The association
Organisation and structure
Organisation
vgbe is the international technical association for the generation and storage of electricity and heat and is organised as registered society according to German legislation (“Verein”, e.V.). We are a voluntary association of companies operating and manufacturing power plants. The association’s funds may only be used for the purposes set out in its statutes.
The vgbe General Assembly elects the Board of Directors from among its members, which is supported in its work by the Scientific Advisory Board.
The Board of Directors appoints the Executive Managing Director who is responsible for managing the day-to-day affairs of vgbe.
Our structure
Board of Directors
The governing body of the association
Scientific Advisory Board
The experts at our side
Membership
Benefit from our know-how
Head office
This is the centre of our activites.
Statutes
All important regulations
Cooperations
Joint achievements
Our vision is our goal
vgbe Board of Directors
The vgbe Board of Directors is the governing body of the association and manages and is responsible for all activities. The General Assembly elects the members of the Board of Directors for a period of five years. The chairperson and the two vice-chairpersons represent the association in legal matters externally.
Members of the Executive Board
The Executive Board is elected from the ranks of the Board of Directors and takes over the operational management of the association’s business activities and bodies.
Dr Georgios Stamatelopoulos
CEO of the EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
vgbe Chairman
Nikolaus Valerius
Chief Operating Officer, RWE Generation SE
1st Vice-Chairman Chairman of the vgbe Board of Directors
Dr. Karl Heinz Gruber
Managing Director and Board Member of VERBUND-Wasserkraftgesellschaften
2nd Vice-Chairman Chairman of the vgbe Board of Directors
Adolf Roesch
CEO of the LEAG
Pedro Lopez Estebaranz
Chief Operating Officer (EVP), Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH
- Tilman Bechthold, RWE Power AG, Head of Research and Development
- Dr. Stefan Bockamp, Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH, Head of short-term Asset optimization
- Stefan Bogenberger, Stadtwerke München GmbH, Head of Renewable Energy
- Wim Broos, ENGIE, Chief Cluster Coal Officer - Generation Europe BU
- Prof. Nikolaus Elze, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Head of Engineering
- Hans Gennen, Currenta GmbH & OHG, Managing Director - COO
- Borja Rosell Herrera, Centrales Nucleares Almaraz Trillo, Technical Services Director
- Peter Heydecker, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Member of the EnBW Board of Management / Chief Operating Officer
- Thomas Hörtinger, Grosskraftwerk Mannheim AG, Chief Technical Officer
- Jan Kalina, ČEZ, a. s., Member of the Board of Directors
- Didier Lachenal, EDF, Chief Operating Officer
- Dan Marokane, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Group Chief Executive
- Jörg Michels, EnBW Kernkraft GmbH, Chairman of the Management Board
- Dr. Frank Neumann, RWE Power AG, Chairman SF Thermal
- Bastian Olzem, BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e. V., Head of Division
- Dr. Jens Reich, STEAG Power GmbH
- Dr. Hansjörg Roll, MVV Energie AG, Board Member
- Kristian Ruby, EURELECTRIC, Secretary General
- Marcus Schönwälder, BEW Berliner Energie und Wärme GmbH, Director of Maintenance
- Harijs Teteris, Latvenergo AS, Chief Operating Officer, Member of the Management Board
Our Scientific Advisory Board
Scientific Advisory Board
Experts from all parts of the energy industry and science make up the vgbe Advirsory Boards. Jointly they look beyond their own horizons and support and advice vgbe. Jointly they look beyond their own horizons and support and advice vgbe.
The Scientific Advisory Board supports the Board of Directors and management of vgbe in all matters concerning research, development and education in the field of energy engineering.
Vorsitzender / Chairman
Dipl.-Ing. Tilman Bechthold
Leiter Forschung und Entwicklung, RWE Power AG, Essen
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Bauer, Universität Karlsruhe
- Prof. Dr. Michael Beckmann, Technische Universität Dresden
- Prof. Dr. Frank Behrendt, Technische Universität Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Marc Oliver Bettzüge, Universität zu Köln
- Prof. Dr. Bernd Epple, Technische Universität Darmstadt
- Prof. Dr. Oriol Gomis Bellmunt, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spanien
- Prof. Dr. Markus Haider, Technische Universität Wien, Österreich
- Prof. Dr. John Hald, DTU Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Dänemark
- Prof. Dr. Rene Hofmann, Technische Universität Wien, Österreich
- Prof. Dr. Frantisek Hrdlicka, Czech Technical University in Prague, Tschechische Republik
- Prof. Dr. Antonio Hurtado, Technische Universität Dresden
- Prof. Dr. Filip Johnsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Schweden
- Prof. Dr. Emmanouil Kakaras, National Technical University of Athens, Athen, Griechenland
- Prof. Dr. Juha Lehtonen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Espoo, Finnland
- Prof. Dr. Hendrik Lens, Universität Stuttgart
- Prof. Dr. Johanna Myrzik, Universität Bremen
- Prof. Dr. Christian Rehtanz, Technische Universität Dortmund
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Reuter, Fraunhofer-Institut für Windenergiesysteme IWES, Bremerhaven
- Prof. Dr. Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italien
- Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer, RWTH Aachen
- Prof. Dr. Mihael Sekavcnik, University of Ljubljana, Slowenien
- Prof. Dr. Adam Smolinski, Central Mining Institute (GIG), Katowice, Polen
- Prof. Dr. Filippo Spertino, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italien
- Prof. Dr. Hartmut Spliethoff, Technische Universität München
- Prof. Dr. Harald Weber, Universität Rostock
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Wieland, Universität Duisburg-Essen
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.
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Become member
You also can benefit from
- Expert knowledge
- Consulting
- Industry information
- Services
and take advantage of the opportunity to actively participate.
With energy for your goals!
The willingness of members to exchange experience and know-how on technical-scientific issues directly at expert level and to jointly develop solutions is our strength and your benefit!
We distinguish between three types of membership
Ordinary members
companies that operate and/or own plants for the generation of electricity and heat.
Supporting members
manufacturers and supplier companies that contribute significantly to the planning, construction and operation of plants for the generation of electricity and heat.
Affiliate members
authorities, associations and federations interested in the planning, construction and operation of power and heat generation plants.
Ordinary member companies delegate staff to the vgbe technical groups, which are supervised by competent technical experts from the vgbe office in all fields of work. Currently, about 2,300 employees from member companies are active in more than 80 technical groups and committees and contribute with their work to the high level of vgbe´s expertise.
Head office
The vgbe head office is located in Essen. The head office team is responsible for coordinating the work of the association. In addition to general administrative tasks, the activities of the head office team include in particular management of the technical groups and committees, organising events and other communication measures as well as providing comprehensive support to members.
The head office is divided into the following sections:
- Renewables and Distributed Generation
- Power Plant Technologies and Environmental Engineering
- Nuclear power
- Business Support
Give us a call, we are looking forward to supporting you!
Contact
Ines Moors
Personal Secretary to the Executive Managing Director
Sebastian Zimmerling
Future Energy System
Janahan Thiageswaran
Business Support
Statutes
The Statutes of vgbe as amended on November 25, 2021
Code of conduct and legal requirements for vgbe
Code of conduct
Version of September 21, 2021
Working together on the future
Our cooperations
As an international technical association for electricity and heat generation, we work closely together with EURELECTRIC, the umbrella organisation of the European electricity industry. Within the scope of a Memorandum of Understanding between EURELECTRIC and vgbe, the vgbe expertise regarding questions of power and heat generation and related environmental protection and research topics will be integrated into the political/strategic work of EURELECTRIC.
In addition, contacts are maintained with the following organisations within the framework of an international network:
- COGEN Europe (The European Association for the Promotion of Cogeneration)
- ETE (Energy Technologies Europe)
- EU Turbines (European Association of Gas and Steam Turbine Manufacturers)
- EURACOAL (European Association for Coal and Lignite)
- Euroheat & Power (The international association of district heating & cooling)
- EREC (European Renewable Energy Council)
- EREF (European Renewable Energies Federation Council)
- EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute)
- ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste to Energy Technology)
- EWEA (The European Wind Energy Association)
- FORATOM (European Atomic Forum)
- IEA (International Energy Association)
- IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)
- IERE (International Electric Research Exchange)
- TENPES (Thermal and Nuclear Power Engineering Society)
- WEC (World Energy Council)
vgbe also represents the German nuclear power plant operators in WANO (World Association of Nuclear Operators). With our expert committees on nuclear power plant technology, operation and the nuclear fuel cycle, we are intensively involved in the worldwide exchange of experience and in the analysis of special incidents in nuclear power plants. For this purpose, we operate the ZMA (Central Reporting and Evaluation Centre) for recording, evaluating and forwarding incidents at nuclear power plants.
At national level, we work closely with the following associations:
In the field of standardisation and technical regulations, we work together with, among others:
We manage the ECOBA (European Coal Combustion Products Association) for the recycling and utilization of combustion residues from power plants.