trianel,altmaier& remmel aachen vpp cfcl

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"Both, the German and the North-Rhine Westfalian environment ministers will speak on the occasion of the inauguration of the first commercial virtual cMHP system on blugen basis.

http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/news/wirtschaft-detail-az/2769700/Trianel-Verbund-startet-virtuelles-Brennstoffzellen-Kraftwerk

http://www.presseportal.de/pm/67884/2333274/bundesumweltminister-peter-altmaier-und

Aachener Zeitung:Translation
"Aachen. It does not happen very often that the Federal Environment Minister Peter Altmaier and NRW Environment Minister Johannes Remmel together perceive an appointment. The reason might be that Altmaier CDU man and Remmel than green often as competitors as partners in a common cause are - about the subject of energy policy.

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All the more remarkable is that it is the municipal utility network Trianel now managed to win both for a joint appearance in Aachen. Next Tuesday the Minister for starting a virtual fuel cell power plant in the euro Gress will be.

Virtual Fuel Cell Power Plant, the first sounds bulky. Behind this - the lecture topics the Ministers indicate it - but no less than a great hope for the future energy supply. Remmel is about "NRW - Land for Future Energy" talk Altmaiers speech is titled "Innovation Project energy revolution - a chance for the public utility." What it actually is, the Trianel Project Michel Nicolai explained previously in an interview with our newspaper.

"The energy in the future," says Nicolai, "will have a much more decentralized structure than it is today." Nowadays produce relatively few large nuclear or coal-fired electricity, which is then brought over long transmission lines to consumers. Above all, with the solar, but also with the wind that is increasingly different. While there are also large solar or (offshore) wind farms, but more often people put a photovoltaic system on their roof or farmers to energy farmers with individual wind turbines. The energy load is always more to the producers themselves.

Against this background Trianel moves now a well-known technique while at the center, but until now ekes still a marginal existence in the energy supply: the CHP. The concept is simple but effective: The waste heat from electricity is used for heating. Cogeneration therefore have a very high efficiency.

Trianel has developed business models for the use of combined heat and power in a small way for mini-and micro-CHP. These are ultimately power-generating heating systems, which may arise private customers as well as small and medium-sized businesses in their homes. They are marketed under the name of energy block.

As a virtual power plant, such small units work when they are connected together and centrally controlled by computer. This idea is not entirely new. Energy users, although also here producer, but he is part of a larger whole. "You have to imagine it this way: In the basement of my house is indeed a cogeneration unit, but it is not mine, but my suppliers, and I have to do with the operation or maintenance of any more," says Nicolai. "The CHP unit produces heat and electricity. Excess electricity is fed as part of the virtual power plant in the nets "The great thing with this is that this model -. Nicolai speaks of" contracting "- for the consumer and the utility is financially lucrative alike.

This is something very special, although Nicolai admits that Trianel not the only company with such a model. Completely new is the introduction of the fuel cell. Trianel has the Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. (CFCL) is a partner, is the world, according to Nicolai the first company that offers a production-ready fuel cell micro-CHP.

And is a regional reference on top of that, because CFCL, a German-Australian company that manufactures in Heinsberg-Oberbruch. The fuel cell has two key advantages: on the one hand, you win their energy from a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen and therefore - at least theoretically - no emissions of environmentally harmful greenhouse gases.

Since the hydrogen is in this specific case, however, recovered from natural gas in a preliminary stage, also results in emissions - but only to a very small extent. On the other hand increases the fuel cell is generally already high electrical efficiency of a cogeneration unit to over 60 percent. "This one is on par with the most modern and efficient large-scale power plants," says Nicolai.

Decentralized, efficient, low-emission, financially lucrative, if you will, the virtual fuel cell power plant is a kind of jack of all trades of energy supply, the answer to all challenges of the phasing out of nuclear energy. This is certainly an oversimplification and exaggeration hopeless. But still, the project brings two ministers to Aachen, which is not very often are collectively dates. And that's saying something.

The company Trianel describes himself as a municipal utility network. Meanwhile, more than 100 municipal utilities and municipal utilities in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland are among the shareholders and partners. In different constellations, they clump together on individual projects and instruct Trianel order to develop and implement them.

The concept for the cogeneration project energy block and the virtual fuel cell power plant has developed Trianel Since December 2011, together with 45 municipal utilities. Customers can now find information about services."

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