- New combined heat and power (CHP) plant on the site of Berlin's Reuter West cogeneration plant to provide sustainable electricity and heat for the west of Berlin
- Plant to be completed by the end of 2026
Kraftanlagen was awarded the contract for the basic engineering in July of this year. The company has now also been awarded the overall contract for Lot 2 for the supply of the higher-level plant technology, including the process engineering as well as the electrical and I&C integration of all plant components. The scope of supply also includes a heat pump, which will use the waste heat from the mechanical cooling circuit to feed up to an additional 2 MW of thermal power into Berlin's district heating network.
The new combined heat and power plant, which is scheduled for completion at the end of 2026, will enable Vattenfall to utilise existing energy sources intelligently. For example, the steam turbine will be operated with steam generated by the incineration of unavoidable waste in the existing waste-to-energy plant of Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR). The large heat pump system with an average thermal output of 75 MW will utilise the residual heat of the clear water from the nearby Berliner Wasserbetriebe sewage treatment plant as a heat source and raise it to a higher temperature level. Both technologies will thus make an important contribution towards a climate-neutral energy supply for Berlin.
