Snetterton Renewable Energy Plant Community Newsletter - Summer 2016 BEAL BWSC East Anglia Ltd Snetterton Renewable Energy Plant Community Newsletter - Summer 2016 Welcome to the second of our community newsletters for the Snetterton Renewable Energy Plant. Whilst we are constructing the energy plant and preparing it for operation, we want to keep you up to date with all our activities and provide information on some of the questions you and other community members are asking. There are around 60 biomass energy plants like ours, operating, under construction or being developed across the UK; all using a variety of different biomass’ to generate electricity. All these biomass energy plants have been established for the same reason - to protect the environment by generating clean and safe forms of power from renewable sources which will never run out. Renewable energy, including biomass energy, produces little or no waste products such as carbon dioxide or other chemical pollutants, so it has minimal impact on the environment. We are anticipating our renewable energy plant will be ready to generate power in March 2017 and will generate just over 44MW of green electricity by burning straw, which is enough to supply 82,000 homes and save 300,000 tons of CO2 every year. Project Timeline* 2015 2016 2017 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 * Tentative/Indicative project timeline for information purposes only – subject to change. Who are we? The project was originally developed by Iceni and We know we are still quite new in your community so ECO2, and we were lucky enough to be able to buy would like to introduce ourselves. We are BWSC East the project from them about 18 months ago. This Anglia or BEAL for short. We are a company owned means we were not part of the project team during by a joint venture of Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian the planning process, but hope that we have already Contractor A/S (BWSC) and a Danish infrastructure begun to build a good relationship with you and the fund managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners rest of your community since we’ve been involved. K/S. For more information please take a look at www.bwsc.dk and www.cipartners.dk. What’s happening now? The construction phase for our energy plant We have contracted BWSC to build and operate our is progressing really well, with all the different renewable energy plant. They are a leading building components which make up our plant now on site. contractor and operator of biomass, medium & You may have noticed some abnormal and wide loads large scale diesel and gas based power generation arriving as the larger elements were delivered. We systems. They are experienced in all aspects of plant hope this hasn’t caused too much congestion on your design, refurbishment, operation & maintenance, as roads and thank you for your consideration while all well as financing. these deliveries were taking place. With all the parts Colin Jones, Managing Director, BWSC East Anglia Limited T: 07739 658529 E: [email protected] on site we have also now been able to complete the Cable Route heavy lifts required to move B1177 the really large sections into Snetterton place. New Buckenham A11 B1177 With the boiler components Eccles Wood arriving we were able to carry out the first pressure Banham tests in mid June. This is where we test all the Quidenham individual sections of the East Harling boiler to make sure they are more than capable of Kenninghall dealing with the pressure of the steam that will be Dam Green passing through them. We B1177 test them to extremes far greater than they will ever B1111 be put under when the plant North Lopham is operating; to ensure they Ferseld are as safe as they could Garboldisham South Lopham B1066 Bressingham possibly be. Common B1066 The cable route has been Brewers Green completed for UK Power Roydon Networks (UKPN), your Diss regional power supplier, installed on our behalf the cable has been tested thoroughly from where it leaves our energy plant to the grid connection point in Diss. UKPN have now What’s happening next? adopted the entire route and are the legal owners and We successfully carried out the first pressure tests on operators of the cable. our boiler and we began the second set of hydraulic tests in mid July. These took place when all the high In our last newsletter we talked about the new license pressure welding had been completed and all the key we had applied for to enable us to discharge clean, components of the boiler were in place. These tests surplus water into the River Thet. This has now been once again push the boiler to extremes that will never approved along with a few additional minor planning occur when it is operational, so ensuring that all the alterations which have been needed to complete our welded sections have been successfully completed energy plant successfully. and the boiler is ready to be used. We have also been holding regular liaison meetings Shortly we are hoping to energize the 33KV cable with the local Town and Parish Councils to discuss for the first time. We will test the entire length of the any opportunities or challenges that have arisen. They cable to ensure that it can successfully carry the have supported us to resolve any issues that have energy generated by our renewable energy plant. By occurred and our thanks go out to all those involved mid September we anticipate that we will be ready who have worked so positively with us over the last to undertake the steam blow cleaning. This can be few months. a little noisy but is necessary to ensure the thorough cleaning is completed prior to introducing the pressure and steam flows to put the plant into operation. With all this testing having been carried out successfully we will then be able to synchronise the plant in mid November and within our original schedule. We are really pleased that the construction phase is progressing in such a timely fashion and that we will hopefully be ready to generate power in March. BEAL BWSC East Anglia Ltd Colin Jones, Managing Director, BWSC East Anglia Limited T: 07739 658529 E: [email protected] What are the benefits to your local community? How can we work with you? We are delighted that our plant will be up and running by We are really enjoying being part of your community mid March 2017 as anticipated, generating the first clean, and building a positive relationship with everyone who green energy into the national grid. We will need around lives and works here. It is really important to us that we 30 permanent members of staff to operate and maintain are always mindful that we are your neighbours and our energy plant and we are committed to ensuring we we will strive to ensure we bring real benefits to you benefit your local community as much as possible, so and your community. As part of this commitment we will endeavour to employ local people to fill these jobs. will communicate what we are doing and why, and we We will be advertising various posts in the autumn, so if will work to identify opportunities for and benefits to our you’re interested in working with us please do keep an surrounding local community. We also need you to talk to eye out for these opportunities as they occur. us and let us know what we are doing well and what we could improve, we do try to, but might not get everything Before we move to the Operations and Maintenance right first time, however we are truly committed to working phase, and are still completing the plant, we continue with you. So any questions or queries you may have, any to have around 200 people working on the site, 95% of comments or congratulations please do let us know. which are from the UK. This will rise to about 300 at our busiest period as we near completion on the site. If you would like to find out more about the Snetterton Renewable Energy Plant and partners please visit We are committed to ensuring that our renewable energy www.snettertonbiomass.com where you will also be plant works with local schools, colleges and universities able to subscribe to receive regular updates and future to make the most of the educational opportunities we editions of this newsletter via email. offer. This will involve training and also tours of our plant for school classes or others that might have an interest in what we are doing. For anything else you need please contact: Colin Jones Managing Director BWSC East Anglia Ltd. Telephone: +44 (0) 7739 658529 E-mail: [email protected] Published by BWSC East Anglia Limited – July 2016.