Tag: energy transition
Chile is risking its future as a green hydrogen supplier
Renewable Energy in Chile The global energy industry’s hopes for cheap Chilean electricity could be dashed. (Photo: Getty Images; Per-Anders Pettersson) Salvador When the Chilean government opened the electricity grid…
Chile is risking its future as a green hydrogen supplier
Renewable Energy in Chile The global energy industry’s hopes for cheap Chilean electricity could be dashed. (Photo: Getty Images; Per-Anders Pettersson) Salvador When the Chilean government opened the electricity grid…
This is how the price of CO2 would affect private households
Cost factor oil heating It could be expensive, especially for families who rely on fossil fuel heating. (Photo: imago images/Westend61) Berlin If the liberals have their way, the planned Building…
This is how the price of CO2 would affect private households
Cost factor oil heating It could be expensive, especially for families who rely on fossil fuel heating. (Photo: imago images/Westend61) Berlin If the liberals have their way, the planned Building…
How Germany is making efforts internationally for green hydrogen
Project “Haru Oni” in Chile Siemens Energy and the automaker Porsche opened a factory for CO2-neutral fuel (e-fuel) near the city of Punta Arenas on Tuesday. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Porsche’s…
Solar start-up raises 30 million euros to build factory
nexweapon The solar start-up is currently planning its first commercial production in Bitterfeld. (Photo: Nexwafe) Dusseldorf The Freiburg solar start-up Nexwafe has collected 30 million euros in its latest round…
EnBW sells electricity grid share for around one billion euros
EnBW The energy supplier had originally hoped for a higher purchase price when selling part of its electricity grids. (Photo: dpa) Stuttgart The energy supplier EnBW is making progress with…
Habeck wants to accelerate the expansion of wind power on land
Berlin Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to push the construction of wind turbines on land. He announced on Tuesday that more space should be made available, qualified…
Higher returns for power grid operators? Netzagentur President Müller gives hope
power poles Electricity grid fees have risen continuously in recent years. (Photo: IMAGO/Countrypixel) Berlin, Dusseldorf Federal Network Agency President Klaus Müller is open to demands that operators of electricity grids…
Scholz does not expect major changes to the heating law
Olaf Scholz According to the draft law already passed by the Federal Cabinet, from 2024 every newly installed heating system should be operated with at least 65 percent green energy.…
After Graichen’s resignation, the FDP questions the schedule for the heating law
Economics Minister Robert Habeck Habeck would like to pass the Building Energy Act (GEG) before the parliamentary summer break. (Photo: dpa) Berlin After Patrick Graichen was replaced as State Secretary…
After Graichen’s resignation, the FDP questions the schedule for the heating law
“It is obvious that such a serious change at the top of the ministry will not speed up the deliberations on the Building Energy Act,” said the FDP Federal Vice…
Graichen resigns as State Secretary from the Ministry of Economic Affairs
Berlin Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck has confirmed the resignation of the controversial Secretary of State for Energy, Patrick Graichen. This was decided on Tuesday evening in a joint…
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…
More than 170,000 vacancies: shortage of engineers is getting worse
engineers The German Economic Institute (IW), which compiles the Engineer Monitor together with the VDI, assumes an annual requirement of 130,500 engineers. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Berlin The shortage of engineers…
RWE is investing more and more abroad
RWE in the balance sheet check The strategy of the Dax Group is largely geared towards renewable energies. (Photo: RWE) Dusseldorf At this year’s RWE Annual General Meeting, the mood…
“We can learn a lot from the IRA”
Hanover From the point of view of Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD), Europe must improve its funding programs for green technologies. “We have to be guided by reality,…
Why flexible tariffs could now be worthwhile
smart meters Flexible tariffs have long been a reality in other countries. In Germany things are just getting started. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf Intelligent electricity meters are becoming mandatory. The Bundestag…
With wind power, the North Sea is to become the “largest power plant in the world”.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Emmanuel Macron, Alexander De Croo, Olaf Scholz, Mark Rutte, Mette Frederiksen (from left) The EU Commission President and the heads of state of…
Solar power from the field: hopeful agri-photovoltaics
fruit growing According to estimates, the yields for farmers will be up to 20 percent lower. (Photo: Fraunhofer) Dusseldorf Just a few kilometers from Bonn, in Gelsdorf in Rhineland-Palatinate, there…