Benefits

The Enterprise Zone offers a wide range of benefits to energy-related businesses. 

The benefits include :

• Being based in a region which has a unique and significant concentration of energy infrastructure with a supply chain and workforce with 50 years experience

• An area which has attracted over £50 billion in investment in offshore wind, oil and gas exploration and extraction, nuclear, gas storage and decommission over the next 20 years

• Business rates relief of up to £275,000

• Simplified planning - 7 Local Development Orders are already in effect

• Super-fast broadband

• 1 of 6 national Centres for Offshore Renewable Engineering (COREs)

• 2 ports in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft with complementary facilities supporting the offshore energy sector with a supply chain and skilled workforce

• A dedicated energy-industry trade association, the East of England Energy Group through which to reach supply-chain partners

• Political and business community commitment  through Norfolk and Suffolk Energy Alliance (NSEA)

For further information contact:

Eunice Edwards, New Anglia Enterprise Zone Coordinator

Email  eunice.edwards@newanglia.co.uk

Mobile: 07808647203.