General description

Vattenfall Europe PowerConsult (VPC) - formerly known as VEAG PowerConsult - is an internationally-renowned consultant working in the power sector since 1963.

VPC is the German consulting and engineering branch of the Vattenfall Group. Together with its Swedish sister organisation Vattenfall Power Consultant AB (VPCAB) it is part of Vattenfall’s business unit ‘Engineering’. Both VPC and VPCAB have a combined work force of over 1200 employees, mostly engineers, and provide services for thermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, renewable energy power generation as well as for transmission and distribution networks.

The Vattenfall Group is the fifth largest generator of power and the largest producer of heat in Europe.
With about 38,000 employees, the group has a turnover of 22 billion EUR.

Vattenfall is a vertically integrated energy group which is organised in business groups / units along the value creation chain and bundles gas exploration and production, lignite mining, modern power stations, wind parks and other renewable energy facilities, transmission and distribution networks as well as energy-industry know-how under one roof.

Vattenfall's wealth of experience as a long-standing power station owner and operator gives VPC an unrivalled breadth and depth of expertise in power generation and related fields. By combining the outstanding capabilities of its technical, managerial and financial personnel as well as seasoned professionals with a strong utility background from the Vattenfall group, VPC compiles the specific technical and economic expertise each project needs.

VPC is a frontrunner in providing engineering, consulting, management and technical services for the whole life cycle of thermal, biomass and CCS facilities.

VPC is committed to quality and excellence in engineering and project work. It maintaines a high quality of services adhering to its certified quality management system according to ISO 9001.

Key personnel

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• Dr.-Eng. Axel Rademacher, Spokesman, Managing Director
• Mr Robert Böswetter, CFO, Managing Director
• Mr Udo Gade, Director
• Dr.-Eng. Daniel Seibt, Director
• Mr Holger Weiland, Director
• Mr Wolfgang Muth, Head of Operation Management
• Dr.-Eng. Hans-Georg Schöneborn, Head of Analytics Engineering
• Mr Ronald Rost, Head of Sales

Resources

Total 460:

International experience

Abu Dhabi; Albania; Australia; Austria; Bosnia & Herzegov; Bulgaria; Canada; China, PDR; China, Taiwan; Czech Republic; Denmark; Dubai; Estonia; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; India; Iraq; Ireland; Italy; Kazakhstan; Kosovo; Kyrgyz Republic; Laos PDR; Macedonia, FYR; Moldova; Mongolia; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Romania; Russian Fed; Saudi Arabia; Serbia & Monte; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; Syrian Arab Rep; Tajikistan; Thailand; Turkey; UAE; UK; USA; Ukraine; Uzbekistan

International offices

Serbia & MonteBelgrade
Vattenfall Europe Powerconsult East d.o.o.Nemanjina 34, Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia & Monte, 11 000
Tel: +381 11 3612 599

Services

- Feasibility studies
- Least-cost development plans
- Complete design and engineering
- Computerised operation and maintenance management systems
- Operational optimisation
- Organisational and institutional consultancy
- Rehabilitation and renovation
- Retrofitting of environmental control technology
- Decommissioning and site clearance
- Technical services for materials testing, plant diagnosis, performance test measuring, analysis of fuels, oils and consumables
- Management consultancy

Typical Projects

ALBANIA - Load frequency control study
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - Technical Assistance for TPPs Ugljevik and Gacko
BULGARIA - Pre-performance tests of Maritza East III TPP
CHINA - Feasibility of rehabilitation of 15 coal-fired units
CZECH REP. - Design review of 660MW Ledvice TPP
ESTONIA - Rehabilitation of I&C at Eesti TPP
GEORGIA - Rehabilitation of 2x300 MW Gardabani TPP; Appraisal of 184 MW Varzikhe HPP
GERMANY - Engineering of oxyfuel pilot Schwarze Pumpe; Engineering of 2x820 MW Moorburg TPS, 400 MW F-class CCGT Bremen
GREECE - Upgrading of coal weighing; Inspection of Kardia TPP
INDIA - Owner's engineer for supercritical 660 MW Vijayawada TPP and of 2x660 MW Nigrie TPP
KAZAKHSTAN - Gas turbine inspection at Kyzilorda
KOSOVO - Least-cost plan; Management of the energy sector; Decommissioning of Kosovo A TPP
KYRGYZTAN - Feasibility study on use of lignite resources
LAOS - Due diligence for an IPP project at Hong Sa
MONTENEGRO - ESP modernisation at Pljevlja TPP
Norway - Project management for post-combustion CO2 capture at Mongstad refinery
POLAND - Design of 833 MW Belchatow TPP
ROMANIA - FIDIC Advisor for Turceni TPP
RUSSIA - Lender's engineer of 2x25 MW Mutnovsky Geothermal PP, Due diligence for Transmission and distribution grids
SERBIA - Major overhaul of 308 MW TENT A5 unit; Wind integration study
SWEDEN - Rehabilitation of 200 MW CHP unit Uppsala
SYRIA - Introduction of CMMS
THAILAND - Expansion of Mae Moh TPP
TURKMENISTAN - CPF power system network study
UAE - DUBAL gas turbine and desalination optimisation study
UKRAINE - Due Diligence for rehabilitation of 300 MW unit Tripolskaya TPP
UZBEKISTAN - Rehabilitation of Syrdarinsk TPP