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Market & Industry 11/02/2025, 16:55
Gas & Heat 11/02/2025, 16:00
Kassel wants to significantly expand district heating
Kassel - Kassel is planning a massive expansion of its district heating grid: Up to 45,000 households are to benefit from a decarbonised heat supply in future. The city is investing almost 1 billion euros in climate-neutral energy from waste and wood incineration.
Market & Industry 11/02/2025, 15:45
E-world-Ticker 2025
Essen - Every year at the E-world trade fair, energy suppliers, energy service providers and IT companies announce new co-operations or products. Our ticker provides an overview of the trade fair news.
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Politics 10/02/2025, 15:33
Election check: Need for grid fee reform undisputed
Berlin - Just under two weeks before the general election, almost 4,300 participants have completed the energate election check. Among them, the demand for a reform of grid fees is undisputed. There is less unanimity on the issue of an electricity price zone split.
Politics 10/02/2025, 14:10
Little support for climate money among voters and associations
Berlin - If you believe Friedrich Merz in the TV debate for the upcoming general election in Germany, he is not averse to 'climate money'. This has little to do with the election programme of the Christian Democratic CDU/CSU party group. The energy industry and voters are also sceptical about the lump-sum repayment.
Politics 10/02/2025, 13:15
Baltic region integrated into the European electricity system
Berlin - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have separated their electricity grids from the Russian and Belarusian grids. The Baltic states are now integrated into the European electricity system. The step had been planned for years, but the break with Russia came sooner than expected.
Politics 07/02/2025, 15:40
Only three election programmes address the energy transition sufficiently
Berlin - The energy transition is only sufficiently addressed in three election programmes. This is the result of an analysis by the Reiner Lemoine Kolleg. The programme of the CDU/CSU (Christian Democrats), which is leading in the polls, received a "satisfactory" rating.Market & Industry
Market & Industry 11/02/2025, 09:36
Klöpfer leaves MVV at the end of the year
Mannheim - Ralf Klöpfer, the long-standing chief sales officer of MVV Energie AG, will be leaving the Mannheim-based utility at the end of the year. The 56-year-old will step down from his position at his own request and leave the company.
Market & Industry 10/02/2025, 15:55
WPD supplies Currenta with solar power
Bremen - The North German project developer WPD has concluded a solar PPA with the industrial park operator Currenta. From the spring, a solar park with a capacity of 9.8 MW near Albstadt (Baden-Württemberg) will supply Currenta.
Market & Industry 10/02/2025, 15:18
Energie Schwaben launches its own PV installer
Augsburg - The Thüga subsidiary Energie Schwaben is positioning itself on the prosumer market with a newly founded subsidiary. To this end, the Augsburg-based utility has completely taken over the PV trade company ESS Kempfle out of insolvency.
Market & Industry 10/02/2025, 11:00
"SMEs are no better off with spot products"
Ruderting - The high volatility in energy trading is making the business of procurement service providers for SMEs more challenging. In an interview with energate, Philip Gutschke from Wattline explains the role of planning security in times of volatile markets and the pitfalls of spot products for the industry.Power
Power 11/02/2025, 10:00
Amprion CEO: Redistribute grid investment costs "fairly"
Dortmund - Christoph Müller is the new CEO of Amprion. To mark his start at the helm of Germany's second-largest transmission system operator, he is joining the debate on the grid fee reform. His plea: There needs to be more fairness in the distribution of grid investment costs for the energy transition.
Power 11/02/2025, 09:40
Electricity laws - what's coming, what's still missing
Berlin - After the elections, the new government and the new Bundestag will still have to deal with a number of electricity laws. An amendment to the Energy Industry Act still made it through the Bundestag, but various decisions in the electricity sector are still pending.
Power 10/02/2025, 18:20
Federal Network Agency sees high potential for and through overhead lines
Essen - The Federal Network Agency is insisting on the cheapest possible expansion of the electricity grid. In view of the forthcoming German government, the head of the agency, Klaus Müller, pleaded in favour of more overhead lines at the Energy Leadership Meeting in the run-up to E-world. The power plant operators also unpacked their catalogue of wishes.
Power 10/02/2025, 16:46
Octopus becomes a metering service provider
Munich - The energy provider Octopus Energy has founded a subsidiary for metering point operation. The company Octopus Energy Metering is intended to position itself as a full-service provider for the smart meter rollout for energy suppliers and installation companies.Gas & Heat
Gas & Heat 11/02/2025, 09:00
District heating technology manufacturer relies on welding robots
Sondershausen - Skilled labour shortage in Germany: District heating technology manufacturer Isoplus has found five new colleagues - all of them robots. energate spoke to managing director Axel Kirstein about why this makes sense for welding technology and how the district heating boom in Germany is affecting the manufacturer.
Gas & Heat 10/02/2025, 16:00
VNG Gasspeicher cancels marketing
Leipzig - In view of the unfavourable price spreads between winter and summer 2025, there is no incentive to store natural gas. Against this backdrop, VNG Gasspeicher has cancelled marketing and warns that the statutory filling level requirement is at risk.
Gas & Heat 10/02/2025, 15:05
Regas cancels charter contract for federal FSRU
Berlin - Deutsche Regas is taking the next step in the dispute over capacity marketing for LNG imports. The operator of the Baltic Sea terminal on Rügen is cancelling the charter contract with the federal government for the FSRU Energos Power. One reason is the market distortion caused by the behaviour of the state-owned terminal company DET.
Gas & Heat 10/02/2025, 13:55