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    realized. The depreciation periods for these systems last decades. If you wanted to write them off in a few years - as is common in many industries - the electricity prices and network fees would not be affordable for consumers and industry. For new power plants - whether renewable or conventional - stable and reliable frame and...

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

    Ensuring energy security: Countries are trying to reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels. Thirdly, nuclear energy can form a reliable anchor for electricity prices and thus ensure our competitiveness. …. Our Commission's own forecasts also show that nuclear energy will complement the majority of renewable energy sources and...

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

    Newsletter Some of the events were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    increasing problems with financing network expansion. Added to this is the fear of government regulatory intervention, which would significantly limit the achievable margins in order to prevent electricity prices from rising again. It is hardly surprising that the transmission system operators would rather sell the expansion and operation of the high and extra-high voltage networks to the federal government than do it themselves...

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

    the energy crisis Why RWE is making billions in profits Last year, the energy company RWE's profits were almost a billion euros higher than expected - also because of high electricity prices. However, the business will probably not continue like this. There were certainly unusual words that the head of the energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, said when presenting the...

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

    the authority. The government is behind schedule in expanding renewables and the electricity grid, as well as in building up so-called backup capacities. In addition, there is a lack of a concept against high electricity prices. No matter who is in government, whether a Groko is blocking the energy transition or whether parts of a traffic light government, minus especially the FDP, are finally trying to make up for decades-old backlogs - the...

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

    Arrived on the coast in the city of Gaza tomorrow. Thousands of Palestinians ran towards the vans. The army released a video that is supposed to show the onslaught... * Bayern | Electricity prices | Grid expansion experts: Nuclear phase-out has nothing to do with high electricity costs Friends of nuclear power like to emphasize how climate-friendly, clean and cheap nuclear power is. The majority of experts...

  8. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    lie... February 23rd France | Electricity price | Nuclear power Electricity price shockwave in France - third major price increase for consumers in a year Münster - While electricity prices for new contracts are steadily falling in Germany, electricity prices for consumers in France are rising rapidly to new record levels. French nuclear power will also become significantly more expensive in the future...

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

    Renewable energies elected Union and FDP, together with the right-wing radical AFD, are trying to give nuclear energy a future in Germany again. They justify this with currently high electricity prices and a weak expansion of renewable energies. The Union and the FDP have significantly hindered the expansion of renewable energies over the last ten years by working together with...

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

    Against climate protection anyway. She doesn't want to trust the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: For example, it doesn't tell us "the positive effect of CO2 on plant growth and thus on world nutrition... * Electricity prices | EEG | Electricity exchange | Federal budget "Stopping the EEG funding would be a huge loss" The dwindling EEG account could lead to a lack of tax resources to support the...

  11. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    Information in two sentences. So how much oil leaked, when and where? The nuclear industry's information policy is pure disinformation and, as always, leaves much to be desired. * Electricity prices | Electricity exchange | Cent/kWh | Wholesale IWR: Wholesale electricity prices fall in December 2023 to their lowest level since May 2021 Münster - Wholesale electricity prices in Germany have fallen over the course of the...

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

    it happened again and again. The fact that they are currently being adopted again so uncritically is evidence of a rapid loss of knowledge among the population and politics. Declarations that electricity prices will fall with nuclear energy or that the problems with nuclear waste will solve themselves are populist slogans. He hoped that society would be wise enough not to repeat old mistakes, emphasized...

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

    needed. Accordingly, it was worthless for many hours on the electricity market: for a total of 52 hours on Christmas Day, the electricity price on the exchange was negative or equal to zero. Negative electricity prices occur when either wind turbines or photovoltaic systems - sometimes both together - generate so much electricity that it can no longer be used sensibly. Then...

  14. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Newsletter LI 2023 December 17th to 23rd *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  15. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    six degrees... * EU Parliament | Electricity price | Supply chains | Reforms EU agrees on electricity market reform and supply chain law Consumers in Europe should be better protected from high electricity prices in the future. There is also a breakthrough in a uniform supply chain law - with this the EU wants to strengthen human rights worldwide. The EU has focused on two important legislative proposals...

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

    there will be even less. The fairy-tale telling saddled the nuclear company with enormous debts and it had to be nationalized. Now nuclear power prices are to be increased by 67 percent for new buildings and service life extensions. But despite all the failures like the EPR in Flamanville, France and other countries want to triple nuclear power output by 2050, completely illusory....

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

    to create CO₂ certificates, leased to the company from the Emirates for decades... * Nuclear phase-out | Renewables | Electricity price | Nuclear power Has the nuclear phase-out increased our electricity prices? And how much nuclear energy does Germany now import from abroad? The most important questions and answers about the electricity market [...] Despite the shutdown of the last three German...

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

    ensure that the price of electricity generally falls, explains electricity market expert Huneke from Agora Energiewende. This is already clear on electricity exchanges. According to experts, renewable energies will increasingly dampen electricity prices. "The more renewable energy systems with their low prices are in the electricity system, the less often expensive gas-fired power plants determine the wholesale...

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

    has not arrived: Wind power must be expanded quickly and massively, the energy transition away from fossil fuels cannot be delayed - because of the climate crisis, increasing demand and electricity prices. The fact that only six (!) wind turbines started operation in Bavaria in the first nine months of this year shows the Bavarian government's great ignorance when it comes to the climate crisis. The constant...

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

    are symptomatic of the conflicts in many regions. They could defuse so-called citizen energy parks, from which communities and residents benefit more, for example through reduced electricity prices... * CDU | CSU | AfD Fire without a Wall: The wrong path of the Söder-Merz Union If one day the history of German conservatism is assessed, the fall could...

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