'The reasons for these developments are the longer winter and pleasingly rising industrial consumption as a result of an economic revival,' said BDEW president Hildegard Mueller in the text of a speech at the Hanover trade fair, a showcase for Germany's industry.
'We probably have reached a turning point,' she said, pointing to the fact that January had marked the first monthly gain in energy demand in 16 months.
German consumption overall of power and gas dropped by six percent last year due to the slowdown in industry activity, which accounts for 40 to 45 percent of total usage of both.
German power use last year stood at 519 billion kilowatt hours and gas usage at 890 billion kWh.
Mueller said that despite the improvements, the industry had a number of concerns: tighter bank lending terms and scepticism about new power station and transmission network extension projects in the population.
The industry shared political commitments to raise the share of renewable energy to 30 percent by 2020 but unless new networks were built fast, this would be impossible, she said.
A new energy policy plan is expected from the government in the autumn, which will have to resolve planning issues. New grid approvals take between eight and 10 years and new power generation plants seven to nine years to materialise.
Mueller also said that despite the problems, the industry was planning to hike investments to 13.5 billion euros ($18.87 billion) this year after investing 13.1 billion in 2009 and 10.3 billion in 2008 in the infrastructure.
BDEW represents some 1,100 power and nearly 770 gas firms as well as the water supply sector.
(Reporting by Vera Eckert)
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FRANKFURT, April 19 (Reuters) - Power plant operators are planning or building the following fossil-fuel fired electricity generation units in Germany, according to information obtained by Reuters from energy industry association BDEW, operators and media.
This updates a list previously updated in March, as BDEW updated its informtion on April 19 at its Hanover fair press conference.
The list only includes power stations above 300 megwatts and thermal projects, that is coal and gas-fired ones. There is a legal block on new nuclear capacity and renewable energy projects are separate.
A related Reuters factbox tracking the specific status of controversial coal projects and listing those going ahead can be found by clicking on.
A number of projects have been cancelled or delayed until at least 2014 from a previous date of 2012, either because of opposition to coal, credit constraints, or concern over future demand prospects in, and after the financial crisis.
PROJECTS UP TO 2012 OPERATOR LOCATION FUEL SOURCE CAPACITY (MW) EXPECTED
START DATE E.ON & others Irsching 5* gas 820 2010 Evonik Steag/EVN Duisburg-Walsum 10* hard coal 725 mid-2010 RWE Power Neurath BoA II* brown coal 2,100 mid/end
2011+ E.ON Kraftwerke Irsching 4* gas 530 2011 Vattenfall Europe Boxberg* brown coal 675 2011 Advanced Power/Siemens Bocholt gas 415 2011 (approval obtained) E.ON Kraftwerke Datteln 4* hard coal 1,055 2011 EnBW Karlsruhe* hard coal 850 2011 EnBW (approval obtained) Kalsruhe gas 465 2011 RWE Power Hamm* hard coal 1,600 mid-2012++ GDF SUEZ/BKW FMB Wilhelmshaven* hard coal 800 2012 Trianel Luenen* hard coal 750 2012 Vattenfall Europe Hamburg-Moorburg* hard coal 1,640 2012
load cuts required GDF SUEZ Brunsbuettel hard coal 800 2012 (undergoing permissioning, possibly delayed from 2012 target, environment groups opposed) Evonik Steag Luenen hard coal 690 2012 (undergoing permissioning, possibly delayed from 2012 target)
PROJECTS POSSIBLY MATERIALISING AFTER 2012 SWB Bremen Bremen-Mittelbueren gas 420 2013 Enervie Suedwestfalen Schkopau industry park gas 800 2013/2014 Dow Chemicals Stade (2 plants) gas/coal 1,000 2014? Advanced Power Wustermark gas 800 2015 GDF SUEZ Stade hard coal 800 2014? RWE Power Saxony Anhalt hard coal unclear open Statkraft Huerth, Knapsack gas 400 - Statkraft Emden gas unclear - RheinEnergie Cologne-Niehl gas 800 - Project company KG Lubmin hard coal 1,600 2014 (Dong pulled out, new investors sought, undergoing permissioning, put back from 2012 target) Iberdrola Mecklar-Marbach/ gas 1,100 2014
Ludwigsau Iberdrola Lauchhammer gas 1,100 2013 OMV Power Intnl. Burghausen/Haiming gas 850 end-2014 (Population supports construction) MIBRAG Profen brown coal 660 2013 E.ON/Hanover utility Staudinger 6 hard coal 1,100 2013 (Grosskrotzenburg, public hearings are on to gather objections) GKM Mannheim Nr. 9 hard coal 911 2013 (prelim. permission obtained, some local protest) GETEC Energie Brunsbuettel, at Bayer hard coal 800 2014 E.ON Kraftwerke Wilhelmshaven hard coal 550 2014/15? RWE Power Huerth/Goldenbergwerk brown coal CO2-low 450 - (put off with serious question marks) E.ON Kraftwerke Stade hard coal 1,100 2014 Trianel Power Krefeld-Uerdingen hard coal 750 2014/2015 (approval obtained) Alpiq Holdings Premnitz gas 400 2013 (prelim. approval obtained) Enervie Suedwestfalen Meppen gas 450 2013 (former Nuon project, prelim. approval obtained) Vattenfall Europe Berlin Lichterfelde gas 575 2014 Vattenfall Europe Berlin Lichtenberg gas 300 2016 EnBW Lubmin gas 1,350 - Duesseldorf utility Ddf Lausward gas studied unclear -
in lieu of previously coal Suedweststrom Brunsbuettel hard coal 1,820 - (SWS upholds plans, some co-investors rattled by local opposition) Gazprom/Soteg Eisenhuettenstadt gas 800 - E.ON/Gazprom Lubmin gas 1,200 - GDF SUEZ Schwandorf gas 800 - (some local opposition forming) GDF SUEZ Saxony-Anhalt state gas 800 -
(Calbe or Stassfurt)
* already under construction
+ An accident at the Neurath building site in late October 2007 caused delays.
The blocks will come on stream in mid-end 2011 respectively.
++ Due to deficiencies in some steel constructions, there will be a delay by 12 months.
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