Newsletter

December 2008

Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year * UK Approves Welsh 750 MW Gwynt y Mor Offshore Wind Farm * REpower and DOTI Sign Supply Contract for Six REpower 5M for the Offshore Windfarm alpha ventus * European Success Story COMTES700 - Cleaner Coal * RDS-PP: The New Reference Designation System for Power Plants * REACH: Pre-registration of Coal Combustion Products Finished * New Research Projects on the Use of Fly Ash in Air Entrained Concrete * Use of Fly Ash in Concrete - Practical Examples in VGB PowerTech Journal 11/2008 * Power Plant Information System KISSY with New Features * Call for Papers - European Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2009" * Waste Framework Directive Published * VGB-R109 "Material Specification for Components under Pressure in Fossil-fired Power Plants" * VGB-TW103Ae "Analysis of Unavailability of Thermal Power Plants" * VGB PowerTech Journal 12/2008: VGB Congress "Power Plants 2008" - We are Building the Future: Electricity for Europe * Dates * Information for Members [more...]

November 2008

Joint Research Project KOMET 650: Complete Documentation of Results * Aligned Maintenance Strategies for Pumped Storage Plants * Decisions of the EU Environment Council * Revision of the IPPC Directive * Conference on Clean Coal Technologies * International Conference EuroCoalAsh 2008 in Warsaw * NPC-08 - International Conference on Water Chemistry of Nuclear Reactor Systems * Furnaces, Steam Generators, Industrial and Co-generation Plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 11/2008 * Dates * Information for Members Forschungsförderung auf dem Gebiet der Erzeugung von Strom und Wärme * Konferenz Clean Coal Technologies * Internationale Konferenz EuroCoalAsh 2008 in Warschau * Internationale Konferenz über die Wasserchemie von Kernreaktor Systemen * Feuerungen, Dampferzeuger, Industrie- und Heizkraftwerke - VGB PowerTech Journal 11/2008 * Termine * Mitgliederinformationen [more...]

October 2008

Electricity Generation - Facts and Figures 2008 * Heinrich-Mandel Prize 2008 Goes to Denmark * Power Plant Information System KISSY with New Features * International Seminar on the Merger of TherPerf and KISSY * The New Marine Strategy Framework Directive Published * Joint Booth at the "Power Plant Technology 2009" * VGB-R170Ce "Function-related Documentation of Power Plant Instrumentation and Control in Line with Operating Requirements" * VGB-TW103Ve "Availability of Thermal Power Plants" * Dates [more...]

September 2008

Weather Conditions Delay Construction Work of the Offshore Wind Farm alpha ventus * VGB Congress "Power Plants 2008", September 17 to 19, 2008, Stuttgart/Germany * Dates * Information for Members [more...]

August 2008

First foundations completed for Rhyl Flats Wind Farm * EWE and EnBW conclude partnership * VGB-M222e "Invitation to Tender Criteria for Heat Recovery Steam Generators Downstream of Gas Turbines" * Electrical Engineering, Instumentation and Control, Information Technology - VGB PowerTech Journal 08/2008 * Dates * Information for Members [more...]

July 2008

Commissioner Piebalgs Welcomes Stronger Cooperation Between European Transmission System Operators * RWE Innogy Invests in Technology for Producing Biocoal Pellets * VGB-B101e "Reference Designation System for Power Plants RDS-PP" * Gas Turbines and Combined Cycle Power Plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 07/2008 * Dates * Information for Members [more...]

June 2008

EU Directive on Ambient Air Quality Published * EnBW Acquires Four Offshore Wind Power Projects * Dates * Information for Members [more...]

May 2008

Coal Combustion Products and REACH * VGB-TW805-08 "Centralized Reliability and Events Database, Reliability Data for Nuclear Power Plant Components - December 2007" (German Edition), 1st upgrading for VGB-TW805 * Nuclear Power, Operation of Nuclear Power Plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 05/2008 * Dates [more...]

April 2008

Advantages and Limitations of Biomass Co-combustion in Fossil Fired Power Plants * KOMET 650 - Joint Research Project on 650 Degree Materials Completed * New VGB Working Panel "Kühltechnik in Kraftwerken" * Modernisation of Power Plants, Retrofit - VGB PowerTech Journal 4/2008 * Dates * Information for Members [more...]

March 2008

European Energy Industry Commits to an EU Industrial Initiative on CCS * VGB/EURELECTRIC Recommendations "European Wide Sector Specific Calculation Method for Reporting to the E-PRTR" Published * Study on Planned New Power Plants: CO2 Avoidance by Efficiency Enhancement * VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies * KOMET 650 - Environmental and Climate Protection - VGB PowerTech Journal 3/2008 * Dates [more...]