Renewables and Green Energy are a huge focus for Swansea and one of the fastest growing sectors we specialise in.
As part of a £3bn renewable energy project, Swansea’s Fabian Way park and ride is set to become a green energy transport hub with the potential to include a hydrogen manufacturing station for hydrogen-powered transport as well as offering electric vehicles charging points.
The project will also see an expansion of an existing solar farm that will create one of the UK’s largest solar energy generating facilities as well as a new manufacturing facility in SA1 making high-tech batteries that will store the renewable energy generated from the solar farm.
Investors will be reassured that there are many strong working partnerships between the universities, Council and private sector to drive forward green innovation. Some examples of this include:
- Swansea University’s SWITCH Hub focused on the decarbonisation of the steel and metals sector and supply chain
- UWTSD’s Construction Wales Innovation Centre (CWIC) seeks to help the construction sector to become a net zero industry, including via industry-focused programmes to support decarbonisation in offsite construction.
- Reducing Industrial Carbon Emissions (RICE) programme, led by the Energy Safety Research Institute at Swansea University, which works with local supply chain companies to test how CO₂ produced from heavy industrial processes can be innovatively used to make high value products and industrially important chemicals.
