Green Energy Centre, South Staffordshire College

Refurbishment of former granary barns

The former granary barn was refurbished to create the new green energy centre to up-skill trades to install and maintain green technologies: photo-voltaics, air source heat pumps, batteries, electric vehicle car chargers and other emerging technologies. This project demonstrates our support for a more sustainable way of building and a net zero future.

The centre will be an integrated hub for training the next generation of agricultural mechanics, electricians, plumbers and gas fitters. Low carbon, localised smart-energy-management delivery including: electrical vehicle servicing courses, electric farm vehicle servicing and land robotics courses, a range of green technologies that will be utilised within buildings and transportation. It will prepare future agricultural mechanics, electricians, plumbers and gas fitters for a huge range of new jobs that our workforce will need to undertake to install, maintain, retrofit, and repair a range of new equipment within homes and businesses across the country.

Photos courtesy of Adam Franklin/ Inside Ltd