About us
Who we are
Navitus Bay Development Ltd (Navitus Bay) is a 50-50 Joint Venture between Eneco Wind UK Ltd (Eneco) and EDF Energy. This partnership was formed on 26 April 2012.
Navitus Bay holds the exclusive development rights to the proposed Navitus Bay Wind Park, which is part of The Crown Estate Round 3 Offshore Wind Programme.
About Eneco
Eneco applies an integrated distribution strategy and specialises in the production, transmission, trading, supply and metering of energy (electricity, gas and heat) and related products and services. Eneco is making a transition to becoming a sustainable energy company and will make substantial investments in the area of sustainable energy during the coming years. Eneco develops sustainable projects working on wind power, solar power, biomass and heat. In total, the company serves approximately two million business and domestic customers and employs 7,000 people (6,300 FTEs). The company’s head office is located in Rotterdam with operations across the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, Germany and France.
About Eneco Wind UK Ltd
Eneco Wind UK is based in Warwick and headed by UK Director, Guy Madgwick. The UK wind portfolio includes Scottish onshore projects: Tullo near Laurencekirk, 17MW of which is operational with a further 25MW under construction; The Lochluichart Wind Farm (69MW) in The Highlands; the proposed Benhar Wind Farm (21MW) in North Lanarkshire and Macritch Hill, a proposed 54MW wind farm located in Angus that is being developed in partnership with Scottish Water.
For further information about Eneco, please visit www.eneco.co.uk
About EDF Energy
EDF Energy is one of the UK’s largest energy companies and the largest producer of low-carbon electricity, producing around one-sixth of the nation's electricity from its nuclear power stations, wind farms, coal and gas power stations and combined heat and power plants. The company supplies gas and electricity to more than 5.5 million business and residential customer accounts and is the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain.
Through the company's sustainability commitments, EDF Energy has launched one of the biggest environmental and social programmes of any British energy company. In the 2012 Business in the Community Awards for Excellence EDF Energy won the awards for Environmental Leadership and Building Stronger Communities. In addition the company received eight BITC “Big Tick” awards in recognition of responsible business practice and was shortlisted for Responsible Business of the Year.
EDF Energy is currently constructing the 62MW Teesside Offshore Wind Farm, 1.5km off the North East coast and has over 500MW of onshore and offshore wind farms in operation or in construction in the UK.
EDF Energy is part of EDF Group, one of Europe’s largest power companies. The company employs around 15,000 people at locations across the UK. EDF Group has 1,500 MW of offshore wind projects to be built at three sites in France and onshore it has 3,522 MW wind turbines in operation with a further 1,490 MW under construction worldwide.
For more news from EDF Energy please see www.edfenergy.com/media-centre. To find out more about the UK's energy challenges look at www.edfenergy.com/energyfuture.
