Statkraft

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Statkraft

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legal form Aksjeselskap (AS)
Seat Oslo , Norway
management Christian Rynning-Tønnesen ( Chairman of the Board )
Svein Aaser ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board )
Number of employees 4,200
sales 3.7 billion euros
Branch power supply
Website statkraft.no

Statkraft is a Norwegian state-owned energy company based in Oslo . Hydropower is mainly used for electricity production . The company is the largest producer of renewable energy in Europe . The company is managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Economic Affairs .

history

In 1895 the state of Norway paid 23,245 Norwegian kroner to build its first hydropower plant to power its railroad lines. In 1921 the Norwegian Hydropower and Energy Directorate (NVE) was founded and given the authority to build and monitor state hydropower plants. In the same year, Parliament made funds available for the construction of the Glomfjord power station.

In 1960 the Directorate for Statkraftverkene (Directorate for State Hydroelectric Power Plants) was established as an independent department of the NVE. In 1986 Statkraftverkene became a state company owned by the NVE.

In order to ensure flexibility in decisions and to make Statkraftverkene an electricity provider capable of acting on a European level, Statkraftverkene was split up in 1992 into the two companies Statkraft SF for electricity production and Statnett SF for maintaining the national supply network. In 1993 the Nordic energy exchange Nord-Pool was launched.

In 1996 Statkraft acquired its first shares in Sydkraft and Oslo Energi Produksjon. In 1997, long-term energy supply contracts were signed with Norsk Hydro and Norske Skog . In the same year construction of the last large hydropower complex to date, Svartisen in Nordland, was completed. In 1998 the first foreign branch was opened with the trading office in Amsterdam . Another office followed in Düsseldorf a year later . Statkraft also acquired shares in the energy companies BKK and Scanenergi this year.

In 2001 Statkraft acquired a third of the Baltic Cable , which connects Sweden and Germany and enables energy transfer between Scandinavia and continental Europe. In the same year construction began on Norway's first wind farm in Smøla . In 2002 Statkraft had to sell parts of its operations in Norway by a decision of the Norwegian antitrust authorities. In 2004 the state-owned company Statkraft SF became a limited company, Statkraft AS; the Statkraft Group was born.

Statkraft's Knapsack combined cycle power plant with two gas turbines in the Knapsack Chemical Park .

In 2005 Statkraft decided to take over a combined cycle power plant in the Knapsack Chemical Park and to build another one in Herdecke and Knapsack, and thus to start producing electricity in Germany. More gas combined cycle power plants in Emden and Landesbergen came through bartering with E.ON to do so. As a result of the exchange, several run-of-river power plants in Germany and a pumped storage power plant in Erzhausen came to Statkraft.

In 2009, a new regional center for technical support of the power plants in Germany and the United Kingdom was put into operation in Hürth-Knapsack .

Statkraft Group

Even after the conversion into an Aksjeselskap (AS) (corresponds to an AG ), the Norwegian state still holds all shares in Statkraft; the conversion was mainly intended to legally separate the company from the state. The commercial form of company gives Statkraft the same framework conditions as other energy providers, which supports competitiveness, especially on the European energy market. Furthermore, the step into the free market economy was used to restructure the company's internal organization by dividing the monopolistic network operation and power generation into different legal units, i.e. companies, whose shares are owned by Statkraft SF and which are also coordinated from there become.

The stated goal of the Statkraft Group is to become a leading company in the renewable energy sector in Europe. Statkraft is the largest producer of renewable energy in Europe and is trying to further expand this position by making further investments in hydropower plants and wind parks and by continuing to research and develop the most powerful biomass power plants possible.

Electricity production

In 2015, the total generation was 56.3 TWh. This was composed as follows:

About 79% of the total generation (corresponds to 44.4 TWh) came from the domestic market in Norway and 13% from the other Nordic countries . Production in the rest of Europe was just over 2%. 6% was produced in areas outside Europe.

Hydropower

Statkraft is involved in 378 hydropower plants worldwide . Of these, 273 are in Norway, 60 in Sweden, 10 in Germany, three in Great Britain and 32 outside Europe. The two power plants with the largest installed capacity in Norway are briefly presented here as an example :

  • The Kvilldal hydropower plant in Fylke Rogaland , which opened in 1982, is the largest hydropower plant in Norway with an installed capacity of 1240 MW. The four Francis turbines generate 3,028 GWh annually. The water used to generate electricity comes from the lakes Blåsjø and Mosvatnet , among others . As with other hydropower plants in Norway, the turbine hall is located in a mountain tunnel. Statkraft has a 72% stake in the power plant. Another shareholder is the Statkraft subsidiary Skagerak Energi.
  • The Sima power plant , which was connected to the grid in 1980, is Norway's second largest hydropower plant with an installed capacity of 1120 MW. It is located in Fylke Vestland at the eastern end of the Hardangerfjord and is divided into the two sub-units Lang-Sima and Sy-Sima. The turbine hall in Eidfjord municipality is connected to the water reservoirs by several tunnels. The power plant, in which Statkraft holds 65%, produces 2728 GWh annually with a total of four turbines.

On November 24th, 2009 Statkraft opened the world's first prototype of an osmotic power plant in Hurum . At the end of 2013, the company announced that further development of the new type of power plant would be discontinued. The reason for this was the non-competitive production costs.

Wind power

In 1997 Statkraft decided to invest in wind energy projects in the future . In 2002 the first part of the Smøla wind farm was opened. This was Statkraft's first wind power plant, as well as the first in Norway. In 2005 the second part of the park went online. The total output of the Smøla Wind Farm is 150 MW. Two more wind farms were opened in 2004 and 2006 in Hitra and Kjøllefjord with 55 MW and 39 MW. Together with various partners, Statkraft operates several wind farms in Sweden, the United Kingdom and Brazil.

In December 2015, the company's management announced that no new investments in offshore wind energy would be carried out in the future. In the course of this decision, Statkraft is examining the sale of its shares in the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm and in the two parks Dudgeon and Dogger Bank, which are still under construction or in the planning stage .

On the joint venture Fosen Vind DA Statkraft owns 52.1 percent. With the Nordic Wind Power DA consortium , Credit Suisse and BKW own 40% of this joint venture. The handling of the indigenous seeds is criticized .

In September 2018, the company concluded so-called power purchase agreements with various operators of German community wind farms, so that they can continue to operate the wind farms after 20 years of operation even after the fixed feed-in tariff expired. In total, there are 31 wind turbines with a total output of 46 MW, which are to supply a large German industrial company in the future.

Gas power

Statkraft owns three gas power plants in Germany. The company has a stake in a further power plant in Germany and Norway. The Knapsack gas and steam combined cycle power plant is the most powerful with an output of 800 MW and thus a possible annual electricity production of up to 7,000 GWh.

Photovoltaics

On March 11, 2010 Statkraft opened its first photovoltaic power plant in Italy with a capacity of 3.3 MW in the Aprilia region . The plan is to further expand the generation capacity to 75 MW at various locations, with the focus on Italy and Spain .

Web links

Commons : Statkraft  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://statkraft.de/uber-statkraft/ October 28, 2015
  2. ↑ http://statkraft.de/uber-statkraft/unternehmen/ Retrieved on November 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Cooperation: Statkraft and Next Kraftwerke work together on the marketing of renewable energies. Accessed October 28, 2015
  4. ↑ Nærings-og fiskeridepartementet: Selskaper. July 16, 2018, accessed September 23, 2019 (Norwegian).
  5. ↑ a b Statkraft history.Retrieved March 3, 2016
  6. ↑ Statkraft History. Retrieved March 3, 2016
  7. ↑ a b 4th Quarterly Report 2015 Accessed April 5, 2016
  8. ↑ http://www.statkraft.de/stromerzeugung/wasserkraft/ Retrieved on April 6, 2015
  9. ↑ http://www.statkraft.com/energy-sources/Power-plants/Norway/Kvilldal/ (English) Retrieved on April 6, 2016
  10. ↑ http://www.statkraft.com/energy-sources/Power-plants/Norway/Sima/ (English) Retrieved on April 6, 2016
  11. ↑ http://www.statkraft.com/media/news/News-archive/2013/Statkraft-halts-osmotic-power-investments (English) Retrieved on April 6, 2016
  12. ↑ a b http://www.statkraft.com/energy-sources/wind-power/Wind-power-projects/ Retrieved on April 6, 2016
  13. ↑ http://www.statkraft.com/energy-sources/wind-power/ (English) Retrieved on April 6, 2016
  14. ↑ http://statkraft.de/presse/News/news-archiv/2016/statkraft-reduziert-offshore-windportfolio/ Retrieved on February 14, 2017
  15. ↑ Swiss investment displaces indigenous people. In: srf.ch . December 11, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Statkraft closes first wind PPAs in Germany . In: Euwid Neue Energie , September 5, 2018. Accessed September 5, 2018.
  17. ↑ http://www.statkraft.com/energy-sources/Power-plants/Germany/Knapsack/ (English) Retrieved on April 6, 2016
  18. ↑ Statkraft opens first solar park in Italy - further parks planned for 2010 ( Memento from August 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )