainable energies map ... to make Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire as famous for renewable as they are in offshore petroleum.

In short, AREG is a strategic tool, not just for its immediate locale but for Scotland, the wider UK and Europe. However, because of its unique position within the global energy network, thanks to North Sea oil & gas, AREG and its members already reach to the four corners of the globe’.

Jeremy Cresswell
Chairman’s Introduction