Clarke Energy
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| Company type | Limited company |
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| Industry | Combined heat and power, Coal seam gas, Biogas, Landfill gas, Synthesis gas, Sewage gas, Grid balancing, Retail, Wholesale |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Founder | Jim Clarke |
| Headquarters | Knowsley, Liverpool, England, UK |
Area served | UK, Ireland, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, Nigeria, Tunisia, Algeria, Bangladesh, Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda |
| Products | INNIO's Jenbacher gas engines, Power, cogeneration and trigeneration plants |
| Services | Gas engine maintenance, engineering, project management |
Number of employees | ~1,200 (2019) |
| Website | www.clarke-energy.com |
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Clarke Energy is part of the Kohler Company and is a multinational specialist in the sale, engineering, installation and maintenance of power plants that use gas engines. Clarke Energy is an independent company with its global head offices located in Knowsley, Liverpool and is an authorised distributor and service partner for INNIO's[1][2] Jenbacher and Waukesha gas engines. Clarke Energy has over 1,000 staff in seventeen countries worldwide including Algeria, Australia,[3] Bangladesh,[4] Cameroon, France,[5] India, Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Tanzania, Tunisia,[6] South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho.[7] The company maintains a portfolio of applications for both low-carbon power and renewable energy generation.[8][9][10][11]
Gas engines can be used in various gas-to-power applications including natural gas combined heat and power (CHP) / cogeneration, biogas, landfill gas, coal mine methane,[12][13] synthetic gas, wood gas and associated petroleum gas. In the UK Clarke Energy is a leading supplier of landfill gas generation equipment, in Australia for Coal Mine gas engines and in France for natural gas cogeneration units.[14] The company has worked on pioneering projects including the supply of the first GE biogas engines into sub-Saharan Africa near Lake Naivasha in Kenya[15] and pioneering the use of CNG as a fuel with Nestle Nigeria.[16]
