Peter SIMON Country Manager

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Innovative Solutions forFuture Energy Supplies

• Peter SIMONCountry Manager
• ABB Romania, Bulgaria and Republic of Moldavia

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Energy in Central Eastern Europe
Change creates innovation
Low economic growth
Return to protectionism
High economic growth gt5
Global open society
Consequently
Increased need for energy
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Energy in Central Eastern Europe
Lack of primary Energy stimulates innovation and
investments in

• Energy Supply
• Utilization of Energy

Supply of electrical energy becomes more
important due to

• Energy Efficiency
• IT Infrastructure

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Energy in Central Eastern Europe

• Stern-Report 30. October 2006
• Costs for climate stabilization are considerably
  high
• Consequences of climate change can still be
  avoided
• Delays will be much more expensive
• Climate protection objectives in Germany
• 40 reduction of CO2 emissions till 2020
• Increasing the share of renewable energy in
  electricity production from 13 today up to 30
  until 2030

Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
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Energy in Central Eastern Europe

• Increase of electricity resources from
• Hydropower, wind power, solar energy
• Primary energy resource is free of charge
• Sources are normally far from consumers
• Availability depends on meteorological conditions

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Energy in Central Eastern Europe

• Malfunction on November 4th, 2006
• The growing market activities and the fast and
  successful development of regional intermittent
  energy generation with low predictability (wind
  power) led to significant increase of
  cross-continental power flows. Even though the
  grid was originally developed for mutual
  assistance, it has now become the platform for
  shifting ever increasing power volumes across the
  continent.
• UCTE, 30. January 2007

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Energy in Central Eastern Europe
Grid operation will become much more challenging!
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Energy in Central Eastern Europe

• Future Transmission Networks
• Increasing renewable electricity requires
• infrastructure adaption
• Power highways, European Super Network
• HVDC Systems
• Underground Cable
• Flexible Alternating Current Systems (FACTS)

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Energy in Central Eastern Europe
The first offshore wind park connection

• Windpark-ClustersBorkum 2
• HVDC Light
• Phase 1 400 MW
• 128 km seacable
• 75 km underground cable to Diele Substation

The first largest HVDC wind park connection in
the world!
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Energy in Central Eastern Europe

• A Dutch proverb says If the wind of change is
  blowing, one builds walls, while the others build
  windmills.
• Its been too long since walls are built, its
  now time for windmills to be built.
• Dr. Werner Brinker, VDEW-President,VDEW-Congress
  2007

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