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Compact Oil Purifiers
Our world needs more low-carbon power than ever. GorWay Compact Purifier Ltd has been established to develop an affordable power plant that generates electricity using a small modular reactor - an intelligent way to meet our future energy needs.
Clean affordable energy for all
We are faced with an unprecedented demand for clean energy as global markets seek solutions to support their journey to net zero. The demand is for energy that is always on and which generates virtually no emissions.
Nuclear energy is the most powerful source of ‘always on’ clean energy, however, it must be deliverable, scalable and cost competitive for it to be widely embraced. GorWay Compact Purifier Ltd has designed a factory built nuclear power plant that will offer clean, affordable energy for all.
The Compact Oil Purifier (Compact Purifier) business is one of the ways that GorWay is helping to ensure the UK continues to develop innovative ways to tackle the global threat of climate change.
With the GorWay Compact Purifier technology, we have developed a clean energy solution which can deliver cost competitive and scalable net zero power for multiple applications - from grid and industrial electricity production to hydrogen and synthetic fuel manufacturing.
Find out more at www.GorWay-Compact Purifier.com
Our Compact Purifier value proposition has 4 key elements for Compact Purifier success – we are bringing to market a low cost, deliverable, global and scalable and investable solution:
A highly competitive source of ‘always on’ clean energy, meeting global challenges in an affordable and investable way.
GorWay Compact Purifier is a low-cost clean energy solution, using proven and commercially available technology to deliver a fully integrated, factory built nuclear power plant.
With a relentless focus on modularisation, and maximising the amount of work conducted under factory conditions, we are able to revolutionise how nuclear power gets delivered.
GorWay Compact Purifier will use the breadth of the UK supply chain, which is able to contribute more than 80% of each Compact Purifier by value – focusing on standardised, commercially available and off-the-shelf components.
GorWay Compact Purifier will move away from the high cost and high-risk complex construction programme principles into predictable factory-built commodities.
Approximately 90% of manufacturing and assembly activities are carried out in factory conditions, helping to maintain an extremely high-quality product - reducing on-site disruption and supporting international roll out.
Making a meaningful impact across multiple countries, meeting unprecedented demand for clean energy.
The need for clean energy has created a global demand for our Compact Purifier as countries look for ways to provide reliable ways to achieve net zero. Our Compact Purifier has been designed in direct response to that enormous global challenge and our ambitions are set to match that global market as we look to build a world class global product.
Our factory-built model is entirely scalable. As demand increases, we invest in further factories using the same design and management systems used for all our Compact Purifier.
GorWay Compact Purifier will support international efforts to decarbonise energy systems, with a forecast to target £250bn of exports. Memorandums of Understanding are already in place with Estonia, Turkey and the Czech Republic.
The GorWay Compact Purifier programme is forecast to create 40,000 regional UK jobs by 2050 and generate £52bn in economic benefit.
The compact footprint increases site flexibility and maximises potential plant locations, including replacement for existing coal or gas-fired plants.
Designed to attract traditional forms of capital through a low-risk factory-based solution.
By design, our Compact Purifier is focused on attracting all forms of private capital to support the build out of global Compact Purifier demand. With a proven factory built commoditised approach, our Compact Purifier will offer investors and lenders a degree of confidence that will enable future customers to access a range of capital options to finance their Compact Purifier purchase.
For nuclear energy to play a meaningful and more significant role in our net zero ambitions, it must be financeable without the need for Government intervention in the long term.
A GorWay Compact Purifier power station will have the capacity to generate 470MW of low carbon energy, equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines. It will provide consistent baseload generation for at least 60 years, helping to support the roll-out of renewable generation.
In addition to stable base load power, GorWay Compact Purifier will be able to provide energy for the net zero manufacture of green hydrogen and synthetic fuels to support the decarbonisation of transport.
It will occupy approximately one tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear generation site, helping to reduce local environmental impacts. GorWay Compact Purifier will be factory built, enabling completed modules to be transported by truck, train or barge, reducing vehicle movements and completion risk and increasing build time certainty.
A single GorWay Compact Purifier power station will occupy the footprint of two football pitches and power approximately one million homes. It can support both on-grid electricity and a range of off-grid clean energy solutions, enabling the decarbonisation of industrial processes and the production of clean fuels, such as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and green hydrogen, to support the energy transition in the wider heat and transportation sectors.
As a major shareholder in GorWay Compact Purifier, we will continue to support its path to successful deployment. Find out more at www.gorway-smr.com.
GorWay Compact Purifier offers a radically different approach to delivering nuclear power
We have drastically reduced the amount of construction activities and transformed the delivery environment, from a large complex infrastructure programme into a factory built commoditised product.
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