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European Union (EU) countries may delete a key part of planned reforms to Europe's electricity market in the face of continued disagreements between France and Germany, Reuters has reported.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Friday, 06 October 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgerman-french-disagreements-block-eu-power-market-reforms-11198447

Environmentalist Greta Thunberg said in an interview with German journalist Sandra Maischberger that she thinks it is a bad idea to close down existing nuclear power plants while increasing coal generation.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Closing-nuclear-in-Germany-while-increasing-coal

Germany is showing continued strong support for the International Atomic Energy Agency's mission to foster global peace and development, even as the country phases out its own use of nuclear power, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said yesterday during a two-day visit to Germany. Decommissioning and waste management will be important areas for future cooperation between Germany and the IAEA, he said.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Saturday, 07 November 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-sees-Germany-as-key-member,-despite-nuclear-p

Germany is showing continued strong support for the International Atomic Energy Agency's mission to foster global peace and development, even as the country phases out its own use of nuclear power, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said yesterday during a two-day visit to Germany. Decommissioning and waste management will be important areas for future cooperation between Germany and the IAEA, he said.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-sees-Germany-as-key-member-despite-nuclear-ph

Shutting down the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in eastern France will lead to additional emissions of around 10 million tonnes of CO2 per year and the loss of thousands of jobs, writes Valérie Faudon, general delegate of the French Nuclear Energy Society (SFEN).

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 05 March 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Fessenheim-closure-subverts-modern-envir

New-build projects are making progress, but governments are still struggling with finding the right financing package for large reactors The delayed Flamanville-3 is one of three EPR units under construction in Europe. The others are at Olkiluoto in Finland and Hinkley Point in the UK. Photo courtesy EDF. Western Europe

The UK is facing a major challenge to replace its aging fleet of Generation I nuclear power plants, many of which are scheduled to shut down in 2023.

The project by French state utility EDF to build two Generation III EPR units at Hinkley Point C in Somerset is on track for connection to the grid by 2025. Once in commercial operation the two units will provide up to 7% of the total electricity demand. Two similar units are planned for the Sizewell site in Suffolk.

However, press reports have suggested EDF is in “a race against time” to secure a funding deal for Sizewell C as delays risk making the project prohibitively expensive.

According to The Times newspaper EDF has hired Rothschild as financial adviser for the project and says it wants a “definitive way forward” from the government this year so it can start construction in 2022.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 17 January 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/what-lies-in-store-in-2020-1-4-2020

The Philippsburg-2 nuclear plant was shut down last month as part of the energy transition. Photo courtesy EnBW. Germany could “significantly” miss its target of covering 65% of gross electricity consumption with renewables by 2030, analysis from the Institute of Energy Economics (EWI) at the University of Cologne shows.

The EWI calculated that gross electricity consumption could rise to 748 TWh a year by 2030. At the same time, electricity generation from renewables would rise to 345 TWh.

The share of renewable energy would be only 46%, 19% lower than the 65% target laid out in the country’s energy transition or energiewende, policy.

“Whether Germany achieves the 65% target for 2030 depends above all on two key variables,” the EWI said. “First, the future development of electricity demand plays a central role. Secondly, the expansion of renewable energies, in particular wind energy and photovoltaics, will be crucial.”

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 10 January 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/government-could-significantly-miss-renewables-target-says-analysis-1-4-2020

Expansion of renewables is not enough, says annual report The Philippsburg-2 nuclear plant was shut down last month. Photo courtesy EnBW. A slowdown in the installation of wind turbines and solar panels in Germany this year could put the country’s carbon reduction targets at risk, environmental think tank Agora Energiewende said.

Agora Energiewende warned in its annual report on the country’s Energiewende, or energy transition, that last year new onshore wind power capacity in Germany reached 700 MW, the lowest level in two decades, while in 2020 only another 1 GW might be built.

This would lag behind the 4.2 GW of capacity added every year between 2013 and 2017. It is also lower than the 2.5 GW of new capacity that the government expects to be added annually up to 2030 when renewable power production is due to make up 65% of the country’s electricity mix.

“Overall, the renewables expansion is not sufficiently rapid to meet Germany’s generation targets for 2030,” Berlin-based Agora said in an annual analysis.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Thursday, 09 January 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/germany-not-doing-enough-to-replace-nuclear-warns-think-tank-1-3-2020