- Jun- 2019 -12 June
Uniper
The Supervisory Board of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf/Germany, decided on 2nd May 2019 to appoint Andreas Schierenbeck as Chairman of the Board and Sascha Bibert as the new Uniper CFO. Prior to this role, Schierenbeck was the Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Elevators. He is replacing Klaus Schäfer, whose…
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VKU
The Board of Management of Verband kommunaler Unternehmen (VKU), Berlin/Germany, elected Guntram Pehlke as honorary VKU Vice-President for the Energy Sector on 12th March 2019. Pehlke, who occupies a full-time position as Chairman of the Board of Management of DSW21 Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG, succeeds Andreas Feicht. Feicht had held this…
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Pilot study: Health of miners not at risk, although previously exposed to PCB
RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, has initiated a pilot study on the possible exposure of miners to PCB. The impetus for the study was the question as to whether exposure that took place many years ago, i.e. resulting from the use of liquids containing PCB in mining until the 1980s, can be…
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200 years of industrial coal mining in Germany
On 23rd January 2019, the Hard Coal -Association (GVSt), Essen/Germany, hosted “200 years of industrial coal mining in Germany”. Jürgen-Johann Rupp, President of the GVSt and Member of the Board at RAG Aktiengesellschaft, welcomed around 150 attendees to the Casino restaurant on the Zollverein former mining complex (Figure 1). In…
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Electricity from the container
In India, a population of more than 1.3 bn combined with strong economic growth are creating a huge demand for goods, services and raw materials. Developing the infrastructure, in particular unlimited access to electricity in rural regions, continues to pose a significant challenge. On 4th February 2019, at the invitation…
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More than 300 guests bid a fond farewell to the Lünen power station
It was an emotional evening in the historic machine hall of the STEAG power station, with a celebration that went into the early hours of the morning. Employees, family members, friends and former colleagues were invited to bid farewell to the founding location of Steinkohlen-Elektrizität AG (STEAG) on 19th January…
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Coal bears the brunt of recommendations from the Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Employment
In its final report, the commission failed to mention a single word on coal’s contribution to reducing CO2 emissions, even though coal has been the main contributor to emission reductions in recent decades. By the end of 2018, it had cut its use of fuel for electricity generation by half…
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Recommendations from the commission: Lignite industry fears tough interventions
The recommendation from the Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Employment to shut down half of the lignite power station capacity by 2030 and to completely end electricity generation with domestic lignite by 2038 will prematurely take away an important source of energy from Germany as an industrial centre. It…
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More climate protection – less security in terms of supply
In 2018, lignite production in the Rhineland, Lusatia and central Germany decreased by a total of 3 % to around 166 Mt. According to preliminary calculations by the German Lignite Association (DEBRIV), Berlin/Germany, this decrease in production and use has reduced CO2 by around 5 Mt. Lignite therefore made a quantitatively…
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Prepared for the future: THGA publishes new university development plan
Digitalisation, competitive pressure, social change: Trends such as these are having a significant impact on requirements for universities. The Georg Agricola Technical University (THGA) in Bochum/Germany, has been focussing on the challenges of the future for some time. In a new university development plan, which it has published at www.thga.de/hochschulentwicklung,…
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