by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Energy, Utilities & the Energiewende, Startup
⚡ TL;DRGermany built its wind capacity in the north and its heavy industry in the south, and the transmission lines connecting them were delayed by a decade. The result is that wind farms are paid to shut down while gas plants in the south are paid to start up,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Energy, Utilities & the Energiewende, Startup
⚡ TL;DRFrom January 2026 Germany subsidises electricity for energy-intensive companies down toward five cents per kilowatt hour on half of their consumption, approved under European state aid rules for three years at a total cost of several billion euros....
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Energy, Utilities & the Energiewende, Startup
⚡ TL;DRSiemens Energy was spun out of Siemens, then nearly destroyed by quality defects in its onshore wind turbines that required a state-backed guarantee framework to resolve. It then recovered sharply, driven not by wind but by grid technology and gas...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Energy, Utilities & the Energiewende, Startup
⚡ TL;DRUniper sold gas to German industry under long-term contracts and bought it from Russia under long-term contracts. When Russian supply stopped in 2022, it had to buy replacement gas on a spot market at extraordinary prices while delivering at contracted...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 5, 2026 | Energy, Utilities & the Energiewende, Startup
⚡ TL;DRE.ON and RWE were two vertically integrated utilities competing across generation, networks and retail. In 2018 they agreed to stop competing and swap assets instead: E.ON took networks and customers, RWE took generation and renewables. Each became a...
