OrbisEnergy is a state-of-the-art specialist innovation and incubation centre that sits on Britain’s most easterly location at Ness Point in Lowestoft.
Its prime objective is to maximise the supply chain opportunities associated with the rapid development of offshore
renewables in the North Sea, and to help regional businesses take advantage of the many opportunities the growing sector offers.
OrbisEnergy was opened in late-2008 and among the 30 or so businesses already based at the centre are anchor tenants Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Ltd, with its joint venture partners SSE Renewables and RWE npower renewables already investing in a state-of-the-art operations base in Lowestoft; and East Anglian Offshore Wind Ltd, with its joint venture partners Scottish Power Renewables and Vattenfall.
OrbisEnergy is the flagship building in an area of Lowestoft that is being developed as an offshore technology park -
‘PowerPark’. Once fully developed, the site will play home to a significant proportion of the supply chain for offshore technologies such as offshore wind, allowing for manufacturing and fabrication, business incubation and skills training.
OrbisEnergy plays a major role in ensuring all the links in the supply chain have access to this fast growing industry of wind, tidal and wave renewable energy sources, helping build partnerships and commercial links among suppliers, contractors, engineers, manufacturers and research centres.
