May 2007

Public Consultation - European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) * Energy Decision Makers Back CO2 Capture and Storage Technology * Renewable Energy in the Internal Energy Market - The Way Forward * VGB-R165e Recommendations for the Improvement of H2 Safety in Hydrogen-cooled Generators * Nuclear Power, Operation of Nuclear Power Plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 5/2007 * Dates * Information for Members

Dates

VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2007" May 22/23, 2007, Vienna/Austria
http://www.vgb.org/fluegas_2007.html

VGB Conference "Gas Turbines and Operation of Gas Turbines 2007" with technical exhibition, June 5/6, 2007, Friedrichshafen/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/gt_07_e.html

VGB Congress "POWER PLANTS 2007" with technical exhibition September 19 to 21, 2007, Salzburg/Austria
http://www.vgb.org/VH_2007_e.html

VGB Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2007" with technical exhibition October 24/25, 2007, Rostock-Warnemuende/Germany
http://www.vgb.org/cipp_07.html

Information for Members

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New Abstracts of Minutes

Biomass - 1st March 2007
https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_ak_bi_14.html

Control and Instrumentation and IT - 22nd/23rd March 2007
https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_ak_lt_22.html

Steam Turbines - 7th/8th November 2006
https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_ak_dt_21.html

Wind Energy - 14th February 2007
https://www.vgb.org/kf_en_ak_we_14.html

1) Public Consultation - European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan)

The European Commission proposes to present, in 2007, a European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan). To prepare the SET-Plan, the European Commission has launched a public consultation. An on-line questionnaire can be filled in till 13th of May 2007.

http://ec.europa.eu/energy/res/consultation/setplan_en.htm

2) Energy Decision Makers Back CO2 Capture and Storage Technology

A survey of over 500 key energy decision makers from across Europe has found a strong appetite for the development of CO2 capture and storage technologies - abbreviated to CCS - in Europe as a way of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide. The survey was funded by the European Commission, and directed at the energy industry, researchers, government, environmental groups and parliamentarians from 28 European nations participated.

http://www.dnv.com/press/EnergydecisionmakersbackCO2captureandstoragetechnology.asp

3) Renewable Energy in the Internal Energy Market - The Way Forward

EURELECTRIC, VGB and RECS-International jointly organised an international conference entitled "Renewable Energy in the Internal Energy Market - The Way Forward" for the second time, which took place on April 18, 2007 in Brussels. More than 100 delegates attended the event to consider questions concerning economic, political and technical aspects of the use of renewable energy sources at a European level.

http://public.eurelectric.org/Content/Default.asp

4) VGB-R165e Recommendations for the Improvement of H2 Safety in Hydrogen-cooled Generators

The new VGB guideline R165e, Recommendations for the Improvement of H2 Safety in Hydrogen-cooled Generators, is a continuation of the VDEW guideline published in 1989 under the same name. It has been updated to include the current standard for the installation and operation of hydrogen-cooled generators, DIN EN 60034-3 (Rotating electrical machines - part 3: Specific requirements for cylindrical rotor synchronous machines), edition 2006-02.

http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/492

5) Nuclear Power, Operation of Nuclear Power Plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 5/2007

Main topics of the May issue are: Operating Experience with Nuclear Power Plants; Future Becomes Reality: Investments in New Nuclear Power Plants; Perspective and Projects for a Sustainable Electricity Future in India.

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

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