Clean Energy Education Hub

The Clean Energy Education Hub will be a specialist industrial training facility, designed to meet the current and emerging skills needs of the clean energy sector, including offshore wind, renewables, and hydrogen.

The facility, located at Redcar and Cleveland College, will be unique in Tees Valley, delivering a range of courses for young people aged 16-18, including apprenticeships, industrial programmes and a Higher Education offer. There will also be courses for the existing workforce, enabling them to adapt current skills and develop new skills to support the adoption of clean energies for commercial, industrial and domestic use.

Jason Faulkner, Principal, Redcar & Cleveland College:

“By the end of academic year 2025/26, we forecast that 212 16-18 year old learners will have enrolled at Redcar & Cleveland College’s Clean Energy Education Hub, as a minimum.

These learners will have the opportunity to study a wide range of courses including general vocational and the new T-Level, from Level 2 to Level 4, covering renewable and clean energy, electrical installation, plumbing & heating and installation & maintenance of solar photovoltaics and ground & air source heat pump technology. This offer will be further enhanced by significant commercial provision, which will see similar courses available to businesses and adult learners.

At Redcar & Cleveland College, almost 90% of young learners go onto to positive, sustained destinations in Higher Education and Employment. Since the announcement of the Clean Energy Education Hub, the college has worked with a number of employers – ranging from local to multi-national – to secure partnership agreements which will see all learners benefitting from the best teaching, learning and experiences to equip them with the skills they need to take advantage of the clean energy jobs coming to Tees Valley.

This really is an exciting time for the college, for the people of Redcar & Cleveland and for the local employers – I would encourage anyone with an interest to keep an eye on our social media and website for details of the Clean Energy Education Hub as it reaches conclusion of the build programme, its official opening and details of some new announcements coming soon, and if you would like to find out more about studying here, simply contact our Admissions desk (01642 473132) and the team will be happy to help.”