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

    die Kosten des sogenannten Redispatchs zurückgegangen: von etwa 4,2 Milliarden Euro im Jahr 2022 auf knapp 3,1 Milliarden Euro im vergangenen Jahr. Das geht aus einer aktuellen Statistik der Bundesnetzagentur hervor. Die Ausgaben für die Entschädigung abgeregelter Stromerzeuger und für den Ersatz durch andere Kraftwerke bezahlen alle Stromverbraucher über die Netzentgelte. Insgesamt gingen 2023...

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    Eco-Stor is also planning two additional large-scale storage facilities with 600 MWh in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. But in northern Germany, Bollingstedt-Gammelund would be by far the largest project currently planned, according to the Federal Network Agency's market master data register. There are further plans in Brokdorf (Steinburg district), where even 1.600 MWh have been announced in the long term. [...] In Gammelund, batteries are to be used without...

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

    between the northeast and the south of the Republic and thus the energy transition. To date, the transmission networks as well as the distribution networks have been subject to state regulation by the Federal Network Agency. If the state should now not only become a legislator, but also the owner and regulator of the transmission networks, the FDP is primarily critical of this, but they themselves have no better...

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

    – 31 of them in Novosibirsk alone... * Disinformation | agitation | Elon Musk Twitter successor: Network agency expects a long legal dispute with It also does not rule out proceedings before the ECJ. The Federal Network Agency expects a conflict with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's Platform

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

    Tender for solar boom Bidding record in state photovoltaic tender Solar energy is apparently attractive to many investors: According to the Federal Network Agency, more bids were received in the most recent round of tenders than ever before. This also has an impact on feed-in tariffs. [...] In the Federal Network Agency's most recent open space tender for funding according to...

  6. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    The spirit of the energy transition,” said Stefan Genth, managing director of the German Trade Association (HDE). Companies therefore wait up to 18 months until a connection is established. [...] According to its own information, the Federal Network Agency is in contact with the network operators. According to the authority, the number of new buildings quadrupled between 2021 and 2023. It is noteworthy that those surveyed...

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

    However, electricity is still available in Germany, even in increasing quantities - but out of reach for most customers. The days of cheap energy are over, said the President of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller, around Christmas. With the image of a passing age, the head of the authority wants to transform the cancellation of the 5,5 billion euro subsidy for network fees into a larger...

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

    Scared... * Solar systems | Tender | oversubscribed Significantly oversubscribed: Results of the tender for solar systems on buildings and noise barriers are available Bonn - The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has published the awards from the tender for solar systems on buildings and noise barriers (solar systems of the second segment) as of October 1, 2023. The demand is...

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

    Civil and military shipping, fishing, sailing, tourism and, last but not least, the forced construction of large LNG terminals are putting a strain on the marine environment... * Coal phase-out | Federal Network Agency | Electricity market Coal phase-out moves into the next phase The last tender for the coal phase-out has been completed. In the future, operators who have to shut down their power plants will no longer...

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

    Customers of municipal utilities who have no or hardly any wind turbines in their network pay for the expansion of the infrastructure in other parts of Germany through their network fees. The head of the Federal Network Agency recently supported this. * Drinking water | Ocean | Seawater desalination Desalinating water: Oceans - the new source of drinking water Drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce worldwide. Climate change and...

  11. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    Niger. The Nuclear Free Future Award's uranium atlas shows numerous other facts about the environmental destruction of Niger and other regions of the world caused by uranium mining... * Wind energy | Federal Network Agency | Network fees Proposal from the Federal Network Agency Lower electricity prices for wind power regions? Wind energy comes primarily from the north. But the northern federal states benefit...

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

    Capital-rich energy companies prevailed. The billions in proceeds from the licenses show that marine wind turbines can become a lucrative business. The Federal Network Agency announced a surprise in mid-July. The authority awarded the energy companies BP and Total the contract to build and operate wind turbines for several large areas in the North and Baltic Seas. What was amazing was...

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

    July 13th Fossil industry invests in offshore wind power Oil companies BP and Total Energies are pushing into the electricity business: auction of German offshore areas brings billions Bonn - The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has published the results of the offshore wind energy tenders for areas that have not been centrally pre-investigated as of the bidding date 1. Announced June 2023. The surcharges go to...

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

    merely a mandate from Congress. * Photovoltaics | Solar tender Tender for PV systems on buildings and noise barriers oversubscribed as of June 1, 2023 Bonn - The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has published the results of the latest tender for solar systems on buildings and noise barriers (second segment solar systems). After the last three tenders for...

  15. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2 coped well. In the first month without German nuclear power, electricity on the stock exchange did not become more expensive, but even cheaper. The Vice President of the Federal Network Agency, Barbie Kornelia Haller, said in an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk: "The effects are extremely small." [...] around 30 terawatt hours per year, the three now closed...

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

    are off the grid: Since mid-April, the German energy supply has had to make do without nuclear power. Which energy sources fill the gap that has arisen? A look at the current daily data from the Federal Network Agency. The use of nuclear energy to generate electricity in Germany is history. On the evening of April 15, 2023, technicians connected the Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim nuclear power plants...

  17. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    broadcast by the anti-nuclear organization: “Restarting the Emsland nuclear power plant again is an absolutely unnecessary risk for the entire region and unnecessary from an energy perspective. The Federal Network Agency recently confirmed that security of supply was and is guaranteed even without any nuclear power plant. A look at the electricity statistics shows that nuclear power plants in Germany have been...

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

    Soaring in mid-December, the price of electricity on the exchange has been below 22 euros per megawatt hour again since December 200nd. The gas storage facilities are also still well filled at almost 90 percent. According to the Federal Network Agency, the feared gas shortage this winter is now unlikely. Are the measures taken effective? Did many people heed the appeals, lower the heating temperatures and save a lot of gas?...

  19. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    The two companies want to produce green ammonia with a ship off Greenland. The energy required for this will be generated by Greenland's first commercial wind farm... * Electricity export | Federal Network Agency | Fossil electricity balance 2022: Germany exports electricity for almost 3 billion euros Last year, Germany consumed less electricity and produced more. This leads to a high...

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

    The industry caused the emission of 260 million tons of carbon dioxide - 3 million tons more than permitted under the Climate Protection Act. [...] There was once again little interest in the Federal Network Agency's fourth and final call for tenders for renewable energies. Wind industry criticizes maximum price in tenders Energy companies must take part in the tenders if they...

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