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INDUSTRY NEWS


Loo Queue – Made-in-Norfolk First Windfarm Toilets Ready to Sail


The first order of Norfolk’s “gamechanger” toilets for offshore wind turbines is complete and ready for the 500-mile journey to Scotland for installation.


Fabrication of in-tower loos for Swedish energy group Vattenfall’s Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm finished this week at Pegasus Welfare Solutions’ (PWS) base at Lenwade, near Norwich and are lined up ready for the roadtrip up north.


Inventor and PWS Managing Director Dan Greeves is campaigning for loos on turbines to become standard across the fast-growing offshore wind industry, where not one offshore turbine is fitted with a toilet.


“My mission here in Norfolk is to make hygiene and welfare not optional extras and nice to haves, but essential for the workforce. You wouldn’t turn up at any other workplace and accept no welfare facilities on site, so why should offshore wind workers?


“Vattenfall, as a responsible developer that cares about its workforce, is the first to invest in our units on every turbine on its Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, that is renowned for its innovations and industry firsts.


“And I’m confident that our made- in-Norfolk product will be installed on their Norfolk projects, Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas, and have been involved with the team working in Norfolk for some time.”


Dan, who worked offshore for more than a decade, took on an extra employee to fabricate the units at PWS’ base near Norwich, and turned to Great Yarmouth company, Seabed Scour Control Systems, to supply bespoke rigging to lift the units.


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All lined up and ready to go offshore. The first in-tower toilet order for Pegasus Welfare Solutions heading to Vattenfall’s Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm.


Long overdue – the first in-tower toilet is to be retro-fitted into every turbine on Vattenfall's Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm.


MDF Transport, based at Gapton Hall, Great Yarmouth, was contracted to take the units to Aberdeen. Kirklands Equipment Supply, of Great Yarmouth, handmade waterproof PVC carry bags for the cassettes for each turbine, certified for offshore use at height by the Great Yarmouth base of Certex.


Stag Plant Hire, based in Peterhead, Aberdeen will service the units.


Dan said: “It’s an added bonus that we were able to create employment for the length of the job and work for local companies and illustrates the trickle-down effect in the supply chain.”


Dr Catrin Ellis Jones, Stakeholder Engagement Manager for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Offshore Wind Farm projects, said: “Dan’s product is a perfect example of innovation and how it happens. Dan’s experience, built up over decades working with the Oil and Gas and maritime industries has been applied to issues challenging the “new kid on the block” offshore wind sector and a fantastic product is born. Dan drew on three other, really different types of Norfolk company to deliver the final technical solution.”


“It’s especially exciting because his invention may well become a great East Anglian export, eventually improving working conditions, safety and efficiency at wind farms all over the world.”


“Dan shows us that there are opportunities for the whole county; and as the sector is still new there is huge potential for enterprise, including for hi-tech, and hi-value- added products and services.”


Vattenfall had been getting to know many “wonderful Norfolk companies in the last six years, she said.


“As a result, we have awarded large contracts, for servicing our fleet of operating wind farms across the UK, Europe and Scandinavia, to established outfits like James Fisher Marine Services of Lowestoft, and Worley.


“We’ve also worked with smaller, very agile and clever local businesses too, who are just starting out in the sector. That’s why we are so excited to be working here and becoming part of the green tech renewal of the region over the coming years and decades.”


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