Germany

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Skirts Austin's Environmental Rules at Texas Gigafactory

Tesla has used a new Texas state law to exempt its Austin gigafactory from Austin’s environmental regulations, as reported by Austin Business Journal.Tesl…

Floating Solar

German Startup Planning Vertical Floating PV Plant

Floating PV installations are still quite rare and generally small in size in Germany. Some megawatt-sized projects are now being developed or built, but the Ge…

Offshore Wind Power

First Siemens Gamesa 14.7 MW Turbine Stands at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm

Moray West, an offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, Scotland, has installed the first of 60 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines.OceanWindsSupplied…

Renewable Energy

Evolving Concept of Energy Security Must Address Energy Demand, System Flexibility, Technology Access and Infrastructure Development

The transition away from fossil fuels to renewables requires a new interpretation of the concept of energy security, according to a new report by the Internatio…

Wind Turbine

Inox wind receives order for supply of 210 MW wind turbines from hero future energies

Inox Wind said the order is for its state-of-the-art 3 MW wind turbine generators (WTGs) and the scope comprises equipment supply with certain add-on services. …

Electric Vehicles

BMW Investing €200M in Landshut to Expand Facilities for Neue Klasse Electric Drive Unit Central Housing

The BMW Group is investing a further €200 million in Plant Landshut to expand the manufacturing facilities for the central housing of the highly integrated…

Nuclear Fuel

Production to Begin of Innovative Fuel for German Research Reactor

France's Framatome and Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) have agreed to establish the industrialisation process for the manufacture of mono…

Geothermal Power Project

First Geothermal Well a Success for MTU Facility in Munich, Germany

The Allach Th1 geothermal borehole at the MTU Aero Engines facility in Munich, Germany (source: Erdwerk)Drilling and pump testing of the first well drilled for …

Hydropower Plant

Statkraft Supplies Hydropower and Wind Power to Deutsche Bahn

Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable power, and Deutsche Bahn have concluded further power purchase agreements (PPAs) for the supply of green…

Geothermal Power Plant

GA Drilling Secures $15 Million Funding to Accelerate Deep Geothermal

Demo day of GA Drilling's ANCHORBIT Tool (source: GA Drilling)GA Drilling has announced the first close of $15 million in financing after a series of succes…

Energy&Power

3rd Annual Biogas Forum

Battery Recycling

BASF Has Started Prototype Metal Refinery for Battery Recycling

BASF has successfully started operating its prototype metal refinery for battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The plant allows for the development of ope…

Geothermal Power Plant

Wuppertal, Germany Seeks Go-Ahead for Geothermal Exploration

View of Wuippertal in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (source: JensD, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)Following a joint study by Wuppertaler Stadtwerke GmbH…

Wind Turbine

Nordex Begins Wind Turbine Order Intake of 2.1 GW of Wind in the First Quarter of 2024

Nordex recorded an order intake of 338 wind turbines with a total capacity of 2,086 MW in the first quarter of 2024 (Q1 2023: 1,021 MW). The average sales price…

Geothermal Power Project

Neptune Energy Granted Geothermal, Lithium Permit in Altmark, Germany

Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (source: Silesia711, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)Neptune Energy Germany GmbH (Neptune Energy) has been awarded by the …