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The energy crisis has seen electric heaters and fan heaters become a much-discussed alternative to gas for quite a few months now – not to mention the criticism of them and concerns about a blackout. But how justified is this concern and what impact did the appliances have on our electricity grid when we moved into winter? We will answer these questions in our blog post.

Easily produce your own solar power from your balcony? And do it without much effort? Thanks to what are known as balcony power plants, anyone can now produce solar power for personal consumption. In our blog post, you will find out how it works, what advantages and disadvantages balcony power plants have and what we as tenants have to keep in mind.

The German energy transition is pursuing the goal that the share of electricity consumed from renewable energies should be at least 80 per cent by 2030. But can renewable energies also reliably generate electricity in the cold, dark depths of winter when outside is a never-ending barrage of rain, ice and snow? To what extent do these factors impact the power plants and what solutions are out there? In this blog post, we will take a look at the most important influences and impacts on renewable energies.

The expansion of photovoltaic plants needs to be accelerated to make the energy transition a success. But with an increasing lack of suitable land, the question arises whether to use it for agriculture or to generate electricity. Agrophotovoltaics allows areas of land to be used for two purposes simultaneously: photovoltaic modules on stilts generate electricity and at the same time, the land beneath them can be used for agriculture. But how does it work and what are the advantages and disadvantages?

People have been harnessing the power of water for thousands of years. Today, hydropower plants are one of the cornerstones of our electricity supply, and this old and proven technology will play a key role in the energy transition. This blog post will explain how hydropower works and what types there are.

We have already explained the early warning and alert levels of the Emergency Plan for Gas in previous blog posts. The next stage is the emergency level – but what does that mean? When will this level be declared? And how likely is it that it will be declared at all? This blog post will answer all of these questions.

Conventional power plants, such as nuclear or coal-fired power plants, still provide a large portion of the system services in the electricity grid these days, for example frequency maintenance. Our blog post about the VideKIS research project will reveal how these system services should also be provided using renewable energy sources in future.

The energy industry can look back on a turbulent year. In addition to technical challenges, such as the sluggish headway made with the smart meter rollout, there were two main topics that dominated the year: climate change and the war in Ukraine. In this blog post, we would like to provide a year in review and present you with a final overview of the energy industry’s 2022 fiscal year.

Sustainability is the megatrend of our time, and measures to increase sustainability are the talk of the town. However, in order to make improvements and evaluate them correctly, we first need to know where we stand. Unfortunately, when it comes to sustainability, there is still a bit of uncertainty and far too often greenwashing is employed. Therefore in this blog post, we will take a look at what we know about evaluating digital sustainability and where there are still uncertainties.