Berlin - A conflict is emerging in the governing coalition on the issue of regulating hydrogen grids. SPD (Social Democratic Party) and FDP (Free Democratic Party) oppose the strict interpretation of the EU Commission. The Greens are reserved...

Merseburg - Following the first conference of energy ministers, the energy ministers of the federal states campaigned for a reduction in the electricity tax and the introduction of an industrial electricity price. The topics of hydrogen and grid fees were also on the agenda...

Berlin - On 15 April, the last three nuclear power plants in Germany will go off the grid as planned. Federal environment minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) sees this step as a contribution to safety. Now the focus is on how to deal with nuclear waste....

Brussels - The EU wants to increase the share of renewable energies in total gross energy consumption to 42.5 per cent by 2030. The EU Council of Ministers and the EU Parliament agreed on the reform of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III). A compromise was also reached on the issue of nuclear power...

Frankfurt a.M./Kördorf - The Süwag grid company Syna is expanding its competences in the field of civil engineering. The company is taking over the civil engineering company Manfred Müller from Kördorf in the Rhein-Lahn district.

Nuremberg - The market upheavals of the energy crisis have not thrown N-Ergie off course. Despite all the market distortions, the Nuremberg municipal utility increased its result. The management sees itself facing historic challenges and announced that it would reduce electricity prices as soon as possible.

Essen - With our news ticker on the development of end customer prices, we provide you with a quick overview of current tariff changes. Today: Stadtwerke Düsseldorf is increasing its district heating prices from April. The increase in energy prices in the district heating segment is 46 per cent....

Munich - The energy crisis year 2022 went exceptionally well for Baywa Re. The noticeable increase in the pace of the energy transition in Europe brought the Munich-based project developer another record result. One of the strong performers was a segment that is up for sale...

Willich - After the CO2 bulls had gradually worked their way up to the weekly high of 94.14 €/t CO2 in the course of the past trading week, a strong sell-off followed last Friday, which levelled out the interim gains...

Dortmund - Spot trading this week was entirely under the influence of volatile wind power feed-in, was the reason given for the price jumps from the market. The amount of wind power fed into the grid has fluctuated between 36,000 MW and 6,000 MW since last Friday....

Bayreuth - For its new grid connection systems with a capacity of 2,000 MW each, the transmission system operator Tennet has ordered offshore and onshore converter stations. The total volume of the orders amounts to around 24 billion euros. Tennet hopes that this will significantly accelerate the energy transition...

Neiße-Malxetal - In the south of Brandenburg, the Bavarian project developer Ostwind is about to start building a 50 MW forest wind farm. The project, which was awarded a contract in the most recent tender, will take ten years to develop. After commissioning, local communities are to share in the profits...

Gelsenkirchen - The topic of hydrogen has long since arrived in the SME sector. The manufacturing industry in particular does not feel sufficiently taken into account in the federal government's hydrogen plans. Many small and medium-sized enterprises are concerned that they will have to stand in line behind during the ramp-up phase of the hydrogen...

Berlin - Prices in gas trading have been moving sideways with a slight upward trend since mid-March. This has not changed this week. On the Dutch TTF, the day-ahead price closed on Friday last week at 41.60 €/MWh....

Bonn - The Federal Network Agency has granted the planned LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel a renewed exemption, approving the capacity expansion to 10 billion cubic metres per year. The operating company German LNG Terminal had already received an exemption from regulation in June 2021...

Hanover - Lower Saxony's environment minister, Christian Meyer, hopes for a technical conversion of the first regasification unit (FSRU) in Wilhelmshaven...

Karlsruhe - The purchase premium for the often higher-priced e-cars is melting and charging current has become more expensive. Nevertheless, scientists see a "clear cost advantage" for alternative vehicles over internal combustion engines of up to 12,000 euros. This is confirmed by a new study conducted by the Fraunhofer ISI...

Berlin - With the so-called Delegated Act, the EU Commission has set criteria for the production of green hydrogen. In a guest comment for energate, Ove Petersen, managing director of GP Joule, criticised the proposals and explained why it is nevertheless good that they exist...

Eberswalde/Wolfsburg - Enerkite and Volkswagen Group Charging are working on location-flexible and infrastructure-independent e-charging stations. The vehicles will be charged using electricity from airborne wind turbines, a technology in which Enerkite (based in Eberswalde in the federal state of Brandenburg), specialises...

Borna/Jena - As the number of electric car registrations increases, so does the demand for charging. This can put a great strain on local electricity grids. To counter this danger, the EM4Q project is dedicated to setting up dynamic charging control at the low-voltage level. Steffen Späthe, technical director of Navimatix, explained the details of the project to energate...