Tag: alternative energy
Energy storage company Energy Vault finds success against short sellers
Energy storage from Energy Vault Energy Vault wants to use gravity to store energy. (Photo: PR) Zurich The Swiss energy storage developer Energy Vault has won a dispute with an…
Climate start-ups collect record sums
Dusseldorf, Berlin Larry Fink already announced it a year and a half ago: “The next 1000 billion dollar start-ups will be created in the field of climate tech,” said the…
Heat pumps push power grids to their limits
Transformer station in Rhineland-Palatinate The demand for electricity will increase significantly with the heat transition – a stress test for the grids. (Photo: imago images/UJ Alexander) Berlin, Dusseldorf The federal…
Heat pumps push power grids to their limits
Transformer station in Rhineland-Palatinate The demand for electricity will increase significantly with the heat transition – a stress test for the grids. (Photo: imago images/UJ Alexander) The federal government’s heat…
Cartel Office targets gas suppliers
gas stove With the electricity and gas price brakes, the federal government wants to mitigate the consequences of increased energy prices for consumers or companies. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Bundeskartellamt…
How useful is the heat pump in the old building really?
heat pump 500,000 heat pumps are to go into operation in Germany every year from 2024. (Photo: dpa) Berlin 500,000 heat pumps are to be put into operation in Germany…
Siemens Energy now expects increasing losses for the current fiscal year
Munich The energy technology specialist Siemens Energy is still not getting the problems in the wind power business under control even after the complete takeover of the crisis subsidiary Siemens…
Siemens Energy now expects increasing losses for the current fiscal year
Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbine The business with renewable energies continues to pull down the entire Siemens Energy Group. (Photo: Reuters) Munich The energy technology specialist Siemens Energy is now…
How property owners can make money with solar power
house roof Even small investments can make money. (Photo: Imago/UJ Alexander) Dusseldorf When Herbert Hellmann built four photovoltaic systems in Bavarian Swabia in 2016, there was one thing he didn’t…
Are electricity, steel or hydrogen really green? Blockchain should show it
Green hydrogen gas station In the future, companies will have to prove more clearly how their raw materials and products were produced. (Photo: Bloomberg) Munich, Salzgitter Whether CO2 balance, green…
Is a heat pump worthwhile in the long term in comparison?
heating costs When replacing or converting a gas heating system to a heat pump, district heating or pellet heating, the costs add up. (Photo: Getty Images) Dusseldorf Many people are…
Government advisors recommend postponement of the heating law
Berlin The calls for a later start date for the new Building Energy Act (GEG) are increasing. The bureaucracy guards of the Regulatory Control Council (NKR) of the federal government…
“I’ve decided” – Habeck doesn’t want to fire Graichen
Patrick Graichen (left), Robert Habeck The green economics minister and his state secretary answered questions from the members of the economics committee. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens)…
Heat pump instead of oil heating? What property owners should know 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 should know 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…
“Without an industrial electricity price, emigration is inevitable”
Berlin, Dusseldorf The industrial electricity price proposed by Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) is intended to help energy-intensive sectors, but Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) rejects the concept. There is…
How start-ups harvest electricity from the sea
Visualization of a wave power plant The movement drives generators, which in turn produce green electricity. (Photo: Corepower) Munich Patrik Möller, CEO and co-founder of the Swedish start-up Corpower Ocean,…
These three companies recommend UBS for purchase
Solar systems in Utah In the USA, a new law could significantly increase the demand for solar systems. (Photo: AP) Dusseldorf Shares in companies from the solar industry, such as…
What is changing for real estate owners
heating device There is now a deadline of 2045 for the replacement of oil and gas heating systems. (Photo: imago images/ULMER press photo agency) Berlin Shortly after the coalition committee,…
The US truck industry is in hydrogen fever
Anaheim A trade fair visitor at the Daimler stand asked whether they also had a hydrogen truck. An employee of the Swabian truck manufacturer waves his hand: “We are currently…