May 7, 2015
Ecologization and renovation of the heating plant in Planá nad Lužnicí: Following the preliminary takeover of part II of the project in the mid-March 2015, boiler K5 and the desulphurisation unit has been operated in the trial-operation mode; minor defects and imperfections identified during the trial operation have been eliminated continuously. The first emission measuring was performed on K5 and its result confirmed the expected high standard and excellent values. The assembling of boiler K6 which is to be erected on the site of the former K2 boiler has proceeded in harmony with the time schedule. K6 will be identical – as to the construction as well as the output – with the recently commissioned K5. Read more information about the project in Planá nad Lužnicí in section PLANA PROJECT. Photographs from the construction process are available in the PHOTOGALLERY.
The turbine-generator TG3 was shut down as planned, on 1st May 2015. During the following 4 months PSG and Siemens will renovate the turbine, the main steam pipeline and other related equipment. The heating plant has now been operated in a purely heating mode, i.e. no electricity is produced in the highly efficient combined process of electricity and heat production; this production mode will be re-established in September 2015, after the new, more efficient turbine is commissioned.
The heating season was terminated as of the end of April. The winter of 2014/15 was another (after 2013/14) unusually warm winter which brought significant savings for heat consumers and reduced income on heat supplies for heat producers. However, C-Energy Bohemia is fortunately able to balance such fluctuations by income from other products and reliably keep advantageous heat prices for its customers.