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93 percent of the awarded projects in the first German onshore wind auction are citizens’ energy cooperatives

Find out why virtually all the onshore wind farms winning the first auction in Germany are small projects developed by grassroots initiatives and cooperatives, which are very popular across the country. On Friday, Germany unveiled the results of their first onshore wind auction held under the new Renewable Energy Sources Act, which came into force […]

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Germany is closing their coal mines to transform them into pumped hydro batteries for wind and solar

Starting in 2018, Germany will no longer operate hard coal mines. However, these abandoned mines could receive a new life to make a great contribution to the development of renewable energy in the country. They could start to store the excess of wind and solar power during the hours with high renewable production by pumping […]