VGB CONGRESS - Power Generation in Transition

Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Get-together in the exhibition
starting 18:00 until 21:00

The VGB PowerTech and the exhibitors invite all participants to a get-together. Catering will be arranged.

Use the opportunity to intensify your contacts and to have interesting conversations.

Wednesday, 12 September 2018

• Opening of the congress
• Plenary session
  Motto: The European Development Towards CO₂ Neutrality
  Chair: Sonja van Renssen, ep energy post, Belgium

Thursday, 13 September 2018

Technical Sessions

• Section A
  Sector coupling and power plant optimisation
• Section C
  Storage - experiences & potentials
• Section B
  Progress through digitalisation - productivity/economy
• Section D
  Gas to power technology and Combined heat & power
• Section E
  Short Presentation with Discussion

Opening of the congress

Dr Hans Bünting, Chairman of the Board of Directors, VGB PowerTech e.V.

Dr. Ulrike Wolf
Ministerialdirigentin, Leiterin der Abteilung Energiepolitik, Energieinfrastruktur im Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Technologie

Honours

Health & safety in the power industry
Marc Massaar van Schaik, ENGIE BU Generation, The Netherlands; Joe Scally, ESB Generation & Wholesale Markets, Ireland

Plenary Session

The European Development Towards CO₂ Neutrality

(The abstracts were not edited by VGB and are printed as received by our authors. A click on the title of the lecture will lead you to the abstract.)

Speaker V 1 - V 3 and Roger Miesen, RWE Generation SE

ONE TOPIC: POWER GENERATION IN TRANSITION
ONE VENUE: MUNICH UNTERSCHLEISSHEIM
TWO EVENTS: VGB CONGRESS & IERE WORKSHOP

The Joint Event is the collaboration of the annual international IERE Workshop and the VGB Congress titled with the common theme ”Power Generation in Transition”. The international IERE workshop is supported by RWE Technology International GmbH, Essen as local host company. All participants have the opportunity to join the lectures of both events without limitation and to exchange information together in the common break areas and the exhibition areas as well as the joint Get-Together in the exhibition, the Joint Evening Event and the Joint Technical visit.

About IERE

IERE is an organization for exchanging electricity and energy related cutting-edge technologies and R&D information among its members from the electricity & energy supply industry, equipment provider businesses, academic research, government, etc. This unique platform is of great help for executives, senior managers, engineers, and researchers who are responsible for R&D and solutions. It is a worldwide, non-profit organization, established as “International Electric Research Exchange” in 1968.

About the theme

Remember when you got your first mobile phone? It was not smart yet, but still it disrupted your live as you could suddenly make phone calls from almost any place your provider covered. One of the early challenges was that remembering to recharge your phone was a routine disruption that soon became a new routine. The rise of renewables, mobile and digital technologies in the energy industry worldwide requires similar adjustments. Over the past decade, the disparity between utilities is growing fast, with those owners gaining a competitive advantage, who are willing to modernize their business models while others who work against or delay change will lose ground. The majority of global installed capacity is still conventional generation, with coal holding the lead. As those units age – especially when they find themselves in changing markets or regions requiring more challenging operating profiles – they will need modernization and flexibilisation in line with new business models.

Session Themes of the IERE workshop

Session 1 – Penetration of Renewable Energies

The unpredictability of renewable assets that operate only when the wind blows and the sun shines require changes to operational models. More frequent cycling, start/stops, and ramping of assets cause faster equipment wear. In addition, a cleaner, greener and integrated grid requires the solid foundation of a modernized, upgraded and expanded transmission system. This session will focus on the development and integration of various technologies and systems to adapt to changes in strategy and operational models.

Potential topics include:

• Flexible generation solutions – technology and operational advancements
• HRSG design to meet next generation cycling and efficiency requirements
• Transmission as enabler – current challenges and innovations in grid technologies
• Case studies of utility transitions

Session 2 – The Greener Side of Generation

There is a growing trend in the power industry to shift away from coal-fuelled generation toward clean power. However the crux of the clean energy debate is that it comes at a price, both fiscal and social. There is a cost to eliminate smog and greenhouse gases by transforming plants to clean coal technologies. This session will focus on technology options, technology selection and grid access issues related to clean power applications and research findings.

Potential topics include:

• Biomass-to-energy conversion project examples
• Biomass conversion – technical options and challenges
• Carbon capture, storage and utilization (CCUS) – project examples and assessment Studies

Session 3 – Showcasing Innovations for Power Generation

This session will focus on cases studies, application experiences and research findings within the electricity supply industry in deploying new technologies such as digital solutions, big data applications, internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence and robotics.

Potential topics include:

• Energy and Battery Storage – applications in future generation
• Asset Management – case studies of digital innovations in plant operation and maintenance
• Big Data – intelligence software and advanced analysis
• Cyber security – safety check 4.0
• Smart grid technologies

Session 4 – Generating More Efficiently

Market forces and policies are driving the energy industry to reduce carbon emissions implementing advanced reduction technologies. This session will focus on the latest technology trends and options aiming to reduce emissions, improve efficiency and lower generation costs.

Potential topics include:

• Technical, operational and IT aspects of boosting energy efficiency
• Energy efficiency case studies

Registration

As mentioned earlier at “About the Joint Event” IERE-RWE TI Munich Workshop is a part of the Joint Event co-organized IERE and VGB. You are kindly requested to register according to your membership of IERE or VGB. When you have both memberships from IERE and VGB, please kindly ask the IERE Central Office at register@iere.jp or the VGB secretariat at vgb-congress@vgb.org.

• Programme IERE Workshop
  Download [0,5 MB]
• Further information available under IERE-Website

THE MUNICH HOFBRÄUHAUS:
WHERE THE WHOLE WORLD MEETS UP

Hofbräuhaus Munich

  ©BBMC Tobias Ranzinger

Munich, beer and the Hofbräuhaus – they’ve all belonged together for the past 400 years. Since the early 19th century, the famous beer cellar at the heart of the city has been a magnet for the people of Munich and travellers from every corner of the globe. Its delicious beer, traditional specialities, legendary “Gemütlichkeit“ and fascinating history have made the Hofbrauhaus into the most famous beer cellar in the world.

On September 27, 1589, Duke Wilhelm V founded a brewery on the site of the Munich royal residence of that time. This first Hofbräuhaus lasted till the year 1808 and was only a few steps away from today’s one. Maximilian I built his ducal Weissbier brewery in 1607, thus laying the historical foundations of today’s Hofbräuhaus.

Half the daily visitors are regulars. And one of them is actually an angel – if the old legend about the “Münchner im Himmel” is to be believed: Alois Hingerl, the main figure in the story, was a regular at the Hofbräuhaus all his life. When he died and arrived in heaven he irritated a lot of people there by being so homesick for Munich. He moaned so much that eventually God decided to have mercy on him, and sent him back to his old home on a mission for the Bavarian government. But the moment angel Aloisius smelt the air of Munich again, he forgot all about his divine mission and flew straight off to the Hofbräuhaus. There he finally found peace of mind, and has been enjoying one beer after the other ever since. And to this day, so ends the tale, the Bavarian government has been waiting in vain for divine inspiration.

You can look forward to a special evening and enough time for your interesting talks. Certainly catering will be arranged.

• Departure at Infinity Hotel: 18:30
• Arrival at Munich old town: 19:15
  ensuing guided walk to the Hofbräuhaus approx. 10 minutes
• Start: 19:30
• End: 23:00
• The number of participants is limited.

Our recommendations to explore the city

Schlossanlage Schleißheim

  ©Bayerische Schlösserverw.

The palace complex Schleißheim is one of the most important Baroque facilities in Germany and located in the district of Munich. It includes three complexes: Old Palace, New Palace and Lustheim Palace. The individual buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries are connected in a large baroque park. All three palaces and the park can be visited. There are inter alia changing photo exhibitions and a Meissen porcelain collection, complemented by the restaurant Schlosswirtschaft.

• Opening hours: 9 to 18 h (closed Mondays)
• Admission charge: Combination ticket € 8 per person

Flugwerft Schleißheim

  ©Deutsches Museum

The Flugwerft and the airfield Schleißheim are amongst the oldest airfield facilities in Germany. Its history reflects the eventful development of aviation as well as the political history of Germany in the 20th century. The Schleißheim airfield belongs to the Deutsches Museum and approximately 70 aircrafts on display document a century of civil and military aviation on an exhibition area of around 7,500 m².

• Opening hours: 9 to 17 h (daily)
• Admission charge: € 7 per person

City tour Munich

 © Gray Line SIGHTseeing

Take the train S1 from Unterschleißheim station to Munich Central Station (25 minutes travel time).
Get to know the city’s highlights on a hop-on hop-off bus tour (Grey Line Sightseeing). Your ticket is valid the whole day and you can get on or off at each stop. Departure and arrival is always the Bahnhofsplatz (near central station) in front of the department store ‘Karstadt’.
The tickets can be purchased online or on site.

• Express Circle (1 h, € 17 per person) Central station, Artgaleries – Alte Pinakothek, Neue Pinakothek, Odeonsplatz (Café Tambosi), Max-Joseph-Platz, Marienplatz, Town hall, Cathedral Frauenkirche, Viktualienmarkt, Hofbräuhaus, Karlsplatz (Stachus), Central station
• Grand Circle (2.5 h, € 22 per person): Like Tour 1 supplemented by Nymphenburg Palace, Olympia Park, BMW World & Museum, Schwabing/Engl. Garden

Technical Visit

Sauerlach Geothermal Plant – Stadtwerke München

  ©Stefan Obermeier

A geothermal energy source is hot thermal water drawn out of easily permeable limestone layers in what is known as the Malm aquifer, a geological stratum found in wide parts of the region. Munich is located right on top of a huge reservoir of natural energy source: hot-water accumulations with temperatures ranging from 80 °C to 100 °C are located below the surface of the earth at a depth of 2,000 metres (northern city limits) to 3,000 metres (southern city limits). The heat from these geothermal sources is ideally suited for use in heating . This involves pumping the hot water to the surface and channelling it through heat exchangers where its energy is extracted. The cooled water is then fed back into the deep -lying reservoir. The geothermal power cycle thus does not impact on the ecosystem.
In Sauerlach, the thermal water temperature is much higher than in Munich – more than 140 °C at a depth of about 4,200 metres. As a result, the thermal water can also be used for electricity generation, not just for heating purposes. The Sauerlach geothermal combined-heat-and-power plant delivers electricity to 16,000 households while simultaneously providing heating for Sauerlach households.
Participants: 40 maximum. Please register as early as possible.

• 09:00h : Meeting point Infinity Hotel (Bus transfer, 1 h)
• 10:00h :Start technical visit (Sauerlach Geothermal Plant, Energiestraße)
• 12:00h : Return
• 13:00h : Arrival Infinity Hotel

Everything at a glance

• Side Programme - Proposals
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• INFINITY Hotel & Conference Resort Munich
  Andreas-Danzer-Weg 1
  85716 Munich-Unterschleissheim/Germany
• Directions

A block of rooms has already been reserved in the conference hotel. The room contingent is valid until 10 August 2018. Please make your reservation under the keyword „Congress 18“.

Contact:

• INFINITY Hotel & Conference Resort Munich | Andreas-Danzer-Weg 1 | 85716 Unterschleissheim/Germany | T: +49 89 370 530 131
• Prices superior single room per night incl. breakfast: EURO 164.00
• Extra charge for double room EUR 30.00

Hotel online booking

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• HRS can assist you finding right accommodation.

The VGB office regrets being unable to make reservations!