1) VGB PowerTech: New Executive Managing Director - Erland Christensen successor of Karl A. Theis
2) Fortum Invests in New Biofuel-fired CHP Plants in Finland and Latvia
3) Revised EURELECTRIC ECOBA Commission Briefing 2011 available
4) Call for Papers - VGB Conference "Maintenance in Power Plants 2012"
Dr. Karl A. Theis, for 12 years the successful Executive Managing Director of VGB PowerTech - the European technical association of electricity and heat generation - and of the associated KRAFTWERKSSCHULE, will retire age related on June 30, 2011, after more than 37 years in the energy business.
At its meeting on June 21, 2011, the VGB and KWS Boards appointed for both functions Erland Christensen (51) from Denmark, who has long-lasting and diverse international professional experience in the power industry. Before taking over VGB´s management, he was head of the Heat Nordic department of Vattenfall AB in Stockholm/Sweden.
Karl Theis became Executive Managing Director of VGB and KRAFTWERKSSCHULE in 1999 when the electricity industry changed fundamentally due to liberalisation and cross-border competition. Since then VGB has been taken consistently into account globalisation of the electricity business. This was also documented by the new name of the association "VGB PowerTech". The new policy was implemented by VGB´s European and internationally-oriented committees and panels and its cooperation with EURLECTRIC. All these activities are focused on the joint technical issues of electricity- and heat generation. The success of this strategy is also demonstrated by figures: at the turn of the millennium, VGB represented some 430 members from 25 countries with a power plant capacity of 340,000 MW. Today, VGB has 495 members from 36 countries representing power plant capacity of 520,000 MW.
http://www.vgb.org/en/gf_wechsel.html
Fortum invests in two new biofuel-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plants in Järvenpää, Finland, and Jelgava, Latvia. The combined investments total around EUR 160 million and the plants are estimated to start commercial operation in 2013. The new biofuel-fired plants replace current natural gas and heavy fuel oil heat production. The biofuels used are mainly wood chips and by-products of the forest industry, such as sawdust and bark.
http://goo.gl/z78vi
The revised joint EURELECTRIC/ECOBA briefing on the "Classification of Coal Combustion Products under the revised Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC)" is now available for download at the websites of EURELECTRIC and ECOBA.
The briefing, first published in 2006, was to demonstrate that coal combustion products (CCPs) which are produced according European product standards meet the requirements for "by-products" or "end-of-waste" in the draft clauses of the revised Waste Directive. The Directive entered into force on December 12, 2008 and had to be implemented into national regulations by December 10, 2010.
The revision focus the final requirements for "by-products" and "end-of-waste" status and also updated figures on production and utilisation of CCPs in the annex. As a consequence of that joint position the CCP producers have consequently registered the CCPs under the REACH Regulation to make CCPs available as construction materials although in some member states the final decision for materials being by-products or end-of-waste is still not taken.
The revised joint EURELECTRIC/ECOBA briefing is available here:
http://goo.gl/8XgW7
The next VGB conference "Maintenance in Power Plants 2012" will take place in the Maritim Hotel in Ulm on the 29. February/1. March 2012. This biennial event is addressed to all experts of the conventional and nuclear division, to the experts of maintenance in power plants and service companies and to the independent inspectors and deputies of governments, who are concerned with new developments in the divisions maintenance, inspection and repair. This conference is to put up the current subjects in discussion and to cultivate the intensive exchange of experiences especially for the experts of maintenance in power plants.
Please submit your Call for Papers by August 31, 2011, at the latest to:
mailto:heinrich.grimmelt@vgb.org
http://goo.gl/LmYmY
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