1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    The share of transport in total emissions has increased from around 13 percent in 1990 to almost 20 percent in 2022. The good news: For the first time, the share of electricity from renewable energies was over 50 percent. [...] Volker Quaschning, energy expert at the University of Technology and Economics in Berlin, praises the solar funding, but doubts that it will...

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

    However, concerns about the consequences for the climate and electricity prices were unjustified. [...] The anti-nuclear organization Radiated meanwhile calculated that the increase in renewable energies had mathematically completely replaced the electricity production of the three nuclear power plants. According to this, wind power and solar systems in Germany together cost 2023 billion from April 2024 to March 29...

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

    People who still believe that only oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear power can offer a secure energy supply because this energy is reliable in contrast to renewable energies that are dependent on the weather and the season are massively mistaken. [...] Worse still, through our purchase of oil, natural gas, coal and even uranium to generate electricity in the EU, we finance Islamist...

  4. Newsletter

    Not to waste valuable time and money on the fantasies of the international nuclear lobby, but instead to invest in “safe, affordable and climate-friendly energy for all” with the transition to a system based on 100 percent renewable energies. In addition to the IPPNW, the signatories include Greenpeace, the Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation...

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

    out of. The nuclear lobby has been campaigning for a renaissance of nuclear power for decades. So far in vain, as there have been fewer and fewer nuclear power plants in operation worldwide for many years. To this end, renewable energies are being expanded at an ever faster pace. And the last world climate conference in Dubai just decided to triple renewables worldwide by 2030. [...] nuclear power remains a...

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

    Newsletter Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

  7. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    Newsletter Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    "clearly price-dampening"), the Bavarian Consumer Center also expressly spoke out in favor of a renewable energy supply - it was "in principle in favor of a rapid expansion of renewable energies and the associated necessary expansion of the network infrastructure"... * Thuringia | Right-wing extremists | Brutalization Right-wing extremists are increasing their attacks on politicians There are no lone perpetrators...

  9. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    elevated. Fossil fuels are driving up energy prices, and we are paying the price of the delayed energy transition. Above all, industry can benefit from the rapid expansion of renewable energies, from energy saving and from the faster transformation away from fossil energy. This is the only thing you should support them with. In addition to reducing bureaucracy, the most important...

  10. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    or to stop. The main means of achieving this is reduced emissions of greenhouse gases, which are responsible for climate change. Important measures for this include expanding renewable energies, increasing energy efficiency and energy savings, pricing greenhouse gas emissions through emissions trading or taxation, reducing environmentally harmful subsidies,...

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

    in Europe. It is primarily known for the extraction of copper and zinc. Underground ore mining ended in August 2022. Now the mine will be used as a huge battery for electricity from renewable energies. The Scottish company Gravitricity wants to implement this. [...] The principle of such gravity storage is relatively simple: If excess electricity is available, you use it to...

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

    together with the right-wing radical AFD to give nuclear energy a future in Germany again. They justify this with currently high electricity prices and a weak expansion of renewable energies. The Union and the FDP have significantly hindered the expansion of renewable energies over the last ten years by joining forces with complaining opponents of wind power, particularly from the...

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

    Hans-Josef Fell: Because of the very high natural gas prices, there were also very high electricity prices on the stock exchange in 2022 and 2023. These brought significant income into the EEG account. Due to the expansion of renewable energies, their feed into the grid has steadily increased. Because green electricity is much cheaper than electricity from natural gas, electricity prices on the stock exchange fell sharply, and natural gas prices...

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

    In the public perception, France's energy policy is still mainly associated with discussions about nuclear energy. Nevertheless, the French expansion of renewable energies is taking place in the background, but the pace of expansion and the impact is significantly higher than with nuclear energy. Wind power production in France will rise to a new record level in 2023...

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

    but me out. The really positive surprise for me was the clear will of the federal government or the Federal Ministry of Economics as well as the EU to want to advance and accelerate the expansion of renewable energies. Energy transition is government policy. The measures adopted based on this attitude are diverse and numerous. The changes range from...

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

    One hundred percent renewables on a winter day instead of a blackout. Thanks to high CO2 prices, the use of brown coal is becoming increasingly unprofitable. This means that the share of conventional energy is falling, while the share of renewable energy is increasing - on some days it is already over 100 percent. A record is clearly emerging for renewable energies. Calculated over the year 2023, the renewable share of electricity...

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

    In Jänschwalde, the energy company Leag is pushing ahead with the construction of a solar system on the former opencast mining areas. [...] The energy company Leag is planning a conversion towards renewable energies. The phase-out of electricity generation from brown coal is legally agreed in 2038. Because of its high carbon dioxide emissions, lignite is more harmful to the climate than other energy sources. * Japan |...

  18. 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”

    cannot be reached. Is that so? Teske: No, it's not like that. We have had a decreasing share of electricity from nuclear energy and an increase from renewable energy for over 15 years. We have over 400 old reactors that are gradually reaching the end of their service life. More are being removed from the network than are being added. There is a reason for this: the costs. The average...

  19. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    | Climate-neutral EU states declare nuclear power to be a climate-neutral technology Following the European Parliament last month, EU member states have also included nuclear power alongside renewable energies in the list of supported technologies in the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA). In mid-March, the European Commission and the NZIA presented their proposal for a new industrial law...

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

    says Claudia Kemfert, energy economist and member of the editorial board of Klimareporter°. She criticizes the climate summit president because he sees the future in “emission-free” instead of renewable energies. Climate reporter°: Ms. Kemfert, with the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court, the traffic light is suddenly missing 60 billion euros for its climate and transformation fund. What is called...