r/Aberdeen

Where are the best places for breakfast in Aberdeen? I don't mean avocado on toast and £8 for a coffee, I mean couple of sausages, eggs, black pudding etc, and most importantly somewhere with parking.

more of a shire thing but the long temporary 50mph on the dualler around brechin area - are the average cameras calibrated for that? everyone’s speeding through including myself

Anyone had the panoramic roof start leaking on there car? Looking for recommendations on getting the seals replaced as it’s leaking bad into my bmw.

Ok, trying to wrap my head around this: I was looking over the offshore wind farms off the coast of the North East and we are massively losing out. We've got loads of offshore wind farms, most of them owned by other countries' governments. Meanwhile, our councils are facing multi-million pounds budget holes, reduced public services, etc. If the Scottish Government took even a small equity stake, say 20%, we'd be making some serious money.

This whole thing has got me feeling kinda:

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Anyways, I broke the offshore wind farms down and tried to figure out how much money we were losing out to private/other state interests. The most readily available figures are over the lifetime (20 or 30 years) of the wind farm

Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm - Owned by Vattenfall, that's Sweden's state energy company.
Estimated Lifetime Net Profit (25-30 Yrs): £120m - £200m

Hywind Scotland -The world’s first floating wind farm! It's Majority-owned by Equinor (67% owned by the Norwegian State) and Masdar (state-owned energy company of Abu Dhabi).
Estimated Lifetime Net Profit (25-30 Yrs): £60m- £110m

Moray East & Moray West - Co-owned by Ocean Winds, owned by ENGIE (majority owned by the french gov) and Ignitis Group (the Lithuanian State-controlled energy company).
Moray East: Estimated Lifetime Net Profit (25-30 Yrs): £1.2bn - £1.8bn
Moray West: Estimated Lifetime Net Profit (25-30 Yrs): £1.1bn - £1.6bn

Kincardine Offshore Wind Farm - owned by multinational conglomerate Cobra Group (a bad ass name)
Estimated Lifetime Net Profit (25-30 Yrs): £100m - £160m

Seagreen -Co-owned by SSE (British Multinational) and TotalEnergies (another multinational with shareholders like BlackRock and Vanguard.
Estimated lifetime Net Profit (20- 30 Yrs): £1.3bn - £1.9bn

Overall, that's £3.88 billion - £5.77 billion in total over the lifetime of these profits. A 20% stake would give us something like £776m - £1.15bn and that's just for these projects here in the North east!

**TL;DR:** Foreign governments and big multinationals are set to clear between £3.88bn and £5.77bn in net profits from North East wind farms over their lifespans. Meanwhile, our local councils are skint. Taking a 20% public stake would keep at least £800m-ish in Scottish public hands. Why aren't ScotGov doing this?

I’ve a friend coming to stay from Friday to Monday and she fancies going “out out”. I’ve only been back living up here the last year and been concentrating on renovating my house, so haven’t really been out out. We are both 50 (but young 50!!!) so, any suggestions of where we can go “out out” in Aberdeen that isn’t full of teenagers/twenty somethings but also not for old people?