Islanders Fear Impact of Potential Vestas Job

To adapt to the change the factory is preparing to swap to producing smaller onshore turbines at a cost of up to 300 jobs. For the island, losing manufacturing jobs has felt particularly hard as it is a holiday destination with a large services industry.

Sarah Redrup, from Grace’s Bakery, said she would like to see companies like Vestas “thrive and do more” for the locals. “I’ve got friends [who work at Vestas] and my partner used to work there,” she said.

“They’ve got a lot of training there [and] an opportunity to gain a skill that can take them all over the world.” Sarah Redrup giving Digital Marketing Agency In Canada an interview at her bakery. She is wearing her hair in a pony tail and has a dark red hoody on. A handyman is working behind her. There is a yellow ladder inside.

Sarah Redrup from Grace’s Bakery said she would like to see companies like Vestas “thrive and do more” for the locals
Mr Bennett said that offshore wind turbines had been “much smaller” when the factory was built 20 years ago.

“Today they are more than three times that scale, ” he said. “Unfortunately, the facility just doesn’t have a large enough infrastructure to manufacture these blades.”

Meanwhile, the renewables industry continues to grow, as the Labour government said it wanted to double its onshore wind target and more than treble its offshore wind target.