Tag: BDEW
Ampel wants to protect customers from dubious providers
three-phase meter The traffic light aims to better protect consumers against price fluctuations. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Insurance is designed to protect electricity and gas customers if their energy provider goes…
Law reform planned – government wants more protection for electricity customers
Berlin With a legal reform, the federal government wants to put a stop to short-term terminations of electricity and gas contracts by cheap suppliers and price jumps. “We must not…
Climate-friendly buildings: Why the heat transition is difficult
Berlin The transition to climate-friendly living is one of the major challenges for German politics. After all, real estate accounts for around a third of energy consumption in this country.…
Traffic light politicians are thinking about regulation
Energy supply is also a service of general interest, said the energy policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Nina Scheer, to the Handelsblatt. “If this is no longer guaranteed…
Habeck wants to triple the pace of climate protection
Robert Habeck The Minister of Economic Affairs does not want to lose any time: “We are starting with a considerable backlog”. (Photo: Henning Schacht) Berlin Federal Economics and Climate Protection…
Habeck wants to triple the pace of climate protection
Berlin Federal Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to pave the way for climate neutrality in the country with a comprehensive legislative initiative. The first legislative package…
Uniper continues to secure itself with KfW help
Dusseldorf The ongoing price turbulence on the raw materials market is forcing the MDax group Uniper to raise billions. The company is expanding the financial security of its energy business…
Nuclear power as “green energy” – applause from business
“Natural gas is an essential bridging technology for the basic supply of the industrial nation Germany,” said Wolfgang Große Entrup, General Manager of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI). “If…
How is it going on now?
Dusseldorf The penultimate chapter in the emotional history of German nuclear power ends on December 31, 2021: The Brokdorf, Grohnde and Gundremmingen nuclear power plants, Unit C, will go offline…
Siemens, Alstom & Co .: Turbine builders hope for a gas renaissance
Gas power plant in Irsching The operation of gas-fired power plants often does not pay off for the utilities, even when using the most modern technology. (Photo: Reuters) Munich Large…
These are the beneficiaries of the new energy policy
Dusseldorf The announcements of the new federal government regarding the energy transition are big: The traffic lights want to get out of coal by 2030 – eight years earlier than…
How are companies reacting to Omikron?
Telecommunications, industry, energy German companies are preparing for massive staff shortages. (Photo: Imago, BMW, Vario Images [Montage]) Dusseldorf The omicron variant of the corona virus is causing increasing concern for…
How are companies reacting to Omikron?
Telecommunications, industry, energy German companies are preparing for massive staff shortages. (Photo: Imago, BMW, Vario Images [Montage]) Dusseldorf The omicron variant of the corona virus is causing increasing concern for…
Renewable energies are taking over the electricity market
Berlin The traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP pays great attention to the restructuring of the electricity market in its coalition agreement. The focus is…
Renewable energies are taking over the electricity market
Berlin The traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP pays great attention to the restructuring of the electricity market in its coalition agreement. The focus is…
Renewable energies are taking over the electricity market
Berlin The traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP pays great attention to the restructuring of the electricity market in its coalition agreement. The focus is…
EU is preparing admixture in the gas network
Residential area in Lower Saxony Heating with hydrogen is technically possible. But it’s not good for the environment. (Photo: dpa) Brussels, Berlin The EU Commission is setting the course for…
This is how you can find out whether it is cheaper to drive an electric car
Charge electricity instead of refueling The cost of driving an e-car depends on numerous factors. Dusseldorf Anyone who drives to the gas pump these days should not only notice that…
A Hanseatic in the Chancellery – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
“His tone of voice is monotonous, his body language is very bad” – new Chancellor Olaf Scholz had to put up with such bad-tempered criticism from abroad at the beginning…
Who is Olaf Scholz really? – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
of course, it is the day of Olaf Scholz, 63. The first Federal Chancellor after 16 years, Angela Merkel. The fourth Social Democrat at the head of the Federal German…