A significant increase in wind and especially solar energy and a sharp drop in electricity consumption in recent months has saved the European Union from a worse energy crisis in 2022. This is the conclusion reached by British environmental and energy think tank Ember in its "European Electricity Review" analysis of the EU's electricity market. Accordingly, wind power and photovoltaics contributed more than a fifth (22 percent) to consumption for the first time. Meanwhile, the revival of coal feared for...
A significant increase in wind and especially solar energy and a sharp drop in electricity consumption in recent months saved the European Union from a worse energy crisis in 2022. This is the conclusion reached by British environmental and energy think tank Ember in its "European Electricity Review" analysis of the EU's electricity market. Accordingly, wind power and photovoltaics contributed more than a fifth (22 percent) to consumption for the first time. Meanwhile, the revival of coal feared for climate...
In fact, they could do in Wunsiedel what they dream of in many places in Germany and Bavaria. And Philipp Matthes actually thought that he was "innovative" when he was making progress with his energy transition project. Matthes is one of the managing directors of Bavaria's largest electrolysis plant, which went into operation a few months ago with an even bigger promise: to supply hydrogen for the region, from renewable energies, climate-friendly, decentralized and independent. A role model for the...
Digitization has made many things easier. There are conferences for which nobody has to leave the house anymore. This newspaper can be read the evening before on flat screens, so-called tablets. The Internet makes almost every product available at any time. Digitization of this kind would be impossible without electricity - and electricity, of all things, lacks any trace of digitization.That's why the federal government is now trying to do what you do when things get stuck in the digital...
Things looked pretty good for a short time in early December. French Economics Minister Bruno Le Maire visited the Penly nuclear power plant in Normandy, and the trip delivered pretty pictures: Le Maire arm in arm with the new boss of the French energy company EDF, Luc Rémont, both in blue and orange EDF jackets, with the cliffs in the background of the Atlantic. The night before Le Maire's visit, three reactors that had previously been shut down had been...
Florian Bieberbach explains why Munich is currently one of the most expensive cities in Germany when it comes to energy - but there was no need for price brakes. A conversation about the need to save gas and energy projections for 2023.Interviewed by Anna Hoben and Catherine HoffmannSZ: Mr. Bieberbach, are you glad that the past year with its upheavals in the energy market is over? source site
Florian Bieberbach explains why Munich is currently one of the most expensive cities in Germany when it comes to gas, electricity and district heating - and why the government's price brakes still didn't need it. A conversation about the high yields of the SWM wind farms and the Isar 2 nuclear power plant as well as the energy forecasts for 2023.from Anna Hoben and Catherine HoffmannSZ: Mr. Bieberbach, are you glad that the past year with its upheavals in the...
Price brakes for gas, district heating and electricity should relieve citizens in 2023. Exactly how it works, how much money it brings - and what else will change in energy this year.Of Andreas JalsovecExpensive gas, record high electricity prices, rising costs for heating oil and pellets - energy prices were the dominant theme last year. And they will probably be in the new year too. However, if the federal government has its way, 2023 should be a year of energy...
Interviewed by Julia SchrieverJan Rabe, 39, studied physics in Munich. "You study physics if you want to understand the world," he says. But he didn't just want to understand them, he also wanted to change them a bit. After some time in the financial sector, he worked in energy trading at an international energy company in Switzerland. He did a master’s degree in sustainable development at the University of Madrid and then founded a company with Maximilian Both to promote...
It goes on full of energy. Whether and how the EU should intervene in the electricity and gas markets was one of the most important points of contention in Brussels in recent weeks. Only shortly before Christmas, on December 19, was agreement reached on an EU gas price cap. Despite this breakthrough, the rules governing Europe's energy markets will remain a hotly debated topic. Important decisions are also pending in other areas of economic policy in the new year. An...
