Status: 02/02/2023 07:34 Since the United States withdrew from the nuclear agreement in 2018, Iran has repeatedly violated the conditions. The IAEA had already determined that the degree of purity of the uranium was too high. Now a plant is said to have been secretly rebuilt. Iran has secretly converted a plant to produce highly enriched uranium, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Tehran has violated its obligation to provide information about such steps, criticized the head of...
Energy giant Shell posted record profits last year thanks to high oil and gas prices. The adjusted profit rose to 39.87 billion US dollars (36.22 billion euros), as announced by the British group. This means that the profit has roughly doubled within a year.The last quarter of the year, which was better than analysts had expected, is also partly responsible for the record profit. Thus, the dividend for the fourth quarter is a little higher than expected: Shell pays its...
The geothermal project in Gräfelfing is meeting with lively demand. More than 200 house owners are already on the list of interested parties who want to purchase geothermal energy in the future. The community receives calls and emails on a daily basis. Nevertheless, patience is required. Because even if the deep drilling is scheduled for the third quarter of 2024, the first customers will not have the heat delivered to their homes until the second half of 2025.The municipality of...
District heating customers at Eon sometimes have to pay exorbitant prices. They accuse the group of enriching themselves at their expense. The consumer advice centers are now considering taking legal action.from Thomas OechsnerAt the beginning, when Eon significantly increased the deduction for district heating for the first time, everything was fine for Susanne Rauth. "It won't be that bad, we'll manage it, we thought at the time," she says. She and her husband should pay 31 euros more per month...
The financial relief for households that heat with oil, pellets, liquid gas or coal is not progressing. What is wrong - and why there is already help in Berlin.Households that heat with heating oil, pellets, coal or liquid gas will probably have to wait a while longer for state support for heating costs. The reason: the federal and state governments have not yet agreed on how the aid will work in practice. This requires an agreement between the federal and...
from Caspar Busse and Björn FinkeIt is a company of sad superlatives: the energy supplier Uniper reported at the end of 2022 that a loss of more than 40 billion euros was expected for the first nine months of last year. Even if the company surprisingly announced on Wednesday afternoon that business is going better again and losses will be lower - it's a disaster. The culprits are the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gazprom's freeze on gas supplies - and...
Berlin - With the exit from nuclear and coal-fired power generation, Germany could change from a net exporter to an importer of electricity in a few years. The Federal Network Agency states this in a new report. Because of its move away from nuclear power and climate-damaging forms of electricity generation, Germany will increasingly depend on supplies from other countries to avoid blackouts, the report published on Wednesday said, covering the period 2025 to 2031. "The calculations show that Germany...
Is there enough electricity to cover the growing demand in the medium term? The network agency and the government are confident. But to avoid bottlenecks, a lot of speed is needed. By Hans Joachim Vieweger. more Read the message at www.tagesschau.desource site
Can the 1.5 degree target still be reached? According to a Hamburg research team, that depends primarily on ten social factors - and things don't look good everywhere. source site
Status: 02/01/2023 10:59 a.m It is darker at night in cities and it stays cooler in many workplaces: the implementation of the federal energy saving regulations in German cities and municipalities is having an effect. Where and how is it saved? According to their own statements, cities and communities in Germany are benefiting noticeably from the federal energy saving regulations: the specifications for heating in public buildings, for hot water supply and for illuminating monuments have been implemented "very comprehensively"...
