BDEW Congress
The BDEW Congress is a congress for the energy and water industry in Germany. It is hosted by the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management (BDEW) and organized by EW Media and Congresses .
The event, which was known as the “VDEW Congress” until 2007, took place every two years until 2009 with a current theme. The BDEW Congress has been held annually since 2010.
The congress is the industry get-together for high-ranking executives from the German and increasingly also European energy and water management, politics and science. It serves to promote an exchange of expertise and experience between the parties mentioned. Through lectures, discussions, specialist forums and an accompanying specialist exhibition, the perspectives of various participants are presented and brought together.
history
The event was launched in 1983 by the Association of the Electricity Industry –VDEW– eV (predecessor organization of the BDEW) and was called the “VDEW General Assembly” at the time. This annual meeting has been renamed the "VDEW Annual Conference" over the years. Since only VDEW members were allowed to take part and there was interest outside the group of members to take part in this event, the VDEW congress finally came about, whereby the general assembly continued. Initially, the congress was always held in different cities in order to strengthen the connection between the members. Since 2003, the capital Berlin has hosted the BDEW congress in order to intensify the exchange between member companies and politicians.
The event takes place regularly under a current motto . Well-known personalities from the energy and water industry and politics give lectures, present their opinions, ideas and possible solutions and thus contribute to the formation of public opinion.
On June 18 and 19, 2007, the general assembly of the associations BGW , VDEW, VDN and VRE decided to merge these associations into the BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft eV This merger meant that the VDEW congress was also renamed the BDEW congress has been.
Congresses from 1997 to 2015
| year | Period | place | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Saarbrücken | Topic " Electricity suppliers in competition" | |
| 1999 | Mannheim | Motto "Departure - Into the new millennium with sensible energy" | |
| 2001 | Berlin | " Electricity market Germany, energy for Europe" | |
| 2003 | Berlin | Leading theme "Electricity industry between competition and politics". | |
| 2005 | 8/9 June 2005 | Berlin | " Sustainability or greening of energy policy?" |
| 2007 | 23/24 May 2007 | Berlin | " Innovative! Energy today and tomorrow. " |
| 2009 | 24./25. June 2009 | Berlin | "Shaping the future - investments for security of supply and sustainability", caused a stir a demonstration of the environmental organization Greenpeace with real nuclear waste from Chernobyl, located 50 protesters had chained in front of the conference hotel on nuclear waste barrels in. There they wanted to hand it over to nuclear supporters Manuel Barroso and Angela Merkel at noon. |
| 2010 | June 29th to July 1st, 2010 | Berlin | |
| 2011 | June 28-30, 2011 | Berlin | "On course for 2050 - shaping the renovation" |
| 2012 | June 26-28, 2012 | Berlin | "Tomorrow's Markets - Between Competition and Regulation" |
| 2013 | June 11-13, 2013 | Berlin | |
| 2014 | June 24-26, 2014 | Berlin | "Company Future: New Business Models for Energy and Water Management" |
| 2015 | June 23-25, 2015 | Berlin |
Web links
- bdew-kongress.de - Official website of the BDEW Congress