Newsletter

4-2021

 VGB CONGRESS 2021 – 100 plus * Flexibility – Analysis of the effect on power plants * New record: 36 percent minimum load reached at the Maithon power plant in India * New VGB Event Platform with VGB Event APP * You find us also in social media * VGB PowerTech Journal 6 (2021): IT management, Flexibility * VGB-S-401-00-2020-05-EN - VGB-Standard for the Water in Nuclear Power Plants with Light-Water Reactors Part 1: PWR; Part 2: BWR - Now available as eBook! * VGB provides energy-related reading material in the home office * VGB Events [more...]

3-2021

 VGB oil laboratory tests oil blends to avoid cost-intensive oil change in a hydropower plant * VGB Hydro – Technical Programs * Efficient electricity generation through wind power, even in icy temperatures * HYDROPOWER EUROPE hosted a Partner Event about potential pollution in hydropower during the EU Green Week 2021 * VGB Quality Award 2021: Proposals welcome * VGB Safety & Health Award 2021 – Call for nominations * You find us also in social media * VGB PowerTech Journal 5 (2021): Nuclear power plant operation, Grid stability * VGB-S-823-34-2020-12-EN-DE - RDS-PP® - RDS-PP® - Application Guideline Part 34: Plants for Energy Supply with Combustion Engines - Now available as eBook! * VGB-S-014-2011-EN - Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Flue Gas Denitrification Systems (DeNOx) - Now available as eBook! * VGB provides energy-related reading material in the home office * VGB Events [more...]

2-2021

 Hydropower - An indispensable part of the secure power supply in Europe * Re-purposing Coal Power Plants during Energy Transition (RECPP) * VGB position paper: Tests according to German BetrSichV in case of final decommissioning of pressure systems in coal-fired power plants * VGB Innovation Award 2021 - Submit your proposal by 20 May 2021! * Hydropower Industry Guide 2020/21 * VGB Conference Steam Turbines and Operation of Steam Turbines 2021 - OnLine * You find us also in social media * VGB PowerTech Journal 1-2 (2021): Digitisation, Cyber security * VGB provides energy-related reading material in the home office * VGB Events * Call for Papers [more...]

1-2021

 VGB Innovation Award 2021 - Submit your proposal now! * White Paper SSTI - Consideration of possible effects of the operation of HVDC systems in the network on the shafts of turbo sets in power plants * Hydropower Industry Guide 2020/21 * You find us also in social media * New power plants in Europe: Update February 2021 * VGB PowerTech Journal 12 (2020): Distributed generation, Sector coupling * VGB provides energy-related reading material in the home office *VGB-S-302-00-2013-04-EN - Guideline for the Testing of DeNOx-catalysts - Now available as eBook! * VGB-S-821-91-2020-10-EN - RDS-PP® Pocketbook * VGB Events * Call for Papers [more...]

6-2020

 Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year * Re-purposing Coal Power Plants during Energy Transition (RECPP) * Survey result: Virtual events * You find us also in social media * Projected Costs of Generating Electricity 2020 - New edition published! * VGB PowerTech Journal 10 (2020): Power plant by-products * VGB provides energy-related reading material in the home office * TW-103 Ae - Analysis of Unavailability of Power Plants - Now available as eBook! * TW-103 Ve Availability of thermal power plants - Now available as eBook! * VGB-S-821-91-2020-10-EN - RDS-PP® Pocketbook * VGB Events * Call for Papers [more...]

5-2020

 VGB Innovation Award 2020: Integration of a methanol synthesis and Zeolite-based sorbents for mercury capture awarded * Re-purposing Coal Power Plants during Energy Transition (RECPP) * Hydropower industry, civil society organisations, and EU policymakers met in HYDROPOWER EUROPE’s interactive workshop to shape the future of hydropower * VGB PowerTech: Renewables, Increasing flexibility and digitalisation as main tasks for future power supply * Indo-German Energy Forum: Further test runs planned in Indian power plants * Revision of the Feed Water Guidance VGB-S-010 * You find us also in social media * VGB PowerTech Journal 8 (2020): Operation, Know-how preservation * VGB provides energy-related reading material in the home office * VGB-S-103-00-2020-02-EN - Monitoring, limiting and protection devices on steam turbine plants - Now available as eBook! * VGB-S-811-91-2019-02-DE-EN - KKS Pocketbook * VGB Events [more...]

4-2020

 VGB on the Way to the Future Energy System * Re-purposing Coal Power Plants during Energy Transition (RECPP) * Registration for HYDROPOWER EUROPE’s interactive workshop now open * From myVGB to eNet: Kick-off for the new social workspace * Online Conferences: We care about your opinion * You find us also in social media * Revision of the Feed Water Guidance VGB-S-010 * VGB PowerTech Journal 7 (2020): Maintenance and Thermal waste utilisation * VGB provides energy-related reading material in the home office * Electricity Generation - Facts and Figures 2020/2021 * VGB Events * Call for Papers | Review [more...]

Newsletter – Special edition: From myVGB to eNet

 From myVGB to eNet: Kick-off for the new social workspace [more...]

3-2020

 Labelling systems for the generation and storage of electricity and heat *Wind energy plant designation: Increasing efficiency with the harmonised system RDS-PP® * Wind Power Performance Data Exchange – WiPPeX *VGB represented in various industry webinars * Online Conferences: We care about your opinion! * VGB CONGRESS 2020 postponed to 2021! * Foundation of a new project group for Run-of-River power plants *Price reduction for PSA / breathing masks! * You find us also in social media * Abstracts of Minutes *VGB PowerTech Journal 4 (2020): Maintenance in power generation * VGB provides energy-related reading material in the home office * VGB POWERTECH DVD - English Edition 1976 - 2000 published *TW-530e Recommendations for the operation and monitoring of boiler circulating pumps - Now available as eBook! * VGB Events * Call for Papers [more...]

Special edition | Update Covid-19

 Protective masks and face protection available immediately and at lower rates * Update on the Corona-Pandemia: We at VGB and PTS have a strategy for the “Corona-Exit”! * Corona pandemic and COVID-19: Impacts on energy supply and energy industry * VGB provides interesting​ reading material in the home office [more...]