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Green energy college is set for £8.5m cash boost

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June 10, 2025

A MULTI-MILLION pound cash injection could help a North East college train up thousands more young people for green energy jobs.

- DANIEL HOLLAND Local Democracy Reporter

An £8.5m investment to expand the college’s Energy Academy in Wallsend is due to be signed off by the North East Combined Authority (NECA).

The move could allow the specialist renewable, subsea and offshore engineering facility, which opened in 2012, to deliver valuable skills training to more than 1,000 learners every year.

A bigger Energy Campus would have triple the number of students who can enrol than the 340 who started their studies in 2024/25.

There are hopes that a boom in the offshore renewable energy sector could create around 4,500 jobs in manufacturing and engineering on the River Tyne alone over the next 10 years.

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