Plant construction to start at Taufkirchen project in Germany
Project site Taufkirchen, Bayern, Germany (source: Exorka)
Alexander Richter
12 Jul 2013
The geothermal project at Taufkirchen in Bavaria/ Germany is going to start construction of a combined heat and power plant with a power generation capacity of 4.3 MW this summer.
In a release yesterday, German Daldrup & Söhne AG announces that its daughter company Taufkirchen is about to start construction for its planned geothermal power plant in Taufkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.
The company expects to start construction within three weeks. The permit for construction was received earlier this week from both the local and the state government of Bavaria.
Site for the plant will be the site where the wells were drilled for the project. This means the start of the construction of one of the most modern combined geothermal heat and power plants in Europe.
The wells drilled provide a flow rate of 120 liters by second and a temperature of 135 degrees Celsius.
For Daldrup & Söhne this constitutes an important step, as it moves the company from a pure drilling company to a utility with connected drilling business, so Chairman of the company, Josef Daldrup.
The plant will have an expected heat generation capacity of 35 MW thermal and a power generation capacity of 4.3 MW.
The project company GeoEnergie Taufkirchen is held in a majority by Daldrup, with Swiss utility Axpo AG holding another large stake in the project.
The heat will be delivered to local municipalities, while the power will be sold based on feed-in-tariff rates to utility E.ON.
The plant is expected to be delivering heat in the heating period of 2013/2014, with power generation to be expected to start in the fall of 2014.
To the best of my knowledge the company plans to build a power plant based on Kalina technology, but we will follow up on this.
Source: Daldrup & Söhne AG press release (in German)
