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Market & Industry 21/02/2025, 16:08
Gas & Heat 21/02/2025, 15:54
RWE launches second enquiry for hydrogen storage requirements
Essen - RWE Gas Storage West plans to put the first commercial hydrogen storage facility into operation in 2027. Around 70 per cent of the storage facility's capacity has already been allocated. The operator is now launching a market enquiry for the remaining 30 per cent.
Market & Industry 21/02/2025, 15:43
Start-up wants to take off as a prosumer consultant
Berlin - Germany's demand for energy-efficient refurbishment is immense. Deutsche Sanierungsberatung is a Berlin-based start-up that wants to position itself nationwide as a consultant at the interface between homeowners and tradespeople. A multi-million seed financing round is expected to bring growth.
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Politics 21/02/2025, 13:08
"Renewables should not align their operations with state payments"
Berlin - Agora Energiewende has developed a successor model for the EEG remuneration: a combination of PPAs and contracts for difference. Fabian Huneke, project manager at Agora, explains how this can avoid market distortions and reduce financing risks and what all this has to do with the H2 ramp-up.
Politics 21/02/2025, 12:10
Nuclear Committee confirms party positions
Berlin - The Bundestag's committee of enquiry, which investigated the circumstances surrounding the German nuclear phase-out, has presented its final report. In it, the parties see their assessments fundamentally confirmed. The issue of nuclear energy also played a role in the Bundestag election campaign, which is now drawing to a close.
Politics 21/02/2025, 11:51
Energy prices: Industry presses for rapid relief
Berlin - The glass and paper industry has urged a short-term reduction in electricity and gas prices for companies. A new government would have to take care of such a reduction within the first 100 days.
Politics 20/02/2025, 17:34
EU Parliament wants tax exemption for renewables
Brussels - The Permanent Ambassadors to the EU have discussed the EU Commission's energy tax reform proposal nine times without any results. Now the EU Parliament's Energy Committee (ITRE) has joined the debate. A tax exemption for the use of renewable energies is to be made mandatory.Market & Industry
Market & Industry 20/02/2025, 17:36
Bosch says goodbye to fuel cells
Stuttgart - Bosch is changing its strategy. The Stuttgart-based technology group is ending its development activities and production of fuel cell systems. Instead, Bosch now wants to develop hydrogen technologies.
Market & Industry 20/02/2025, 16:06
European emissions trading under pressure
Willich - Rollercoaster ride for CO2 certificate prices: After a turbulent start to the week, the markets are showing fluctuations of up to four per cent. Meanwhile, Italy is considering suspending the ETS in order to counteract rising energy costs.
Market & Industry 20/02/2025, 14:06
Hydrogenious: Fresh capital and new staff
Erlangen - Hydrogenious secures over 17 million euros in a new financing round to drive forward the scaling of its LOHC technology. Founder Daniel Teichmann steps into the second row and makes way for a new management team.
Market & Industry 20/02/2025, 13:58
CHP specialist prepares IPO
Senden - The energy sector is to be enriched by a listed company in the coming year. On the way there, the Blue Energy Group, a plant construction specialist for green energy CHPs, wants to raise almost 6 million euros in growth capital from investors.Power
Power 21/02/2025, 13:05
Eon expands e-truck charging grid with EU funding
Essen - Together with Eldrive and ZSE, Eon plans to install over 1,400 new charging points in Europe by 2027. The EU is funding the project with 45 million euros. One focus is on high-performance charging points for heavy commercial vehicles.
Power 21/02/2025, 11:48
"We want to further develop the standard reserve market"
Dortmund - The four German transmission system operators want the control reserve to better reflect the new reality of volatile renewable feed-ins. To this end, the TSOs are consulting the 'Green Book Control Reserve 2030'. energate spoke to Ulf Kasper, chairman of the Control Energy Steering Group, about ideas and challenges.
Power 20/02/2025, 16:14
Charging infrastructure: "We are standardising ourselves to death"
Berlin - At the 'Flex-Hub Mobilitätswende' conference, it became clear that the ramp-up of e-mobility is proceeding slowly. Experts criticised too many bureaucratic hurdles and a lack of long-term strategy. The expansion of the charging infrastructure in particular is suffering from complicated regulations and inconsistent requirements.
Power 20/02/2025, 16:00
Sun and Trump cause electricity prices to tumble
Hamm - The winter of 2024/25 was windier than average, resulting in high prices. Last week, the sun once again emerged as a relevant factor for day-ahead pricing for the first time. Futures prices, on the other hand, fell in response to political developments.Gas & Heat
Gas & Heat 21/02/2025, 14:42
Bayernets hopes for pragmatic solutions for hydrogen expansion
Essen - The construction of the hydrogen core grid has begun. In Bavaria, transmission system operator Bayernets has begun implementing the first measures. Managing director Matthias Jenn talked about progress and hurdles in an interview with energate.
Gas & Heat 21/02/2025, 14:25
Transport sector: Interest in bio-LNG is growing
Berlin - Bio-LNG is booming despite falling LNG sales in the transport sector: the proportion of climate-friendly bio-LNG rose to 75 per cent last year and even reached 90 per cent in the second half of the year.
Gas & Heat 21/02/2025, 14:03
Uniper cannot commercialise Breitbrunn capacity
Düsseldorf - The operator Uniper Gas Storage (UST) has joined the now long list of unsuccessful storage marketings. Although there were four offers, none of them were above the minimum price.
Gas & Heat 21/02/2025, 12:18