BRIGG RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANT POWER FOR A GREENER FUTURE SUPPLYING

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TONS OF CO2 A YEAR

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We opened our renewable energy plant on 21st January 2016 it now generates 40MW of green electricity which is enough to supply 75,000 homes and save over 250,000 tons of CO2 every year. It’s difficult to visualise how much that is but is similar to the amount of carbon sequestered by over 700,000 tree seedlings grown for 10 years and the saving is equal to nearly 70 million miles driven by an average car.

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Brigg Renewable Energy Plant Building our Power Plant The Brigg Renewable Energy Plant is one of many new renewable energy projects across the UK, which seek to protect the environment by generating clean and safe forms of power from renewable sources which will never run out - producing little or no waste. Our 40MW renewable energy plant generates enough green electricity to supply 75,000 homes and save over 250,000 tonnes of CO2 every year. Who are we? We are BWSC North Lincs (BNLL) a company owned by a joint venture of Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S (BWSC) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners K/S (CIP) together with PensionDanmark A/S (PensionDanmark). We have contracted BWSC to build and operate the renewable energy plant. BWSC is a Danish engineering and contracting company which develops, builds, operates and owns highperformance biomass, biogas and diesel power plants. Originating from the stationary engine division of Burmeister & Wain, BWSC was established as a separate specialist company in 1980 and was acquired by Japanese Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in 1990. Currently, BWSC has on-going activities in England, Northern Ireland, Surinam, Lebanon, the Cayman Islands, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Mauritius. CIP is a fund management company founded in 2012 by senior executives from the energy industry and PensionDanmark. CIP is owned and managed by five partners. All five partners have extensive experience within infrastructure investments and mergers & acquisitions. CIP currently manages the funds Copenhagen Infrastructure I K/S, CI Artemis K/S and Copenhagen Infrastructure II K/S. PensionDanmark manages labour market pensions under collective and corporate agreements and health care products on behalf of 687,000 members in 25,600 businesses within the private and public sectors. PensionDanmark is owned by its customers, and profits belong entirely to the members.

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Our connection to electricity grid

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It is a very complex project to build, however here’s what we did in a nutshell:

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How did we build our plant? We started building our plant in late 2013 with it completed and handed over, ready to generate clean, green electricity on 21st January 2016 – we are proud to say this was three months ahead of schedule and within the £162m construction budget.

• We began the construction process with the foundations for the buildings, including the noisier period whilst we were piling – driving the anchor points of the buildings far into the ground.

• The steel framework for the main buildings that make up our plant then began to appear, with the larger components of the plant itself being delivered as abnormal loads. • New roads started to emerge on site to help us better manage the movement of construction materials and traffic. • Our focus then became building the 33kV substation that enables our electricity to enter the national grid. Meanwhile we finished the onsite buildings. • We were excited to welcome a very large crane on site which we used to erect the boiler. While the first elements of our mechanical process equipment, including the air cooled condenser were also installed, with the other equipment following shortly after. • Next to be installed was our straw handling systems followed by the boiler house chimney stack.

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• Shortly after this we began work on the 7.5 mile cable route, to transport all the energy we generate to the national grid for use across the UK. First we laid the ducting and then pulled the cable through, allowing us to cause as little disruption to the roads as possible.

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3 • We cleared and crushed 25,000m of concrete from the old sugar factory foundations, removed more than 1,500 truckloads of surplus soil and piled almost 2,300 piles.

Our renewable energy plant Scawby

• We then joined all the elements together with interconnecting pipework. Welding of this high pressure piping required special alloy steels across the essential joints, meaning special welding techniques had to be used. Once we started any of the individual welding processes, we couldn’t stop, so there were a few late nights. • We undertook a major lift of five large, eight ton beams, 32m long; positioning them over the top of the boiler house building to hold the boiler itself in place. • With all the parts of the plant now completed we began the steam blowing process to push the plant to its limits and make sure everything was completely safe and fully operational. • During Christmas and the New Year the plant underwent a successful commissioning process, meaning we were ready to generate clean, green electricity in January 2016.

Our Constrution Timeline

2014 Q1

Q2

2015 Q3

Onsite enabling works

Q4

Q1

Q2

2016 Q3

Q4

Q1

Q2

Delivery of main components to site

Piling works

On site component assembly

Cable route works Grid connection

What fuels the Power Plant? Our plant is fuelled by straw, so throughout the construction phase we have also been securing the straw required for us to generate electricity over the next few years.

First synchronisation

Testing & commissioning First steam test

First power

Full commercial operation

We are pleased to say that we are now fully contracted for straw throughout 2016 and are soon hoping to secure supplies beyond next year. In order to help manage the process of straw deliveries to our plant we have also set up two new strategic storage sites at Hemswell and Fosterhouses.

What are the benefits to the community? We hope that our project has brought many benefits to our business and community neighbours. During the construction period we used as many local contractors as we could and encouraged them in turn to make the best use of local businesses. Whilst our plant was being built a significant amount of money was spent in the local economy. Now we’re up and running there are further longer term benefits. We have employed 30 people to work on the Operations and Maintenance team at our plant and they are all from the local community. These are 30 jobs with real job security as our renewable energy plant will be running for many years to come. We are also proud to have set up a Community Benefit Fund to support a range of worthwhile community projects in our neighbourhood. We have committed to an initial 3 year funding period with a view to extending funding for a further 2 years. We are pleased to say that this fund will contribute £50,000 a year in grants to your local community.

How did we make all this happen? The completion of our renewable energy plant three months early and within budget is a testament to our team of contractors and BWSC who have managed them. We are confident that the Operations and Maintenance teams will do just as impressive a job. We also know that the success of our project is a reflection on you and the rest of our local community. Without your patience and understanding throughout the build, particularly when we were working on the roads, or having to be onsite until late, we would never have been able to move our plant forward so successfully. Thank you.

Brigg Renewable Energy Plant BWSC North Lincs Limited Telephone: 07928 496380 E-mail: [email protected]

Published by BWSC North Lincs Ltd - June 2016