In this article originally published in SOLARZEITALTAR 2-2023/1-2024, Ralf Bischof argues for the expansion of renewable energy delivery via new actors. Customers may ulitimately be the winners if regulation allows for new actors and innovations, as Bischof contends.
In this interview with Westfalen-Wind co-founder Johannes Lackmann, the energy transition and how it directly benefits consumers is discussed, as well as potential challenges.
The daily bombardment of reports from the media and so-called social networks leaves many people today increasingly perplexed. Is there a threat of solar infarction from uncontrolled solar power plants? Will private photovoltaic (PV) systems become economically unviable or even banned due to increasing hours with negative prices? Are natural gas boilers booming instead of heating pumps? Or should one rather wait to get heating from district heating or hydrogen? A few factors to consider.
Nina Scheer, energy politics speaker of the SPD parliamentary group, draws upon the record of the Ampel coalition and looks predominantly to the future. Which topics remain open? What will come of the Renewable Energy Law (EEG)? And what should we expect now, until and after the 2025 federal election?