Aenert news. Industrial toursAmager Bakke, also known as Copenhill, is a combined heat and power waste-to-energy plant and a 85 meter tall recreational facility in Amager, Copenhagen. Amager plant has two biomass-fired blocks: 250,000 tonnes of wood pellets and 1 million tons of wood chips per year. For each ton of waste, Amager Bakke can produce 2.7 MWh of district heating and 0.8 MWh of...
Aenert news. Industrial toursSwedish Volta Trucks built up a company in a few years that would manufacture a new type of electric trucks for transport inside the cities. For four years, the management of Volta Trucks has rapidly built up the company. They developed a new type of electric truck, established themselves in several places in Europe and had everything ready to start manufacturing...
Aenert news. Industrial toursElectric motorcycles, as well as electric cars, are invoked to ensure the full transition of the human community to the use of ecologically clean transport. This requires rethinking many established consumption standards, solving a long list of technical and administrative problems, and significant financial investments. Nevertheless, the global market for electric...
Once upon a time, Volkswagen made the most powerful and fastest production car - the Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4. The objective behind Volkswagen XL1 was completely different – develop the most environmentally friendly hybrid car and hopefully slightly less expensive than Bugatti. Like the Bugatti Veyron, the XL1 owes its existence to Ferdinand Piëch, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche and chairman of the executive board of Volkswagen Group...
15 years ago, in March 2007, the first commercial solar power plant – PS10 (Planta Solar 10) – was put into operation in Sanlucar la Mayor near Andalusia, Spain. Although demonstration power plants with solar concentrators had already been built long before this date, the launch of PS10 marked the beginning of the large-scale development of this sector of solar energy. A tower-type solar power plant has several dozens or hundreds of...
In its news release at the beginning of this year, Itaipu Binational announced a unique development in the energy sector. Central HidroeléctricaItaipú, operated by this company on the border of Paraguay and Brazil, reached a colossal 2.77 billion MWh of accumulated electricity production by the end of 2020, which has not been achieved by any other energy plant in the world. Itaipu Binational is, therefore, a world leader in clean and...
The capital of Bavaria is filled with historic routes which over the centuries have shaped the modern face of Munich and Germany itself. Numerous craft workshops, which later grew into factories and plants, turned Munich and its surroundings into a powerful industrial innovation center, driving the development of the city. Today, moving around Munich, it is almost impossible not to pass by places that influenced many historic...
Tuscany is an historic area in the West of Italy, between the Ligurian and the Tyrrhenian Seas and the Apuan Alps (Alpi Apuane). The cultural heritage of Tuscany is daunting. It is the birthplace of Dante and Petrarch, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Puccini and Mascagni. This region has accumulated many fine architectural sites and pieces of artwork. Who doesn’t know the silhouettes of the Cathedral of Florence or Pisa, the Uffizi...
