Vattenfall is a Swedish power company. The name Vattenfall is Swedish for waterfall, and is an abbreviation of its original name, Royal Waterfall Board (Kungliga Vattenfallstyrelsen). Vattenfall is wholly owned by the Swedish government.
In Germany, Vattenfall is the electric utility for the states of Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Saxony.
Vattenfall was founded in 1909 as a state-owned enterprise in Sweden.
From its founding until the mid 1970s, Vattenfall's business was largely restricted to Sweden, with a focus on hydroelectric power generation. Only in 1974 did the company begin to build nuclear reactors in Sweden (the Ringhals 1 and 2 reactors), eventually owning 7 of Sweden's 12 reactors. In 1992, Vattenfall was reformed as the limited liability company Vattenfall AB.
In the years 1990 through 2009, Vattenfall expanded considerably (especially into Germany and Poland), acquiring stakes in Hämeen Sähkö (1996), HEW (1999, 25.1% stake from the city of Hamburg), the Polish heat production company EW (2000, 55% stake), Elsam A/S (2005, 35.3% stake), and Nuon (2009, 49% stake). In 2002 Vattenfall AB and its acquisitions were incorporated as Vattenfall Europe AG, making it the third-largest electricity producer in Germany.
In 2006, Vattenfall began production of the pilot Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plant at Schwarze Pumpe, Germany. In 2007, the Lillgrund Wind Farm in Denmark was commissioned and began delivering electricity.
Vattenfall has power generation branches in Germany, Poland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, as well as business in 90 different countries around the world via its consulting company, Vattenfall Power Consultant.
Some of Vattenfall's most notable power generation plants include the 110 MW Lillgrund Wind Farm off the coast of Malmö, Sweden, the world's largest offshore wind farm at Thanet, UK, the nuclear reactors Brunsbuttel Nuclear Power Plant (67% ownership), Krummel Nuclear Power Plant (50% ownership), Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant (20% ownership) in Germany, and the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant and Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden.
Vattenfall also owns a number of coal-fired power stations, including the Jänschwalde Power Station, the Boxberg Power Station, the Lippendorf Power Station (owned in part), the Schwarze Pumpe Power Station, and the Rostock Power Station (owned in part).
Vattenfall also operates biomass, coal-fired, and other power plants in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Year !! Electricity Production (TWh) !! Emission (Gt CO2) !! kg CO2/MWh | |||
2002 | 166 | 68.28 | |
2003 | 160| | 71.47 | 448 |
2004 | 174| | 69.97 | 403 |
2005 | 175| | 71.77 | 410 |
2006 | 165| | 74.5 | 450 |
2007 | 184| | 84.5 | 459 |
2008 | 178| | 81.72 | 459 |
2009 | 175| | 79.05 | 452 |
Vattenfall is involved in a number of environmental projects and initiatives, including:
A partnership with the National Geographic Society designed to have two main elements – a pan-European school competition and a multi-media partnership to educate students about climate change. Sponsorship of The World Childhood Foundation, the humanitarian organization working to defend the rights of the child and to promote better living conditions for vulnerable and exploited children at risk across the world. The World Childhood Foundation was founded in 1999 by H. M. Queen Silvia of Sweden. Sponsorship of Clean Up the World in Poland, a community-based environmental campaign National partner for the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Berlin 2009. Klaus Wowereit, the mayor of Berlin, presented Vattenfall as a partner for the World Championships in Athletics and the state of Berlin.
According to Greenpeace, Vattenfall’s coal-fired power plants account for more than twice as much CO₂-emissions as the rest of Sweden combined, and, if counting their Swedish-owned but foreign-located plants as Swedish, would bring Sweden up to fourth most CO₂-emitting country, counting per capita.
In May 2009, Vattenfall was voted the winner of the 2009 Climate Greenwash Awards for "its mastery of spin on climate change, portraying itself as a climate champion while lobbying to continue business as usual, using coal, nuclear power, and pseudo-solutions such as agrofuels and carbon capture and storage (CCS)." [2] Vattenfall owns four of the dirty thirty most polluting power stations in Europe.
The first fire in the transformer of the nuclear power plant Krümmel (part owned with E.ON) in 2007 forced a closure of the power plant for over two years, while a short circuit in July 2009 in another transformer led to another closure. Due to these incidents the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Peter Harry Carstensen announced that this will be "letzter Versuch" (their last try) before complete closure of the facility.
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