UK water energy launches solar tender

• Southern Waters is thinking about getting electrical energy from generation facilities on its sites in southerly England. After introducing a request for info process last year, it is currently looking for quotes from independent power manufacturers.

British public utility Southern Water introduced the 2nd phase of its plan to install solar arrays at its sites, including floating PV projects.

After kicking-off in December 2019 with a request for information (RFI) procedure, the utility is now introducing the procurement exercise to seek offers from solar power service providers. "Energy costs are just one of SWS largest Opex prices, as well as the business is believed to have greater than 6,000 acres of land which SWS wish to utilise in order to lower Opex prices and also meet carbon and eco-friendly targets," the business specified in the tender paper.

Approximately four effective prospective buyers will be qualified to be component the panel of structure service providers. "These companies will after that take part on chances to become part of PPAs with SWS via mini-competition tenders during the term of the structure," the energy specified. "These mini-competitions will be in the kind of lots of SWS sites as well as potential 3rd party land where appropriate."

Southern Water operates 91 water treatment works as well as 13,870 kilometres of water mains, as well as 365 wastewater treatment works as well as 39,594 km of sewage systems.

The company activated its very first, and so far just solar possessions-- with an overall generation capability of 4.2 MW-- at large water treatment centers in October 2017. Those plants make up the 16.5% renewables share of Southern's power mix cited above.