1. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    287 gigawatts of solar energy will be installed above parking lots and on industrial and commercial areas. This is significantly more than the target of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) of 200 gigawatts of open-space PV systems by 2040. Agricultural land with lower yields would then only have to be used to a very small extent. Almost 5.000 GW would be above that...

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

    never before. This also has an impact on feed-in tariffs. [...] In the Federal Network Agency's most recent open space tender for funding under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), the advertised amount was almost three and a half times oversubscribed. “There has never been such a large participation in a tender for open-space facilities,” said authority president Klaus Müller...

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

    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 funds to support the expansion of renewables...

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

    is in a range relevant to the health of humans as well as fish-eating birds and mammals, according to a press release... * Heating with wind | Renewable Energy Act EEG | Community energy Wind turbines could – could – heat villages! If too much wind energy comes into the power grid, systems are curtailed. The excess energy could also be used for heat...

  5. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    Cover solar systems. Is the boom in agri-photovoltaics coming now? [...] In order to promote the expansion of agricultural photovoltaics, an amendment to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG 2023) was passed at the beginning of 2023. Agri-photovoltaics is now listed regularly in the EEG for the first time and it is now possible to receive financial support for electricity from agri-solar systems, as long as...

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

    Authorities must give priority to renewable energies Greifswald - Last year, the federal government included the special importance of renewable energies (RE) in the EEG. The construction and operation of renewable energy systems is therefore in the overriding public interest. A current judgment from Greifswald takes up this principle and calls on the responsible...

  7. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    and electricity from the field: Agri-photovoltaics can produce food and solar power on agricultural land at the same time. An amendment to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG 2023) now enables funding for such systems. However, smaller, high-mounted agro-solar systems below one megawatt in particular are not taken into account, which means that private expansion...

  8. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    In 2022, a comprehensive legislative package was passed with the aim of accelerating the expansion of renewable energies. This means that the era of 16 years of Merkel is finally coming to an end, with each amendment to the EEG bringing new pressure on the expansion of renewable energies. The decline in the annual expansion of solar and wind energy, bioenergy and hydropower was devastating. If there had been this...

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

    the one with the lowest emissions per kilowatt hour produced... *** December 23 European Commission | Expansion of renewable energies European Commission approves amendments to the EEG and WindSeeG Berlin - Shortly before Christmas, the European Commission has now given the green light for the changes to the EEG 2023 and...

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

    it's all terrible. War brings destruction and endless human suffering. In war, crimes are committed and there is cruelty - on all sides. According to estimates by US Army General Mark Milley, 100.000 Russian soldiers have been killed and injured so far, and thousands of casualties have occurred in Ukraine. [...] Heribert Prantl, former...

  11. Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough

    Renewable energies in Germany are concerned in its second annual report: In contrast to solar power, the expansion quantities specified in the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) have not been achieved when using wind energy on land. The experts' conclusion: "Therefore, there is a high level of importance for both the planning and designation of wind energy areas as well as the approval of systems...

  12. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    The EU Commission has given the green light to three regulations relevant to state aid law. This means, among other things, that the higher compensation rates for small rooftop systems can now take effect. They are regulated in the EEG 2023, but now come into force retroactively to July 30, 2022 after approval under state aid law... * Broken Arrow October 03, 1986, nuclear submarine K-219, USSR On October 03, 1986.. .

  13. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    Energies have slowed sharply since 2010. What's more: Structural changes such as the switch to tenders instead of the successful fixed feed-in tariff and further changes to the EEG, EnWG and other laws have created an oversized bureaucratic apparatus that no one can fully oversee anymore... * Switzerland | Nuclear waste | Repository The only thing that is certain is the risk...

  14. Newsletter XXXIV 2022 - August 22nd to 31st - News+ Nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim 2: Hundreds of damage to pipes hidden

    of North Rhine-Westphalia wants to accelerate the expansion of photovoltaics in the state and has issued a regulation based on the state opening clause in the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). *Solar | Drinking water | Renewable California: Solar panels cover canal to save water and generate energy Canals covered with solar panels are designed to generate energy and...

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

    This would eliminate the worst threat to humanity besides climate collapse... Hans-Josef Fell is President of the Energy Watch Group and co-author of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). From 1998 to 2013 he was in the Bundestag for the Greens. He has received numerous prizes and awards for his commitment. Fell is an ambassador for 100 percent renewable energy. ***...

  16. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    is still profitable. **July 20 Solar Power | Feed-in tariff for solar power: Feed-in tariff is increasing again. Own consumption of electrical energy from your own roof will become more lucrative again thanks to the new rules of the EEG 2023 - all the details here in the article. With the EEG 2023, the federal government has launched an amendment to the Renewable Energy Act. Cabinet, Bundestag and Bundesrat...

  17. Newsletter XXVIII 2022 - July 11 - 16 - News+ What's next for the protest, Lina Schinköthe?

    * Renewable | Emissions | Climate neutrality "100 percent renewable energies by 2030 at the latest" Expert Rüdiger Haude says: Wind and sun should replace Russian gas. The reformed EEG is a first step, but the targets are too low. Germany can switch to 2030 percent green electricity by 100. * Taxonomy | Greenwashing | Nuclear power | Nuclear technology The taxonomy of the EU,...

  18. Newsletter XIX 2022 - May 05th to 12th - News+ The economic consequences of the Ukraine war

    Pumped storage power plant has one more green attraction. 12.000 floating solar panels will generate electricity from solar power and help lift the water. *Solar | Agriculture EEG 2023: Now agri-PV systems on grassland? The generation of solar power on grassland remains controversial. The Federal Council's Agriculture Committee now wants to take photovoltaic systems on grassland into account and...

  19. Newsletter XII 2022 - March 19th to 25th - News+ Collateral damage to the climate?

    for renewables - for example for photovoltaics on industrial roofs Robert Busch, managing director of the BNE, talks in an interview about hurdles and barriers in the draft bill for the EEG 2023. Why does the expansion of renewable energies have to be limited at all - especially in such ideal locations as on industrial roofs? * Duration | Neckarwestheim | Fuel elements | Putin | Nuclear lobby...

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