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GBN Award Holders

GBN Award holders include:

  • Darlington College
  • Carbon Abatement Technologies
  • Cummins Ltd
  • Intelect UK Ltd
  • Big Little Fish

Micro-Renewables North East

Investing in Micro-Renewables can benefit your business by reducing energy costs and generating income through sale of excess electricity and heat.

This project provides impartial, objective feasibility assessments, which will enable regional Small to Medium businesses (SMEs) make informed choices regarding the suitability of different micro-renewable energy technologies at their site.

Support available:

Free site-based support across a range of micro-renewables including wind, solar hot water and solar photo-voltaics, hydro, heat pumps, biomass and micro-CHP.

Free 3-5 days specialist consultancy support on micro-renewables at your business.  This will include an objective and impartial site survey to assess the suitability of different micro-renewables at your premises, identification of the most appropriate technology, an outline assessment of the financial viability, planning requirements and identification of relevant financial assistance to support project development where this is available. This will be presented in a detailed feasibility report.

Eligibility – your company must:

• Be located within North East England
• Employ fewer than 250 staff
• Have a turnover of less than £44M per year and a balance sheet of less than of less than £37M

For more information and an application form see: http://www.micro-renewablesne.co.uk/  

5th January 2010