The Business Desk
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Fulcrum, a multi-utility infrastructure and services provider, has delivered a £5.5m project to power a 22-hectare vegetable growing facility.
Sheffield-based Fulcrum has designed and installed infrastructure at Greencoat Capital’s £85m greenhouse near Ely, Cambridgeshire, which is one of the largest of its kind in the UK and will have the capacity to grow 10% of the cucumbers consumed in Britain.
Fulcrum’s engineers laid 12.8km of gas infrastructure, 2.5km of water infrastructure and 6.5km of 33kV electric cable through villages and alongside the major A10 trunk road.
A collaboration between Fulcrum and its group companies Maintech and Dunamis, enabled construction of a 33kV substation, which was completed in seven weeks.
The substation is connected to a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Energy Centre adjacent to the greenhouse, which will power open loop heat pumps that use heat from the nearby reservoir to warm the structure.
As part of a world first, the CHP plant will also power LED lighting that will accelerate plant growth and increase year-round yields by 27%.
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