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Growing the low carbon skills base

Faced with carbon reduction targets and the need to secure affordable future energy suppliers, the deployment of renewables is expected to play a growing contribution to the UK energy mix - the UK government has committed to sourcing 15% of the energy it consumes from renewable sources by 2020.

Achieving the target could provide £100 billion worth of investment opportunities and up to half a million jobs in the renewable energy sector by 2020. With this in mind training and skills will play a vital role in ensuring we have necessary skills competences required for working within the industry.  The skills gap is a key issue for the UK as it ramps up wind generating capacity offshore over the next ten years. The industry is predicting that technicians in their tens of thousands will be needed to install, operate and maintain new wind generating capacity offshore.

In March 2010, we officially opened a new 27m high training facility – the UK’s first Wind Turbine Training Tower. It is an open access facility, designed to allow education and training providers to deliver academic and industrial training programmes for technicians working in the wind industry and at height, both onshore and offshore.

Download our Training Tower Specification

The UK government in April 2010 introduced a system of feed-in tariffs (FiTs) to incentivise small scale, low carbon electricity generation. This clean energy cash-back will allow many individuals and companies to invest in small scale low carbon electricity, and receive a payment for the electricity generated plus a nominal payment for any electricity exported.

To coincide with these capital asset developments and government schemes Narec has also launched a range of training courses designed to meet the skills and knowledge requirements for the new and renewable energy sector.  

Practical and industry led training in renewables

Click here to download our latest Training Pospectus.

Courses have been developed to meet the requirements of the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), an independent scheme that certifies microgeneration products and installers in accordance with consistent standards.

Training Facilities

Narec’s modern training and conference room is equipped with state of the art facilities and is an ideal environment to hold theory based seminars. Our unique test facilities are used to provide hands-on installer training and practical demonstration. Other facilities include:

Please contact Sara Ibbetson, Skills Co-ordinator tel: +44 (0)1670 543008 or email: sara.Ibbetson@narec.co.uk for further information.

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