Severn energy plan
New study for Severn energy plan
The government has announced a fresh feasibility study into the Severn Barrage, a tidal power plan that could provide about 5% of UK electricity. Speaking at the Labour Party's annual conference in Bournemouth, business and enterprise ...
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The electricity calculator gives you the opportunity to choose how you would like the UK�s electricity to be generated in 2020.
EFSA ::. Bluetongue
EFSA ::. Bluetongue Read More...
Not related to Electricity- Construction but worthy of note as the first instance of bluetongue has been identified in the UK.
Construction Walkout over Nazi taunts
HUNDREDS of workers building one of Wales’ biggest engineering projects downed tools last night ( Sep 22nd) because one was allegedly taunted with Nazi salutes.
Too cheap' electricity must surge in price...
Scotsman.com Business - Energy
ELECTRICITY is "too cheap" and prices will have to rise if Britain is to meet tough targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Scottish and Southern Energy has warned.
Fish Kill costs Welsh Water and United Utilities over £40,000
BYM Marine Environment News
United Utilities, were yesterday (17 September) ordered to pay over £20,000 each after pleading guilty to polluting the Taf Fechan, in Pontsticill, with approximately 3 tonnes of waste aluminium sulphate.
On 13, August 2006, officers from Environment Agency Wales were called out to an incident at the Pontsticill Water Treatment Works, near Merthyr Tydfil.
The court heard that the aluminium sulphate had leaked from a waste chemical storage tank and polluted a 5km stretch of the Taf Fechan killing over 23,000 fish.
United Utilities plan new reservoir
| United Utilities plan new reservoir |  |
| Wednesday, 19 September 2007 | |
| A £13 million scheme to ensure the security of water supplies to the Fylde, Blackburn, Ribble Valley and parts of Preston is to be unveiled by United Utilities. |
PCB's and You.
Do you know how to work safely with PCBs?PCBs and YOU
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS
Research Report SeriesAll the above links are very informative.
Who’ll keep the lights on?...learning by seeing and doing...
Who’ll keep the lights on? As utility company executives make plans to meet the growing electricity needs of the Southeast, they’re also watching their most experienced personnel approach retirement age. Finding enough skilled personnel to operate complex power-generation facilities poses one of the most critical challenges facing the industry today. Collaboration between Baltimore-based GSE Systems and the Georgia Institute of Technology offers one solution: a new way of learning that combines traditional classroom training with hands-on experience using advanced computer simulations of complex industrial facilities. Simulations have long been used to train pilots, but are relatively new to other types of industrial training. This “learning by seeing and doing” offers utility companies a way to more rapidly meet their most critical human resources needs. “People learn by seeing, experiencing and actually doing something,” explained Eric Johnson, senior operations training specialist for GSE Systems. “We can reinforce what students have learned in class by allowing them to interact with a simulation of a facility. The simulation allows them to gain experience without actually having to be in a real plant, and that helps new employees become productive faster.” To provide that innovative learning environment, GSE has built a multi-million-dollar simulation and education center at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center in Technology Square. The company officially opened the facility – the first of its kind in the United States – with a ceremony September 13. LINK...
Simulation-Based Training Facility Opens, Focusing on Power Generation Industry in the USA.
Something for the UK Electrical Supply industry to consider extract from the article below...
Giant battery designed to store electricity
Eon UK is developing a giant battery designed to store electricity generated by wind farms and solar panels.
Scientists at the energy group's technology centre in Nottingham aim to build a large-scale prototype that would be able to store one megawatt of electricity for four hours - the equivalent to 10 million AA batteries and the same size as four articulated lorry containers.
"Green power is only generated from wind farms when the wind blows and that might not be when the power's needed by customers," said Bob Taylor, managing director of energy wholesale and technology. "By researching and developing this battery we can store the power generated by wind farms any time and then use it when our customers need it the most.
"The storage system will also help the development of localised generation. For example, a school with solar panels can store the power generated at weekends and use it when the kids are back in school."
Eon is already working with small-scale prototypes; it expects the large prototype to be operational by autumn 2009. The project is being supported by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
"We believe energy storage is a key which will help us unlock a lower-carbon tomorrow and radically change the way we think about energy," Mr Taylor said.
The industry regulator, Ofgem, said the concept was increasingly attractive. "It looked a long way from being deployed but we are seeing good progress here and internationally," a spokesman said.
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1.5b power bid
Li infrastructure unit lines up for 1.5b power bid
According to the paper, United Utilities appointed Deutsche Bank to advise it on the sale of the electricity business earlier this year. ...The Standard - Hong Kong (LINK)
Asia's richest man eyes energy unit
Asia's richest man is reported to be eyeing a potential takeover of United Utilities' electricity distribution business.
Li Ka-shing, who ranked ninth in the Forbes 2007 billionaires list with a estimated fortune of 23 billion US dollars (£11.3bn), is understood to be one of a number of suitors preparing first round offers for the operations, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
The United Utilities business, formerly Norweb, delivers electricity to some 2.2 million customers in north-west England.
Li Ka-shing's Hong-Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, has built up a sizeable UK portfolio, worth around £15 billion, over the last 20 years - making him Asia's biggest investor in Britain.
His investments include names such as mobile phone network 3, health and beauty retailer Superdrug and three of Britain's biggest ports, Felixstowe, Harwich and Cambridge Water.
Last year, the group's listed infrastructure division, Cheung Kong Infrastructure was part of a consortium that dropped out of the race to takeover Thames Water, largely due to concerns over price.
United Utilities began looking at a sale of the electricity business earlier this year, but it is understood that the group is keen to keep hold of the business' operating contract - a move which is expected to put off other electricity networks from bidding.
The electricity business is also said to have generated interest from US utility MidAmerican and the infrastructure funds of JP Morgan, UBS and Australian financial group Macquarie.
United Utilities was not available for comment.
The sale would leave the company with North West Water and a service business that manages other utility assets, while analysts believe that once the group has disposed of its electricity operations it could be open to a potential takeover.
Wind Power...
A row has blown up in the UK wind sector. It started when Michael Jefferson, an environmental consultant, claimed that UK wind farms were being built in the wrong places. He blamed the Renewables Obligation Certificate Scheme for encouraging energy providers to place turbines in areas remote from the country�s power grid and in locations where wind speeds are not particularly high Link
Everyone has a carbon footprint
Everyone has a carbon footprint - it's your own personal measure of how much carbon dioxide you create and how much you contribute to climate change.
Use the Act on CO2 calculator to find out what your carbon footprint is. You'll also get a personalised action plan with recommendations about how you can help tackle climate change - including links to further information on Directgov and the Energy Saving Trust website.
UK Electricity Scenarios for 2050
UK Electricity Scenarios for 2050. Jim Watson. November 2003. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change. (pdf file link click & please wait.)
UU wrecked a Wigan beauty spot.....
A furious ward councillor has blasted United Utilities after their contractors dumped waste material and boiled vats of red hot tar on recently landscaped public open space near the library and day centre in Golborne.
He is now urging Wigan council to claim compensation from the Warrington based UU, who are relaying electricity cables in the High Street and Tanners Lane area.(Read More)
U.K. electricity grid operator
Boston Globe - United States
With its $7.3 billion takeover of KeySpan Corp. completed yesterday, British energy giant National Grid PLC plans over the next four to six months to begin ...
The Great British Power Swindle: Consumers are being charged 10 ...
Fair Investment Company - Bristol,UK
UK electricity companies are making an extra £446 million year out of consumers through their old regional monopoly status - around £32 a year on average ...(Read More)
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The Ampere Strikes Back
By Pete Smith
In a new report, 'The Ampere Strikes Back: how consumer electronics are taking over the world', the Energy Saving Trust predicts that by 2020 45% of the UK electricity, around 34TWh (terawatt-hours), will be devoted to running "gadgets" ...
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Plans to turn Scotland into the renewable-energy powerhouse of Europe are under threat from new rules being proposed by the UK electricity regulator.
Ofgem is preparing to enforce higher charges on electricity generators located further away from large population centres.
Scottish Renewables compared the planned charging structure to a ‘don't build here’ sign for the wind-farm industry and the fledging wave/tidal sector.
Ofgem is expected to approve the changes to the cost of connecting to the National Grid, which would make it more expensive for generators located further away from cities and towns.
The regulator said this would cut the amount of electricity lost as heat, as it travels along cables, saving £15 million a year and 150,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.
For a large wind farm in northern Scotland, with an annual turnover of £21 million, the connection charges would rise from £60,000 a year to £200,000, Ofgem said.
Source UK energy.
August 14 2007
Building Ban Proposed near Power Lines...
MPs have called on the Goverment to have a moratorium on the building of new homes and schools near High Voltage Overhead Transmission Lines.
A Cross- Party Inquiry set up to examine in detail the association between High Voltage Overhead Transmission Lines and an increased risk of childhood leukaemia will today publish its recommendations to Government.
Its findings will call for a moratorium on the building of new homes and schools within at least 60 metres of existing High Voltage Overhead Transmission Lines (HVOTL) of 275 kV and 400 kV and on the building of new HVOTL within 60 metres of existing homes and schools and the same within 30 metres from 132 kV, 110 kV and 66 kV lines. In addition the inquiry recommends that the Government consider the case for extending this distance to 200 metres for the highest voltage lines and pro-rata to lower voltages.
The backbench parliamentarians involved in the enquiry were Nick Hurd MP, Sandra Gidley MP, Dr Ian Gibson MP, Michael Connarty MP and Dr Howard Stoate MP. They heard evidence from house builders, RICS, scientists, the electricity industry, Ofgem, the Health Protection Agency, estate agents and national and local campaign groups and legal experts.
Dr Howard Stoate MP, chair of the Cross-Party Inquiry said:
"This important Inquiry has led us to the conclusion that a moratorium on building close to high voltage power lines is absolutely necessary. We have taken evidence from a range of valid sources and we think that there is enough to warrant the immediate implementation of sound precautionary measures to protect the health of children. The most recent scientific research has indicated that there may be a link between childhood leukaemia and proximity to electricity pylons. It would be wrong to wait any longer before taking action. In representing my own constituents and the wider general public I think there is a duty to put children's health at the top of the agenda where this issue is concerned."
UU bidding to be wizards of Oz
WATER giant United Utilities is teaming up with a Spanish company Acciona to bid for multi-million pound contracts to end drought Down Under. ( Source Manchester Evening News)
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The M6 widening - at £1,000 an inch...
Every inch of the proposed new road is estimated to cost £897. And when construction inflation has been built in - currently 9% a year - the likely figure will top £1,000. Either will make it the most expensive piece of tarmac ever laid, with the entire project, according to the Highways Agency's own figures, expected to cost £2.9bn and take three years.
Special Report,Transport in Britain.
Combined-cycle gas turbine power station...
Highways Agency (National)
'bag it and bin it!' Highways Agency launches campaign to fight litter on England's roads
The Highways Agency today launched its campaign to fight the problem of litter on roads across England, part of its commitment to protecting the environment.
The 'Bag it, Bin it' campaign has support from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). Drivers are being encouraged to pick up a Highways Agency litter bag to put rubbish in and dispose of it in a bin when they reach their destination - rather than throwing it from a car window.
With many people out on the roads during the holiday season, litter can build up and may often block drains. Not only is litter unsightly and a threat to the environment, but clearing rubbish from roadside verges and central reservations puts the workers at risk of injury from moving traffic and diverts resources away from road maintenance and repairs.
The Highways Agency campaign is supported by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), and their new president, Bill Bryson, who has placed litter at the top of his agenda.
Highways Agency "Bag it and Bin it" litter bags can be found in service stations across the country.
Highways Agency Chief Executive, Archie Robertson, said:
"This unsightly and environmentally damaging problem is a big concern for us. Money spent on clearing litter thrown from vehicles could be better spent in reducing congestion and improving safety."
"Working on or next to fast moving traffic is a dangerous job. People are putting themselves at risk clearing the litter thrown from vehicles. We want all road users to think about the consequences of littering. Please keep your rubbish with you, pick up one of our bags, and dispose of it safely and sensibly when you reach your destination."
Notes to editors
1. The Highways Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Transport. We manage, maintain and improve England's motorways and major A roads on behalf of the Secretary of State.
2. Real-time traffic information for England's motorways and major A roads is available:
* From the web at http://www.highways.gov.uk/trafficinfo
* By phone from the Highways Agency 24-hour voice activated phone service on 08700 660 115. (Calls from BT landlines to 0870 numbers will cost no more than 8p per minute; mobile calls usually cost more).
Before using a mobile, find a safe place to park. Never stop on the hard shoulder of a motorway except in an emergency. Make sure it's safe and legal before you call.
3. For more general information about the Highways Agency and its work, visit the Highways Agency website http://www.highways.gov.uk, or telephone the Highways Agency Information Line on 08457 50 40 30 at any time. (Calls to 0845 numbers cost no more than 3p/min from BT residential landlines. Call charges from other landlines and mobile networks may vary)
Safe driving at roadworks
During 2006 two workers were killed and 19 seriously injured in the course of their work on Highways Agency roads.
For the safety of all road users and roadworkers, when you are approaching roadworks:
* Keep within the speed limit - it is there for your safety.
* Get into the correct lane in good time - don't keep switching.
* Concentrate on the road ahead, not the roadworks.
* Be alert for works' traffic leaving or entering roadworks.
* Keep a safe distance - there could be queues in front.
* Observe all signs - they are there to help you.
Plan for landfilling of construction waste
The construction industry may have to adopt a zero waste to landfill approach by 2020 if a new strategy on tackling the sector's waste is given the go-ahead. Read more...
UU Community Spirit....
"United Utilities has demonstrated a commendable act of goodwill and community spirit in agreeing to this project and I would like to thank them." Read More...
Treasure hunter's surprise discovery....
A BOMB was discovered in rural East Lancashire after a walker with a metal detector unearthed it on a United Utilities waste water treatment works in Dunsop Bridge in the Ribble Valley late on Saturday night.Read More:-
Wigan Trench warfare on road
Wigan Trench warfare on road.
A "temporary" filling of a trench at the junction of Wigan Road and Nell Pan Lane has been left for months and Coun Whiteside says promises to provide a smooth surface have been broken.
She says residents' peace is being shattered by articulated lorries thundering over the shoddy surface.
She said: "It's been left in an absolute mess.
"They are treating the authority and local people with contempt."
The road was dug up in October 2006 to allow cables to be laid from a power sub-station in Hindley Green to the new Leigh Sports Village.
Months of serious traffic delays between Wigan and Leigh were endured before it was "completed" in late March this year.
But United Utilities contractors were called back to the site at the request of the local authority because the work was not completed to the satisfaction of council inspectors.
Council streetworks coordinator Tony Hemingway said: "Our inspectors were unhappy with aspects of the trench right along it's length, and asked the contractors to return to carry out remedial works.
"The trench was only supposed to be temporary and the remedial resurfacing work should have been done within 27 days, but it's taken much longer."
A spokesman for United Utilities said: "We are currently looking into the cause of the problem. We hope to have it rectified as soon as possible."
Source Wigan Today..
UK nuclear energy plans - roadshow begins...
| UK nuclear energy plans - roadshow begins |
| Monday, 30 July 2007 | |
| The Government's discussion with the public about the country's future energy needs has moved up a gear with an extensive programme of nationwide consultative events starting in Bristol today. Bristol is hosting one in a series of twelve regional stakeholder events being held over the summer to capture the views of green groups, energy companies, businesses, consumer groups, unions, faith groups and academics. In addition, a major deliberative exercise involving a demographically representative sample of 1,100 UK citizens will be held in September in nine cities across the UK. Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks said: "Keeping the lights on for the decades ahead while also cutting carbon emissions is one of the biggest challenges of our time. The Government's Energy White Paper sets out a range of responses, including increased energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage and more renewable generation such as offshore wind farms. "The Government also believes that new nuclear power stations should be an option for energy companies in the future, but we want to consult as widely as possible on this before making a decision. "This is a big decision with consequences either way. It's critical that we listen to all the views and get it right." The consultation is running for 20 weeks in total, significantly longer than standard government consultations. The Government has commissioned a range of specialist organisations to conduct and evaluate the consultation. Despite this consultation excecise,however, it is thought that the Government is keen to give the go ahead for a new generation of nuclear reactors, which would create major workload for the UK construction industry. (Source Builder & Engineer. 30th July 2007) |
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Sustainable Construction Strategy.
London, 30 July /PRNewswire-GNN/
(2007/032) issued by The Government News Network on 30 July 2007
Reducing on-site waste, using sustainable materials, and increasing skills
in the workforce are just some of the targets set out for the construction
industry in a draft Government and Industry Sustainable Construction Strategy.
the industry deliver more sustainable construction methods and products.
The draft strategy's key areas include:
Production of zero net waste at construction site level
Developing voluntary agreements and initiatives between the construction industry and its clients with the aim of reducing the carbon footprint and
use of resources within the built environment.
Creating a safer industry by improving skills, boosting the numbers of
workers taking part in training programmes, and retaining more skilled workers.
National Schedule of Rates.
Schedule of Rates for Building and Associated Services.
The first National Schedule of Rates was launched by the Society of Chief Quantity Surveyors and the Building Employers Confederation in 1982, in response to the Government’s legislation on competition in the public sector.
Together with the appropriate contract conditions, The National Schedules allow customers to issue a series of works orders, confident that the charges for the work will be based on a pre-determined and agreed basis of measurement and pricing. Without The National Schedules, the customer has to produce their own schedule or obtain a series of competitive quotations before placing an order. Alternatively, orders may be issued with or without the production of an estimate and, subsequently, the client would be charged a lump sum, or on a day work basis without knowing the likely out-turn cost. The National Schedules therefore save time and money
Within the utilities sector composite rates have been compiled of repetitive projects establishing small project activity based construction cost. boundaries have been set for risk such as excavation depth etc.
These schedules comprise, in total, of approximately 15,000 items of work. In the case of the Building, Mechanical, Electrical, Road Works and Painting & Decorating Schedules each rate is broken down into its material, plant and labour constituents, which are individually updated annually. Items are presented in layman’s terms for use by non-technical staff.
Each schedule is issued with guidance notes, preliminaries and preamble clauses and is directly related to the Joint Contracts Tribunal’s Standard Form of Measured Term Contract (1998). The alphanumeric coding structure allows users to insert additional items if they so desire and thus making them extremely flexible.
Used by Public Utilities, NHS trust, Local authorities. Post office and Marks and Spencer.
List of Users and link to NSR Home page.
BCIS Tender Price Index.
Contractors can expect workload to increase in 2007 restoring confidence in market
According to the latest Tender Price Index compiled by BCIS the price of new construction work rose in the year to 4th quarter 2006.
Peter Rumble, Managing Technical Editor, BCIS said:
"With new work output having increased by 5% in 2006 as a whole, and with an above trend increase expected in 2007, tender prices are likely to continue to rise next quarter as contractors’ confidence continues to return to the market."
However, there are some mixed signals from the trade surveys.
The Construction Confederation reported that, on balance, there was a significant increase in enquiries in 4th quarter 2006, and that contractors were expecting workload to increase next quarter.
The Federation of Master Builders reported static enquiries in 4th quarter 2006, and that contractors were not expecting a change in the level of workload in 1st quarter 2007.
New work output is expected to rise well ahead of trend over the next three years.
It is anticipated that the private commercial and infrastructure sectors will be the main contributors to growth over the forecast period, with work on the 2012 London Olympics starting to make an impact from 2007.
Managing Technical Editor, BCIS Peter Rumble continued:
"Above trend increases in new work output and upward pressure from increased input costs, are expected to result in tender price rises well ahead of general inflation over each year of the forecast period."
Visit BCIS at www.bcis.co.uk.
Electricity WiTricity
Recent demonstration of a 60W globe being powered from a source over two metres (seven feet) away, a more popular application could be to recharge electronic gadgets such as mobile phones, making them truly wireless.
A key point is that WiTricity does not use electromagnetic radiation, which would be inefficient and possibly hazardous. Instead, it relies on magnetically coupled resonance which gives efficient energy transfer and interacts very weakly with most common materials including living creatures. "The fact that magnetic fields interact so weakly with biological organisms is also important for safety considerations," said researcher Andre Kurs.
The system uses a pair of copper coils. One generates a magnetic field oscillating in the megaHertz range, and the other resonates with that field and converts the energy back into electricity. In comparison with magnetic induction (as used in electrical transformers), resonant coupling remains efficient when the two coils are not very close together.
"The crucial advantage of using the non-radiative field lies in the fact that most of the power not picked up by the receiving coil remains bound to the vicinity of the sending unit, instead of being radiated into the environment and lost," said team member Robert Moffatt, an MIT physics student.
One drawback is that a smaller receiving coil means a shorter range. According to the researchers, a notebook sized coil can receive more than enough power to run the computer within the same room as the transmitter.
The project, inspired when team leader Professor Marin Soljacic repeatedly forgot to recharge his mobile phone, was funded by the US Army Research Office, National Science Foundation and Department of Energy.
http://www.witricitynet.com/
HOW WIRELESS POWER COULD WORK
Wireless power
1) Power from mains to antenna, which is made of copper
2) Antenna resonates at a frequency of about 10MHz, producing electromagnetic waves
3) 'Tails' of energy from antenna 'tunnel' up to 2m (6.5ft)
4) Electricity picked up by laptop's antenna, which must also be resonating at 10MHz. Energy used to re-charge device
5) Energy not transferred to laptop re-absorbed by source antenna. People/other objects not affected as not resonating at 10MHz
Li infrastructure unit lines up for 1.5b power bid
Li infrastructure unit lines up for 1.5b power bid
Staff reporter
Monday, September 10, 2007
Cheung Kong Infrastructure (1038), the infrastructure arm of Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa (0013), is making a 1.5 billion (HK$23.61 million) offer for the former Norweb electricity distribution business held by United Utilities, according to a London report.
The Sunday Telegraph said CKI is "understood to be among a number of suitors preparing first-round offers for the network, which delivers electricity to some 2.2 million customers in northwest England."
Hutchison Whampoa has amassed a portfolio worth around 15 billion, making Li Asia's biggest investor in Britain, the paper said.
CKI is the largest publicly listed infrastructure company in Hong Kong with interests in energy, transport and water. It also operates in the mainland, Canada, Britain, the Philippines and Australia.
Hutchison's investments stretch from the mobile phone network 3, and health and beauty chain Superdrug, to the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich, and Cambridge Water, the paper said.
CKI chairman Victor Li Tzar-kuoi said in June the company will "acquire the right assets at the right price."
According to the paper, United Utilities appointed Deutsche Bank to advise it on the sale of the electricity business earlier this year.
"It is understood that United Utilities is keen to retain the operating contract of the business, a move that could put off rival utilities such as Scottish & Southern Energy from bidding. Other interested groups are understood to include the infrastructure funds of JPMorgan and UBS, as well as Macquarie, the Australian financial group, and MidAmerican, the US utility," the newspaper said.
In the first half, CKI reported profit of HK$2.018 billion, up 27 percent over the same period last year.
Hutchison slid HK$1.70, or 2.19 percent, to close at HK$75.90 on Friday while CKI climbed HK$0.60 per share, or 0.52 percent, to HK$116.60.
