News in Brief 2024
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Iqony Fernwärme and RWE sign new heat supply contract
Iqony Fernwärme GmbH, Essen/Germany, and RWE AG, Essen/Germany, have extended their existing contract for the supply of heat from RWE’s Essen-Karnap waste-to-energy plant to Iqony’s district heating network. The new contract will run from 1st January 2025 to 31st December 2036. The waste-to-energy plant in Essen-Karnap has a heat output…
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Reform of Mining Law − EU Critical Raw Materials Act − Transformation
The 5th Colloquium on raw materials, environmental and climate protection (Kolloquium zu Rohstoff-, Umwelt- und Klimaschutzfragen – KRUK) took place online on 22nd January 2024 with Prof. Walter Frenz, Teaching and Research Area of Mining and Environmental Law (BUR) and Prof. Axel Preuße, Institute for Marrow Sheath, Mining Damage Science…
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Digitalisation, automation, electrification
The industry emphasised its innovative spirit at the 11th colloquium “Conveying Technology in Mining”, which has been held at Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld/Germany, for two decades. The global demand for raw materials is increasing – also due to numerous future technologies. The mining industry is therefore constantly on the…
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VIK concerned about the expected decommissioning of further power generation capacities
The Association of the Industrial Power Industry (VIK), Berlin/Germany, is very concerned about the announced further closures of coal-fired power plant units on a considerable scale. Various power plant units in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lusatia were expected to be shut down at the end of March 2024 when the Replacement…
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Engineering and consulting service provider DMT opens up new markets in Latin America
DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen/Germany, part of the TÜV NORD GROUP’s Energy & Resources business unit, has acquired a majority stake in the Brazilian company Saga Consultoria and is bringing the company under the DMT brand umbrella. The engineering and consulting service provider is thus expanding its presence with a…
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Wolfsberg lithium project gains access to the US capital market with Nasdaq listing of Critical Metals
The merger between European Lithium Ltd. and Sizzle Acquisition Corp. to form the newly founded Critical Metals Corp. has been finalised. Critical Metals began trading on the US technology exchange Nasdaq on 28th February 2024 under the symbol CRML (Figure 1). Critical Metals will advance the construction and commissioning of…
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STEAG reorganizes management team
Continuity and change go hand in hand at STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany (Figure 1): Andreas Reichel, Chairman of the Board of Management and Labor Relations Director since 2022, will continue to lead the energy company. Nicole Hildebrand and Dieter Dehlke are new members of the Board of Management. This was decided…
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Iqony’s hydrogen project in Völklingen-Fenne in Saarland, classified as Important Project of Common European Interest
HydroHub Fenne (Figure 1), an electrolysis project for the production of green, i. e. climate-neutral, hydrogen in Völklingen-Fenne in Saarland/Germany has been classified by the EU as an “Important Project of Common European Interest” (IPCEI). This decision means that the EU approval required under German state aid law has now been…
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WaterSense: New THGA project aims to improve the blue-green infrastructure in the Ruhr region
Water and green spaces not only improve the urban climate, they also offer people in the Ruhr metropolis recreation on their doorstep. Against this backdrop, an intact blue-green infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. In a new project entitled “WaterSense”, the Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN) at the TH Georg Agricola…
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Ulrich Paschedag bids farewell to retirement
Ulrich Paschedag (Figure 1) retired from the TH Georg Agricola University (THGA), Bochum/Germany, at the end of February 2024. He studied mining engineering at the RWTH Aachen University where he achieved his diploma. He then decided to join the central institution for research and development in the hard coal industry,…
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