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

    Scholz appeals to the almost 200 countries that will be deliberating in Dubai until mid-December to get involved in the energy transition... * World Climate Conference | COP28 120 countries want to triple electricity production from renewable energy sources At the World Climate Conference in the United Arab Emirates, numerous countries joined the plan to increase their electricity production from renewable energy...

  2. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    and inhumane projects (e.g. nuclear power plants) that are planned and implemented from above. The FZ Jülich is therefore left with the preliminary decision on the “suitability of land areas for renewable energies and hydrogen infrastructure” as well as the assessment of the “socio-political context and development opportunities”. The five-person national project group will...

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

    This personality damages the credibility of the UN climate conference because there is a conflict of interest. That shouldn't have been allowed. Al-Jaber says openly that the future lies not in renewables, but in emission-free energies. He wants to continue using fossil energy sources, and the CO2 will apparently be miraculously stored somewhere. It will be like this...

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

    magic to avoid the debt brake. It is likely to particularly affect energy transition projects whose financing is now in jeopardy. It's about such central things as promoting the expansion of renewable energy, building a charging infrastructure for electric cars, renovating the ailing Deutsche Bahn or natural climate protection, for example by restoring moors. [...] The...

  5. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    USA November 30, 1975 (INES 5) Sosnowy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de November 11th Renewables | Electricity price | CO2 price Less dependent on gas Renewable energies should reduce electricity prices The expansion of renewable energy in Germany is not making as much progress as hoped. This would...

  6. 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

    From all over the world, in an open letter to the president of this year's climate conference, Sultan Al-Jaber, are calling for a quick and fair exit from coal, oil and natural gas. Renewable energies should be expanded as quickly as possible. Three health organizations from Germany have also signed. The reason: Fossil energies pose a massive threat to...

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

    The Wind Power Action Plan includes, among other things, an acceleration of approval processes and better access to financing options for companies. The EU wants to increase the share of renewable energies in the electricity mix to at least 2030 percent by 42,5. This requires a massive expansion of renewable energies. In the wind energy sector, the installed capacity should...

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

    Draft program. 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 | Renewables | 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...

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

    The EU wants to buy an additional 2030 billion cubic meters of LNG per year from the USA by 50. This corresponds to a third of the amount of natural gas that Europe received from Russia in 2020... * Renewables | Solar cells | Monument protection Solar systems and monument protection: There is a dispute about the energy transition in Salzwedel A solidarity-based cooperative wants to renovate houses in Salzwedel and...

  10. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    published their written agreement on the policy - the so-called Tidö Agreement. Regarding energy, the agreement states that the energy policy target will be changed "from 100% renewable energy to 100% fossil fuel free"... Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Switzerland | Transport policy | Local transport investments in...

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

    There is still too little of it and it is too expensive. Or not? Three companies that prove the opposite. Berlin – The energy transition in Germany depends largely on the expansion of capacities for renewable electricity. Solar and wind are the main sources of green electricity, but hydropower and biomass also play a role. The Federal Government's hope: By expanding the...

  12. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    Lüderitz was given the nickname "Lieutenfritz" early on... * Fossil fuels receive subsidies for even more CO2 emissions Scandal: 70 billion euros in tax money for fossil instead of renewable energies German state funding is higher per ton of CO2 than the emissions trading price, while renewables usually get nothing Huge amounts of money are also being spent globally on coal, gas and oil...

  13. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    but also a possible future Labor government would find it difficult to justify the costs of nuclear power plants. “95 percent of all new electricity capacity these days comes from renewable energies.” In addition, given the climate crisis, there is simply no longer any time to wait for a nuclear power plant, which, according to the government, will take 17 years to build... * Assange WikiLeaks founder: celebrities. ..

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

    Limited contribution of agriculture to climate protection Agriculture could contribute much more to climate protection than the federal government's solar package allows, says the co-inventor of the Renewable Energy Act, Hans-Josef Fell. He calls for a fixed feed-in tariff for solar power from fields and the abolition of the expansion cap. [...] The Bundestag passed this solar package in the fall...

  15. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    93% invest in fossil energies Corporations against energy transition Oil and gas multinationals as "fire accelerators" Europe's large energy companies maintain their fossil fuel business and hardly invest in renewable energies, two new analyzes show. The company strategies have little to do with the announcements that they want to become climate neutral by 2050. Global warming should be at a maximum of two degrees...

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

    out of. According to current estimates, electricity production from Olkiluoto 2 could resume on August 28th after the fault has been located and rectified... * Grid fees | Electricity price | Renewable electricity price scandal over renewable energies: Northern Germany pays, Bavaria benefits Paradox: Although most green electricity is produced here, northern Germans pay the highest electricity prices. Included...

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

    for the reform." So far, regions that rely particularly on wind power have been put under a particularly heavy financial burden. Federal states in the north - with a comparatively high production of renewable energies - currently see themselves at a disadvantage because the necessary network expansion means higher costs than in the south of Germany pay. "I don't meet any energy ministers in the federal states...

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

    to vote to avert these astronomical losses... August 4th Fossil | Subsidies | Emissions trading Germany spends 70 billion euros in tax money every year to promote fossil energy instead of renewable energy. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), subsidies for fossil energy sources in Germany are still unsustainable at 1,9 percent of economic output...

  19. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    The Irish project developer Mainstream Renewable Power demanded around 330 million euros from Germany because it saw its investments in offshore wind farms in the North Sea at risk due to changes to the Renewable Energy Act. The other two lawsuits come from the energy companies RWE and Uniper, which received 1,4 billion and several hundred million respectively from the Netherlands...

  20. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    As decades begin to crumble, Roman concrete has the ability to endure for millennia... * France | Wind turbines | Akw Penly “Dependence on nuclear energy is risky” Renewable energies in France: Fight against wind turbines France has been relying on nuclear power for decades, but President Emmanuel Macron also wants to expand renewable energies. Fishermen in...