What we do
We're here to make your involvement with renewable energy in the East of England easier. If you're already involved in sustainable power, if you're an investor, a business owner, an academic - or anybody else with an interest in renewable energy - this is your gateway to sources of further information.
Renewables East works in three key areas:
Activities within each work stream include:
- Arranging events to give regional companies real opportunities to become involved in the renewable energy industry (visit our events section for the latest diary dates)
- Exploring the relationship between biomass and bio fuel supply chain development
- Supporting the commercial development of biomass technologies, and systems for heating and transport fuels
- Supporting the commercial use of renewable energy technologies and systems in new housing developments
- Developing the skills base needed to satisfy the supply chain needs of the wind energy and biomass sectors
- Finding ways to assist the removal of planning barriers to renewable energy development at strategic and local level
- Encouraging market opportunities for renewable energy industry
- Stimulating design, manufacturing, assembly, installation and maintenance, and other supply chain opportunities associated with offshore wind power
- Stimulating renewable energy products and services
- Identifying areas where research and development outputs need assistance to achieve commercial application
- Finding the best applications of regional funding to stimulate renewable energy business development
- investigating the opportunities for significant capital investment to stimulate renewable activity within the region
We're working with diverse organisations to build a common agenda and achieve seamless cooperation, in order to see the East of England at the forefront of renewable energy innovations
Following on from the success of bringing forward the OrbisEnergy project Renewables East has secured funding from EEDA to investigate the feasibility of four new capital projects focused on capturing economic value for the economy whilst being effective in stimulating low carbon activity. It should be noted that no commitment has been made for these projects and until such a time that it is clear investment is shown to be appropriate and EEDA or other public lead investment have made an investment decision these project remain a concept in the pre-development phase. It should further be noted that these projects are aimed at stimulating economic actvity and / or tackling economic failure and not commercially driven.
The four projects being investigated are:-
1) Bioenergy Campus concept is investigating a demonstration of bioenergy technology within a campus environment that offers facilities for R&D, incubator & start-up plus business space for multinational bioenergy companies.
2) Solar Energy Park will aim to demonstrate the significant economies of scale that can be achieved by developing large scale solar energy parks (2 MWe £6m) and delivery of a new financial model preparing the way for next generation solar technologies in development in the region.
3) Marine Energy Demo Zone aims to provide a prototyping facility to stimulate development, entrepreneurship and innovation in tidal, wave and wind power technologies for pre-commercial technologies.
4) Offshore Wind Operations and Maintenance Centre concept aims to support the capture of an enhanced regional economic benefit from the long-term, post-development phase of large scale offshore wind energy projects.
We're here to provide you with the information you need, either through our website or by talking to us directly - if we're not coming up with what you want, please tell us!