1) VGB Congress Power Plants 2009: Until 2020 Power Plant Capacities of 475,000 MW have to be Erected
2) Denmark Operates World Largest Offshore Wind Farm
3) Andasol 1: The Largest Solar Power Station Officially Inaugurated
4) Heinrich-Mandel Prize 2009 for Tobias Weißbach
5) VGB Quality Award 2009 for FERRO-Montagetechnik GmbH
6) Coal Combustion Products and REACH
9) VGB-TW103V "Availability of Thermal Power Plants"
10) Gas Turbines and Combined Cycle Power Plants (CCCP) - VGB PowerTech Journal 10/2009
"Addressing Climate Change – Winning Public Acceptance through Advanced Technologies". This was the slogan of the VGB Congress "Power Plants 2009", which took place with more than 1.200 participants from 29 nations in Lyon/France on September 23 - 25, 2009.
In his inaugural address Gerd Jaeger presented current calculations of the VGB, according to which power station capacities of 475.000 MW must be established in the EU-27 up to 2020.
Press release:
http://www.vgb.org/en/newsEn2009_09_23.html
The world’s largest offshore wind farm Horns Rev 2 was inaugurated on September 17, 2009. The wind farm is located in the North Sea 30 km off the coast of western Jutland in Denmark. The turbines are supplied by Siemens and are of the type SWP 2.3-93. Each wind turbine has a capacity of 2.3 MW. With a total of 91 wind turbines the wind farm has an overall capacity of 209 MW. The water depth is 9-17 m and the average wind speed is just below 10 m/s. The investment averaged approximately 470 million euros. The construction period required one and a half years.
http://www.dongenergy.com/Hornsrev2/EN/Pages/index.aspx
On July 1, 2009, the solar-thermal power station Andasol 1, located in the Spanish province of Granada in Andalusia, was officially inaugurated. At the present time, Andasol 1 is the largest solar power station in the world. Researchers at the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) were heavily involved in the development of key technologies and identified the most suitable location with the help of various tools, including satellite data. They did this on behalf of Solar Millennium AG, the project development company. In addition, their measuring methods contributed towards the precision design of the parabolic trough collectors.
http://www.dlr.de/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-13/135_read-17179/
The VGB Research Foundation awarded the Heinrich-Mandel Prize 2009 to Tobias Weißbach (31), Stuttgart University, for his work on control-dynamic power plant- and grid interaction in a deregulated power industry. The 10,000 Euro prize was handed over on the occasion of the VGB Congress POWER PLANTS in Lyon/France on September 23, 2009.
http://www.vgb.org/en/research_mandel.html
On the occasion of the opening ceremony of the VGB Congress POWER PLANTS in Lyon/France on September 23, 2009, the VGB Quality Award was rewarded for the fourth time. Walter Helmrich received the prize for the Austrian FERRO-Montagetechnik GmbH (FMT) for the outstanding quality of onsite installations in the erection of the coal-fired Walsum 10 power station.
http://www.vgb.org/en/quality_award.html
On June 1, 2007, the REACH-Regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) entered into force. By this, also each producer or importer of coal combustion products (CCPs) has to register the marketed or imported substances at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) situated in Helsinki.
Further information regarding the status of specific CCPs are available with the following link:
http://www.ecoba.org/
The information brochure "Electricity Generation - Facts and Figures" had been published by VGB for the first time in 2003. This flyer is intended to inform you at annual intervals about latest developments in power generation. The new edition is available for download now.
http://www.vgb.org/en/data_powergeneration.html
The VGB Job Market is offering prospective persons the possibility to develop their career in the range of power and heat generation. You can find current vacancies on our homepage.
http://www.vgb.org/en/jobmarket.html
The Technical-scientific Reports "Availability of Thermal Power Plants" for the period 1999 to 2008 can be bought now. The report analyses 457 power plant units with a total capacity of 185.000 MW.
Receive free of charge an outline of the report via e-mail:
mailto:stefan.prost@vgb.org
Order the report:
mailto:mark@vgb.org
Main topics of the October issue are: Use of Modern Gas Turbines in the Current New Build Programme of RWE Power AG; V93.0 Gas Turbine Modernisation at E.ON Power Plant Franken 1; Experience with and Application of the Innovative LMS 100 Gas Turbine; Pre-Engineering Study for a 700 Deg C High Efficient PC-Power Plant.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/en/current_issue.html