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CES celebrates 250th green energy trainee

Community Energy Solutions are celebrating after training the 250th engineer on their microrenewables scheme at their Boldon site.

The scheme was launched to help equip the North East workforce with the skills to meet the demands of the growing microrenewable technology market by enabling trainees to fit and maintain heat pumps.

CES chief executive Lynne Edwards said: “By offering subsidised training to engineers in their local area we are able to keep the North East workforce at the forefront of new, greener heating technologies and ensure they are able to able to tackle the risk of climate change and lead the way in developing a low-carbon economy.”

Run at the Myson Training Centre, Team Valley, in partnership with Myson, the scheme incorporates a series of one-day courseson Daikin, Heatking and Mitsubishi air source heat pumps (ASHP), which can serve as an alternative to a traditional gas or oil boiler.

Graeme Gibb, of Sunderland-based GGas was number 250. He said: “With gas prices going up ever year, green technology is definitely the way forward and this training course from CES and Myson means I’ll be well placed to make the most of it.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .