- Clarke Energy
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Clarke Energy is a privately owned multinational company specialising in the sale, engineering, installation and maintenance of power plants utilising gas engines. Clarke Energy is an independent company with its head offices located in Knowsley, Liverpool and is an authorised distributor and service partner for GE Energy's [1][2] Jenbacher gas engine. Clarke Energy has over 600 staff in ten countries worldwide including Algeria, Australia[3], China, France[4], India, Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria and Tunisia[5]. The company has seen a number of years robust growth on the back of a portfolio of applications tailored to renewable energy and high efficiency generation.[6][7][8]
The GE Jenbacher gas engine can be utilised in a large number of applications including natural gas combined heat and power (CHP) / cogeneration, biogas, landfill gas, coal mine methane[9][10], synthetic gas, wood gas and associated petroleum gas. In the UK Clarke Energy is the leading supplier of landfill gas generation equipment, in Australia for Coal Mine gas engines and in France for natural gas cogeneration units.[11]
The company was established by Jim Clarke in 1989[12] and initially was a service provided for Ruston diesel engines under the name Marine Manpower Services Limited.[13] In 1995 Clarke Energy became distributor for Jenbacher Gas Engines[14]. In 1998, from its success in the UK Clarke Energy began to expand overseas. In 2002 GE acquired Jenbacher, the Austrian gas engine specialist company [15] commencing Clarke Energy's relationship with GE. Clarke Energy helped develop some of the first projects as part of GE Energy's Ecomagination initiative including a biogas projects in Punjab, India,[16] and coal gas plants in Australia.[17]
Clarke Energy is a member of the Renewable Energy Association[18] and a founding member of Lord Redesdale's Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association[19] Clarke Energy is also a multiple award winner of the British Safety Council's International Safety Award.[20]
External Links
References
- ^ Jenbacher Distributor and Service Partners, GE Energy, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ Energy Efficient an Interview with Alan Fletcher, Clarke Energy, Venture Magazine, www.venturemagazine.co.uk, December 2006, Accessed 1st April 2004
- ^ Australia's Renewable Energy Use, Technologies and Services www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au, accessed 11.05.2011
- ^ GE Energy fournit des moteurs Jenbacher pour une centrale à gaz de décharge sur l’île de la Réunion dans l’Océan Indien, fr.geenergyeurope-pressroom.com, Accessed 11.05.2011
- ^ Clarke Energy Promeut la Cogeneration en Tunisie, www.kapitalis.com, accessed 11.05.2011
- ^ Clarke Energy Sales Soar, Liverpool Daily Post, July 22nd 2009, www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ Clarke Energy Sets £200 million target, Insider Media, 13th January 2011, www.insidermedia.com, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ Director's Pay Cuts Double Profits at Clarke Energy, June 30th 2010, www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ Queensland Government Inaugurates Alternative Energy Plant Powered by GE's Jenbacher Waste Coal Mine Gas Engines, www.v1energy.com, Accessed 11.05.2011
- ^ Clarke Generates Interest at Blackwater, www.gastoday.com.au, Accessed 11.05.2011
- ^ Recycling Energy: Interview with Didier Lartigue, Director of Clarke Energy, British Embassy Tunis, ukintunisia.fco.gov.uk, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ Britain's Green Rich List, Sunday Times, December 27th 2009, www.timesonline.co.uk, Accessed 5th April 2004
- ^ Clarke Energy History www.clarke-energy.com, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ Clarke Energy Becomes Jenbacher Distributor, www.powergenworldwide.com, 1st May 1999, www.powergenworldwide.com, Accessed 1st April, 2011
- ^ Hoffman, A. Critical interfaces and technical limits for a reliable utilization of CMM in recip engines, GE Jenbacher, www.epa.gov, accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ GE Energy's Jenbacher Biogas Engines Power, New Materials International, 15.08.2007, www.newmaterials.com, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ GE's ecomagination™ Certified Jenbacher Power Plant Commissioned at Australian Coal Mine to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, www.gepower.com, Accessed 14.04.2011
- ^ Clarke Energy, Renewable Energy Association, www.rea.net, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association - Founding Members, Accessed 1st April 2011
- ^ Clarke Energy Wins Top Safety Award, www.clarke-energy.com, Accessed 1st April 2011
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- Companies established in 1989
- Natural gas companies
- Privately held companies of the United Kingdom
- General Electric
- Multinational companies headquartered in the United Kingdom
- Renewable energy companies
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