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Market & Industry 11/03/2025, 17:34
DB Schenker supplies Mercedes-Benz with biokerosene for air freight exports to Asia.
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Mercedes-Benz decarbonises supply chain with biokerosene

Stuttgart - 13,000 tonnes of biokerosene are to decarbonise Mercedes-Benz exports to China and Shanghai. The automotive group is being supplied by the logistics subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn.
Politics 11/03/2025, 17:13
Grids and storage must always be taken into consideration, appeals CDU vice-president Jung.
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Jung rejects criticism of exploratory talks

Berlin - The energy and climate industry has strongly criticised the exploratory paper from the CDU/CSU and SPD. Too little climate protection and unrealistic targets for the power plant strategy. CDU deputy leader Andreas Jung does not accept this and emphasises the climate course of the exploratory parties.
Market & Industry 11/03/2025, 17:09
OG Clean Fuels wants to expand its petrol station network for green fuels in Europe.
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New owner for OG Clean Fuels

Heerenveen/Verden - The Dutch fuel supplier OG Clean Fuels has a new owner in the form of investor Pioneer Point Partners. The common goal is to expand the market position in the field of sustainable fuels. To this end, the company intends to expand into other European countries.
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Politics 11/03/2025, 15:49
VKU boss Ingbert Liebing is calling for a clear, reliable financing plan.
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Municipal sector doubts the 2045 climate target

Berlin - The majority of municipal utilities believe that the 2045 climate target is unrealistic under the current conditions, according to a survey by the municipal utilities association VKU. At the association's conference in Berlin, the specific sums that the industry will have to pay became clear.
Politics 10/03/2025, 17:20

Greens refuse to approve special assets

Berlin - The Bündnis90/Die Grünen party are putting a spanner in the works of the plans of the CDU/CSU and SPD parties. They do not want to agree to the planned special fund for infrastructure investments.
Politics 10/03/2025, 14:20

"The rapid design of the capacity market is essential"

Berlin - The exploratory talks will now be followed by coalition negotiations. Here, there could be a crunch between the CDU/CSU and SPD, particularly with regard to the organisation of the capacity market and the promotion of renewables. However, BET consultant Dominic Nailis does not see any insurmountable hurdles.
Politics 10/03/2025, 12:14

Post-election negotiations fail to include climate protection

Berlin - Germany's CDU/CSU and SPD parties have concluded their exploratory negotiations. In terms of energy policy, the parties are planning to reduce electricity prices by at least five cents per kWh. Climate protection hardly plays a role in the exploratory paper. However, gas-fired power plant capacity is to be significantly expanded.
Politics 07/03/2025, 16:19

Initiative calls for more speed in Berlin's energy transition

Berlin - A Berlin alliance of companies, associations and institutions has presented a ten-point programme to increase energy efficiency in the capital and reduce bureaucratic hurdles to climate protection.
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Market & Industry

Market & Industry 11/03/2025, 11:19
Industrial designer Endre Hals presents his company Evi's skis reinforced with carbon fibres from wind turbine rotors.
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A second life for wind turbine rotor blades

Solna/Rotterdam - Wind turbine rotor blades are difficult to recycle due to their composition. Various innovations are gradually boosting the circular economy in this industry. Pilot projects show: The possibilities for reuse are manifold, whether in industry, sport or even playgrounds.
Market & Industry 10/03/2025, 17:02

Brinkmann becomes managing director of Mindener Stadtwerke

Minden - After Christoph Meyer announced in autumn 2024 that he would be leaving Mindener Stadtwerke, the utility has now found a new managing director. However, it is still unclear when he will start.
Market & Industry 10/03/2025, 16:47

Stalling Senec finds new CEO

Leipzig - Until a few years ago, the home storage manufacturer Senec had a market share of 20 per cent in Germany. Technical problems have severely affected the company. Now Senec has found a new CEO to lead the company back to the top.
Market & Industry 10/03/2025, 16:22

Millions in funding for decarbonisation project

Essen - The 'Carbon2Chem' project is receiving 50 million euros in funding to make CO2-intensive processes such as steel production more climate-friendly. With new partners, the consortium is now focussing on verifying the solutions developed.
Market & Industry 10/03/2025, 10:52

Great expectations for lithium production in Germany

Bochum - The Fraunhofer IEG has discovered large quantities of the raw material for batteries in deep water. The first lithium extraction projects are already underway in Germany and others are at the planning stage.
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Power

Power 11/03/2025, 13:24
Offshore wind needs industrial policy support, demands Karina Würtz.
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Offshore wind: "Expansion does not fall from the sky"

Hamburg - The offshore wind industry could create added value across Germany. However, without stable expansion targets, better financing instruments and more efficient land use planning, the potential threatens to remain unutilised, warns Karina Würtz from the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation.
Power 11/03/2025, 13:23

Acer makes proposal for demand management

Ljubljana - Flexibility is essential in an electricity system based on renewable energies. The European regulatory authority Acer wants to improve demand management with a new network code.
Power 11/03/2025, 12:25

Epex Spot doubles auctions for guarantees of origin

Paris - Guarantees of origin were previously only traded monthly on the Epex Spot. Since February 2025, however, there have been two auctions per month.
Power 10/03/2025, 17:25

Mandatory rollout at almost 14 per cent

Bonn - It was only in mid-February that the Federal Network Agency sent out reminder letters to defaulting metering point operators. Now it is presenting new figures. With huge differences between the individual companies.
Power 10/03/2025, 16:22

50 Hertz calls for more efficient grid expansion

Berlin - The transmission system operator 50 Hertz has invested around 3.6 billion euros in grid expansion in 2024 - twice as much as in the previous year. At the same time, the share of renewable energies in the grid area is growing to 73 per cent, which poses new challenges for grid stability.
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Gas & Heat

Gas & Heat 11/03/2025, 16:38
H2-Global's centralised auctions are intended to boost the global market for hydrogen.
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H2-Global: Strong response expected to second auction

Cologne/Hamburg - The latest tender for the hydrogen import platform H2-Global is likely to meet with lively interest on the market. Consultant Matthias Janssen, associate director of Frontier Economics, was convinced of this in an interview with energate.
Gas & Heat 11/03/2025, 16:32

Federal Network Agency drastically cuts biomethane tender

Bonn - The Federal Network Agency is reducing the tender volume for biomethane plants to just 26 MW as of 1 April 2025. The reason for this is the expected low bid volume.
Gas & Heat 11/03/2025, 15:12

Bad Salzuflen invests millions in combined heat and power plant

Bad Salzuflen - Stadtwerke Bad Salzuflen is investing 40 million euros in the heating transition in order to significantly increase the proportion of renewable energies by 2027.
Gas & Heat 11/03/2025, 13:30

Hydrogen marginal costs continue to fall

Bonn - Prices on the electricity spot markets fell this week, meaning that the marginal costs for green hydrogen also fell. Although there were also price reductions in gas trading, green hydrogen improved its competitiveness.
Gas & Heat 11/03/2025, 11:46

"I expect a high response to the H2 auctions"

Cologne - The hydrogen import platform H2-Global has launched a second round of auctions. energate spoke to Matthias Janssen, associate director of the consultancy Frontier Economics, about the auction process and the expected response on the global market.
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