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Mike’s RTS Wind business in Middlesbrough helps ensure the turbines keep spinning and the power keeps flowing from the Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms, in which Macquarie has been invested since 2016.
RTS Wind is just one of many local businesses at the forefront of Britain’s world-leading offshore wind industry,4 which now employs more than 32,000 people and growing.5
Together, RTS Wind and other local businesses like XceCo, the Grimsby-based manager of Lynn and Inner Dowsing, have been supporting the growth and operation of British windfarms for several years. They’ve been working with local manufacturers like APP Lifting in Doncaster and B&W Lifting in Middlesbrough who provide parts and equipment that help maintain the wind farms.
Lynn and Inner Dowsing are located 5 km off the east coast of England, by the town of Skegness in Lincolnshire. Together, these wind farms produce enough electricity to power the equivalent of more than 180,000 British homes each year.6
Our specialist offshore wind developer, Corio Generation,7 is working to develop the neighbouring Outer Dowsing offshore wind project which we are supporting alongside our partners. When built, it is expected to power the equivalent of over 1.6m British homes.8
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Laura, a project manager at Matrix Networks based at its Northampton headquarters, relies on Roadchef’s EV charging facilities at the Watford Gap Motorway Services on the M1 to keep her on the move while travelling between projects.
Matrix Networks is a British utilities company in which Macquarie has been invested since 2020. Like many other businesses, it is in the process of decarbonising its fleet of service vehicles to help meet the UK’s transition to zero vehicle emissions by 2035.11
Watford Gap is an iconic British motorway services. Opened in 1959, Watford Gap has hosted families, businesspeople and rock royalty like the Rolling Stones and Beatles as they have travelled across Britain.
The famous stop for travellers will now play its part in the EV revolution, with Roadchef revamping the site and installing new ultrafast charging facilities to support the transition to EVs.
In 2022, funds managed by Macquarie acquired Roadchef. It is one of the UK’s largest operators of motorway service areas, with 30 sites across the motorway network serving 52 million customers each year. While investing in its sites and facilities, we are supporting Roadchef to accelerate its roll out of fast-charging infrastructure.
Roadchef is building charging hubs that offer 350kW ultra-rapid chargers across its network, providing up to 100 miles of range to an EV in 15 minutes.
Macquarie has a dedicated team of experts helping to support Roadchef’s expansion ambitions. James Neville is part of this team, playing a key role in supporting Roadchef’s EV infrastructure roll-out programme, as well as looking to add value through strategic business planning, investment appraisal and bigger picture opportunities for the business, working alongside Roadchef’s management team.
