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By means of an operating scheme it is possible to demonstrate necessary investments in high efficient energy generation on site, or also the operation of complex supply functions in an ideal way.

 

In the future you will have only one contact person for all questions on energy for production and purchase on the other hand – the project and/or the operating company. This company is committed to market transparency, runs the generating plants with your existing personnel, operates in the energy market and takes care of your secure and advanced energy supply.

[English to contract »to conclude a contract«] Form of financing of investments for the improvement of efficiency in the energy sector, in which the investment activity is de-linked from the financing. Contracting, for example, takes place when an energy supply company modernises the building services of a customer at its own cost and in return receives the saved operating costs.

 

Thus contracting mostly means forms of financing developed by energy supply companies or plant engineering companies, which often are linked to self interests and therefore frequently provide only partial solutions. GEW in contrast acts holistically based on the defined user orientation of the energy partnership.

The emissions trading system should induce the industry to spend less fossil energy and to slow down the global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions. The scheme stipulates that a trustee administers the emissions certificates of one industrial sector and makes sure that this sector does not emit more pollutants than their emissions rights permit. Surplus rights can be sold at a stock market to other industrial sectors that are emitting in excess.

Furthermore, from an economic point of view, the emissions trading is an efficient instrument to improve quality of the environment. Thus planned measures for environmental protection can be accomplished at the lowest possible costs when a functioning market has been established.

 

In principle, emissions rights trading takes place as follows: The government sets a limit or cap on the amount of pollutants that a company can emit. Thus they receive the permit to make a specific amount of emission into the atmosphere. The decisive thing is that companies that emit more than their allowances can buy credits from those who emit less than their allowances. As companies with high avoidance costs buy additional emissions rights and companies with low avoidance costs sell emissions rights, pollution reduction goals can be achieved most cost-effectively. This means emissions trading uses free market mechanisms for achieving a certain environmental objective by obtaining a reduction of emissions at the lowest possible cost. A price for emissions rights is set on the market which counterbalances the law of supply and demand. This price, fetched by the sale of emissions rights, dynamically creates incentives to develop further emissions reduction potentials through research, development and innovations.

A partnership is not the sum of interests, but the achievement of confidence. Therefore we operate as an independent utility in well-defined steps and analyse at the beginning all cost factors on the basis of your actual situation in the energy sectors of power, natural gas (fuel), heat and cooling. Then we develop the rough concept for your future energy architecture along the value chain. 

 

If you are satisfied with our concept, you may decide on the type, duration and content of a contractually defined energy partnership. 

 

We jointly implement the agreed-upon matters. In this context, our management guarantees an optimum operation of the power plants, the most cost-efficient procurement of primary energy, as well as the marketing of surplus electricity.

 

We are networking our partners and/or the sites by means of our energy portfolio management and continuously use all potentials of the liberalised power markets. 

“From stand-alone to the networked architecture” - demand is aligned with reality at GWE. Many industrial and/or hospital cogeneration power stations at different locations are linked with each other in the framework of an energy partnership. We also call it the virtual industrial power station.

 

The objective is to combine the advantages of an industrial decentralised generation of power and heat/cooling in heat-power linking with the advantages of the power market.

 

For example, we shut down a station because power can be obtained cheaper from another linked plant or on the open market. Or, we distribute power produced in the networked architecture in the free market. The crucial point here is always the most economically advantageous combination of own energy generation and its external procurement. Because, there are many different options available in a joint balance group management.

 

The earned economic benefits are shared by all participants according to the agreed codes – the actual economic advantage compared to all other classical energy providers!

A large number of completed projects shows that even complex development and implementation measures can be successfully and efficiently accomplished through the experience of a capable partner.

 

GWE undertakes the designing, planning, project management, organisation, financing and implementation. This provides many advantages for industrial companies and hospitals, as tasks are pooled, processes of coordination are cut short and wrong decisions are avoided.

 

Furthermore, GWE continuously optimises the plant operations and all energy supply costs in a transparent, close-to-the-market and flexible manner.

 

The bottom line is that YOU benefit from considerable cost cutting and WE, from the profitable management of the joint enterprise.