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

    at the University of Technology and Economics in Berlin, praises the solar funding, but doubts that it will solve the problems that have been created. It is becoming increasingly difficult to integrate larger solar systems into the grid. “Hoping that the solar boom will compensate for the shortcomings in traffic is quite an illusion,” says Quaschning. Even a wind turbine cannot replace...

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

    Meanwhile, Broadcast calculated that the increase in renewable energies had mathematically completely replaced the electricity production of the three nuclear power plants. According to this, from April 2023 to March 2024, wind power and solar systems in Germany together generated 29 billion kilowatt hours more electricity than in the previous twelve months, which is almost exactly the same as the 30 billion nuclear power lost...

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

    more energy than all eight billion people currently use. The solar age begins - the sun wins. Goodbye nuclear power! The world's largest solar plant is currently being built in the United Arab Emirates... * Climate protection | Upgrade | Militarization Between the logic of war and climate protection: How rearmament torpedoes our environmental goals The dream of feasibility brings rearmament...

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

    to have incurred a loss in euros. It is therefore necessary to close the production facility in Saxony. [...] There is also a geopolitical argument: Continuing to have the production and know-how for solar systems in Germany offers security - and this security has its price, says Habeck. However, the traffic light does not agree on help for the industry. Although there is a...

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

    covered by renewable energies. The Ministry of the Environment wants to further promote the expansion of wind turbines. In total, around 2023 terawatt hours of electricity were generated in 50,8 by wind power, solar systems or biogas. According to the Ministry of the Environment, 50,5 terawatt hours were consumed. Accordingly, Lower Saxony is above the national average: Across Germany, the...

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

    and cause little known damage to nature. If our grandchildren still want to hear a cuckoo, we have to put an end to the further "roadkill". * China | Solar system | Desert China: Greening the desert with gigantic solar parks China is revolutionizing the use of renewable energies. A huge solar park is being built in the Kubuqi Desert, which will also...

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

    Press agency includes the retail giants Aldi Nord, Edeka, Lidl and Rewe, the wholesale group Metro and the furniture retailer Ikea. “Dealers have great difficulty getting solar systems and e-charging points connected to the grid. “That cannot be in the spirit of the energy transition,” said Stefan Genth, managing director of the German Trade Association (HDE)....

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

    Church communities can lease their roofs in order to reduce the financial and organizational burden. The new monument protection guidelines in Baden-Württemberg make it easier to install solar systems. The heritage issues are put aside. There are similar projects in the Württemberg regional church and on the Catholic side. Church buildings, administrative buildings,...

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

    https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (kostenlose Version) 28. November Landwirtschaft | Freiflächen | Agri-Photovoltaik Wie "Agri-PV" Landwirtschaft und Solarparks verbindet Als Flächen für neue Solaranlagen sind in Brandenburg Äcker heiß begehrt. Bauern aber müssen sich dann entscheiden: Landwirtschaft oder Energieerzeugung? Sogenannte "Agri-PV" soll beides verbinden, indem die Böden unter den...

  10. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    is only too happy to create the false impression that northern and western Africa mainly consist of large, sparsely populated and unused deserts that could easily be equipped with large-scale solar systems. The Souliate women's fight against this land grab has become known beyond Morocco. Around 3000 hectares of land was stolen from the Amazigh communities in 2016 to...

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

    the right-wing populist narrative that climate protection is a ploy by the so-called global elites to deprive the population of their rights and prosperity. This creates fear... * Solar systems | Tender | overstated Significantly overstated: Results of the tender for solar systems on buildings and noise barriers are available Bonn - The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has...

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

    - More than ten billion euros have flowed into green energy since the beginning of the year. For example, in the purchase of a US solar park operator, a British solar park developer or in our own wind and solar systems in Europe and the United States. [...] In Germany, RWE will shut down its climate-damaging lignite-fired power plants by 2030 - with Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) just...

  13. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    fell significantly at the beginning of the year. In Germany, the wind and solar energy market is developing very dynamically this year. From January to September 2023 alone, wind and solar systems with an output of around 13.000 MW went into operation (Jan - Sep 2022: around 7.520 MW). At the same time, renewable electricity generation is also increasing. Coal-fired power generation increases by over 30...

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

    Buy additional LNG per year from the USA. This corresponds to a third of the amount of natural gas that Europe received from Russia in 2020... * Renewables | Solar cells | Monument protection Solar systems and monument protection: There is a dispute about the energy transition in Salzwedel. A solidarity-based cooperative wants to renovate houses in Salzwedel and supply them with renewable energy. Through the...

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

    there is a gold rush atmosphere. In order to achieve Germany's climate goals, the federal government wants to triple the pace of expansion of photovoltaics to 2026 gigawatts per year by 22. Half of the solar systems will be built on roofs and the other half on open spaces. In addition to sealed areas, agricultural land is also needed for this: according to calculations by the Braunschweig Thünen Institute...

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

    By expanding the generation options for renewable electricity, it will become cheaper - and thus convince even the last doubters to switch to electric cars, heat pumps and solar systems. But currently electricity is expensive, much more expensive than natural gas or oil. Consumers currently pay around 30 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity, around half of which...

  17. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    become. Tenants, tradesmen, farmers, homeowners and homeowners can now get started soon if they want to go renewable. After all, 90 percent of buildings in this country still do not have solar systems. Those who have concerns and Germany, which is crazy about regulation, can and must now quickly rethink and act. A healing experience awaits us. Farmers also become energy farmers...

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

    – The anger over renewable energies is entering the next round. This time a dispute is brewing that concerns the network fees that are passed on to consumers for the expansion of the electricity grid and the connection of new wind and solar systems. These have increased dramatically since 2022 – by almost 40 percent in some regions. But it is primarily northern Germans who are asked to pay, while the south...

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

    Do churches also criticize for not doing enough to protect the climate and the environment? Yes. The churches should have woken people up much earlier. Why isn't there a solar system on every church roof for a long time? Jesus already knew in his Sermon on the Mount: “The Father’s sun shines for everyone. For the just and the unjust.” And it does this free of charge, in an environmentally friendly way and for all time. What are we waiting for?...

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

    We should therefore have a European market design debate – similar to the one with electricity and natural gas,” said the chairwoman of the BDEW board Kerstin Andreae... * Expansion of renewable energy | Solar systems | Electricity import Why solar is booming and coal-fired power plants are underemployed More solar systems than ever went online in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, gas and coal-fired power plants could fill the gaps...

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