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CASE STUDY

C O N T R O L P A N EL S

The Company and Project

Control panels for Global Energy Company, Centrica

Operating across the UK and Ireland, Europe and North America, Centrica is at the forefront of the distributed energy
market.
With over 5,000 business customers across 34 countries, Centrica helps organisations around the world improve their
operational efficiency. The company works closely with customers to help them meet their sustainability goals and a large
part of Centrica’s business is focused on delivering energy-efficient CHP (Combined Heat and Power) technologies.
Using CHP solutions not only helps businesses reduce their environmental impact but also delivers significant cost benefits.
By capturing heat through the electricity generation process to produce heat and power simultaneously, CHP can cut
energy costs for up to 40 per cent.

Bensons, using its expertise in this area, has built control panels for hundreds of distributed energy systems
(including CHP technologies) since the 1980s.

The Challenge

To develop a new style of containerised CHP solution that
was heavily constrained by space.

In this instance, the configuration and size of the engine imposed
significant space constraints within the standard sized containers
required by Centrica.

At the same time, Centrica required all the functionality of a conventional
control panel, together with the high-current switching capacity of a
large Air Circuit Breaker (ACB).

A conventional system would feature a traditional wardrobe panel,
installed alongside their system’s engine, within a container, to create a
fully integrated plantroom assembly. This would then be delivered to the
client’s site, ready to be incorporated into the main energy plant.
As the panel plantroom within the container was not long or wide
enough to house the control panel in one straight line, our challenge was
to create a bespoke design to solve the space restrictions.

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