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2OC sign deal with Thames water – for the Beckton Plant

£200m power deal and multi-million investment for 2OC

April 6th, 2013

Andrew Mercer (right) CEO of 2OC and Piers Clark Commercial Manager Thames Water at the Beckton desalination plant

2OC has signed a 20-year deal worth over £200m with Thames Water to provide renewable power and heat for the UK’s biggest sewage treatment works at Beckton in East London. The company’s nearby Combined Heat and intelligent Power (CHiP) plant will pioneer the use of fuels derived from fats, oils and greases (FOGs) which would otherwise be tipped down the drain or dumped in landfill. Other fuel sources include oil wastes from food manufacturers, processors and tallow (animal fats). There will be no virgin oils from field or plantation grown crops. Thames has committed to working with 2OC to supply well over half of its fuel demand from FOGs from the start of operation in 2015, with the intention of increasing that over time. Thames, Britain’s biggest water company, says that FOGs are responsible for most of the blockages in its 109,000 km of sewers and removing them costs £1m a month.

The CHiP plant will produce 130 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable electricity a year, – that’s enough to run just under 40,000 average sized homes. 75GWh will be purchased by Thames to run its sewage works and desalination plant and the rest will be sold on to the national grid. Waste heat from the 2-stroke engine will be used in the adjacent gas pressure reduction station allowing existing gas fired boilers to be turned off. Additional renewable heat is available for any housing schemes nearby.

Andrew Mercer, CEO 2OC

J Murphy and Sons has been awarded the £70m contract to build the plant which will be operational in the first quarter of 2015. iCON Infrastructure is the lead investor in the Beckton CHiP alongside EEA Holdings Ltd and Deutsche Bank.

The CHiP plant has an overall efficiency in the high 90s per cent and world beating electrical efficiency in excess of 65%. Additional power is generated from the recovery of thermal energy (provided by heat from the engine)  via a turbo-expander in the gas stream.

Commenting on the deals, Andrew Mercer CEO of 2OC said: “This is the culmination of many years of hard work from my world class team at 2OC. This is good for us, Thames Water and its customers and the environment. Renewable power and heat sourced in London, generated in London and used in London.”

Piers Clark, Commercial Director for Thames Water commented: “This project is a win-win. Renewable power for two of our critical services and a means of tackling the ongoing operational problem of so-called ‘fatbergs’ which are responsible for over 40,000 blockages a year in our sewage network.”

Paul Malan, Senior Partner of iCON Infrastructure said: “We are delighted to have become the lead investor in the Beckton project. It is at the heart of the capital’s infrastructure and has the long-term support of customers of the highest calibre.”

2OC acknowledges the help of the following organisations:

Financial advisers & auditors – PWC
Legal advisers – Norton Rose & Osborne Clarke
Technical advisers – Mott MacDonald
Financial Model auditors  – Operis

Green Wash and Blue NG

Many of BHEAG’s campaigns are centred around projects which have been made to look environmentally friendly – but the devil is in the detail (or usually the lack of it)

Many readers will be familiar with the name Blue NG – a company formed several years ago, which has still failed to build a single plant or produce a single unit of electricity.

The story is here: http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=4053

Blackrod Biomass Plant

The consultation period for commenting on a new biomass plant has officially ended. The full application can be found here.

The  4MWe plant  at Markland Farm (Douglas Valley golf Course area), was approved three years ago. The applicant has requested to extend the time limit restriction for the development to commence.  The application was considered at Blackrod Town Council, last week. Local councillors appeared frustrated at being denied the opportunity to debate the application in full.  Perhaps without precedence, a request from a member of the public to speak on the application was denied by Councillor Pat Barrow

The member of the public who wished to speak on the application has asked us to publish a letter with his concerns which is below.

“Planning application 86393/11

Dear Ms. Williams,

                I read with interest the GMP comments posted on the web site, as the suggestions do seem to ensure that the proposed development will stand out in this green belt location.

I went back to the original application to see what had been proposed but I could not find any detailed information. In fact the following comment in the agent’s letter of the 16/10/2008 was all I could find, “modern agricultural green units designed and constructed by Wearings”.  It does not seem correct that this proposal should be considered without some indication of what it will look like, as the lack of this detail does not allow comments to be made on this aspect of the proposal.

The lack of information regarding the building appearance needs be addressed as I am sure that Wearings make many buildings – not all of them being suitable in this green belt location.

Whilst looking through the original application I found it very hard to identify what has actually been agreed. Due to the late, and significant, change to the development the D&A statement, Supporting statement, and EIA screening do not actually cover the development as agreed. Therefore the applicant should create an up to date and comprehensive suite of documentation covering this new application.

This consolidation of the proposal information would also be of great use to anyone looking at the proposal as currently it is very difficult to decide what data is relevant or not due to the fragmented nature of the information supporting the previous application. Currently analysing the proposal is somewhat akin to a paper chase.

When looking through the information I was unable to identify how the development is to be connected to the national grid. If you are aware of this detail I would be grateful if you could point me towards it if it has not been provided could you ask the applicant for the details.

While I was reviewing the original application I was reminded that there was very little information regarding the technical aspects of the gasification equipment (A sales type brochure being the only information provided). Without this information it is impossible to fully assess the proposal and its environmental impacts.

A confirmation from the manufactures of the amounts of fuel required by the facility is required, as the agent in their letter of the 16/10/2008 states that in the region of 61 tonnes a day will be used by the plant. This is at odds with a statement by the equipment manufacturer that a 1Mw facility will consume 1 T/hr (at 15% moisture content). This equates to 96 T/day for a 4 Mw facility. The wood used by this facility will have a much higher moisture content than 15% (up to a content of 50%). So using a figure of 30% would mean that the facility would use 109T/day. (Appendix 1).

Confirmation by the manufacturer of the typical traffic movements that would be caused by the proposal should be given. Appendix 1 shows the bulk density of wood chips to be 0.2 T/m3 the bulk density chopped log wood is 50% greater i.e. 0.3 T/m3. This would suggest that the daily fuel deliveries would be 31 20T tipper lorries (62 vehicle movements).  This assumes that 20T tippers are used and every one is full. There is nothing to say that smaller vehicles or partial loads could not be used thereby dramatically increasing the traffic movements.

The visual appearance of the exhaust gasses should also be explained as the facility generates somewhere in the region of 8 Mw of thermal energy, much of it being emitted to atmosphere. An indication of its appearance would seem to be a reasonable request given its green belt location.

The typical emissions from the stack should be identified by the equipment manufacturer. The agent in their letter of the 16/10/2008 makes a number of statements regarding the emissions. Confirmation of these facts by the equipment manufacturer would seem to be appropriate as they will be responsible / accountable for compliance to them.

There are links between gasification of treated wood and harmful emissions (Appendix 2) and the agent in their letter simply asserts that treated wood will not be burnt without explaining how this will be achieved. Therefore the possible emissions and mitigation strategies are relevant and should be included in this application.

It has also been stated that the proposed equipment can not use treated wood, once again this should be confirmed by the manufacturer as they seem to state that it can use treated wood (Appendix 3).

The provision of this information is vital to allow a proper understanding of the environmental implications of this proposal.”

The appendices can be found at Appendices

Pilkington Quarry – Cleaner, Greener, Safer, Lawful ?

All three current applications for Pilkington quarry 83299, 83999, and 84065 will be considered at planning commitee 14th of October. The public are invited to attend at the Town Hall from 2pm.

Between the three applications they seek to extend quarrying activities in the existing, fully extracted quarry until 2042. They also seek to extend the quarry boundaries significantly and introduce recycling.

The officers report is not available at this time and it is not publically  known   how the committee wil be recommended to vote. Once again potentially important documents from the Environment Agency and the GMGU have not been posted on-line, stiffling the public consultation. BHEAG are currently trying to get hold of these documents.  It is understood, a 106 agreement will also be made for the appeal.

 c 1500 people have signed petitions against the proposals and many thousands of pounds have been donated to the various legal challenges which have been necessary to ensure that the implications of the developments are fully considered.

An application for the Blue Ng /2OC biomass plant in Blackrod has not been made at this time.

“The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.”   Kofi Annan

Two Towns Forum 14 September, 2010 Blue-NG / 2OC

It was a record turnout to a Blackrod and Horwich Two Towns forum, hosted in the Blackrod Community Centre last night. At the start of the new school year, approaching 200 local people from the sleepy village of Blackrod,  – it was standing room only and was an indication of sentiment to the proposed power plant in the area.

 The meeting kicked off with a 25 minute presentation, which clearly frustrated many in the audience due to its lack of appropriate content and detail. The main point conveyed were that the size of the proposed plant will be slashed c50% to 19.5 MWe. (editors comment:  rather similar in size to the Southall plant, which was cancelled after the Secretary of State agreed that there would be an unacceptable deterioration in air quality.) This had not surprised many in the audience, as the original proposal had been obscenely inneficient  for a CHP plant due to the amount of waste heat it would have produced, which many residents had been told was necessary for the safe operation of the plant due to variable demand from the facility. One person commented it is like applying for a skyscraper in a row of thatched cottages and then saying we have reduced it to a block of flats.

The visual impact of the 1 hectare facility is not believed to have significantly changed and the sheer size and location can hardly be considered a sensitive exploitation of a renewable energy source.

A throw away comment that in terms of the visual appearance of the facility “you will loose it as you climb up the hill” did nothing to re-assure residents along Chorley Road and Waterhouse Nook and those who use the public footpaths  in the area  or indeed the A6 who do not benefit  from the new landscape screening. Unfortunately the detail was missing and people who had attended the various public meetings have been left little wiser for the experience.

Another point was that Blue NG would donate a proportion of turnover to the community, estimated at c £50,000 per annum. This was almost met with anger by the audience – with one person suggesting it did not count as a Very Special Circumstance, for the inappropriate development in the Greenbelt. Blue NG however should be commended for the gesture, and whilst they will receive 10s of million pounds in government subsidies, they must have realised how local people would react – to what is actually a positive move.

Blue NG further went on to tell the audience that the £1,000,000 in business rates would help the local community. The first question of the night however shot this down in flames, as business rates are pooled by central government and re-distributed to local councils according to the number of people living in the area – benefit to Blackrod £83 ????

The second question of the night was John Price – chair of BHEAG, who first thanked Blue NG for their c £50,000 annual gesture to the community should planning permission be granted..  In various correspondence to BHEAG Blue NG have indicated that they would consider using up to 9 different fuels at the plant, rather than just the headline Rapeseed oil and Used Vegetable Oil. The question was whether these fuels would be considered in the formal application, together with their emissions.  The answer seemed to avoid the question – read into that “no”

The night didn’t improve – statements such as “We are proud of our record”  and “We do not use palm oil” did not sit well with the audience, as Blue NG do not currently have a biomass plant, they do not have a record and they don’t use anything.

The issue of large tankers turning into the site was raised-on what is one of the most dangerous roads in the county. Solar powered warning signs didn’t re-assure residents familiar with the area. Due to lack of time the widening of the public footpath to allow tanker access and the resultant visual damage to the A6 and  were not discussed, nor was the imapct of getting any power produced to the sub station – understood tobe over 7 KM away from the plant.

Given the number of recent fires in the area the safety of the unmanned site was questioned – the audience were unconvinced with the answers.

Blue NG were keen to impress on the audience that they considered Palm Oil to be unsustainable and environmentally unfriendly and they would only be using rapeseed oil. When considered with used vegetable oil, the UK rapeseed oil surplus would be sufficient to fuel approximately 7-10 plants the size of the reduced Blackrod plant,  Blue NG did not see the need for futher UK planting.  The impact on the now regular European shortfall resulting in increased European Palm oil imports ignored.

The cost of of not using palm oil at the Blackrod site was estimated by Blue NG to be in the region of £6,000,000 per annum.

The name Blue-NG is likely to change as National Grid pull out of the joint venture with 20C.  The latter are believed to be in complex legal discussions with National Grid and trying to raise finance, not least of all because the building of the prosed plants appears to rely on National grid financing the debt. Blue NG indicated that they were talking to potential financial backers in both the USA and the Middle East.

The audience were further frustrated when questioning was halted due to limitation of time – with members of the audience clearly attributing the blame to the 25 minute ramble at the beginning.

The why Blackrod question has still not been  answered convincingly. Andrew Mercer CEO of 2OC states that there are over 12,000 gas pressure reduction stations in the UK and hopes to be generating 10 GW  by this method within ten years -thats nearly 600 plants the size of Blackrod (and an awful lot of rapeseed oil) – so early on this ambitious target do Very Special Circumstances exist ? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6078147.ece

Discussions with Blue NG post the meeting indicated that they had clearly not been aware of the cumulative effects of developments in the area and many of the local issues.

The Blackrod “Powering the Future” leaflet produced by Blue NG, states in the current tense “We do not have a negative impact on our neighbours”  Given the current anxiety in the area this does not hold true and promises about the future, when the plants are built remain unconvincing.

An application has not yet been submitted to Bolton Council if this does happen more detailed objectons will be raised.

On behalf of the group we would like to thank everyone who attended and assure you of our continued commitment to the community.

The Bolton News

National Grid to Pull out of Blue NG

EU anti-monopoly rules have meant that industry giant National Grid will be forced to sell its 50 per cent stake in Blue NG

Bath-based company Blue NG, a 50-50 Joint Venture between National Grid and start-up company 2OC. The latter is currently believed to still be seeking finance and resolving complex legal matters.

Work on the Beckton Plant is not yet believed to have started

Robert Palgrave from the pressure group Biofuelwatch said: “The news that the National Grid is pulling out of this biofuel venture is welcome.  Any investor who is looking at the schemes should be aware that there will continue to be significant opposition to biofuel power stations anywhere in the UK because they are a disaster for climate, biodiversity and people both in the global south and locally, due to the health impacts of air pollution.”

This is Bath

Blue NG / 2OC Power Plant – Blackrod

“The plant is simply too big, on protected Green Belt land, and its environmental credentials are questionable. There are thousands of gas reduction plants around the UK It is proposed to be located at a gas reduction plant, miles away from the fuel source, miles away from the electrical grid, with little or no opportunity to utilise the waste heat – all key points in choosing appropriate locations.”  RAGE – Residents Against Greenbelt Exploitation, 02 Aug 2010.

Your chance to question Blue NG and ask Bolton Council to listen to your views:

Two towns Forum;      Tuesday 14 September, 2010 ;  Blackrod Community Centre

Main Meeting 7.00pm,  Questions to Councillors 6.30pm

More information can be found HERE

Technical Summary Produced by Blue-NG (please note this has been supersceeded by the announcement by Blue NG 14 September,2010 to reduce the size of the plant to c 19 MWe. No further information has been made public)

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Alkaline phosphatase

Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (EC is a hydrolase enzyme responsible for removing phosphate groups from many types of molecules, including nucleotides, proteins, and alkaloids. The process of removing the phosphate group is called dephosphorylation. As the name suggests, alkaline phosphatases are most effective in an alkaline environment.

In bacteria, alkaline phosphatase is located in the periplasmic space, external to the cell membrane. Since this space is much more subject to environmental variation than the actual interior of the cell, bacterial alkaline phosphatase is comparatively resistant to inactivation, denaturation, and degradation, and also has a higher rate of activity. Although the actual purpose of the enzyme is still not fully understood, the simple hypothesis, that it is a means for the bacteria to generate free phosphate groups for uptake and use, is supported by the fact that alkaline phosphatase is usually only produced by the bacteria during phosphate starvation and not when phosphate is plentiful. However, other possibilities exist; for instance, the presence of phosphate groups usually prevents organic molecules from passing through the membrane, therefore dephosphorylating them may be important for bacterial uptake of organic compounds in the wild. Some complexities of bacterial regulation and metabolism suggest that other, more subtle, purposes for the enzyme may also play a role for the cell. In the laboratory, however, mutant Escherichia coli lacking alkaline phosphatase survive quite well, as do mutants unable to shut off alkaline phosphatase production.

Use in research

The most common alkaline phosphatases used in research are:

  • Bacterial alkaline phosphatase (BAP), from Escherichia coli C4 cells
  • Shrimp alkaline phosphatase (SAP), from a species of arctic shrimp (Pandalus borealis)
  • Calf intestine alkaline phosphatase (CIAP), from calf intestine
  • Placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) and its C terminally truncated version that lacks the last 24 amino acids (constituting the transmembrane domain) - the secreted alkaline phosphatase (SEAP)

Alkaline phosphatase has become a useful tool in molecular biology laboratories, since DNA normally possesses phosphate groups on the 5' end. Removing these phosphates prevents the DNA from ligating (the 5' end attaching to the 3' end of another molecule), thereby preventing DNA degradation until the next step of the process for which it is being prepared; also, removal of the phosphate groups allows radiolabeling (replacement by radioactive phosphate groups) in order to measure the presence of the labeled DNA through further steps in the process or experiment. For these purposes, the alkaline phosphatase from shrimp is the most useful, as it is the easiest to inactivate once it has done its job.

Another important use of alkaline phosphatase is as a label for enzyme immunoassays.

One common use in the dairy industry is as a marker of pasteurisation. This molecule is denatured by elevated temperatures found during pasteurisation, and can be tested for via colour change of a para-nitro-phenol phosphate substrate in a buffered solution. (Aschaffenburg Mullen Test)Raw milk would typically produce a yellow colouration within a couple of minutes, whereas properly pasteurised milk should show no change. There are of course exceptions to this in the case of heat stable alkaline phophatases produced by some bacteria.

All mammalian alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes except placental (PLAP and SEAP) are inhibited by homoarginine and similarly all except the intestinal and placental ones are blocked by levamisole. Heating for ~2 hours at 65oC inactivated most isoenzymes except Placental isoforms (PLAP and SEAP).

alkaline phosphatase, intestinal
Symbol ALPI
Entrez 248
HUGO 437
OMIM 171740
RefSeq NM_001631
UniProt P09923
Other data
EC number
Locus Chr. 2 q37.1
alkaline phosphatase, liver/bone/kidney
Symbol ALPL
Alt. Symbols HOPS
Entrez 249
HUGO 438
OMIM 171760
RefSeq NM_000478
UniProt P05186
Other data
EC number
Locus Chr. 1 p36.12
alkaline phosphatase, placental (Regan isozyme)
Symbol ALPP
Entrez 250
HUGO 439
OMIM 171800
RefSeq NM_001632
UniProt P05187
Other data
EC number
Locus Chr. 2 q37.1

In humans, alkaline phosphatase is present in all tissues throughout the entire body, but is particularly concentrated in liver, bile duct, kidney, bone, and the placenta. The optimal pH for the enzyme activity is pH=10[citation needed] in standard conditions (298K,1 atm).

Diagnostic use

Blood plasma (serum) levels of ALP are typically 20-70 units per liter in adults (Reference - USMLE),[citation needed] depending on the assay and local normal guidelines . Levels are significantly higher in children and pregnant women.

Lowered levels of ALP are less common than elevated levels.

The following conditions can cause abnormal levels of ALP:

Elevated levels (hyperphosphatasemia)

If it is unclear why alkaline phosphatase is elevated, isoenzyme studies using electrophoresis can confirm the source of the ALP. Heat stability also distinguishes bone and liver isoenzymes ("bone burns, liver lasts").

Lowered levels (hypophosphatasemia)

Other notes

Leukocyte alkaline phosphatase (LAP) is found within white blood cells. Blood levels of LAP can help in the diagnosis of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and leukemoid reaction.

See also

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