New Energy for Hungary

Making life more enjoyable and offering our customers competitive and reliable services that bring them advantages and benefits - this is the aim of E.ON. The basis of all our efforts is our experience and skill. With over 80,000 E.ON employees worldwide, we are making day-to-day life easier in many households and businesses. E.ON has been active in Hungary for over 10 years, supplying nearly 3 million customers with electricity and gas in 15 regions.

The latest technology - clean and efficient

E.ON creates a basis for services of the highest quality. E.ON Erőművek Kft., the Budapest-based subsidiary of E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH in Hanover, Germany, is planning a major investment project in Hungary: The most modern combined cycle power station in the country will be built in Gönyü. The site of this combined cycle power plant lies close to the dynamic industrial city of Győr and will supply over 600,000 households with electricity - efficiently and reliably throughout the whole year.

Natural gas - An environmentally friendly energy source

The Gönyü power plant has been designed as a combined cycle power plant with an efficiency of 58%. The high efficiency results from the combination of a gas turbine system and a steam turbine system. In addition, natural gas is an extremely environmentally friendly energy source with comparatively modest CO2 emission levels. Of fossil fuels, such as crude oil, lignite or coal, natural gas has the lowest emission levels. It is almost entirely sulphur-free, and it contains neither fluorine nor chlorine.

Energy for the future

The planned power plant in Gönyü will be an important component of an environmentally conscious, reliable, and trend-setting energy supply system in Hungary. On the one hand, the capacity of older power plants that are scheduled to be phased out in the next few years will need to be replaced. On the other hand, Hungary's energy demand will continue to rise. The construction of new power plants will, therefore, reduce Hungary's dependence on electricity imports.

Energy for the regions

The location of the combined cycle power plant will also play a significant role in supply security. Currently, there is no large energy-generating plant in northwestern Hungary that is able to run 24 hours a day and can be operated flexibly. Electricity produced by the Gönyü power plant will be fed into the high-voltage line (400kV), which allows for the reliable and all-year-round supply of the dynamically growing region of Győr and its surroundings. The project is currently in the licensing phase, the high-efficiency plant is expected to start operation in 2010. Subsequently, the Gönyü power plant will generate approximately 2 billion kWh of electricity each year. The modern and attractive architectural solutions used mean that the power plant will blend in well with its environment.