India-based steelmaker Tata Steel has announced that it has almost halved energy costs at its steel facility in Düsseldorf after building an innovative new power plant. The combined heat and power plant will reduce the site's annual energy costs by about €1 million and cut emissions of CO2 by almost 50 percent. The power station is the company's first of its type and has been built on the premises of Hille & Müller, part of Tata Steel's plating business.
"In future we will be able to produce about half of our own electricity in Düsseldorf - about 13,000 megawatt hours per year. This is equivalent to supplying almost 3,000 households with electricity", said Friedmar Schittko, managing director of Hille & Müller.