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In the Bavarian 10,000 Houses Program, there is now also money for electricity storage units if the user installs them together with a PV system. Until the end of 2020, 24 million euros are available for the entire program.
In 20 real laboratories across Germany, companies will be testing new hydrogen technologies on an industrial scale and in a real environment. Today, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Peter Altmaier announced the winners of the "Energy Transition Real Labs Ideas Competition". With the Energy Transition Real Labs, sustainable energy technologies are tested under real conditions and on an industrial scale. The central theme [...]
Baden-Württemberg's Environment and Energy Minister Franz Untersteller has concluded the state's support programme for PV storage systems and described it as a success.
The tenant electricity campaign financed by the Hessian Ministry of Economics is entering its second round until 2020. Info: www.solarserver.de/...mieterstrom-in-hessen...
The expansion of solar power plants in Lower Saxony continues to rise strongly. In 2018, an increase of more than 72 percent was recorded compared to 2017. While the addition of 120 MW in 2017, around 208 megawatts of capacity were newly installed in 2018. This means that Lower Saxony currently has just under 4,000 [...]
Augsburg, 22.02.19: Together with partner company EXYTRON, Stadtwerke Augsburg (swa) has installed and commissioned the world's first decentralised power-to-gas plant in an existing residential complex. This enables a challenge of the energy transition to be mastered: surplus, regeneratively generated electricity is converted into synthetic natural gas and can thus be stored on site. Combustion then takes place in a commercially available combined heat and power plant and condensing boilers. In this way, over 180 residents in 70 apartments in the residential complex of the Augsburg housing group, which has existed since 1974, are supplied with climate-friendly electricity and heat.
Purple, green, blue and yellow - inside the innovative battery storage systems that have now been installed in the municipal utility's climate district, things will be colourful in future. The electrolyte, which can store up to ten kilowatt hours of self-produced solar power, changes color depending on the state of charge.
According to the annual balance sheet of the Federal Association of the German Heating Industry (BDH) presented today, the German market for solar thermal systems has shrunk further by 8 percent to 573,500 square meters of collector area.
Bonn/Berlin (26 Jan. 2019). With the decision of the Coal Commission, the course has been set for the phase-out of coal by 2035, or 2038 at the latest. Environmental and development organisations welcome this course setting, but regret that this phase-out path is not yet ambitious enough to achieve the Paris climate targets. According to the compromise, 2023 will be the first [...]
WIESBADEN - At the start of the heating season, private households had to pay around 40 % higher prices to fill up their heating oil tanks in October 2018 than a year earlier. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) further reports, consumer prices for light heating oil have risen since March, following sharp price declines in 2014 and 2015 [...]
In 2018, Deutsche Bahn fed 57 percent green electricity into the grid. This is an increase of 13 percent in electricity from renewable energies compared to the previous year.
Yesterday, the Agency for Renewable Energies awarded the Rhine-Hunsrück district as Energy Municipality of the Decade / Environment and Energy Minister Ulrike Höfken congratulates warmly on this award. Yesterday, the Agency for Renewable Energies awarded the Rhine-Hunsrück district in Kassel as "Energy Municipality of the Decade". "Climate change is clearly noticeable in Rhineland-Palatinate, as currently [...]
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is providing funding of 150,000 euros for a local heating network in Gimbweiler, which is to be supplied in future by means of a solar thermal open-space system and a woodchip system.
Project partners of the EU project NETfficient take stock and publish manual in January 2019 Over the past four years, the power grid on the North Sea island of Borkum has served as a real laboratory for testing elements of a future-proof energy system. Central to this was the development of energy storage systems and their networked operation within a virtual power plant. The measures were implemented via [...]
A recent study by the Energy Watch Group and the Finnish University LUT shows how the energy transition can be realized with 100% renewable energies in Europe. According to the study, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced to zero before 2050 and there would be significant financial advantages compared to the conventional fossil-nuclear system. Pdf-Download: http://energywatchgroup.org/...2018/12/Key-findings_100-renewable-Transition-across-energy-sectors-Europe.pdf
The Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy Management of Baden-Württemberg is again supporting investments in photovoltaic systems in combination with battery storage with a total of five million euros in the coming year.
5th Symposium on Citizen Energy & Energy Cooperatives in NRW Recklinghausen. Energy in the hands of citizens: This was the topic of the symposium on citizen energy & energy cooperatives in North Rhine-Westphalia on Thursday, December 6, in Recklinghausen. Around 80 players in the field of citizen energy met there to exchange experiences and transfer knowledge. The 5th symposium is a cooperation of the cooperative association - [...]
Germanwatch welcomes MEPs' call for higher EU climate target 2030 and greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 at the latest Bonn (25 October 2018). The European Parliament is stepping up the pace on climate protection. MEPs today gave a mandate to the EU negotiating delegation for the UN climate summit in Katowice in December, calling for the EU to raise its target [...]
The current share of green electricity should not hide the fact that this federal government is blocking the energy transition at every turn. Take wind energy, for example: the government keeps delaying the additional tenders. As a result, a massive slump is imminent in the next two years. This means job losses in a key industry of the future and stagnating development [...]
Berlin, 22 October 2018: Vattenfall Energy Solutions, Gewobag and the energy storage start-up Lumenion are jointly piloting a new type of sector-coupled steel storage system at Bottroper Weg in Berlin-Tegel, which absorbs regional generation peaks from wind and solar energy in a grid-serving manner and later provides the renewable energy as heat and electricity in line with demand.
Six to ten gigawatts of photovoltaic capacity could be installed on Berlin buildings. More than enough to cover 25 percent of Berlin's electricity supply with solar energy, as envisaged in the plan for Berlin. But the current pace of expansion is decidedly too slow. The Solarcity Berlin master plan envisages a quarter of [...]
The district of Paderborn has achieved a climate goal that can only be dreamed of nationwide. It is more than 100 percent in the supply of green electricity. This year, for the first time, as much electricity will be generated renewably with the help of wind, sun, biomass and water as is also consumed. Since [...]
Leading economic countries discuss raw materials consumption In Argentina today, the twenty largest industrialised and emerging economies are discussing ways and means of using natural resources such as raw materials, water and land more efficiently and sparingly. State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth is opening the conference in Puerto Iguazú today together with Argentina's Environment Minister Bergman. Argentina, which currently holds the presidency [...]
Commenting on the agreement between the EU Commission, the Council and the Parliament on the further expansion of renewable energies in Europe, Julia Verlinden, spokesperson for energy policy for Alliance 90/The Greens in the German Bundestag, said: "The German government has not been successful in putting the brakes on citizen energy. Europe is now ensuring that the hurdles and fees [...]
In Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest tenant electricity project in Germany is currently running with subsidised funding from the so-called tenant electricity surcharge under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). The project, which was supported by EnergyAgency.NRW following an initial consultation, supplies 24 social housing apartments in three multi-storey buildings with a total of 75 residents with electricity.
Difu study gives recommendations for more effective use of funding in NRW Lack of staff and high administrative demands are two of the reasons that prevent cities, districts and municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) from drawing down available urban development funding on time. This is a key finding of a study conducted by the German Institute for [...]
Online tool provides information on funding programmes Düsseldorf. With Förder.Navi, an online tool from EnergyAgency.NRW, it is now even quicker to find one's way through the funding jungle. The tool (www.energieagentur.nrw/foerder-navi) helps private individuals, companies and local authorities to find funding opportunities, for example when it comes to energy-efficient refurbishment.
The Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) has presented a free tool for the individual design and holistic evaluation of tenant electricity concepts. These offer tenants in apartment buildings the opportunity to benefit from cheap renewable electricity generated on site. However, the economic viability depends on a large number of factors, which is why tenant electricity providers can hardly estimate whether [...]
Berlin: On 4 May 2018, BUND presented a shutdown plan for nuclear power plants (NPPs) and coal-fired power plants. This analysis shows that the decommissioning of the most climate-damaging coal-fired power plants by 2020 and a significant acceleration of the nuclear phase-out in Germany are possible without jeopardising security of supply. "The shutdown plan is a call to the political [...]
Resilient Cities Congress of the Cities Network ICLEI in Bonn The Paris Climate Agreement involves all levels of government in addressing climate change. At the local level, these are cities and municipalities. The ICLEI network of cities, which includes 22 German cities, will meet in Bonn from 26 to 28 April for the [...]
Renewable energy growth varies widely from country to country / Greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union rose slightly last year / Agora Energiewende and Sandbag present report on EU energy transition Brussels, 30 January 2018. In 2017, wind, solar and biomass in the European Union generated [...]
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE presented the fourth edition of their study on the cost price of electricity from renewable energies on March 20, 2018. In it, they analyze current costs and forecast further developments based on technology-specific learning rates and market scenarios up to the year 2035. "The cost forecasts of the previous studies [...]
The Ministry of the Environment in Rhineland-Palatinate has launched the "1,000 efficient stoves for Rhineland-Palatinate" funding programme. As part of this, the replacement of old fireplaces with modern wood-burning systems is financially supported if they received approval between 1 January 1985 and 1 January 1995. The subsidy amounts to up to €800. The [...]
4.25 TWh from solar energy in NRW last year Düsseldorf. 4.25 terawatts (TWh)! That's how much electricity the photovoltaic systems installed in North Rhine-Westphalia produced last year (2017). This corresponds to the average annual electricity demand of more than 1 million four-person households. In total, there are 8.7 million households in NRW.