Lowering carbon footprint with integrated heat pump solutions

♦ Mitsubishi Power Europe powers the market with integrated heat pump solutions for district heating with greater flexibility and security of supply.

♦ The Company, together with partners, will develop the first large-scale heat pump to date in Germany.  

Duisburg, October 14, 2021 – Mitsubishi Power Europe and Johnson Controls, the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, have joined forces to develop an integrated heat pump solution for a power plant conversion in Stuttgart-Münster, Germany, operated by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG. The two companies will be working closely together, combining the heat pump manufacturing expertise of Johnson Controls and the technological know-how of Mitsubishi Power Europe. 

The order will be realized as part of a fuel switch project in which the previous district heating generation with coal-fired steam boilers is to be replaced by more environmentally friendly generation capacities. With a thermal output of approx. 20 MW, Mitsubishi Power Europe will establish the first major heat pump in Germany, enabling EnBW to reduce its carbon footprint significantly. It is expected that approximately 15,000 tons of CO2 can be saved per year utilizing this solution. The pilot plant will for the first time, extract heat from cooling water that was previously discharged unused into the Neckar River. The plant thus sets new standards for the use of waste heat for the decarbonization of district heating.

“Heat pumps are essential in the energy transformation. We are proud to be the key provider in the business to offer integrated heat pump solutions for any industrial application, ensuring the highest reliability, efficiency and smart systems for our clients and partners”, says Andreas Rupp, Head of Sales Business Unit Service at Mitsubishi Power Europe. 

Rainer Schild, Johnson Controls General Manager in Germany, adds, “Large heat pumps in this high output segment are still an exception in Europe, and we are extremely pleased to have Mitsubishi Power Europe on our side in this one-of-a-kind project. This collaboration will help achieve incredible energy efficiency results and pave the way to a sustainable, net-zero future.”

“Becoming climate neutral is our ultimate goal. It is a particular challenge to decarbonize not only the electricity market but also the heat supply. We are pleased to contribute to this goal with the heat pump project in Stuttgart”, says Marc Jüdes, head of the district heating department at EnBW.

This is already the third heat pump order Mitsubishi Power Europe received in less than two years and marks a further step in expanding its product portfolio towards the new market requirements. 

PRESS CONTACT

Claudia Wedemann

Mitsubishi Power Europe GmbH
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About Mitsubishi Power in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Mitsubishi Power is a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI). Today, there are more than 1,000 employees across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with centers of excellence in Germany, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, in addition to customer support capabilities in countries across the region. Mitsubishi Power designs, manufactures and maintains equipment and systems that drive decarbonization and ensures the delivery of reliable power. Among its solutions are a wide range of gas turbines, including hydrogen-fuelled gas turbines and solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), and an experienced services business with an extensive reach across the entire region. Committed to providing exemplary service and working with customers, Mitsubishi Power's TOMONI™ intelligent solutions leverages advanced analytics, adaptive control technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning to make power plants smarter, lowering emissions, increasing flexibility and supporting decarbonization. 

For more information, please visit: https://power.mhi.com/regions/emea/

About Mitsubishi Power

Mitsubishi Power is a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI). Across more than 30 countries worldwide, Mitsubishi Power designs, manufactures and maintains equipment and systems that drive decarbonization and ensure delivery of reliable power around the world. Among its solutions are a wide range of gas turbines including hydrogen-fueled gas turbines, solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), and air quality control systems (AQCS). Committed to providing exemplary service and working with customers to imagine the future of energy, Mitsubishi Power is also spearheading the development of the digital power plant through its suite of AI-enabled TOMONI_TM solutions.

For more information, please visit https://power.mhi.com.

About Johnson Controls

At Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI), we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet. 

With a history of more than 135 years of innovation, Johnson Controls delivers the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, manufacturing and beyond through its comprehensive digital offering, OpenBlue. With a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world's largest portfolio of building technology, software as well as service solutions with some of the most trusted names in the industry. For more information, visit www.johnsoncontrols.de or follow us @johnsoncontrols on Twitter.

About Energie Baden-Württemberg AG

EnBW is one of the largest utility companies in Germany and Europe, with a workforce of 24,000 employees. It supplies electricity, gas, water together with infrastructure and energy-related products and services to around 5.5 million customers. Expansion of renewables is a cornerstone of EnBW’s growth strategy and therefore a major focus of capital expenditure. Since the beginning of its corporate transformation, EnBW has invested some €4.7 billion in its Renewable Energies segment. About a further €4 billion is to be invested in the further expansion of wind and solar energy and also in fuel switch activities by 2025. Installed renewable energy capacity  accounted for around 40% of EnBW’s  generation portfolio by the end of 2020 and is targeted to reach 50% by the end of 2025. This is already having a noticeable impact in terms of reducing CO2 emissions, which EnBW plans to halve by 2030. EnBW aims to attain climate neutrality by 2035.