Businesses operating outside of the renewables sphere have been urged to explore how they can play a part in a burgeoning global sector.
Widening the supply chain base is seen as critical to achieving ambitious deployment targets, now looming ever closer.
Having heard Humber renewables champion Emma Toulson explain how regional expansion alone is set to see operational capacity increase from 4.9GW to 13.8GW by the decade's end, Len Taylor, the Northern Powerhouse sector specialist for offshore wind and renewables at the Department for International Trade, used the Humber’s Offshore Wind Connections conference to make the appeal.
