Electricity, heat and cold energy supply for Coca-Cola bottling plant

Development and construction CHP power plant including all-round energy supply

The VPP team successfully completed Coca-Cola's first European decentralized small-scale power plant in just 100 days. The CHP power plant, powered by a gas engine, satisfies the Coca-Cola bottling plant’s demand for technological cold and hot energy ; in addition, it satisfies the demand of the onsite facilities for heating and air conditioning energy , with the highest resource efficiency. A total of 350 specialists worked on the 600 m2 investment.

General information

Location: Coca-Cola plant in Dunaharaszti
Heat consumer: Coca-Cola Magyarország Kft.
Electricity off-take by: feed-in tariff schemes MAVIR-KÁT, while open-market trading from 2011
Investment value: approx. € 9.2 million
Construction completed: within 100 days

Installed capacity and technical data

Total installed electrical power: 9,123 kW
Total installed heat power: 8,040 kW
Total installed cooling power: 3,000 kW
Size of heat storage (110°C/80°C): 600 m3
Quantity of stored heat: 21 MWh

Production data

Annual electricity production: 47 GWh
Annual heat production: 44.4 GWh

Applied technology

Gas engines: 3 x GE Jenbacher JMS 620
Absorption refrigerators: 3 x Carrier 16JB

Extra heat storage capacity

The 600 m3 heat storage equipment provides a heat storage capacity of 21 MWh, which enables the separation of electricity and heat energy services resulting in flexible operating hours.