29:46 min., published 2/3/2021
Electric cars are subsidised by the state, e-bikes are not. The bicycle lobby thinks this is unfair, as does the Federal Council - they argue that an opportunity for a transport revolution is being wasted. The government disagrees.
Read the article from 2 September 2016 on SPIEGEL ONLINE „Purchase premium for e-bikes: "Pedalling aid from the Federal Council"
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Bike-/Velo-City, DE-News, Bicycle, Funding, Mobility, Environmental policy, eMobility
A study by the Forum for an Ecological-Social Market Economy on behalf of Greenpeace (Published in March 2020)
Green Marshall Plan for Germany. 13 pages | 655 kB
As a result of the Corona crisis, the state will implement emergency aid and far-reaching stimulus measures of historic proportions. While the focus is on health and short-term support for workers and businesses, the mistakes of past economic crises must not be repeated. The planned aid for an economic reboot can set the course for the necessary transformation. A number of examples illustrate how short-term economic support can be reconciled with long-term social priorities.
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DE-News, Research, Sustainable management, New books and studies, Environmental policy
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 sources 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 have been confirmed.
The cost price of electricity from renewable energies is falling continuously and is no longer an obstacle to CO₂-free electricity generation. Newly constructed photovoltaic plants and onshore wind turbines at favourable locations are already cheaper than fossil-fuel power plants, and this trend will increase significantly by 2035," says project manager Dr Christoph Kost.
The ever-improving competitive position of renewables is leading to new applications and rapidly growing markets that are no longer dependent on subsidies. On the other hand, the full-load hours of conventional power plants continue to decline due to a higher share of renewables, which drives up their costs. In addition, fuel and CO2-certificate prices. "It can be assumed that not necessarily the cheapest conventional form of generation will exist on the market to complement the fluctuating renewables, but the one that can show a high flexibility in terms of start-up and shut-down variability, i.e. preferably power plants based on natural gas", says Dr. Christoph Kost.
Currently, PV systems achieve electricity production costs of between 3.71 and 11.54 € cents/kWh, depending on the system type and global radiation - which in Germany is between 950 and 1,300 kWh/(m²a). The specific system costs are between €600 and €1,400/kWp, depending on the system type.
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Construction and operating costs, Renewable, Climate protection, Media, Tenant electricity, New books and studies, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement
With retroactive effect from 1 January 2020, the subsidy for timber construction in Hamburg has now been officially increased to 0.80 euros per kilogram of timber product as part of the various subsidised housing construction programmes. As a funding requirement, the wood used must come from sustainable sources, be permanently installed in the building and be part of the construction. Wood products in the construction within the meaning of the subsidy are all solid wood products (sawn timber, planed timber, etc.), wood-based materials (chipboard, fibreboard, etc.) and products of structural timber construction (cross laminated timber, glulam, etc.). The pure wood content in these products must correspond to at least 80 % of the product mass.
Further information on
www.ifbhh.de/foerderprogramm/modernisierung-von-nichtwohngebaeuden-und-holzbau#was-fordern-wir
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Funding, Wood construction, Climate protection, News Blog Hamburg, Quarters, Settlements, Environmental policy, Housing
