2025

• What was once “the world's largest battery storage facility” would be a mere dwarf today
• 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