IAAPS will ultimately change the future of automotive travel through the combination of academic rigour with a commercial focus to accelerate the development of ultra-low emission vehicle technologies. Innovations developed here will fundamentally influence the future of industry, not just for the benefit of our residents but across the UK and beyond. IAAPS works with industry, inventors, researchers and academics to deliver rapid R&I that will accelerate the transition from zero carbon to zero carbon vehicles.
The region contains exemplar waste-to-energy and biomass projects from GENeco, Viridor and Suez Environnement’s Severnside plant, alongside investment in biogas and electric buses and infrastructure. First Group will have half its fleet as zero emission or carbon by 2020, the largest concentration of zero carbon buses Euro VI in the UK.
A combination of nuclear new build, nuclear generation, nuclear decommissioning, defence and academic research makes the South West the focal point of the rebirth of nuclear capability in the UK.
Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power station is the first new nuclear power station in the UK for a generation.
Capable of generating 7% of the UK’s total energy requirement 
25,000 job opportunities 
1,000 apprenticeships 
£100m a year in to the regional economy 
