Economics Minister Habeck wants to expand renewable energies to 80 per cent of electricity demand by 2030. He envisages a quadrupling of the expansion with solar installations. However, the introduction of a nationwide solar roof obligation has failed so far. Now the managing director of the engineering firm Solar Experience, Stefan Abrecht, is proposing a […]
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The rich European industrialised countries are trying to become independent of Russian gas supplies. To this end, they buy liquefied gas on the world market from all available sources and pay almost any price for it. This leads not only to an explosion in prices, but also to massive supply bottlenecks in the emerging countries.
The energy supplier Uniper is Germany’s largest gas supplier, and also the largest buyer of Russian natural gas. As a large intermediary, Uniper primarily supplies gas to municipal utilities. Since mid-June, Uniper has received only 40 per cent of the agreed delivery volumes from Russia. Therefore, the energy supplier has to buy the missing 60
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The government is already warning about the loss of Russian gas supplies and repeatedly calling on consumers to save energy. In the meantime, those responsible are also realising that a gas freeze will inevitably lead to power cuts. On the one hand, the gas-fired power plants will fail to generate electricity, and on the other
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In the meantime, the Federal Network Agency assumes that gas supplies from Russia will be stopped. Although private households would be particularly protected in the event of a supply stop, the agency nevertheless assumes that not all households can be supplied. Network agency assumes that gas will soon no longer be enough for everyone In
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The expansion of renewable energies cannot go fast enough for Economics Minister Robert Habeck. He wants to increase electricity generation from wind and sun to 80 percent of demand by 2030. At least that is how he has set it out in his Easter package. That would be a doubling of what renewable energies are
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The subsidies for electric cars, which exist in practically every country in the world, are considered controversial. The EU and especially Germany are the subsidy world champions in this respect: there are no subsidies as high as those in this country anywhere else. However, this system may be questioned. A comparison with the subsidies for
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Since the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine and the associated supply insecurity for gas, politicians, suppliers and most experts agree: we have to get away from natural gas. This would also make a significant contribution to climate protection. Meanwhile, the extent to which hydrogen would also be suitable for heating is being discussed. Experts
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Finance Minister Christian Lindner wants to abolish the purchase premium for electric cars than planned It is no longer comprehensible that the state subsidises the purchase of electric cars while the manufacturers make billions in profits. To the annoyance of the Greens, Chancellor Olaf Scholz supports the Finance Minister in abolishing the misguided subsidy. That
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The beer breweries in Germany have to face the fact that there will inevitably be gaps in the supply chains. Now producers fear that this could lead to delays in products. And this, when the industry has just been able to record an increase in beer sales again. The good weather and new freedoms boosted
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Only a few weeks in office, Habeck presented his plans for the energy transition in his Easter package. Among other things, he envisages the massive expansion of gas-fired power plants. With an additional capacity of over 40 GW, these should compensate for the shutdown of nuclear power plants and the even earlier phase-out of coal.
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The Federal Government has so far paid 21.5 million euros in legal costs (as of the end of June 2022) for the pending court case on the failed car toll. This has now been revealed by ZEIT ONLINE. Legal dispute worth billions The former Federal Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer (CSU) had wanted to introduce
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A recent ruling by the US Supreme Court severely limits the rights of the US government in climate protection measures. The US Supreme Court has ruled that the government has no right to oblige coal and gas power plant operators to reduce emissions. This severely limits the authority of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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A burning electric car has completely destroyed a two-family house near the Hessian city of Fulda. The resulting damage amounts to several hundred thousand euros. The house is uninhabitable. The tragic thing is that the fire brigade had to watch helplessly as the house burned down, because the solar system on the roof made it
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Lemke announced that Germany agrees to the Europe-wide ban on combustion cars, which Finance Minister Lindner publicly criticised within a very short time. He said that the Environment Minister’s statements were not in line with what had previously been agreed. In Luxembourg, the EU environment ministers met to vote, among other things, on a ban
