vgbe energy journal
Annual Overview 2021/22/23
The technical journal vgbe energy journal is a competent and internationally accepted publication for power plant engineering. 11 bilingual German/English issues per year reflect on all important current topics of power and heat generation with qualified technical papers and latest news.

Main topics
- Maintenance for power Generation
- Russian gas as driver for economic growth in Germany – reality or myth?
- Efficient leak detection in power plants and industrial facilities
- The role of lifetime assessments in the energy transition: extending instead of replacing
- How drone technology is revolutionising power plant maintenance

Main topics
- Sector coupling and power generation
- Sustainable energy supply
- Green ammonia production: A new pathway for sustainable energy supply in Germany
- Impact of low load operation on cycle chemistry: The ESKOM experience
- Assessing service life of materials
- Operational flexibility of power plants and carbon capture

Main topics
- Electrical engineering, instrumentation, control
- Nuclear energy
- OT Security in the field: NIDS and SOC work hand-in-hand in critical infrastructure
- Experience with the replacement of a 600 MW generator stator
- Modern AI approaches in the nuclear industry
- Nuclear power: Compact statistic 2024

Main topics
- Digitalisation and IT technologies
- Steam turbines
- Steam turbine services
- Implementing NIS-2 in power plants
- Green hydrogen for sustainable ammonia production
- Securing staff competences and Know-how

Main topics
- Chemistry in energy Generation and storage
- Increasing the operational reliability of Demineralisation Systems
- Cooling water treatment and biocide use
- Hermetically sealed centrifugal pumps
- The ‘H2-Wyhlen’ living lab

Main topics
- Maintenance
- Maintenance strategies for conventional power plants
- Conventional power plants` contribution to reduction of GHG
- Conversion of fossil-fuelled steam generators to alternative fuels
- Rare earth Elements

Main topics
- Worldwide energy supply
- Operational optimisation
- Forecasts and scenarios for global energy supply until 2050
- Wind energy in Latvia – mismatch between the potential and reality
- Classification of different energy storage options in the future wholesale market
- Real-world laboratory large-scale heat pumps

Main topics
- Industrial and combined heat and power plants
- Steam turbines
- Energy supply situation in Germany and energy policy Framework
- The importance of power plants and large-scale consumers for system stability
- High-temperature heat storage
- Questions and answers on the training needs of the Industry

Main topics
- vgbe Congress 2024
- Maintenance and modernisation
- Power plant strategy – A proposal
- High-temperature storage: technology and demonstration plants
- Potential of reusing the containment of PWR´s
- vgbe energy – Awards 2024

Main topics
- CCUS
- Power plant by-products
- From research to application – 15 years of operating the CO2 scrubbing pilot plant at RWE`s innovation centre
- Coal combustion products worldwide
- Energy transition and security of supply 2045
- Mobilising agri-residues for modern bioenergy