Eight North East England Companies Selected for Offshore Wind Innovation Programme

Eight companies from North East England have been selected for the first cohort of the North East Offshore Wind Innovation and Demonstration (NEOWIND) programme, which will provide them with a share of GBP 1.87 million (EUR 2.24 million) to develop technologies for the offshore renewable energy sector.

Delivered by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and funded by North East Mayor Kim McGuinness, the programme will support the selected companies from November 2026 until July 2028.

The eight companies are Succorfish (North Tyneside), TRL 9 Ltd, Kinewell, SeaThor, H2CHP Ltd and Spirit Advisory (Newcastle upon Tyne), Acuity Robotics (Northumberland), and Sensing 360 (Newcastle upon Tyne).

Among the technologies to be developed is Cyclonox, a process being developed by North Shields-based TRL 9 Ltd to treat end-of-life wind turbine blades and assess which materials can be recovered for reuse. The company aims to develop a commercially viable process that can recover both energy and useful materials from the blades.

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