Knowledge, Innovation and Shared Thinking in Orkney
The website for Stromness Museum which includes exhibits of local and natural history.
https://www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk/
You can now take a virtual tour of Stromness Museum and some of the related locations around the town of Stromness.
Based in Stromness, Aquatera provides environmental expertise and operational support for offshore, coastal and land-based activities.
Find out more about their role in the Orkney renewable energy sector at their website:
https://www.aquatera.co.uk/who-we-are/about
The Aquatera website has a useful section of tools and resources including a tidal database and video library.… Read More “Aquatera”
Some links with information about the tradition of cutting peat for fuel in Orkney
https://www.aboutorkney.com/the-wey-hid-wis/peat-cutting/
https://sianthom.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-tradition-of-peat-cutting.html
https://sianthom.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-tradition-of-peat-cutting-part-two.html
https://sianthom.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-tradition-of-peat-cutting-part-three.html?m=1
Website from the Renewable Realities conference held in Orkney in 2002
http://www.renewablerealities.co.uk/home.html… Read More “Renewable Realities”
Information about the experimental wind turbine
http://www.orkneywind.co.uk/costa.html… Read More “Costa Head wind turbine”
The Orkney Library and Archive offers a range of services and online resources, including access to a range of historical photographs of Orkney from the photographic archive collections.
Some of which can be viewed online: http://www.orkneylibrary.org.uk/photoarchive.htm… Read More “Orkney Library and Archive”
Wondering what an Orkney dialect word means? You can now look it up online in the Orkney Dictionary.
https://orkneydictionary.scot/
The site also has some examples of texts in Orkney dialect including:
The Orkney Energy Audit was commissioned by OREF and Community Energy Scotland, and carried out by local consultancy Aquatera. Documents available from the OREF website:
http://www.oref.co.uk/resources/orkney-energy-audit/… Read More “Orkney Energy Audit 2014”
Link to the Orkney Sustainable Energy Strategy available from the OREF website.
http://www.oref.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Orkney-Sustainable-Energy-Strategy-2017-2025-1.pdf… Read More “Orkney Sustainable Energy Strategy 2017-2025”
Local Orcadian storyteller Tom Muir shares some traditional tales for troubled times on the Orkneyology.com website.
Video of Tom telling a Selkie story, from the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Assipattle and the Stoor Worm… Read More “Orkney Folk Tales”
The Virtual Island Summit 2019 was a free and entirely online event designed to connect global islands to share their common experiences through a digital platform. Almost 5,000 islanders from 500 islands took part. Learn more: www.islandinnovation.co/summit
Energy At The End Of The World: An Orkney Islands Saga – … Read More “Energy at the End of the World – Virtual Island Summit presentation”
Winds of change: Legitimacy, withdrawal, and interdependency from a decentralized wind-to-hydrogen regime in Orkney, Scotland – by Michael Westrom
Energy Research & Social Science
Volume 60, February 2020, 101332
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101332
Abstract:
Community-owned renewable energy facilities support decentralized low-carbon energy and community development by empowering local political organizations; however, the consequences … Read More “Journal Article: Winds of Change – Michael Westrom”
Stromness – the second largest town on the Orkney Mainland and home to EMEC, ICIT, Aquatera and others at the Orkney Research and Innovation Campus (ORIC).
Find out more about the town on the official Stromness website.
Enjoy a short animation about the town made by pupils from the … Read More “Stromness”
Orkney Renewable Energy Forum (OREF) is a membership organisation made up of individuals and businesses. Its aims and objectives are:
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) resources.
Website: http://www.emec.org.uk/
Which includes Live Data from the wave and tidal sites:
http://www.emec.org.uk/facilities/live-data/
You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/emecorkney/videos
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanMarineEnergyCentre/
Twitter: @EMEC_Ltd
Tidal Test Site animation
Wave Test Site animation … Read More “EMEC”
In the Wake of Wind – a series of three videos posted by Orkney Sustainable Energy Ltd on their You Tube channel.
The film gives an introduction to the history of the UK Wind Energy Group and shows the original Orkney 3MW wind turbine in operation.
Part one
This short silent film is around 11 minutes long and is from the Scottish Screen Archive, licensed to Orkney Sustainable Energy.
Short video about the Orkney Research and Innovation Campus in Stromness made by Orkney.com… Read More “Orkney Research and Innovation Campus (ORIC) video”
A video made by Orkney.com giving an overview of Orkney’s history.… Read More “Orkney History video”
A video made for Orkney.com about renewable energy in Orkney, giving a short overview of the history of energy in the islands.… Read More “Energy in Orkney video”