Renewable energy in Germany
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GERMANY, 2015/04/25
The German GEO-NET and Intec-GOPA have evaluated the predictive potential of Uzbekistan in the field of wind electricity in additional than 520,000 megawatts of installed capacity on 17,000 square kilometers with a production of 1.07 trillion kilowatt / hours of electricity annually, the message of the Uzbekenergo National Joint Stock Company (SJC) said.
Before it was reported that in summer 2014, the German companies began a study of the wind energy potential of Uzbekistan within the framework of the contact signed with the Uzbekenergo.
The arrangement envisaged the study of Uzbekistan’s wind potential in six regions to find out the opportunities for industrial production of electricity with average annual wind gust strength of 100 meters per second.
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GERMANY, 2013/02/08
German company Phaesun is funding the assembly of around 250 points of sale and distribution for photovoltaic systems, as a way of supporting the process of rural electrification using solar power, according to Mozambican newspaper Correio da Manhã.
The programme is scheduled to be implemented over two years and will support Mozambique’s efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals in terms of reducing high poverty levels in the country, according to Tobias Zwirner, the managing director of Phaesun.
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GERMANY, 2013/01/01
Germany's solar power systems market continued to grow strongly in September, putting Europe's biggest economy on track for a new installation record this year and increasing pressure on the ruling coalition to curb the spiralling costs to consumers. In September nearly 1 gigawatt (GW) of new solar power generating capacity was installed, the energy network regulator Bundesnetzagentur said on Wednesday, bringing the total of new installations in the January-September period to about 6.2 GW.
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GERMANY, 2012/12/24
In Germany, the transition to electricity from renewable sources is occuring faster than originally planned. Critics question whether this reflects overambitious planning, which could endanger in general reform plans.
Germany's fundamental rethinking of energy production and distribution has placed new focus on the high voltage power lines crisscrossing the country. These days, Chancellor Angela Merkel gladly takes it upon herself to inaugurate new segments of the power grid - such as she recently did for the between the cities of Schwerin and Hamburg in the north of Germany.
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GERMANY, 2012/12/12
In June 2012 the creditors’ committee voted in favour of an offer by the VeKa Group of the Netherlands to take over the Sietas shipyard. Despite six months of intensive negotiations, it was not possible to complete the transaction.
The reason is that the Sietas shipyard currently has only one order for a new construction, an jack-up vessel for offshore wind farms for the Dutch marine engineering company Van Oord. The prospect of a second new construction order of an identical type and the resulting continuing employment of the shipyard was stipulated by VeKa as a condition for the takeover.
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GERMANY, 2012/07/20
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GERMANY, 2010/09/24
Power transmission grid operators are obligated to pay feed-in tariffs (FIT) to producers of solar power, which are then added to customers' bills, and critics have noted that ballooning demand for photovoltaics leads to higher costs.
The German government agreed in January on a large one-off cut of at least 16 percent to the tariffs, which took effect in July, but analysts have repeatedly mentioned that further action was likely to make the subsidy-dependent industry more competitive.
