Renewable energy success makes Germany a magnet for green business
“With record demand every year in Germany and growing markets across Europe, it’s not surprising that many of the world’s biggest solar and wind players are located here,”
Germany Achieves 17% Renewable Energy Sourced Electricity : Renewable Energy News 3 March 11, Renewable energy sourced electricity in German homes exceeded 17 percent in 2010 and solar installations doubled reports Germany Trade & Invest. Germany’s solar market continues to be the biggest in the world, with new solar power systems installed in 2010 amounting to a staggering 7 GW and representing nearly half the world market. Continue reading
Public and political opposition to extending life of Germany’s nukes
Polls suggest a majority of Germans oppose Merkel’s plans to push back that phase-out.
Opposition-led states file lawsuit against nuclear power extension | Germany | Deutsche Welle Andre Bowen, 28.02.2011 Opposition parties from five Germans states are taking the national government to court over plans to extend the lifespan of Germany’s 17 nuclear power plants, insisting that their approval is required. Five German states led by opposition parties filed a lawsuit in the country’s highest court on Monday, arguing that the government’s extension of the lifespan of nuclear power plants should have needed their approval. Continue reading
Germany’s tax on nuclear resulting in debt for utility
RWE Will Exceed Net Debt to Ebitda Target on German Nuclear Tax, Bloomberg, By Nicholas Comfort – Feb 24, 2011 RWE, Gernmany’s second-largest utility, said a tax on nuclear reactors means the company won’t be able to keep net debt to three times or less adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization………RWE Will Exceed Net Debt to Ebitda Target on German Nuclear Tax – Bloomberg
Police detain 350 in German anti nuclear protest
Hundreds detained in nuclear shipment protest ( Google hosted news, AFP) – 17 Feb, BERLIN — German police Wednesday said they detained hundreds of anti-nuclear protestors who tried to block the departure of a cross-country shipment of nuclear waste.The activists tried to get in the way of an 80-metre (260-foot), five-carriage train carrying some 60 tonnes of nuclear as it set off from the western city of Karlsruhe to Lubmin, the main facility in eastern Germany.Police said the protest was peaceful and around 350 were detained.The train was expected to arrive on Thursday after a 900-kilometre (560-mile) trip………AFP: Hundreds detained in nuclear shipment protest
Blockade of nuclear transport in Germany
Environmentalists protest transportation of nuclear wastes – PTI, 16 Feb 2011, -Environmentalists in Germany announced that they would extend their protest against the transportation and recycling of nuclear waste near residential areas and insist on it being stored in a nuclear deposit. Continue reading
Germany to experience another anti-nuclear protest
“We’re of the opinion that atomic energy cannot be controlled,” Leipold said. “It creates an enormous disposal problem, and we have to deal with that. We have a large transitional storage facility here, and there are many people here who are not okay with it.”
Protesters in Germany gear up to block another nuclear waste transport | Deutsche Welle Gerhard Schneibel, 10 Feb 2011, Activists are preparing to protest a cross-country train transport of nuclear waste. Authorities aren’t saying when the transport will leave, but the protestors plan to intercept it. Continue reading
Old nuclear plants to close in Germany
German Utilities May Close Old Nuclear Plants, Handelsblatt Says, Bloomberg, By Holger Elfes – Feb 7, 2011 German utilities are looking at closing older nuclear power plants, as tighter security standards may make them unprofitable, Handelsblatt reported today, without saying where it got the information…..German Utilities May Close Old Nuclear Plants, Handelsblatt Says – Bloomberg
Legal challenge to German govt extending life of nuclear plants
argues that the nuclear sites were inadequately protected against plane crashes and that safe nuclear waste disposal was not yet possible.
Transport of plutonium meets huge opposition in Germany
By using MOX, Grohnde will become even more dangerous than other nukes.
The protest was supported by 10 civic action groups across the region
2,200 protest at plutonium shipments from UK to Germany | Indymedia Australia, Diet Simon, 18 Jan 2011, About 2,200 nuclear opponents demonstrated outside the Grohnde power station in central north Germany on Sunday 16 January. The protesters, from very young to quite elderly, squatted outside the nuke in a symbolic action. They demanded that the federal and state governments scrap nuclear transport plans. Continue reading
Germany won’t take part in military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities
“We are definitely not going to participate in a military action” to scuttle Iran’s suspected nuclear bomb program,
Rooftop Solar Farm
the project shows the huge potential that roof surfaces of industry and trade buildings have for renewable energy
Goodyear Dunlop Rooftop Solar Farm Completed by Energy Matters, 12 JANUARY, 2011 German renewable energy company juwi Solar has announced completion of a massive 7.4MW rooftop solar farm at Goodyear Dunlop’s logistics center in Germany. The PV based solar farm will generated approximately 7.3 million kWh per year, the equivalent of the electricity needs of approximately 1,800 households. Continue reading
Democracy under threat with German govt’s nuclear policy
The government is discussing using the military inside the country. Will tanks soon be rolling against peaceful squat blockades?
GLS Bank, Triodos Bank, Umwelt- und Ethikbank. These four banks explicitly reject nuclear funding.
German anti-nuclear movement’s 2010 de.indymedia.org (translated by Diet Simon) 06.01.2011 2010 was the year of the anti-nuclear movement in Germany. Not since the catastrophic Chernobyl meltdown 25 years ago were there as many people on German streets protesting against nuclear power production as in 2010. Continue reading
300 billion euros predicted for renewable energy investment in Germany
Seeger Expects 300 Billion Euros Investment in Renewable Energy, FAZ Says, Bloomberg, By Ragnhild Kjetland – Jan 7, 2011 Seeger AG, a biomass power company, expects as much as 300 billion euros ($390 billion) in investment to expand renewable energy in Germany in the next few years, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing Chief Executive Officer Thomas Krause…….Seeger Expects 300 Billion Euros Investment in Renewable Energy, FAZ Says – Bloomberg
Germany’s booming green collar jobs
the renewable-energy industry has been one of the biggest sources of new jobs in Germany in the past decade and has been boosting exports…..About 340,000 workers in Germany are employed in the making and installation of wind turbines, solar panels and other clean- energy equipment. That workforce has doubled since 2004,
Merkel’s Nuclear Embrace Earns Derision as German Clean-Power Costs Climb – Bloomberg , By Jeremy van Loon – Jan 5, 2011 “…………..Germany a green-power success story. It gets more than 17 percent of its electricity from wind turbines, solar arrays and other renewable resources, up from about 6 percent a decade ago, according to the German Renewable Energy Federation. Continue reading
Despite 10,000 police, protestors again halt German nuclear waste train
The authorities were estimated to have fielded 10,000 police to thwart the protests. The anti-nuclear movement argues that nuclear power is unsafe because there is no certain way of storing the waste for centuries and ensuring it does not pollute the environment.
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