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

    Planned offshore wind farms in Brazil, each expected to have a capacity of around 1.200 MW (1,2 GW), are located in the northeast, southeast and south of Brazil... * Nuclear phase-out | Green electricity | CO2 emissions analysis for green electricity providers Nuclear phase-out made electricity cleaner CO2 emissions have not increased in the year since the last three German nuclear power plants were shut down, but...

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

    will therefore be to compensate for fluctuations between electricity generation and demand, for example during the so-called dark doldrums, in which little or no solar and wind electricity is produced. In this case, green electricity is essentially stored in the form of hydrogen via electrolysis and, if necessary, “reconverted” into electricity in gas power plants. The second function, according to the EWI paper, is to increase...

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

    in the production of cement: It is not only harmful to the climate because it requires a lot of energy. The chemical process itself produces CO2, even if the entire cement plant runs on green electricity. Now you can and should try to simply use less cement: Where possible, use other building materials such as wood, recycle old building materials and, above all, renovate old buildings...

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

    just keeps running and the gas heating stays on... * Energy transition | Grid expansion Grid expansion is not making progress Delay in the energy transition costs billions Too little green electricity is produced in the south and too much in the north. But due to the slow expansion of the network, there are no lines for transporting excess electricity. The result: billions in costs - which also affect electricity prices...

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

    Hans-Josef Fell fears that funding for renewable energy expansion will collapse. The President of the Energy Watch Group calls for a return to the EEG levy financed by electricity prices and for a green electricity exchange to be created. Climate reporter°: Mr. Fell, last year there were 15 billion euros in the EEG account from which the statutory subsidies for wind power, photovoltaics and bioenergy are paid...

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

    Replacing coal-fired power plants with 100 percent renewable energy. The energy transition brings in money. Study shows that phasing out coal increases profit margins. Power plants should rely on green electricity returns. A guest post. Wind and solar energy are the fastest growing energy sources in the world and are expected to together generate twelve percent of global electricity by 2023. It...

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

    – in Europe there were several sales to Energetický a Průmyslový Holding (EPH). E.ON, in turn, founded its own new company, Uniper, to outsource its climate-damaging business. The companies examined sometimes sold nuclear power, electricity from large hydroelectric power plants, wood burning or waste incineration as green electricity. Plea for a public energy supply Also as...

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

    Strong investment activity is paying off," said Michael Müller, the DAX company's CFO, on Tuesday when presenting the quarterly figures. The company has invested in green electricity - more than ten billion euros have flowed into green energies since the beginning of the year. For example, in the purchase of one US solar park operator, a British solar park developer or in their own wind and solar systems...

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

    "We want to raise a double-digit million sum in the next one to two years," said Thorsten Jörß, head of photovoltaics project development. With battery storage, green electricity can be fed into the grid more flexibly and independently of weather-related fluctuations: namely, not only when due to According to good wind or sun conditions, a lot...

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

    Uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere... Translation with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** FDP | Industrial electricity price | Green electricity | Electricity tax FDP proposal for relief from industrial electricity prices is spot on 2024 could be the big year for green electricity in Germany. All you have to do is - surprise - listen to the liberals...

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

    used. In addition, the new technology eliminates the use of cobalt, which is problematic for both the environment and people... * Energy transition | Electricity prices | Green electricity Green and cheap: Three companies that are shaking up the electricity market Green electricity is the key to the success of the energy transition. But there are currently too few of them and they are too expensive. Or...

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

    A revolution is needed to curb the global climate crisis in a relatively mild manner. Better: Many revolutions. For fossil-free buildings, for net-zero traffic, for 100 percent green electricity, for a clean industry and for natural agriculture. The German share in the necessary global halving of emissions must be large and growing... * Health |...

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

    to be resumed in August... * Network charges | 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. The energy goes on a large scale to the southern federal states. Bremen – The anger over renewable energies continues into the next...

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

    Billion people, four times as many as in the USA. The climate footprint of an average American is significantly larger than that of a Chinese... * Fossils dress up with green electricity and drive up the price of offshore wind Licenses auctioned Oil companies pounce on offshore wind In the latest tenders for wind farms See, well-funded...

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

    become. While the nuclear power plants are still being planned, new offshore wind farms will go into operation in France in 2023 after a relatively short construction period and produce electricity... * Electricity price | Green electricity | Power consumption | Electricity mix Less green electricity, but a larger share in the grid. Thanks primarily to lower electricity consumption, green electricity reached new record levels in the electricity mix in the first half of the year....

  16. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    Future electricity system Sun in the basement A more decentralized power supply with storage makes up to 30 percent more renewable energy possible in the network. According to a study, network overloads, which result in green electricity having to be "thrown away", can then be avoided much better. The sun has power: In June, for example, solar energy took over a large part of the...

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

    for green hydrogen production. The Danish financial investor Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and the insurance group Allianz want to build two artificial energy islands for green electricity and green hydrogen in the North Sea off Germany. The companies have submitted corresponding applications to the Federal Office for the two projects “North Sea Energy Land” and “Dogger Energy Island”.

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

    “finally bury” the planned gas purchase in Senegal. The Development Ministry in Berlin stated that gas production would neither be financed nor supported through JETP... * Australia | Green electricity | Oil and gas heating banned 100 percent green electricity in Canberra: Oil and gas heating is now over. The Australian capital only uses clean, significantly cheaper electricity. Now...

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

    into the traction power network. For the first time, a solar power plant was built that directly feeds solar energy directly into the traction power network. 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 forecasts, the plant will have an output of 41 megawatts...

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

    simple: you just have to rely on green energy. But unfortunately it is not trivial to mobilize enough green energy. Energy experts estimate that Germany would need around 2.000 terawatt hours (TWh) of green electricity if “green growth” is to be possible. That would be around 4 times as much electricity as Germany uses today. The Federal Republic cannot completely produce these quantities. Himself...

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