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Innovation keeps Germany's cogen market moving

By District Energy posted 02-13-2018 13:23

  

Steve Hodgson, Decentralized Energy

Summary

There’s always something happening in what is by far the largest cogeneration market in Europe, Germany, with its schemes from the micro to the macro. In the last couple of weeks, E.ON subsidiary HanseWerk has brought on-stream a fourth cogeneration/district heating plant in the northern port of Hamburg, and E.ON itself has entered an alliance with two industrial companies in the Ruhr region’s Dortmund to transfer ‘waste’ heat from one to the other. Meanwhile, the University of Göttingen has commissioned a new cogeneration scheme.

While the first and last of these are largely conventional CHP schemes, they both also exhibit some of the innovative features required for modern power grids. E.ON claims an overall efficiency of over 95 per cent for its new plant installed in Hamburg, having worked with engine manufacturer GE Jenbacher to ensure that the scheme can also take on a grid stabilization function. HanseWerk is incorporating the new scheme into its larger ‘virtual’ power plant, which can rapidly reduce or increase its output when required by system dynamics.

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