More power is also required to digitalise the German energy industry’s transition to reliance on volatile green power, and to support the mass arrival of electric cars FRANKFURT: German electricity grid and utility firms on Thursday said they will spend 750 million euros ($888 million) on boosting networks to meet more power demand from data […]
Renewable energy’s share of German power mix rose to 46% last year: research group
FRANKFURT : Renewable energy’s share of Germany’s overall power supply mix rose by 5.4 percentage points last year to 46%, data from Europe’s biggest state-funded research and development service showed. Europe’s biggest economy is aiming for renewables to provide 65% of its power mix by 2030. It says it will abandon nuclear energy by 2022 […]
German power, gas grids co-operate on storage plans up to 2030
The two said they had presented the proposals to Germany’s energy regulator, the Federal Network Agency, with a view to securing permission for plans that stretch to 2030, a period when Germany is phasing in tougher climate protection goals. FRANKFURT: Major German power and gas grid firms Amprion and Open Grid Europe (OGE) unveiled plans […]