A planned biomass power plant could cover around 50 percent of the steam requirements at the chemical park and feed around 130,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of climate-neutral electricity into the public grid.

All information on the Biosteam Gendorf project can be found at www.gendorf.de/biomasseheizkraftwerk.  

Project status: Approval phase
Potential: 50 percent of steam demand

Through the use of geothermal energy, approximately 5-10 % of heat demands could be covered. Heat from the depths offers many advantages:

- Renewable energy production and added value directly on site 
- Very low land consumption
- Base-load capable energy, with a 24/7 availability 
- Independence from fuel imports from abroad and from fluctuating fuel costs 
- Local and temporally independent renewable heat supply 

Project status: Application documents submitted to secure a so-called "permit field for deep geothermal energy" in the area of the chemical park and the adjacent area.
Potential: 5-10 % of heat demand

Almost all production processes in the GENDORF Chemical Park generate waste heat. Where technically possible, this should be used secondarily for heating purposes. Since the late 1990s, InfraServ Gendorf has had a pipeline between a heat exchanger on the air compressor and the power plant to preheat the water for high-pressure steam generation. Ideally, all buildings in the chemical park should gradually be connected to the hot water heating network based on this line. 

Project status: Review of technical and economic feasibility 
Potential: 5% of the heat demand

To generate the process steam needed in the chemical park, higher temperatures are required than for pure heating purposes (at least 200° C). A high-temperature heat pump powered by renewable electricity could bridge this gap between the water extracted from geothermal energy, for example, and thus help ensure the current highly available and efficient full steam supply at various temperature and pressure levels. 

Project status: Review of technical and economic feasibility
Potential: Between 5-30 % of the heat demand

A project is currently underway at the GENDORF Chemical Park to record and evaluate all areas suitable for the installation of PV systems, both on buildings and, for example, on parking lots. Areas outside the CPG are also being examined. A further ten percent of the total electricity demand could be covered by PV systems.

Project status: Review of technical and economic feasibility.
Potential: 10% of the electricity demand

Biomethane or biogas is another energy source from renewable raw materials or waste that can be used to generate heat and electricity. With this, 10-30% of the heat demand of the chemical park could be covered.

Despite all efforts to achieve a regional energy supply possible, it will not be possible to cover the chemical park's enormous annual energy requirements of one terawatt hour of electricity with all of these measures. Up to 80 percent of climate-neutral electricity will still have to be purchased. Further expansion of the power grid infrastructure, in particular a second 380kV will be necessary to transport this green electricity to the chemical park.

The GENDORF Chemical Park therefore also supports the "Rückenweind ChemDelta" project. Current considerations are underway to build a wind farm with 40 turbines in the Öttinger State Forest to generate electricity. The Bavarian state government is talking about the largest "onshore" wind farm in Germany. Before this can happen, however, extensive studies must be carried out to assess the wind power potential and thus the profitability of the project for a (private) operator. In the end, ten percent of the electricity required by the chemical park could be obtained from there.