Scotland's offshore wind route map: developing Scotland's offshore wind industry to 2020

Annex B

SCOTTISH OFFSHORE ENERGY PROGRAMME BOARD

Role

As a sub-group of the Energy Advisory Board ( EAB), the role of the Offshore Energy Programme Board is to strategically drive and co-ordinate the public sector's collective contribution to the growing offshore energy opportunities, seeking maximum benefit for Scotland. Overseeing the newly emerging offshore energy sectors will allow for strategic linkages and priorities to be drawn out within the existing work of the public sector authorities, influencing the direction of future work.

Remit

The Offshore Energy Programme Board's scope will cover the following key areas of offshore energy - offshore wind, marine renewables and offshore grid.

Agreed areas of activity/interest

The Offshore Energy Programme Board will take forward the following activities, of which others may be added.

• To influence and drive forward the production of an offshore renewables strategy for Scotland's public sector bodies.
• To integrate existing route maps and action plans for marine renewables with the Offshore Wind Route Map, to set out an evolving programme of delivery for the offshore renewables sector.
• To co-ordinate progress on key issues of joint importance such as marine planning, grid, supply chain/infrastructure and skills.
• To oversee the production of a series of proposals for Ministerial decision setting out the future direction of policies to support Scotland's low carbon offshore energy sectors.
• To promote internally within our organisations, to public bodies and to industry, the work of the Programme Board and the strategic importance of offshore renewables to Scotland.
• To assess overall resource allocation (staff and programme budgets) across the public sector, in supporting the growth of the low carbon offshore energy sector, and to drive any required changes.

Position with other SG groups

As a sub-group of the Energy Advisory Board ( EAB), the Offshore Energy Programme Board will feed directly into the work of the EAB. Sandy Cumming, as Chair, will represent the Offshore Energy Programme Board's views on the EAB. The Offshore Wind Industry Group ( OWIG), the Marine Energy Spatial Planning Group ( MESPG) and the Pentland Firth & Orkney Waters Delivery Group will feed directly into the work of the Offshore Energy Programme Board as formal sub-groups.

A close reporting relationship will also be maintained with the FREDS and the other EAB sub-groups to ensure consistency across all renewables activity.

Membership

Adrian Gillespie (Senior Director, Energy and Low Carbon Technologies, Scottish Enterprise)

Alan McIntyre (Director, Scottish Development International)

Mike Neilson (Director, Marine Scotland, Scottish Government)

David Wilson (Director DG Energy, Scottish Government)

Ian Jardine (Chief Executive, Scottish Natural Heritage)

Kathy Cameron (Policy Manager, COSLA)

Martin Simpson (Head of Energy and Technology, The Crown Estate)

Gordon McGuinness (Director, Skills Development Scotland)

Duncan Botting (Chief Executive, Scottish European Green Energy Centre)

Audrey MacIver (Head of Energy, Highlands and Islands Enterprise)

Experts in specific fields will be invited to attend Programme Board meetings on an ad hoc basis as and when agenda items merit wider input to the Board's discussions.

Chair

Sandy Cumming (Partnership Director Offshore Energy, Scottish Government)

Secretariat

Alex MacDonald ( PA to Sandy Cumming, Scottish Government)

Lynne Vallance (Head of Offshore Renewables Team, Scottish Government)

David Stevenson (Senior Policy Officer - Offshore Wind, Scottish Government)