ENERGY Ӏ SECTOR REPORT


ENERGISING THE TRANSITION


Effort and ingenuity are enabling the transition to sustainable and renewable energy resources, and crane engineers are playing their part. Julian Champkin reports.


The race to renewables is dominating the energy sector – and making it both more innovative and varied. New techniques and new types of equipment, not least in lifting, are constantly appearing. Here are just some. Nuclear, of course, is a major


Sarens' Big Carl


lifts the reactor dome at Hinkley Point C in the UK


non-fossil source of energy and the UK’s new Hinkley Point C station on the west coast of England continues its long progress towards commissioning. Approval was given in 2016; site clearance and construction began in 2017; and at the end of 2023 a spectacular


lift by the largest crane in the world marked a major stage towards completion. Sarens’s SGC 250, nicknamed


‘Big Carl’, has a capacity of 5,000 tonnes in a single lift. On 15th December 2023 it raised the lid for the station’s first reactor


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