Tag: coal-fired power station
Record electricity prices ensure a jump in profits for the energy company
Duisburg-Walsum power plant The low water has caused problems for the coal companies in recent weeks. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Dusseldorf While some energy companies are struggling to survive as a…
How Europe is reviving fossil fuel
Coal mining in Greece Actually, the country wanted to be completely phased out of coal soon. (Photo: AP) Athens, Paris, Madrid, Rome The stop applies from this Thursday: EU countries…
Europe wants to go back to coal
Coal mining in Greece Actually, the country wanted to be completely phased out of coal soon. (Photo: AP) Athens, Paris, Madrid, Rome The stop applies from this Thursday: EU countries…
Boss hopes for a good deal because of high electricity prices
Steag boss Andreas Reichel In July, the Steag supervisory board announced that it had unanimously extended Reichel’s appointment as CEO. (Photo: Funke Photo Services) Dusseldorf Andreas Reichel is standing in…
Steag is examining the sale – the boom should heat up the purchase price
Frankfurt According to financial circles, Germany’s fifth-largest energy group Steag is considering selling its renewable energy business or, if possible, even the entire company. The utility wants to take advantage…
Steag is examining the sale – the boom should heat up the purchase price
Frankfurt According to financial circles, Germany’s fifth-largest energy group Steag is considering selling its renewable energy business or, if possible, even the entire company. The utility wants to take advantage…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly recap
There hasn’t been a day in the past week when the turbulence in the markets hasn’t kept us on our toes: The international stock exchanges have had their worst half-year…
Consumers will benefit from Habeck’s gas power plant decision
Federal Minister for Economics and Climate Protection The activation of the coal-fired power plants should be particularly bitter for the Green Minister. (Photo: dpa) Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens)…
Habeck wants to shut down gas power plants quickly
Minister of Economics Habeck Natural gas is to be used less for electricity production. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to reduce the use of…
RWE increases earnings – depreciation on Russian coal
RWE coal-fired power plant The energy company has written off a long-term coal contract in Russia. (Photo: Bloomberg) Dusseldorf The energy group RWE earned significantly more in the first quarter.…
Industry wants to limit the use of gas-fired power plants
Gas power plant in Leuna Gas-fired power plants were originally intended to play an important role in the transition to climate-friendly power generation. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The Association of Industrial…
Activist shareholders fail with demand for spin-off
Dusseldorf RWE boss Markus Krebber actually has every reason to be in a good mood. After all, he can present good figures to the shareholders at his first general meeting…
RWE: Energy company wants to become greener
RWE in the balance sheet check The Group is in the middle of the transformation and is financially stable. (Photo: Imago) Dusseldorf RWE has started to flee to the front.…
Investor Enkraft has the split voted on
Garzweiler opencast mine Enkraft calls for more dynamism in the restructuring of the energy company. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Activist investor Enkraft Capital is pushing ahead with its call for RWE…
RWE exceeds its own targets and presents billions in profit
RWE RWE boss Markus Krebber exceeds the self-imposed goals. (Photo: dpa) eat Business is going well for the Essen-based energy company RWE. This is also reflected in the figures for…
RWE exceeds its own targets and presents billions in profit
RWE RWE boss Markus Krebber exceeds the self-imposed goals. (Photo: dpa) eat Business is going well for the Essen-based energy company RWE. This is also reflected in the figures for…
Robert Habeck relies on lignite-fired power plants as an emergency reserve
RWE lignite-fired power plant in Neurath near Grevenbroich Systems of the so-called security stand-by are available for a limited time as the “last reserve”. (Photo: imago images/Jochen Tack) Berlin Economics…
RWE, EnBW, Vattenfall make coal-fired power plants fit for emergencies
Coal-fired power plant in Lusatia The Ukraine war turned the German energy transition upside down. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Dusseldorf The coal companies are preparing in full swing. They are arming…
War in Ukraine prompts search for coal compromise
Berlin In view of growing doubts about the reliability of Russian gas supplies, coal-fired power plants are taking on a new significance. The prime ministers of the eastern German states…
Greece plans to import nuclear power from Bulgaria
Athens Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said last December: “Greece has no nuclear power plants, and we will never have any either.” But in order to become less dependent on…