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  • 16 May 2017 |

    Battered utilities take on start-ups in innovation race

    Utilities and the energy transition 16 May 2017, 00:00 As more and more countries around the globe embark on the transition to a low-carbon economy, a lot of lessons can be learned from the fate of Germany鈥檚 embattled power companies. Shaken to the core ...
  • 10 Oct 2018 |

    Electricity storage is next feat for Germany鈥檚 energy transition

    Energy storage and the Energiewende 10 Oct 2018, 09:00 Germany's rapidly rising share of weather-dependent renewable energy makes the country a testbed for storage technologies, to enable its use when there is no sun or wind. Truly large-scale ...
  • 05 Dec 2018 |

    Stricken solar sector sets out to regain leading Energiewende role

    Solar power in Germany 05 Dec 2018, 10:39 One of the sunniest summers on record in Germany and much of Central Europe in 2018 has refocused the spotlight on solar power after its decline in the last decade. Once a global technology leader, Germany's ...
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  • Sonnen says profits 鈥渆normously鈥 from global Shell network following takeover

    04 Jun 2019, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Storage Start-ups Business & Jobs S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German home battery specialist Sonnen, one of Germany鈥檚 most prominent energy transition start-ups, which was taken over by Shell earlier this year, wants to become ...
  • 23 May 2018 |

    German solar battery maker Sonnen secures Shell cash to expand

    German solar battery maker Sonnen has secured 60 million euros in funds from Shell Ventures, a unit of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, and existing shareholders to expand at home and abroad, reports Vera Eckert for Reuters newswire. Sonnen chief ...
  • 18 Jan 2019 |

    Sonnen receives 25-million-euro loan from the European Investment Bank

    18 Jan 2019, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Storage Business & Jobs pv magazine German battery storage supplier Sonnen has received a 25-million-euro loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), reports Marian Willuhn in pv magazine. The EIB said supporting ...
  • 28 Aug 2019 |

    German energy company Sonnen partners on virtual power plant in US

    28 Aug 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Business Wire Bavarian energy storage group Sonnen is building a virtual power plant from private storage systems as part of a joint project with US energy supplier Rocky Mountain Power and the Wasatch ...
  • 23 Feb 2018 |

    Battery producer sonnen wants to connect e-cars for power storage

    German battery company sonnen wants to equip electric car users with a new charging box that not only allows them to draw electricity from solar panels on their homes, but also connects them to other users, making them part of a larger battery pool. The ...
  • 08 Nov 2019 |

    Storage company Sonnen enters e-mobility with flat-rate business model

    08 Nov 2019, 14:04 S枚ren Amelang Solar Cars 威力彩玩法 / Die Welt Bavarian energy storage company Sonnen, which was taken over by oil company Shell earlier this year, is entering the e-mobility market. The company聽 said 聽it will launch a ...
  • 13 Sep 2016 |

    Electricity flat rate thanks to integrated solar PV and home storage units

    Bavarian storage manufacturer sonnen will offer a free power flat rate to consumers that install the company鈥檚 integrated solar PV and home storage systems, sonnen announced in a press release. The flat rates will be financed with revenues the company ...
  • 05 Dec 2018 |

    Solar home storage company Sonnen certified to provide control energy

    05 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 威力彩玩法 Solar Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Transmission grid operator Tennet has certified the solar power home battery producer Sonnen to become a control energy provider for the German power grid, ...
  • 03 Nov 2017 |

    New blockchain project seeks to stabilise grid with home energy storage units

    A pilot project by Dutch grid operator TenneT and German company Sonnen is meant to test power grid stabilisation with blockchain technology based on Sonnen鈥檚 decentralised home energy storage systems, TenneT says in a press release. TenneT will integrate ...
  • 13 Mar 2019 |

    Shell says Sonnen purchase part of effort to become world鈥檚 largest power company

    13 Mar 2019, 14:17 Rachel Waldholz 威力彩玩法 Business & Jobs Bloomberg Oil major Shell plans to transform itself into 鈥渢he largest electricity power company in the world鈥 by the early 2030s, and the recent purchase of German battery ...
  • Germany's Sonnen on Tesla鈥檚 home turf

    German Sonnen will supply the largest home power storage project in the Unites States with solar PV and battery systems, reports Christian Roselund for pv magazine. Each of the 2,900 homes in a new residential area in Prescott Valley, Arizona will receive ...
  • 18 Apr 2019 |

    鈥淭hat鈥檚 our turf鈥- German utilities worried about Shell acquisitions, expansion plans

    18 Apr 2019, 12:21 S枚ren Amelang Start-ups Utilities Wirtschaftswoche Shell鈥檚 acquisition of home battery start-up Sonnen and its plans to become the world鈥檚 largest power company worry German utilities, Konrad Fischer and Angela Hennersdorf report for ...
  • 17 Jan 2017 |

    German battery maker Sonnen wins Zayed Future Energy Prize

    German battery manufacturer Sonnen is the first small & medium enterprise to win the 1.5 million-dollar Zayed Future Energy Prize. The annual award has become one of the most prestigious in the cleantech industry. Sonnen called the prize the 鈥淥scar of ...
  • 21 Feb 2019 |

    Siemens enters home battery storage market

    21 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Storage 威力彩玩法 German industrial conglomerate Siemens has launched its first battery storage system geared toward private homes. Homes that generate their own electricity from sources like solar panels will be ...
  • 15 Feb 2019 |

    Oil & gas company Shell buys German battery storage firm Sonnen

    15 Feb 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter 威力彩玩法 Storage Business & Jobs 威力彩玩法 Oil and gas giant Shell is buying German home battery storage company Sonnen, turning the pioneer into a wholly owned subsidiary once regulatory ...
  • 16 Feb 2018 |

    Free e-car charging points coupled with power contract

    German renewable power company sonnen has said it will offer e-car charging infrastructure free of charge with flat rate electricity contracts to customers switching to the provider, reports Henning Peitsmeier in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淲e ...
  • 11 Mar 2019 |

    Germany鈥檚 Siemens and Sonnen leading new wave in home battery storage

    11 Mar 2019, 14:15 Rachel Waldholz Storage Business & Jobs Financial Times Residential battery storage is poised to become a major industry, reports Patrick McGee in the Financial Times. That trend has been highlighted by major recent investments from ...
  • "A small firm in Germany has big ambitions in green energy"

    German company Sonnen seeks to disrupt the energy market by decentralising energy supply and connecting energy-producing households with one another, Stanley Reed writes in the New York Times. The company from Bavaria, which is active in Europe, the US ...
  • German solar battery maker sonnen works on 鈥渨orld鈥檚 biggest smart power storage鈥 in Australia

    The state of South Australia wants to build the world鈥檚 largest network of connected home power storages and counts on German solar battery maker sonnen to deliver part of the infrastructure for the project that will encompass 40,000 households, the ...
  • 02 May 2017 |

    Pilot project taps batteries & blockchain to iron out renewable power

    02 May 2017, 00:00 A German pilot project will hook up thousands of household batteries to balance out intermittent renewable power production. Grid operator Tennet and solar battery maker Sonnen said they will use blockchain technology to build a network ...
  • 07 Oct 2016 |

    鈥淧ower from your neighbour or from your e-mail provider?鈥

    Several German start-ups prepare to revolutionise the national energy market, writes Helmut B眉nder in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淲e鈥檒l get rid of established suppliers鈥 for instance is the slogan of Sonnen GmbH, a high-tech company from the German ...
  • 23 Jan 2017 |

    Battery storages to revolutionise energy sector

    German battery maker sonnen GmbH aims to push the country鈥檚 traditional energy giants out of the market with flat-rate contracts for electricity provided by a network of battery storage and green power facilities, Franz Hubik writes for Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he ...
  • 02 May 2017 |

    鈥淪afety grid for power鈥

    Power grid operator Tennet and household power storage provider Sonnen plan to use a network of small-scale batteries to help reduce costs caused by grid bottlenecks between Germany鈥檚 windy North and the power-hungry South, reports Michael Bauchm眉ller in ...
  • 30 Sep 2020 |

    Shell turns German operations into test case for global sustainability transformation

    30 Sep 2020, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs 威力彩玩法 Shell plans to make Germany a test case in its global ambition to become a net-zero emission company. The British-Dutch oil major, one of the world's largest companies by revenues ...
  • 10 May 2017 |

    鈥淒igital is decentral鈥

    The German energy sector is slowly embracing digitalisation with its push towards decentralisation, writes Ulrich Sch盲fer in a column in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. It is starting to depart from 鈥渢he centralistic, military precision鈥 thinking and management. ...
  • 14 Jul 2016 |

    Video - 鈥淎t what stage are German makers of pv home storage devices?鈥

    Many producers showcased their storage devices at the Intersolar Europe trade fair in Munich. Jonathan Gifford, pv magazine global editor, and G枚tz Fischbeck, CEO of company Smart Solar Consulting, visited the exhibits and conducted a series of interviews ...
  • 02 May 2017 |

    鈥淧ower grid revolution鈥

    The use of batteries to level out intermittent solar and wind generation in the Tennet and Sonnen project shows that 鈥渢he Energiewende is making progress,鈥 writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淣ew offshore wind parks have been approved ...
  • 鈥淭he sunshine giants鈥

    Small solar energy companies that invest heavily in research and development are Germany鈥檚 last hope of gaining a good share in an industry in which the country has invested billions in subsidies, Daniel Wetzel writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. ...
  • 03 May 2018 |

    Mercedes-Benz exits home battery market

    Mercedes-Benz will stop production of residential batteries, ending a short-lived challenge to storage systems made by Tesla, start-up Sonnen and others, reports Julian Spector for Greentech Media. Little over two years after the launch, Mercedes-Benz ...
  • 24 Feb 2017 |

    鈥淐lean energy鈥檚 dirty secret鈥

    The rapid rise of renewable energy systems in recent years could signal that 鈥渢he world is entering an era of clean, unlimited and cheap power,鈥 The Economist writes. But while it was 鈥渁bout time鈥 renewables played a more important role, the 鈥渄irty secret ...
  • 鈥淧ower from the cupboard鈥

    Today, all a household needs to secure an autonomous power supply is a roof-top solar panel, internet access and a cupboard-sized battery in the basement, writes Inge Kloepfer in weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. By offering just that, ...
  • Ten German startups in Cleantech Group鈥檚 global 100 cleantech list

    30 Jan 2019, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang 威力彩玩法 Hydrogen Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology Cleantech Group Ten German startups are among the 100 most innovative clean technology companies from around the globe, according to US-based ...
  • 27 Jan 2020 |

    Research project seeks to stabilise German power grid with wind turbines

    27 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 威力彩玩法 A new research project aimed at solving one of the major technological difficulties of the energy transition is seeking to use the energy from wind turbines' moving rotors and ...
  • 08 May 2019 |

    Siemens spins off struggling gas and power division, including wind turbines

    08 May 2019, 13:16 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Gas Wind Business & Jobs Reuters German engineering conglomerate Siemens is spinning off its gas and power business, which has dragged on the firm鈥檚 performance as the rise of ...
  • 04 Sep 2020 |

    Increasing interest in power from old solar PV installations

    04 Sep 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Solar pv magazine A growing number of regional utility companies are showing interest in buying electricity generated from solar PV installations that are more than 20 years old and will cease to receive feed-in payments ...
  • Debate on scrapping renewables levy gathers pace in Merkel's conservative party

    17 Feb 2021, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Renewable Energy Act | EEG Policy Handelsblatt / pv magazine Plans to scrap Germany's renewables levy are maturing within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with a new ...
  • Oil major Total says keeps an eye on 鈥渧ery interesting鈥 German hydrogen projects

    03 Jul 2019, 14:15 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels Gas Hydrogen Technology Wirtschaftswoche French oil major Total keeps an eagle eye on German projects that use ...
  • Heating start-up Thermondo aims to be leading energy supplier

    27 Mar 2019, 11:14 威力彩玩法 is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we have launched a series on start-ups that ...
  • 鈥淯tility in a box鈥- Start-up Lumenaza enables disruptive power trading

    20 Mar 2019, 11:49 威力彩玩法 is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we are launching a series on start-ups that ...
  • 12 Oct 2018 |

    Shake-up in Bavaria's election may impact German energy policy

    12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
  • Energy transition start-ups shake up the business world

    11 Jul 2019, 13:33 The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many start-ups are ...
  • Quotes from the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue

    21 Mar 2017, 00:00 Over 1,000 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 90 countries take part in the third Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry. The following ...
  • Amazon-backed start-up tado uses smart thermostats to cut heating emissions

    17 Apr 2019, 09:50 威力彩玩法 is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we' ...
  • 12 Jun 2019 |

    Start-up Next Kraftwerke's renewable virtual power plant stabilises grid

    12 Jun 2019, 13:26 威力彩玩法 is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we' ...
  • 27 Sep 2021 |

    Tracking climate and energy in Germany's election year

    27 Sep 2021, 15:30 Germany is set to vote for a new government on 26 September. After 16 years at the helm of Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel will make room for a successor who will shape the country's energy and climate ...
  • Blockchain- the next revolution in the energy sector?

    20 Jul 2017, 00:00 The energy sector is both enthralled and terrified by blockchain technology, an innovative and potentially revolutionary way to process transactions such as power trades or financial flows. Some proponents claim it is the death knell ...
  • 26 Jan 2017 |

    How can Germany keep the lights on in a renewable energy future?

    26 Jan 2017, 00:00 Germany鈥檚 shift to green energy continues apace. But how will a fully renewables-based electricity system power the world鈥檚 fourth-largest economy on days when there's no sun or wind? Energiewende opponents argue Germany will face ...
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  • 14 Mar 2022 |

    Global reporting on new IPCC report: Securing a liveable and sustainable future for all

    14 Mar 2022, 15:00 Milou Dirkx International In a report published by the IPCC two weeks ago, 270 scientists from 67 countries reviewed more than 34,000 articles to assess the effects of climate change, the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural ...
  • The Global Energy Transition: Is Journalism Ready? #GETJO17

    10- 11 Nov 2017 Bonn The energy transition has become one of the defining global stories of our time. It demands an international perspective as well as cross-border research and cooperation. Against the backdrop of the COP23 climate conference in Bonn, ...
  • 10 Nov 2017 |

    Programme: The Global Energy Transition: Is Journalism Ready?

    10- 11 Nov 2017 Br眉hl A conference for journalists, journalism funders, and journalism networks Friday, 10 November 2017 09.00聽聽聽聽 Conference registration desks open 聽 Location: H+ Hotel K枚ln Br眉hl, R枚merstra脽e 1, 50321 Br眉hl (approx. 45 mins from Bonn ...
  • Conference panellists and session chairs

    聽 Please note: This list was compiled in preparation for the 威力彩玩法 network conference "The Global Energy Transition: Is Journalism Ready?" in November 2017. Aba帽o, Imelda- President of Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists ...
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