Tender: Consultancy to Deliver Regional Clean Energy Skills Action Plan – North West

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ECW, working with the North West Net Zero Hub, Net Zero North West and other organisations, is seeking an individual consultant or small team to build a regional approach to closing the clean energy skills and labour gap across the North West, in partnership with relevant neighbouring regions. Funded by DESNZ and the Office for Clean Energy Jobs, the work includes identifying one to two people to act as the regional Lead for an agreed number of days per week for the length of the project. The scope spans offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, nuclear fusion, nuclear fission, smart systems and flexibility, electricity networks, hydrogen, carbon capture utilisation and storage, greenhouse gas removals, domestic and non-domestic heat pumps, heat networks, biomethane, and energy efficiency and retrofit. Drawing on research indicating demand for an estimated 39,000 workers in clean energy jobs by 2028/9 in the North West and North Wales, at least 16,000 new workers in the next 4–5 years, and targeted upskilling for around 23,000 people in the current workforce, the consultant will engage senior and other stakeholders to develop an action plan that identifies funding partners and scopes mutually beneficial projects to secure new private and public investment into skills provision and ensure local people and the local supply chain benefit from the energy transition.