VGB CONGRESS - Innovation in Power Generation

Tuesday, 3 September 2019

Get-together in the exhibition
starting 18:00 until 21:00

The VGB PowerTech and the exhibitors invite all participants to a get-together. Catering will be arranged.

Use the opportunity to intensify your contacts and to have interesting conversations.

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

• Opening of the congress
• Plenary session
  Motto: Motto: Innovation in Power Generation
  Chair: Sonja van Renssen, ep energy post, Belgium
• Sektion V
  Utility Perspective
• Sektion I
  Industry Perspective

Thursday, 5 September 2019

Technical Sessions

• Section A
  Technologies for the Future
• Section B
  Flexibility
• Section E
  Short Presentation with Discussion

Dr. Hans Bünting, Chairman of the Board of Directors, VGB PowerTech e.V.

LH Stv. Dr. Heinrich Schellhorn
Landeshauptmann-Stellvertreter, Land Salzburg

Bgm.-Stv. Dr. Barbara Unterkofler LL.M.
Bürgermeister-Stv. Stadt Salzburg

VD Dr. Leonhard Schitter
Präsident Oesterreichs Energie, CEO Salzburg AG, Salzburg, Österreich

Honours

• Innovation Award

Plenary Session - EUROPA SAAL

Innovation in Power Generation - Utility Perspective

(The abstracts were not edited by VGB and are printed as received by our authors. A click on the title of the lecture will lead you to the abstract.)

WELCOME EVENING IN THE RESIDENZ ZU SALZBURG

Austria’s sponsors cordially invite all congress participants to a welcome evening in the Residenz zu Salzburg.

Residenz zu Salzburg

  Carabinierisaal

This jewel in the middle of Salzburg’s old town with its unique architecture and richly equipped rooms served as a former palace complex of the Salzburg sovereigns and is considered one of the most magnificent venues of the present. In this special setting you can look forward to an informal and entertaining evening with Austrian culinary highlights and lots of opportunities for personal talks.

You can reach the Residenz from the Salzburg Congress in about 15 minutes walking distance. Alternatively, you are welcome to use our shuttle.

• 18:45 h: Shuttle from Salzburg Congress to the Residenz
• 19:00 h: Welcome reception with aperitif, canapés and backround music - string players ensemble
• 20:00 h: Opening and Welcome Adddress
• 20:15 h: Flying four-course-menu with backround music - string players ensemble
• 22:00 h: Exclusive opening of the DomQuartiers museum (up to midnight)
• Cocktailbar and beer tasting in the Rittersaal (great hall)
• Live-Saxophon ambience music
• 01:00 h: End of event

The exclusive opening of the DomQuartier DomQuartiers from 22:00 to 0:00 is a real highlight of this evening. We are very glad that we could manage to provide this for the guests.

Side Programme

During the VGB Congress 2019 you will find an information counter of Salzburg Information in the entrance area of Salzburg Congress. Here you can receive all tourist inquiries about the city and the ‘Salzburg Congress Card’ as well as other tickets. Please book the tours the day before, otherwise the availability cannot be guaranteed.

Salzburg Congress Card

  Salzburg Congress Card

Salzburg Congress is literally just a stone’s throw away from Salzburg’s most important sights:
Whether Mozart’s birthplace in the Getreidegasse, the Dom Quartier Salzburg, the Fortress Hohensalzburg or the Moderne Museum on the Mönchsberg. With the Salzburg Congress Card, these sights can be visited free of charge. Public transport is included (for example the Festungsbahn and the Untersbergbahn). The card is available for 72 hours and is valid for the duration of the congress.

• Price: € 29 (instead of € 44)

Salzburg City Tour

  Salzach Festung

Be enchanted by the charm of Mozart’s city on the one-hour city tour through Salzburg!
This city tour takes you from Mirabell Palace through the Old Town, pass the Mozarteum University and Mozart’s residence. After crossing the Staatsbrücke, it goes into the heart of the baroque old town. You will get interesting information about the festival halls, St. Peter’s Abbey and the Salzburg Cathedral as well as Rokkoko Palace Leopoldskron. You stop for a photo at the lake, opposite the Castle Leopoldskron. The tour ends at the point of departure, the ‘Mirabellplatz’.

• from Mirabellplatz | departures: every hour 10 am to 5 pm
• Price: € 19 | duration: 1 h

City Tour on Mozart’s tracks

  Auf Mozarts Spuren

Walk in the footsteps of Mozart and learn about all important historical backgrounds of the baroque city of Salzburg during our 1.5-hour city tour. Discover unique buildings such as the Salzburg Cathedral, the festival district, St. Peter or the summer residence of Archbishop Markus Sittikus-Hellbrunn Palace, Leopoldskron Palace and Frohnburg Castle, both known from the movie “The Sound of Music”. The highlight of this tour is the entrance to Mozart’s house, where you can enjoy for an hour the history of the Mozart family.

• Departures: 9 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 14 pm, 15 pm,
• Price: € 28 | duration: 2.5 h

Technical Visit

Sohlstufe Lehen Hydropower Plant

  Sohlstufe Lehen

The Sohlstufe Lehen hydropower plant in the heart of the Salzburg conurbation is characterised by modern architecture and ecological features.
The supporting power plant was built underneath the former riverbed step in Salzburg‘s Lehen district and has been supplying electricity to 23,000 households since 2013.
In the framework of a competition the design by the architects Erich Wagner and Max Rieder found acceptance. The Sohlstufe Lehen power plant with its striking concrete beaks on the weir piers and the powerhouse on the left side of the Salzach lies at the height of the Glanspitz between Lehen/Liefering and Itzling.
The power plant ensures the passability of the Salzach for fish as required by the EU. Sealing walls on the banks of the Salzach and an underground drainage system on the right-hand side of the Salzach ensure that the groundwater rises more slowly in the event of flooding.
On the Glanspitz site, a new local recreation area was created with an accompanying stream, large children‘s playgrounds, meadows and reclining facilities. Pedestrians and cyclists can cross the Salzach over the bridge at the power plant.

Information on the visit

• Meeting point: 09:00 Salzburg Congress
• Max. number of participants: 60
• Duration: 09:00 to 12:00 h

Everything at a glance

• Side Programme - Proposals
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