Mild weather keeps EU coal renaissance in check
London - Climate change had a direct impact on Europe's electricity mix in 2022. According to a study, global warming caused a large supply gap from hydropower and nuclear energy during the hot summer. At the end of the year, electricity demand fell due to mild weather, slowing the crisis-induced renaissance of coal...
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Hanover - In Lower Saxony, thousands of renewable energy plants are currently being temporarily shut down and are not producing any electricity. This was announced by the Renewable Energies Association of Lower Saxony/Bremen (LEE - Landesverband Erneuerbare Energien Niedersachsen/Bremen)...
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Berlin - Starting next year, grid operators are to be allowed to reduce the power of wallboxes or heat pumps if necessary. The plans could be illegal, as an expert opinion by the law firm Assmann Peiffer, which is available to energate, shows...
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Berlin - The German government has presented a draft for the implementation of Article 6 of the EU Emergency Ordinance in Germany. The cabinet has thus decided on faster approvals for wind and grid expansion...
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Berlin - The German government has so far spent 4.3 billion euros on December's emergency aid as the first stage of the gas price brake, according to an announcement by the economics ministry...
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Cham - Swiss measurement technology manufacturer Landis+Gyr is withdrawing from Germany. The company will relocate parts of its production from Germany to Turkey, the company announced during the Capital Markets Day...
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Wiesbaden - German import prices rose significantly in 2022, mainly due to expensive energy imports. Natural gas in particular caused the strongest increase in import prices since 1974, explained the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis - Statistische Bundesamt)...
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Munich - Munich-based waste heat specialist Orcan Energy has found another shareholder in Otium Capital. The 1.2 billion euros French investment company has joined as part of a so-called 'secondary investment', a company spokesperson confirmed at energate's request....
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Leipzig - Prisma will operate the European gas procurement platform. The Leipzig-based capacity platform announced that it had been awarded the contract in the EU Commission's tender process...
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London - Climate change had a direct impact on Europe's electricity mix in 2022. According to a study, global warming caused a large supply gap from hydropower and nuclear energy during the hot summer. At the end of the year, electricity demand fell due to mild weather, slowing the crisis-induced renaissance of coal...
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Paris - The trading volume in the auctions for guarantees of origin on Epex Spot continued to grow. In the first auction of the new year, market participants traded certificates for 115,646 MWh of green electricity. Compared to the previous month, the volume increased by 85 per cent...
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Bonn - The Federal Network Agency has put areas in the North Sea and Baltic Sea up for tender for wind farms with a total capacity of 7,000 MW. The invitation to tender in four areas that have not been centrally pre-deselected marks the start of the so-called expansion turbo with 30,000 MW of installed capacity by 2030...
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Berlin - The Wind Energy on Land Act (Windenergie-an-Land-Gesetz) will come into force on 1 February. It obliges the federal states to designate two per cent of their land for wind energy. They must achieve the target by 2032...
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Frankfurt/Main - The importance of district heating is growing and its share in the overall heat supply is expected to increase further in the coming years. "Today, 14 per cent of German households are supplied with district heating. According to policy makers, this figure must rise to 30 per cent in the coming years"...
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London - Concerns about energy security in the wake of the Ukraine conflict are strengthening the trend towards energy efficiency and low-CO2 technologies. This is one result of the current BP Energy Outlook. This does not necessarily mean abandoning coal...
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Cologne - The energy crisis is fuelling demand for solar heating, but a boom has so far failed to materialise. Around 91,000 solar heating systems were installed in 2022, an increase of 12 per cent compared to the previous year....
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Berlin - The possible creation of a national hydrogen player from the nationalised companies Uniper and Sefe (Securing Energy for Europe) has met with criticism. Christoph Schmitz, member of the Verdi federal executive board, wonders from a trade union's perspective why the Ministry of Economics does not want to use existing staff...
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Hohenheim - A research association around the University of Hohenheim demands corrections in the promotion of agri-photovoltaics. They essentially concern the promotion of high-mounted agri-PV in the EEG and the simplification of the approval procedures for construction...
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Dortmund - At Compleo Charging Solutions, hope is germinating for an imminent restructuring. The management of the insolvent charging technology provider from Dortmund has now started a structured investor process and expressed optimism that it will be able to preserve the company completely...
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Dreieich - The public utility company Stadtwerke Rosenheim almost fell victim to a cyber attack. The company was warned in time by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz), reported Götz Brühl, managing director of Stadtwerke Rosenheim, at the Janitza Energy Days in Dreieich...
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Bonn - The daily and weekly contracts eased on the electricity market due to the rising temperatures and the higher wind feed-in in the past few days. Due to this development, green hydrogen was also cheaper to produce than in the previous week....
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