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S眉ddeutsche Zeitung

鈥淲as the nuclear phase-out 耻苍肠辞苍蝉迟颈迟耻迟颈辞苍补濒?鈥�

Germany鈥檚 Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out, which utilities claim interfered with their property rights, reports the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Power station operators say the government鈥檚 decision to shut all reactors by 2022 will cost them billions of euros in future earnings. E.ON鈥檚 lawyers say all nuclear companies together lose 120 billion euros and demands compensation. The government argues that the companies had been faced with a 2022 nuclear phase-out since the first nuclear exit decision in 2001 anyway. It says the short period in which they were given a run-time extension (between 2010 and 2011) before Angela Merkel鈥檚 government revoked this decision after Fukushima was not enough for them to make investments based on legally protected good faith. It could also be questioned whether the nuclear exit even touches upon the property rights of the utilities, because the state has wide-ranging political scope when it comes to restricting risky nuclear technology.

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Read a 威力彩玩法 factsheet about the legal implications of the nuclear phase-out here.

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Handelsblatt

鈥淲ithin their rights鈥�

Nobody, not even the heads of the large utilities E.ON and RWE, seriously questions the energy transition five years after Fukushima, writes J眉rgen Flauger in an op-ed for the Handelsblatt. But it is good that the Constitutional Court is deciding on the utilties鈥� law suits, because the question of whether everything was done in a legally correct way when the government decided on the nuclear exit needs answering. The companies鈥� CEOs owe it to their shareholders to fight for compensation if the government made mistakes, Flauger argues.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

鈥淏illion euro law suit against nuclear phase-out鈥�

The curious aspect of the utilities鈥� legal action at the Constitutional Court is that they are already thinking about abandoning it, writes Joachim Jahn in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Taking back their law suit against the government over the nuclear phase-out of 2011 could become part of a deal about who pays for the decommissioning of old nuclear plants and storage of radioactive waste, the author says, referring to sources among the plaintiffs.

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Read a 威力彩玩法 factsheet about securing utility payments for the nuclear clean-up here.

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Federal Association of Cooperatives (DGRV) / Greenpeace Energy

鈥淓qual opportunities for citizens鈥� energy 辫谤辞箩别肠迟蝉鈥�

The听 and energy cooperative Greenpeace Energy have tabled a new proposal to secure the future of citizens' wind parks in the pending transition to an auction-based renewable system. The cooperatives propose that citizens鈥� wind projects do not participate directly at the tenders for wind farms likely starting in 2017. Instead, they should be awarded the feed-in tariff that resulted in the auctions in retrospect. 鈥淭his process will ensure that citizens鈥� energy will be preserved as a driver of the Energiewende and won鈥檛 be left behind by large competitors,鈥� said Greenpeace Energy spokesman Marcel Keiffenheim in a press release.
The ministry for economics and energy has . Energy state secretary Rainer Baake said at the DGRV conference that it was his ministry鈥檚 firm intention to preserve the variety of actors that is a 鈥渢rademark of the German energy transition鈥�. But he said the successful participation of cooperatives at least year鈥檚 solar tenders was proof that citizens鈥� energy projects can compete successfully at auctions.

Find the proposal in German .

Read a factsheet on the reform of the Renewable Energy Act here.

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Klimaretter.info

鈥淭he government re-monopolises renewables鈥�

The government鈥檚 plan to introduce auctions for renewable installations was endangering the sector that was so far dominated by small and medium sized cooperatives and companies, Hermann Albers, head of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) told Klimaretter.info. He was under the impression that the auction model was a means to organise a re-monopolisation of the energy supply so that it will not be as decentralised and citizen-dominated as before, he said. Large power suppliers could enter into the auctions with dumping prices because they could get their losses back by raising the power price for their customers. Citizen cooperatives who do not have this customer base would not be able to compete, Albers said.

Read the interview in German .

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Deutschlandfunk

鈥淎fD 鈥� Pool for climate sceptics and opponents of the Energiewende?鈥�

It is difficult to assess what position the right-wing Alternative f眉r Deutschland party (AfD), which was voted into the parliaments of three German states at the weekend, has on climate policy because it does not have a party programme, the Deutschlandfunk reports. AfD members argued during the campaign that the energy transition was making power expensive for ordinary people and that fossil fuels and nuclear power should be kept in the power supply. The AfD in Baden-W眉rttemberg was opposed to wind power because 鈥渋t made people ill鈥� and 鈥渄isfigured the landscape鈥�. In Saxony-Anhalt, the party is in favour of local lignite power production because it would make Germany independent of imports of energy commodities. The party also questions anthropogenic climate change as very uncertain.

Read the article in German .

Read a 威力彩玩法 factsheet on the states that recently had elections here.

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Bild Zeitung

鈥淐oal chaos鈥�

Utility Vattenfall is allegedly thinking about not going through with the sale of its lignite operations in Germany - shortly before the end of the bidding period, the mass daily Bild Zeitung reports. The buying prices offered by the interested parties were not high enough and Vattenfall would not sell the lignite assets at any price, an insider told the paper.

Read a 威力彩玩法 factsheet about Vattenfall鈥檚 coal assets in Germany here.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

鈥淕ermany鈥檚 power plug is in the north-east鈥�

A total of 49 percent of electricity consumed in the transmission grid zone of grid operator 50Hertz in north-east Germany comes from renewable installations, the company said on Monday. Investment into the power lines of 50Hertz has hit a record 902 million euros, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Re-dispatch measures cost 350 million euros in 2015. 50Hertz benefits from the grid expansion, and from north-east Germany becoming the 鈥減ower plug鈥� of the country, as CEO Boris Schucht puts it. However, he does not approve of putting the cost burden for the expansion mostly on the people living in these regions, the paper reports.

Read the 50Hertz press release in English .

Read a 威力彩玩法 dossier on the grid expansion here.

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Carbon Market Watch

鈥淓U hands industry 鈧�24 billion in pollution windfall鈥�

Energy intensive companies from 19 European countries have earned 24 billion euros between 2008 and 2014 under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), a study by think tank Carbon Market Watch shows. The companies secured windfall profits by being awarded too many free emission allowances which they could sell for a profit. They also bought cheaper international offsets for their emissions or passed through 鈥渃osts鈥� for freely obtained emission allowances to their customers, the report found. German industry benefited from 4.5 billion euros during this period.

Read the Carbon Market Watch analysis in English .

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贰耻谤翱产蝉别谤惫鈥椭搁

State of Renewable Energies in Europe

Germany led the way in 2014 in installed wind power capacity and generation, photovoltaic capacity and production, power production from biogas, and electricity and heat production from renewable urban waste, according to the 2015 edition by 贰耻谤翱产蝉别谤惫鈥椭搁 on the share and development of renewable energies in EU member states. In the share of renewables in electricity consumption, Germany ranges mid-field, with countries like Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Italy posing higher shares.

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