New Kalina technology geothermal power plant to start operation summer 2017

Having fought delays for quite some time, it now seems like the geothermal power and heat project in Taufkirchen will be ready to start operations in the summer of 2017.

The heating part of the project has already been delivering heat to the community since the end of 2015 to the municipal authorities of Oberhaching and BioEnergie Taufkirchen. New heat exchangers from a new supplier are expected to finally start power production from the plant.

The first heat exchangers that were installed were defective and the problems could not be remedied within the warranty of the manufacturer. This delayed the commissioning of the power plant by more than a year, as the parent company of Geoenergie Taufkirchen GmbH & Co. KG, Daldrup & Söhne AG, announced in a press release. With the new heat exchangers it is expected that the second Kalina power plant in Bavaria in the summer of 2017 can go online.