5+ day, 40+ min ago   (116+ words) German grid operators according to Clean Energy Wire last year concluded nearly 2,000 grid connection agreements for battery storage facilities with 54.2 GW of power and 142.4 GWh of capacity. The volume of approved capacity thus shows how quickly battery storage is moving…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (235+ words) The simplest way to use heat from the Earth’s crust is through heat pumps in boreholes. For example, in shallower boreholes, a double plastic pipe is used to heat water: the water descends into the ground through one leg, where…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (740+ words) Dirk Vansintjan is an advocate of community energy. In 1991, he founded a citizen energy cooperative in his native Belgium. “We now have more than 70,000 members,” says the chair of the European federation of energy cooperatives in an exclusive interview with…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (309+ words) An amendment to Act No. 165/2012 Coll. on supported energy sources corrects an error under which agricultural entities without exclusively book-entry shares were not eligible for support. Only businesses generating electricity from biogas were exempt. Under the amendment, all agricultural businesses…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (336+ words) Most German wind farms whose support expires after 2020 will no longer be economically viable to operate. This follows from an analysis by the Energy Brainpool think tank, which examined the possibility of operating wind farms after the end of their…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (446+ words) European manufacturers of wind turbines are currently among the best performers on stock markets. This has been helped primarily by a large influx of new orders, as well as cost-saving measures implemented during the economic crisis. As reported by Bloomberg,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (316+ words) German start-up Sonnen (formerly Sonnenbatterie) has secured another investment from GE Ventures, a subsidiary of General Electric, following an investment by the ČEZ Group through its subsidiary Inven Capital. To date, Sonnen has sold more than 11,000 battery systems. According to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (457+ words) The German state of Bavaria, which introduced a rule at the end of 2014 to restrict the construction of wind turbines, recorded no applications to build a wind turbine in the first quarter of this year. According to unofficial information, this…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (309+ words) North Rhine-Westphalia has decided to invest a further nearly EUR 1 million in a project for an underground pumped-storage plant to be built within a former coal mine. The cost per kW of capacity for the project is expected to range…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (805+ words) There are only a handful of biogas plants in Czechia capable of producing biomethane and injecting it into the grid. The first was opened by EFG in Rapotín in the Olomouc Region in 2019, and the company is now planning expansion,…...