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Builders break ground on Green Energy Training Centre
25/08/10
Edited by Andy Jowett.Builders in Merseyside have started work on a new Green Energy Training Centre (GETC) intended to improve the number of skilled contractors who are qualified to install microgeneration technologies like wind turbines and solar panels.
The college is being developed on a site owned by Stiebel Eltron, which specialises in manufacturing renewable power generation equipment and green central heating and hot water systems.
Mark McManus, the company's managing director, told BusinessGreen that with all new homes needing to be carbon neutral by 2016, there is "massive pressure on the construction industry to ramp up its knowledge of - and expertise in - green energy".
The GETC is intended to ease this pressure by providing courses accredited under the government's Microgeneration Certification Scheme, the benchmark contractors must meet if they want to install renewable power systems eligible for Feed-in Tariffs.
It is expected to welcome its first batch of plumbers, electricians and heating and ventilation engineers in November.
