business plan for 2004 - EDP

2003 - Annual Report - EDP
The Soporgen plant has been in service since 2000 and
its equipment will reach the 30 000 hours threshold
during the first quarter of 2004. It has proved possible
to ensure extremely regular supplies of electrical and
thermal energy due to the very small number of
operating incidents.
During April 2003, the final handing-over took place of
the supply and construction of the plant under the
contract entered into in 1999 with ABB/Alstom Power.
The Energin plant will have reached the 20 000-hour
mark during the second quarter of 2004, and three
distinct working periods were seen during the year
under review.
Several technical improvements were introduced
between January and March, and progress was made in
the performance of the plant.
The plant worked under normal operating conditions
up to October when there was a serious breakdown of
an item of auxiliary equipment of the 60 kV substation
as a result of which the gas turbine was unavailable up
to the last day of the month. On start-up, there were
several technical hitches of various kinds and the plant
came into normal working condition only towards the
end of December
The net generation of the EDP cogeneration facilities in
2003 totalled 679 GWh, 89 GWh more than in 2002,
having supplied 147 GWh to the Grid (9% more than
the previous year).
Services
• Within the scope of EDP Produção EM, the focus is
on:
a) the conclusion of the Quality Management System
development and implementation program;
b) the obtaining by EM of the General Quality Manager
brand, awarded by the National Civil Engineering
Laboratory, given the maximum class (8) in every
category;
c) the activities within the scope of the major investment
projects, notwithstanding the fact that the two major
hydroelectric undertakings in which EDP Produção
EM has been engaged for several years are in their
final stage – Alqueva and the increase of the power of
Venda Nova II – and that group 1 of the TER has
already come into experimental service. Both these
projects still involved substantial resources in 2003, in
addition to those allocated to the activities of group 2
of the TER and of the Pedrogão plant, which is at the
stage of intensive development;
d) the signature of a programme-contract with CPPE
covering the power-station operation support services,
consultancy, management, supervision, and commissioning
of works, as well as non-recurrent maintenance
work on the above mentioned power stations;
e) the programme-contract entered into with ENERNOVA
covering the study, design, management and supervision
of the construction of wind farms;
f) the activities linked to the environmental requalification
of power stations and, in particular, the
contacts and negotiations with CPPE in respect of the
Sines power station, and with HidroCantábrico in
respect of the Aboño and Soto Ribera power stations.
The latter is the first case of the provision of services to
this EDP Group subsidiary, providing expectations of
further developments; and
g) in international business, management of the increase
of the power of the FAFEN cogeneration plant (stage
II), the provision of services within the scope of the
NOx reduction project at the Coloane A power station
in Macao, and the revision of the design and call for
tender processes involving the rehabilitation of the
Matala dam for ENE (Angola);
• In the sphere of action of O&M Serviços, the focus is
on:
a) the enlargement of the company’s business, with a
focus on the fact that the end of 2003 O&M Serviços
was providing operation and maintenance services at
the Mortágua power station, at the Soporgen, Energin
and Carriço cogeneration plants, at the Fonte da Mesa
and Pena Suar wind farms, and at the Sines, Setúbal,
Carregado and Barreiro power stations; and
b) the signature of the provision of technical assistance
services to the PRM and PM of Energin / Solvay with
Transgás.
• Tergen
During 2003 Tergen’s business was directed at meeting
the goals established in respect of the organisation,
training, selection and recruitment of the human
resources required to operate and maintain the TER.
Project monitoring activities were also undertaken and
technical support was provided to the Company
promoting this power station.
• HidrOeM
The object of HidrOeM is the joint management and
operation of the EDP Group’s hydroelectric generating
assets, presently integrated into the SEI.
Within the scope of the reorganisation of EDP
Produção, the human resources and the duties
previously entrusted to HDN, Hidrocenel and the
O&M area of EDP Energia were transferred to
HidrOeM and the material resources necessary to the
exercise of this activity were also assigned.
HidrOeM was integrated into CPPE on January 1, 2004.
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