1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - News+ April 14th - Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    der Grünen führen Förderprogramme eher zum Ziel. Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium arbeite schon daran. Osgyan: "Daran sollte Bayern sich ein Beispiel nehmen." * Beteiligung | Strompreis | Windkraft Niedersachsen startet Windenergie-Ausbau: Ausgleichszahlungen für Anwohner Niedersachsen will mehr Windräder aufstellen. Um die Akzeptanz zu erhöhen, sollen die Betreiber Kommunen und Anwohner...

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

    steigt. Solarpaket und Klimaschutzgesetz sind gekoppelt So warnte der Energiebranchenverband BDEW am Donnerstag in ziemlich scharfem Ton: Beschließt der Bundestag die im Solarpaket vorgesehene Windkraft-Regelung für Beschleunigungsgebiete jetzt nicht, kann die Gesetzgebung nicht mehr in der von der EU gesetzten Frist bis zum 21. Mai abgeschlossen werden. In dem Zusammenhang nannte es BDEW-Chefin...

  3. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    MPs complained that these protests were putting the police under "sustained pressure". Maybe that's the point of the protests. * Renewable | Electricity generation | Wind energy Wind power was the most important source of electricity generation in 2023. Almost a third of the electricity generated in Germany came from wind power in 2023. According to the Federal Statistical Office, this is due to more capacity - and less...

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

    About renewable energies Last year, Lower Saxony covered its entire electricity consumption with renewable energies for the first time. The Ministry of the Environment wants to further promote the expansion of wind turbines. In total, around 2023 terawatt hours of electricity were generated in 50,8 by wind power, solar systems or biogas. According to the Ministry of the Environment, 50,5...

  5. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    | Emissions | Wind and solar For the first time, more wind than gas in Europe's energy mix. Less demand and more wind and solar power have reduced emissions in the EU energy sector in 2023. Europe's wind power was able to cover France's entire electricity needs. According to an analysis, emissions in the energy sector in the EU fell by the most in the European Union last year...

  6. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    Watch Group calls for a return to the EEG levy financed by electricity prices and for a green electricity exchange to be created. Climate reporter°: Mr. Fell, there were 15 billion euros in the EEG account from which the statutory subsidies for wind power, photovoltaics and bioenergy are paid last year, but at the beginning of 2024 it was no longer a billion. Why did the credit melt away so quickly? Hans Josef Fell:...

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

    in wartime... * Energy transition | Denmark | Norway | Electricity imports Energy transition: Where Germany gets most of its electricity from Energy and climate – compact: New green electricity record in 2023. Wind power on the rise, coal-fired power plants on the decline. Where most electricity imports come from. [...] In detail, the exchange with France was almost balanced, as the ISE figures show. Only 0,4...

  8. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    advanced industrial states of the West or China. Under the radar, Uruguay has now almost completely completed its transition away from fossil fuels. Nuclear physicist relies on wind power The whole thing started in the South American country around 15 years ago. At that time, oil prices skyrocketed and the state, whose energy supply came almost entirely from imported...

  9. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    They are less concerned with limiting global warming, but rather with climate protection... * Cooperation between the FDP, CDU and AfD Next dam breach in Thuringia The FDP wants to enforce an anti-wind power law with votes from the AfD and CDU. Sharp criticism comes from the Thuringian Left – and from business. BERLIN taz | On Friday, the CDU and FDP could meet in the Thuringian state parliament...

  10. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    remains “the great, global challenge of our time,” emphasized Scholz. But there are already all the necessary means to meet this challenge. "The technologies are there: wind power, photovoltaics, electric drives, green hydrogen." Germany is pressing ahead with these developments. "As a successful industrial country, we want to live and work climate-neutrally by 2045."...

  11. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    Survey by the same company found that only 19 percent of people see nuclear power as a solution to energy dependence, while 71 percent are in favor of solar energy and 64 percent are in favor of wind power. Comparable surveys have been carried out for years: in 2011, the market research institute IPSOS found that 71 percent of people in Turkey are against nuclear energy. There would be no...

  12. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    “EcoTerraZero saves 70 tons of CO2,” calculates entrepreneur Metten: “In order to bind this amount in one year, you would need 5600 fully grown beech trees.”... November 14th Siemens | Guarantee | Wind power 7,5 billion euros guarantee: Federal government gives Siemens a helping hand Siemens Energy is in crisis. The energy technology group negotiated with the federal government for a long time about possible help. Now the government has...

  13. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    has now won nine US cases after three lost cases. It was only on Monday that the group announced that it wanted to challenge the two previous defeats... * Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Wind power | Lawsuits for failure to act Many lawsuits for failure to act by wind power companies in MV If, in the opinion of applicants, authorities dawdle excessively, they can be sued, for example by...

  14. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    meet. After the October 7 massacre, there is no room for a balanced approach. Hamas must be wiped from the face of the earth! Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen * Wind power | EU Commission | Wind energy expansion EU Commission is boosting the European wind industry with immediate measures Since the expansion of wind energy in the EU has so far lagged behind the targets, the Commission has...

  15. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    At the federal press conference, Wagenknecht will give a "clear outlook" on the founding of the party for which the association is supposed to serve, as it is said... * Bavaria | Renewable | Wind power Renewable energies: State forests plan to build 500 wind turbines in Bavaria There are differences in the coalition when it comes to expanding wind power: CSU Forestry Minister Kaniber says FW boss Aiwanger should...

  16. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    would relieve pressure and restore national unity. Shortly before the attack, Netanyahu had assured that there was no threat from the Gaza Strip... * Bavaria | Baden-Württemberg | Wind power Expansion of wind power in southern Germany: Söder misses the energy transition The expansion of wind power is making progress. But it cannot be the case that Bavaria and the green-governed Baden-Württemberg...

  17. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    Schäffler this Monday about the agreement in the traffic light coalition on basic child security... * Offshore | Baltic Sea | North Sea | Sea areas Competition for sea areas Double blow with wind power at sea Everyone wants to go to or across the sea: the LNG industry, shipping companies, the navy, fishermen and sailors. Offshore wind power is now also competing for the increasingly scarce space, so far primarily with...

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

    – 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 fact check. Bavaria's...

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

    Niger and other regions of the world through 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 electricity prices. The President of the Federal Network Agency wants to change that. His suggestion:...

  20. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    August 2nd Pinwheel | CO₂ emissions | Building material Height of 1.500 meters possible Highest wooden wind turbine is more stable than steel The world's tallest wooden wind turbine is currently being built in Sweden. The wind power plant is more stable than steel for the same weight and has a negative CO₂ balance. Skara (Sweden). The Swedish start-up Modvion has developed a modular wind turbine whose tower is made of wood...

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