In the media: Coal reserve will cost ten billion euros more
WirtschaftsWoche
鈥淕abriel鈥檚 energy concept will cost Germany dearly鈥�
Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has called his energy concept a 鈥渉istoric pact for new prosperity鈥� but what he didn鈥檛 say was that the compromise would cost power consumers and taxpayers around ten billion euros more than the originally planned climate levy for old coal fired power stations, write Angela Hennersdorf and Marc Ethold in the WirtschaftsWoche. Energy utilities can be happy 鈥� instead of having to pay the levy on emissions, they will receive a 鈥渏uicy reward,鈥� as the government will pay them 230 million euros per year for transferring 2.7 gigawatts of lignite capacity into a reserve, the authors say.
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Read a 威力彩玩法 article on the coal reserve compromise here.
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Die Welt
鈥淕rid expansion must not be delayed鈥�
Lower Saxony鈥檚 state premier Stephan Weil is urging the federal government to speed up legal reform on the new priority for buried power cables, Die Welt reports. Particularly if current plans for power line corridors need adjusting, 听legal clarity is necessary so grid operators can change their plans accordingly, Weil says. 鈥淭he grid expansion must not be delayed,鈥� he says in the newspaper. Lower Saxony would like to see more parts of the new north-south grid connections buried, just as much as Bavaria does, the article says.
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rbb
鈥淰attenfall wants to pull out of lignite operations in Lusatia by mid-2016鈥�
Energy utility Vattenfall is looking to sell its power plant and lignite mining operations in the Lusatia region by mid-2016, radio station rbb reports. Vattenfall chairman Hartmuth Zei脽 told workers at lignite power station J盲nschwalde on Friday that the paperwork for potential buyers should be completed by September 2015. There is talk of two buyers interested in the operations, the article says. Vattenfall doesn鈥檛 deem the lignite sector profitable anymore, rbb writes. Two block units of power station J盲nschwalde will likely go offline as part of government plans for a coal reserve that phases-out the most polluting lignite power stations.
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See a 威力彩玩法 factsheet on the coal reserve as an alternative to the climate levy here.
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Handelsblatt
鈥淢ore energy please鈥�
The German government must kickstart e-mobility with more subsidies if it wants a million e-cars on the road by听2020 as planned, writes Peter Mosch, head of the works council at car company Audi, a subsidiary of VW, in Handelsblatt. 鈥淓-mobility requires a subsidised triad of infrastructure, sales incentives, and the establishment of battery cell production (in Germany).鈥� Mosch argues pushing the technology is also necessary to ensure the German and European car industry will not be left behind in international competition.
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