E.ON UK Press Releases - March 2007

30/03/2007 00:00
Scroby Sands Information Centre to stay open for Easter holidays

E.ON UK’s Scroby Sands Information Centre will be keeping its doors open for longer than usual to give visitors and holidaymakers an extra chance to learn more about Great Yarmouth’s green power landmark. The centre, which is located on the Esplanade,
29/03/2007 00:00
E.ON UK completes contracts for construction of one of the world’s largest combined heat and power stations

E.ON UK, the company that runs Powergen, has today (MAR 29) announced it has signed a deal with National Grid’s Grain LNG terminal that will make its £500m 1,275MW new power station into one of the world’s largest combined heat and power (CHP) plants.
19/03/2007 00:00
E.ON UK welcomes Nottinghamshire schools to see the power at Ratcliffe Power Station

Nottinghamshire pupils were given the chance to discover how electricity is generated in a series of workshops hosted by energy company E.ON at its Ratcliffe Power Station as part of National Science and Engineering Week. Pupils from Top Valley School
19/03/2007 00:00
E.ON UK invites local people to South Yorkshire wind farm public exhibition

E.ON UK, one of the country’s biggest green generators, has organised a public exhibition to keep local people fully informed of its plans to build a three turbine wind farm on land near Crow Edge. The exhibition will feature details of the proposed 6MW
16/03/2007 00:00
Peninsula churchyards get a spring clean thanks to Kingsnorth power station’s environmental expert

Two village churchyards on the Hoo Peninsula have had a spring clean thanks to Kingsnorth Power Station’s very own environmental expert. Bill Jones, who is Kingsnorth’s Environmental Initiatives Officer, joined two colleagues to get stuck into a special
15/03/2007 00:00
E.ON and Lunar Energy to build one of the world’s largest tidal stream power stations

E.ON and Lunar Energy have today announced they are to develop a tidal stream power project of up to 8MW in the sea off the west coast. The multi-million pound project would be one of the largest commercial scale tidal stream energy plants of its kind
13/03/2007 00:00
E.ON UK announces ‘Skills Academy’ for power engineers

E.ON, the UK’s largest integrated energy company, has today (13 March) announced it is working with Aston University and Walsall College to create an engineering ‘Skills Academy’. With the UK facing an engineering skills shortage, the academy has been
01/03/2007 00:00
E.ON UK’s Killingholme and CDC power stations get local charity on the road with van donation

Fund-raisers at local charity LIVES - the Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Service – are the proud owners of a new van following a special donation from the team at E.ON UK’s Killingholme and Cottam Development Centre power stations. Kate Carrington,
01/03/2007 00:00
Keen conservationists go back to nature at E.ON UK’s Ironbridge Power Station

Keeping the lights on for over 750,000 homes certainly keeps the team at E.ON UK’s Ironbridge Power Station busy, but, last week, the station’s energetic engineers took some time out to focus on a special green project. A group of 17 keen conservationists,