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E.ON builds Europe's first green thermal power plant at Braila

In 2010, Germany's E.ON will start building in the Romanian southeastern city of Braila a 508 MW coal-fired pilot thermal power plant with an energy efficiency of 45 pct, Business Standard reports on Wednesday.

The investment stands at 1.2 bln euros, almost twice the cost per MW installed specific to a common such power-generating facility.

E.ON officials said this is a first for Europe.

'Coal is a source of energy that is here to last and there are many supply routes available. With gas reserves running short and with this fuel getting increasingly costlier, new thermal power plants are increasingly seeking coal to burn,' said E.ON representative Jorg Schlottmann.

E.ON officials who recently signed with the Romanian state-owned electricity and heat producer Termoelectrica, as well and with Italy's Enel an agreement for a new 800 MW power plant in Braila, say this too will be a highly efficient facility running on technology similar to that used by the world's most fuel-efficient pit coal-fired group in Datteln. According to the current schedule, works on the new Braila-based group are to commence in 2010 and should be completed in 2014. The facility's energy-efficiency will be 45 pct, the highest in Romania at this time.

The Braila-based power plant held by state-owned Termoelectrica has four units with a total installed capacity of almost 1,000 MW, of which units 3 and 4, commissioned in 1974 and 1979 respectively, have been idled for some years now.

'We will continue operating the other two groups commissioned in 1973, with a total capacity of 437 MW. We might shut them down at a certain time. We just take them as they are and we'll see if it is worth investing in them or not,' said Martin Fischer, E.ON officer in charge of implementing the Braila-based project. The two groups currently run on gas and E.ON and Enel will be operating them as of 2010.

In Romania, where all thermal power plants are state-owned, only Termoelectrica announced massive investments in excess of one billion euros, whereas the energy plants in Oltenia (south), that anyway produce below capacity, will have to earmark funding to get in line with European environmental standards. In the last years only one new 150 MW thermo power group was commissioned in Paroseni.

New units totaling 1,600 MW are supposed to add to Termoelectrica facilities located in Braila, Galati (southeast) and Borzesti (east), built in partnership with E.ON, Enel, GDF Suez and CEZ. Total investments will amount to some 1.7 billion euros and are expected to rescue the debt-ridden Termoelectrica, called the 'black hole' of the Romanian energy system.

 

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