4.7.2019. The Volkswagen AG has modernized cogeneration plant in Wolfsburg-West. The two coal blocks to the power plant West to the plant site will be replaced by a natural gas-fired double block.
The conversion can be saved per year, a Million tonnes of CO2, equivalent to the CO2 emissions of 580,000 cars. The new Gas – turbine and steam-turbine power plant go on in the fall of 2022 in surgery wants. The overall performance of the power plant amounts to 288 MW of electrical and about 265 megawatts of thermal power.
Ralf Pfitzner, head of sustainability at the Volkswagen group, says: “In the Decarbonisation it is, therefore, during the entire usage cycle of the automobile, reduce the amount of CO2 to avoid emissions, and to compensate for when there is no different. The Decarbonisation of not only affects the operation of our vehicles, but also our supply chain and production at Volkswagen. There we are now with the conversion of coal-fired power plants to Gas can make a significant contribution to CO2 reduction.“
The one with the tag officer, the company (Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe), tests in the Netherlands, in addition, as renewable energy-derived hydrogen can be used in a gas-fired power plant. Therefore, synthetic natural gas that can be produced in so-called “Power-to-Gas”system, it would be in the future for electricity generation.
If all power plants are equipped at the site in Wolfsburg with the new and highly efficient gas turbines to reduce CO2 emissions in the electricity and heat production and then permanently by around 1.5 million tonnes per year. This corresponds to the annual CO2 emissions from the current level of about 870,000 vehicles and is a decline of almost 60 percent compared to the previous emission of the power plants at the Wolfsburg location.
On the way to complete Decarbonisation by 2050, the Volkswagen group has laid down in all the areas objectives to be reached in the next few years. By 2025, the CO2 emission of all plants is expected to reduce compared to 2010, but half of it. The production of Audi in Brussels, for example, runs completely CO2-neutral. So the plant in Zwickau is not only the tail unit for the Modular E-drive modular system (MDBs), in the future, are here produced ID. should the balance sheet be CO2 delivered-neutral to the customer.
In order to improve the CO2 footprint of the vehicle over the entire life cycle, Volkswagen is already in the supply chains. By 2025, the CO2 is to be reduced-footprint of the vehicle fleet over the entire life cycle by 30 percent compared to 2015. Accordingly, Volkswagen is to personalize the vehicle Portfolio of electrical and invested for this alone until 2023, more than 30 billion euros. The E-share in the fleet is expected to rise by 2030 to at least 40 percent.
* Calculation: ∅ drive performance Cars (petrol+Diesel+CNG) of 14.100 [km/year]. EU fleet value 122 g/km. Source: Mobility Measures In 2015/2016.
Volkswagen AG provides the cogeneration plant in the West on natural gas (photo: Volkswagen AG)
