1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    Wöbbelin Klage eingereicht wurde, liegt die Genehmigung inzwischen vor. Die Windräder können trotzdem nicht gebaut werden, das Verfahren beginnt von vorn. ntv.de: Sie planen und bauen Wind- und Solarparks. Wie viele davon konnten Sie bisher innerhalb von zwei Jahren in Betrieb nehmen? Thomas Banning: Bei den Windparks noch keinen. Bei 25 bis 30 Solarparks hat es bei einem geklappt. [...] Wir...

  2. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    BASF would increasingly promote the use of renewable energies as well as the development and use of CO2-free processes. In addition, the chemical company is planning, among other things, to build a solar park... * PFAS | Forever chemicals PFAS chemicals: Almost everyone is contaminated “Forever chemicals” are omnipresent and harm the cardiovascular system Urgent suspicion: Researchers...

  3. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    The Bundestag subway station was therefore closed, and there were large crowds at other subway and S-Bahn stations in the city center... * China | Solar energy | CO₂ emissions 1.700 GWh per year Gigantic solar park in China generates electricity day and night A gigantic solar park has been put into operation in China that can produce electricity day and night. The plant is expected to generate 1.700 GWh per year. Gansu...

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

    Create damage in nature. If our grandchildren still want to hear a cuckoo, we have to put an end to the further "roadkill". * China | Solar system | Desert China: Greening the desert with gigantic solar parks China is revolutionizing the use of renewable energies. A huge solar park is being built in the Kubuqi Desert, which will also enrich the environment. These are the backgrounds...

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

    by country#United_States Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) November 28 Agriculture | Open spaces | Agri-Photovoltaics How “Agri-PV” connects agriculture and solar parks Fields in Brandenburg are in great demand as areas for new solar systems. But farmers then have to decide: agriculture or energy production? So-called “Agri-PV” is intended to...

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

    ensure that Ukraine and Israel disappear from the map and that the people living there are humiliated, enslaved, abandoned and despised. * Approval for solar park delayed with bureaucratic care Lengthy processes, complex reports, complicated applications Mayor in Dieblich frustrated: Bureaucracy has been delaying planned solar park for years The...

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

    The distant small town of Elektrostal is already available, reports Umweltfairaendern.de... * Solar power | EnBW | Electricity storage Retrofitting is also being examined. EnBW is making battery storage standard in new solar parks. Solar power is an important part of the energy transition in Germany. Storing electricity is a major problem. Energy producer EnBW therefore wants to build new solar parks...

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

    above and allows fertile fields and meadows to disappear under dark solar modules. [...] In the municipality of Pronstorf near Lübeck, for example, residents defended themselves against a solar park in a referendum and achieved a temporary ban on construction. [...] These conflicts are symptomatic of the conflicts in many regions. They could defuse so-called citizen energy parks,...

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

    would be used on the territory of Ukraine," Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen wrote on Twitter... * FDP against heating law and European climate laws Culture battle over heating, solar parks with storage and the erring FDP Additional support for households without assets is necessary in the funding rules for heating replacement says Matthias Willenbacher, Managing Director of...

  10. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    The planned expansion of renewable energies requires flexibility. While small private PV systems are now usually combined with battery storage, this is the exception for large solar parks. The result is curtailments and negative market prices in phases of high production... * France | EDF | Corrosion and cracks Électricité de France France's shaky nuclear course...

  11. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    feeds in. It is a further step by the railway to want to run completely on green electricity by 2038. Enerparc has built a 40-hectare solar park for Deutsche Bahn (DB) in Wasbek in Schleswig-Holstein. According to planners' forecasts, the system will deliver around 41 gigawatts of clean solar power every year with its 38 megawatts of output. But instead of feeding it into the normal power grid,...

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

    at the Federal Network Agency as in the last auction. The increase in the maximum price has had an effect. For the first time since July 2022, a tender for market premiums for electricity from solar parks was oversubscribed. By March 1, 2023, the Federal Network Agency had received a total of 347 bids for 2.869 megawatts of solar power output. This means that the commandments exceeded the...

  13. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    Unfortunately, the West is becoming more and more... * Electricity price | Solar energy | Desert Electricity from these power plants will only cost 1 cent per kilowatt hour. New solar parks are being built in the desert at a record pace and are constantly undercutting each other in terms of electricity prices. This could lure energy-rich industries away from Europe. For e-fuels and green hydrogen, however, it is good news. Business...

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

    rejected - simply because of Oskar Lafontaine's explicit invitation to right-wing extremists. There is nothing to discuss there. Their call has nothing to do with honest pacifism... * Renewables | Solar park | Community income How a solar park finances the local daycare center The federal government's climate protection goals stipulate that the pace of expansion of renewable energies should at least be increased by 2030...

  15. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    What is important for Spain is that the expansion of renewable energies is booming again. But unlike the boom 15 years ago, when "big business" was done with massive subsidies and large solar parks on open spaces were seen as a good investment with state-guaranteed profits, private individuals are now finally benefiting from state support. [...] More and more people in the country are...

  16. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    larger than permitted The targeted expansion volume of 200 megawatts per year for open-air PV areas in RLP has already been fully utilized in 2022. And in BW the borders are so narrow that new solar parks are hardly possible. The need for solar power from open-field systems in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg is there and many farmers would like to build, but the resistance and legal...

  17. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    of almost 21 billion kWh or 14 percent (Jan-Nov 21: 147,3 billion kWh)... * Expansion of renewables | Excess profit tax | PPA Power Purchase Agreements Revenue capture delays and makes wind and solar parks more expensive Due to the planned revenue capture, eligible solar parks will collapse next year, predicts Robert Busch from the Federal Association of the New Energy Industry. New systems would not...

  18. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    are. Politicians have continued to delay and listen to the fossil fuel lobby. That's why we now have to put an emergency stop on emissions... * Renewable | Solar park | Biodivers Biodiversity The second look at solar parks Properly planned and built, a solar park can not only generate clean electricity, but also be a great enrichment for the local nature...

  19. 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

    Concept whose name made the rounds with the attacks on the gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea and on critical points in the railway infrastructure in Germany: Resilience... * Energy transition | Solar park | Citizen electricity acceptance: Citizen participation platform for solar parks IBC Solar, a leading full-service provider of solar energy solutions, will enable citizens to participate in...

  20. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    Feed-in tariffs for rooftop systems approved under state aid law. In the revised Energy Security Act, the federal government has also cleared the way for the active repowering of solar parks. There is two pieces of good news for operators of PV systems, both for the roof segment and for the open space. The EU Commission has identified three...

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