European Union

By Sören Amelang | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Onshore wind power has become more popular than ever among people living in Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine, a poll has found. One in three respondents said Russia’s war and Germany’s previous dependence on energy imports from Russia have made the expansion […]

France

France’s Plan for Solar Panels on all Car Parks is just the Start of an Urban Renewable Revolution

The Conversation

By Dylan Ryan, Edinburgh Napier University | – (The Conversation) – France has approved legislation that will require all car parks with more than 80 spaces to be covered over by solar panels. This is part of a wider programme that will see solar panels occupy derelict lots, vacant land alongside roads and railways, as […]

Climate Crisis

Geothermal Energy to get Relaunch in Germany as Government seeks new Heating Sources

Benjamin Wehrmann

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – The vast potential of geothermal energy generation for heating has so far been under-utilised in Germany, but a new exploration process launched by the economy and climate ministry (BMWK) aims to better exploit the renewable energy source underground. The ministry said it will consult policymakers, […]

Batteries

Germany Plans to drive 10 million km of Train Traffic in one Province Electrically with New Charging Technology

Clean Energy Wire

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun to electrify rail lines in the north of the country with an innovative new electrical infrastructure that will charge battery-powered trains and replace diesel locomotives. DB is planning to build so-called “overhead contact line islands” in […]

Climate Crisis

Renewable energy Exports key Pillar for Ukraine’s reconstruction – Chancellor Scholz

Benjamin Wehrmann

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country’s financial assistance needs to rebuild its economy. Renewable […]

Algeria

French-Algerian War: 60 Years on, what is behind France’s reconciliation Agenda?

The Conversation

By Jonathan Lewis, Bangor University | – (The Conversation) – If you cross the Seine in the centre of Paris at the iconic Pont Saint-Michel and walk along the promenade, you may glimpse a small plaque on your way towards the steps that lead down to the riverbank. Placed not on the actual bridge itself, […]

Electricity Cost

Germany to Give Electricity Rebates, financed with Windfall Profit Tax on Energy Corporations

Benjamin Wehrmann

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The German government plans to introduce a power price brake that will grant electricity consumers a lower price for a fixed share of their estimated use in 2021, a presentation prepared by the chancellery and seen by Clean Energy Wire showed. The measure will be financed with taxes retroactively […]

Greece

Could Tensions between Greece and Turkey spiral into yet another European war?

The Conversation

By Yasar Bukan, Toronto Metropolitan University | – Tensions are flaring between Turkey and Greece over the militarization of the eastern Aegean islands and a host of other issues. Considering Russia’s military expansion across the region, it would be strategically wise for the two NATO members to de-escalate and improve relations based on mutual trust […]

Climate Crisis

Turbocharging Green Energy would Allow Ukraine, Europe better to defy Putin’s War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dan Sabbagh (in Kyiv) and Patrick Wintour report in The Guardian that recent Russian drone, rocket and missile attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure have knocked out nearly a third of Ukraine’s power stations. Facing severe battlefield losses and the potential isolation of Crimea with a bombing of the bridge connecting it […]