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Spanning the heart of the UK, the Midlands is the largest regional economy outside London. The Midlands Engine partnership represents 11 million people and 816,000 businesses — an economy worth over £246 billion per year.

Working in partnership with regional firms and public sector bodies, we focus on tackling the things that really matter in our region to drive prosperity for our communities and businesses.

Our members include 18 local authorities and the West Midlands Combined Authority, nine local enterprise partnerships and our region’s 20 world-class universities. We also work with a rapidly growing number of private sector partners, collaborating and investing together to achieve our shared aims for regional success.

Together, we make sure the Midlands voice is heard and act as a positive agent for economic, social and environmental change, to benefit every single part of our region. We do this through shared intent, collaborative investment and presenting a strong, unified voice, direct to government.

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Our TenPoint Plan for Green Growth in the Midlands Engine sets out, with a unified voice, the actions to be taken in partnership which will accelerate our region’s and the UK’s path to net zero. Together, we can drive collective action today to safeguard the environment for future generations.

Exceptional work in low carbon is already underway across our vast Midlands Engine partnership landscape, making the Midlands a leading location for green growth. But the potential for more is phenomenal. Under the plan, the Midlands region will act as a centre for excellence in new technologies and clean fuels, such as hydrogen, as we complement existing partner initiatives and capitalise on the wealth of economic opportunities presented by the shift to low carbon.

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Energy Research Accelerator
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Library

Read the latest reports on Green Growth as our region makes its way towards net zero.

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Shropshire
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Green Growth Digital Map

Developed by the Midlands Engine Observatory, this interactive tool brings our region’s green growth assets to life.

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Bakewell, Derbyshire
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Natural Capital Monitor

The Natural Capital Monitor places a value on our region’s natural assets so that we can better protect them.

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Green Growth

Sep 15 2023

Midlands Engine APPG Co-Chair Lord Ravensdale – Unlock our outdated planning system and put net zero at the heart of decision making

Midlands Engine APPG Co-Chair Lord Ravensdale writes in The House Magazine on proposed amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

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Green Growth

Sep 13 2023

Green and Hydrogen Jobs Report Outlines Critical Steps for Region’s green economy

A new report from the Midlands Engine - on Green and Hydrogen Jobs in the Midlands -has set out a series of recommendations on improving the prevalence of these types of employment in the region.

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Economic Opportunities

Sep 6 2023

Former ‘Megawatt Valley’ to metamorphose into hydrogen heartland with the launch of East Midlands Hydrogen – the UK’s largest inland hydrogen cluster

East Midlands Hydrogen is a new industrial partnership capitalising on the economic opportunity arising from the development of large-scale H2 production, distribution and industrial end-use in the East Midlands. East Midlands Hydrogen partners will help attract ongoing investment, bring new skills, and ensure hydrogen industry job growth for the region.

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