E.ON and Siemens Win the Bavarian Energy Award 2010
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o High-efficiency combined cycle power plant Irsching 4 commended
o Prize money donated to vocational college in Pfaffenhofen
Yesterday evening, E.ON and Siemens were presented with the Bavarian Energy Award 2010 by Katja Hessel, State Secretary at the Bavarian Economics Ministry. The prize is worth 10,000 euros. The two companies earned the award for their efforts to ensure safe and reliable power supply in keeping with the highest environmental and climate-protection standards at the Irsching 4 power plant. This ultra-modern and extremely efficient plant features the world's most powerful gas turbine. With this turbine, Irsching 4, a (gas and steam) combined-cycle power plant, will achieve a hitherto unique world-record efficiency of over 60 percent. The two companies have agreed to donate the prize money of 10,000 euros to the vocational college in Pfaffenhofen, in the immediate vicinity of the Irsching power plant.
"The Irsching 4 combined cycle power plant sets new global benchmarks in the generation of power from gas, in terms of climate protection, performance and economy. The award highlights the importance of this power plant and of Siemens' new gas turbine to the entire power industry. This highly versatile plant enables the ongoing integration of renewable energy resources into our power supply system," says Keith Plowman, head of E.ON Kraftwerke.
"Our new gas turbine is a supreme example of the fine art of engineering. That the first of its kind is running here in Bavaria underscores Bavaria's importance as a high-tech location. What enabled us here to break new technical ground was that we all pulled together - power providers, engineers, building contractors and also the public. In E.ON we found just the right partner to implement this trail-blazing technology," explained Michael Suess, CEO of the Fossil Power Generation Division of Siemens Energy.
In all, 250 engineers helped to design the turbine and 500 mechanics and fitters put it together in the Berlin manufacturing plant. The plant was built by Siemens Energy between 2006 and 2008 as the prototype of a gas turbine power plant of the latest generation. For almost a year ─ around 1500 operating hours ─ the turbine was put through its paces and tested at length and in depth. The results fully corroborate the Siemens engineers' high expectations. Since September 2009, a steam turbine and a heat recovery boiler are being added to the gas turbine to bring the Irsching 4 combined cycle power plant up to a total rating of 555 megawatts (brutto). If everything goes according to schedule, E.ON will take the plant over from Siemens and put it into commercial operation in the fall of 2011. Together with the Irsching 3 power plant and the Irsching 5 joint venture power plant, the Irsching location will then be home to almost 2,000 megawatts of power generating capacity.
The Siemens Energy Sector is the world's leading supplier of a complete spectrum of products, services and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion and transport of oil and gas. In fiscal 2009 (ended September 30), the Energy Sector had revenues of approximately EUR25.8 billion and received new orders totaling approximately EUR30 billion and posted a profit of EUR3.3 billion. On September 30, 2009, the Energy Sector had a work force of more than 85,100. Further information is available at: http://www.siemens.de/energy
E.ON AG: With over 88,000 employees and revenues of just over 82 billion euros, E.ON is one of the biggest private electric power and gas companies in the world. As a clearly focused corporation with leading market positions in its core business areas of power and gas and almost 30 million customers, we operate in more than 30 countries. Our activities extend along the entire value creation chain. In both the power and the gas markets, E.ON pursues an integrated business model - from the power plant and gas production via distribution up to sales. We are one of the most geographically diversified power producers in the world and have one of the best-balanced generation portfolios in our sector. In the gas business, too, we have one of the broadest multi-regional sourcing portfolios. We hook up our global strength with local skills and take advantage of good ideas wherever they originate in our corporate group. With a balanced energy mix that includes all types of generation, we are striving to provide safe, reliable, climate-friendly and affordable power supply. www.eon.com
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