Aberdeen City Council is disappointed that the All-Energy conference is moving out of the city, but remains confident that the Granite City continues to be the home of the renewables and broader energy industry.

The council, working in partnership with the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG) plans to continue promoting the city as a renewables capital and working to attract and develop more renewables conferences and exhibitions at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, as well as encouraging the development of new businesses and technologies.

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Council leader Jenny Laing said: "I am sure that many businesses and research organisations will be extremely disappointed by this news. Aberdeen is a global energy hub and the renewables capital of Europe. It is renowned as a skills and knowledge base, as well as for the pioneering projects being carried out here.

"We are in ongoing discussions with an international development agency for the establishment of a world renewables research centre, focussing on progress in Aberdeen and confidence in the sector locally is high.

"It is, of course, disappointing that Reed Exhibitions has chosen to move All-Energy to the Central Belt. Although the organiser is the commercial owner of All-Energy, it was borne of a concept developed and grown by Aberdeen City Council and AREG, in conjunction with the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre."

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