1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    or to check green gas tariffs or even to temporarily set them. These include EVD Energiebedarf Dormagen, Logo Energie based in North Rhine-Westphalia and other municipal utilities. Stadtwerke Oberursel wants to go even further and is considering legal steps, as the company tells CORRECTIV: “We are checking whether we...

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    When you turn into the Leipzig Süd thermal power plant, you pass a meter-high poster. It advertises the plant as “the first fully hydrogen-capable power plant.” In October 2023, Stadtwerke Leipzig opened the power plant under a bright blue sky. They pride themselves as pioneers in the energy transition, telling the German Press Agency that by 2025 green hydrogen will be “in the...

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

    | Future Gas campaign against controversial gas association: Wave of resignations from lobby association Critics accuse the “Future Gas” association of working against the heat transition. Dozens of municipal utilities are canceling their memberships. BERLIN taz | The campaign by several organizations to withdraw municipal utilities from the fossil fuel lobby group “Zukunft Gas” is apparently successful. Since August 2022...

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

    electricity prices. RWE benefited financially from the energy crisis. The Essen-based energy multinational no longer supplies households, but sales to large customers or on the electricity exchange - for example to municipal utilities and large customers - were very lucrative. And that's not just because of the coal-fired power plants. CFO Michael Müller calculates: "Last year, 35 percent of our electricity came from...

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

    Electricity costs in Bavaria did not increase last year. “The nuclear phase-out has no price impact at all on the electricity market,” said Norbert Zösch, managing director of Stadtwerke Haßfurt, on Thursday in the environmental committee of the Bavarian state parliament. From an economic point of view, nuclear power plants even have the highest production costs, it was also said in the statement from...

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

    German natural gas industry. The major energy companies are members of the association: Shell, Total, Wintershall Dea, Evonik, EnBW, Equinor, Uniper and the Gazprom subsidiary Wingas. 70 German municipal utilities also pay membership fees. “Germany is expected to emit a total of 217 million tons of carbon dioxide this year without endangering the global climate. But this amount had already been paid by March 28th...

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

    to build a nuclear power plant consisting of six modules with an output of 77 megawatts each in a research center near Idaho Falls. This total of 462 megawatts was intended to supply energy to municipal utilities in Arizona, Idaho, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. It was a showcase project of small nuclear reactors, known as Small...

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

    if not even into a third world war, which would also endanger Israel's survival, its security and existence... News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** Climate change | Public utilities | Lobby association for municipal utilities withdraws from lobby association for the future of gas. Municipal utilities are committed to the common good. Nevertheless, dozens pay high contributions to the natural gas lobby association Zukunft Gas....

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

    Researchers have determined that up to 4.700 tons of lithium can be extracted from this annually... September 6th Wind energy | District heating | Power-to-Heat Power-to-Heat system of the Rostocker Stadtwerke inaugurated The Rostocker Stadtwerke put a so-called power-to-heat system into operation in the Marienehe district on Wednesday. This is intended to convert wind energy into district heating. With help of a...

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

    Distribution networks paid. Should this – like today – only be the consumers in the relevant network area? Or do you want to pass the costs on to all consumers nationwide? Then customers of municipal utilities who have no or hardly any wind turbines in their network would also pay for the expansion of the infrastructure in other parts of Germany through their network fees. The head of the Federal Network Agency...

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

    have now combined this battery technology with alkaline water electrolysis and thus developed the new type of “double storage”... * Natural gas | LNG | Gas Lobby Exit Now: How municipal utilities are rebelling against the powerful gas lobby German gas companies have gained influence in the wake of the Russia sanctions. But criticism is growing, and some municipal utilities are leaving the “Future...

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

    However, when asked by taz, Frondel distance themselves from the number... * Brake energy price | Electricity price | Gas price energy supply in Radevormwald SWR. implements the energy price caps The municipal utilities pass on the financial relief from the price caps to the customers. These should reach customers as quickly as possible. The fact that energy is now a very expensive commodity has...

  13. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    Because the contribution from the reactors is negligible, there is no call from the energy industry for an extension. “Because the systems are old, they are geared towards dismantling.”... * Stadtwerke | Gas lobby | CORRECTIV Natural gas: How municipal utilities finance the gas lobby Municipal utilities finance the work of the influential lobby association Zukunft Gas. How much money they give to the...

  14. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2023

    from Lingen to Russia against EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th News+ Municipal utilities withdraw from the Future Gas lobby association ** Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st News+ For a new concept of fascism ** Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th News+ India: Flood...

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

    15.000 photovoltaic modules will be installed every year. These are expected to be in use by 2025 and will then be the largest solar system in Berlin. The trade fair and the Berliner Stadtwerke stated that the area was the equivalent of around seven football fields. By 2035, Berlin wants to generate a quarter of its electricity with solar energy. The planned project would, according to...

  16. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    holds. That gas-fired power generation can be completely switched off... As FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner is currently calling for... ... that is a dream that no one should seriously have. Especially in the municipal utilities, we have gas power plants that fulfill an important dual function: they supply electricity and heat in winter. If we turn them off, we lose both. It will not work....

  17. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2019

    worth 380 million euros October 02, 2019 - Federal government divests investments in nuclear power plants abroad *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Better that way! A few years ago, some municipal utilities invested a lot of their customers' money in nuclear power plants... September 29, 2019 - Municipal utilities buy solar parks all over Germany * September 25, 2019 - Turkey issues building permit for Akkuyu-2 *...

  18. THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014

    to become. A commissioning date is no longer mentioned. It is expected that the costs will ultimately rise from 2 billion euros to 3 billion. Hammer Stadtwerke has already made provisions because they will be “asked” to pay in any case. – All of this is a template for broad and committed criticism of the use of...

  19. THTR Circular No. 143 June 14

    Specific activity with radioactive substances: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktivit%C3%A4t_%28Physik%29 *** Hamm coal-fired power plant: Breakdown in the head and in Block D Top of page What happens if 23 municipal utilities meet the energy policy requirements implemented by RWE and Co can be seen in the series of breakdowns at the D coal-fired power plant in Hamm-Uentrop. Stadtwerke Hamm alone will have to spend 25 million euros in the next...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 142 December 2013

    1. 2006) did not encounter any significant resistance from established politics in 2005. Today, RWE and the 23 municipal utilities (including Hamm) that form the GEKKO (joint coal power plant) are faced with a shambles of their failed energy policy. As early as December 2010, the media reported that the construction of the two two billion euro...

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