August 2011

Solar Power Plant Andasol 3 Produces Energy for the First Time * ZEP Cost Reports on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage * New European Working Group "Power Plant - Grid" constituted * VGB Research Project "Diffuse Emissions" Completed * Electrical Engineering and Information, Technology, Data bases for power plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 08/2011 * Dates * Information for Members

Dates

VGB European Occupational Health and Safety Conference 2011 September 15/16, 2011, Stockholm/Sweden
http://www.vgb.org/en/health2011.html

VGB Congress "POWER PLANTS 2011" with technical exhibition September 21-23, 2011, Berne/Switzerland
http://www.vgb.org/en/hv_2011.html

VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2011" with technical exhibition October 26/27, 2011, Munich/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/cik11.html

VGB Conference "Maintenance in Power Plants 2012" with technical exhibition February 29 / March 1, 2012, Ulm/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/inst_2012.html

VGB Conference "Maintenance of Wind Power Plants 2012" with technical exhibition February 29 / March 1, 2012, Ulm/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/wea2012.html

VGB KELI Conference 2012 with technical exhibition May 8-10, 2012, Berlin/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/keli_2012_e.html

VGB Conference "Steam Turbines and Operation of Steam Turbines 2012" with technical exhibition May 15/16, 2012, Hamburg/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/en/dt_2012.html

Information for Members

News

> List of New Power Plants in Europe: Update August 2011 < The list New Power Plants comprises power plants in planning and under construction in Europe. Energy sources like gas, hard coal, lignite, wind, water, waste etc. are considered. Based on the list, the planned total output (MW) and the portions of the sources of energy (MW) can be determined. Due to political and economic decisions, the list lives with further planning measures and with cancellations. The current list is available in the member area for download:

https://www.vgb.org/en/newplants.html

> VGB-Guidelines and Instruction Sheets into VGB-Standards < In the course of the Europeanization of VGB PowerTech e. V., it was decided that all VGB guidelines and instruction sheets should basically be published in German and in English. They should be converted into documents with the new designation VGB-Standards (VGB-S) by August 1, 2011. The conversion of VGB guidelines and instruction sheets is carried out during the course of a defined revision process. That means that step by step, from August 1, 2011, only the newly revised VGB guidelines and instruction sheets will be converted into VGB-Standards. Further information:

mailto:ines.moors@vgb.org

https://www.vgb.org/en/vgb_standard_en.html

>>New Abstracts of Minutes<< Biogas - 29th March 2011
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_bg_10.html

Biomass - 20th June 2011
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_bi_24.html

Fluidised Bed Firing Systems - 28th September 2010
http://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_wf_29.html

Fuel Technology and Firing Systems - 09th/10th November 2010
http://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_bf_19.html

Industrial and Co-generation Stations - 30th/31st Mai 2011
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_ik_30.html

Distributed Generation - 4th May 2011
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_dz_20.html

Steam Generators - 13th/14th April 2011
http://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_de_30.html

TC Materials and Quality Supervision - 17th/18th May 2011
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_fa_wq_28.html

Wind Energy - 30th May 2011
https://www.vgb.org/en/kf_en_ak_we_26.html

1) Solar Power Plant Andasol 3 Produces Energy for the First Time

The solar thermal power plant Andasol 3 in Andalusia, southern Spain, for the first time produced solar generated steam during a test phase in which the rows of parabolic mirrors were aligned with the sun. Andasol 3 is due to begin commercial operation in October 2011.
A total of more than 200,000 parabolic mirrors have been installed in Andasol 3 which cover an area equivalent to some 70 football pitches. The investors in Andasol 3 are the Stadtwerke München, Ferrostaal, Solar Millennium, RWE Innogy and RheinEnergie. The Spanish company Duro Felguera together with Ferrostaal, Solar Millennium and their joint subsidiary Flagsol were responsible for planning and constructing the solar power plant.

http://goo.gl/ffCSI

2) ZEP Cost Reports on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage

The European Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP) has undertaken a detailed study into the costs of CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage (CCS) based on new data provided exclusively by ZEP member organisations on existing pilot and planned demonstration projects. The conclusion: following the European Union's CCS demonstration programme, CCS will be cost-competitive with other sources of low-carbon power, including on-/offshore wind, solar power and nuclear.

This is described in three reports on CO2 capture, CO2 transport and CO2 storage respectively, with resulting integrated CCS value chains presented in a summary report. Based on optimised cost estimations for full-size CCS power plants, start-up mid 2020s, base-load operation, middle fuel costs, 180 km onshore CO2 transport and medium storage costs for an onshore saline aquifer the break-even-point compared to power plants without CCS is expected at a CO2 price level of about 35 Euro/t CO2 for coal and 90 Euro/t CO2 for natural gas.

The reports and a summary statement were published on July 15, 2011 and are available on ZEP's website.

http://www.zeroemissionsplatform.eu/library.html

3) New European Working Group "Power Plant - Grid" constituted

At the request of the VGB Technical Committee "Electrical engineering, I&C and IT" the VGB's Technical Advisory Board at the end of 2010 resolved to set up the new European Working Group "Power Plant - Grid".
In the first two meetings the task profile was put into more specific terms and the internal structure and the work processes were discussed and agreed. The Working Group is available for the member companies to address all inquiries and concerns related to technical and regulatory issues at the interface power plant-grid. In addition, the working group supports different project groups and the research project "System stability".

http://www.vgb.org/en/ewg_pp_grid.html

4) VGB Research Project "Diffuse Emissions" Completed

The VGB research project no. 305 "Determination of emission factors for storage and transhipment of coal" is completed. The emission factors for PM 10 and PM 2,5 determined within this project with great effort are small. The final report (only in German) on hard coal can be found on the VGB website, the report on lignite will follow shortly.

http://www.vgb.org/vgbmultimedia/Forschung/FE305s.pdf

5) Electrical Engineering and Information, Technology, Data bases for power plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 08/2011

Main topics of the August issue are: Impact of intermitting generation on power system stability; Filtering of system frequency as input signal for primary control - Advantages and disadvantages for power plants and power systems; Functional safety management of thermal power plants from the I&C perspective of an utility; Reduction of turboset stresses by installation of the power plant decoupling protection device.

Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html

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