Tag: coal phase-out
RWE: Falling electricity prices are a burden on the economy
What pleases consumers is a burden for RWE: The electricity producer expects significantly lower profits this year, “due to the recent sharp fall in electricity prices on the European wholesale…
Renewable energies: Wind power is replacing coal as the most important energy source – economy
Last year, wind power replaced coal as the most important energy source in electricity generation in Germany. Almost a third (31 percent) of the electricity generated in Germany came from…
Chemical companies: Industry doubts the coal phase-out – Economy
Markus Steilemann is CEO of the plastics manufacturer Covestro and President of the Chemical Association. He believes that a quick abandonment of climate-damaging power plants is unrealistic. An opinion with…
A forest is burned: deforestation in the Czech Republic despite a Natura 2000 protected area
“Every notebook entry, every oral note, everything must be legally watertight.” Refugee background, declining reading skills, psychological consequences of Corona and now also Chat-GPT – giving grades is becoming increasingly…
Uniper: Why the crisis-hit company is earning brilliantly again – business
It’s dizzying: the electricity and gas company Uniper posted a breathtaking loss of 19.1 billion euros in 2022; Germany’s largest gas importer had to be rescued with state money. But…
East German states reject coal phase-out in 2030
As of: February 27, 2024 11:26 p.m The federal government wants to get out of coal as quickly as possible – if possible by 2030. The East German coal countries…
Power plant strategy: How gas power plants should secure electricity supply – Economy
Nuclear power is out, and coal will soon be out too. But what if sun and wind don’t provide any energy? Then hydrogen power plants should step in, financed by…
Green electricity: Better support for renewable energies – Economy
There are these paragraphs that somehow come from ancient times, but then suddenly become very relevant. Paragraph 1a of the Renewable Energy Sources Act is one of these, or more…
When will the new gas power plants come?
As of: December 28, 2023 8:53 a.m The federal government wants to build new gas power plants for the transition period after the coal phase-out. But because there is no…
“Lignite will be mined for even longer than we think” – Economy
The view from the executive floor of the Leag headquarters in Cottbus extends far over Lusatia. In the northeast you can see the blocks of the Jänschwalde brown coal power…