Despite the budget freeze, the German Ministry of #Economic Affairs and #Climate Action (@BMWK) has approved a 564 million euro grant to Northvolt for the construction of #battery cell production facilities near Heide in Schleswig-Holstein: energate-messenger.com/news/238737/de…

❌#Bulgaria wants to reduce its exports of #oil products from January 2024. The country is responding to accusations that these are mainly produced with sanctioned #Russian crude. (€) energate-messenger.com/news/238834/bu…

👉"The launch of the climate money has not been made any easier by the judgement," reen Party finance expert Felix Banaszak. energate-messenger.com/news/238856/-e…

👉The Uniper group has laid important foundations for the German government's exit. The extraordinary general meeting has approved the planned capital reduction, the company announced . energate-messenger.com/news/238917/un…

💡✈️Among the alternative fuels, power-to-liquids (#PtL) are the most suitable for rapidly reducing #CO2 emissions from #airtransport. (€) #efuels #decarbonisation #airtraffic energate-messenger.com/news/238913/de…

🇪🇺Negotiators from the EU Parliament and the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council of Energy Ministers have reached an agreement on the new version of the EU #Gas Regulation 🤝. (€) energate-messenger.com/news/238962/eu…

🌐The German @Bayernwerk and the Czech EG.D, want to jointly digitalise their distribution #grids. ⚡️They will receive 100 million euros from the EU over the next five years for their PCI project 'Gabreta Smart Grids'. energate-messenger.com/news/238994/eu…

⚡️🌀Construction of the Borkum Riffgrund 3 #windfarm in the German #NorthSea has officially begun. The construction vessel Lez Alizés laid the first of more than 80 foundations for the offshore wind farm 53 kilometres off the island of Borkum. (€) energate-messenger.com/news/239038/-r…

#COP28Dubai: The climate conference almost failed over the wording on the future of fossil fuels. In the extension, however, a compromise was found with which all countries are similarly dissatisfied. This was enough for the adoption of the 'UAE Consensus'.energate-messenger.com/news/239026/cl…

Following the #judgement by the Federal Constitutional Court and the spending cuts in the #Climate and #Transformation Fund (KTF), the CEO of MVV Energie, Georg Müller, is calling for higher #CO2 prices: energate-messenger.com/news/239084/mv… (€)

#LNG: On 16 December, the port company Niedersachsen Ports will hand over the jetty for liquefied gases (AVG) to the state of Lower Saxony and its users, Hanseatic Energy Hub GmbH (HEH) and Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET): energate-messenger.com/news/239091/in…

Serbia has diversified its gas imports and reduced its dependence on Russia with a new interconnector with Bulgaria. The new pipeline enables the supply of natural gas from Azerbaijan and also gives the country access to the Greek #LNG terminal: energate-messenger.com/news/239046/ne…

The #energy company EnBW has commissioned a solar park with an output of 30 MW in Külsheim, Baden-Württemberg. The Gickelfeld project could supply 11,000 households with green #electricity: energate-messenger.com/news/239115/en… (€)

The digital site broker for #WindPower, Caeli Wind GmbH, has drawn a positive conclusion for the first year of operation of its platform. According to the #startup, owners have marketed suitable sites for wind farms, offering space for 173 new wind turbines: energate-messenger.com/news/239168/ca…

Europe still has a #gas supply gap. This is due to a lack of long-term #LNG supply contracts. This is the conclusion of a study commissioned by the Brussels-based IOGP Europe from Norwegian energy consultancy Rystad Energy: energate-messenger.com/news/239158/eu… (€)

🤝 #Procurement: The nationalised gas supplier SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH has concluded a long-term gas procurement contract with the Norwegian energy group Equinor: energate-messenger.com/news/239203/se…

🤝#cooperation: The Berlin-based start-up Trawa and the Hamburg-based #electricity trader Flexpower want to cooperate in the procurement of electricity for companies: energate-messenger.com/news/239235/tr… (€)

The Dutch #offshore wind farm 'Hollandse Kust Noord' officially went into operation on 20 Dec. The energy supplier Eneco announced that the project will enable the Netherlands to achieve its target of 4,500 MW of offshore generation by the end of 2023: energate-messenger.com/news/239240/ho…

At the turn of the year, the Federal Network Agency praised the progress made in grid expansion. "The acceleration is having an effect," explained President Müller, adding: "The number of kilometres of lines inspected in 2023 has increased significantly." energate-messenger.com/news/239338/fe…