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Agreement between Total and Aggreko to reduce energy costs
.Aggreko CEO Chris Weston [ left] and Total Marketing & Services president Momar Nguer, sign a global supply agreement in Paris last month.
New district heating network centred on Didcot Power Station
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idcot power plant will form the nucleus of a new district heat network in Oxfordshire. Business and residential communities in the vicinity are set to
benefit from the proposed project, with a water-source heat pump at the plant producing 16,500 megawatt hours of electricity each year – equivalent to powering 1,375 homes. South Oxfordshire District Council has approached Government for extra funding following the completion of two feasibility studies into the use of waste heat from gas- fired Didcot B gas turbines to heat up water. This would be circulated via a network of piping buildings and generate electricity for the new business park being planned for the old coal-fired Didcot A site. The authority is working closely with power station operator RWE, land owners, businesses and developers as well as with the neighbouring Vale of White Horse District Council. Didcot B station manager Neil Scott added: "RWE welcomes the opportunity to investigate innovative ways of providing energy for our homes and businesses of the future. We look forward to continuing work with both district councils and supporting the Didcot area in its ongoing garden town plans." Council leader John Cotton said: "We are hugely excited by this project. We've asked the government for some funding to investigate it further and, if we get that, we will carry out the detailed design and viability work to see if a north Didcot combined heat and power scheme can become reality." Run by RWE, Didcot B is an efficient, gas-fired power station, which has been in commercial operational since 1997. The station is powered by natural gas and uses combined cycle gas turbines – (CCGT) to produce electricity. Didcot B can produce 1,360MW, enough power
to meet the needs of one million households. CCGT power stations are more efficient than conventional power stations as they make double the use of the heat produced by burning natural gas: firstly in gas turbines, and then secondly because the waste heat from the gas turbines is used to raise steam to drive the steam turbine generators. Strict operational controls ensure that RWE’s emissions are within regulatory limits set to minimise environmental impact. In recent yearsRWE has invested £60 million in
a project to replace two of its gas turbines with the latest technology. This has increased the station’s efficiency to over 55%, one of the highest in the UK. This has also resulted in the station emitting less CO2 per unit of electricity produced, says RWE.
JANUARY ‐ FEBRUARY 2018 UK POWER NEWS
Total and Aggreko have signed an agreement to extend their existing relationship to cover the whole of Europe, as a first step. Total currently supplies Aggreko with lubricants, petroleum products and associated services in 17 countries primarily in the Middle East and Africa. This European extension includes technical collaboration to test and develop new innovative solutions in lube oil and fuels that marks a step to collaborate in wider geographies. The agreement will also help broaden
the partnership between the two organisations and is a demonstration of closer collaboration, innovation and future product and market development. Aggreko supplies Total with tailored
mobile, modular power, heating, and cooling across its Exploration and Production, Refining and Chemical branches. The two companies are leaders in their respective fields and this
strategic partnership will help them further develop their hybrid and gas offerings, as well as address their future market and technology challenges. Aggreko and Total say they are ‘ideally placed to provide flexible and innovative solutions to reduce the cost of energy for their customers in the UK and around the world’. Both companies will be able to develop their hybrid and gas offerings, as well as address future market and technology challenges “As a global energy group, positioned on the entire oil and gas chain, we want to offer Aggreko proximity and multi- energy solutions to best meet the different needs of their customers," said Momar Nguer, president of Total Marketing.
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