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Review vgbe Conference
Cooling Systems 2025

Review vgbe Conference
Thermal Treatment of Waste and Sewage Sludge,
Including Fluidised Bed Combustion
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Current
vgbe energy journal
Issue 10 | 2025
- Digitalisation
- Malta pumped heat energy storage to supply power and heat
- Efficient use of lubricant analyses for early varnish detection
- Mobile water treatment and wastewater treatment at bp Lingen
Download selected papers from the latest issue free of charge:
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Retrofit of two 800 MW steam turbine sets – experiences and results
(Christian Sommer, Renato Rachel, Stefan Wenke, Michael Evers, Eduard Jenikejew and Marco Redieß) -
vgbe Congress 2025: Opening speech
(Georg Stamatelopoulos)
New Publications

Issue - vgbe energy journal 10 / 2025
Main topics
- Digitalisation
- Retrofit of two 800 MW steam turbine sets – experiences and results
- Malta pumped heat energy storage to supply power and heat
- Efficient use of lubricant analyses for early varnish detection
- Mobile water treatment and wastewater treatment at bp Lingen

Availability of Power Plants 2014 – 2024 (eBook)
VGB-TW-103-Ve-ebook
The current report provides performance indicators of The Technical-scientific Report Availability of thermal power plants is available for the period 2014 to 2023. The current report provides performance indicators of 612 power plants units plus 166 machine sets of pumped storage and storage power plants.

Analysis of Unavailability of Power Plants 2014 – 2023
TW103Ae-ebook
Unavailability is analysed annually in order to identify such systems and equipment and to monitor or retrofit these parts in order to improve power plant performance. The systems and equipment are specified according to the power plant identification system (KKS).

Folgen von Druckteilschäden an Wirbelschichtfeuerungsanlagen erkennen, behandeln und begrenzen (only available in German)
VGBE-S-051-00-2023-12-DE-ebook
Ziel dieses vgbe-Standards ist es, für Druckteilschäden und deren mögliche, wirbelschichtspezifischen Folgen, geeignete Handlungsempfehlungen aus Betriebserfahrungen, Hinweise für die Bemessung und Auslegung von Sicherheitseinrichtungen sowie bereits für Auslegungen in der Planungsphase zu geben.

Zentralwarte (only available in German)
VGBE-S-179-00-2023-09-DE-ebook
Mit diesem vgbe-Standard „Zentralwarte“ werden Betreibern von Energieanlagen Leitlinien an die Hand gegeben, welche vorbereitenden Maßnahmen zu treffen sind, um Energieanlagen an verschiedenen Standorten mit gegebenenfalls unterschiedlicher Erzeugungstechnologie von einer Stelle aus zentral zu betreiben.

Statische und quasistatische Dichtungen (only available in German)
VGBE-S-197-00-2024-04-DE-ebook
In diesem vgbe-Standard werden Hinweise für den Einsatz von Dichtungen und deren Ausführung in Energieanlagen gegeben. Auslegung, Werkstoffauswahl, Prüfung und Handhabung von statischen und quasistatischen Dichtungen werden behandelt.

Experience in processing the material 7CrMoVTiB10-10 (T/P/F 24, material no.: 1.7378)
vgbe position paper
The vgbe position paper describes the experience of the operator in connection with the processing and repairs of components made of the material 7CrMoVTiB10-10 in the form of e. g. pipes, web material, fillers, including web material and drop forged parts with machined ends for pipe connections.

EU Taxonomy & Hydropower: Criteria on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
vgbe position paper
Interpretation Note of vgbe energy | Hydro Power on Hydropower & the EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act as a step to provide guidance for the application of the EU Taxonomy for the hydropower sector.

vgbe Position Paper | Position regarding EU Taxonomy Regulation
vgbe position paper
Position of vgbe energy|Hydro regarding EU Taxonomy & Hydropower in the context of the EU Sustainable Finance ambitions and their impact on hydropower generation and storage.
Labelling Systems
More information about our power plant identification systems KKS and RDS-PP
Being part of a strong network for power generation
Membership
Our members are companies from the operator sector, manufacturers and other institutions associated with power and heat generation.
Membership structure
Currently vgbe counts 418 companies from the areas of operators, manufacturers and other institutions associated with electricity and heat generation.
Our members come from 33 countries and represent an installed power plant capacity of 296,000 MW.