Communications & Stakeholder Manager at @RWE_UK in Wales - onshore and offshore. Lapsed journalist. Occasional racing cyclist. Triple dad. Wind farms are brill.
Big shoutout to all my former colleagues in journalism, I'll be thinking of you while I go to bed at a sensible time on Thursday. One of the "type two" enjoyable bits of the job!
We're going to need to employ 70,000 more people in the industry by the end of the decade, and they're going to be based in coastal communities where house prices have been driven up over the years significantly.
At Marine Energy Wales' 2024 conference, talking all things Wind in Wales to anyone who'll listen.
Interestingly, the newest topic that has come up in every skills conversation is housing stock. #mew2024
Great to be there and talk about the cross party work of the @APPGCelticSea I set up and Chair to drive FLOW in the Celtic Sea and bring skilled jobs right around our coast
#Liverpool has the second worst recycling rate in England. Govt data shows the city recycled 17.9% of household waste in 2022-2023.
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Really pleased to be able to play a tiny part of this change for the future (even if none of the projects I work on have been built yet!)
UK generation from coal and gas lowest since 1957
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Work to investigate the geology of the north Wales coast is set to start as part of the first major contract issued for the Awel y Mรดr Offshore Wind Farm
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I set this account up when I got my first job in journalism so I guess I have been a self-facilitating media node for ten years then. Don't think it's going to last another ten somehow!
Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
@TomH_Analyst @tonymc39 RWE's 1.2GW Triton Knoll was commissioned last year. Not sure about other companies as well. But there's a reason people say renewables is a fast growing industry!
*me reviewing a press release from a colleague*
- this is great, I couldn't have written it better myself!
*Scrolls down email chain*
-ah yes, I did write it myself.