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

    like every functioning state, to protect its own population from terror. Open letter The debate about the war in Gaza has hit a headline... * South Korea | Solar cells | Investments The South Koreans are coming From dream cells to floating systems: solar companies from South Korea show how to compete with China. Now they also want to enter the German market...

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

    100% renewable energies to 100% free of fossil fuels" is changed... Translation with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Switzerland | Transport policy | Local transport Investments in Deutsche Bahn: It's worth taking a look at Switzerland Generous invest in rails, forego complicated tariffs and stay on the carpet: Swiss Railways is doing it to DB...

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

    Already exceeded in 2012 As of the end of August 2023, over 700.000 solar systems with an output of 9.200 MW have already gone into operation in Germany... * Renewables | Electricity generation | Investments Renewable energies cover more than half of electricity consumption. Wind and solar supplied five percent more electricity than in the previous year. Photovoltaic systems in particular are making an increasingly...

  4. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    and cynically used the opportunity to entice governments to make massive, unnecessary investments in the expansion of fossil gas imports and infrastructure following the energy supply problems caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The floating LNG terminal with a length of 280 meters finally reached the port. It was actually supposed to be on...

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

    for agri-PV, parking lot PV, floating PV and moorland PV instead of forcing them into crippling tenders that are hostile to citizens' energy. Introduction of incentives for local system-serving investments with a mix of all renewable energies, storage and sector coupling. A combined cycle power plant tariff could achieve this. This is the only way the political will can be implemented:...

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

    It says record profits in order to continue exploiting climate-damaging oil and gas reserves in the future. Last year, the twelve companies examined together put 93 percent of their investments into fossil fuel projects and only seven percent into renewable energies... August 23 Fascism Dealing with fascism: In addition to reason How to deal with political paranoia? Because this too...

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

    At the same time, the plundering of resources and the ecological burden on our planet would be somewhat reduced. The human contribution to global warming would decline. Investments and money could also be saved: airports would no longer have to be expanded for a longer period of time, the number of deep-sea freighters on the seas and the number of trucks in long-distance transport would no longer have to be increased...

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

    at least helps to delegitimize nuclear weapons. He even led dozens of major financial institutions to stop investing in the nuclear weapons industry under pressure from campaigns like Don't Bank on the Bomb. In reality, the situation couldn't be simpler: we must abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us. It remains to be hoped that...

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

    Lawsuits that the BGH now had to decide on. In the first case, 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...

  10. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    thematised. “The coming years will be crucial in Germany and Europe for the question of whether the hydrogen ramp-up will succeed on a large scale and whether an environment for innovation and investment will be created. We should therefore have a European market design debate – similar to the one we have with electricity and natural gas,” said BDEW CEO Kerstin Andreae... *...

  11. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    Wärmeplanung allerdings dafür Sorge tragen, dass er die 65-Prozent-Verpflichtung einhält... * CORRECTIV | Klimawandel | Pensionsfonds Schmutzige Rente: Klimaschützer wissen nichts von ihren Investitionen in Gas und Öl Wer sein Geld in Pensionsfonds steckt, läuft Gefahr, von klimaschädlichen Konzernen auch in Deutschland zu profitieren – unbewusst. Eine internationale Recherche unter Leitung von...

  12. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    Newsletter XXIV 2023 June 11th to 17th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a non-exhaustive list of known incidents and releases of radioactivity... Excerpt for this month: June 04th, 2008 (INES 0 class?) Krsko nuclear power plant, SVN June 06th, 2008 (INES 1) nuclear power plant...

  13. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    Vereinbarung mit Namibia Eine "globale Blaupause für grünen Wasserstoff" In Namibia soll mit deutscher Beteiligung ein Megaprojekt für die globale Energiewende entstehen. Geplant sind Investitionen in Höhe des jährlichen Bruttoinlandsprodukts des Landes. Auch Jobgarantien sollen Sorgen vor einem "grünen Kolonialismus" zerstreuen. Aufschwung mit Wasserstoff statt Diamanten? In einem Nationalpark...

  14. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    Many people who heat their home with oil heating are full of concern and ask themselves: “Will I still be able to get cheap oil heating or will I now have to prepare for enormous investments?” Which heating system can still be installed in my house after 2024?”... * Climate change | climate-damaging industry | Pension funds How civil servant pensions are fueling the climate crisis Ten of...

  15. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    fuel the LNG boom German banks have co-financed growing gas exports from the USA with billions of euros since the beginning of 2022, shows a new report from environmental organizations. Fossil investments are damaging the climate and also violating Germany's international obligations. Part 2 of the LNG series. In the last ten years it has been mainly banks from Japan, Canada, the...

  16. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    200 companies from various industries that want to pay particular attention to energy saving and climate protection. “The draft for the Efficiency Act does not provide sufficient planning security for investments,” said its boss Christian Noll... * EU Parliament | deforestation | Rainforest measure against deforestation: wood, coffee, oil: EU tightens import rules Chocolate, furniture, coffee - many products...

  17. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Preliminary products for the chemical-pharmaceutical industry were outsourced years ago to countries with less stringent environmental regulations and low energy prices, and investments in new production facilities are currently going directly to the USA due to the generous subsidies. Evonik is building a new plant in the United States to produce so-called pharmaceutical lipids....

  18. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    auch der Wasserstoff heißen dürfen, der mithilfe von Atomstrom hergestellt wurde. Besser wäre ein Ausbau der Erneuerbaren. Die EU ist bei dem Wort „grün“ bekanntermaßen flexibel. Viele Investitionen in Erdgas und Atomkraft darf man als grün verkaufen, so hat die EU es im vergangenen Jahr in ihrer sogenannten Taxonomie für nachhaltige Finanzen festgeschrieben, den vielen Treibhausgasemissionen...

  19. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    TotalEnergies and a consortium made up of the companies Ineos and Wintershall Dea have left, the Danish Climate Ministry announced on Monday. This means that work could begin immediately... * Investments, expansion | Renewable energies Electricity generation in particular costs Germany needs 600 billion euros for a rapid energy transition The pace of expansion of renewable energies is lagging in Germany...

  20. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    In their opinion, this is particularly true for smaller systems installed by individual farmers. “However, it appears much more likely that local farms will be able to make the necessary investments for small systems in the range of a few hundred kilowatts rather than for large systems of one megawatt or more,” say the researchers... * Moral | Tanks, fighter jets, missiles, nuclear weapons...

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