By Andrea Kerkmann, Melina Lukas and Sanja Osieja. Energy is everywhere: we need energy for cooking, heating, transportation as well as for many other activities in our everyday lives. Without energy, many things would not be possible for us. However,…
Angelina Galiteva is a board member of the World Council for Renewable Energy, a founding board member of the Global Clean Energy Desalination Alliance, and founder and board chair of the Renewables 100 Policy Institute, which works to accelerate the…
By Peter Droege. The great carbon bubble on which our civilization, its economies and our cities has risen for the past 200 years represents one of the most massive, radical and abrupt disruptions in the known history of this planet…
by Carol Olson. From the fertilizer used to grow the food we buy, the packaging in which we carry it home, to the plastic-based fabrics we wear, and the cement and steel used in the buildings we inhabit, the manufacturing…
A set of a small biogas digester, biogas backpacks and biogas stoves replaces firewood and charcoal for cooking. Not only the technology, but rather the approach of (B)energy proves that a smart business model implemented by local entrepreneurs is much…
A fundamental obstacle to intelligent development, purposeful evolution and future-oriented action lies in the past itself. By this I do not mean the ballast of history, or the lethargy of nostalgia, but the shackles of the traditional institutions that construct…
BY JULIA BROICH Decentralized renewable energy harbours huge democratic potential: giving people back the power over their own energy supply. But who are the people? The energy transition has a diversity problem. Traditionally, the energy sector has been dominated by…
Niklas Hausemann, Katharina Weber and Johannes Block For decades, hydrogen has been repeatedly traded as the supposed “key element” of sector coupling. Although some of the technologies for climate-neutral generation are still far from being ready for the market, green…
11 March 2021 marked the tenth anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima with the meltdown of three nuclear reactors. History has shown that nuclear energy, in its military application but also in its energy supply, has brought endless suffering…
Interview with Stefan Gsänger, Secretary General WWEA, and Krisztina André, member of the national advisory board of the WWEA-project “Women for the Energy Transition” The energy transition has a diversity problem. Although women tend to be overrepresented in the climate…