NEWS
COGEN LIMITED & LOCKHEED MARTIN
TO DEVELOP WASTE FROMENERGY
PROJECTS TOGETHER
The new Waterside Campus at the University of Northampton will use sustainable technology for heat while dramatically reducing its CO2 output. The University has employed
the sustainable energy experts Vital Energi to deliver the energy solutions for its new campus, opening in 2018. The contract will see Vital
alongside the development of the campus and the energy centre has been “future proofed” to allow for the installation of the engine. This engine has been designed to efficiently produce additional heat and electricity as key demand increases. Vital Energi Regional
Lockheed Martin Energy VP Frank Armijo and CoGen Limited CEO Ian Brooking sign a teaming agreement for waste‐to‐energy projects in the U.K., starting with a plant in Cardiff, Wales.
in the UK, starting with a new plant in Cardiff, Wales. The Cardiff facility will convert waste into up to 15 megawatts (MW) of energy, enough to power about 15,000 homes and businesses in the local area. To generate ener- gy, the plant will process approximately 150,000 tons of waste per year, significantly reducing the need for landfill use. Construction is expected to begin in 2018, with operations starting in 2020. “This project will make a substantial contribution to
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Cardiff and will further showcase how bioenergy technologies can help reduce waste, decrease pollution and generate clean, renewable energy,” said Frank Armijo, vice president of Lockheed Martin Energy. “We’re excited to team with CoGen, and we’re looking forward to other projects where we can help businesses, manufacturers and U.K. municipal and regional governments address their critical waste and energy challenges.” CoGen will serve as the owner and developer of the
Cardiff project and Lockheed Martin will lead the engineer- ing, procurement, manufacturing and construction of the plant. The facility will use Concord Blue’s Reformer® technology, which converts waste to energy through a process called advanced gasification. The technology can convert nearly any kind of organic waste into clean, sustainable energy. In addition to the Wales project, Lockheed Martin and CoGen will jointly pursue other similar projects, and small- er-scale opportunities to develop energy-from-waste projects for commercial and industrial businesses through- out the U.K.
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ockheed Martin has signed a teaming agreement with CoGen Limited to develop energy-from-waste projects
Energi deliver an energy cen- tre which will use woodchip biomass and gas to heat hot water for all the buildings and student residencies on the 58 acre site while saving over 1,000 tons of CO2 in the short term, rising to 2,200 tons a year following the introduction of a Combined Heat & Power Engine. The energy strategy has been designed to evolve
VITAL ENERGI INSTALLS CHP
£50,000 WIN FOR OXFORD CITY COUNCIL HEAT
NETWORK
Oxford City Council has won a further £50,000 research funding after proving that there is a commercial case for installing a heat network under the city. Such a project could reduce the city’s carbon emissions by more than 20%. This proposed district
heating system could soon be integrated with existing and proposed systems being operated in the city. The scheme put up by the council could be linked with existing and proposed schemes, such as the one at Oxford Brookes University on its campus and the planned Hospital Energy Project. This new project could not
Director Mike Cooke tells UKPN: “By specifying a biomass district heating sys- tem for the new Waterside Campus the University of Northampton are setting a great example for the Higher Education sector by demon- strating key renewable energy solutions.” Vital Energi is a leading inno- vator in efficient energy provi- sion for the UK, and provides a variety of efficient energy solutions.
only cut the heat wastage and carbon emissions, it could also save energy users on their bills, says the council. A previous feasibility study- funded by £136,000 - mapped the heat consumption of 195 buildings around Oxford city centre and Headington. It found that there is a strong carbon reduction and com- mercial case for installing a heat network beneath the city centre. The study was funded by the UK government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change. ,
Hebridean island of Gigha has new power storage system installed
240kWh battery units to the University of Strathclyde’s Power Networks Demonstration Centre in Cumbernauld, where they will be tested before being installed. The 1.68MW vanadium flow system was chosen for this remote location, which has limited
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grid connection, due to their ability to balance variable generation from renewables, the company said. It will remove existing constraints on wind generation capacity, it added. The Gigha energy storage system is funded by DECC and RedT along with project partners including SSE, EA Technology, Community Energy Scotland and Gigha Green Power. "The delivery of contract manufactured, large-scale containerised vanadium flow batteries to
a customer's project for the first time is a huge achievement for us and for the industry as a whole,” RedT chief executive Scott McGregor told WIP. "We are making consistent progress
towards the full commercialisation of our units and this
news serves to underline the leading role we are playing in delivering a viable, modular solution to the energy storage market." Residents on the Hebridean Isle of Eigg currently have 24-hour-a-day electricity powered by renewable energy. In 2008, the tiny Scottish island was connected to its own mains electricity supply for the first time - ‘Eiggtricity’ as it has been dubbed.
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he Hebrides: RedT Energy plc will install a power storage system at a 1MW wind farm on the Scottish Isle of
Gigha.The company has delivered the first two of the seven 15kW-
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