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FACT SHEET
Background: The tri-generation unit at the Coca-Cola HBC Poland bottling plant in Radzymin is
part of a Coca-Cola Hellenic group-wide corporate initiative to increase efficiency and protect
the environment by limiting CO2 emissions which are associated with environmental pollution.
The combined use of electricity, heat and cooling generation guarantees extremely high
efficiency in economical and technical as well as environmental terms and ensures reliability of
energy supply. Natural gas will be the primary source of power for the system. Cogeneration,
also known as “CHP” (Combined Heat and Power), is inherently more energy efficient than
using separate power and heat generating sources, making it an effective anti-pollution strategy.
A CHP system operates at 80-90% efficiency compared to the average 35% efficiency of
traditional power plants. Tri-generation is an energy and power production technology that takes
cogeneration an extra step forward. It produces heat and power as well as chilled water, e.g. for
production processes through the addition of absorption chillers that take the waste heat from
cogeneration.
Environmental benefits resulting from the use of CHP and tri-generation systems include cuts in
emissions of gases created during the burning of fossil fuels into the atmosphere – by using
natural gas, characterised by low waste emission, as fuel, the Radzymin plant will reduce air
pollution from gases and dusts. The use of tri-generation technology will allow the Radzymin
plant to reduce its carbon footprint – the total amount of emissions of greenhouse gases
generated directly or indirectly during the production of three energies – by more than four
times.
In January 2008, Coca-Cola Hellenic announced plans to reduce annual CO2 emissions by
more than 20% across all of its production facilities through the development of such energyefficient power plants. The tri-generation plants will supply highly efficient, clean electricity as
well as hot and chilled water to 15 Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling facilities in Austria, Czech
Republic, Greece, Italy (2 installations), Northern Ireland, Poland, Romania (2 installations), and
Slovakia in the European Union, as well as in Nigeria, Russia (2 installations), Serbia and
Ukraine. Surplus electricity from the new units will be delivered to the national power grids.
The first Coca-Cola Hellenic combined heat and power plant of was inaugurated in March 2006
at Coca-Cola HBC Hungary’s bottling plant in Dunaharaszti. It was the first of its kind to be
introduced in the European soft drinks industry, and in its first year of operation, reduced CO 2
emissions by 43%, or 18,000 tonnes of CO2,. In October 2009, Coca-Cola Hellenic inaugurated
its second CHP unit at its bottling plant in Ploesti, Romania. This unit, the first of two to be
constructed in Romania, is capable of reducing CO2 emissions at the plant by at least 40%.
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On top of supplying the bottling plant itself with highly efficient electricity, heat and cooling for
soft drink production, the unit delivers clean electricity to the local grid, providing energy efficient
power for the surrounding community in Ploiesti. A second Romanian CHP plant is planned for
the Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling plant in Timisoara.
The 15 Coca-Cola HBC tri-generation plants are being built in a partnership with Coca-Cola
Hellenic by US energy company, ContourGlobal and will have a combined capacity of 58 MW.
The total investment of Coca-Cola Hellenic into these systems has been estimated at
approximately EUR 225 million. The plants will use GE Energy Jenbacher gas engine
cogeneration units, fuelled by natural gas. On top of its Jenbacher JMS 620 GS-N.L systems,
including heat recovery from jacket water, intercooler and oil, GE Energy will also provide its
DIA.NEXT control system for the units.
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