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  This trail offers insight into the operation and maintenance opportunities available throughout a typical wind farm life cycle. It’s where the offshore wind community meets Aberdeen’s offshore oil & gas expertise to network, learn and do business.
  170 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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  The UK is currently the world leader in terms of installed offshore wind capacity and has been estimated to have over a third of Europe's total offshore wind resource. 
  260 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012.

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  Highlights companies involved in the bioenergy sectors - biomass, biogas and biofuel. The UK has a considerable biomass resource, estimated at an annual 20 million tonnes, which may be utilised as a source of renewable energy, including for small-scale heat and power production using a variety of waste streams, dedicated energy crops and forest residues.
  112 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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  The Energy Efficiency trail & zone highlights energy efficiency and energy management; micro- and onsite generation technologies. According to the International Energy Agency, improved energy efficiency in buildings, industrial processes and transportation could reduce the world's energy needs in 2050 by one third, and help control global emissions of greenhouse gases.
  88 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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  Highlights exhibitors displaying technology and services for the UK solar market. Receive advice on selling the electricity your solar panels have generated back to the national grid. 

   110 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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  The UK is widely recognised as a world leader in the development of wave & tidal technologies due to the abundance of resource around our shores. With these excellent resources, and our expertise in oil and gas exploration, the UK is in a unique position to benefit  – and to develop related wave and tidal services.
  219 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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  Wind will be a key component in meeting the UK’s 2020 target for energy from renewable sources, and onshore wind could deliver around 15% of the total.

   209 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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  Renewable heat is an application of renewable energy and it refers to the renewable generation of heat, rather than electrical power. The UK Government's Renewable Heat Incentive policy designed to revolutionise the way heat is generated and used, is the first financial support scheme for renewable heat of its kind in the world.

   107 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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  Hydropower is one of the most reliable, predictable and least environmentally intrusive of all renewable energies. This trail will highlight suppliers to this renewable energy sector.

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  Large scale investment and financial support is necessary to reach the UK’s 2020 renewables targets. The Investment trail highlights companies offering investment services for the renewables industry.

   64 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012
  

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  The jobs trail highlights exhibitors directly involved in areas of recruitment, education and research within and around the renewables industry, as well as companies with current employment opportunities interested in making new contacts.

   35 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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  This trail includes electric vehicles, biofuels, fuel cells and transport infrastructure. With greenhouse gas emissions from transport representing 21% of total UK domestic emissions, decarbonising transport is a major challenge for the UK.

   50 exhibiting companies joined this trail in 2012

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