Month: October 2020
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Daldrup
Former Federal Minister Wolfgang Cle-ment resigned from his position on the Supervisory Board at Daldrup & Söhne AG, Ascheberg/Germany, at the Annual General Meeting on 27th August 2020. The new member of the Supervisory Board is Heinrich Goßheger, a retired bank director. Josef Daldrup has left the Executive Board and…
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K+S
At the request of the company, Fabiola Fernandez Grund, who had already been appointed as a further member of the Executive Board at K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel/Germany, last December, will not be taking up her position at the start of next year. In reaching this decision, the Supervisory Board followed the…
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RAG Anthrazit Ibbenbüren
Jürgen Scharnewski is the new CEO and Employee Relations Director at RAG Anthrazit Ibbenbüren GmbH in Ibbenbüren/Germany. He is taking over from Jörg Buhren-Ortmann, who has taken retirement.
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STEAG
As usual, the AGM of STEAG Fernwärme GmbH, Essen/Germany, appointed the members of company‘s Advisory Council. There were three new appointments here: Alongside Arnd Fittkau, Director of real estate company Vonovia SE, the District Heating Advisory Council now also includes Martin Harter as alderman of the City of Essen for…
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Uniper
Klaus Schäfer, the founding CEO of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf,/Germany sadly passed away on 26th August 2020 at the age of 53. Schäfer had been Chairman of the Executive Board at the company since Uniper was founded until mid-2019. He had already been forced to withdraw from his duties since August…
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Modern coal-fired power stations are facing losses that could potentially run into billions
The decision to phase out fossil fuels has already been taken. The intention behind Germany’s Coal-Fired Power Generation Termination Act (KVBG) is to resolve a social conflict, while also guaranteeing planning reliability for everyone involved. However, the legislation is not catering to this aspiration in full. In particular operators of…
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STEAG disappointed at rejection of urgent application
“The Federal Constitutional Court’s decision is bitterly disappointing for STEAG,” Joachim Rumstadt, Chairman of the Board of Management of STEAG GmbH (Figure 1), Essen/Germany, remarks. “Since the rejection of the urgent application was made on formal grounds, the question of the constitutionality of the Coal-fired Power Generation Termination Act has…
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An important first step
In mid-June 2020, the German Government presented the National Hydrogen Strategy after a long period of preparation. STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany, welcomes the blueprint for a successful market ramp-up of a hydrogen sector in Germany which is now available: “The paper contains a number of useful and pioneering approaches. We hope,…
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STEAG invests in compressed air systems
STEAG New Energies GmbH, Saarbrücken/Germany, a subsidiary of Essen-based energy company STEAG GmbH, has established a joint venture together with Karl Uhl GmbH, Bochum/Germany, a leading business in the field of industrial compressed air technology. The aim of the new STEAG UHL Druckluft-Versorgung GmbH is to expand the compressed air…
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Climate-friendly heating for the Saar region
Saarbrücken-based STEAG New Energies GmbH and Fernwärme Verbund Saar GmbH (FVS), together with Entsorgungsverband Saar (EVS), will add a heat extraction system to the waste-to-energy plant (AVA) Velsen (Figure 1) . In the future, around 170,000 MWh/a of heat will be fed into the Saar District Heating System via a…
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