The customer energy village will feature a number of residential properties enabling the research, testing, de-risking and demonstration of energy technologies within the home environment.

It is envisaged that researching the safe limits of mixed hydrogen operation will be undertaken within the customer energy village, amongst other energy system interactions across all vectors.

The energy village will collaborate with and complement the work being undertaken by the £34m ISCF/EPSRC Active Building Centre (ABC) project for which Newcastle University is a partner.