Hydroelectric Power Plant in Kempton Germany by Becker Architekten

source:http://www.ccaa.com.au/sub/cplusa/articles/issue/16/hydro-electric-power-station/

Chongqing Iron & Steel GasSteam Combined Cycle Power Plant

CECEP’s GCL Engineering Company, Science and Technology Company and Industrial Energy Conservation Company are capable of providing comprehensive energy conservation and environmental protection solutions for energyconsuming enterprises to improve the level of energy efficiency, mainly through energy saving diagnosis and assessment, technology reform, operation and fundraising based on the integration of domestic and international advanced technologies. These subsidiary companies have successfully developed a number of reuse projects of waste pressure, waste heat and waste gas for Larfage Cement Ltd., Chongqing Iron & Steel Group, Tianjin Iron & Steel Group, Beijing Shuangshan Cement Plant and Taiyuan Chemical Ltd. The investment for each of the contracted energy management projects implemented by enterprises in the sectors of building material, metallurgy, chemical engineering and coke making has exceeded RMB0.1 billion. In addition, the total investment in the Project of Chongqing Iron & Steel GasSteam Combined Cycle Power Plant and Waste Heat Recovery Coke Dry Quenching Power Generation conducted by GCL Engineering Company is about RMB2.2 billion, with the total installed capacity of 355,000KW for sending 1.85bn KWh into the grid annually, capable of meeting 75% of the power demand by production lines in the new Plant, where 750,000 tonnes of standard coal is saved each year and the emission of CO2 is reduced by 1,980,000T. At present time, CECEP has been implementing 11 energy management projects for waste heat and waste gas use with the contracted investment reaching RMB1.164 billion.

source:http://www.cecep.cn/g492.aspx

Teeside Power Station by Heatherwick Studio

Project Details: Architects: Heatherwick Studio

Value: £150m

Client: Bio Energy Investments Ltd

Date: Ongoing

“With a rising global population and increasing political focus on the future of power generation, the task of designing a 49 mega-watt, bio-mass fuelled power station in Stockton-On-Tees is an interesting design challenge.The site at Clarence Works is on the banks of the river Tees and is classified as brownfield, being both post-industrial and ecologically sparse. On the opposite bank is Middlehaven, a major new development of 3000 new homes.

The studio’s approach has been to treat the power station as an opportunity to make a positive architectural and cultural contribution to the area. Rather than placing yet another large industrial building onto this flat landscape, the studio’s proposal is integrated into it. By reconfiguring the arrangement of the energy generation equipment permitting it to be housed within an efficient single volume, the scheme occupies only a third of the site and provides four hectares of indigenous grasslands, which are literally pulled up the façade.

The scheme includes the creation of a publicly accessible park, education facility and events venue. The riverside site enables the fuel to be delivered by ship, achieving a further reduction in carbon emissions compared to road transport. The parabolic hyperboloid form is clad with a proprietary panelised façade system supported on a steel frame, which is structurally very efficient as it also carries the load of the internal equipment, effectively making it a lean-to.”

source: http://architecturelab.net/2010/08/teesside-power-station-by-heatherwick-studio/#!prettyPhoto