Today, 28th September 2010 saw the public launch of the North East Renewables Alliance, which took place at Ramside Hall in Durham. The alliance is a strategic and commercial undertaking by MCS-approved renewable energy installers that are based within the North East of England. The aims of the North East Renewables Alliance – or NERA – is to increase the competitiveness of and growth in the region by amalgamating the capacity and resources of a significant number of local companies to produce a legally-formed entity that will has the ability to bid for and deliver large scale renewable enrgy installation contracts.

Access Renewables are proud to be a part of NERA as a founding member company – having worked collaboratively with all other members and stakeholders since the initial concept was drafted. Sean Collier of Access Renewables, and NERA comments “The vision for NERA was to develop a collaborative approach to bidding for large installation contracts which usually fall to a single contractor who has a great deal of resource to carry them out successfully. By working with several companies of small to medium size from within our region to create a coalition, it creates a very real and very credible pool of talented companies to compete for work which we couldn’t necessarily successfully bid for individually.”