Brussels - Negotiators from the EU Council of Ministers and the EU Parliament have reached an agreement on the amended EU Gas Security of Supply (Gas SOS) Regulation...

Berlin - For the BDEW, the hydrogen ramp-up is not fast enough. The association is thus proposing a separate law that should make hydrogen available within the next five years...

Bremerhaven - In a joint letter to Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck, five associations and networks of the offshore sector and maritime industry call for efforts for more climate protection and employment in the further expansion of offshore wind energy...

Berlin - The German government wants to expand solar energy on buildings significantly. But an alliance of energy and environmental associations considers the legislative plans insufficient. One demand: better remuneration...

The inverter producer SMA Solar Technology is getting a new Chief Financial Officer in December. Barbara Gregror will take over from Ulrich Hadding as head of Finance, Human Resources and Legal Affairs...

Berlin - Andreas Rieckhoff takes over the position of Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Caeli Wind, a cloud-based platform for wind-power area potential. The spin-off of the Berlin-based consultancy LBD aims to digitally bring together land owners and wind power project developers...

Berlin - The Berlin-based greentech start-up Zolar is raising fresh capital. The total of 100 million euros from the current financing round will flow, among other things, into the energy management app "Zolar Compass"...

Düsseldorf - Unsurprisingly, Uniper's Russian activities were the dominant topic at the group's most recent annual general meeting. The announced dissolution of existing dependencies on Gazprom as an important gas supplier remains a challenge.

Hamburg/Leipzig - For the first time ever, an offshore wind farm in Germany has been officially prequalified for the balancing power market. Ørsted, E2M and Tennet use just under one tenth of the 312 MW North Sea wind farm "Borkum Riffgrund 1" for secondary balancing power and hope for imitators

Brussels - The global wind industry picked up more orders than ever in 2021, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). A total of 30 wind power builders, including 9 from Europe, built turbines with a total capacity of around 105,000 MW...

Potsdam - Brandenburg is another federal state that has set a minimum distance for wind turbines from residential areas. The state parliament has approved a bill according to which wind turbines must maintain a minimum distance of 1,000 metres from residential buildings in the future...

Leipzig/Paris - The energy exchange Epex Spot plans to start auctioning guarantees of origin at the end of September this year. The auctions are to take place monthly. The market design is "multi-dimensional"...

Moscow - In the next days, Russia plans to publish a complete list of which Gazprom customers have changed their payment method. This was announced by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, according to agency reports...

Espoo/Erlangen - Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH has successfully completed a European joint project on hydrogen transport with LOHC technology. The company said that all expectations in the midstream process had been achieved...

Marburg/Frankfurt am Main - The energy efficiency association AGFW reports first successes for its "Green District Heating" platform in Saxony and wants to expand the offer in the future. At the suggestion of the network, no less than five municipalities in Saxony had passed a resolution for the supply of district heating...

Bad Dürkheim - Pfalzwerke wants to produce and distribute hydrogen regionally in the future. The utility has now come a decisive step closer to this goal. The company recently signed a contract with the development service provider KST Motorenversuch to supply hydrogen...

Essen - From Denmark via Germany to Austria: The transmission system operator Open Grid Europe announces a transnational hydrogen value chain. A total of 250 hydrogen filling stations in the three countries are to be supplied...

Munich/Frankfurt am Main - The charging service provider Mer Germany is opening a new feedback channel for its customers. From now on, they can send the status of a charging point directly to the subsidiary of the Norwegian Statkraft Group via a smartphone app...

Herrenberg - Stromnetzgesellschaft Herrenberg is relying on the Internet of Things to stabilise its distribution network. Sensors have now been installed in 15 transformer stations in the town in Baden-Württemberg, which continuously transmit status data to the grid operator. The operator hopes that this will improve control - especially in the future...

Essen - The radio mast operator Novec, a subsidiary of the transmission system operator Tennet, and the Eon subsidiary Towerco have agreed on a partnership to roll out the "mobile network of the future". Together, they want to erect several hundred radio masts by 2024....