Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract by EDF Energy to carry out boiler modification work at Dungeness B Power Station in the UK, to support proposed plant lifetime extension to 2028.

Jonathan Brown, President - New Build & Nuclear Projects, Rolls-Royce said: "We're very pleased to be supporting EDF Energy on this important project. Our combined technical and engineering expertise has enabled us to provide our customer with an innovative solution that will help secure a lifetime extension for Dungeness B. Our focus now is on the highest standards of quality and delivery."

Martin Pearson, Station Director at Dungeness B said: "the station provides enough low carbon electricity to power one and a half million homes. It avoids 3.4 million tonnes of CO2 every year which is equivalent to taking 1.5 million cars off the roads.  We're a major local employer and over 550 people work for us here, with another 200 permanent contractors at the site. Rolls-Royce is trusted to deliver excellence worldwide and we're pleased to be working with them on this significant lifetime extension project."

The scope of work covers design, supply of parts, installation oversight and commissioning of a variety of additional diverse safety-related EC&I modifications to the boilers and will be completed during the station's planned outages in 2017 and 2018.

About Rolls-Royce Holdings plc
  1. Rolls-Royce 's vision is to create better power for a changing world via two main business segments, Aerospace and Land & Sea. These business segments address markets with two strong technology platforms, gas turbines and reciprocating engines. Aerospace comprises Civil Aerospace and Defence Aerospace. Land & Sea comprises Marine, Nuclear and Power Systems.
  2. Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 120 countries, comprising more than 380 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces, 4,000 marine customers, including 70 navies, and 1,200 power and nuclear customers.
  3. Our business is focused on the 4Cs:
    • Customer - placing the customer at the heart of our business
    • Concentration - deciding where to grow and where not to
    • Cost - continually looking to increase efficiency
    • Cash - improving financial performance.
  4. Annual underlying revenue was £15.5 billion in 2013, around half of which came from the provision of aftermarket services. The firm and announced order book stood at £70.4 billion at 30 June 2014.
  5. In 2013, Rolls-Royce invested £1.1 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 31 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research.
  6. Rolls-Royce employs over 55,000 people in 45 countries. Over 17,000 of these are engineers. The Energy businesses transferred to Siemens in December 2014 have just under 2,100 permanent employees.
  7. The Group has a strong commitment to apprentice and graduate recruitment and to further developing employee skills. In 2013 we employed 379 graduates and 288 apprentices through our worldwide training programmes. Globally we have over 1,000 Rolls-Royce STEM ambassadors who are actively involved in education programmes and activities; we have set ourselves a target to reach 6 million people through our STEM outreach activities by 2020.
  8. Rolls-Royce has a large and highly experienced nuclear skills base with approximately 4000 employees in the UK, France, the Czech Republic, North America and China.
  9. Rolls-Royce provides nuclear power utility vendors and operators with integrated, long-term solutions and support services spanning the whole reactor lifecycle, from concept design through to obsolescence management and plant life extension. With nuclear expertise including component manufacturing, licensing, project and supply chain management as well as world-class engineering, the company has been a key player in the industry for over 50 years.

For further information, please contact:

Debbie Huston
Head of Communications - Nuclear
Rolls-Royce plc
Tel:  +44 (0)1925 781027
Mobile: +44 (0)7800 872735
Email: debbie.huston@rolls-royce.com

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