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Politics 09/04/2025, 15:15
A new government alliance between the CDU/CSU and the SPD has been formed.
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UPDATE: Party leaders present new coalition agreement

Berlin - The CDU, CSU and SPD have agreed on a coalition agreement. They will present the results of their negotiations at 3 pm. There will then be answers to open questions on energy policy and also to the question of who will be responsible for energy policy in future.
Power 09/04/2025, 15:00
Acer wants to boost flexibility on the demand side.
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No-regret measures for more demand flexibility

Llubjana - Making electricity demand more flexible is one of the key factors for a successful energy transition. The European Agency of Regulatory Authorities Acer is now coming up with a catalogue of measures.
Power 09/04/2025, 14:04
Stromnetz Berlin wants to create fair capacity allocation for everyone.
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Stromnetz Berlin launches new allocation procedure

Berlin - Stromnetz Berlin is launching a new allocation procedure for grid connection requests from major customers. The procedure is intended to create transparency and treat all customers equally. Nevertheless, there are also complaints against the new capacity allocation in the Berlin electricity grid.
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Politics 08/04/2025, 17:22
At the energate talk, representatives from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology and metering point operators discussed the smart meter rollout.
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Smart meter rollout: Question of costs and simplification

Berlin/Essen - The smart meter rollout in Germany is facing controversial challenges, as became clear at the energate talk: Some experts are in favour of simplified technology, others warn of new complications. At the same time, the debate about costs and the role of competitive metering point operators is becoming increasingly intense.
Politics 08/04/2025, 16:45

LNG could become a pawn in the customs dispute with the USA

Luxembourg - The US tariffs are driving the EU Trade Council: more LNG import commitments could be one way to bring the US government back to the negotiating table, at least if EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic has his way.
Politics 07/04/2025, 17:23

Saxony shakes up the area target for wind energy

Dresden - Saxony's Minister of State for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Regina Kraushaar (CDU), is causing concern in the wind energy sector. She described the two per cent target for wind energy areas as "difficult to implement" for Saxony.
Politics 07/04/2025, 17:15

IEA sees electricity price zone split as an option

Berlin - The German government should consider dividing the country into different electricity bidding zones. This is the recommendation of the International Energy Agency in its 'German Energy Policy Review 2025'. It also addresses the role of natural gas, storage and hydrogen.
Politics 07/04/2025, 16:06

Head of 8KU: KfW loan for grid expansion

Berlin - In order to promote energy transition investments such as grid expansion, Matthias Dümpelmann, managing director of 8KU, is in favour of the granting of subordinated loans by the KfW development bank. This would have advantages for the state and for companies, he believes.
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Market & Industry

Market & Industry 09/04/2025, 12:57
"We have to accompany municipal utilities to a certain extent in order to make them investable for large infrastructure investors."
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"The energy transition will not fail because of money"

Leipzig - Converting the infrastructure for the energy transition is a multi-billion euro project. Small municipal utilities in particular sometimes find it difficult to find urgently needed additional sources of funding. The newly founded joint venture Finance Connect aims to remedy this situation. Co-initiator Tobias Frevel explains how this will work in an energate interview.
Market & Industry 09/04/2025, 12:26

The difficult path to financing the energy transition

Leipzig - Germany's utilities are relying on the climate protection billions from the federal government's latest special fund to expand the energy infrastructure. At the same time, grid expansion is attracting interest from investors. Smaller municipal utilities are nevertheless finding it difficult to tap into additional sources of funding. A financial services provider wants to help.
Market & Industry 09/04/2025, 12:22

Enercity recruits Head of Human Resources from Mercedes

Hanover - Hanover-based regional utility Enercity has a new Chief Human Resources Officer. The Dutchwoman Eefje Pompen comes to Lower Saxony from Mercedes-Benz.
Market & Industry 08/04/2025, 15:26

Municipal utilities and energy supply companies doubt compliance with climate targets

Munich - A failed heating transition also threatens to jeopardise compliance with climate targets. Municipal utilities and energy suppliers consider this to be a realistic scenario and attach conditions to the success of both projects. A survey by Deloitte Germany provides a picture of the mood in the world of municipal utilities.
Market & Industry 08/04/2025, 13:40

Baywa presents financing concept until 2028

Munich - Baywa AG has secured its financing until 2028. The group still has to submit the new financing concept to the Munich Local Court. Baywa is currently involved in so-called Starug proceedings.
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Power

Power 08/04/2025, 17:37
Author Marco Nicolosi from Connect Energy Economics presents the results of the study in Berlin.
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Security of supply: Market instead of subsidies

Berlin - Electricity suppliers are to hedge their demand in advance in future - this is the central idea of a study. The mechanism is supposed to work without subsidies, build on existing market processes and make the energy transition more efficient.
Power 08/04/2025, 17:29

Green Flexibility builds "grid-neutral" battery storage system

Kempten/Obergünzburg - The storage project developer Green Flexibility is tackling a new project in Ostallgäu. A battery storage facility with an output of 40 MW and a capacity of 90 MWh is to be built in Obergünzburg in eastern Bavaria.
Power 08/04/2025, 17:17

Connections for data centres and storage require co-networking

Halle an der Saale - The recent rapid ramp-up of large industrial storage facilities and data centres in Central Germany is leaving its mark on Mitnetz Strom. The grid company of Eon subsidiary EnviaM believes it is on the right track when it comes to the energy transition. However, there are still some challenges to overcome.
Power 08/04/2025, 15:07

Climate change drives global demand for electricity

London - The demand for electricity is increasing worldwide - partly due to climate change and its impact on people. However, the think tank Ember is confident that renewables will grow faster than demand in the future - solar in particular is booming.
Power 08/04/2025, 09:22

"Dynamic tariffs still need to be clarified"

Munich - Dynamic tariffs, which are linked to the exchange price, are still a niche phenomenon in electricity sales, but are generally on the rise. energate spoke to Klaus Kreutzer, managing director of Kreutzer Consulting, about the current demand, the pitfalls of selling dynamic tariffs and the target group for such offers.
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Gas & Heat

Gas & Heat 09/04/2025, 10:00
Badenova and Smart Geomatics have jointly developed a tool for intelligent energy master planning.
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Badenova joins Smart Geomatics

Freiburg - Freiburg-based utility Badenova wants to professionalise municipal heating planning and has joined Karlsruhe-based software provider Smart Geomatics for this purpose. The aim is to have at least 170 heating plans ready by 2028. energate spoke to the two managing directors Manuel Baur and Thomas Beck about the joint path towards this goal.
Gas & Heat 09/04/2025, 09:00

District heating: the "cursed" market element

Frankfurt am Main - The German Antitrust Office has been investigating seven district heating suppliers for more than a year, also with regard to the weighting of market and cost elements. Hans-Christoph Thomale from the Frankfurt-based law firm Mazars categorises the competition authorities' latest statements from a legal perspective in this guest commentary.
Gas & Heat 08/04/2025, 17:37

Ontras fills its first core network pipeline with hydrogen

Bad Lauchstädt - The large-scale 'hydrogen core grid' project is slowly gaining momentum. After Gascade and Nowega, Ontras has now followed suit. The transmission system operator has made a 25 kilometre long existing natural gas pipeline fit for hydrogen and put it into operation. The preparatory work was quite complex.
Gas & Heat 08/04/2025, 17:00

Regionalverkehr Köln produces its own hydrogen

Augsburg - Quest One is pleased to announce an order from the mobility sector. Regionalverkehr Köln is getting involved in the production of hydrogen at an H2 refuelling station in the Eifel region.
Gas & Heat 08/04/2025, 14:50

Marginal costs for green hydrogen are falling

Bonn - Green hydrogen improved its competitiveness compared to conventional hydrogen this week. The price declines on the electricity spot markets were more pronounced than on the gas markets.
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