Berlin - The Federal Cabinet has adopted the ordinance repealing the Gas Price Adjustment Ordinance in a silence procedure...

Brussels - The 27 energy ministers have principally accepted the emergency measures presented by the EU Commission. These are a binding reduction in electricity demand, a revenue cap for inframarginal electricity producers and an excess profit levy for fossil energy companies....

Berlin - It’s ’do this’ one minute and ’do that’ the next. What applied to the troops in imperial times now also applies to the gas levy. A marching order can also be revoked if circumstances require it...

Berlin - On 5 October, the Federal Government will initiate an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act to make continued operation of the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2 nuclear power plants possible beyond 2022. The Federal Ministry of Economics has now initiated the corresponding procedure....

Mannheim - The CEO of MVV Energie, Georg Müller, is returning to his old workplace after a break due to illness. He will resume his duties from 1 October, the company announced...

Bonn/Cologne - The Cologne-based utility Rheinenergie can enter into the planned merger with the Eon Group. However, the Federal Cartel Office has only cleared the strategic cooperation of the two companies on conditions...

Pinos Puente/Vienna - Verbund has successfully completed its first large-scale project in Spain with the commissioning of a 148 MW solar park. The purchase of the electricity is governed by a new type of VPPA contract. The Austrian group wants to strongly expand the share of new renewables. A platform with over 3,000 MW is therefore in the works in Spain...

Cologne - The energy company RWE is facing legal action in connection with its lignite activities. Climate activists from the initiative "RWE Tribunal" have filed criminal charges against the management of the subsidiary RWE Power for alleged homicide...

Hamburg - The Federal Network Agency's next round of tenders for offshore wind power projects is taking place under special circumstances. The auction, which has a deadline of 1 September 2023, is probably the last time that project developers could assert rights of entry. One of them is RWE...

Cologne - Doubts about the security of supply in the electricity market are growing. The Institute of Energy Economics (Ewi) at the University of Cologne has calculated in an analysis that power generation capacities could no longer be sufficient to cover demand in extreme weather situations as early as 2026. But there are countermeasures...

Leipzig/Paris - EEX Group considers the first spot auction of proofs of origin to be a success. For the first round, 26 market participants had registered...

Hanover - The Isar 2 nuclear power plant will be taken off the grid on 21 October for scheduled maintenance work. This is necessary to ensure "uninterrupted operation until the scheduled shutdown in March 2023", the operating company Preussen Elektra informed...

Rohrbach - Storage operator Storengy Deutschland is founding a joint venture with Bavarian start-up CM Fluids for bio-LNG...

Scario - Two days before the introduction of the gas levy, it was clear that it would not be implemented after all. The employees in the sales departments of the energy suppliers are handling the change. energate asked around in the market...

Föhren - The groundbreaking ceremony for a pilot and demonstration plant for the fermentation of solid manure took place in Kirkel-Altstadt, Saarland. The substrates, which are difficult to ferment in conventional plants, are to be made usable for energy - until now an economic challenge, but an improved EEG subsidy will change this...

Düsseldorf - A gas price cap for the basic consumption of German private households would cost the state between 15.6 billion euros and 36.5 billion euros, depending on the design. This is the result of a study by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans Böckler Foundation...

Ellwangen - Battery manufacturer Varta wants to focus its business increasingly on the growing e-mobility market. To this end, Varta AG is consentrating its activities in this area in a new subsidiary: V4Drive SE...

Munich/Hamburg - The energy service providers Coneva from Munich and NWG Power from Hamburg will cooperate in the future. The partnership will focus on services for customers in the real estate industry...

Berlin - Smart meters: They have long been standard in Great Britain and Scandinavia, but are still in short supply in Germany. But despite many advantages, it is still difficult for many consumers to get a smart meter...

Stuttgart - The parking-space management company Apcoa has announced the construction of 100,000 charging stations for e-cars at 12,000 European locations. Charging and parking will be possible via a single app...