1) Draft of the German ETS Allocation Act 2012 (ZuG 2012)
3) VGB Quality Award Granted for the First Time
7) VGB-TW103A "Analysis of Unavailability of Thermal Power Plants"
8) Renewables and Distributed Generation - VGB PowerTech Journal 10/2006
On the basis of the German National Allocation Plan (NAP II) for the second trading period (2008-2012) of the European Trading System, which the Federal Government conveyed to the European Commission for notification on June 30, 2006, the Ministry for the Environment submitted a draft for the Allocation Act 2012 (ZuG 2012).
The law specifies the allocation rules for the second trading period (2008-2012) and may have substantial influence on investment decisions for new power plant buildings.
85 percent of the average historical emissions in the years 2000-2005 will be allocated to existing power plants. For new power plants a bench mark approach with fixed emission values and standard loading factors is intended.
Draft of the German ETS Allocation Act 2012 (ZuG 2012):
http://www.vgb.org/data/vgborg_/News/ZuG_2012_Entwurf.pdf
More information:
http://www.dehst.de/cln_027/nn_76410/DE/Akteure/Anlagenbetreiber/DEV/DEV.html
Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 on the shipment of waste amending the Waste Shipment Regulation No. 259/93 was adopted in 2006 and had been published in the Official Jornal on July 12, 2006. The regulation will come into force one year after publication. The regulation determines that waste exports could be stopped by the exporting country when the disposal standards of the waste importing country are lower than those of the country of export.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2006/l_190/l_19020060712en00010098.pdf
On 27th September 2006 the "VGB Quality Award" was granted for the first time on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the VGB Congress "Power Plants 2006" in Dresden. We are pleased that we received five outstanding examples that had been nominated for the "VGB Quality Award". The VGB body that assessed the nominees found out that the projects nominated were all very close together, however, one project was ahead.
The winner of the first "VGB Quality Award" is the project "Partial Renewal of the FGD of the Voerde Power Plant, Unit A/B". The professionalism and personal engagement of the project leader
Dipl.-Ing. Peter Errenst, DSD Hilgers Stahlbau, contributed to the successful implementation of the project.
The VGB Quality Award will granted annually at the VGB Congress.
http://www.vgb.org/news_Quality_Award06e.html
Dr. Christian Fielenbach was awarded with the Heinrich-Mandel Prize for power plant technology on the occasion of the VGB Congress 2006 in Dresden. 33-year old engineer received the VGB Research Foundation award for his investigations on non-contact flame diagnostics at a pf-FLOX burner for primary nitric oxide emission reduction and ash particle size influence.
http://www.vgb.org/research_mandel.html
For over 30 years VGB collects data, which describe the power plant availability. The data are available in the VGB-data base KISSY. The workshop informs and guides users and potential users through the functions and advantage of this modern and powerful IT-tool. It shows the comfortable online application with a large data pool according to international statistic rules and definitions. For example:
- General information about the function of system
- Explanation of new introduced performace and market indicators
http://www.vgb.org/ws_kissy_2006_e.html
Evaluation questionnaire, pictures and more...
http://www.vgb.org/impressions_vh06.html
The technical scientific report "Analysis of Unavailability of Thermal Power Plants" is available for the operation decade 1996-2005 (pdf-file) on November 2, 2006 in the German language. The report provides information about weak points of equipment and power plant systems. VGB is analysing the annual unavailability (UA analysis) in order to identify the root causes, i.e. those systems causing unavailability to be able to upgrade such weak equipment. The systems and equipment to be analysed are specified according to the KKS power plant identification system.
Receive free of charge an outline of the report via e-mail:
mailto:stefan.prost@vgb.org
Main topics of the October issue are: Hydropower: Challenges in Europe, Perspectives of Geothermal Energy from the View of an Energy Utility, Wind Power Strategy and Activities of Essent.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/current_issue.html