Projects
News: 11.01.2013 11:00
The certification of the Ruppoldingen hydroelectric power station with the quality label "naturemade star" bears fruit: Since with money from the green electricity fund, over the last two years numerous pools and ponds have been revitalised and built, river banks renaturised and new biotopes created. Since 2010 support grants of a total of around ...
News: 18.09.2012 07:00
Industrielle Werke Basel (IWB) will become a new partner in the Nant de Drance pumped storage power station currently under construction. Alpiq is to sell IWB a 15 per cent stake in Nant de Drance SA. With this, the company will hold a 39 per cent interest in the project.
News: 07.09.2012 11:45
With yesterday’s completion of the drilling of the access tunnel to the future Nant de Drance pumped storage power station in Châtelard (canton of Vaud, VS), the partners of this project − Alpiq, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), and FMV – have achieved an important milestone. Hence an underground connection now exists between the lower and upper ...
News: 07.02.2011 18:00
On 20 December 2010 Forces Motrices Hongrin-Léman SA (FMHL) was granted a construction permit for the FMHL+ project. The project aims to install two additional turbine groups in an underground cavern near Veytaux power station to increase the installed capacity from 240 to 480 Megawatts, of which 60 Megawatts will be used as reserve power. This ...
News: 02.02.2011 15:00
The companies EČS - Elektrárna Čechy-Střed and ČEPS have agreed to cooperate in the connection of the planned combined cycle (CCGT) power plant near Mochov in Central Bohemia. The signed contract on the future connection of the new CCGT source to the CZ transmission system defines conditions and individual steps of the preparation and ...
News: 28.01.2011 10:30
The responsible authorities have authorised the 3CA Project for the construction and operation of a gas-fired combined-cycle power station in the commune of Monchy-au-Bois in Northern France. If everything goes according to plan, construction could still start in 2011 and the plant could be switched on to the grid already in 2014.
News: 24.01.2011 10:30
Alpiq has put the Vetrocom wind park into commercial operation. The 20 wind turbines in central Bulgaria are connected to the grid and are supplying green electricity. On 16 December 2010, the Alpiq Board of Directors agreed to an extension of the wind park.
