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UTILITY WEEK | 29TH APRIL - 5TH MAY 2016 | 5 Danish turbine manufacturing giant Vestas has unveiled plans for an innovative wind turbine design, which aims to use four separate rotors to "challenge the assumption that the only way to increase wind power output is to build ever-larger turbines". The company is working with the Technical University of Denmark to install a concept demonstration unit to test the technical feasibility of the multi- rotor design, which is now being constructed at the Riso test site near Roskilde in Denmark. £9m The amount Bristol Energy has raised for community projects since its launch in November last year, which makes it the largest generator of community energy in the UK "It will blaze a trail for further nuclear development" The UK government continues to back EDF's Hinkley Point C new nuclear project despite severe delays, a lack of financing, waning public support and the threat of legal action The Global Wind Energy Council has published its annual wind report for 2015, stating worldwide annual installations reached 63GW – which represents a 22 per cent increase since 2014. In the UK, offshore wind saw a large delivery of capacity, with 572MW, bringing the cumula- tive total to 5,067MW. The delivered capacity consisted of parts of RWE's 576MW Gwynt y Mor project, while Eon's 219MW Humber Gate- way and Dong Energy's 210MW Westermost Rough were also notable. Last year also saw a number of wind genera- tion records: wind power provided 11 per cent of the UK's total electricity supply, breaking the 10 per cent barrier for the first time. Worldwide wind power up 22 per cent to 63GW in 2015 MOSL insists market will open on time despite delay Market Operator Services Ltd (MOSL) has insisted a three-week delay to the development of its systems will not affect the overall timescale for market opening. The company, which is in charge of the programme to open up the non- domestic water market to retail competition in April 2017, is currently in the first phase of building its systems. Speaking at a media briefing in London, MOSL chief executive Ben Jeffs said: "We're slightly behind, we're due to drop the code next week so about three weeks delayed." However, he said, MOSL's strategy has always been that this is a fixed timescale project with a fixed budget that is "fully defined" under the market architecture plan. "Like all IT development programmes, there is a level of complexity that we need to go through," he added. "What we're trying to do is balance that need to run as fast as we can to deliver in that fixed timescale, that fixed budget, that fixed scope, with the pragmatism that's required financially, to try and preserve the overall timeline. I'm pleased to say that we have been able to do that and the three-week delay that we've just had is actually not going to have a major impact on the overall timeline of the programme, so we're still on track." Last June, MOSL took over from Open Water Markets Ltd to finalise and baseline the market documents; to procure, build and test the market IT systems; and to establish market readiness and company engagement, following an overhaul of the market opening programme by Ofwat. MOSL made the decision to put the programme to 'red' this February, after it experienced "a number of issues" during the first phase of the central market operating system build. Phase one development was due to conclude on 4 April. WATER Wind capacity added 975MW Total installed capacity 13,603MW Number of turbines 6,680 Electricity demand covered by wind power 11% People employed by the wind industry 30,000 Main turbine suppliers Enercon, Siemens, Senvion, Nordex, Vestas Thames Water has announced the exit of three senior team members alongside outgoing chief execu- tive Martin Baggs. Chief financial officer Stuart Siddall (pictured) will retire at the end of 2016. A search for his suc- cessor will start once the new chief executive is in post. Meanwhile, two senior mem- bers of the retail business are leaving ahead of market opening in April 2017. Graham Southall, man- aging director of Thames Water Commercial Services, and Rupert Kruger, Thames Water's head of business retail, will leave at the end of August and the end of April, respectively. Thames has also announced that strategy and regulation direc- tor Nick Fincham will join the board as an executive director. Graham Southall is speaking at Utility Week Live PEOPLE MOVES All change at Thames