Beating heart: green power sustainable for the next century
Our ecosystem will be powered by dedicated, always-on nuclear energy.
We are working closely with Community Nuclear Power, an independent developer who will deploy a fleet of four small nuclear reactors on our site. These will provide dedicated offtake of power and thermal energy, always-on and unaffected by weather, to give our tenants and partners peace of mind for maximising their production.
CNP is working with Westinghouse, whose large-scale reactors can be found in around half the world’s fleet of nuclear power stations. This depth and breadth of experience underpins their new AP300 Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
We know that, while SMRs will be much faster to getting ‘power on the bars’ than large-scale nuclear projects, it will take around eight to ten years to licence, construct and commission the fleet.
But the commercial demand for green chemicals and fuels is here and now. In the UK, for example, progressive targets are in place to mandate increasing production of SAF, such is its importance to our national low-carbon ambition. We must move at pace.
Therefore we are working already on alternative solutions for the first decade of clean power generation such as biomass, plasma gasification, and novel green hydrogen technologies.