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The first annual presentation of balance sheet figures by German utilities RWE and E.ON, as well as by their spin-offs innogy and Uniper, has dealt a heavy blow to aspirations that the split would allow the battered companies a fresh start, Ralf K枚pke writes in an opinion piece for Energie & Management. 鈥淭he energy-giants have shrunk and yesterday鈥檚 problems remain tomorrow鈥檚 problems,鈥� he writes. Out of the four companies, only innogy presented satisfying profits, while the others incurred billions of euros in losses. 鈥淚t has been less than a decade that E.ON, RWE and Co. decried renewable energies as permanent subsidy-recipients,鈥� K枚pke writes. Now they reiterated their calls for capacity management of fossil power plants, 鈥渄ressing it up as a contribution to supply security, while in reality it鈥檚 nothing more than subsidies鈥�, he explains.

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Germany and Australia have signed a letter of intent to intensify cooperation in the areas of energy and resources, the German economy ministry said in a press release. Rainer Baake, German state secretary in the economy ministry, and his Australian colleague Gordon de Brouwer signed the documents during the international conference Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. Its central aim is 鈥渢o support and speed up the transition to an environmentally friendly, secure and affordable energy supply鈥� by increasing energy productivity and expanding renewable energy sources, the press release said. 鈥淭he highly developed and engineered economies of Australia and Germany can learn a lot from each other in the essential areas of energy and resource supply,鈥� Baake said.

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鈥淪ome climate protection advocates rhetorically resemble religious fanatics,鈥� Michael Fabricius writes in a commentary for Die Welt Online. If two major energy agencies demand a sevenfold increase in CO2-emissions reduction 鈥渨ithout explaining how that is going to work, they do nothing but to reinforce the moral self-esteem of their fellow believers鈥�, Fabricius writes. 鈥淐limate protection won鈥檛 benefit from that,鈥� he argues, saying that other groups of society are repelled by calls for higher investments in the energy sector. 鈥淐limate change is an undeniable fact,鈥� Fabricius writes, adding that 鈥渕ankind in any case has to prepare for taking the leap into non-fossil energy provision鈥�. Continuously making greater and more costly demands will not be conducive, he argues.

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The German authority responsible for ensuring the correct functioning of smart electricity meters examines whether tighter regulations for producers are necessary, Hanna Decker writes on Frankfurter Allgemeine online. Following a Dutch study, according to which smart meter results deviated up to more than 580 percent from actual power consumption, said it was unlikely similar measurement errors had occurred in Germany too, Decker writes. But the PTB was going to take the news from the Netherlands 鈥渧ery seriously鈥� and consult producers on the matter. The German parliament last year enacted legislation that gradually makes the use of smart meters compulsory, Decker adds.

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