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Energy Island - Anglesey Power Boost For Wales
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The Isle of Anglesey off North Wales is the new Energy Island ready to power Wales towards a greener, low carbon 21st century future. Building its solid power platform around Wylfa Nuclear Power Station, this island in the Irish Sea will harness the natural power of wind and tide with the mega resource of nuclear energy and Natural Gas.
Taking the name "Energy Island" local politicians hope these projects will play a major role in economic regeneration on Anglesey and contribute to achieving key environmental targets both in Wales and more broadly in the UK context.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has now put up for sale around 400 acres of farm land adjacent to the Wylfa nuclear power station outside Cemaes, a site operated by Magnox North.
This sale by the NDA, which owns civil nuclear sites across the UK, and French energy giant EDF, which previously acquired a package of adjacent land, will bring the prospect of new nuclear build to the island.
In addition to Wylfa, the NDA is also aiming to dispose of land adjacent to nuclear sites at Oldbury in Gloucestershire and Bradwell in Essex.
Since the UK Government signalled its intention to facilitate the renaissance of nuclear power earlier this year, there have been high hopes for new reactor on Anglesey, referred to as Wylfa B.
Using the latest design of nuclear reactor such as the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) designed by French company Areva, a new power station on the island could provide power for around two million homes.
Other international power generators have expressed an interest in building and operating the new tranche of nuclear reactors due to be built in Britain. These include Spanish firm Iberdrola, French energy giant GDF Suez, and German power firms EON and RWE.
Building on the foundation of a new nuclear reactor at Wylfa outside Cemaes, there is the prospect of using the tidal power between the Skerries rocks and Carmel Head.
The energy company npower renewable, a subsidiary of RWE NPower, is involved with Marine Current Turbines Limited of Bristol to develop a 10.5 MW tidal farm off Anglesey, enough to generate capacity to power up to 6,000 homes.
Expectations are that this multi-million pound scheme to connect the Seagen underwater turbines to the National Grid could be ready by 2011, assuming planning permission is given.
With the global dynamics in energy security changing rapidly, the UK government is looking at ways of securing reliable supplies of natural gas to ensure the lights will not go out in future. Along with coal and nuclear, natural gas is the other energy source for generating baseload electricity.
At the site of the former Octel works in Amlwch Port, US based gas firm Canatxx LNG Limited has submitted plans to bring ashore liquid natural gas (LNG) from large specialised tankers.
The LNG which would come from countries as diverse as Qatar, Algeria and Trinidad would then be re-gasified and piped under the sea to Natby in Lancashire, stored in former salt caverns below the sea bed before being distributed to the UK National Gas Grid.
Other renewable energy sources already in operation are three wind farms which total over 70 turbines locations near Cemaes and Amlwch as well as above LLyn Alaw, a central island location.
The local council already sells electricity to the National Grid generated from a landfill gas site at Penhesgyn, east of Llangefni.
Local MP Albert Owen, who has long been a champion of new nuclear build at Wylfa, is raising the Anglesey brand as an Energy Island. He believes the island has abundant natural resources and the skills base suitable for power generation, with huge potential spin-offs for the local economy.
With such infrastructure this acts not just as a catalyst for job creation in the energy industries but also as a magnet to attract other businesses considering moving to Anglesey because of the installed power capacity.
It is also key to securing existing employment and industry, such as the jointly owned Kaiser Corporation - Rio Tinto aluminium smelter at Holyhead, which is a high energy user, taking about 12% of power consumption in Wales.
Potential also exists to explore the development of more tidal Rapid prototype, wave and biomass forms of renewable energy going forward. The future is looking very bright for making Anglesey an Energy island off the North Wales coast.
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