Orkney Energy Heritage Strategy Phase 1: Scoping

Orkney Energy Heritage Strategy Phase 1 scoping includes a high level audit of types of material, energy sites, broad level industry aspirations and priorities, existing collection policies and strategies and action plan. It concludes that there is an urgent need for a heritage strategy to capture living history, knowledge and archive material at a time when research and development is actually happening, with agreed priorities and aims. The collection of oral histories was identified as a clear initial priority amongst a number of cross cutting themes. There is a desire for a permanent facility in Orkney to house the energy heritage archive and to be a place where Orkney’s energy story has a home.