Berlin - In the so-called Council of Permanent Representatives (COREPER), the EU member states have confirmed the political agreement on the reform of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. This will be extended to almost all sectors, in particular buildings and transport...

Berlin - The Christian Democratic CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) has called on the German government to carry out an immediate stress test of the country's power grid operators in preparation for the coming winter. The Bundestag should also decide on the continued operation of Germany's three nuclear power plants until 2024...

Berlin - The German government should focus on green lead markets in the transition to a climate-neutral industry. This is the recommendation of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in an expert report on the issue...

Berlin - The German government's expert panel on the gas crisis has criticised the sluggish implementation of its proposed measures - 100 days after the recommendations were presented. Speaking in Berlin, three representatives of the panel stressed that a package of measures was needed - not just the energy price brake...

Solna - The volatility of energy prices is leaving its mark on Vattenfall's balance sheet. But with the group growing its end customer sales in Germany and in the wind power sector, among others, management remains optimistic. For the future, the Swedes are counting on renewables and nuclear power...

Munich - With an investment from Bayern Kapital, Enmacc has finally closed its 'Series B financing round'. The financing company is wholly owned by LFA Förderbank Bayern and manages investment funds with a volume of 700 million euros...

Wolfsburg - There is a change in leadership at Volkswagen's Charging and Energy business unit. The head of the unit, Elke Temme, is stepping down with immediate effect, VW announced on Monday...

Cologne - The software provider Epilot and the business software provider SAP are entering into a partnership. The platform of the Cologne-based software-as-a-service provider will be integrated into the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)...

Stuttgart - In view of the Federal Network Agency's proposals for the grid integration of controllable consumers, distribution grid operators are facing a mammoth task. "The grid operators will not only have to set up the measuring infrastructure to record the load situation in the individual grid strings," says Christoph Müller, CEO of Netze BW...

Stuttgart - The energy market is discussing the proposals of the Federal Network Agency for the integration of controllable consumers into the electricity grid. energate spoke to Christoph Müller, CEO of the distribution grid operator Netze BW, about the plans and the necessary upgrading of the grids...

Tützpatz - In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Vattenfall wants to build an unsubsidised agri-voltaic project with a capacity of 76 MW. The company has now made a final investment decision for the project in the municipality of Tützplatz...

Ljubljana - The EU's energy regulator, Acer, has proposed reforms to electricity futures trading in the EU. The agency believes there is a lack of liquidity, accessibility, competition and transparency, as well as an insufficient market structure...

Düsseldorf - On 14 February, Uniper Energy Storage will market another 2,000 GWh of working gas capacity for the Etzel EGL storage facility for the coming storage year. An initial marketing for the same total capacity was successfully completed on 2 February...

Berlin - The German economics ministry considers the approach of the market area manager Trading Hub Europe (THE) in ensuring storage levels to be justified. This is the result of a first report on the evaluation of the implementation of the storage level regulations...

Essen - The major German energy companies are increasingly focusing on ammonia as a hydrogen derivative. Essen-based RWE, for example, has formed a strategic alliance with Lotte Chemical and Mitsubishi in the US. Meanwhile, Uniper is looking to India as a supplier...

Berlin - On 8 February, the Initiative Energien Speichern (Ines) will present its latest scenarios for gas supply over the rest of the winter and for storage refilling in the summer. In the run-up to the event, we spoke to managing director Sebastian Bleschke about this and the exceptional year 2022...

Dresden - The participants in the government-funded research project 'Kopernikus P2X' say they have achieved a significant increase in the performance of electrolysis...

Berlin - The lack of skilled workers is becoming an increasing problem for the energy transition. The start-up Power Us offers a career portal for skilled workers. In an interview with energate, founder Konrad Geiger explains what sets the service apart from others...

Vienna/Abu Dhabi - Verbund and the Abu Dhabi-based company Masdar want to develop processes for the production of climate-neutral hydrogen and export them to Central Europe, in particular to Austria and southern Germany...

Bonn - Despite the lower temperatures again as well as the reduced wind feed-in in the second half of the week, there was little change on the short-term electricity markets last week. As a result of this development, green hydrogen was again slightly cheaper to produce than in the previous week....