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New documentation standards for wind power plants

 The new VGB-Standard creates necessary prerequisites for completeness and topicality of the documentation to be delivered. This leads to efficiency and cost savings for all contracting parties.

Meeting of Power Industry Cooling Water Specialists

 The Power Industry Cooling Water Specialists (PICWS) meetings provide a platform for cooling water specialists in Europe to discuss a variety of topics, to share knowledge and freely discuss the application of (sometimes novel) technologies, operational issues and legislative aspects with their peers. The PICWS activity provides the opportunity to build and maintain a network of cooling water specialists across Europe.

Scientific Advisory Board of the VGB: Battery storage - option for short-time grid stabilisation

 To maintain the current level of security of power supply with the increasing feed-in of fluctuating power from wind and solar energy plants the need for additional back-up reserve capacities increases. These are - and will for the foreseeable future be - conventional power plants.

Levelised cost of electricity 2015

 The current electricity sector is in a state of dynamic and constant change, driven by innovation, learning curves and changes in the electricity generation mix. In these requirements was calculated a new edition of a Levelised Cost of Electricity (LCOE) based on the fundamental idea to calculate yearly average costs of building and operating the plant, and to compare this with the average annual energy generated.

Discussion Paper "Investment Requirements in the EU Electricity Sector up to 2050"

 The VGB Scientific Advisory Board, being composed of about 30 holders of technical chairs from the energy industry from 12 European countries, has issued a new discussion paper "Investment Requirements in the EU Electricity Sector up to 2050".

A major topic in India: The combination of renewable energies and thermal power plants

 “Supercritical Generation and Integration with Renewables – Learnings from German Experience”; under this motto the Indian Excellence Enhancement Centre (EEC) had simultaneously invited visitors to three events in New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad. The subject was the challenges for the Indian electricity sector, with information and the background to the German energy transition.

VGB PowerTech Puts the Basic Terms of the Electric Utility Industry in a Nutshell

 The VGB-Standard “Basic Terms of the Electric Utility Industry“ – now ready for free download in English and German as PDF file – is aiming at speaking one common language.

Technical competence centre for wind power of VGB PowerTech

 Leading operators of wind power plants have agreed to bundle their interests under the roof of the European technical association for power and heat generation VGB PowerTech.

Thermal Power Plants – a Vital Asset in a New Energy World

 EURELECTRIC has published a paper on the importance of thermal generation to underline their necessity for the security of supply in an increasingly variable renewable electricity market.

Greenpeace-Bericht „Smoke & Mirrors“

On March 5, 2015, green NGO Greenpeace published a report, “Smoke & Mirrors - How Europe’s biggest polluters became their own regulators”, on the Large Combustion Plants (LCP) BREF review process.
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