11/06/2023
Source: Energie & Management Powernews
The Lech steelworks supply waste heat for a heating network that will supply the surrounding villages.
The energy company GP Joule and the Lech steelworks have entered into a long-term heating partnership. They have announced the details in a press release. Accordingly, the only steelworks in Bavaria will extract waste heat at its site in Meitingen near Augsburg in future. GP Joule will use the energy to feed a heating network for Meitingen and Herbertshofen.
The aim is to offer citizens and commercial customers there "a sustainable and affordable heat supply", according to the press release.
The future use of waste heat has the potential to supply more than 10,000 households and replace the equivalent of around 4 million liters of heating oil. In the coming months, GP Joule will "press ahead" with the planning for the first construction phase of the heating network, the company explains. Construction is then scheduled to begin at the beginning of 2025.
The partners see particular importance and benefits of waste heat extraction, especially with regard to the requirements of the Building Energy Act and the Municipal Heat Planning Act. With the heating network that is now to be set up, the municipalities concerned would "already be a big step ahead".
The Lech steelworks, which belong to the Max Aicher Foundation, have an annual electricity consumption of around 800 million kWh, according to their own figures. The company puts the amount of melting energy required to produce 1 tonne of liquid steel at around 500 kWh, which is provided by electricity and natural gas. On its website, Lech-Stahlwerke states the proportion of its energy consumption with values from 2017. According to these figures, electricity accounted for 67.8 percent of total energy consumption. Natural gas accounted for 30.5 percent. Fuel and heating oil/liquid gas played a subordinate role.
Author: Fritz Wilhelm
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