News in Brief 2021

The State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany intends to accelerate the development of a pioneering hydrogen economy. Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Prof. Andreas Pinkwart introduced the strategic cornerstones for this back in late 2020 with the hydrogen roadmap. With the decision to fund the H2UB, in which Open Grid Europe GmbH (OGE), Essen, RAG-Stiftung, Essen, and TÜV SÜD ...

Some three years after the ceremony to mark the end of the German coal mining industry, leading representatives of RAG-Stiftung and RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, joined Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a historic mining site. Together with the head of state and other representatives from the worlds of politics, business and culture, the chair of the RAG-Stiftung board of management Bernd ...

Creos Deutschland, Encevo, GazelEnergie, GRTgaz, H2V, Hydrogène de France, SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar GmbH and STEAG GmbH have constituted themselves as the European economic business interest grouping (EEIG) “Grande Region Hydrogen” (Figure 1). The Members of the EEIG have, each individually and partially together, set themselves the goal of establishing an integrated cross-border energy system in the Greater Region by linking ...

SENS LSG, a German-Austrian joint venture in the field of photovoltaics (PV) which was only founded at the end of 2020, is significantly advancing the energy transition in Greece. Together with the LSG Group from Vienna/Austria, SENS is to construct solar PV power plants with a total capacity of 480 MW in Greece in the coming months (Figure 1), and further ...

STEAG Solar Energy Solutions GmbH (SENS), Würzburg/Germany, and the Czech-Dutch company Greenbuddies Energy BV, based in Eindhoven/Netherlands, will in future join forces on the photovoltaic (PV) market in the BeNeLux countries (Figure 1). The aim is to offer ground-mounted PV projects and associated services in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. From the Greenbuddies branch in Eindhoven headed by Jos Schlangen, ...

The Working Group on Energy Balances (AG Energiebilanzen) elected Michael Nickel as the new chair of the board of management and as a member of the management at this year’s general meeting in Berlin/Germany. Nickel has been deputy chair of the AG Energiebilanzen since 2004. Before that, he had worked for the Federal Association of German Energy and Water Management ...

Over the course of 2021, it has become clear that security of supply is and will remain one of the most important topics of the energy transition. The expansion of renewable energies that are dependent on supply, wind and solar, is at the centre of energy policy. The continuously increasing share of renewable energies increases the need to hold on ...

DMT GROUP, Essen/Germany, a global engineering and consultancy group, is playing a central role in efforts to explore geothermal energy potential across North-West Europe. DMT is providing expertise in seismic measurement, boreholes and data evaluation to further the ambitions of the European Green Deal. DMT is committed to working with partners across Europe to harness the region’s untapped renewable energy ...

Quarry company Stricker & Weiken GmbH & Co. KG, Warstein/Germany, is one of the first quarries in Germany to be CSC certified. The Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC) promotes transparency in the concrete manufacturing process and its value chain, and in the effects on the social and ecological environment. Stricker & Weiken was able achieve the silver CSC certificate. Plant manager ...

The Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop was the last coal mine in Germany. On 21st December 2018, the last lump of coal was brought to the surface here in a big ceremony and handed over to the Federal President. Since then, the withdrawal from the mine workings has been pushed ahead underground to safely close the mine. This work is now ...