THE GROUP

Engineering and Consulting Services

Worldwide

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The Fichtner Group

Established in 1922

Germany's largest independent engineering and consulting company

Over 1000 employees worldwide

Working for public- and private-sector infrastructure service providers with the focus on utilities

Total turnover of 68 million euros in 2003 (consolidated)

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Worldwide presence

We are represented in over 50 countries with subsidiaries and affiliates, branches and project offices

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Fichtner's areas of activity

Power Power generation • Solar thermal power Power transmission and distribution Energy economics • Energy management

Environment Environmental Impact Assessments • Emissions trading Air pollution control • Waste management • Waste treatment plants

Water & Infrastructure Drinking water supply • Wastewater disposal and treatment Structural engineering • Traffic, transportation and civil engineering

Consulting & IT Organization and strategy consulting • Privatizations • Studies Infrastructure management • IT consulting and IT services

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Range of engineering services Decision-making phase

Energy supply studies, technical and economic feasibility studies, site evaluation studies, system optimizations to preproject planning

Engineering and contract award Conceptual design, project financing, specifications, bid evaluations, contract award recommendations and negotiations, contract preparation and permit applications, as well as due diligence studies for financing institutions.

Implementation phase Project management, technical assistance and supervision of detail design, erection, installation, commissioning, and warranty support

Operation Operation management concepts, management of environment, risks and quality, maintenance scheduling, operating information systems, optimization of deployment

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The companies of the Fichtner Group Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG (Home Office), Stuttgart Fichtner Bauconsulting GmbH, Stuttgart Fichtner Consulting & IT AG, Stuttgart Fichtner Solar GmbHFichtner Solar GmbH, , StuttgartStuttgart Beller Consult GmbH, Freiburg FSE Portfolio Management GmbH, Hürth GefaÖ mbH, Walldorf IKG Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG, Mannheim WTL Wassertechnik Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig Fichtner Consulting Engineers Ltd., Manchester RESA - Recuperación de Energía S.A., Barcelona Fichtner Polska Sp. z.o.o., Warsaw Fichtner Italia s.r.l., Genoa Fichtner Romelectro Engineering S.A., Bucharest Fichtner Consulting & IT Slovakia, Bratislava Fichtner Asia Pte Ltd., Singapore Fichtner Consulting Engineers (India) Pvt. Ltd., Chennai Fichtner Pacific Engineers Inc., Taipei

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Power

Engineering services for:

400 thermal power plants total capacity 90 000 MW

Power transmission/distribution projects 30 000 km line length, 0.200 - 500 kV

Commercialization in the power sector Due diligence studies and project evaluations for privatization, mergers and acquisitions, IPP projects, organizational restructuring projects.

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Fichtner Solar

Fichtner Solar GmbH has been founded in 1999 as an independent company within the Fichtner group.

All solar energy activities will be managed under the full responsibility of Fichtner Solar GmbH, using in integrated teams the manpower resources and the competence from all members of the complete Fichtner group.

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Solar Power

25 projects for solar thermal power studies, engineering, specifications, development of IPP projects

Solar power projects in ten countries

Engineering for three of the four GEF supported large Solar Thermal Power Plants India, Morocco and Egypt

Own Solar Performance Calculation Software Computer program SOLPRO refined method of integrating solar and fossil generation solved the “ISCC crisis”

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Fresnel concentrators • BMU sponsored development program • lower material cost but lower efficiency

Technology: Fresnel, dishes, tower

Power tower • interesting technology due to • high efficiencies and storage • more R&D needed

Parabolic dish with heat engine • highest efficiencies (close to 30%) • suitable for distributed power applications

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1907: Invented in Stuttgart

1912: 55 kW by Shuman in Egypt

1984-1990: 354 MW by Luz in California

1998 - 2003: EuroTrough / Skal-Et

Technology: Parabolic Troughs

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Gas turbine 60 MW

Exhaust 600°C

Steam turbine 35 MW

Condenser

Steam 540°C, 100bar

Stack Exhaust 100°C

Electricity to the grid

Air and vapour

Air Air

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HRSG

Cooling Tower

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Combined Cycle

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ISCC

Gas turbine 60 MW

Exhaust 600°C

Steam turbine 55 MW

Condenser

Steam 540°C, 100bar

395°C

Electricity to the grid

220’000 m² Parabolic Trough Field

295°C

Storage

Air and vapour

Air Air

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HRSG Solar HX

Cooling Tower

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Stack Exhaust 100°C