Tag: sustainability
EU agrees to subsidies worth billions for Thyssen-Krupp
Steel production at Thyssen-Krupp In the future, the group wants to produce 2.5 million tons of steel per year in a so-called direct reduction plant. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf After a…
EU Parliament passes far-reaching reform of the electricity market
Brussels The European Parliament wants to lower electricity prices for households and companies in the long term and keep them stable. The Industry Committee agreed on a new electricity market…
Europe needs a strong wind power industry
Wind turbines in Baden-Württemberg The expansion of wind power in Germany is progressing – albeit not as quickly as planned by the federal government. But the manufacturers of the wind…
Technology race for wind turbines threatens to ruin the industry
wind farm The technical leaps in the development of wind turbines are getting bigger and bigger. (Photo: IMAGO/Jochen Tack) Munich, Dusseldorf The first wind turbines in the 1990s measured just…
Energy unicorn Enpal is in the black for the first time
Installation of solar systems The German solar start-up Enpal reports a profit for the past fiscal year. (Photo: Enpal ) Dusseldorf The solar start-up Enpal is benefiting from the boom…
Europe needs a strong wind power industry
Wind turbines in Baden-Württemberg The expansion of wind power in Germany is progressing – albeit not as quickly as planned by the federal government. But the manufacturers of the wind…
Energy unicorn Enpal is in the black for the first time
Installation of solar systems The German solar start-up Enpal reports a profit for the past fiscal year. (Photo: Enpal ) Dusseldorf The solar start-up Enpal is benefiting from the boom…
Technology race for wind turbines threatens to ruin the industry
wind farm The technical leaps in the development of wind turbines are getting bigger and bigger. (Photo: IMAGO/Jochen Tack) Munich, Dusseldorf The first wind turbines in the 1990s measured just…
Which biofuels are interesting for risk-averse investors
Lufthansa plane at Frankfurt Airport According to its spokesman, the airline used around 13,000 tons of SAF in 2022 and plans to increase this amount to around a million tons…
How stable is our power grid?
Dusseldorf The German power grid was one of the most important topics of all last year. The fear of power outages was great, but in the end, despite the problems…
Blackrock Appoints Aramco CEO to Board of Directors
The head of the largest oil producer Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser, will be added to BlackRock’s supervisory board in the future. This was announced by the world’s largest asset manager…
Schweizer Einhorn enters the heat pump business
Apartment building by Nokera The company produces houses made of wood, among other things, for publicly subsidized housing. (Photo: Nokera) Zurich The German-Swiss housing start-up Nokera is entering the business…
New type of solar systems is about to make a breakthrough
Organic Solar Cells The cells are thin, light and flexible – this opens up completely new application possibilities. (Photo: Heliatek [M]) Dusseldorf When Karl Leo looks at houses, he sees…
Organic solar cells are about to make a breakthrough
Organic Solar Cells The cells are thin, light and flexible – this opens up completely new application possibilities. (Photo: Heliatek [M]) Dusseldorf When Karl Leo looks at houses, he sees…
This is how the chocolate manufacturer saves energy
Dusseldorf When you reach the village of Waldenbuch in the district of Böblingen, the smell of chocolate fills your nostrils. The chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport employs 1,000 of its 1,900…
What property owners should know about the EU Buildings Directive
Residential buildings in Berlin Every property owner can have an energy performance certificate issued for their building. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The European Union (EU) wants to reduce the energy consumption…
Northern Germany benefits from green electricity as a location advantage
Wind power in Lower Saxony Parts of northern Germany produce more electricity than they consume themselves. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The availability of green electricity is a decisive location factor for…
Organic solar cells are about to make a breakthrough
Organic Solar Cells The cells are thin, light and flexible – this opens up completely new application possibilities. (Photo: Heliatek [M]) Dusseldorf When Karl Leo looks at houses, he sees…
Habeck in East Germany: Welcome to foreign countries!
Habeck in a workshop of Flender Industrietrieb GmbH in front of the model of a turbine Business representatives in Saxony have complained to the minister about the negative aspects of…
Which countries emit the most CO2?
Climate change – Which country has the highest CO2 emissions? Here you can read the emission comparison between the individual countries of the world. (pictured: coal terminal in Huanghua, China)…