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SPECIAL NEWS A NEW OLD CONTINENT EUROPE CONTINENT A NEW OLD Magazine of ANDRITZ Hydro // 5-2019 ANDRITZ Hydro Magazine of HYDRO PB COUNTRY REPORT SPECIAL EDITION EUROPE HYDRONEWS HYDRONEWS SPECIAL EDITION EUROPE FACTS 1 24 20 AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT: To view videos, illustrations and picture galleries in a more direct and lively way, we added aug- mented reality to several articles! Download our ANDRITZ AR APP on our website or in the AppStore/ PlayStore! SCAN THE MARKED PAGES AND EX PERIENCE THE ENHANCED CONTENT. 30 CONTACT US: [email protected] Online Magazine: Subscribe: THANKS TO ALL COLLEAGUES WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS ISSUE (in alphabetical order) Jörg Anhofer, Rudolf Bauernhofer, Sergio Contreras, Robert Feyrer, Kristian Glemmestad, Martin Hamer, Veronique Hill, Gerald Kraxner, Miroslav Kubin, Antti Kultanen, Thomas Locher, Borja Mateos, Vera Müllner, Stefan Olsson, Etienne Parkinson, Andreas Rammler, Norbert Salomon, Mirjam Sick, Michael Stadler, Andreas Stauber, Peter Stettner, Alexander Schwab, Norbert Schwarz, Akgun Turgay, Kai Wellhäuser, Hans Wolfhard, Esther Zumstein 2 TABLE OF CONTENT SPECIAL EDITION EUROPE HYDRONEWS CONTENT EUROPE is a 4 Europe Facts in Short figure of Greek 5 Editorial, Imprint mythology, the 58 At a glimpse: Hydropower in Europe daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor and the COVER STORY Telephassa. 6 A New Old Continent Zeus fell in love Europe with her and ab- ducted her dis- guised as a bull. SPECIAL TOPICS 20 Cutting Edge: Manufacturing for a Demanding Market 24 Technology, Leadership & Innovation: Facing the Challenges of the Future 30 For a Better Performance: Digitalization with Focus on data driven solutions 34 High Head Turbines: Meeting new Performances 38 ANDRITZ’ Footprint in the European Pumped Storage Market 50 Low Head Turbines: Fit for the Future 53 Big and Bigger: ANDRITZ Engineered Pumps 6 COUNTRY REPORTS COVERSTORY A New Old Continent 14 Austria Europe 16 Germany 18 Switzerland 22 Czech Republic 23 Finland 38 26 France 28 Georgia 29 Kazakhstan 32 Italy 36 Norway 40 Portugal 42 Spain 44 South East Europe 46 Sweden 48 Turkey 52 Ukraine 56 United Kingdom HYDRONEWS SPECIAL EDITION EUROPE TABLE OF CONTENT 3 915 mio. people third most populous continent 225 indigenous languages 10,180,000 km2 15,900 (3,930,000 sq mile) Employees 113 2% Locations of the earth surface Hydro 6.8% Land area Russia 3,800 (17,100,000 km2, Employees 40% of Europe) largest country 6 of the world Geographical 29 territories Locations 9 47 Manufacturing Countries facilities 5 5 of top 10 Laboratories Vatican Richest (0.44 km2) countries smallest country 1805 of the world Foundation year Source: The World Bank, The World Atlas / © sdecoret-stock.adobe.com, © enigmanic-stock.adobe.com, © rashadashurov-stock.adobe.com © enigmanic-stock.adobe.com, / © sdecoret-stock.adobe.com, Atlas Bank, The World The World Source: 4 FACTS IN SHORT SPECIAL EDITION EUROPE HYDRONEWS Dear Business Friend, Europe is a small, diverse and wealthy continent. It is home to more than 900 million people. Widely considered the cradle of western civilization, European scientists and engineers led the world in the discovery and application of many of the scientific and engineering advances that we take for granted now – including pioneering hydropower engineering. Today, much of Europe’s existing hydropower potential has already been developed and the bulk of this capacity is already 50 years old or more. Not only are their components reaching the end of their service life, there is also a growing need for hydropower to meet new demands from a changing energy landscape increasingly dominated by renewables like wind and solar. As a result, Europe’s hydropower market is broadly characterized by the modernization and rehabilitation of existing plants. A few selected greenfield projects are being realized, in particular where there is a premium on flexible capacity like pumped storage – the only economically feasible method of large-scale energy storage. IMPRINT: Publisher: ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH, Most of Europe’s countries have committed to a sustainable, emission- A-1120 Vienna, free future and are widely expected to increase the use of renewables Eibesbrunnergasse 20, Austria Phone: +43 50805 0 until at least mid-century. Hydropower and technologies like pumped E-Mail: [email protected] storage do, and will continue to play an essential role in delivering clean, Responsible for the content: stable, and flexible capacity capable of balancing other renewable Alexander Schwab, Jens Päutz sources. Hydropower’s position at the heart of the energy transition is Art Director and Editorship: Marie-Antoinette Sailer therefore secured. Graphics Design: Judith Heimhilcher (Graphic Agency) From its first foundations, ANDRITZ has always been at the forefront Copyright: 2019, ANDRITZ HYDRO of the hydropower business and the development of innovative tech- GmbH. All rights reserved. Circulation: 7,400 nologies. From large pumped storage plants in the alpine regions to Printed in: English, German, French run-of-river installations on major European rivers or the first Atlantic Coverpicture: © Ronny Behnert- tidal-power applications, ANDRITZ has proven its expertise over more stock.adobe.com than a century of continuous engineering excellence and the 190 GW Printed on FSC paper; of European hydropower capacity that have already been installed or ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH; rehabilitated by ANDRITZ. Printed at WGA Print-Producing, 6911 Lochau, www.wga.cc The origins of the modern hydropower story lie in Europe. Today, the next chapter is being written in this new, old, dynamic, and still-emerging DATA PROTECTION: Responsible use of personal data continent. is an important topic at ANDRITZ. As the EU General Data Protec- This edition of Hydro News offers a glimpse into Europe’s hydro power tion Regulation (GDPR) entered into market, its role in a modern, low-carbon world and the continuing lead- force on May 25, 2018, we would like to inform you that the per sonal ership of ANDRITZ in hydropower technology and project execution. data you have provided to us is only processed in our company in our mutual interest, to establish a business relationship or carry out business transactions. We shall be pleased to inform you at any time what kind of personal data we Alexander Schwab process and why. For detailed in- Senior Vice President ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH formation on our electronic data processing and your rights in this respect can be found in our data privacy declaration: www.andritz.com/privacy-policy HYDRONEWS SPECIAL EDITION EUROPE EDITORIAL & IMPRINT 5 A NEW OLD CONTINENT EUROPE CONTINENT A NEW OLD © Lizzi 25-stock.adobe.com © Lizzi 6 COVER STORY SPECIAL EDITION EUROPE HYDRONEWS urope is an old continent, home to many western civilizations of legend and awe. Birthplace of the Renaissance, the age of exploration, and the science revo- Elution – for more than 2,000 years the feats of Greeks, Celts, Romans, Vikings, and their descen- dants have played out on the stage of world his- tory. Many of the major technological inventions that today span the globe were first explored and developed in Europe. The continent’s outstanding people have played no small part in building the modern world and to this day Europe remains an important global influence on world culture, poli- tics and its economy. Ground-breaking technological, as well as human and social, de- velopment continues in this extremely diverse and complex conti- nent. Modern, sophisticated global companies make Europe their home and leading European figures continue to influence future global energy strategy. Europe is and always has been, a bridge from old to new. Europe is the westernmost part of the Eurasian continent and is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas to the south as well as the Ural mountain range and river in the East. With an area of 10,180,000 km2, Europe is the world’s second smallest continent, but one of the most densely populous. It is home to more than 900 million people. Europe has the largest economy in the world, representing one- third of the total global wealth. It is home to the EU-28, the larg- est single economic area in the world, and Europe also includes five countries ranking in the top 10 of the world's largest national econ- omies in GDP (PPP). This includes Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and Italy. The average living standards are the high- est in the world and in the world’s history. HYDRONEWS SPECIAL EDITION EUROPE COVER STORY 7 Europe – the cradle of hydropower Using the flow and fall of water to facili- tate labor is as old as civilization. The first documented water wheels date back more than 2,500 years and water has been used for agriculture, irrigation, and grist-, saw- and textile mills since ancient times. The ability to take advantage of water with Since the Greeks implemented technology goes hand in hand with the the Archimedes screw in about development of civilizations and econo- 200 BC, the development of hydro- mies throughout history. power technology has largely taken place in Europe. The Romans used water wheels and invented the boat mills, in use in Europe until the Middle Ages. It was during the course of the science revolution in the 17th and 18th Centuries that the evolution from the water wheel to the turbine took place. European academics set the course. German doctor and physicist Johann Andreas von Segner invented the Segner water wheel, a kind of reaction turbine. Ancestor to the modern turbine, the Segner wheel is still used for sprinkler systems today. Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler come up with the “turbine equation” in 1 75 7. This describes the flow of frictionless elastic fluids, a fundamental calculation for turbine engineering.