Siemens hensætter milliarder: Ørsted skal have repareret hundredvis af møller
Erhverv - 23.02.2018 kl. 00:05
Ørsted risikerer at skulle have repareret vingerne på mere end 600 havvindmøller.
Kasper Brøndgaard Andersen

Ørsted skal have repareret op mod 2.000 vindmøllevinger, fordi forkanten på vingerne efter bare få år til havs er slidt ned.

Selskabet har i alt 646 havvindmøller fra Siemens Gamesa, som potentielt kan være påvirket i forskelligt omfang, bekræfter Ørsted over for Finans.

Vindmølleejeren vil ikke oplyse regningen, men fortæller, at den finansielle betydning er »lille«.

Siemens Gamesa vil heller ikke kommentere økonomien, men selskabets danske datterselskab har netop hensat 4,5 mia. kr. eller 16 pct. af omsætningen til primært garantiforpligtelser.

Til sammenligning hensætter Vestas mindre end 2 pct. af omsætningen. Set over de sidste fire år har Siemens Gamesa herhjemme hensat knap 20 mia. kr.

»Det er alvorligt store hensættelser i forhold til, hvad der burde være normen i den her industri. Det er altså komponenter, der er solgt efter, at de skulle kunne bruges de næste 20 år,« siger Jacob Pedersen, aktieanalytiker hos Sydbank.

Mens Ørsted ser ud til at slippe billigt på den korte bane, fordi der fortsat er garanti på mange af møllerne, så er spørgsmålet, hvad der sker, hvis der opstår nye problemer.

»Vi kender ikke kontrakterne og ved ikke, hvor længe Siemens Gamesa hænger på regningen,« siger Gert Nielsen, partner i Bedstpension, der følger nøje med i pensionskassernes investeringer i bl.a. havvindmølleparker.

»Det kan selvfølgelig være ubehageligt for dem, når producenternes garantier udløber,« siger han.

Ørsteds problemer betyder bl.a., at knap 300 vinger på den rekorddyre havvindmøllepark ved Anholt efter bare få års drift skal pilles af, sejles i land og transporteres til Siemens Gamesas fabrik i Aalborg.

Her repareres de og får monteret en gummiliste på forkanten, så de bedre kan holde til det hårde vejr. Samtidig får de en mindre modifikation, så de gerne skulle blive mere effektive.

Det er dog langtfra kun Anholt-parken, der er berørt. Vingerne på flere britiske Ørsted-parker skal også repareres efter bare få år på vandet.

Den samlede regning er uvis, men ifølge Finans' oplysninger dækker producentens garanti typisk de første fem år. Der har dog været uenighed mellem Ørsted og Siemens Gamesa om, hvorvidt problemerne dækkes af garantien, eller om der er tale om almindelig slitage.

Ørsted skriver i en skriftlig kommentar, at selskabet har fundet en løsning med mølleproducenten, som »samlet set har lille finansiel betydning for os«.

»De specifikke forhold er forskellige, så vi aftaler fra park til park med Siemens Gamesa. Nu går Siemens Gamesa i gang på Anholt,« skriver Nicolaj Mensberg, der er chef for 'operations technology' hos Ørsted, i en mail til Finans.

Peder Riis Nickelsen, teknisk ansvarlig hos Siemens Gamesa, skriver i en mail, at man ikke vil kommentere de økonomiske detaljer eller milliardhensættelserne i det danske selskab.
Mere om Ørsted A/S

https://jyllands-posten.dk/#ia10331940;finans

Just thought it was interesting although it pertains to all units in Europe---only being the fool that I am --MAGA

The Daily Danish
How old is Copenhagen?
The central square of Copenhagen – Rådhuspladsen (City Hall Square) – is undergoing renovation (what else is new?). What they found, however is not all that new. Skeletons. Men’s, women’s, children’s. Some 20 of them indicating that Copenhagen was a settlement of some importance earlier than has been originally believed. Families lived here 1,000 years ago, and their well preserved - albeit bisuit porous - remains are right here just 1 m/3 feet below the asphalt of Denmark’s most busy plaza.
Most have been taken to the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen for closer examination. It is believed that another two layers of even older skeletons are to be found underneath these.

In the same vein, newly discovered scriptures from approximately AD450 with reference to the Danes as a people have been found in Ravenna, Italy.

Foreign Money

We used to print our legal tender ourselves.
This has now been outsourced to Oberthur Fiduciaire in France. Our coins have been made by Mint of Finland since 2016.
Who wants to buy a used money printing machine?

Fines
She’s at it again. Margrethe Vestager, the Danish EU Commissioner of Competition. Three cartels have conspired to make cars more expensive to European consumers.
Shipping companies, brake manufacturers, and manufacturers of spark plugs.
Combined she slammed fines of €546 mio/US$646 mio on them.
What power this woman has! I’m not sure she ever cashes in on all those fines.
Ireland refused to make Apple pay her exorbitant €13 billion/US$15.9 billion fine …

Ghettoplan 2030
– this may be of particular interest to GeraldRube who worries on behalf of Europe, too

This week our government announced a 12-year plan for eradicating the ghettos that have formed in Denmark in particular
and tightening our immigrant policy in general.
DKK12 billion/€1,6 billion/US$2 billion have been set aside to demolish ghetto neighborhoods.
There will be limitations as to high schools’ uptake of students with a foreign background. 50% is estimated to be the maximum.
Towns will be rewarded when they manage to motivate immigrants of non-western background to start educating or secure gainful employment or the like pointing onwards toward contributing to the Danish society.
There will be free mandatory kindergarten for children age 1 and up, and there will be a max of 30% immigrant children in a daycare facility.
There will be language tests for immigrant children at school start and on with offerings of intensive language stimulation in case of insufficient language skills
Schools with poor results will be sanctioned.
Parents will be sanctioned economically if their children are absent from school more than 15% of the time.
Parents will be punished if they send their children on reeducation trips to their original homeland with prison up to four years and possible deportation
Teachers and other caregivers to children will be punished if they don’t report neglect of children
It will be easier to have criminals and their families deported.
Police surveillance will be intensified periodically in at-risk neighborhoods and punishment for crime may be higher there
People of integrity and resources will be preferred for vacant apartments in shaky neighborhoods and people lacking integrity and resources will be discouraged from moving there.
The punishment for repeated domestic violence will be doubled

Pheww! That’s what it has come to

The Daily Danish
Speeding
The special court for cases involving police conduct is busy dealing with traffic offenses where police officers driving their own cars are caught in speed traps.
In 2016 the number was 2.340. In 2017 the number has risen to 2.517.


Pay-by-plate
For many years we have been able to cross the Great Belt Bridge and have the toll withdrawn from our credit cards by using this transmitter installed in the windshield.

Disadvantage: The battery will run out at some point.
Now we’ll have the choice of having our license plates registered for payment and have them checked at the toll booth.
Disadvantage: Our license plates must be kept clean

Wind turbines
We have a professor in Environment Epidemiology at Copenhagen University. Her current research project aims at finding out if heart and circulatory diseases could be directly connected to being subjected to noise from wind turbines for longer periods of time.
Her newly published partial result does not show any decisive evidence that wind turbine noise for shorter periods of time can trigger a blood clot in the heart or a stroke.


Walls
They make walls and fences everywhere. So ein Ding müssen wir auch haben
[a German saying we use a lot in Denmark which means: We must also have such a thing].
A majority in the Danish Paliament has decided to build a fence along the border with Germany. It will be 1.5 m/5 feet high. The purpose of it will be to keep wild boars south of the border. Boars dig, therefore the fence needs to be dug 0.5 m/2 feet into the ground. The pig farmers fear that boars carrying African swine fever will infect our very, very large population of pigs.


Defillibrators delivered by drones
Tests are carried out by the Drone Center at the University of Southern Denmark to see if defibrillators could be shipped by drones in thinly populated areas.
Case in point: Golf clubs. Golfers are often seniors, and the distance between the club house where a defibrillator often would typically installed and the 10th hole may be critical.

Tiger fight
A new male tiger arrived from Moscow Zoo to Copenhagen Zoo three weeks ago and was installed with the Zoo's two tigresses, and they seemed to live a peaceful tiger life all three of them.
But then skirmishes broke out between the male and one of the females. As he tried to tell her who was the boss, he unleashed powers he didn't know he had, and bit her in her head, an injury from which she died very quickly. The male and the second female will now be separated by bars before they will be allowed to run together again.

Monday, 02 April 2018
Johan van Hulst, Who Saved 600 Jewish Children from the Nazis, Dies at 107
Written by Michael Tennant


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Johan van Hulst, Who Saved 600 Jewish Children from the Nazis, Dies at 107
Johan van Hulst (shown), a Dutch professor credited with saving 600 Jewish children from the Holocaust, died in Amsterdam March 22, aged 107.

Born in the Dutch capital on January 28, 1911, van Hulst, who held two master’s degrees and a Ph.D., demonstrated the resourcefulness that would help him stymie the Nazis when the Reformed Teachers’ Training College, the seminary where he taught and served as deputy principal, was stripped of its state funding in 1942. Van Hulst appealed to the students’ parents to fund the school themselves and, leading by example, convinced the teachers to work for very low wages. Soon van Hulst had become principal.

That same year, the Germans began deporting Dutch Jews to concentration camps.

Fortunately, van Hulst’s school was perfectly — one might even say providentially — positioned to offer hundreds of Jewish children a lifeline. Across the street was a former theater that the Nazis were using as a deportation center for Jews. Ironically, it was run by a German-born Jew, Walter Süskind, who soon discovered that he could save some of the children who passed through his portals by reporting fewer arrivals than he actually received, then helping those he hadn’t listed to escape. When the Nazis began using a nursery next door to van Hulst’s school to house the children from Süskind’s center, the means of escape were greatly simplified.

Henriette Pimentel, who ran the nursery, talked parents into letting their children be spirited away from the facility. Then her nurses would pass the children over the hedge separating the nursery and the seminary, where van Hulst and his students would take over.

“A tram ran through the street separating Dr. van Hulst’s school from the theater. Dr. van Hulst and his student helpers waited for the precise moment the tram stopped, temporarily blocking the SS officers’ view of the school, to hide the Jewish children in baskets and sacks,” wrote the Washington Post. “The children would then be taken to their next underground destination.”

It was righteous but dangerous work — so dangerous that van Hulst kept his wife in the dark about it.

There were close calls. In June 1943, an education ministry inspector spotted some youngsters on the seminary campus and asked van Hulst, within earshot of SS officers, “Are those Jewish children?”

After a long pause, van Hulst replied, “You don’t really expect me to answer that, do you?”

The inspector, van Hulst recalled, shook his hand and quietly told him, “In God’s name, be careful.”

The curtain eventually came down on the child-smuggling operation. In July 1943, Pimentel was arrested (she would be killed at Auschwitz three months later), and van Hulst learned that the nursery was going to be closed. He was asked how many of the remaining children he could save before time ran out.

“Now try to imagine 80, 90, perhaps 70 or 100 children standing there, and you have to decide which children to take with you,” van Hulst later recounted. “That was the most difficult day of my life.... You know for a fact that the children you leave behind are going to die. I took 12 with me. Later on I asked myself: ‘Why not 13?’”

“In the spring of 1945,” reported the Post, “one of the collaborators in the operation was arrested and tortured into giving up Dr. van Hulst’s name.” Van Hulst went into hiding just minutes before the Nazis arrived to arrest him, remaining underground until the Netherlands was liberated in May.

After the war, van Hulst served in the Dutch Senate for 25 years and in the European Parliament for seven. According to the BBC, “He remained active in politics and education, writing hundreds of publications by hand and winning a chess tournament at the age of 99. His old school now houses the National Holocaust Museum.”

In 1972, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem named van Hulst one of the Righteous Among the Nations for his work in saving Jewish lives.

Van Hulst’s wife, Anna, died in 2006. He is survived by two daughters, two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren — plus hundreds, if not thousands, of people whose parents and grandparents would otherwise have perished at the hands of the Nazis.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/eur...rom-the-nazis-dies-at-107