EDF awards Hinkley Point C comms services agreement to Telent

Network services provider Telent Technology Services has been awarded a six-year agreement to run IT and communications (ICT) infrastructure during a Hinkley Point C chief energy plant, now underneath construction in Somerset.

The agreement will see Telent design, implement and elect a ICT complement for a energy hire – a initial chief plant to be built in a UK in over 25 years. This will embody a twin datacentre infrastructure, and bound and wireless networks between about 150 buildings, ancillary a site-wide unified communications (UC) service.

It will also support a multi-service, on-site radio network that will confederate with a Emergency Services Network (ESN), closed-circuit TV, a open residence and voice alarm system, integrated authority and communications, and site-wide TV distribution.

“Through a growth of new chief energy stations in a UK, we sojourn committed to boosting UK industrial ability during both a informal and inhabitant level,” pronounced Hinkley Point C supply sequence executive Jean-Pierre West. “I am gratified to have a support of Telent in delivering a vicious communications and IT infrastructure a new energy hire will need.”

Telent CEO Mark Plato added: “This new agreement reflects a successful lane record in providing vicious communications solutions in a operation of different and supportive environments. At Hinkley Point C, we will be means to utilize a knowledge and imagination from right opposite a association and channel it into this immensely large inhabitant project.”

EDF pronounced Telent stood out during a proposal routine by demonstrating a collaborative and stretchable proceed to safeguard a needs would be met, and a ability to “work opposite a extended operation of technologies regulating a possess directly employed engineering teams”.

It will work alongside a series of other successful agreement bidders on a project, including those for tiny energy and lighting, glow and hydrogen detection, and earthy and electronic security.

The argumentative Hinkley Point C energy plant, which has been stubborn by delays, cost overruns and technical concerns via a planning, is set to be operational by 2025. Its backers contend that when complete, it will beget about 7% of a UK’s electricity needs, powering 6 million homes and formulating some-more than 25,000 jobs in southwest England.

“This plan is going to yield a vital boost to a economy and we design to emanate a series of apprenticeships and connoisseur roles in a Bristol and Somerset areas, adding to a stream footprint in a South West by a series of existent contracts,” pronounced Plato.

“We wish to work with internal colleges to yield training for jobs that will not be only short-term opportunities. These will be tolerable jobs that will advantage a internal economy and internal residents good into a future.”