Germany
Germany Awards 900 Megawatts In Wind & Solar Tenders In Year’s First Auctions
Germany’s Federal Network Agency announced the winners this week from its first onshore wind and solar auctions for 2018, awarding more than 900 megawatts to over 100 separate projects. On Tuesday, the Bundesnetzagentur (Germany’s Federal Network Agency) revealed the winners…
Germany Considers Free Public Transport to Fight Air Pollution
In car-obsessed Germany, the government is considering free public transportation in some of its most polluted cities to reduce road traffic and emissions from private vehicles. “We are considering public transport free of charge in order to reduce the number…
Report: EU Renewables Beat Coal Power for the First Time
New EU renewables generation increased sharply in 2017, but the lion’s share of these gains were shouldered by the UK and Germany, demonstrating the “uneven” nature of energy sector decarbonisation across Europe. That was the main conclusion of a new…
German Luxury Carmakers May Be Looking to Reverse Engineer Tesla’s Model 3
According to a report from Fred Lambert at Electrek, a pair of Tesla Model 3 vehicles have been spotted heading toward Germany, where a team from the competition may attempt to reverse engineer them. While Tesla has certainly struggled to…
Scientists Investigated Wind Farm Noise For 3 Years. Here’s What They Found
Scientists in Germany have been studying the effects of wind farm noise on nearby residents and have discovered that not everyone is annoyed by the wind farms, but that those who are can sometimes bring the problem on by themselves…
Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy Over Christmas It Had to Pay People to Use It
People in Germany essentially got paid to use electricity on Christmas. Electricity prices in the country went negative for many customers – as in, below zero – on Sunday and Monday, because the country’s supply of clean, renewable power actually…
Germany Sets New Renewable Energy Record
Germany has broken another renewable energy record, with clean power providing a third of of the country’s electricity in 2017. Preliminary data from the Association of Energy and Water Industries show that renewable electricity generation grew to a record 33…