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“People are very understanding
renewable energy plants, as
well as gaining knowledge of policies,
of mistakes when using management and legislation. He also
their language so don’t
undertook a four-month placement
back in Germany last year, working to
be afraid to use it”
develop small biomass-fuelled combined
– Stephen Barrow
heat and power (CHP) plants that are
built on-site to provide power for
industrial facilities. “We have had to
look at viability using techniques such
as computer modelling,” he says. “The
plants are fired using sewage sludge,
which under German law is normally
subject to strict processing and
regulation before it can be used
as, for instance, a fertiliser.”
Above
Stephen Barrow, currently a member of He has the following advice for those
E.ON’s Central Operations Group
thinking of undertaking a placement
abroad: “People are very understanding of
This included an exchange year spent at interested in finding the most effective way mistakes when using their language so don’t
university in Bochum in western Germany. of doing things.” be afraid to use it. Although culturally,
“During this time I was actually studying Britain and Germany are very similar, small
mechanical engineering in the German Since joining E.ON he has spent two years differences, such as Germany’s emphasis on
language,” he explains. “I have always on the company’s graduate training scheme, punctuality, should be taken seriously to
been interested in how things work – it’s followed by a year gaining experience make a good impression.”
not just the process of taking something within the company, working on a variety
apart and seeing how it operates – I am also of projects including gas, coal fired and www.eon-uk.com/careers/1085.aspx
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