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Spotlight on Living Power decentralized generation
When sister company Living Fuels and Norfolk County Council announced their joint venture to provide used cooking oil collection points across the county, the spotlight also fell on Living Power.
Launch day at Ketteringham recycling centre near Norwich where the public had their first experience of pouring their used cooking oil into one of the new collection banks.
As expected, radio, television and the press were anxious to show used oil being poured into one of the new collection banks provided by Living Fuels at the county council’s 18 recycling centres.
But they were also determined to see the outcome, and drove in procession to the Living Fuels HQ at Freedom Farm, Hockwold
They wanted to demonstrate to viewers and listeners that a generator at the site, powered by LF100, is successfully producing green electricity around the clock.
This generator is based on the model of decentralized electricity generation which Living Power is pioneering. It generates approximately 3,500 Megawatt hours of green electricity per annum, equivalent to the annual needs of approximately 760 homes.
Norfolk’s fleet of used cooking oil collection banks in tight formation at Living Fuels before dispersing across the county.A quarter of this generator’s power is used industrially to power all operations at Freedom Farm, and the balance goes into the local electricity distribution network which serves the Hockwold and Brandon area.
At the 2001 census Hockwold had 521 households; the green electricity exported from this decentralized power source is equivalent to the annual needs of approximately 570 households.
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Living Power joined by major renewables company
Eighty per cent of Living Power has been sold to REG Bio-Power UK Ltd, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange AIM-listed Renewable Energy Generation Ltd (‘REG’).
The REG Group was established in May 2005 to provide investors with an opportunity to participate in the growth of the global renewable energy market, predominantly in wind energy projects.
REG has two operating subsidiaries in wind energy – the UK-based Cornwall Light & Power Co Ltd (‘CLP’), and AIM PowerGen Corp (‘APG’) which is based in Toronto, Canada.
CLP currently operates four wind projects in Cornwall, Denbighshire, Cumbria and County Durham with a total capacity of 16MW. Another 30 projects are in various stages of development, with a total capacity approaching 200MW.
AIM is one of Canada’s largest independent wind developers with rights over 2,200MW of potential wind projects in Canada.
REG Managing Director Andrew Whalley said: “We are absolutely delighted to grow our renewables portfolio by acquiring this majority holding in Living Power.
“Living Power has a track record of owning and operating power plant fuelled by used vegetable cooking oil. We believe this experience to be unique in Europe.
“We also strongly support the decentralised model of electricity generation because it maximises production efficiency and cuts down on the wastage of centralised generation.”
Adrian Venni, the founder of Living Power, added: “REG provides us with a strong financial base and a wealth of international business experience to allow our rapid expansion to continue.”
