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Energy Policy

The European Green Deal and the German Climate Action Plan

Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 is one of the greatest challenges and opportunity of our times. To achieve this ...

Night view of Asia from the satellite

The Expansion of Renewable Energy Sources (RES)

Renewable energy is supposed to provide 65% of total power produced by 2030 and at least 80% by 2050. Starting with approx. 5% of mainly hydropower in 2000, RES reached ...

Windraeder im Meer, Computergrafik, offshore wind farm, computer graphik

The role of fossil energy sources

In 2019, in Germany, lignite coal supplied 19.7% of net energy generated, and hard coal another 9.4%. Coal-fired power plants accounted for over two-thirds of Germany's energy sector carbon emissions in 2019. Therefore ...

Kohlekraftwerk in Mannheim

Nuclear energy policy

In contrast to coal and gas-fired power plants, nuclear power plants do not emit any climate-damaging CO2. The downside to nuclear power (as indicated by the Fukushima disaster) is the risky nature of nuclear power ...

Aufkleber, Atomkraft nein danke

Electricity Import and Export

Germany is highly dependent on energy imports, primarily on fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, hard coal and uranium for its nuclear power plants  ...

Umspannwerk Wien Südost

Energy storage and power-to-x

As wind and photovoltaic electricity production fluctuates with the weather, a surplus might cause grid congestion or negatively influence the security of the power supply system. In times of low supply by renewables, demand needs to be covered by reliable flexible power plants ...

LEAG baut Batteriespeicher in Schwarze Pumpe

Greenhouse gas emissions

2020 will be good for energy and the climate - as the energy transition takes up speed, energy-related CO2 emissions in Germany are falling.
In 2019, Germany cut its CO2 emissions by around 50 million tonnes – a whopping 6%-reduction from the previous year ...

Green House

Electricity prices in Germany

Electricity prices in Germany are amongst the highest in Europe. There are many reasons for this, for example a relatively high share of surcharges and taxes, but also partially  due to ....

Energy prices

Electricity generation costs

Electricity generation costs - how much does electricity really cost? Calculating production costs: It is important to note that the calculation of the cost of electricity is used to compare…

Electricity costs

Energy Transition: social acceptance and how to get the people on board

80% of the Germans would like „to change something“
A recent survey, the 2019 Energy Transition Barometer by the KfW (the German state-owned development bank), indicates that Germans are increasingly concerned about the current  energy supply ...

Lützelbach am 15.Januar 2020 Spatenstich zur Errichtung der 2...
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