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Greater GrimsbyRenewable Energy Proposition


Greater Grimsby is emerging as a key player in the renewable energy revolution with particular strengths in offshore wind.

Greater Grimsby offers:

direct access to the world’s biggest offshore wind farmsthe UK’s largest port capable of handling major projectsproven expertise in engineering and constructionleadership in wind power, marine renewables and bioenergya ready and able workforcethe lowest operating costs in the UK

So, if you’re looking for the optimum location for:

operations & maintenance functionswind turbine and blade manufacturerscomponent suppliersresearch & development

Greater Grimsby is the natural choice.


Greater GrimsbyGet it StraightFrom the Heart

Greater Grimsby is a straight-talking, no-nonsense place.

We speak our minds and tell it how it is.

When it comes to promoting our area, we give you the facts to make your own mind up. Big UK-leading facts like, we’ve got:

- the busiest port complex- the largest concentration of food companies- the most renewable energy opportunities- the greenest power station- the biggest strategic employment sites- the lowest operating costs

Our towns of Grimsby, Immingham and Cleethorpes, and surroundingLincolnshire villages offer very different things. But taken as a package, they combine to offer cost-effective, well-connected business locations within a few miles of stunning countryside and great schools.


From the Heart of the UK to Europe and the WorldGreater Grimsby puts you at the heart of the UK and Europe.

We are centrally located on the east coast of the UK in the county of Lincolnshire. Our area includes:

- Grimsby – the world-famous port and Europe’s Food Town- Cleethorpes – the popular seaside holiday resort- Immingham – a focal point of heavy industry and logistics- Wolds villages – an area of outstanding natural beauty

Thanks to our maritime and fishing heritage, we are outward looking and have traditionally had strong international links, especially with Scandinavia, something that continues today with many commercialpartnerships.

Being 200 miles from London, Edinburgh and Rotterdam, means that we are truly central to the UK and Europe.

Our area is an integral part of the Humber region and enjoys close links with the nearby cities of Hull and Lincoln.

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Closest Major Port toNorth Sea Offshore Wind Opportunities

“Centrica assessed four ports and Grimsby was chosen

mainly because of its existing facilities and infrastructure.”

Alan Thompson, Head of Renewables, Centrica

Faster access to the world’s biggest wind opportunity.

Building on its long-standing expertise in the power sector, Greater Grimsby is now becoming a major centre for green renewables energy and is the UK's emerging capital of the offshore wind industry.

In terms of steaming distance, Grimsby is 10-50 miles from existing and planned turbines off the Lincolnshire coast in the North Sea, where a further 4,000 turbines are to be built.

The area has all the ingredients necessary to host operations and maintenance (O&M) functions, major manufacturers, component suppliers and R&D for the renewables industry.

Two of the largest players in offshore wind, Centrica and Siemens, have chosen to base their O&M teams in Grimsby. Both companies are planning significant expansions across the area as more turbines come on stream.


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The UK’s Busiest Port with Specialist Handling FacilitiesThe UK’s largest port complex has all the capability you need.

The Port of Grimsby and Immingham is the UK’s largest port by tonnage. Its prime deep-water location on the Humber Estuary, gives companies direct access to mainland Europe and beyond.

The existing and proposed wind farms in the North Sea will require extensive maintenance and servicing. The optimum port to do this from is Grimsby and Immingham thanks to our proximity to the farms and an infrastructure that can handle the necessary logistics.

Continued investment by Associated British Ports in Grimsby and Immingham means that there are docks capable of handling major vessels up to 366 metres in length.

As you would expect from the country's largest port complex, there are a host of specialist cranes and handling equipment, including 14x100-tonne capacity mobile harbour cranes and mobile cranes with a capacity in excess of 100 tonnes.

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Air Links to Energy Hubs and Offshore CentresGreater Grimsby gives you access to offshore platforms.

In addition to the country’s largest port, this area has excellent connections to all parts of the UK by road and rail. Uncongested roads and motorways connect to all parts of the UK placing 40 million consumers within a 4-hour drive. This area is the busiest in the UK for rail freight with a choice of specialist terminals serving destinations across the country.

Humberside Airport, conveniently located just a few miles from our main towns, is a key national and international gateway connecting over half a million passengers to 30 destinations every year. With daily flights to Amsterdam's Schipol Airport and key offshore centres such as Oslo and Aberdeen, businesses are within easy reach of their customers and suppliers worldwide.

Our airport is the second largest in the UK for North Sea oil and gas helicopter operations. Around 30-40,000 passenger journeys are made each year by platform workers travelling from the heliport to and from 57 rigs in the southern North Sea sector.

40,000North Sea passenger journeys

each year from Humberside


Specialist VesselsServing OffshoreWind FarmsNew investment boosts Greater Grimsby’s capabilities.

Windpower Support, a company set up to enable the global giants of the sector to tap into local expertise, recently launched Support 1, an 11m craft capable of carrying 12 passengers and maintenance equipment quickly between dry land and the windfarms.

The new 4.9-tonne vessel can reach the existing Lynn and Inner Dowsing windfarms in just over an hour, and is now in service, on hire to Siemens, carrying their personnel together with Centrica staff. An additional niche has been identified for the vessel to serve as an errand runner to free up larger crew-carrying vessels that have also been brought in to Grimsby Fish Docks.

Windpower Support's managing director Kurt Christensen is proud to have registered Support 1 in Grimsby – a first such vessel for the town – with two former trawler skippers at the helm.

Mr Christensen set the company up almost two years ago, having initially acted as a ships' agent for MV Wind Solutions, the vessel transformed into a floating hotel and workshop that operated between Grimsby and the Lincolnshire coastal windfarms as they were constructed.

“We were agents for Wind Solutions and that was a very

successful project. We could see there was a need for a small, fast support vessel. The potential is huge for Grimsby. We can see it

all coming to fruition and it is amazing.”

Kurt Christensen, Windpower Support


Rich Heritage of Energy and Offshore Engineering

1,400advanced engineering

companies in the region

Greater Grimsby has proved itself capable of delivering major projects.

Thousands of companies serve the area's established sectors - ports, food and process industries. These industries require a wide range ofconstruction, engineering, logistics and manufacturing expertise which this area has in abundance.

There are more than 1,400 advanced engineering companies in the wider Yorkshire and Humber region employing 170,000 employees, with a further 500 firms involved in environmental technology.

This area understands how to deliver major industrial projects, from oil refineries and power plants to chemical and pharmaceutical facilities.


Ready and Willing Skilled Workers Growing Talent PoolYou’ll find a proven, hard-working, skilled labour-force here.

Greater Grimsby has a local workforce with:

90,000 people within a 15-minute catchment350,000 within a 45-minute drive

Recent economic conditions mean that there is a ready-made labour-force, eager and willing to work.

Grimsby Institute is a key partner in helping the area become a national hub for offshore wind and other renewables. Centres of Vocational Excellence in Ports & Logistics; Automotive Technology; and Gas & Plumbing, support the skills required by renewables companies; and offers courses in electrical, mechanical and operations engineering, and a foundation degree in Environmental Technology Management.

Nearby Hull University is a centre of excellence for systems, electronic and mechanical engineering, as well as being home to the Environmental Technology Centre of Industrial Collaboration a Logistics Institute Research Centre; there are plans for a Centre of Excellence in Marine Renewables. The wider region’s nine internationally renowned universities produce more than 11,000 engineering graduates and postgraduates each year.

“People have the right attitude. They know that if they wait, the

value of their work will drop. They know that from the fishing industry and it’s a good mindset. So far it

has been the best place in the UK to work out of.”

Jan Korff Petersen, Siemens Wind Power



Siemens O&M atGrimsby Docks is a“benchmark for UK”

“Grimsby is one of the best operating bases we have at

the moment. It is a benchmark for what we do

elsewhere in the UK.“

Jamie Rowlands, Siemens

Global giant has created a best practice model.

Siemens has established an operations & maintenance (O&M) facility in Grimsby. Siemens first came to the area with the development of the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farms in 2006. The company engaged with Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises from the outset and built a pontoon and a warehouse with their help.

Local recruitment has gone very well, according to Siemens, with more than 30 jobs created and more to come. Jamie Rowlands, the general manager for Siemens’ offshore services said:

"We had a very good response when we advertised locally. We have had some very good technicians join us. Some guys came from a food processing background and have adapted very well. We now have a team of 26 with five support staff.


Major Local PlayersBehind the OffshoreWind Revolution

Supporting Offshore Projectsfrom Grimsby since

1873

Greater Grimsby is a proven hub for critical offshore suppliers.

Marine safety giant Cosalt Offshore is a significant player in the offshore wind industry. As Europe's leading provider of critical safety equipment for the marine, industrial and offshore markets, Cosalt supplies marine safety, lifting equipment, tooling and height safety products that are directly applicable to the renewables sector, particularly offshore wind farms.

The Grimsby-based company has been supplying critical safety equipment for the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farms off the Lincolnshire coast for the past few years.

Customers include Centrica Renewable Energy and some of its sub-contractors, such as Danish company MT Hojgaard, which has put in place the foundations for the 54 turbines, and Subocean of Aberdeen who are laying the cables between the turbines.


New Materials and Carbon Fibres for aGreen EconomyWe have specialist manufacturers creating the materials of the future.

The growth in advanced materials and composites is a major opportunity for the process industries in the Grimsby area. This has particular significance given our emerging role as a key hub location for renewable energy, in particular offshore wind energy.

One example of this is Bluestar Fibres, based in Grimsby. They make carbon-fibre precursor, which is used in carbon fibre products such as tennis racquets, skis, golf clubs, mobile phones, aircraft brakes, automotive components, fire retardant clothing and the brakes of Formula One cars. Its biggest growth potential, however, lies in its application in the fast-growing wind-turbines sector.

Composite materials and carbon fibre precursor made in Grimsby is used in the construction of high-performance rotor blades around the world, for customers including SGL Carbon, the German group that supplies composite materials to the wind energy sector.


One of the World’s Greenest Power StationsCombined Heat and Power plant shows way to a low carbon future.

ConocoPhillips operates the Immingham Combined Heat and Power plant, one of the greenest power stations in the world generating 730 megawatts of electricity. The development of ICHP has made a significant contribution to reducing CO2 emissions in the United Kingdom and is capable of savings of up to 3 million tonnes per year when compared to power produced from conventional coal fired power production, and separate production of heat. The plant is fuelled by natural gas with liquid fuel as backup. It produces electricity and creates steam, which is used by the nearby Humber and Lindsey refineries.

The expanded plant, together with ConocoPhillips' Humber refinery, is strategically placed to realize the vision of an ultra-low-carbon integrated energy hub able to supply heat and power to a wide range of local industrial customers. If current studies demonstrate economic feasibility, the enlarged Immingham CHP could be modified to utilize gasification technology to operate as a 'clean coal' facility with carbon dioxide stored or used for enhanced oil recovery.

“The expanded CHP capacity demonstrates our commitment to lower carbon technologies.

This major long-term investment by ConocoPhillips is timely in view of the UK government's ongoing support for combined

heat and power. ”Bob Hassler, ConocoPhillips


Port, Farms and Food Industry Drive BioEnergyWe have some of Europe’s most important green energy investments.

Greater Grimsby is a growing focal point for the bioenergy market. Proximity to the UK’s largest port complex, Europe’s food town and the agricultural hinterland of Lincolnshire (known as “the breadbasket of England”), makes the area extremely attractive for green energy.

Greenergy owns and operates two biodiesel plants at the port of Immingham, as does Total and Bioethanol. The plants are capable of using a variety of feedstocks including rapeseed, soy, palm and used cooking oils. Vireol is building a bioethanol plant in Grimsby, and AbengoaBioenergy is building one at Immingham using wheat as feedstock, this due to open in 2010.

Helius and RWE Innogy are working together on a major €260 million biomass facility in the area. Siemens and Drax have also chosen the south bank of the Humber for biomass facilities. Encycle's renewable electricity power station, to be located near Immingham, will divert up to 210,000 tonnes of food waste and non-recyclable packaging away from landfill each year.

“The region is ideally situated to sell our output into the two world

scale refineries located here. It also combines the benefits of a deep

sea port, allowing us to move product in and out, access to a local market and allows us to

source feedstock from the farms that surround the port.”

Andrew Owens, Chief Executive, Greenergy


Harnessing the Power of Marine RenewablesWave and tidal research opportunities in the Humber Estuary.

With its location on the banks of the UK’s busiest trading estuary, Greater Grimsby is a natural location for marine renewables that are being developed to harness wave and tidal power.

The UK Government is funding tidal power technology developer, Pulse Tidal, to trial its innovative hydrofoil device in the Humber Estuary near Immingham. The Humber Tidal Power Consortium that is backing theproject brings together several major renewable energy companies, as well as Associated British Ports, Corus and Hull University.

Neptune Renewable Energy, based in nearby North Ferriby, is planning a demonstration project in the estuary which could result in up to 20 tidal turbines being anchored to the river bed.

“We estimate that the tides around our islands are sufficiently

powerful and regular that they could supply up to one tenth of

Britain's electricity needs. A large part of this tidal power resource is

in places such as the Humber.”Howard Nimmo, Director, Pulse Tidal


Cost-Effective Offices, Units and Development SitesWe have the right premises, in the right places, at the right prices.

Greater Grimsby has a wide choice of modern offices, both in-town and on high quality business parks, industrial units and development land adjacent to major roads, a deep-water estuary and major docks.

The area’s flagship business park, Europarc, has been designed to attract manufacturing, distribution and office based businesses with high quality, cost-effective, purpose-built accommodation, within an attractive lakeside setting.

Property costs and land values across the area are up to 25% lower than in competitor locations.

The inward investment team at North East Lincolnshire Council provides a free service to help find the right property for your business.

25%lower property costs


Lowest Operating Costs Equals Profitable Location Property and labour costs are among the lowest in the UK.

Greater Grimsby is a cost-effective business location. Compared with similar locations, this area has the:

- Lowest average wage costs- Lowest industrial rents - Lowest office costs

In difficult times, the ability to keep your cost-base to a minimum helps to keep businesses afloat and protects jobs.

Living costs are low here too with housing among the cheapest in the country, enabling a choice of urban and country lifestyle.

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Sources: Property Market Report, VOA, July 2008ONS - 2008 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings


Outstanding Beauty Sun, Sea, Sand and Happy PeopleLifestyles to suit all tastes.

Everywhere claims to have a great quality of life, but few places can compete with our rich diversity of historic towns, quaint villages, wildlife sanctuaries, rolling hills and sandy beaches.

Our surrounding countryside is famous for its beauty, with the Lincolnshire Wolds being designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty that is protected due to its "precious landscape" and "distinctive character". English country pubs, historic churches and quaint villages are just a few miles from the towns of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham.

The seaside town of Cleethorpes has been voted as one of the happiest places to live in the UK. A 2008 survey ranked the town ninth out of 273 UK districts, which is not surprising given the classic mix of sun, sea, and sand.

Local shopping and nightlife attract millions of visitors from outside the area each year and as befits Europe's Food Town, you can enjoy great food from the world's best fish and chips to award-winning fine dining.

“The resort is taking care of people who are making the most of the weather and the places to visit.We are making Cleethorpes a

happy place to visit and live in.”Robert Chalmers, Cleethorpes Resort Manager


Education For All Choice and QualityNew Investment Success and excellence from primary to higher education.

Our local schools offer a wide choice for children of all abilities. In the most recent league tables, three-quarters of local primary schools outperformed the national average, while half of our schools and colleges outperformed the UK average at A’level.

There are a number of excellent grammar schools in Lincolnshire within easy reach, that regularly achieve some of the best results in the country.

For further and higher education, the Grimsby Institute offers a wide range of courses and has particular strengths in vocational training with several centres of excellence in fields ranging from automotive technology to digital media. The Institute is planning a £150 million programme of development, enhancing links with local schools and creating modern facilities.

“The reputation the Grimsby Institute enjoys with employers,

students and Associate Universities has been founded on the quality of our courses and the

excellent facilities.”Ray Ellis

Grimsby Institute


Practical Support And Advice For Your Next Project

How we can help.

Whether you're based in the UK or overseas, North East Lincolnshire Council has a team of specialists waiting to help you. Our services are provided free of charge on a completely confidential basis and include:

- helping you plan your expansion or relocation project- providing research to help you make your decision- advising on available sites and premises and development options- organising personal tours of the area- providing introductions and liaison with key local advisors- information about grants and financial assistance that may be available

For more information on how you can be a part of the Greater Grimsby success story, contact:

David RobinsonNorth East Lincolnshire Council01472 [email protected]

“The biggest single thing that influenced the decision was the

availability of a skilled labour force. We are very impressed and Grimsby has a great reputation in that area. This is an ideal location for us and for our future growth.”

Rob Burnett, Daniels Group (New Covent Garden Soup)


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