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Power
23/09/2024, 17:30
Gas & Heat
23/09/2024, 17:19
Jena: Effort for H2 conversion manageable
Jena - In Jena, the conversion of parts of the natural gas distribution network to hydrogen will be less costly than initially assumed. This was calculated by experts on behalf of Stadtwerke Jena Netz.
Power
23/09/2024, 17:00
Study: Price zone split only makes limited sense
Stuttgart - Dividing Germany into electricity bidding zones could optimise power plants and storage facilities, but the effect is limited. These are the findings of a study commissioned by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Energy.
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Politics
Politics
23/09/2024, 13:33
GHG quota: Only current CO2 certificates
Berlin - For the next two years, oil producers will only be allowed to use CO2 certificates from the same year to meet their greenhouse gas quota. This is the aim of a draft amendment to the Federal Immission Control Act. The amendment comes in the wake of cases of fraud.
Politics
23/09/2024, 13:00
Public's willingness for transformation overestimated
Berlin - The election results in the federal state of Brandenburg paint a similarly bleak picture for the 'traffic light coalition' as in Thuringia and Saxony. Ralph Kremp, partner at energy consultancy BET, sums up the results of the three state elections and looks ahead: The needs of the population must be taken seriously.
Politics
20/09/2024, 16:16
Of combustion engines and nationalisation - a gloss
Berlin - The automotive industry is in crisis. E-mobility is making no progress. The CDU/CSU (Christian Democrats) is calling on the Federal Minister of Economics to save combustion engine technology. This raises the question: Should Germany bury combustion engines?
Politics
20/09/2024, 15:43
Energy Minister warns against conspiracy theories
Leipzig - What Brandenburg has ahead of it, Saxony already has behind it: An election with a shift to the right and potential effects on the governing coalition in Berlin. When asked why the topic of the energy transition is currently being sidelined in the election campaign, Saxony's current Minister of Energy Wolfram Günther (Greens) has an answer.Market & Industry
Market & Industry
23/09/2024, 15:31
Uniper initiates sales process for Datteln 4
Düsseldorf - The energy group Uniper has initiated the sale of the Datteln 4 coal-fired power plant. The company is aiming for a transaction that includes the power plant with a generation capacity of 1,052 MW as well as the personnel and all existing contracts.
Market & Industry
23/09/2024, 12:55
Siemens about to spin off e-mobility division
Erlangen/Zug - The restructuring of the the Siemens group continues. The e-mobility Ddivision is to become an independent company. According to the company, the move is intended to make the charging technology business more entrepreneurial and at the same time more attractive for new partnerships.
Market & Industry
23/09/2024, 11:00
The betrayal of climate protection has not yet stopped
Berlin - The Federal Environment Agency is currently working on investigating the fraud scandals surrounding UER projects and GHG quotas. For the new initiative 'Klimabetrug Stoppen' (Stop Climate Fraud), the measures are not sufficient and are not happening fast enough, as Sandra Rostek, spokesperson for the initiative, writes in a guest commentary for energate.
Market & Industry
20/09/2024, 15:05
Former Prokon board member Wuttke becomes PNE CEO
Cuxhaven - The wind power project developer PNE will be under new management from 2025. The Cuxhaven-based company has given former Prokon CEO Heiko Wuttke a three-year contract. Interim CEO Per Hornung Pedersen is to remain on the board until the end of March 2025.Power
Power
23/09/2024, 10:59
BNetzA launches next tendering round
Bonn - The German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has set 4 November as the deadline for the submission of bids for onshore wind turbines. The maximum bid is 7.35 cents per kWh.
Power
20/09/2024, 16:41
Distribution system operators meter connection commitments
Aachen - The uneven distribution of load and feed-in is a frequently discussed topic. At the FGE conference in Aachen, it became clear what this means in practice.
Power
20/09/2024, 15:52
Eon and MAN open first e-truck charging site
Essen - Eon and MAN Truck & Bus have opened the first charging station for electric lorries in Berlin-Wildau as part of their cooperation. More will follow in Munich and Brandenburg in the coming weeks. A total of 400 charging points are planned at 170 locations in Europe.
Power
20/09/2024, 14:11
"I sometimes felt very lonely"
Leipzig - Since the state elections in Saxony on 1 September, the black-green-red coalition in Dresden no longer has a majority. A new government alliance is emerging. energate spoke to the incumbent Minister of Energy Wolfram Günther (Greens) about his record and the prospects for the energy transition in the state.Gas & Heat
Gas & Heat
23/09/2024, 14:27
Biomethane from liquid manure also in EEG, heat and more?
Münster - Adulterated biodiesel, fake UER projects and the bankruptcy of biomethane trader Landwärme. The biomethane trade is suffering from all this, as Agriportance's market report for the current month of September shows.
Gas & Heat
20/09/2024, 15:54
EWE Gasspeicher successfully markets Jemgum capacity
Oldenburg - The storage facility operator EWE Gasspeicher has successfully marketed working gas capacity for the Jemgum storage facility in Lower Saxony. The capacity was almost nine times oversubscribed.
Gas & Heat
20/09/2024, 14:49
New trouble for Deutsche Regas in Mukran
Berlin - Environmental organisation Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) has filed a complaint against LNG terminal operator Deutsche Regas. It concerns the possible illegal resale of liquefied natural gas on the island of Rügen. The company denies this, at least in part.
Gas & Heat
20/09/2024, 14:46