Consumers from all walks of life are becoming increasingly active designing their own products via the web. The new Flow magazine, out on 1 March, provides a detailed view of how this works with shoes, as well as many other stories revolving around "presuming".

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More than 30% of Austrians already own a Smartphone. But do corresponding Apps also exist on the subject of energy efficiency and green living?

It may sound like a fictional episode of "Tatort" in Upper Bavaria, but the physical cause is very real: The Siberian cold is making the Bavarian Inn freeze up.

Every year, on 2 February, UNESCO's "World Wetlands Day" poses a reminder of the significance of these landscape areas. Only few people, however, know that this also includes power plant sites.

Nowadays, plenty of space and countryside is usually sought by anyone wishing to realise the dream of owning their own house. That this can also work differently is a fact demonstrated by Christine and Horst Lechner – in the middle of the historic centre of Salzburg.

Why we have assembled an 800-ton machine at an altitude of 2,000 metres above sea level, a machine which is now working its way inside the mountain, kilometre upon kilometre.

American artist Cindy Sherman counts among today's most important artists. SAMMLUNG VERBUND has now created a book of her early works, 50 of which are displayed in the Vertical Gallery.

His book "Factor Five" has caused an international furore. Our flow magazine asked the scientist what makes energy efficiency a survival issue, why energy has to become more expensive and what he expects from electricity companies.

When you think of the subject of efficiency, what example comes to mind? We've compiled a number of remarkable examples here that illustrate implemented efficiency.

Together with members of the neighbouring voluntary fire services, we have carried out an extinguishing exercise in Austria’s oldest Danube power plant.

Forty-one years ago today, the Aswan Dam in Egypt, the earth's third largest reservoir of the earth, was inaugurated. Connected research has led us to a few additional record holders amongst the dams.
The most voluminous of the earth's reservoirs, Austria's largest barrage wall and (upon completion) the earth's highest dam in the form of an illustrated story.

Nowadays there is scarcely a product for sale – from a baby’s dummy right through to a coffin – that is not checked prior to its application. In the mix are laws, norms and regulations that are intended to safeguard the safety of us consumers. But, what is the situation with electricity?

People come together for the holidays. And figures come together at the end of the year. We've compiled a few somewhat out-of-the-ordinary figures for you and would like to present you these along with our wishes for a Happy New Year!

Whilst many of us spend Christmas Eve in brightly lit houses and comfortable warmth, there are a few people who go to pains on our behalf. And they also work at VERBUND.

This evening, ORF is showing a Universum documentary about the 517-kilometre-long mountain river Inn. Also featuring in part of the documentary are the VERBUND Inn power plants in Bavaria.

The first electric Christmas tree lights were developed by in 1882 by Edward Johnson, an American. A passionate entrepreneur, he immediately took out a patent for his invention.

Not everyone is able to communicate with ease – some need a little bit of technology to do so, which is unfortunately expensive. It is for this reason that we are donating an additional 30,000 Euro at Christmas to the Empowerment Fund of the welfare organisation, Diakonie, in order to provide specific assistance in this area.

How does one transport 50 individual batteries, with a combined weight of 4 tonnes, through a conservation area up to a 3,000-metre-high mountain? And, more importantly: What has this got to do with VERBUND?

It’s not just Limberg II, our pumped storage power plant that opened in 2011, that is in a league of its own: the accompanying book can also leave a weighty impression. Collected within it are impressions and backgrounds from the construction of the 400-million-Euro power plant that disappears entirely into the mountain.

Andrea Schwager sees her voluntary commitment as an "enrichment to one’s personal life". For approx. 2 years the VERBUND employee has been helping out in her capacity as one of 60 voluntary employees in the VinziRast-CortiHaus in Vienna.