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Wind power and military
March 16, 2025 by ClimateNews Editor
Financial investors do not have a good reputation in Germany. If they come from the USA, then their reputation sinks even further. This happened with KKR, which took a stake in the Axel Springer Group. Although this stake in Springer's print division is now history , the conspiracy theory continues to be spread that KKR is massively pursuing politics against the energy transition through Springer's press products.
This would be somewhat counterproductive, because KKR has long since recognized what a subsidy paradise renewable energies are. Consequently, KKR also acquired the wind farm operator Encavis . KKR recently agreed on a partnership with the energy service provider EGC
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If one follows this theory, then one would also have to apply it to the company Black Rock. The company is currently pumping money into Elia, a Belgian company that owns the German transmission system operator 50 Hz, as Energate reports.
The energy transition requires huge investments for the transmission system operators, but also huge profits, because grid fees will continue to rise.
What could possibly go wrong now that the likely new German government plus the Greens have opened the floodgates wide?
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In a very pointed speech, Paul Marshal dissects the English and German energy transitions. Electricity prices that are five times higher than in the US or seven times higher than in China are economic suicide, Marshal argues.
Regarding the German wind, he says: "It's about as reliable as the trains in the UK." Anyone who has ever taken a train in that country knows what he means.
The video is 18 minutes long and very entertaining.
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Anyone who thought the €100 billion the Greens extorted from the SPD and CDU was the end of the line will be proven wrong by Fridays for Future.
€100 billion is good, but then please, annually.
RP:
"Fridays for Future" called for at least 100 billion euros annually for socially just climate protection. They also demanded further expansion of renewable energies and a phase-out of natural gas by 2035.
In addition, the debt brake must be reformed to ensure sustainability. The CDU/CSU and SPD accused them of planning new fossil fuel subsidies. "Climate protection must finally become a priority in the negotiations," demanded the climate protection movement.
"Fridays for Future" protested Thursday evening in front of the CDU headquarters in Berlin against the planned special fund of the CDU and SPD. These parties rely on the votes of the Greens to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority. In response to an inquiry from the epd, climate activist Luisa Neubauer named climate investments of 70 to 80 billion euros per year as a sum at which the Greens could consider approving. CDU leader Friedrich Merz had previously offered 50 billion euros of the planned 500 billion euro package for infrastructure.
The German Armed Forces warn against wind turbines from China. What was that about freedom energies?
Telepolis:
Security and military experts have been warning for some time about a wind farm planned off the German coast. Sixteen turbines are to be built in the North Sea off Borkum, which will be the first to be manufactured in China. The use of Chinese wind turbines must be prevented, according to a recent analysis by the Institute for Defense and Strategy (GIDS), a research institution within the German Armed Forces. They had already warned against offshore wind turbines last year, and at that time, they weren't
talking about Chinese models. Apparently, they don't want to share air sovereignty with energy supply. China seems to be just a pretext.
Political influence through wind turbines, espionage through sensors, access to security protocols of critical infrastructure, and disruption of the energy supply are serious, realistic risks. All means to prevent these risks must therefore be consistently exploited, according to the largely unknown military experts, who now apparently want to seize the opportunity to gain greater influence on German politics.
Sweden had already stopped offshore wind farms in 2024.
Der Spiegel:
The reason for the cancellation is that, according to the Swedish Armed Forces' assessment, the offshore wind turbines would, among other things, interfere with sensors and radars, thus impairing the country's defense capabilities. Defense Minister Pål Jonson warned that enemy cruise missiles or submarines could be detected later or with less accuracy.
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RWE and Eon want to save billions in the energy transition. The companies may be aware that they're overreaching.
msn:
If Germany fails to better control the costs of expanding renewable energy and the electricity grids, the energy transition will fail, said Krebber: "It must become much cheaper – and that is possible."
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RWE plans to supply green hydrogen to Saxony-Anhalt.
n-tv:
The energy company RWE plans to supply the French energy company Total with tens of thousands of tons of green hydrogen annually starting in 2030. The two companies signed a contract for the delivery of 30,000 tons per year from 2030 to 2044. This represents the "largest quantity of climate-neutral hydrogen" from an electrolysis plant in Germany to date, the purchase of which has been contractually agreed.
The hydrogen will reportedly be produced at RWE's electrolysis plant in Lingen, Lower Saxony, which is scheduled to go into operation by 2027. RWE said it will be delivered to the Total Energies refinery in Leuna, Saxony-Anhalt.