dodgy because: operating and still planning coal fired power plants in Europe and actively involved in nuclear energy.
Biblis NPP
about
Europe's
second largest electricity generator and one of Europe's five leading gas and
electricity companies. Founded in 1898, the company has grown to supply electricity
to 20 million customers across Europe. It is active in the generation, trading, transmission
and supply of electricity and gas. RWE's 70,000 employees supply over 16
million customers with electricity and approximately 8 million customers with
gas.
RWE has a generation capacity of 49,582 MW of which
26,465 MW consists of coal-fired power
plants (using hard coal and lignite). The coal-fired capacity of RWE
represents 1.5 per cent of the worldwide coal-fired capacity. The coal-fired
power plants of RWE are located in Germany,
the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium,
and Central and Eastern Europe. For a list of
coal power plans please go to the business section of this company profile.
Next to the operating coal-fired power plants of RWE,
the company has some plans to build new coal-fired power plants. In total, RWE wants to invest more that US$ 15 billion
in the construction of new power plants until 2020. Three power plants are located
in Germany and one in the Netherlands. If
all plans are realized, the attributable coal-fired capacity of RWE will
increase by more than 6 GW and the controlled capacity will increase by 5.4 GW.
At the same time, RWE is also actively involved in nuclear energy; around 15% of the electricity it produces is
generated by its five nuclear reactors in Germany. RWE also backs dodgy nuclear power projects in Central Europe. It took a 49% share in the Belene nuclear
power plant in Bulgaria,
in a seismic area were 120 people were killed in a 1977 earthquake. In 2009,
RWE dumped the project after it found out about the project's funding problems. It still is participating in the
Romanian Cernavoda 3,4 project - a tritium leaking Canadian design - in the
same seismic active region as Belene.
In 2009 RWE teamed up with European power giant E.ON to
build two reactors in the UK
- either Westinghouse's AP1000 or AREVA's EPRs. In the US, the AP1000
design has been found to be vulnerable to earthquakes and terrorism. The EPR - two of
which are being built in Finland and France - has embarrassed the nuclear
industry and stalled the nuclear ‘renaissance' by being both massively
over-budget, behind-schedule, and plagued with thousands of safety concerns and
construction defects.
ownership
shareholders, listed company
location
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last update: May 22, 2013
headquarters
Opernplatz 1
45128 Essen
Germany
CEO / chair
Jürgen Großmann
CEO
brand names
Eprimo, Pro Klima
key sectors / activities
energy plants, coal energy plants, dams energy plants, nuclear energy plants, renewables nuclear industry
key regions of operation
Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
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energy plants, nuclear
In 2007, in-house generation and power purchases combined for 324.3 billion kWh in total electricity production. 14% of electricity generation was based on nuclear in 2007. Since the beginning of the 1960s, RWE Power have been operating nuclear power stations. Altogether, RWE Power has an installed and operational nuclear power station capacity of some 5,700 MW at Biblis, Lingen and Gundremmingen.
RWE has 9.15% share in the project Cernavoda NPP Units 3 and 4 in Romania.
They plan to build and run nuclear power plants in U.K. and Eastern Europe.
energy plants, renewables
RWE plan to invest 1 bn. Euro per year into renewables. Compared with their investments into nuclear or coal this is a small amount. Projects will be implemented by the subsidiary Innogy. It will be mainly wind, but RWE is are also working on very destructive biomass projects forgetting that biomass is renewable but not endless.
nuclear industry
Nuclear fuel production:
RWE as well as E.on have shares in Urenco.
energy plants, coal
Planned new plants: New hard coal-fired power plant in Hamm, Germany.
In March 2008 RWE Power began construction. The two units will have a
net installed capacity of 1,530 MW and efficiency of 46%. Preparatory
work for hard coal power plant in the Netherlands with net installed
capacity of 1,560 MW and an efficiency of over 46%. New 800-MW hard coal-fired power plant planned in Poland. CCS 450 MW near Cologne (Germany) planned.
active file
last update: May 22, 2013
headquarters
Opernplatz 1
45128 Essen
Germany
CEO / chair
Jürgen Großmann
CEO
brand names
Eprimo, Pro Klima
key sectors / activities
energy plants, coal energy plants, dams energy plants, nuclear energy plants, renewables nuclear industry
key regions of operation
Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
The Belene nuclear power plant (NPP) is planned to be sited at the bank of the Danube River, which forms the border between Bulgaria and Romania. Technical design and construction…
