1. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    Wilfried Schmickler say... * Czech Republic | EDF | KHNP | Dukovany Westinghouse does not deliver - Prague speculates on volume discounts for new nuclear power plants The Czech Republic launched a tender for another nuclear power plant at the Dukovany site in March 2022. The procedure is carried out by the CEZ Group, which is majority owned by the Czech state...

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

    from Rouen. In Paluel, four pressurized water reactors with an output of 1.382 MW each generate electricity, which went into operation between 1984 and 1986... January 31st Funding | Photovoltaics | Tender for solar boom Bidding record in state photovoltaic tender Solar energy is apparently attractive for many investors: According to the Federal Network Agency, in the most recent round of tenders...

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

    The foundations have been laid for significantly faster expansion. At the end of the year, approved wind turbines with a combined nominal output of 7.000 megawatts were accepted in the tenders. Although this is not yet enough to achieve the desired target of over 12.000 megawatts, it is significantly more than in the past five years, where an average of only 2.680 megawatts...

  4. 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”

    Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) confirms that it will embark on the procurement of 2500 MWe of new nuclear power capacity and will issue tenders by March 2024. The National Energy Regulatory Authority of South Africa (NERSA) has said that the DMRE can proceed with the procurement process after issuing a series of "deferring...

  5. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    from Namibia to Europe this will be a big problem. Bertchen Kohrs, chairman of Earthlife Namibia, criticized the haste, incomplete tenders and the lack of transparency with which the hydrogen project was to be carried out in cooperation with the ruling party Swapo: "The Namibian population was astonished bumped...

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

    12,35 dollar cents per kilowatt hour, the other half is paid according to market prices. Isn't nuclear power far too expensive for Turkey? But! Nuclear power is incredibly expensive. In the solar and wind energy tenders, the winning companies offered between 2 and 3 cents per kWh and even less. The guaranteed purchase price for Akkuyu is 12,35...

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

    wants to attract," reports a representative of a Korean company based in Germany, who does not want to be named. "We were only recently invited to submit a concept for a tender." The funding is not as generous as in the USA, where Around half of the costs of a development project would be borne by the state. "But it is...

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

    fell victim to austerity pressure. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which reports to the Federal Ministry of Finance, launched the call for tenders for the planned program in 2021 via the “Bundal Information Technology Center” (ITZ Bund). It is entitled “Renewal of the FIU information network”. According to documents that are available, the ITZ Bund started the proceedings on January 1...

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

    Large corporations have now started an initiative to make shipping more climate-friendly. The companies, including Amazon, Ikea, Levi's, Nike and Tchibo, launched a tender for the transport of 600.000 standard containers on ships that run on zero-emission fuels. According to the initiators, this corresponds to a...

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

    Meisel. “For anyone watching these videos, the unfollow button won't be far away.” * United Kingdom | Energy transition | Offshore | Cost increase Slow energy transition British tender for offshore wind farms ends without a bid By 2050, Great Britain wants to almost triple its electricity production on the high seas. But during a tender for subsidized wind farms...

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

    be deleted. A fixed feed-in tariff should be introduced for agricultural 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...

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

    than that of a Chinese... * Fossils dress up with green electricity and drive up the price for offshore wind Licenses auctioned Oil companies pounce on offshore wind Capital-rich energy companies prevailed in the most recent tenders for wind farms at sea. The billions in proceeds from the licenses show that marine wind turbines can become a lucrative business. One...

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

    BP and Total Energies are pushing into the electricity business: auction of German offshore areas brings in billions Bonn - The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has announced the results of the offshore wind energy tenders for areas that have not been centrally pre-inspected for the bidding deadline of June 1, 2023. The contracts go to the British BP and the French Total Energies, two oil companies...

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

    Research program focused on changing solar radiation is emphasized. The publication is simply fulfilling a mandate from Congress. * Photovoltaics | Tender Solar Tender for PV systems on buildings and noise barriers as of June 1, 2023 oversubscribed Bonn - The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has published the results of the latest tender for...

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

    on the economic viability of the planned energy island, which is intended to bundle the electricity from numerous offshore wind turbines and transport it to Europe. That is why the decision on the tenders for the project has now been postponed, as the Climate and Energy Ministry in Copenhagen announced. The goal is to expand the offshore wind potential of the North Sea with energy islands...

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

    to supply appropriate tank ammunition. The Leopard tanks that Germany delivered to Ukraine could also potentially fire the British uranium ammunition... * Renewable | Tender Solar | Federal Network Agency Solar Tender: Sufficient bids received again Never in the history of solar tenders in Germany have so many bids been received...

  17. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    Uranium Atlas shows. Electricity from wind power can currently be generated for 2 dollar cents per kilowatt hour, solar power between 1 and 1,7 dollar cents. These figures come from the most recent renewable energy tenders in Turkey. The current state purchase guarantees for renewable energies in Turkey are much lower than the guarantee provided by the Russian state-owned company...

  18. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    about affordable energy supplies and the experience that power outages were expected in Tokyo during this summer's heatwave... *** December 21st Coal | CO2 | Climate footprint | Tender for greenhouse gas emissions: Coal boom ruins climate balance The energy crisis is making itself felt in Germany's energy industry. For the first time in a long time, it is recording increasing...

  19. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    removed and was able to uncover the uranium ore with little effort. But this mining has contaminated vast areas and contaminated groundwater... * United States | Offshore Wind | Tender California leases seabed for the development of floating offshore wind farms After Scotland, the USA has now also awarded the first contracts for large commercial floating offshore wind farms....

  20. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    that the problem of nuclear waste would be solved “in a few years”. But so far there are only dangerous and temporary “intermediate camps” in the world... *** December 28th Federal Network Agency | Tenders | Expansion of Wind Solar Potential wind power turbo: Building wind turbines should become more lucrative The Federal Network Agency has clearly set the maximum values ​​for tenders for onshore wind energy...

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