Tag: renewables
Siemens Gamesa largely stops selling new turbines
Siemens Gamesa The turbine manufacturer is deep in crisis. (Photo: Siemens Gamesa) Husum, Munich At the Husum Wind trade fair in recent days, the major wind power manufacturers presented their…
Siemens Gamesa largely stops selling new turbines
Siemens Gamesa The turbine manufacturer is deep in crisis. (Photo: Siemens Gamesa) Husum, Munich At the Husum Wind trade fair in recent days, the major wind power manufacturers presented their…
Prices for solar modules fall to record lows
Production by Meyer Burger in Freiberg European companies see themselves under pressure in the fight against Chinese competition. (Photo: IMAGO/Sylvio Dittrich) Dusseldorf The warning is drastic: “If nothing happens now,…
Prices for solar modules fall to record lows
Dusseldorf The warning is drastic: “If nothing happens now, there is a great risk that European solar producers will have massive problems in the next few months, and some will…
Annalena Baerbock calls for a global target for the expansion of renewables
Annalena Bärbock The German Foreign Minister calls for a return to a path towards the 1.5 degree target. (Photo: IMAGO/Metodi Popov) Berlin Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is aiming for a…
EU Commission wants to simplify subsidies for nuclear power and renewables
Nuclear power plant in Saint-Vulbas The Greens criticize that the same conditions should apply to investments in nuclear power plants as to renewable energies. (Photo: REUTERS) Brussels Electricity prices in…
If you want to expand renewables in Spain, you need a big plan for the region
Madrid Spain’s coal-fired power plants are mostly located in structurally weak regions. If a power plant closes, it hits the surrounding communities hard, after all, energy production is often the…
The aim is to make the renewables sector fit for the energy transition
Borkum Riffgrund One offshore wind farm in the North Sea The expansion of renewables is to be massively accelerated in Germany. (Photo: Paul Langrock/Zenit/laif) Berlin, Dusseldorf Subsidies for operating costs,…
The expansion of renewables cannot be forced
Wind farm opponents protest in front of the Brandenburg Gate Wind power is often not well accepted. (Photo: Christian Mang / imagedeluxe.net) Dusseldorf Sometimes the impression is created that it…
FDP wants to limit profit skimming from renewables
Wind turbines in Rhineland-Palatinate The renewables industry warns of an investment freeze if new plants are also affected by the excess profit tax. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The FDP parliamentary group…
Why the expansion of renewables is not progressing
Wind turbines in Rhineland-Palatinate The goals are high, but so are the hurdles: there is a lot standing in the way of the expansion of renewables. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Dusseldorf…
Why the expansion of renewables is not progressing
Wind turbines in Rhineland-Palatinate The goals are high, but so are the hurdles: there is a lot standing in the way of the expansion of renewables. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Dusseldorf…
Why the expansion of renewables is not progressing
Wind turbines in Rhineland-Palatinate The goals are high, but so are the hurdles: there is a lot standing in the way of the expansion of renewables. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Dusseldorf…
Profit skimming plans split renewables industry
Berlin, Dusseldorf The energy industry is vehemently discussing the federal government’s plan to skim off excess profits. Associations and representatives of companies such as RWE, EnBW and others have been…
RWE presents new strategy – and is investing heavily in renewables
RWE boss Markus Krebber He is supposed to convert the fossil company into a green company. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Essen-based energy group RWE intends to invest 50 billion euros…
Strict rules for electricity imports from renewables
Solar power plant in Spain In the hydrogen age, Germany has to import electricity from renewable energies, especially from the sunny south. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The National Hydrogen Council (NWR)…