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February 2008 EU Approves Energy and Climate Change Package * World's Largest Gas Turbine Begins Trial Operation in Irsching * Development of New Power Storage System * World's First Osmotic Power Plant in Norway * KELI 2008 Offers New Students' Forum * VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies for Engineers/Physicists (m/f) * VGB Congress "Power Plants 2007" - Plenary Sessions and Technical Sessions - VGB PowerTech Journal 1-2/2008 * Dates * Information for Members [more...]
January 2008 New Recommendation "Research for a Sustainable Energy Supply" published * Heinrich-Mandel Prize for Power Plant Engineering 2008 * VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies for Engineers/Physicists (m/f) * Dates [more...]
December 2007 Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year * E.ON Energie Increases Transparency of Power Generation Data * New coal-fired power stations prepared for CO2 sequestration * RWE Regrets Decision Against New Hard-coal Fired Power Plant in the Saarland * Electrabel Chooses Wilhelmshaven to Build a Coal-fired Power Plant in Germany * VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies for Engineers/Physicists (m/f) * VGB Congress "Power Plants 2007" - VGB PowerTech Journal 12/2007 * Dates [more...]
November 2007 dena published the objectives of the dena Grid Study II * Heinrich-Mandel Prize for Power Plant Technology 2007 * VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies for Engineers/Physicists (m/f) * VGB-TW103Ae "Analysis of Unavailability of Thermal Power Plants" * 50 Years PowerTech Training Center - VGB PowerTech Journal 11/2007 * Dates * Information for Members [more...]
October 2007 E.ON Announces Construction Site of the 700 °C Coal-fired Power Plant * RWE Starts Pilot Plant for CO2 Scrubbing in 2008 * CCS Brochure and Position Papers of EURELECTRIC and VGB PowerTech * Electricity Generation - Figures and Facts * VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies for Engineers/Physicists (m/f) * VGB-M131e "Considering the Needs of Maintenance When Constructing New Power Plant Units" * Dates * Information for Members [more...]
August 2007 Inauguration of FRESDEMO on the PSA * How to Find a Contact at VGB Offices * VGB-R109 "Material Specification for Components under Pressure in Fossil-fired Power Plants" * European Electricity Projects * CO2 Capture and Storage Projects * Power Plants in Competition - VGB PowerTech Journal 8/2007 * Dates * Information for Members [more...]
July 2007 Only Small PM Emissions from Power Plants in Germany * 64 Million Tonnes of Coal Combustion Products in Europe (EU15) * Waste Shipment Regulation * Conclusions from Field Applications of the Revised VGB-Guideline R601Ue "Structural Design of Cooling Towers", Edition 2005 * VGB-Conference "Chemistry in Power Plants 2007" * Successfull VGB Workshop "Flue Gas Cleaning 2007" * How to Find a Contact at VGB Offices * VGB-M643 Ue "Chimneys for Operation without Reheating of Flue Gas after FGD" now released in English language * EURELECTRIC-Brochure "The Role of Electricity" * Significance of Coal for Power Production * Dates * Information for Members [more...]
June 2007 New Literature Research "Climate Change and the Power Industry" * Integrity Concept for Piping System with Corresponding Leak and Break Postulates in German Nuclear Power Plants * Cooperation with the Nuclear Power Plants in the Moscow Regional Centre of WANO (WANO-MC) * US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves Recommissioning of Nuclear Power Unit after Being Laid up for 22 Years * REACH and Power Plant By-products * Power Plants, Power Plant Operation - VGB PowerTech Journal 6/2007 * Dates [more...]
April 2007 European REACH Regulation coming into force, soon * Questionnaire to CO2 capture and storage * German nuclear power plants worldwide in the lead also in 2006 * Platts study: The worldwide production of nuclear energy reached a record level in 2006 * VGB-M643U "Chimneys for Operation Without Reheating of Flue Gas after FGD" * Saferty at Work - VGB PowerTech Journal 4/2007 * Dates * Information for Members [more...]
March 2007 Fourth IPCC Assessment Report on Climate Change * Pre-Engineering Study for 700°C Power Plant * Further Development of NDT Methods for Materials of 700 °C Power Plants * Clean Coal Sciences: IEA/VGB Workshop for the Co-ordination of International Research-, Development and Demonstration Projects * Chemistry in Power Plants - VGB PowerTech Journal 3/2007 * Dates * Information for Members [more...]