VGB PowerTech Journal - Annual Overview 2021

The technical journal VGB PowerTech is a competent and internationally accepted publication for power plant engineering. It appears with 11 bilingual issues (German/English) annually. VGB PowerTech informs with technical/scientific papers and up-to-date news on all important questions of electricity and heat generation.

VGB PowerTech Journal 6/2021

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 6/2021

Focal Points:
  • IT management
  • Flexibility
  • Current aspects of electrical supply security
  • Risk analyses: Identifying and managing the risks of new energy projects
  • Secure IT-/OT-devices according to IEC 62443-4-2: A worldwide solution
VGB PowerTech Journal 5/2021

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 5/2021

Focal Points:
  • Nuclear power plant operation
  • Grid stability
  • World’s first power plant to produce 400 billion kilowatt hours
  • Grid stability? Challenges increase as generation portfolio changes
  • Opportunities for foreign nuclear power companies in China
VGB PowerTech Journal 4/2021

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 4/2021

Focal Points:
  • Hydrogen - Important element for the realisation of climate neutrality
  • Online corrosion measurement system for membrane walls at the MHKW Berlin-Ruhleben
  • Assessment of the condition of FRP vessels in waste-to-energy plants
  • Cybersecurity law in Germany
  • Flexibilisation - Analysis of the effects by evaluation of the VGB database KISSY
VGB PowerTech Journal 3/2021

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 3/2021

Focal Points:
  • Materials
  • Hydropower
  • Consideration of relaxation effects in the assessment of stresses and bearing loads of high temperature piping systems
  • Wind energy: continued operation often pays off
  • Hydropower indispensable for secure power supply in Europe
VGB PowerTech Journal 1-2/2021

VGB PowerTech Journal - Issue 1-2/2021

Focal Points:
  • Digitisation
  • Cyber security
  • Flexibilisation – Analysis of the effects by evaluation of the VGB database KISSY
  • Characterization of the long-term behavior of 600/620 °C turbine materials
  • Attack detection systems in the OT environment at operators of critical infrastructures
  • KKS and RDS-PP® – VGB speaks the language of power plant technology