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Unlimited opportunities in the East of England
Unlimited opportunities in the East of England
YOUR GENERATOR FOR
CLEAN GROWTH
Welcome to Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are the UK’s clean growth region,
leading the nation’s transition to Net
Zero. Our vision is to develop integrated
clean energy generation that supports
the Government’s Ten Point Plan for a
Green Industrial Revolution.
BATTERY
STORAGE
BIOENERGYBIOENERGY
GAS
FIELD
WELLS
WELLS
CROMER
CROMER
INTERCONNECTOR
INTERCONNECTOR
NETHERLANDS NETHERLANDS
BACTON
GAS FIRED GAS FIRED
POWER STATION
POWER STATION
KINGS LYNN
NORWICH
NORWICH
GT YARMOUTH GT YARMOUTH
LOWESTOFT
DISS
NUCLEAR NUCLEAR
POWER STATION
POWER STATION
LOWESTOFT
DISS
SIZEWELL
CAMBRIDGE
£138
BILLION
SIZEWELL
BURY ST EDMUNDS
BURY ST EDMUNDS
CAMBRIDGE
IPSWICH
IPSWICH
FELIXSTOWE & FELIXSTOWE &
HARWICH
HARWICH
FREEPORT EASTFREEPORT EAST
LOW CARBON &
ENERGY PROJECTS
IN REGION BY 2050*
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GAS
FIELD
GAS
GAS
TERMINAL TERMINAL
BACTON
KINGS LYNN
BATTERY
STORAGE
BRADWELL
BRADWELL
INTERCONNECTOR
INTERCONNECTOR
BELGIUM
BELGIUM
PORT
PORT
SOLAR
FARM
SOLAR
FARM
WIND
FARM
WIND
FARM
INTRODUCTION
Our dynamic and collaborative energy
ecosystem is helping to attract international
investment in the onshore and offshore
renewables sector. That will generate an
estimated £138 billion of capital investment
in low carbon power generation and related
projects in our region by 2050. This makes it
an ideal base for forward-thinking businesses
developing clean energy technology or serving
the low-carbon energy industry.
We have been fuelling the move to cleaner
power generation for 60 years, since work
started in April 1961 on the Sizewell A nuclear
power station (followed in 1995 by Sizewell B,
the most modern reactor in the UK). The first
onshore terminal for natural gas from the
Southern North Sea then opened in 1968 on
the Norfolk coast at Bacton, which still handles
30% of the UK’s gas supply. This helped drive the
transition away from coal, which led to a 20%
fall in the UK’s CO2 emissions between 1970 and
2000*. *Source: UKERC
Our green revolution really got going in 2004,
when one of the first commercial offshore wind
farms started operations at Scroby Sands, off
the coast of Great Yarmouth. It still generates
enough power for around 40,000 homes a
year and has become a tourist destination, with
its visitor centre in the popular seaside town
welcoming around 35,000 people every year.
It has also helped inspire local people to pursue
energy sector careers by following relevant
education pathways developed by local colleges
with help from the industry, particularly the East
of England Energy Group’s (EEEGR) Skills for
Energy programme.
The Southern North Sea (SNS) is now home
to the largest concentration of offshore wind
farms in the world, with almost 50% of the UK’s
operational fleet and 44% of its operational
capacity. This includes the £2.5 billion, 714MW
East Anglia ONE, located 43km off Lowestoft’s
coast, which became the world’s largest
operational offshore wind farm in 2020. It is also
the first in a proposed super-array of up to six
projects in the East Anglia Zone that could be
built in the next 10-20 years.
In fact, three of the nine candidate zones for
potential post-2025 development are in our
region’s coastal waters. This makes our ports
the closest to a majority of both installed
and planned projects, as well as being an
established base for serving the UK’s strategic
gas fields in the SNS. That proximity of gas and
offshore wind, along with nuclear at Sizewell,
opens up the potential for the next giant leap in
our clean energy transition journey: towards a
low-carbon future.
*Source Opergy
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