At Bryden Wood we’re starting to see a real surge of interest from lower tiers of the supply chain, which supports the idea that one major benefit of all of this will be that we'll unlock SMEs in a way that probably hasn't been done before.

Repowering the existing coal power plants using advanced heat sources presents a key political opportunity to garner bipartisan support for climate action in a way that maintains jobs, socio-economic benefits and tax revenues in those communities.. Another key point to consider is that the majority of the existing, global coal fleet is just fourteen years old, representing a trillion dollars of unrecovered capital.The prospect of the retirement of that fleet is highly unattractive for most of those owners and investors.

However, if we repower the existing coal power plants with advanced heat sources instead of shutting them down, the plants will likely run at a much higher capacity factor than they do today and at lower cost.This will make them even more profitable.There will also be the potential to add other value driving services, such as atmospheric carbon removal, as well as hydrogen production with the cooling towers.

All of this work would turn these communities into clean energy hubs that will operate for decades to come..The future of coal.

Post-pandemic, we find coal surging to its highest ever level.

In the UK we still have two gigawatts of coal in operation, and because the global recovery is an energy intensive process, places like China, Asia and Africa are burning coal to stimulate economic recovery.In Reference Design, we create a core design of the most common of our clients’ facility type using a process of rationalisation, optimisation and standardisation.

At the same time, we attach a planned strategy for increasing or decreasing scale and content and how to flex to suit local conditions e.g.scale up or down to hit a particular brief.

rearrange or reconfigure to suit site constraints and layout.choose between a ‘seismic’ or ‘non-seismic’ version.