Energy efficiency
Coal gasification technology, biomass co-gasification and the utilisation of residual heat are our priorities for achieving an efficient and clean use of fossil fuels.
Our current energy supply depends largely on fossil sources. The technological and creative challenge for the future is to use fossil sources more efficiently and cleanly through innovation. Existing technologies that contribute towards this aim include the utilisation of residual heat and combined heat/power systems. Cooling, coal gasification, large-scale biomass co-gasification and CO2 capture are relatively new technologies that Nuon is vigorously pursuing and promoting.Alongside technical applications, the optimisation of business processes makes a contribution towards efficiency improvements. In 2005 Nuon introduced Lean. This is a working method aimed at improving quality, lead time and productivity. To improve the latter, Lean seeks to reduce waste and inefficiencies as well as to break through fixed patterns of people and resources in order to realise better working procedures. In 2006 Lean was introduced at all power stations as part of the drive to improve efficiency.
