Clean Energy Systems & Industrial Decarbonisation

Britain leads in offshore wind deployment and lags in the manufacture of what it deploys. The mission is supply chain, industrial decarbonisation and the technologies around them.

• More of the deployed supply chain manufactured in Britain
• Industrial sites decarbonised rather than closed
• Exportable energy technology and services

Comparable in function to Denmark's Esbjerg energy industrial base.

• One of the largest offshore wind markets in the world.
• Existing industrial clusters with carbon capture and hydrogen projects.
• Port, grid and heavy industry infrastructure already in place.

Current geographic hypothesis: Distributed. Core capability concentrates around Teesside and the Humber, the North East, the Nottingham–Derby corridor, Cornwall and the East, with complementary strength in Scotland and South Wales.. This is indicative geography — a record of where relevant capability is concentrated today, not a decision that this mission belongs to one place or that anything would be built there.

• Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Blyth
• Teesside and Humber industrial clusters
• Hydrogen and carbon capture projects
• Nuclear and fusion research programmes

The types of organisation and individual already active in this capability. Listing a participant type is a description of the ecosystem, not membership, endorsement or a commitment by anyone named or implied.

• Energy developers and manufacturers
• Industrial emitters
• Infrastructure and project finance
• Skills and apprenticeship providers

• Offshore wind supply chain
• Hydrogen
• Carbon capture and storage
• Nuclear and fusion
• Grid and storage technology

• Newcastle University
• University of Nottingham
• University of Sheffield
• University of Strathclyde

• Port and heavy assembly capacity
• Grid connection and storage
• Test and demonstration facilities
• Pipeline and storage infrastructure

Listing infrastructure is not a proposal to build it. Physical intervention is only recommended where evidence demonstrates additionality.

1. Research→
2. Problem→
3. Prototype→
4. Company→
5. Capital→
6. Customer→
7. Scale→
8. Export

• More of the deployed supply chain manufactured in Britain
• Industrial sites decarbonised rather than closed
• Exportable energy technology and services

These are hypotheses to be tested, not forecasts, targets or guarantees. Each would need to pass the additionality test — would it happen anyway, or happen elsewhere in Britain? — before it counts as a reason to intervene. UKIZ makes no projections it cannot evidence.