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16/09/2024, 17:30
Gas & Heat
16/09/2024, 17:21
TÜV Rheinland invests in heat pump tests
Herten - Tüv Rheinland is expanding its testing capacities for heat pumps. According to the testing service provider, manufacturers are making progress in terms of efficiency and noise.
Market & Industry
16/09/2024, 17:19
Cost concerns tarnish the image of the energy transition.
Hürth - The price shocks caused by the energy crisis appear to have changed Germans' views on the energy transition. According to a new study, the expansion of renewable energies is still 'very important' to a majority of 65 per cent. However, in many cases it is also associated with concerns about costs and security of supply.
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Politics
16/09/2024, 09:13
Brandenburg's energy transition at risk of stalling
Berlin - After Saxony and Thuringia, a new state parliament will soon be elected in Brandenburg. Regardless of the future coalition government, one thing is certain: the energy transition is likely to be slowed down.
Politics
13/09/2024, 14:43
Federal government wants 4,500 kilometres of CO2 pipeline in Germany
Berlin - The plans for a CO2 pipeline in Germany are becoming more concrete. A pipeline with a total length of 4,500 kilometres for the transport of CO2 could be built by 2045. This is part of the German government's draft carbon management strategy. The paper is available to energate and contains a total of 41 measures.
Politics
13/09/2024, 13:23
Storage industry doubts capacity market
Berlin - There is a controversial debate within the German Energy Storage Systems Association as to whether a capacity market, as roughly envisaged by the Federal Ministry of Economics, makes sense for storage systems. In an interview with energate, the head of the association, Urban Windelen, favours flexibility markets.
Politics
13/09/2024, 12:00
The alarm clocks never ring louder - a gloss
Berlin - "Germany is not competitive enough" is currently being heard from all directions. Wake-up calls are coming from the opposition, the business community and Brussels. A wake-up call regarding the ailing infrastructure also came from Dresden.Market & Industry
Market & Industry
16/09/2024, 12:55
Westfalen Weser Energie sets sights on green power sector
Paderborn - Together with regional wind power pioneers from the Paderborn district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Westfalen Weser Energie (WWE) wants to enter the green energy business. If municipal shareholders and competition authorities give the go-ahead, WWE will take over half of project developer LFS Energy.
Market & Industry
16/09/2024, 12:16
Infener plans H2 hub in South Baden
Stansstad/Gengesbach - Swiss project developer Infener is planning to build a hydrogen production plant in South Baden, Germany. A large electrolyser with a capacity of 20 MW is to be built in the town of Gengenbach in the Ortenau district.
Market & Industry
13/09/2024, 16:15
"There will be economically painful situations"
Berlin - In the wake of the various crises, insolvencies are piling up across Germany. For utilities, this may mean painful customer losses. Andreas Schwenzer from the strategy consultancy Advyce categorises the current situation in an interview, identifies risks and also ways of countering them.
Market & Industry
13/09/2024, 16:07
Enercity completes strategic shift in renewables
Hanover - Enercity is making a strategic shift in its renewables business. Instead of expanding its wind power portfolio through large-scale acquisitions, the utility will primarily realise wind farms itself from now on. In a first step, 100 MW are to be added, with a perspective of 1,000 MW. Lower Saxony will also build large-scale storage facilities in future.Power
Power
16/09/2024, 16:38
Federal Administrative Court rules in favour of project planners
Leipzig - Project planners of renewable energy plants not only have to take compensatory measures for nature conservation. Landscape protection and scenery also come at a price. A ruling by the Federal Administrative Court has now taken a new approach.
Power
16/09/2024, 14:19
Eon and Siemens cooperate on charging stations
Zug, Switzerland - Siemens and Eon plan to further expand the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Europe over the next two years. The contract includes the installation of expandable fast-charging stations and a system for easy monitoring of charging points.
Power
16/09/2024, 07:06
"A new setback in the expansion of renewables"
Berlin - In a guest comment, Simone Peter, president of the German Renewable Energy Federation BEE, discusses the conversion of renewable energy subsidies to investment subsidies. This was the proposal in the options paper 'Electricity market design of the future' from the Ministry of Economics.
Power
13/09/2024, 15:41
Unity at the Tennet grid summit
Bamberg - There is a consensus at the Tennet grid summit: a centralised capacity market promises quick and uncomplicated solutions. Tennet COO Tim Meyerjürgens and BDEW boss Kerstin Andreae emphasised the advantages over the model favoured by the government.Gas & Heat
Gas & Heat
16/09/2024, 11:43
Rheinenergie focusses on hydrogen from waste
Göppingen - Green hydrogen from waste for just 1.50 euros per tonne? It sounds too good to be true. The start-up GHT has found investors for its approach. The Cologne-based utility Rheinenergie will become the owner of the first pilot plant in Baden-Württemberg.
Gas & Heat
16/09/2024, 10:24
Aquathermia: New solution for stagnant water
Leipzig - The climate targets in the heat sector can only be achieved through technological openness. However, many of the approaches, including aquathermics, are very demanding. A new combination of technologies could now make it possible to generate heat in lakes much more frequently.
Gas & Heat
13/09/2024, 16:27
Uniper warns of new storage filling by THE
Berlin - During the gas crisis, the gas market area manager THE had to fill storage facilities for the first time - at extremely high prices at the time. Now a first storage operator is warning that the market may not be able to fill the storage facilities on its own again.
Gas & Heat
13/09/2024, 16:06