To catalyse an integrated energy system, which grows a productive, clean economy for communities across the globe.
To develop and showcase solutions to global energy challenges via innovation, demonstration and delivery.
The North East is home to a unique and comprehensive asset base for innovating, demonstrating and delivering solutions to global energy challenges. It also hosts a highly innovative industry base, at the cutting edge of developing and commercialising these solutions, and already supplying into the sector.
The North East Energy Catalyst is made up of partners including industry, the public sector, universities, institutions and government bodies, all working together to unite this range of opportunities and to:
The North East Energy Catalyst is made up of key partners from across the region.
Our region is home to a host of exciting and ground-breaking test and demonstration facilities helping to bring new energy solutions to the market. Our test and demonstration specialities lie in Heat, Materials, Power, Systems and Transport.
Use the map and filters below to find out more about our region’s assets or see a full list here.
The North East Energy Catalyst has identified three central challenges which will deliver on our vision. These are global energy challenges which require continuing innovation and rapid deployment of solutions at scale:
Maximising the deployment and life cycle value of low carbon power
Commercialising and deploying scaled pathways to decarbonise heat
Industrialising and mainstreaming the technology to decarbonise transport
We are tackling these challenges through a programme of projects we call our North East ‘Future Energy System Today’ programme (North East FEST). The programme will work to deliver large-scale solutions to these global energy challenges through innovation and demonstration and aims to drive growth in the North East. By sharing our learning to accelerate wider change we will help catalyse the creation of global markets in sectors of opportunity for both our region and the wider UK.
Building on our extensive existing asset base and programmes, we are continually developing a programme prospectus for North East FEST, for which we are seeking collaborators, sponsors and funders for projects.
Within this prospectus is a range of crucial project opportunities which we have identified and collaboratively developed to tackle our Catalysing Change Challenges.
These opportunities will unlock, at greater pace and scale, the potential of the North East to act as a catalyst region and deliver a Future Energy System Today, unlocking global markets for industry, delivering on the UK’s decarbonisation goals, and driving levelling up in the North East.
To find out more about the North East Energy Catalyst, please email: Jessica Cook
