NGO in Roster Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

IERE EE-mail Magazine No.14
No.14 (8 June 2012)

Contents- Call for R&D Collaborative Projects- The Project Meeting of "Transformer Insulating Paper Diagnosis" held
- 22nd IERE Board Meeting held in Shanghai- 12th IERE General Meeting and Korea Forum "Call for Paper"- Expert Meeting on CCT in Xi'an, China- SMC Global Power Holdings and GDF SUEZ newly joined IERE<< Call for R&D Collaborative Projects >>IERE R&D Working Group has started New R&D Activities as "Collaborative R&DProjects".
Collaborative R&D projects are based on the concept of "burden sharing". Participants
have to share the work by providing technological knowledge, information, skills andmanpower. Basically, the costs will also have to be shared.
Please propose new projects and participate in the projects.
Details are shown on IERE Website.
http://www.iere.jp/NonMembers/RD_WG/index.html<<The Project Meeting of "Transformer Insulating Paper Diagnosis" held >>On 14-15 May, the first Project-1 meeting was held in Montreal chaired byHydro-Quebec. 15 participants from Hydro-Quebec (Project leader), NTPC (India), TPC(Taiwan), Prolec GE (Mexico), Toshiba (Japan) and CLP (Hong Kong SAR) attended thefirst project meeting. They discussed each role of the project and the way of advancethe project.

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1st project meeting for “Transformer Insulating Paper Diagnosis” in Montreal<< 22nd IERE Board Meeting held in Shanghai >>22nd IERE Board Meeting was held on 25 May in
GE China Technology Center, Shanghai co-hosted byGE.
Before Board Meeting, R&D WG meeting, technicalpresentations from GE and technical tour to GE
Global Research Center were carried out on 24 May.
In the 22nd IERE Board Meeting, the main topics are as follows;- Review of the Membership- IERE Progress Report: November 2011 - May 2012
- Accounting Report for 2011 and Budget of 2012
- R&D Working Group Activity Report- IERE Award- Quality Improvement of IERE Events- IERE Internship<< 12th IERE General Meeting and Korea Forum "Call for Paper" >>The 12th General Meeting and Korea Forum will be held in Seoul, Korea from 6 to 9November 2012 co-hosted by KEPCO. The General theme of General Meeting is "PostFukushima". After the serious incident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant,
Power industries have faced a great many problems. As R&D divisions, we would liketo talk and discuss what we could and should take actions at the 12th GeneralMeeting.
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The Main theme of Korea Forum is "Technologies overcoming Economic Depression
and Natural Disaster".
** Abstract Submission: No later than 31 August 2012 **Please see;
http://www.iere.jp/NonMembers/Activities/Forum/Korea_Forum/PreAnnouncement.pdf<< Expert Meeting on CCT in Xi'an, China >>The Expert Meeting on Clean Coal Technology co-hosted by Xi'an Thermal Power
Research Institute will be held on 20 - 21 September 2012 in Xi'an, China.
This meeting is one of activities of TIS (Technological Issues and Solution) - Asia which
has two working groups, Generation Working Group and Network Working Group.
As the activity of Generation WG in this year, we will hold Expert Meeting on "CleanCoal Technologies".
The Meeting has three sessions and technical tour to TPRI.
-Session1: "Coal Utilization - Future Directions and Regional Interest"-Session2: "IGCC & CCS"-Session3: "Ultra-Supercritical (USC) Technology"
This meeting will comprise experts and professionals and the first expert meeting inIERE history. We encourage you to get involved.
Please see;
http://www.iere.jp/NonMembers/Activities/TIS_Asia/TIS2012/1stAnnouncement.pdf<< SMC Global Power Holdings and GDF SUEZ newly joined IERE >>IERE Central Office is pleased to announce that SMC Global Power Holdings,
Philippines and GDF SUEZ, France have newly joined IERE from the month of June
2012.
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SMC Global Power Holdings Corp., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of San MiguelCorporation. It is one of the largest power companies in the Philippines. Its primaryactivity is as the Independent Power Producer Administrator of the Sual, Ilijan andSan Roque Power Plants and the sale of the power generated by the respective
facilities.
For more information, please refer tohttp://www.sanmiguel.com.ph/businesses/new/power-energy/
GDF SUEZ has diversified activities in the energy field (including gas, electricity andservices) and in particular in electricity generation with an installed capacity of 117
GW and 14.8 GW under construction. This portfolio of production contains not only coal
power plants, CCGT but also nuclear power plants and renewable systems such as
biomass or wind farms.
For more information, please refer to http://www.gdfsuez.com/en/==================================================================
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