Berlin - Contrary to the announcement of the Federal Ministry of Transport, the second master plan for the expansion of the German charging network will probably not be available before the parliamentary summer break...

Berlin - Germany has the highest energy supply risk within the G7 group next to Italy. This is one of the findings of the study "Energy for Germany 2022" by the World Energy Council Germany...

Berlin - The German government, industry and sector associations want to work together to remove obstacles so that the accelerated market ramp-up of heat pumps can succeed. This was agreed by the participants at a virtual summit meeting. The joint declaration of intent was struggled with until the very end...

Berlin - The political discussions about the end of the purchase premium for e-cars are apparently becoming more concrete. In addition, the distribution networks as a bottleneck in the expansion of the charging infrastructure are moving further into the focus of the debates on the drive turnaround in transport. This became apparent at a conference of the Federal Ministry of Transport on the topic of...

Ludwigshafen - Technische Werke Ludwigshafen (TWL) is still in the red. The effects of the procurement crisis and also the consequences of the Corona pandemic brought the municipal utility deeper into the red in 2021. TWL wants to reach the "black zero" in 2022, but still wants to spend more money on investments.

Hamburg - Felix Faber (46) will become the new chairman of the management board of Deutsche Shell Holding GmbH and the management board of Shell Deutschland GmbH on 1 August...

Wiesbaden - The biogas subsidiary of the wind power project developer Abo Wind has remained in the red since its foundation in 2014. Because the marketing prospects for biogas have improved significantly in view of the major geopolitical situation in connection with the Ukraine war, the management is calculating with the first annual profit in 2023....

Brussels - There have been changes at the leadership level in the European hydrogen industry association, Hydrogen Europe: Among others, Sopna Sury, COO Hydrogen of RWE Generation SE, was elected as a new board member. In total, the general assembly of the association elected four new board members...

Berlin - On 1 July, the Ordinance on Interruptible Loads (AbLaV) will expire. It comes at an inopportune time - the number of calls has recently increased. According to the Munich-based aggregator Entelios, there were as many call-offs in the first half of 2022 as in the entire years 2020 and 2021 combined...

Dortmund - The trading prices on the electricity market continue to soar unperturbed. The reasons for this are the same constellation as in the weeks before: high gas prices, very low wind supply, high level of nervousness. As a result, the spot market largely operated above 310 euros. Meanwhile, the 2023 annual band announced a new all-time high...

Essen - The Essen-based energy company RWE is pushing ahead with the expansion of the group's own wind power portfolio in Poland. Major projects are progressing both onshore and offshore. In the future, the group also wants to focus on PV plants in Poland...

Willich - The majority of the energy markets were bullish at the start of trading week 26. Only the API#2 coal front recorded a loss in the commodities we monitor....

Berlin - Whether hydrogen can be used sensibly in the heating market depends on local conditions and should therefore be a case-by-case decision. This is what can be deduced from the first interim results of a study...

Berlin - Especially on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, prices on the short-term trading market rose significantly. The day-ahead price rose on Wednesday from 129.00 to 140.00 euros/MWh...

Hanover - The German association of energy users (VEA) regularly reports on current deals for gas contracts. In view of the persistent lack of transparency with regard to the price level for industrial customers, the information can provide an initial indicator of achievable prices...

Berlin - The heat storage facility at Vattenfall's "Reuter West" power plant in Berlin, designed for a maximum thermal output of 200 MW, is to go into operation at the beginning of 2023 as Germany's largest. With a height of 45 metres and a diameter of 43 metres, it can supply heat for 13 hours...

Hamburg - The Hamburg-based tech start-up Suena closes its first round of financing with an amount of 1.2 million euros. The main investor is Innoenergy SE, which provides money from the European innovation fund EIT InnoEnergy SE...

Aschheim - The storage specialist Smart Power has announced the construction of battery systems with a total capacity of 220 MW. This pipeline will be sold to BCP Battery Holding, the company from Aschheim in Bavaria announced. The largest industrial battery in the German battery storage market is already under construction,...

Companies are still at a relatively early stage in converting their vehicle fleets to electric drive. This is shown by a survey of companies from the Dax-40 and M-Dax conducted by the think tank Agora Verkehrswende...

Mannheim - The latest amendment to the EnWG supplements the certification requirements in the Metering Point Operation Act. Ingo Schönberg, CEO of the gateway manufacturer PPC, welcomes this step in an energate interview. The path to taxation will be accelerated by the addition...