The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Self-sufficiency according to the modular principle: Mustard manufacturer Develey relies on its own wind turbines

2022-12-10T09:21:32.099Z


The mustard manufacturer Develey from Unterhaching is aiming for complete self-sufficiency in the supply of green electricity by 2025. In addition to photovoltaics, the building blocks for this goal are our own wind turbines and personalized energy sponsorships.


The mustard manufacturer Develey from Unterhaching is aiming for complete self-sufficiency in the supply of green electricity by 2025.

In addition to photovoltaics, the building blocks for this goal are our own wind turbines and personalized energy sponsorships.

Unterhaching

– “Sustainable management affects all activities in the company.

A large whole is created from many individual projects,” says Develey Managing Director Michael Durach.

Through numerous investments in climate-friendly technologies, Develey has managed to almost halve the calculated CO2 footprint at the German locations.

"With green electricity from our own plants," explains Michael Durach, "we want to significantly further reduce our CO2 emissions."

This is what the modular principle looks like

The climate-friendly generation of electricity from renewable energy sources works at Develey according to the modular principle.

At the production sites in Unterhaching, Bautzen and Pfarrkirchen, photovoltaic systems with a total area of ​​4500 square meters ensure an annual yield of 2.7 million kilowatt hours, which corresponds to the annual requirement of around 675 four-person households.

In addition, there is an innovative pilot project: with the company's support, company employees can have solar systems installed on their private roofs and feed excess solar electricity into the Develey grid.

This is how the wind turbine sponsorship works

The

energy supply partner "Getec Energie"

from Hanover takes over the management as an official licensee of the Federal Network Agency - this guarantees grid stability.

Similar to a bank account,

electricity input and output are offset against each other virtually

.

For this purpose, the required Develey power budget is defined in advance in correspondence to the forecast power output of the wind turbines.

Three wind turbines previously subsidized by the EEG levy are permanently assigned to Develey after the depreciation.

The power output of each turbine is recorded separately every 15 minutes.

In the event

of overproduction, the electricity is sold, in the event of underproduction, green electricity is bought on the exchange to compensate

.

The “electricity credit” achieved is booked daily by the service provider and the grid stability is monitored.

A third of the electricity requirement is covered by four wind turbines

Another important lever: wind power.

Since January 2022, Develey has been covering around a third of its total electricity requirements with four wind turbines located in Germany.

One of these wind turbines - located in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - has been owned by the group of companies since August, the other three are contractually assigned to Develey via an energy management service provider.

These "personalized wind power sponsorships are used as an interim solution," reports Michael Durach.

Plants from German wind farms that are no longer subsidized are to be taken over by Develey step by step.

Plants can thus continue to be operated economically

Getec Energie, a specialist service provider, is responsible for monitoring and billing the three sponsored wind turbines by the kilowatt hour.

Its spokesman Cord Wiesner emphasizes: "The use of electricity from wind turbines formerly funded by the EEG is much more than sustainable energy supply - it is an important contribution to the careful use of resources, because the systems can continue to be operated economically and do not have to be dismantled .”

Achieve complete self-sufficiency

Develey wants to completely replace the externally managed green electricity budget by 2025 with its own wind turbines and an open-space PV system in order to achieve complete self-sufficiency at its locations for production, administration and storage.

"Sustainability is a community effort," says Michael Durach, emphasizing the "holistic understanding" that is rooted in three pillars in his family business: regionality, employees and the environment.

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2022-12-10

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-29T11:34:26.626Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.