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PV and battery cheaper than fossil fuels

According to a recent study, solar power can also be generated much more cheaply in combination with battery storage than electricity from conventional power plants.

The world wants natural gas

According to the International Energy Agency, demand for natural gas is rising to new highs. LNG makes the supply more diverse, but not more secure

Underground storage makes an important contribution to the energy transition

More than 600 participants and 32 exhibitors from the industry met at the DGMK/ÖGEW Spring Conference 2024.

Baltic Sea region with considerable green hydrogen potential

Together with other gas network operators, Ontras is investigating the feasibility of the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor, which is intended to bring green hydrogen from Norway. Here are the initial results.

CCS could avoid a quarter of Germany's CO2 emissions

According to management consultants McKinsey, storing CO2 underground at major emitters could avoid 150 million tons of emissions per year.

Waste was yesterday

Report from the 16th K3/C3 Conference of the DGMK – Plastics circularity through chemical recycling in Schwechat on 17/18 September 2024

German Geothermal Energy Association presents award

Who would have thought it: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the new "Deep Geothermal Energy Champion"

DGMK annual meeting of the analysts 2023

With a variety of energy carriers, production and application options from modern biofuels and synthetic fuels to CO2-neutral hydrogen, analytics faces complex challenges.

Report on the Petrochemical Congress in Dresden in mid-October

C1 Building Blocks for Future Industry – this was the title of the 31st conference of the Petrochemical Division of the DGMK from 11 to 13 October. This year’s venue was the Dresden Haus der Kirche within the walls of the baroque Dreikönigskirche, built between 1732 and 1739, whose premises provided a thoroughly appropriate setting for the event.

„Performing while Transforming“

Taking its own know-how to the outside world: The DGMK’s GEO-Energy Systems Underground Technologies Division is looking confidently to the future at its spring conference in Celle.

Relaunch of the German Petroleum Museum in Wietze

Vividly demonstrated: The German Petroleum Museum documents early industrial oil production in Wietze at the beginning of the 20th century.

Two days under the sign of hydrogen

More speed - the third H2 Forum in Berlin was well attended

De facto ban on combustion engines: fuel industry hopes for correction by EU Council of Ministers

The EU Parliament's decision to impose a de facto ban on new registrations of internal combustion vehicles from 2035 has met with widespread rejection from both the automaker and fuel industries. In addition to criticism from the European Automobile…

LBEG Annual Report 2021: Domestic oil production continues to decline

Since the start of the Ukraine war, special attention has also been paid to the development of domestic energy raw materials, which have so far been sourced mainly from Russia. Against this background, the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology…

Permit for natural gas field off Borkum extended

The companies ONE-Dyas and Hansa Hydrocarbons want to explore for and extract hydrocarbons in the coastal waters of the German North Sea in Lower Saxony. The Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) has now issued a permit to…

New deep drilling regulation tightens safety regulations

The leak in the leaking pipe system in Emlichheim, which was discovered at the beginning of 2019, tipped the scales: After large quantities of reservoir water leaked in the Lower Saxony region on the German-Dutch border, where Wintershall Dea has…

Ørsted and Shell no longer receive gas from Gazprom

Gazprom Export has suspended its gas supplies to the Danish energy group Ørsted and to Shell Energy Europe as of June 1. The Russian gas company justifies the step by saying that both companies did not want to pay in rubles. Both Ørsted and Shell…

European electrolysis producers aim to increase production tenfold

The 20 largest electrolysis producers in the EU have pledged to increase their production tenfold by 2025. In return, the EU Commission is promising them state aid relief and money from the EU Innovation Fund for Carbon Difference Contracts (CCfD). …

Start of construction for Wintershall-Dea's Cuxhaven hydrogen project

In Cuxhaven, gas and oil producer Wintershall Dea is building a plant to generate green hydrogen. Construction has now begun on the project, called "H2Move," which will produce enough H2 to enable emissions-neutral supply to Germany's largest oil…

Spain caps gas price at 40 euros

The Spanish government has decided on a temporary price cap of 40 euros/MWh for gas used for power generation. It will apply for one year. Portugal is planning a similar measure to Spain. The EU competition authority has not yet approved anything. A…