Renewable energy in Scotland expensive to install, could be enough to provide almost half the total energy used in Scotland. Plans to harness up to 4.8 GW of the potential in the inner Moray Firth and Firth of Forth were announced in January 2010. Moray Offshore Renewables and SeaGreen Wind Energy were awarded development contracts by the Crown Estate as part of a UK-wide initiative. Also in 2010, discussions were held between the Scottish Government and Statoil of Norway with a view to developing a 5-turbine floating windfarm, possibly to be located off Fraserburgh. In July 2016, RSPB challenged development in the Firth of
Firth Concrete for over 40 years and the business is ISO 9001 Quality Certified. Dricon’s products include: HandiCrete, RapidSet SuperSet and Oxitone, PaveLock, PaveSandTM Firth Concrete Firth Concrete (legal title: "Firth Industries") is New Zealand’s largest and only national concrete company. It produces ready mix concrete under its Certified brand, a large range of concrete masonry (or grey masonry), paving, segmental retaining walls and veneers. It also has a range of bagged, pre-mixed product that is marketed under the Dricon brand. The business from which Firth evolved started at Matamata, New Zealand, in 1865. This original business was established by Josiah Clifton