Practical Information Hotel Accommodation Conference Venue For your hotel reservation please contact the following hotels. RuhrCongress , Stadionring 20, D-44791 Bochum, With the statement of the code “VGB-INST” you will receive a VGB Conference www.ruhrcongress-bochum.de (see map) special price: Renaissance Bochum Hotel, Conference Languages Stadionring 20, D-44791 Bochum, Maintenance of German and English (simultaneous translation) Maintenance of Single room € 121.00 incl. breakfast Registration Double room € 135.00 incl. breakfast Wind Turbines 2008 th Participants are requested to register until February 5 , 2008 Courtyard by Marriott Bochum Stadtpark, with technical exhibition (deadline for list of participants). We will confirm the registra- Klinikstr. 43-45, D-44791 Bochum tion by sending the invoice. You will receive your ticket at the Single room € 103.00 incl. breakfast February 13 and 14, 2008 in Bochum conference office. Participation is also being possible upon late Double room € 117.00 incl. breakfast RuhrCongress Bochum registration; however, the participants name cannot be entered Hotel Reservation: into the list of participants. Phone: +49 234-893955-5 Please send the completes registration form to: Fax: +49 234-893955-171 VGB PowerTech e.V., Nicol Veenhues, P.O. Box 10 39 32, D- Email: [email protected] 45039 , Fax: +49 201-8128- 345 or VGB office regrets being unable to make reservation! e-mail:[email protected] If the above mentioned hotels are fully booked or you prefer an- other hotel please contact: Attendance Bochum Tourismus VGB-Members € 490.00 www.bochum-tourismus.de/uebernachtungen/hotels.php Non-Members € 650.00 Universities, Public authorities € 150.00 Conference office The VGB conference office will be located in the foyer. The attendance fees include the participation list, the confer- Phone: +49 234 6103-140 ence proceedings on CD-ROM, coffee breaks and beverages, Fax: +49 234 6103-141 lunch and the participation to the evening event on Wednes- Opening: 13th February 2008, 09.00 a.m. to 05.00 p.m. th day, 13 February 2008. 14th February 2008, 09.00 a.m. to 04.00 p.m. After the conference the CD-ROM can be obtained at: Road Map VGB PowerTech GmbH, P.O. Box 10 39 32, D-45039 Essen, Phone: +49-201-8128-200, Fax: +49-201-8128-350, e-Mail: [email protected]

The following fees will be charged for cancellation of the regis- tration: Up to 14 days prior the conference 10 % Within 14 days prior the conference 25 % Non-attendance or cancellation on the day of the conference 100 % Only written cancellations are accepted.

Evening Event All registered participants are invited to join the dinner and more at rewirpower-Lounge, VFL-Bochum Stationcenter (near by the Congress Centre). Start: 06.00 p.m. www.vgb.org Please take your conference badge with you!

Programme 15.45 h Technical Inspection – Periodical Inspections Maintenance Concepts (Subject to revision) at Wind Energy Plants for Deviations, in the Multi-MW Range Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Deficiencies and Damage RuhrCongress Bochum Holger Pasch, windtest grevenbroich gmbH, 11.00 h REpower Grevenbroich, 10.30 h Welcome Dr. Axel Birk, REpower Systems AG, Husum, Germany Dr. Karl A. Theis, 16.15 h End of the lecture programme VGB PowerTech e.V., Essen, Germany Visit the technical exhibition 11.25 h MultiBrid 10.40 h Wind Energy – R&D Requirements and Niels Erdmann, Multibrid GmbH, Bremerha- Results 18.00 h Evening event ven, Germany Prof. Hermann-Josef Wagner, Ruhr-University VfL Bochum rewirpower-Lounge Bochum, Germany Castroper Str. 145, 44791 Bochum, 11.50 h SIEMENS Guidelines and Regulations Germany Stefan Wolf and Michael Minder-Oschimek, Siemens Wind Power GmbH, 11.10 h Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health – Implementation for Wind Energy Plants Lunch break Michael Huwald, Triowind GbR, Husum, 12.15 h Germany 13.15 h GE Energy 11.45 h Lunch break Axel Bühler, GE Energy, Salzbergen, Germany 12.45 h RDS-PP at Wind Power Plants – First Pratical Experience Axel Ringhandt, Windstrom Betriebs- und Ver- Offshore Maintenance waltungs- GmbH, Edemissen, Germany 13.40 h Operation Concept by Taking into Account 13.15 h Technical Note “Fire Protection Systems for th Safety at Work for the Wind Park alpha Wind Turbines” Thursday, February 14 , 2008 ventus Mike Wöbbeking, Germanischer Lloyd Industrial RuhrCongress Bochum Services GmbH, , Germany Thomas Köther, DOTI GmbH & CO.KG, Maintenance , Germany 13.45 h First Results of the Project “Increase of the Availability of Wind Power Plants” 09.00 h Maintenance Concepts for Gear Boxes Dr. Harald Jung, Ingenieurgesellschaft Zuverläs- Carsten Sikora, Eickhoff Maschinenfabrik 14.15 h Coffee break sigkeit und Prozessmodellierung (IZP) , GmbH, Bochum, Germany Dresden, Germany 15.00 h Maintenance Measures for NordzeeWind 09.30 h Technical Plant Management and Mainte- Willem van Dongen, NUON Energy Sourcing, 14.15 h Coffee break nance of Wind Energy Plants –Experience Utrecht, The Netherlands with CMS Technology / Maintenance Concepts Dr. Konrad Iffarth, ENERTRAG Service GmbH, Dauerthal, Germany 15.30 h Experience from Commissioning and early 14.45 h Retrofit of Lightning Protection Operation of the Burbo Offshore Wind Christoph Lucks, Windcomp GmbH, Hamburg, 10.00 h MetalSCAN – Alternative Condition Monitor- Farm Germany ing of Gear Boxes Søren Dale Pedersen, DONG Energy Genera- 15.15 h Defects at Wind Turbine Foundations – Stefan Leske, momac Gesellschaft für Maschi- tion A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark Causes and Repair nenbau mbH & Co. KG, Moers, Germany Mathias Steck, Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services GmbH, Hamburg, Germany 10.30 h Coffee break 16.00 h End of the Conference