Energies and mediums supply for coal mines

OKD: EUROPEAN HARD COAL PLAYER - CZECH REPUBLIC

OKD is an European hard coal player operating 4 underground mines at more than 10 sites with the objective to:

  • Ensure the supply of energies and mediums for the operation of the sites for 20 years (~800 GWh electricity, ~1 000 TJ heat, 2 billion m3 compressed air, 25 mil m3 of nitrogen, 50 000 MWh of cold, all per year)
  • Guarantee the quality and availability of the energies and mediums distribution
  • Increase the safety of the operation of energy facilities
     

Veolia concluded a contract with OKD and bought energetic assets. The result is a 20-year commitment to energies and mediums supply. The scope of supplies falls within the scope of Veolia’s activities:

  • Increase in generation efficiency through Veolia’s knowledges
  • Increase in generation possibilities of facilities by replacing the cogeneration with a tri-generation plant, improving the compressor network and using waste heat for heating, building a cogeneration and using heat for heating)
  • Excess capacity of compressed air generation used for nitrogen production

 
 

Customer benefits:

  • Client can focus on core business
  • Guarantee of savings (variable, fixed) and efficiency sharing
  • Improvement in energies and mediums supply => Reduction of the number of breaks => Improvement in safety of mining activities
  • Use of Veolia’s know-how to address its difficulty
  • New technologies implementation (cold production, nitrogen production from the spare capacity of compressed air generation) 

830GWh

electricity distributed to mines

275 GWh

Heat Production and Distribution

10 Powerplants with total of 80 MWe