Omega to safeguard leading power stations

Omega Red Group, UK market leader in earthing and lightning protection, has been appointed to install earthing systems as part of a wider environmental project at two of the UK's major power stations.

Ferrybridge 'C' Power Station, situated on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, was the first 2000MW power station in Europe and uses 800 tonnes of coal and 218 million litres of water per hour for cooling.

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a 1989MW coal fired electricity generating power station in Curdley, Widnes.

It has eight cooling towers and takes its water supply from the River Mersey.

Both power stations are having new FGD Plant (Flue Gas Desulfurization) fitted which is designed to clean the gases produced by the power station before they are discharged into the atmosphere.

Omega is carrying out two contracts at each power station which have a combined value of approximately GBP500k.

The contracts are for the supply and installation of earth bonding to building foundations and for the design, supply and installation of the main earthing system for the FGD plant, which will be connected to the power station earth system.

Omega's role on the project, which is due to be completed at the end of June 2007, will ensure that equipment on site will operate safely, avoid system failure and most importantly prevent the threat to life from electric shock.

"We have a level of expertise and experience, resource base and national reach that none of our competitors can match and I think these things along with our successful track record on other projects of this nature were decisive in securing the contract," says Managing Director Mike Henshaw.

Omega Red is the UK market leader in the design, installation and maintenance of earthing and lightning protection systems.

Omega employs more than 220 people and supports the rail, construction, power, telecoms and renewable energy industries across the UK.

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