North & Mersey Dee Prospectus The ambition to deliver these skills and em - Large scale energy projects can attract major insti - Skills ployment opportunities, builds on existing tutional investors along with funding from organi - Our future success depends upon industry hav - strengths and known opportunities across the sations such as the Green Investment Group and ing access to a supply of talent with the skills region, and its delivery will create a more sus - European Investment Bank. There are a wealth of that they need. Across the wider MDA geogra - tainable and balanced approach to support opportunities on offer in the region covered by phy work is ongoing, led by business, to identify our communities, our economy, and our this prospectus and the chance for industry and and meet these needs through initiatives in - labour market in response to large scale proj - the public sector locally to work together, with the cluding the North Wales Regional Skills Partner - ects of national significance and its impact on Department for International Trade, to craft a com - ship, Cheshire Energy Hub Graduate supply chains and labour. pelling case for inward investment to the UK and Programme, Cheshire and Warrington LEP’s Dig - for the export of skills, knowledge and technology ital Skills Partnership and Liverpool City Region to the rest of the world. The North Wales Growth Skills and Apprenticeships Strategy. Finance Deal will deliver £1bn of funding with Energy one of the core project priorities There is clear ambition for the region to posi - Energy is a major driver of UK growth, with energy tion itself as one of the leading UK locations for projects accounting for around 60% of the coun - *Source: www.invest.great.uk/industries/energy low carbon energy generation and advanced try’s total infrastructure pipeline*. This includes an manufacturing – as well as becoming a hub of estimated £1 billion pipeline of opportunities for innovation and technology expertise. community heating projects which could be ful - Outcome filled from a range of new low carbon energy sources including waste-to-energy and bio mass. Energy is a crucially important sector and there The global market for small modular nuclear reac - are significant similarities across the region includ - tors is estimated to be valued at between £250 ing employers of scale, manufacturers, a wide mix billion and £400 billion by 2035 – technology that of energy providers and users, existing renewable is being developed here in our region right now. projects and centres of skills and excellence. Progress and growth in this area depends on a healthy cross border collaboration. A clear out - come of the 2018 North Wales and Mersey Dee Energy and Clean Growth Summit was the will of partners and major stakeholders within the energy sector across the wider Mersey Dee area; North Wales, Cheshire and Warrington and Liverpool City Region, to work collaboratively together and cross border to support and grow the energy sector in response to the UK Government’s Energy and Clean Growth Grand Challenge and create a zero carbon cluster by 2040. Nuclear Hydrogen Background

The North West of England and North Wales is Natural gas is increasingly relied on as a source The UK Government the very heart of the UK’s Nuclear Sector. Un - of energy to heat our homes, generate electric - launched its Industrial like any other area it offers world-leading ex - ity and power industrial processes. If we are to pertise in the whole nuclear cycle; from design, decarbonise these processes we have to de - Strategy in November development, construction, certification, opera - velop and introduce new forms of ‘green’ gas 2017, which included a tion, maintenance through to decommissioning. including hydrogen. ‘Grand Challenge’ around Tremendous innovation is underway within our Our region is one of only four in the UK identi - nuclear sector including the development of fied by the National Infrastructure Council and delivering affordable en - new types of small and micro modular reactors Government as having the potential to gener - ergy and clean growth. which will bring affordable clean energy to mil - ate and deploy hydrogen at scale and already lions in the UK and potentially around the industry, locally, is leading the way. A cross border Energy and Clean world, generating significant opportunities, not Growth Summit, organised by the least for supply chain development throughout Mersey Dee Alliance, Cheshire and the wider cross border area. Warrington LEP and the North Wales Economic Ambition Board brought together a far-ranging field of ex - perts from industry, academia and national and local government to look at the opportunities and chal - lenges provided by the Grand Chal - lenge, in the context of the Mersey Dee Alliance footprint and its hinter - land. It was clear that this area is ideally placed to respond to and provide leadership on the affordable energy and clean growth agenda. Underground Renewables SMART Networks Gas Storage

With the significant reduction of indigenous Within Cheshire & Warrington there are almost Smart networks unleash the potential of exist - production over the last decades and rising de - 13,000 points of electricity generation. Direct ing energy infrastructure by providing a better pendency on imports, the UK gas market has sources of low carbon electricity are already opera - link between demand and supply, by making seen the growing need for underground stor - tional across the area. Work is underway to design the energy infrastructure responsive to cus - age to ensure security of supply and to support and deliver an innovative microgrid network, provid - tomer needs. ing direct sources of lower cost electricity to manu - smooth operations of the gas and electricity Significant investment is already being made in facturers on its doorstep. networks. the area to develop replicable Smart networks Energy storage is recognised as the key build - North Wales is a net exporter of renewable energy to maximise local multi-vector energy assets, ing block of a completely decarbonised econ - with significant capacity in wind and solar power as enabling consumers to use the optimum low omy and will be more diverse than it is now. well as large scale hydro schemes. Further develop - carbon and low cost secure energy sources. Salt caverns for Underground Gas Storage ments of major renewables and development of (UGS) are currently in operation within the UK, tidal project is underway. with the biggest cluster of sites located in Millions of pounds of investment is already being Cheshire. As such an energy storage cluster spent on reinforcing the electricity network, creating could be developed in the Cheshire salt plain. additional capacity for more generation and usage. This work also has positive implications for electric vehicle charging modelling. Northern Wales & Irish Sea is one of 4 locations for Round 4 Offshore Wind projects totalling at least 7GW capacity currently being tendered by the Crown Estate North Wales & Mersey Dee Area M61 7 M58 Manchester 3 6 4 1 1 ENER GY STRENGTHS 3 6 M57 9 M62 M60 Birkenhead 10 5 2 Liverpool M62 Wirral 4 Warrington M56 3 Rhyl 4 Ellesmere M53 Holyhead Anglesey Colwyn Bay M6 Port 4 M56 7 1 A55 6 Northwich 1 A5 1 8 8 Conwy 7 1 A55 11 2 M6 3 Flintshire M53 2 9 5 Winsford Caernarfon 4 Chester Cheshire West 2 6 5 & Chester Conwy Deeside Ruthin Cheshire East 4 13 Denbighshire 3 Crewe Gwynedd A5 2 Wrexham

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SMART Nuclear Hydrogen Storage Renewables Knowledge Hubs Networks

Protos Burbo Bank and 1 7 Univers ity of Chester - Coleg Cambria Nuclear Ce ntre of Excellence – Extension Angle DC – between 1 6 1 1 HyNe t Project 1 Storengy UK – Cheshire 1 Thornt on Science Park Renewable Energy Bangor Univ ersity Morlais Tidal Array Anglesey and 2 Demonstration Zone – mainland No rth Wales and techno logy SMR/AMR De velopment – Low Carbon Transport Snowdonia Orthios - Holyhead 2 2 2 off shore at Holyhead, 8 2 Bangor Univers ity Centre – Ruthin Trawsfynydd Power St ation Infrastructure Pumped Hydro Eco-Park Anglesey 2 Nat ional Grid Project Birchwood Nuclear Clust er 7 Menai Science Park 3 North We st Hydrogen Dinorwig Electricit y Offs hore Wrexham Glyndwr 3 3 Off shore wind – Gwynt Y 9 Smart Lo cal Energy 3 Alliance - Thornton Storage Site 3 Wind Farm Univers ity Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Mor, Liverpool Bay 3 Net work Project – Grwp Llandrillo Project Centurion - 4 Research Centre - Cammell Laird 4 North Wales 8 Menai Low Carbo n Runcorn Tanygrisiau Electricit y Onshore Wind - 10 Minesto Cheshire Energy Hub 4 4 Energy Skills Centre Storage Site Clocaenog 4 Graduate Scheme – 5 Urenco - Cap enhurst Smart Sys tems Project Low carbon port and Hydro Electric Scheme Capenhurst 5 11 4 – Elles mere P ort Advanced transport infrastructure 5 Offshore Tidal - Nova at , 9 6 Wylfa Newydd Manufacturing 5 Advanced Res earch C entre - 6 North Hoyle Offshore Hydro Electric Scheme Domestic Property Manufacturing National Nuclear The rmal Deeside Hydrogen Hub 6 12 5 Cymru 7 Wind Farm at Decarbonis ation Pilot Research I nstitute – Hydraulic Facility Deeside (Airbus) 13 Hydro Electric Scheme at