Meet the Buchan Team: Debbie Olson - Onshore Consents Manager

Meet our Buchan Offshore Wind team! Debbie Olson, our Onshore Consents Manager, has worked as an environmental planner focusing on grid connections - you can find out more about her career so far, and what she is excited about at Buchan Offshore Wind below:

Education

BA (Hons) Geography and History – University of Strathclyde
MSc Real Estate, City Planning and Regeneration – University of Glasgow
Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute

Previous Experience

Environmental Planner at SP Energy Networks – Worked on the development, routing, consultation, EIA and consenting of multiple customer grid connections both at transmission and distribution voltages, as well as several significant transmission network reinforcement projects.

Hobbies

Strolling along a beach with the dog and getting the heart rate up at a boot camp in the morning. Watching pretty much any sport except cricket. I love to cook and am partial to making a wee cocktail – particularly an espresso martini.

What you are most excited about at Buchan Offshore Wind?

As my experience to date has been entirely onshore, it’s a great opportunity to learn more about offshore wind, whilst contributing to the development of a project that will help put Scotland at the forefront of floating wind technology.

Would you like to work for a dynamic team in an innovative sector? You can find all of our vacancies here:

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