Designs for a centre that aims to cement Tyneside’s place in the renewable energy industry have been unveiled.
The Northern Renewable Energy Centre of Excellence hopes to highlight the region’s skills and expertise in low carbon energy. If it wins funding and planning permission, it would form part of the Holborn Renewable Energy Network in South Shields.
The network - which is being developed in collaboration with South Tyneside College, Durham, Newcastle and Northumbria universities and the UK Coal Authority - 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.
