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Germany’s power supply will survive coal and nuclear exit
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 by Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an exit from coal and nuclear power generation if it rolls out renewables as planned, even if the country’s...

EU Commission approves Uniper stabilisation measures
Tuesday, January 03, 2023 by Following Uniper’s extraordinary general meeting on 19 December to authorise a framework agreement over proposals for stabilisation and to create a viable way forward for the company,...

Green Fuels for Denmark receives Danish IPCEI funding
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 by The Danish Business Authority has awarded the Danish Power-to-X flagship project ‘Green Fuels for Denmark’ DKK 600 million as part of Denmark’s participation in the European...

LNG terminal opening ‘sets pace for infrastructure modernisation’
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 by Germany’s first import terminal for liquefied natural gas opened on 17 December, and is scheduled to supply gas to the German grid within days, reports online news agency Clean...

Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy to develop large-scale power-to-X
Tuesday, December 06, 2022 by Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop a Power-to-X facility in Denmark with one of the country’s most attractive locations. The facility will...

Infrastructure strikes - Ukraine government prepares to evacuate Kherson
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 by For nearly two months the BBC and various news agencies have been reporting air strikes as far west as Kyiv on the Ukraine’s energy and water delivery infrastructure.

Collaboration to develop green hydrogen offshore
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 by Green hydrogen specialist Lhyfe and major French harbour Nantes-St Nazaire have reached a partnership agreement to develop the offshore renewable sector.
 The deal could ramp-up...

Germany is ‘not hydrogen ready’
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 by Germany is not sufficiently prepared for the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy. This is the conclusion of the ‘H2-Bilanz’ (H2 balance), an analysis by E.ON based on data from the...

Ukraine’s energy sector – an update from the war zone
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 by DTEK Group, the largest owner of Ukrainian generation capacity, provided the following update on 13 October via an online briefing by its CEO Maxim Timchenko that took place during an...

50 metres of Nord Stream pipeline destroyed
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 by At least 50 metres of the underwater Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea is thought to have been destroyed by a series of explosions in late September. Video film shot by...

Germany will continue to push for 1.5°C
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 by Clean Energy Wire reports that Germany aims to keep the Paris Climate Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C within reach even as the energy crisis in Europe puts the...

Federal government acquires 99% stake in Uniper
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 by ‪The German Federal government, Uniper and Fortum agreed on 21 September an amendment to the package of measures announced on 22 July this year that is intended to ensure the...

EBRD supports Ukraine electricity company with €97.3 m
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 by The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Ukrainian authorities have agreed the repurposing of the final €97.3 million of an existing loan to Ukrenergo,...

Renewables investment is reducing UK power prices
Tuesday, August 16, 2022 by Cornwall Insight’s latest report – ‘GB Power Market Outlook to 2030’ – shows greater investment in renewables by countries across Europe, which has resulted in lower price projections...

EU approves curbs on gas
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 by European Union ministers agreed on 26 July to ration natural gas supplies this coming winter to protect member states against further supply cuts by Russia.

Ukraine joins the IEA
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 by Ukraine officially joined the International Energy Agency as an Association country on 19 July, with the signing of a joint declaration by Ukraine’s minister of Energy German...

Germany triggers gas emergency plan
Thursday, June 30, 2022 by Online news agency Clean Energy Wire reports that – citing a ‘tense situation’ following the previous week's cuts in the gas supply from Russia – Germany’s economy and climate...

Siemens and Air Liquide form JV to produce H2 electrolysers
Tuesday, June 28, 2022 by Siemens Energy and Air Liquide have jointly entered into a project to create the series production of industrial scale renewable hydrogen electrolysers in Europe. This aims to enable...

Ørsted + ATP and GlobalConnect to work on North Sea Energy Island digital hub
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 by Ørsted + ATP has signed an agreement with prominent digital connectivity player GlobalConnect to “make the North Sea Energy Island a backbone in the future digitisation of...