Congress Center Leipzig/Germany 21/22 September 2016

The meeting place of European electricity and heat productionl More than 600 participants from more than 20 countriesl Accompanying exhibition

Lecture programme with current topicsl Market and Competitionl Technology, Operation and Environment

Interesting side programmel Pre-Congress Get-togetherl Welcome eveningl Sight-seeing Leipzig and surroundingsl Technical visits

ANNOUNCEMENT

Further information:www.vgb.org/en/pp_2016.html

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VGB CONGRESS POWER PLANTS 2016LEPZIG, GERMANY – 21 AND 22 SEPTEMBER 2016 NEW HORIZONS: NAVIGATING THE POWER INDUSTRY IN TIMES OF CHANGE

11:30 Peaking plant Bayonne (New Jersey): A 5 A flexible solution to support a volatile grid Shawn Picard, Ethos Energy USA and

Tobias Aschoff, Siemens AG, Germany12:00 Break in the exhibition Section B – New Build Investments09:00 First operational experience with advanced B 1 materials in USC boilers of RWE Dr. Frank Neumann, Christoph Götte,

Dr. Jens Hannes, Georg Bung and Dr. Reinhold Elsen, RWE Generation SE, Germany

09:30 Experiences GKM 9B 2 Klaus Metzger, Hubert Dorn and

Rolf Stork, Grosskraftwerk Mannheim AG, Germany10:00 Break in the exhibition10:30 “Fortuna” Lausward, an advanced large and B 3 highly flexible CHP project as a measure to reduce

emissions and to increase affordability Dr. Udo Brockmeier, Stadtwerke Düsseldorf and

Lothar Balling, Siemens AG, Germany 11:00 Large scale and high efficient biomass power plants B 4 with fluidised bed combustion in Europe Timo Jäntti, Amec Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, Finland11:30 Overview on nuclear new build projects and B 5 global perspectives Jean Pol Poncelet, FORATOM, Belgium12:00 Break in the exhibition Section C – Asset Optimisation &

Environmental Protection13:30 Implications of the new BREF-LCP/BAT conclusionsC 1 Dr. Klaus-Dieter Tigges, Chairman of the

EPPSA Technology Committee, EPPSA a.i.s.b.l., Belgium 14:00 Meeting the BREF limits – Technological solutions C 2 for new and existing plants N.N., PGE and Wolfgang Schreier,

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe, Germany14:30 Break in the exhibition15:15 Improving merit order position by reducing C 3 start-up costs N.N., Utility/GE 15:45 Overview on measures to increase flexibility in existing C 4 coal fired power plants and economic assessment Udo Gade, Vattenfall Europe Generation AG and

Jörg Böwe Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe, Germany

16:15 Converting CFB boilers from coal to 100 % C 5 biomass combustion Jan Žižka and Ludvík Pavlík, ČEZ Inženýring,

s.r.o., Czech Republic; Hynek Lang, ČEZ, a.s., Czech Republic

Section D – Commercial Optimisation 13:30 The value of flexibility for fossil fuel power plants D 1 under the conditions of the German Electricity Market 2.0 Sascha Lüdge, Vattenfall Europe Generation AG,

Germany14:00 Benchmarking of technical wind farm OPEX using D 2 the concept of characteristic numbers Dr. Rudolf Zauner, VERBUND Hydro Power GmbH,

Austria 14:30 Break in the exhibition15:15 Performing in a changing environment D 3 Dr. Peter Struckmann, Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH, Germany15:45 Performing in a changing environment D 4 N.N, Siemens AG, Germany16:15 Changing maintenance organisation N.N., Utility/GE

FRIDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2016~10:00 Technical Visits

TUESDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 201618:00– Opening of the exhibition21:00 Get-together in the exhibition

WEDNESDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 201610:00 Opening of the congress Opening speech Dr. Bernhard Fischer, VGB PowerTech e.V. Welcome address Dr. Hartmut Mangold, State Secretary, Saxon State

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport Burkhard Jung, Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig (enq.) Honours Plenary session11:00 The role of energy supply in the industry 4.0P 1 Dr. Markus Kerber, Director General of the BDI,

Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie e.V., Germany (enquired)

11:30 Change-Management in connection with P 2 industry transformation processes (enquired) Jens Baier, Boston Consulting Group, Germany12:00 Plenary discussion12:30 Break in the exhibition “Future energy supply without fossil fuels?” Chair: Sonja van Renssen, ep energy post, Belgium 14:00 Decarbonisation as a future duty! V 1 N.N., Federal Ministry for the Environment,

Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany

14:20 National emission reduction = V 2 global climate protection? Dr. Frank Umbach, Research Director of the European

Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS), King‘s College, United Kingdom

14:40 Security of supply – “Cinderella” of the V 3 European energy transition? Hans ten Berge, EURELECTRIC, Belgium15:00 Panel Discussion Chair: Sonja van Renssen, ep energy post, Belgium Speaker V 1 – V 3 and Prof. Dr. Michael Beckmann, Technical University

of Dresden, Institute for Process and Environmental Engineering, and Hubertus Altmann, Vattenfall Europe Generation AG, Germany

16:00 Break in the exhibition16:30 General Assemblies VGB PowerTech and KWS Visit of the exhibition19:00 Welcome Evening

THURSDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2016 Section A – Integration of Renewables09:00 Wind farms without subsidies: Challenges and A 1 risks for the operator José Ángel Diaz Alvarez, EDP Renováveis S.A., Spain09:30 The contribution of Alpine hydropower towards A 2 a reliable, sustainable and efficient European power transition Andreas Stettler, Dr. Nicolaus Römer, Johann Herdina,

Peter Matt and Herfried Harreiter, Association of Alpine Hydropower Operators (AGAW), Austria

10:00 Break in the exhibition10:30 Integrating renewable power plants A 3 with battery storage Riccardo Amoroso, ENEL Green Power, Italy 11:00 Large scale storage options under special A 4 consideration of 6x15 MW battery example Dr. Wolfgang A. Benesch, STEAG Energy Services

GmbH and Christian Karalis, STEAG GmbH, Germany