BACKGROUND
ENERGY-CHRONICLE
Here you will find 120 articles from the BACKGROUND section of ENERGIE-CHRONIK
(topics listed in English – texts in German
)
2025
Who will stop “Erdgas-Kathi”?
Negative electricity prices are not inevitable
Why are there grid bottlenecks?
2024
The traffic light coalition failed not because of itself, but because of the FDP
The stock market fiction of a congestion-free grid is weighing on electricity prices
2023
A household fiasco that was bound to happen
TransnetBW remains in public hands
Two fatal decisions (Siemens Energy)
Falling prices and lower demand push electricity exports into the red
The difference between electricity trading and physical electricity exchange
Who ordered the crime against Maureen Kearney?
The new offensive by nuclear power fetishists
How binding are VDE regulations?
The electricity price explosion originated on the stock market and not due to a shortage of electricity
2022
“Loss energy” does not produce greenhouse gases
In memoriam: UNION briquettes
When BASF and Gazprom jointly threatened to stop gas supplies (VNG)
Nuclear power lobby uses gas crisis to drum up support for revival of nuclear energy
How closely is France's nuclear energy industry linked to Russia?
The definitive end of all Putin sympathizers
2021
Casino electricity exchange
(SW Bad Belzig)
Special treatment for Gazprom
Marginal price instead of marginal costs?
Nuclear energy is not a reasonable alternative to renewables
Certificates of origin – the green fig leaf for gray electricity
How can we get rid of the “Energy Charter”?
220 million euros for Saint Nicholas (EnBW)
The myth of the “accelerated nuclear phase-out”
2020
Legal rip-off with balancing energy
How much more bungling will the legislature tolerate? (Atomic Energy Act)
EEG surcharge in intensive care
Endless glitches, delays, and costs: the billion-dollar EPR white elephant
Only green hydrogen benefits the climate
A huge pile of political broken china (US sanctions)
2019
“The European Green Deal” – a silly Anglicism
Is wind power already reaching its limits?
Municipal RWE shareholders in a quandary
“Deterministic frequency deviations” are increasing in frequency and scope
The crux of the matter with balancing energy
CO2 tax is more efficient than emissions trading
High-pressure tactics are poison for municipal utilities
2018
Tax waste must not be a secret
Unnecessary scrappage bonus for nuclear power plants
A little bit of Cologne is everywhere
Solar and wind power are not competitors, but complement each other
Conflict in the Balkans disrupts grid frequency
The folly of daylight saving time
Four types of power plant reserves
Electricity prices are particularly high for Hartz IV recipients
2017
Nothing but expenses (purchase premium for electric cars)
Moon prices for minute reserves
Window dressing with energy efficiency
Emissions trading has failed miserably so far
How the offshore liability levy was invented
Fortum returns to the German market
Red card for black and yellow (nuclear fuel tax)
The “Sun King” steps down (Solarworld)
The search for a final repository begins anew
Why does Germany need enriched uranium?
2016
Karlsruhe makes it clear: The phase-out of nuclear power depends on the amount of residual electricity
Risen from the dead: The ghostly revival of the “Energy Charter”
How naive can a network operator be? (Teldafax)
Great Britain continues to rely on nuclear energy
Mail from the Higher Regional Court of Cologne (Care-Energy)
From coke oven gas supplier to regulated network operator
(
Thyssengas)
Do premiums for decentralized electricity feed-in make sense?
Electric cars need more range, not more subsidies
2015
Solar power subsidies at an all-time low
The rollout of the rollout into the German language (forced digitization)
The wind power dispute in the BUND
A belt and suspenders – how sensible is the “capacity reserve”?
The fairy tale of grid-stabilizing band load
End of a cockfight (Areva)
The legacy of reprocessing
The “Ecojet” case – where can expertise still be found?
Illegal, risky, and expensive: the theatrical thunder with the moratorium
2014
The end of South Stream
The “Luxembourg Leaks”
The fracking lobby mobilizes
Pumped storage power plants – the stepchildren of the liberalized market
The nonsense with “green electricity” certificates
2013
The four corporations have relied on coal and nuclear power for far too long
The former DAX leaders E.ON and RWE have become lame
“Useful energy” – a useful term is being misused to attract customers
Attack on freedom of the press (Flexstrom)
Prepayment is dead – its successor is called Bonus
EEG costs are no longer realistic
2012
An explosive event (SW Bochum)
Attack on press freedom (Gazprom)
You can't trust the fox to guard the henhouse
(BASF – Gazprom)
Why the EEG surcharge is suddenly running away
Money for curtailment: the brave new world of “capacity markets”
The EEG surcharge – a real burden that does not actually arise
Solar power subsidies – a success story despite everything
No competition for heating electricity
The “climate Sarrazin”
Lots and lots of colorful Smarties: “smart grid” and “smart market”
2011
The crux of the matter with “primary energy consumption”
The Baltic Sea pipeline – why the Kremlin needs it so badly
The resurrection of night storage heating
Double standards with the EEG surcharge
Price zones could help avoid “electricity highways”
A PR campaign that backfired (Putin)
Teldafax – the end of a swamp flower
How smart are “smart meters”?
CCS – an expensive emergency solution with pitfalls
The end of German hard coal
How sensible is geothermal electricity in Germany?
2010
EnBW – scenes from a German-French marriage
Changing suppliers only helps to a limited extent
Harmonious synthesis of plague and cholera? (Putin)
What does Oettinger actually know about energy infrastructures?
The “eco-tax” sham – how the electricity tax came about
The EEG – a success story with obstacles
2009
The electric car between battery, fuel cell, and hybrid drive
The rise and fall of Siemens' nuclear technology expertise
The CO2 problem
Control energy – balancing energy – loss energy
2008
“Energy-saving lamps” are a further development of fluorescent tubes
ADELE to the rescue: the adiabatic compressed air storage power plant
The dispute over gas supplies in eastern Germany