Overview

The Renewable Energy competition focuses on designing, developing, and implementing technologies to generate energy from sustainable resources. This practical competition tests your skills in design, fault-finding, troubleshooting, and hands-on tasks like mechanical assembly, maintenance, and PV panel wiring. It covers key areas of the industry, including photovoltaic panels, wind turbine nacelles, solar thermal energy and drone technology. The competition aims to deepen your expertise and prepare you for careers such as Wind Turbine Technician, Solar PV Technician, or Renewable Energy Systems Integrator.

The skills you need to demonstrate

  • Installing photovoltaic panels

  • Wiring and testing of photovoltaic installations with given components

  • Maintenance of a Nacelle

  • Designing and calculating photovoltaic systems

     

  • Ensuring safety protocols are adhered to and prioritised

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Prepare for competition success

Our library of endorsed local skills competition briefs ‘benchmarking assessments’ helps prepare learners to build technical skills, productivity, and mindset competencies for national competition success, including employability progression pathways.

Paired with the benchmarking tracker, educators can record progress, identifying strengths and target areas for improvement. Together, they offer a reliable, standards-led framework, creating a sustainable model for skills development that supports educators to empower learners to be competition ready.

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Entry criteria

Suitable for both students and apprentices studying level 3, 4 and 5 courses in the following subjects: Electrical engineering, electrical installation, maintenance engineering and general engineering. Industrial experience is beneficial however not paramount. This skill is an individual competition therefore there are no teams in renewable energy.

How it works

Registrations open on Monday 2 March 2026, 9am and will close Friday 27 March 2026, midnight.

Entry Stage will be released on Wednesday 1 April 2026 with a deadline of Thursday 30 April 2026.

Qualifiers are held in June 2026, at DN Colleges. Specific dates are to be confirmed.

To help finalists prepare ahead of the UK Final, we will provide relevant technical training and share mindset development techniques, to support them to remain focused on achieving success.

Prepare students and apprentices by engaging with our benchmarking resources to master their skills and mindset masterclasses to build confidence and resilience on the WorldSkills UK Learning Lab.

The National Finals are scheduled to take place in Wales during the week commencing 16 November 2026.

Competitors who are age eligible and have achieved the benchmark score will be invited to opt into Squad UK for the WorldSkills 2028 cycle, subject to the skill progressing to the international competition cycle.

Contact us

Conor.keyes@northlindsey.ac.uk / Hamidreza.Jafarnejad@don.ac.uk

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