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Clarke Energy An exclusive with Group Marketing and Compliance Manager, Alexander Marshall By: Nicholas Paul Griffin
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Clarke Energy is an award-winning multinational specialist in the engineering, installation and maintenance of engine-based power plants.
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ritish energy firm, Clarke Energy, is a multinational specialist in the engineering, installation and maintenance of reciprocating engine-based power plants and gas engine compression stations. The company’s services range from the supply of an engine through to the turn-key installation of a multi-engine power plant, with facilities that deliver fuel efficiency and help reduce carbon emissions. Applications include combined heat and power (CHP) with natural gas, biogas, landfill gas and coal gas or high efficiency diesel-fuelled power generation.
Power House Beginning its trading life in 1989, Clarke Energy was originally based in Aintree, near Liverpool, and started by providing spare parts to users of marine, industrial and locomotive diesel engines across the world. By its fourth year, the company had expanded, employing 40 people and experiencing increased turnover.
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Clarke Energy fosters a culture of integrity and high ethical standards, employing a dedicated, highly trained team of sales, engineering, project management, commissioning and maintenance staff deployed around the world. Over the years, Clarke Energy has helped develop many cutting-edge renewable and high efficiency gas generation projects, including some of the early landfill gas power plants, CHP facilities, coal mine methane and, more recently, quad-generation plants.
In 1992, the company purchased new, purpose-built premises at Unity Grove in Liverpool’s Knowsley Business Park.
In 1999, the company successfully attracted investment from venture capitalist 3i plc to help forward its growth ambitions.
In 1997, the company’s name was changed to Clarke Energy Ltd, and its primary focus became about the delivery of quality installations that are backed up with reliable, accountable aftersales support.
This was followed by the acquisition of Cogen India in 2003 and Jenbacher France in 2004, further expanding Clarke Energy’s global holdings.
Nowadays, Clarke Energy provides employment for a large workforce across nineteen countries. In 2000, it moved to its international headquarters, ‘Power House’, situated in Knowsley Business Park. 4
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The company’s worldwide presence consists of offices in Ireland, opened all the way back in 2005, Tunisia, Algeria, Tanzania, Bangladesh, South Africa and Cameroon in 2015 followed most recently by Papua New Guinea and the USA in 2016.
Clarke Energy has helped develop many cutting-edge renewable and high efficiency gas generation projects.
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Tropical Power’s biogas plant at Gorge Farm near Lake Naivasha, Kenya, is currently the largest grid connected biogas plant in Africa The company has grown year on year since its inception. Employee numbers and turnover figures have also been consistently on the rise, with 2015 seeing a record turnover in excess of £233m, and worldwide employee numbers reaching over 1,000.
In 2010, following a successful ten-year relationship, the company completed the buy-back of shares from 3i Two years later, UK private equity firm ECI partners bought a minority stake in Clarke Energy as part of plans for on-going future expansion. Aspire Africa · Jan/Feb 2017
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Clarke Energy has sold and supplied more than 500MW of engine-based power plants across Africa.
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African Energy Clarke Energy has sold and supplied more than 500MW of engine-based power plants across Africa. This includes captive power plants for industry, multi-engine IPP facilities, biogas plants, landfill gas power stations and furnace gas-fuelled generating stations. The company has a presence in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho, with offices in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Douala, Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg, Tunis and Algiers. Clarke Energy deploys decentralised power plants backed up by reliable, in-country service teams. The company was able to successfully prove the concept of gas-fuelled power generation in Nigeria.
In addition, it has delivered some pioneering installations, including the combined heat and power plants, tri-generation facilities, biogas plants and landfill gas power stations for the continent. Over the years, the company has benefitted from a high-profile partnership with GE, a corporation known for delivering high-quality power generation products and cutting edge research and development. The company has developed dedicated Jenbacher product service support facilities with remote monitoring, spare parts stock-holding, and has two of the few GE authorised Jenbacher full-engine rebuild and refurbishment facilities globally, in Knowsley and Dhaka. Aspire Africa ¡ Jan/Feb 2017
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Clarke Energy is the largest authorised distributor and service partner for GE Power & Water’s Gas Engine Division.
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Clarke Energy supply around 4% of Nigeria’s total installed power generation fleet On the back of the successful partnership between Clarke Energy and Jenbacher, the company began to expand overseas, culminating in the award of distributorship in Australia and New Zealand in 1998, followed by Nigeria in 1999. The company is now the authorised distributor and service provider for GE’s Jenbacher gas engines in Nigeria, Cameroon, Algeria, Tunisia, Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. Clarke Energy compliments this partnership through facility engineering, installation and maintenance. The company’s installations and balance of plant are dedicated to delivering facilities that match the quality of the core GE generator. The company’s history in the maintenance and service sector ensures its employees know 8
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that the most important thing for customers is to ensure the highest levels of running hours for their power generation assets. This dedication has seen Clarke Energy supply around 4% of Nigeria’s total installed power generation fleet, as well as pioneering biogas, landfill gas and combined heat and power installations on the continent. All of this fits in nicely with the company’s expansion plans, with the aim being to continue to grow its installed fleet across the continent, as well as its service teams and incountry resources. Clarke Energy’s vision is to deliver energyefficient and renewable power plants for the entire continent, with a focus on distributed generation, generating power close to the site of use, and using Africa’s own resources for its power supplies. ASPIRE
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www.clarke-energy.com UK Headquarters Power House, Senator Point South Boundary Road Knowsley Industrial Park Liverpool L33 7RR England Tel: +44 (0)151 546 4446 Fax: +44 (0)151 546 4447 Email: uk@clarke-energy.com