The design has been unveiled for a landmark energy building in South Tyneside.
Subject to funding and planning permission, the Northern Renewable Energy Centre of Excellence will highlight the region’s skills and expertise in low carbon energy and would form part of the Holborn Renewable Energy Network in South Shields. The network will use a combination of technologies, harnessing heat from abandoned flooded mines, as well as from the River Tyne and is expected to save 4,800 tonnes of carbon a year.
The project is being developed in collaboration with South Tyneside College, Durham, Newcastle and Northumbria universities and the UK Coal Authority.
