Forestry England - Whinlatter Hydroelectric Power Scheme
Forestry Commissionworks
What the buyer wrote
Forestry England (FE) has developed a scheme for the installation of a small-scale, high head hydropower system, with the maximum possible generating capacity (expected to be circa 140kW) within Whinlatter Forest, Cumbria. The purpose of the scheme is to transfer the Whinlatter site into a carbon free, net energy producer. An outline scheme has been granted planning permission, consisting of an inlet structure, penstock, turbine house and outlet, with electrical connections into both the Whinlatter Visitor Centre and into Thornthwaite, for export to the National Grid. Detailed design is currently in progress for the overall scheme with the turbine specification and requirements set o…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Forestry England - Whinlatter Hydroelectric Power Scheme
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- works
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 24 May 2020
- Work ends
- 24 May 2025
- Kind of work
- Construction, Environmental consultancy
Who the buyer named
Jeni West was the named contact on this notice.