The agency behind a purpose built business park aimed at exclusively attracting renewable firms to the north-east is having to go back to the drawing board as a result of a lack of demand in the industry.
Scottish Enterprise purchased the 55 acre site at the southern gateway to Peterhead and invested £2million in creating a new access road and infrastructure to provide serviced sites for what they believed was “one of Scotland’s most promising sectors”.
But 10 years on interest in the Energetica Commercial Park, earmarked for low carbon businesses, has been poor and motions are now in place to come up with a plan which would allow companies from all sectors to benefit from the site and its location.