Tag: alternative energy
Stay away from oil heating – a comment
Oil heating in the basement The operation of oil and gas heating is likely to become more and more expensive in the coming years. (Photo: IMAGO/Petra Schneider) Now quickly a…
Record results for RWE – shareholders to receive higher dividends
RWE The Essen-based company posts billions in profits. (Photo: dpa) Eat The energy group RWE closes the crisis year 2022 with an operating profit (adjusted Ebitda) of 6.3 billion euros.…
Planned law ensures boom in demand
Gas heater chimney Interest in oil and gas heating systems, which collapsed last year in the course of the gas crisis with Russia, is gradually increasing again. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf…
Heat pump instead of oil heating? What property owners need to consider now
Heat pump from the manufacturer Vaillant The heating industry is ramping up production capacities for heat pumps. However, a heat pump is not always the right solution. (Photo: dpa) Berlin…
Heat pump instead of oil heating? What property owners need to consider now
Installation of a heat pump at the manufacturer Vaillant The heating industry is ramping up production capacities for heat pumps. However, a heat pump is not always the right solution.…
Producer prices rise again weaker
steel mill If manufacturers raise or lower their prices, this usually has a delayed effect, at least in some cases, in private households. (Photo: dpa) Wiesbaden In Germany, the upward…
Energy transition heat pump instead of oil heating? What property owners need to consider now
Installation of a heat pump at the manufacturer Vaillant The heating industry is ramping up production capacities for heat pumps. However, a heat pump is not always the right solution.…
This is how airplanes should fly with hydrogen
Joseph Callo Not only Kallo from H2fly has ambitious goals with hydrogen. Stuttgart An airplane without kerosene seems hard to imagine today. But Josef Kallo has a clear vision for…
Why Scholz takes Japan as a role model
Berlin / Tokyo With half his cabinet, Olaf Scholz (SPD) is leaving for a weekend trip to Tokyo on Friday. With six cabinet colleagues in tow, the Chancellor is traveling…
Power Purchase Agreements: securing electricity prices for medium-sized companies
Oldenburg Molten glass is a fascinating substance: liquid like lava, golden yellow like honey, convertible into countless shapes. The Mainz-based special glass manufacturer Schott uses it to make ceramic hobs,…
An obligation to install is not enough – a comment
Germany wants to get away from fossil fuels for understandable reasons – and as quickly as possible. To this end, by 2040, if possible, all of the energy that has…
Industry still doesn’t feel anything from the Easter package
Berlin Just a few days ago, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) made it clear what he believes is crucial for a faster expansion of renewable energies: “It is…
More courage in structural change
The author Veronika Grimm is Professor of Economics at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and a member of the Advisory Council for the Assessment of Macroeconomic Development. Hardly any question is discussed as…
Siemens Energy starts capital increase worth billions
SiemensEnergy Mathematically, the company could collect more than 1.3 billion euros with the capital increase. (Photo: Reuters) Munich In a difficult stock market environment, Siemens Energy raised almost 1.3 billion…
Siemens Energy starts capital increase worth billions
SiemensEnergy Mathematically, the company could collect more than 1.3 billion euros. (Photo: Reuters) Munich Despite the global price slide, Siemens Energy is starting its expected multi-billion dollar capital increase to…
The climate protection law is a bad design – a comment
E-car charging Battery powered cars are the preferred means of reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector. In order to also reach the number of 47 million cars with combustion…
EU Commission wants to simplify subsidies for nuclear power and renewables
Nuclear power plant in Saint-Vulbas The Greens criticize that the same conditions should apply to investments in nuclear power plants as to renewable energies. (Photo: REUTERS) Brussels Electricity prices in…
Tennet sees an investment requirement of 111 billion euros due to the energy transition
Berlin The electricity network operator Tennet wants to massively increase its investments in the expansion of the networks. “We invested 4.5 billion euros last year. We want to increase this…
How the blockchain is revolutionizing the energy market
Dusseldorf More and more people are getting their electricity from suppliers with sustainability promises. However, this is not automatically green. For a long time it was impossible for consumers to…
161 billion dollars – record profit for the world’s largest oil company Saudi Aramco
Oil field in Saudi Arabia Saudi Aramco wants to become cleaner in the future and invest in green hydrogen. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin Saudi Aramco reported a record profit for the…