Tag: power companies
Green Electricity Atlas: Those who make sacrifices should pay less
A regionalization of electricity prices is a sensible instrument: as an incentive for local politicians, to appease local people and for industrial settlement policy. source site
Green Electricity Atlas: Give people with wind turbines in front of their noses cheap electricity
A regionalization of electricity prices is a sensible instrument: as an incentive for local politicians, to appease local people and for industrial settlement policy. source site
Why Uniper and Sefe pay their retailers millions in bonuses – Economy
Six months ago, the federal government had to save the two gas importers from bankruptcy with amounts in the double-digit billions. But the energy traders who work for the Uniper…
Electricity company: RWE is digging, but no longer wants to burn – economy
It was a lucrative but also a turbulent year for the power company RWE. In Lützerath there were bitter protests against the fact that the abandoned village south of Mönchengladbach…
Eon boss has trouble with district heating and complains about the nuclear phase-out
Leonard Birnbaum gets enthusiastic when he talks about this power plant. It is “one of the safest, most productive and best systems in the world,” says the CEO of the…
Habeck examines further electricity nationalization – economy
Germany’s power grid in public hands? Robert Habeck (Greens) would not mind. Where there are natural monopolies, because there is only one power grid and not several, the “public sector…
Electricity market – grid fees almost stable – Economy
Despite significantly higher costs for stabilizing the electricity grid, the corresponding tariffs could remain stable in the coming year. The operators of the four German transmission grids reported a provisional…
Bavaria: Töging hydroelectric power station goes into operation – Bavaria
Almost exactly a year ago, the last turbines in the listed hydroelectric power plant in Töging am Inn in Upper Bavaria slowly ran out. Since then, the plant, which had…
EU countries support radical plans for the electricity market – Economy
The EU governments want more flexibility in the planned measures against high electricity prices. Otherwise, however, they are mostly in agreement with the EU Commission’s draft law. This emerges from…
High electricity prices: EU wants to skim off profits from energy companies – Politics
The recently sharp rise in electricity prices brings some companies high revenues. Similar to the federal government, the Commission is now planning to collect these so-called random prizes and pass…