Black & Veatch appointed to Drax Technical Services Framework
May 04 2021 - 4:35AM
Business Wire
Framework win with major energy generator increases Black
& Veatch’s growing UK power presence
Major UK power provider Drax has awarded Black & Veatch a
role on the company’s Technical Services Framework.
Drax’s existing biomass and hydro renewable power generation
assets provide power for the equivalent of more than 5.1 million
homes. In addition to supporting these assets Black & Veatch’s
role encompasses new-build and enhancement capital projects as well
as - looking to the NetZero future - research into new and emerging
technologies, such as bioenergy carbon capture and storage. The
nature and delivery of Black & Veatch’s work will help realise
Drax’s ambition to become carbon negative by 2030.
“Being appointed to the framework is a major statement that
further highlights Black & Veatch’s full capabilities in the
power infrastructure space,” commented Paul Harmer, Black &
Veatch’s head of conventional generation, UK.
The framework will be over an initial three-year period,
providing Drax with additional engineering resource supporting its
efforts to manage the intermittent profile of renewable generation
of the wider grid, and boost security of supply. Black & Veatch
will provide the company with:
- Additional operational and commercial performance through
technical capability and capacity
- Engineering and technical support to augment internal team
resources
- Support programme management and project delivery, from product
development through to decommissioning
“To provide Drax with strength in depth we will be using not
just our UK power professionals, but expertise from across our
global power business. For the last six years Black & Veatch
has ranked second in Power, in the USA’s influential ENR Top 500
Design Firms report. This gives a sense of the world-class talent
Drax will be able to draw upon,” Harmer added.
The Drax win comes at a significant time for Black &
Veatch’s global power business with the recent announcement that
the company will cease participation in any new coal-based power
design and construction.
Editor’s Notes:
Other recent successes for Black & Veatch’s Europe energy
team include:
- Securing an extension to its technical services framework with
E.ON’s Business and Community Solutions Business. Consultancy and
engineering support covers E.ON’s industrial CHP, biomass and
distributed generation assets.
- Delivering financial close for ING Bank on three windfarms in
the Irish Republic
- Securing UK energy regulator Ofgem’s Renewable Obligation
Statistical Audit Programme
- Authoring a first of a kind report on MeyGen Phase 1, which
will help the commercial viability of tidal stream energy
- Deploying digital twin technology to support the optimisation
and cost reduction of Orbital’s floating tidal turbines
About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is an employee-owned engineering,
procurement, consulting and construction company with a more than
100-year track record of innovation in sustainable infrastructure.
Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the lives of people
in over 100 countries by addressing the resilience and reliability
of our world's most important infrastructure assets. Our revenues
in 2019 were US$3.7 billion. Follow us on www.bv.com and on social
media.
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