1) Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year
2) E.ON Energie Increases Transparency of Power Generation Data
3) New coal-fired power stations prepared for CO2 sequestration
4) RWE Regrets Decision Against New Hard-coal Fired Power Plant in the Saarland
5) Electrabel Chooses Wilhelmshaven to Build a Coal-fired Power Plant in Germany
6) VGB Job Market: Current Vacancies for Engineers/Physicists (m/f)
7) VGB Congress "Power Plants 2007" - VGB PowerTech Journal 12/2007
Management and Staff of VGB PowerTech e.V. and VGB PowerTech Service GmbH would like to thank you for the good co-operation in this year and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year.
E.ON Energy publishes on the web now more information than concerning maintenance and other outages planned for its large-scale thermal power stations broken down by generation unit and the exact dates for the given years. For each individual power station block with a capacity more than 20 MW:
- Are indicated in advance for 365 days for every power plant the value of the expected available power plant capacity (ex ante data).
- Daily figures for each unit can also be called up to look back at the realized generation values (ex post data).
- In addition, E.ON is publishing unplanned outages as well as any in-plant event that reduces the availability of a power station unit by more than 100 MW (urgent market messages). The return to service information of capacities will be published.
http://www.eon-schafft-transparenz.de/transparenz?language=en_US
E.ON has plans to construct a new highly efficient coal fired power station in the Antwerp harbour area of Belgium. The new plant will cost approx 1.5 billion EUR to develop and will have a capacity of 1.100 Megawatt (MW). The new state-of-the-art power plant will have an efficiency of approx. 46 percent - a top class figure for coal fired power plants. CO2 emissions will be approx. 25 percent lower compared to the average of the existing coal fired plants in Belgium. Like all the other E.ON new build projects, the plant will also be carbon capture-ready. E.ON is working on future technologies for capturing CO2 group wide to realize coal fired power plants without CO2 emissions.
http://www.eon.com/en/presse/news-show.do?id=8297
RWE Power will not build the planned 1,600 MW hard-coal-fired power plant in Ensdorf against the will of the citizens. In a public vote with a turnout of 70 percent, a large majority (70 percent) of the voters of Ensdorf decided against amending the land development plan. This plan was the precondition for realising the planned hard-coal-fired power plant with an investment volume of 2.2 billion Euro.
http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/presse/language=en/id=76864?pmid=4001919
Electrabel chose Wilhelmshaven site on which to build its first coal fired power plant in Germany. With the highest attainable efficiency to date of 46 percent, the power station will provide a stable supply of energy in a profitable and environmentally friendly way. It will indeed benefit from the most recent technologies. Every year, approximately 900,000 t CO2 can be spared when compared to a current conventional plant in Germany.
http://www.electrabel.com/corporate/newsroom/pressreleases_detail_EN.asp?id=2007111402
VGB PowerTech e.V. and its members are looking for Engineers/Physicists (m/f). Therefore we are offering prospective persons the possibility to develop their career in the range of heat and power generation. You can find current vacancies of VGB and its members for Engineers/Physicists (m/f) on our homepage.
http://www.vgb.org/jobmarket.html
Main topics of the December issue are: VGB Congress "Power Plants 2007" - Conference proceeding; Rothensee Waste-to-energy Power Plant - commissioning and Trial Operation; Upgrading and Optimization of the GMVA Oberhausen; Construction and Operation of Natural Draught Cooling Towers Made of Highly Acid-resistant Concrete.
Abstracts of all articles are available here:
http://www.vgb.org/current_issue.html