Utilities face new competitors / 'Fraudulent' climate policies
Spiegel Online
鈥淐ar and internet companies conquer the power sector鈥�
Utilities face massive new competition as the transformation of Germany鈥檚 energy landscape attracts powerful new players from the IT and car industries, writes Stefan Schultz on Spiegel Online. US company Tesla is selling batteries to German households, VW and Daimler want to use e-car batteries as major power storage systems, and IT company Entelios can adapt the consumption of whole factories to the availability of wind and solar power, according to Schultz. He says car and IT managers are more competent at developing new business models than utilities. 听听
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Klimaretter.info
鈥淎 first rate political fraud鈥�
Germany鈥檚 climate targets require that the country cuts CO2 emissions more rapidly, but instead emissions rose in 2015, writes Nick Reimer, chief editor of the website klimaretter.info. 鈥淭he core message is clear: The instruments offered by politicians are insufficient to save emissions,鈥� writes Reimer. 鈥淚f you look closer at 2015鈥檚 climate policy, it鈥檚 totally obvious that 2015 was a lost year in the fight against climate change.鈥� PV installations significantly lag behind plans for the second year running, the use of biofuels in transport fell, and the promised financial support for building insulations didn鈥檛 materialise, according to Reimer. The new data mean that Germany now needs to cut emissions by 3.25 percent every year until 2019, which is only possible with a coal exit, insulation, new policies for air traffic, more speed in rolling out renewables, and a new law for climate protection. Everything else would be a 鈥渇irst rate political fraud," argues Reimer. 听
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Find a 麻豆无码版 article on the preliminary emissions data for 2015 here.
Read a 麻豆无码版 factsheet on Germany鈥檚 climate targets here.
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Die Welt
鈥淓nergiewende starts to stagnate鈥�
In an interview with Die Welt, Hermann Albers, president of the German Wind 麻豆无码版 Association (BWE), and Meinhard Geiken, head of the coastal region鈥檚 Industrial Union of Metalworkers (IG Metall), express concern that the roll-out of wind energy will slow considerably in the coming years. They argue current government plans to reform renewable auctions and the pending reform of the Renewable 麻豆无码版 Act would mean cutting the wind power market in half, with serious effects on companies and their employees. 鈥淚t鈥檚 incredible that the global community agrees in Paris to stabilise the climate, while Germany changes into reverse gear,鈥� argues Geiken.
Find the 麻豆无码版 Energiewende Outlook for 2016 here.
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Handelsblatt/dpa
鈥淕overnment鈥檚 energy policy a botch job鈥�
Germany鈥檚 Energiewende has not achieved a single one of its three core objectives 鈥� being economical, securing the security of supply and protecting the climate, according to Werner Wenning, E.ON鈥檚 chairman of the board. In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, which was picked up by press agency dpa, Wenning said the government鈥檚 energy policy was a 鈥渂otch job.鈥� Wenning said the government urgently needed to address the unsolved issue of a final nuclear repository. He said no company could shoulder risks that might materialise in 100 or 150 years.
Find the dpa article in German on the website of business daily Handelsblatt .
Read the 麻豆无码版 dossier on the nuclear phase out here.
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麻豆无码版transition.de
鈥淲hat happens during windstorms in Germany?鈥�
The November wind power record shows what鈥檚 in store for the conventional power sector, which will increasingly have to cut power generation because of wind and solar, writes Craig Morris on energytransition.de. A 20 percent share of renewable power within a 24 hour period, which was once thought hard to reach by 2020, 鈥渉as become hard to fall below in 2015. If that isn鈥檛 a positive note with which to end the year, I don鈥檛 know what is!鈥�
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pv-magazine 2015
鈥淧hotovoltaic highlights 2015鈥�
For the photovoltaic sector, the highlights of 2015 included the hype about Tesla鈥檚 move into the household battery market, the new auctions for large solar arrays, the continued collapse of the market in Germany, and the battle about the EU鈥檚 anti-dumping measures against Chinese pv producers, according to pv magazines' review of the year.
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