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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.

vgbe-ej2025-07

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
vgbe-ej2025-06UMSCHLAG_990

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
vgbe-ej2025-05UMSCHLAG_990

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
vgbe energy journal 4 (2025)

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
vgbe energy journal 3 (2025)

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
vgbe energy journal | International Journal for Generation and S

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
vgbe-ej 2024-12Titel

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
vgbe-ej 2024-11UMSCHLAG

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
vgbe-ej 2024-10

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
vgbe-ej2024-09

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