Our Range of Services

Vattenfall Europe PowerConsult

provides Consultancy, Design & Engineering, Management and Technical Services for most diverse problems and tasks ranging

• from a single plant component to complex operation management
• from pre-feasibility studies to practical implementation

For your sustainable success you need the most economical solution, not the cheapest.

Project development, asset transactions

Project definition, pre-investment and feasibility studies, due diligence evaluations for developers and lenders, environmental assessments and compliance reviews, site evaluation, asset valuation and auditing, preparation of energy concepts and least cost development plans, greenhouse gas assessment

Design and engineering

Conceptual design, basic engineering, detailed engineering including third party design auditing, tender preparation and, tendering to international guidelines, bid evaluation, contracting assistance, permission application procedures, environmental impact assessment, implementation planning, project control and client assistance for all mechanical, electrical and I&C systems

Construction and commissioning

Construction management, project scheduling, cost controlling, quality assurance, site management, supervision of construction and erection, factory inspections, expediting monitoring, commissioning planning and co-ordination, acceptance tests supervision or implementation with own staff and equipment, as-built documentation review, preparation/review of technical documentation for O&M

Operation & maintenance management

Computerised plant / maintenance management systems including MIS, development of maintenance strategies and improvement of plant management, surveillance optimisation, warehouse management, component lifetime monitoring, asset status assessments, organisational studies, provision of secondees for operational assistance, elaboration and updating of operating manuals, environmental compliance strategies, fuel switching including co-combustion of waste and biomass, advice in institutional framework building

Analysis, tests, measurements

Chemical laboratory services, materials testing (non-destructive and/or destructive) including damage and life-time assessment, investigation of fuels, auxiliary materials and residues, oil analysis for transformers, turbines, hydraulic devices etc., environmental (emission, noise), OSH and vibration measurements, diagnostic studies and plant performance testing (it est via boroscopy, thermographic imaging), verification and acceptance measuring of complete power stations, sub-systems and components

Training and technology transfer

Training for planning, erection, operation, maintenance, commercial administration, project management and restructuring, education planning and development of training programmes and curricula, technology transfer provided as one-to-one co-work, workshops, seminars, classroom and on-the-job-training on site or at Vattenfall Europe's facilities

Rehabilitation and Modernisation

Assessment and improvement of station performance, thermal efficiency and energy utilisation, re-powering studies, plant status evaluation and lifetime assessment, estimation of rehabilitation potential including new solutions for operational management, preparation of rehabilitation measures including boiler improvements, auxiliary power reductions, turbine cycle improvements, control system upgrades, flue gas discharge via cooling tower and their further planning and implementation analogue to plant design and engineering, erection and plant restart, air and water quality control technology consultancy (it est FGD retrofit, primary DeNOx, CO₂ reduction, FGD water)

Decommissioning, dismantling

Decommissioning programmes, derelict land recycling concepts, investigation of contaminated sites, dismantling concepts and supervision, recycling of disused plant and demolition material