Tag: coal-fired power station
Turbine manufacturers want to combine gas power plants with CO2 storage
Construction site for a gas power plant Industry does not want to wait for hydrogen to become available and is proposing other approaches. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The manufacturers of gas…
How dependent is Germany on energy from abroad?
power grid Germany has exported a particularly large amount of electricity in recent months. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf In recent months, Germany has imported more electricity than usual from abroad. According…
What the end of nuclear power plants means for Germany
nuclear power plant On April 15, Germany finally says goodbye to nuclear power. While many other EU countries continue to rely on nuclear power, Germany will shut down its last…
How secure is Germany’s power supply without nuclear power plants?
Dusseldorf On April 15, the last three German nuclear power plants go offline. Then, after around sixty years, nuclear power generation in Germany will finally end. The topic will move…
Why it is wrong to phase out nuclear power now
nuclear power plant On April 15, Germany finally says goodbye to nuclear power. While many other EU countries continue to rely on nuclear power, Germany will shut down its last…
Will we soon be storing CO2 underground in Germany?
Dusseldorf When it comes to the energy transition, the majority of Germans officially want more renewable energies – but just not in their own neighborhood. Opencast coal mining is not…
“We plan to phase out coal by 2028”
Cooling towers of the Lippendorf coal-fired power plant south of Leipzig EnBW wants to take the last coal-fired power plants off the grid in 2028. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf On April…
“We plan to phase out coal by 2028”
Cooling towers of the Lippendorf coal-fired power plant south of Leipzig EnBW wants to take the last coal-fired power plants off the grid in 2028. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf On April…
Record results for RWE – shareholders to receive higher dividends
Eat The energy group RWE closes the crisis year 2022 with an operating profit of 6.3 billion euros. A record result that is twice as high as in the previous…
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.…
Steag sales process starts after billions in profit
Steag The coal group has divided its business into fossil and green plants. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Dusseldorf, Frankfurt After a jump in profits at Steag, the owners of Germany’s fifth-largest…
According to the Federal Network Agency, electricity supply is secure even if coal is phased out earlier
coal mining Even without coal from 2030, the power supply is secured. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The Federal Network Agency has come to the conclusion that the power supply will be…
Climate saver or environmental sin? This is how LNG affects the German CO2 balance
Dusseldorf Germany is increasingly covering its natural gas needs with liquefied natural gas. According to the market research company Icis, Germany imported around 485,000 gigawatt hours of natural gas from…
Greens urge caution when it comes to storing CO2
Construction of the CCS infrastructure in Kollsnes, Norway Norway creates the possibility for foreign companies to store CO2. (Photo: Klaus Stratmann, Handelsblatt) Berlin The Greens have considerable reservations about the…
Thousands at the demonstration for Lützerath – clashes with the police
Lützerath, Dusseldorf With flags and drums, the demonstrators lead the protest march from Keyenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia in the direction of Lützerath. On Saturday afternoon, thousands of them ran along…
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Lützerath Between the wind and rain, the howling of the sirens can be heard in Lützerath early on Wednesday morning. For the activists who have been occupying the village for…
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Lützerath Between the wind and rain, the howling of the sirens can be heard in Lützerath early on Wednesday morning. For the activists who have been occupying the village for…
Lützerath puts the Greens in need of explanation
In Lützerath, a now uninhabited village in the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the future of the Greens is at stake these days. The place has not only become…
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Erkelenz, Berlin It’s still dark when the sirens wail in Lützerath on Wednesday morning. For the activists who occupied the village to protect it from opencast lignite mining, this means…
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Erkelenz, Berlin It’s still dark when the sirens wail in Lützerath on Wednesday morning. For the activists who occupied the village to protect it from opencast lignite mining, this means…