This month, we reinforced our commitment to collaboration by bringing together stakeholders, onsite members, local businesses, and key industry leaders together for our third roundtable event.
Following the success of our meeting with the Mayor of the West Midlands in June last year, we pledged to host these roundtable events, ensuring that there are regular opportunities for collaboration amongst the Tyseley Energy Park ecosystem.
Our goals for our roundtable events
The primary purpose for hosting roundtables is to promote cross-sector collaboration across sectors such as clean energy, waste, transport, and the circular economy.
We aim to develop an environmental masterplan for the area surrounding our site and into East Birmingham, one which we hope will lead to further external investment, attracting more companies from the cleantech sector to call Tyseley Energy Park their home.
By bringing together businesses at these events, we endeavour to help companies access relevant funding, encouraging them to connect with attendees from universities, and offer opportunities for them to engage with local schools and community programmes.
Community is at the heart of what we do at Tyseley Energy Park. These events are integral to that, helping us to nurture a community of clean energy pioneers, with active support, shared values and opportunities to connect, collaborate and grow.
Who was at the table?
We encourage the members onsite at Tyseley Energy Park to attend our roundtables, alongside active partners in the area with aligned values and goals to our mission.
These meetings allow us to introduce investors, policymakers from local government, and stakeholders from academia to those working within the green technology sector.
Over the course of the March 18th roundtable meeting, we heard from:
- Birmingham City Council shared an update on its vision for East Birmingham and collaborative opportunities around the Mayoral development Zone for the Tyseley Green Innovation District
- Energy System Catapult, provided an overview of Smart Energy Systems Cluster and opportunities for involvement with the business and their future projects
- The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), discussed regional programmes, clusters, and its business innovation and support programmes
- Howells shared its plans for the Tyseley Green Innovation District as a mixed-use clean manufacturing, technology, and place-making regeneration zone
Looking forward, the group also discussed future opportunities for the revolutionary Rare Earth Magnet Recycling Facility which opened in January 2026, the potential for expansion of our onsite hydrogen infrastructure, and growth plans for many of our onsite members in attendance.
Driving the clean growth revolution together
Attendees agreed to set up spin-off working groups, focusing on hydrogen, clean transport, circular economy and critical materials.
Director of Property and Sustainability at TEP, David Horsfall, said of the event: “Thank you to everyone that contributed to this round table event. We believe Birmingham has a unique and strategic role in helping the West Midlands and the wider UK government achieve its net zero ambitions, demonstrating that scalable clean growth innovation and industrial economic growth can be achieved through collaboration between industry, academia, government and the local community.”
Learn more about our green growth masterplan here. And, if you’re interested in how Tyseley Energy Park can support your business to scale-up, get in touch here: Contact Us – Tyseley Energy Park.