Generation Net Zero is a collaborative project run by ORE Catapult and Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire - aimed at engaging primary school children from underrepresented groups in STEM and renewables education. The project features an education and training suite that can be visited by schools, letting students engage in activities like coding, CAD, model building and more - and helping them understand the role of technology in a constantly changing world. Since its inception, Generation Net Zero has educated almost 300 primary school students, and shows no signs of slowing.

Based in Humber, HFR solutions is a community interest company that specialises in workplace safety training and emergency response. In 2022, HFR set up an eco-friendly sensory garden at the Goddards Care Home in Snaith. The garden provides residents with a peaceful and picturesque location in which to relax, and also has vegetable patches in which they can grow their own vegetables. HFR has also taken residents on trips on the community canal boat ‘Lily’ - benefiting their health and wellbeing tremendously.

In 2022, energy company Orsted collaborated with The Culture House to better connect the local community in Grimsby to the recently built Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm. Orsted and The Culture House held two events - “Our Future Starts Here” and “Festival of the Sea”.‘Our Future Starts Here’ let Grimsby residents engage with a variety of art installations, workshops and talks about the potential future of Grimsby - while ‘Festival of the Sea’ explored Grimsby’s relationship with the sea through the lens of its industry. Together, the events reached more than 40,000 people across the community.

Bureau Technical Services is a business that provides a range of services across the energy sector and engineering industry - including auditing, non destructive testing, facilities inspection and more. Bureau has grown impressively since it was founded in 2010 - and has recently won a variety of projects in the renewable energy industry, including quality assurance and quality control for Triton Knoll Wind Farm. Even during and after the pandemic, BTS continued to grow - setting up a statutory inspection division in 2023, and winning further contracts in renewable energy.

Based in East Yorkshire, HDM Solar is a family-run business that supplies various renewable energy supplies. With an extensive range of solar panels, batteries, inverters, connectors, electric vehicle chargers and more, HDM’s highly experienced team handles projects domestic and commercial at various scales. The team at HDM goes above and beyond to ensure customers get the right product - providing their advice and expertise to ensure a customer is satisfied, and able to make their project a success.

RSUK Group is a business committed to providing clients with a complete service - meeting their needs from start to finish. Working in a range of fields - including repairs, solar power, wind, and electric vehicles, RSUK0 is able to leverage the extensive experience of its team to undertake large scale projects without the need to hire external contractors - providing clients with a seamless in-house process throughout. The group works to create close relationships with clients - providing updates, site meetings, and seeking feedback throughout - to ensure clients get the result they want.

Grimsby’s mobile fishmongers are being given the opportunity to go green in a funded pilot brought forward by Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership, University of Lincoln’s National Centre for Food Manufacturing and the Seafood Grimsby and Humber Alliance. Toyota UK is also on board as 10 per cent of the 100-plus vans look to be switched.

Europe’s largest battery storage system has been built alongside Creyke Beck substation at Cottingham, near Hull. Delivery was accelerated to ease the potential winter energy crisis brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent gas-supply pressures. It features Tesla technology and can power 300,000 homes for two hours.

Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire (ENLUTC) works with a range of renewable energy and decarbonisation businesses to support its curriculum and provide careers education - and also encourages students to take up environmental projects. In 2022 the Loyal Leaders collaborated with staff and the rest of the student body on an initiative that reduced the college’s energy bills by a third. In an effort to expand these efforts, the group also created an energy pledge for friends, family and businesses to encourage best practice when it comes to energy efficiency.

Since 2009, CWind has run Cwind Training - a training provider that offers a range of courses to help the wind turbine workforce operate in safety and security. Cwind Training is located at Grimsby Port, with a range of facilities designed to provide the most accurate and immersive training possible - providing learners with the closest thing possible to training in real conditions. Cwind also provides on-site consultancy - providing training, risk assessments and the development of rescue procedures among other services - to help companies ensure their sites are safe.

Hexis is a training provider dedicated to ensuring that wind farms are as safe as can be. Hexis offers comprehensive training tailored to meet the needs of each specific company - raising the overall competency of teams and training them to understand the specific intricacies of their working environment. Hexis works to provide a realistic experience - with environmental simulators alongside industry standard equipment for training - to ensure that wind farm staff are able to get a meaningful sense of what is required to be safe on the job.

RES is an independent renewable energy company - working in wind, solar, energy storge, green hydrogen and more for over 40 years. RES launched a dedicated apprenticeship programme in 2022, working to promote renewable skills and training in the Humber region - and taking on seven apprentices at first. RES provides classroom and on-site learning, and helps its apprentices benefit from the vast experience of its Grimsby team. RES also brought on board a Future Careers and Training manager, to ensure that apprentices receive the support and opportunities they deserve.

Based in Yorkshire, C3 Group works to help build net zero buildings across the UK, providing information and direction on low-carbon construction to clients. C3 has partnered with Thrive Academy to educate students on the importance of sustainability - hosting STEM activities designed to inform and encourage students to make sustainable changes in their lives. C3 has also been providing free advice to the community on how they can reduce carbon emissions and energy costs - empowering the community to take its own steps towards sustainability.

The East Riding of Yorkshire Council has partnered with a range of organisations to increase young people’s understanding of STEM, and the technologies of the future. One programme, held with the support of Dogger Bank Wind Farm, supports the development of skills key to the green energy industry - providing bespoke educational programmes for students ages 3-11 that help them see the breadth of opportunity available to them. These programmes also involve training for educators, designed to improve the teaching of STEM - so that students, teachers and the wider community are all able to benefit.

Phillips 66 Limited Humber Refinery is dedicated to engaging students across the Humber, encouraging them to think about the future of the region. In 2022 the business developed a challenge for Key Stage 4 pupils designed to get them thinking about decarbonisation, and ways to support the UK’s transition to green energy. The challenge ran through several stages, finishing at the North East Lincolnshire Council’s Skills Fair at Grimsby Auditorium - and its success led to it being launched in over 100 schools in the Humber region for 2023.

Cellform is a business that manufactures metallic bipolar plates for electrolysers and fuel cells - and is constantly working to make fuel cells more efficient and sustainable. Cellform produces bipolar plates that are 50% thinner, as well as being more efficient and less costly to produce. As such, Cellform is able to help make fuel cells more viable and increase the capacity to manufacture fuel cell cars. The lighter weight and efficiency of Cellform’s bipolar plates can help reduce carbon emissions by 32 tons compared to a combustion engine vehicle, as much as 90% over the lifetime of the vehicle.

Finboot is a business dedicated to making supply chains more transparent and easier to maintain, and more environmentally friendly in the process. Finboot uses blockchain technology to track and trace supply chains - making it easier to keep track of increasingly interconnected and complex processes, as well as making it easier to understand which parts of each supply chain have the greatest impact on the environment. In making this technology more accessible to businesses, Finboot is able to help them reduce their environmental impact, and ensure compliance across the supply chain.

The university of Aberdeen is an institution of cutting edge research on energy technologies including those that can help us tackle the climate crisis and the transition to a more sustainable energy generation. The engineering department which has been closely linked to the offshore industry for many years is committed to the green energy transition. Modern floating wind turbine systems consist of semisubmersible floaters that are being used as the platforms for the offshore floating wind turbines; the motion of those systems needs to take into account of their hydrodynamic, structural and aeroelastic behaviour. This work mainly focused on the complex hydrodynamic modelling of the floater in order to prove their feasibility for deployment on UK continental shelf and in particularly in harsh environments of the Southern North Sea. It also introduces a cost-effective catenary mooring system with polymer components.

Run by ORE Catapult and Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire, Generation Net Zero is a project that works to involve primary school children in education opportunities centred around STEM and renewables. In particular, the project works to prioritise and engage children from underrepresented groups - including students with special educational needs, English-second language students, students living in poverty and more. Generation Net Zero has also engaged in the government’s ‘Fuelled’ programme - combining STEM events with hot meals during the summer holidays, for children on free school meals.

Through the efforts of its Inclusion and Diversity team, Phillips 66 Limited Humber Refinery has worked to make the business a more accepting and accessible environment for all employees. In 2022, the I&D team carried out a range of projects - including the establishment of an allyship programme, the provision of free sanitary products, the training of more than 50 mental health first aiders - alongside regular meetings in which employees can voice their opinions and suggestions on how inclusion and diversity can be improved.

Independent renewable energy company RES is firmly committed to diversity and inclusion. RES set up five affinity networks in 2021, each focused on a different element of diversity - age, disability, gender, LGBTQ+ and race. The networks have engaged in a variety of initiatives - including gender pay and bonus gap reporting, a gender affirmation policy, and increasing accessibility in recruiting to name a few. These networks have built a community at RES, providing safe spaces for people to share their experiences, challenges - and ideas for the future of diversity at RES.

Since 2011, Siobhan Mooney has worked on Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farm - and has made incredible contributions to wind power and Grimsby in that time. Siobhan has worked on some of LID’s most important operations - including asset performance, budgeting and forecasting, and recruitment - helping to make LID not just more effective, but also a better place to work. Siobhan also founded the Social & Environment committee - which championed fundraising, charitable and team building work within LID. With many people starting at LID before moving elsewhere, Siobhan’s influence can be seen all across the industry today.

Jenny Sutcliffe started at Phillips 66 Limited Humber Refinery in 2006, and since then has become a truly invaluable member of the team. Jenny has worked for years as part of the environmental team - becoming team lead within 6 years, and currently serving as a principal consultant at Phillips 66. Jenny’s passion for her work has helped not just the refinery, but also the Humber region as a whole - a tireless champion of the Humber, Jenny continues to work tirelessly to help her industry and the region succeed.

Claire joined the renewables sector in 2015 after working in oil and gas - and for the last two years has been a logistics coordinator at Triton Knoll Grimsby. Since 2016 Claire has been a tireless advocate for STEM - becoming a STEM ambassador and leading a team which developed a LEGO wind workshop for key stage 2 children. This workshop helped children better understand STEM as well as wind power - and has been delivered to more than 2000 children since it was started.

For several years, Jennifer Vincent has gone above and beyond to advocate for the renewables industry and inspire young people. Jennifer has worked with businesses and schools to produce better STEM engagement events and projects - helping to build industry-focused syllabuses and forge long-lasting partnerships between institutions. Now working at ENLUTC, Jennifer has led the Generation Net Zero project - a partnership between ENLUTC and ORE Catapult that helps primary school children - particularly those from underrepresented groups - access high quality STEM education activities.

Having been with the Sea Cadet Corps for 11 years, Ria is currently in the fourth year of an offshore wind turbine technician apprenticeship - working at the largest wind farm in the UK. Ria has shown a fierce determination to succeed, and passion for her work - becoming not just an outstanding apprentice, but a great advocate for STEM. Ria regularly provides her knowledge and experience to young people interested in STEM - taking part in question panels, workshops and more - she has also volunteered to deliver wind energy workshops at the British Museum.

Since beginning her apprenticeship, Mollie has proven herself to be a committed learner, and an invaluable member of the team at offshore wind farm Triton Knoll. Mollie is constantly looking for ways to incorporate her learning into her work, and make it more effective. As such, Mollie has quickly surpassed what would be expected of a technician of her experience. This commitment and ever-increasing knowledge have meant that, despite only working offshore for a year, Mollie has already been granted significant responsibilities - even leading teams in turbine servicing tasks.

Undertaking an apprenticeship while working at Pure Renewables, Arthur has shown himself to be dedicated to producing work of the highest quality possible - in both his apprenticeship and his work as a heating engineer. Arthur has demonstrated a deep understanding of the technology he works with, and is also an outstanding communicator and team player, supporting his team however he can. As such, Arthur has already shown himself to be an effective leader - taking charge on installations and ensuring they are completed to the highest standard.

George, Liam and Morton distinguished themselves through their exemplary commitment to their apprenticeship and work during an extremely challenging time. Completing a renewables apprenticeship engineering while working at Humber Gateway, their studies were interrupted by the pandemic. Despite the disruption this caused to an apprenticeship in which practical learning was important, George Liam and Morton remained committed to their work - producing excellent results and all becoming authorised technicians, and even being trusted to carry out Humber Gateway’s first in-house turbine blade inspection programme.

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