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    The depreciation periods for these systems last decades. If you wanted to write them off in a few years - as is common in many industries - the electricity prices and network fees would not be affordable for consumers and industry. For new power plants - whether renewable or conventional - stable and reliable frame and...

  2. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Statistics from the Federal Network Agency. All electricity consumers pay the costs of compensating curtailed power producers and replacing them with other power plants through the network fees. In total, a good 2023 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity were lost in 19 due to grid bottlenecks. For comparison: This corresponds to around four percent of Germany's total electricity generation. There were...

  3. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    However, in the years before the Russian attack on Ukraine, electricity prices were higher. Electricity currently costs an average of around 31 cents per kilowatt hour in the new tariffs. The rising network fees will increase the price of electricity by several cents per kilowatt hour in 2024. As long as you have a price guarantee, your provider cannot pass on higher network fees to you. In the future there will be more...

  4. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    for the planned offshore wind lines will amount to a further 2045 billion euros by 160. All costs are written off over decades and are incorporated into the network fees via the electricity bill. If the network expansion progresses, the billions in costs for the so-called redispatch should one day also disappear. This means, among other things, the regulation of wind turbines... *...

  5. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    to find out. Climate reporter°: Ms. Osmanoglu, at the beginning of the year there were increasing reports of rising energy costs due to expiring price controls, the loss of state subsidies for network fees and a generally higher price level than before the war against Ukraine. What do your forecasts say about the burdens on citizens in 2024? Aysel Osmanoglu: The IW, the Institute of...

  6. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    Future Gas has persuaded the public that gas is climate-friendly. In terms of their balance sheet, natural gas power plants can even be more harmful to the climate than coal blocks... * Electricity price | Federal budget | Network fees No subsidy for network fees Electricity is only cheap on the exchange and from the roof. The network authority and large electricity producers are predicting rising electricity prices in 2024, especially for millions...

  7. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    They are dramatic, around 20 percent in the past few months. In view of the weakening economy and high energy prices, the industry once again called for a reduction in electricity taxes and network fees. Overall, this is initially more important than an industrial electricity price, said the head of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Siegfried Russwurm, on ARD. "This works for everyone...

  8. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    “We will realize this – namely the construction of a new interim storage facility based on the current state of science and technology,” explained Matthias Eickhoff from the Münsterland Action Alliance Against Nuclear Facilities. * Network fees | Wind power Bavaria | Kini Jödler Dispute over electricity tariffs: Are electricity price zones poison? Different tariffs in the north and south are damaging the industry, some claim - rightly so? A cool...

  9. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    The Nuclear Free Future Award reveals numerous other facts about the environmental destruction of Niger and other regions of the world caused by uranium mining... * Wind energy | Federal Network Agency | Network fees Proposal from the Federal Network Agency Lower electricity prices for wind power regions? Wind energy comes primarily from the north. But the northern federal states do not benefit from cheaper...

  10. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    Problem. It was sabotaged there for a long time. So networks are needed to bring cheap wind power from northern Germany. And that's exactly why people in northern Germany pay particularly high network fees. Bavaria and Co are slowing down the energy transition, making it expensive and making others pay for it too? Anyone who sabotages the energy transition and climate protection should at least bear the costs... *...

  11. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    Costs and a smaller space requirement, the Aeromine system should generate around 50 percent more electricity than a comparable solar system, say the manufacturers... * Energy price | Cost explosion | Grid fees Bright spot: From 25 to 40 billion euros - historic cost explosion for electricity networks incomprehensible Electricity and gas prices are rising rapidly in Germany. Now comes another...

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