Energy Supply Chain
The region offers:
- An energy supply chain of 6,200 companies
- Jobs for more than 105,000 workers
- Energy industry turnover of £13bn a year
- Strategic centres of expertise
- Hubs of outstanding engineering skills
- 40 + years heritage
- Complementary skills across the energy asset portfolio
Lending total support to the quest for power from the region’s energy-rich resources is a supply chain that is highly skilled and draws on expertise gained over more than 40 years from oil & gas, nuclear, bioenergy and pioneering windpower work.
It is flexible, highly diversified and offers transferable skills to meet the array of energy industry demands from across the region, including: upstream oil and gas, gas processing, decommissioning, windpower, bioenergy, conventional generation, nuclear, carbon capture and storage, coal gasification and electricity transmission and distribution.
All are in the region’s portfolio of future energy creation predicted to be worth more than £50bn over coming years. The immediate emphasis is on the vital supplies of offshore gas and the rapidly emerging windpower sector.
Many major players with regional headquarters or operational bases in both sectors have forged strong relationships to the developing supply chain.
Supporting and bringing together supply chain members are organisations and skill centres like:
- Trade association EEEGR (East of England Energy Group), with its 340+ members
- OrbisEnergy, an offshore wind hub
- Norwich Research Park, with a bioenergy focus
- Soon-to-be-developed EPISCentre, a hub for skills training.
- Hethel Engineering Centre, in Norfolk
- The Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence, Essex
