Tag: Nuclear power
Controversy over taxonomy becomes a reality check for the Greens
Vattenfall gas power plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde The federal government sees the use of gas power plants as a transitional technology. (Photo: Paul Langrock/laif) Steffi Lemke and Robert Habeck quietly and…
Steffi Lemke: “Power contracts-terminations partly unlawful”
Steffi Lemke The Federal Environment Minister is concerned about the tense situation on the electricity markets. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin Federal Environment and Consumer Protection Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) does not…
Steffi Lemke: “Power contracts-terminations partly unlawful”
Steffi Lemke The Federal Environment Minister is concerned about the tense situation on the electricity markets. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) does not rule out a…
Ursula von der Leyen defends nuclear power decision
Ursula von der Leyen The EU Commission chief is behind the classification of certain investments in nuclear power and gas as sustainable. (Photo: AP) Brussels For some it is a…
Environmental organizations put pressure on the federal government
Gundremmingen nuclear power plant shut down Nuclear power: The EU Commission wants to classify the energy source as sustainable. Germany can no longer prevent that. (Photo: dpa) Berlin A group…
Blackstone expects these surprises in 2022
Byron Vienna The vice chairman of the financial investor and wealth manager Blackstone is one of the most respected analysts on Wall Street. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt. It’s a forecast with…
EU plans on nuclear power and natural gas: What Handelsblatt readers think
Brokdorf nuclear power plant After almost 35 years of operation, the nuclear power plant was shut down at the end of 2021. While Germany is pulling out of atomic energy,…
Blackstone expects these surprises in 2022
Byron Vienna The vice chairman of the financial investor and wealth manager Blackstone is one of the most respected analysts on Wall Street. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt. It’s a forecast with…
Blackstone expects these surprises in 2022
Byron Vienna The vice chairman of the financial investor and wealth manager Blackstone is one of the most respected analysts on Wall Street. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt. It’s a forecast with…
Asia Techonomics: Japan Revives Nuclear Power
Tokyo Eleven years after the Fukushima disaster, Japan is talking about nuclear power again. Because the new head of government Fumio Kishida is trying to position the form of energy…
How useful are the plans?
Grohnde nuclear power plant According to the EU Commission’s plans, investments in nuclear power and natural gas are to be classified as sustainable. (Photo: imago images / Future Image) Undermining…
How useful are the plans?
Grohnde nuclear power plant According to the EU Commission’s plans, investments in nuclear power and natural gas are to be classified as sustainable. (Photo: imago images / Future Image) Undermining…
Greens are fighting EU taxonomy plans on nuclear power
“We cannot agree to the proposal of the EU Commission. Nuclear power can never be sustainable, “said Ingrid Nestle, energy policy spokeswoman for the Green parliamentary group, the Handelsblatt. “It…
Which EU countries want to classify gas and nuclear power as sustainable?
Brussels People in Brussels know very well that this is a sensitive political project. On New Year’s Eve 2021, two hours before the new year began, the EU Commission sent…
Farewell to growth – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Good morning dear readers, it becomes increasingly clear: The corona pandemic marks a break in the economic era in Germany. The recession of 2020 and the sluggish recovery that we…
EU Commission wants to classify gas and nuclear power as green under certain conditions
Economics and Climate Minister Robert Habeck The proposals of the EU Commission would water down the good label for sustainability, argues Habeck. (Photo: imago images / Political-Moments) Brussels The EU…
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…
Nuclear power: Germany is getting out, France is building
Nuclear power Is nuclear power experiencing an international revival thanks to new reactor concepts, while the last reactors in Germany are going offline? Gundremmingen, Munich When only the screams of…
Energy policy with serious consequences – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
It can get a bit blumberant in view of the simultaneity of the energy policy decisions: In a few hours at the turn of the year three German nuclear power…
Russia is massively arming itself – a weapon of terror for US aircraft carriers
US aircraft carrier Russia apparently wants to create a weapon of terror for the aircraft carriers and other large units of the US Navy. (Photo: dpa) Berlin All eyes are…