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Market & Industry
07/10/2024, 17:22
Market & Industry
07/10/2024, 17:10
Wind and PV project developer Alterric expands its management team
Aurich - The renewable energy project developer Alterric is expanding its management team. The newly created positions of CFO and COO are intended to achieve the company's growth targets.
Market & Industry
07/10/2024, 17:03
EnBW renews investment offer in grid subsidiary
Karlsruhe - The energy group EnBW is once again offering local authorities a stake in its distribution grid subsidiary. The corresponding participation model 'EnBW vernetzt' has entered its second round. This means that local authorities from the federal-state of Baden-Württemberg will be able to participate in Netze BW from 1 July 2025.
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Politics
Politics
07/10/2024, 14:05
EU recommends reduction in grid fees
Brussels - The EU Parliament recently discussed various measures to support the industry with decarbonisation. Proposals such as the reduction of grid fees and the simultaneous abolition of fossil fuel subsidies were met with great approval.
Politics
04/10/2024, 13:40
Clear path for punitive tariffs on Chinese e-cars
Brussels - The EU member states have voted on the introduction of punitive tariffs on e-cars from China. Germany voted "no", but found few allies. This means that the higher duties could come as early as the beginning of November.
Politics
04/10/2024, 11:45
Goldschmidt in favour of spreading the grid expansion costs over time
Kiel - Schleswig-Holstein's energy minister Tobias Goldschmidt sees the distribution of grid costs as the biggest political challenge at the moment. In an interview with energate, he explained how he intends to reduce grid costs and what the expansion of offshore wind power has to do with this…
Politics
04/10/2024, 11:00
Of slowness and simplification - a gloss
Berlin - Of all the EU countries, only Denmark has implemented the EU regulations on simplifying and speeding up authorisation procedures from the Renewable Energy Directive RED III. All the others were too slow. However, an opponent from the CDU of all parties might have a tip for the Minister of Economic Affairs.Market & Industry
Market & Industry
07/10/2024, 14:19
Municipalities call for solution to municipal utility crisis
Essen/Berlin - In view of the upcoming wave of investment in the energy and heat transition, many local authorities have recently had to make do with fewer dividends from their municipal utilities. This trend is causing concern among cities and municipalities, as André Berghegger, managing director of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, explained in an interview.
Market & Industry
07/10/2024, 12:07
"We need to safeguard the financial performance of municipal utilities"
Essen/Berlin - In view of growing investment requirements, municipal utility companies have recently reduced profit distributions to municipal shareholders. Municipalities are increasingly concerned about this trend, as André Berghegger, managing director of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, explained in an interview with energate.
Market & Industry
04/10/2024, 15:15
Project developer Adler Smart Solutions damaged
Hamburg - Just over seven months after the official launch of the ACE Group on the B2B market for PV systems, fast chargers and battery storage systems, a key part of the group has gone bankrupt: The Hamburg-based cleantech project developer Adler Smart Solutions. The disaster affects 150 employees.
Market & Industry
04/10/2024, 10:17
"The skills shortage was absolutely foreseeable"
Leipzig - The shortage of skilled labour is putting increasing pressure on the economy and society. In their guest comment, Christina Ledong and Markus Hoffmann from VNG criticised the political ignorance of the past decades and urgently call for new approaches to tackle the crisis.Power
Power
07/10/2024, 15:36
ESWE changes smart meter service provider
Wiesbaden/Berlin - Wiesbaden-based ESWE has found a new metering service provider. Following the separation from Thüga Smartservice, the utility will now be working with the Berlin-based metering service provider Gwadriga.
Power
07/10/2024, 13:08
Total Energies buys shares in RWE offshore projects
Essen - Total Energies and RWE announced a possible cooperation in offshore wind projects back in August. This has now been sealed with the acquisition of shares in two RWE offshore wind power projects by Total Energies.
Power
07/10/2024, 09:00
Project tests industry-standard modules for Agri-PV
Eberhardzell - The DeepTrack research project is investigating how the yields of agricultural PV systems can be increased through intelligent tracking. energate spoke to Hannes Elsen from partner Zimmermann PV-Tracker about the details.
Power
04/10/2024, 15:37
Electric cars as flexible storage units
Essen - According to an Eon study, more than 166,000 electric cars in Germany are capable of bidirectional charging. This process could supply over 1.7 million households with electricity for twelve hours.Gas & Heat
Gas & Heat
07/10/2024, 16:07
Municipal heat planning costs over 500 million euros
Leipzig - The preparation of heat plans alone costs local authorities around half a billion euros. This is the conclusion of a study by the Competence Centre for Public Economy, Infrastructure and Services of General Interest at the University of Leipzig.
Gas & Heat
07/10/2024, 15:35
Successes and failures in storage marketing
Berlin - Sefe Storage's most recent marketing of working gas capacity for the Haidach storage facility in Austria has only been partially successful so far. For one product offered, no bid was above the operator's internal minimum price. In contrast, EWE Gasspeicher's most recent marketing was more successful.
Gas & Heat
04/10/2024, 17:05
Investment decision made for LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel
Brunsbüttel - German LNG Terminal has made the final investment decision for the land-based LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel. Anger over cost increases and threats to withdraw from the project make the case interesting.
Gas & Heat
04/10/2024, 15:49