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European Generation Mix – High Demand for Flexibility and Storage

 This year about 1,100 experts from 28 countries participate in the power plant Congress of VGB PowerTech e.V. that is taking place in Berne/Switzerland under the heading “European Generation Mix – High Demand for Flexibility and Storage”. The experts from utilities, manufacturers, service companies, politics, administration and research, who meet at the largest European expert congress for electricity and heat generation, are discussing the challenges to be solved in connection with the technical revolution of the current electricity supply system.

VGB PowerTech: New Executive Managing Director

 Dr. Karl A. Theis, for 12 years the successful Executive Managing Director of VGB PowerTech – the European technical association of electricity and heat generation – and of the associated KRAFTWERKSSCHULE, will retire age related on June 30, 2011, after more than 37 years in the energy business.

Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan and Consequences for Fukushima and other Nuclear Power Plants

 VGB has collected all available information from different sources. All data must be regarded in principle as unconfirmed. Update: 25 July 2011

Statement of the VGB Scientific Advisory Board on the Events in Japan

 30 professors of energy technology and power plant engineering from Europe who make up the VGB Scientific Advisory Board and who are giving advice to the technical association VGB PowerTech, are calling for an objective and factual discussion about the events taking place in Japan and their effects on European nuclear power plants.

Load cycling capabilities of German Nuclear Power Plants

 In the debate on whether lifetime extension of existing nuclear power plants facilitates or impedes the increased use of renewable energy sources in power generation, one claim being made is that nuclear power plants can only be operated to meet base-load demand at more or less constant power output. In fact, as early as the seventies nuclear power plants in Germany were designed to compensate load changes over a large range.

VGB: 90 Years for Secure and Reliable Electricity Generation

 When 90 years ago in the late autumn of 1920 representatives of the electricity and chemical industry laid the foundation for VGB, the focus was mainly on aspects of safe steam boiler operation.

Renewables, Nuclear, Coal and Gas – Technologies for a Low-carbon Future

 Renewables, Nuclear, Coal and Gas - Technologies for a Low-carbon Future" is the motto of this year´s VGB Congress "Power Plants 2010" taking place in Essen with about 1,300 experts from 30 countries.

VGB/EURELECTRIC Recommendations "European Wide Sector Specific Calculation Method for Reporting to the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register" revised

 According to the "Regulation (EC) No. 166/2006 concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register..." emissions of certain pollutants - above fixed threshold values - from industrial installations, also from power plants, have to be reported. The emissions have to be reported annually. The VGB EWG E-PRTR has revised the VGB/EURELECTRIC Recommendations "European Wide Sector Specific Calculation Method for Reporting to the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register".

European Scientists Recommend Urgent Endeavours for Resource- and Environmentally Friendly Power Generation

 The Scientific Advisory Board of VGB PowerTech comprised of 30 professors for power generation technologies from eight European countries has compiled its view of the current European power supply situation and its concerns and recommendations for future research requirements in this field in a new report. The experts from all fields of power generation assess developments and provide detailed recommendations for a resource- and environmentally gentle power production and its rearrangement towards a maximum of CO2-saving production technologies.

VGB study reveals: Until 2020 power plant capacities of 475,000 MW have to be erected

 1,200 experts from 29 countries participating in technical congress in Lyon - Climate protection and supply security require massive investment programme
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