Berlin - The German government wants to accelerate the installation of smart metering systems and make grid operators share the costs. This is according to the draft for the law to restart the digitisation of the energy transition, which is available to the editorial team. How high the costs for consumers will be, is open...

Berlin - The expansion of renewables should go faster, especially in the current energy crisis. Bureaucracy is still holding back many projects for an unnecessarily long time. A new law is intended to now change that...

Berlin - The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology is making a new attempt to acquire a stake in the transmission grid operator Tennet. To this end, it is talking to the Dutch government about a possible German participation in Tennet Deutschland...

Berlin - On 30 November, the German government officially decided to withdraw from the Energy Charter. This means that Germany can withdraw from the international treaty before the end of the year...

Flensburg - The Flensburg municipal utility company is to become climate-neutral by 2035. According to the company, this was decided by the Flensburg council...

Leipzig - Balance Erneuerbare Energie GmbH is getting a third managing director at the turn of the year. In future, Volker Klinkert will take over the management of the operations of currently 39 biogas plants, the VNG biogas subsidiary announced...

Hamburg/Essen - The management consultancy Tagueri is expanding its activities in the energy sector. The Hamburg-based company has taken over the Essen-based consultancy Conenergy Consult...

Cologne - Jan Brockmann is the new president of the Federal Association of the German Heating Industry (BDH). The general meeting recently elected the chairman of the Bosch Thermotechnik management...

Hamburg/Bremerhaven - The Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (Iwes) in Bremerhaven and wind turbine manufacturer Nordex are intensifying their cooperation in the grid integration of wind...

Berlin - According to Alex Melzer, the current crisis holds a great opportunity for the energy transition and PV expansion in Germany. The founder and CEO of the rooftop PV start-up Zolar sees obstacles in the distribution grid operators, among others, that are causing delays. He also argues for the revival of the domestic PV industry...

Willich - At the start of the trading week 48, the bears were initially able to dominate, but part of the interim losses were already recovered in most contracts on Monday....

The Hague - Uniper and RWE are not entitled to compensation for the Netherlands' early coal phase-out in 2030, a court in the Netherlands has now ruled. The country's energy minister is satisfied. The companies can still appeal and are examining their options.

Friedeburg-Etzel - The storage operator Storag Etzel has started a first hydrogen leak test at the Etzel cavern storage facility. For this purpose, the company injected 280 kilograms of gaseous hydrogen into the project cavern...

Aachen - Aachen-based grid operator Regionetz is reorganising communication with its capacity-metered industrial customers (RLM) in the event of a gas shortage...

Lubmin - Originally, the LNG terminal 'Deutsche Ostsee' in Lubmin was to start operations on 1 December. Since approvals are still pending, commissioning has been delayed, but it is still supposed to take place in December, Deutsche Regas announced. energate spoke about the project with Stephan Knabe, chairman of the supervisory board...

Berlin - A stable high-pressure weather situation is causing low temperatures and rising gas prices. The high-pressure weather situation is not only causing cold, a trader said, but also little wind and thus a low feed-in of electricity from renewable energies. This also increases the demand for gas to generate electricity....

Nordenham - A new hydrogen infrastructure is to be created in Lower Saxony. A consortium of companies, municipalities and the district of Wesermarsch, including the EWE Group with its subsidiary EWE Netz, have now agreed on this....

Stuttgart - DLR researchers are working on an innovative method for storing electricity in the form of heat, the Carnot battery based on nitrite salt. energate asked Andrea Gutierrez, head of the Thermal Storage with Phase Change specialist group, and Maike Johnson, research associate, at DLR...

Kiel - The IT company Clarifydata GmbH has developed a system that can be used to find unregistered meters. A corresponding pilot test is now expected to show how successful the pilot project is. To this end, Clarifydata has received almost 100,000 euros in funding from the state of Schleswig-Holstein...

Berlin - In view of the growing demand, the German government also wants to promote the import of blue hydrogen for a transitional period. This is the result of the update of the National Hydrogen Strategy, which is available to energate...