5/6 Juny 2019 in Mainz, Germany

In the context of the energy transition in a short period of time, the changing requirements in electricity and heat market and the public gas transport network require the timely adjustment of operational and plant engineering concepts for economical, safe and environmentally friendly gas turbine operation.

4/5 September 2019 in Salzburg, Austria

Innovations in power and heat supply are the central themes for the VGB Congress. Topical political, strategic and energy sector related issues will be discussed in the plenary session on the first day of the congress.

23/24 October 2019 in Würzburg, Germany

The meeting place of international power plant chemistry! The following major items will be presented at the conference: Conditioning of water steam cycles and cooling water cycles; Methods of water preparation and waste water treatment ...

23/24 October 2019 in Vienna, Austria

Digitalization will enable wind farm operators to carry out better diagnosis of system performance, increase asset availability and thus reduce total costs. The main topics of this event will therefore mainly deal with the optimization of wind turbine operation.

5/6 December 2019 in Berlin, Germany

For mercury removal the operators of coal-fired power plants have a great challenge to meet the new emission limit values, which will become mandatory in the next years. Therefore, VGB offers a platform for an international exchange of ideas and experience.

• Electrical engineering, instrumentation and control
• IT safety
• Power Generation 4.0 and the path to productivity
• Optimising plant operation – digital ways to generate revenue with data
• German grid code goes EU

and further news from industry, development and research

The update of the information brochure “Electricity Generation - Facts and Figures 2018/2019” had been published. Periodically, since 2003 this VGB publication informs about facts and trend in electricity generation.

VGB-S-131-00-2017-07-EN-ebook

This guideline is meant to provide a standardized basis for acceptance and operating tests of air-cooled water steam condensers. Its scope of application is limited to the testing of the condenser itself and the exhaust steam duct up to the terminal point of supply.

VGB-S-130-00-2017-07-EN-ebook

More than twenty years ago, in 1994, the first edition of this standard was published in response to the rapid technological development and the growing importance of condensers in plant construction.

VGB-TW103Ae-eBook

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 listed amendment sheets include all amendments regarding to the VGB-Standard. Its structure complies with the chapters of the VGB-Standard. It documents the amendments with naming the chapter number.