px Group is delivering the Energy Transition; the sites that we own, operate, and maintain are at the cutting edge of decarbonisation in Europe.
THE CHANGE IS HAPPENING NOW
Our owners, Ara Partners, invest in businesses that deliver decarbonisation of the building blocks of the global economy. So, we partner with companies setting out on that journey to a lower carbon footprint, helping to achieve genuine, effective, and sustainable change.
At our own Saltend Chemicals Park we host manufacturing business critical to our every day lives while revolutionary companies are building rare earth processing plants for electric vehicles and wind turbines, as well as hydrogen production facilities on site.
We are an international company operating and maintaining plants up and down the UK and in Europe: the St Fergus Gas Terminal in Scotland, the home of Project Acorn, is central to UK carbon capture and storage plans; the ReNew ELP facility in Teesside is the world’s first commercial scale plastic recycling plant; and GIDARA Energy’s revolutionary advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam.
The energy transition will be delivered by investing in energy efficiency today, repurposing traditional energy infrastructure from yesterday, and building renewable energy for tomorrow.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY CHALLENGE
px Group believes the fundamental starting point to energy transition must be the efficient use of energy, and this has been at the heart of our operations for more than 25 years. Simple energy efficiency can make a huge impact on Net Zero goals. Without efficiency the transition process is weakened, wasteful and expensive.
REPURPOSING FOSSIL BASED INFRASTRUCTURE
To meet the climate challenges we need to reduce the impact of fossil fuels and in time reduce and replace these with low and zero carbon sources of energy, as well as using mitigation measures such as carbon capture and storage.
Renewable Power
Entering the renewable power sector has come naturally to us. px Group and our people have been involved in energy transitions before – the last energy transition was the switch over from coal gas. So, take a look at all the low-carbon and renewable projects we’re involved in.
The future is low carbon. It is what the planet demands, it is what our clients demand, and it is what our people demand.
px Group operates:
- Beckton Power Station which uses bio-liquid fuels including tallow, used cooking oils and rapeseed oil to generate around 130 GWh of power each year.
- Port Talbot and Holbrook biomass power plants, the latter generating power from waste wood using an organic rankine cycle technology.
px Group also provides technical, engineering and project management services in this sector. We are the owner’s engineer and technical representative for MGT Power who are constructing the world’s largest biomass power station at Teesside.
Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
px Group has for many years been deeply embedded into industrial CHP which delivers competitive, energy efficient, low carbon supplies of reliable heat and power for manufacturing processes.
Our current CHP operating experience includes:
- Fellside CHP – 188MWe combined heat and power plant, dual fuel capability, 250te/hr steam delivery capability, critical steam host (Sellafield)
- Stallingborough CHP – 15.3MWe combined heat and power plant,2 x 60 tonne per hour supplementary fired Heat Recovery Steam Generator’s (HRSG’s), critical steam host
At Saltend Chemicals Park we distribute CHP as well as waste heat recovered from manufacturing processes and steam generated from waste. In time, this will switch from natural gas to hydrogen, further reducing the carbon footprint.
