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Once upon a time. That's how all fairy tales begin. Even the one about the expansion and costs of the electricity and gas grids.

"We want to think more bottom-up, less top-down": this is what Andreas Kuhlmann writes in the introduction to the "Leitstudie Integrierte Energiewende" (Integrated Energy Transition flagship study), which is to be produced by "his" Dena, the German Energy Agency, by the end of 2018. - Well, that's why it's only an "interim summary", which was published on 20 pages recently. But the project's ambition is not entirely unambitious: "It's about more than just a simple coupling of sectors," writes the Dena boss, but about coordinating their "growing number of components and integrating them into an intelligent and sustainable energy system".

Smart, what a word. In the past, there were only smart brokers, slick bankers who pulled money out of their customers' pockets, promised them the blue sky and ran away when storm clouds appeared in the stock market sky. Then came smartphones. Although they are officially intelligent, they often deprive their owners of intelligent thoughts, making them dependent on constantly looking at the screen. And whether it is intelligent to always be available is a question that needs to be asked here.

"The interior work in the extension section of the Kelheim shopping center is in full swing. But there is still a lot to do before the official opening."

A British-dominated company perverts Bölkow's legacy Ludwig Bölkow once had a great idea: a solar hydrogen economy was to make solar energy available to everyone in the deserts of North Africa. Generate electricity on a large scale using solar modules; split water into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) in electrolyzers; store the energy carrier in storage tanks and then convert it back into electricity and heat using fuel cells when and where it is needed. That was the idea.

Successful proof of research in Wildpoldsried - There you go, it works! Someone else said "I didn't know": At the end of August, Wildpoldsried in the Allgäu region was supplied with electricity from renewable energy alone in off-grid operation for the first time.

Solar eclipse in the USA as proof - "It was unbelievably beautiful, I'm on the verge of tears": This quote was the title of a dpa report on the solar eclipse (SoFi) in the USA last Monday.

Not everyone wants transmission grid expansion - but the big players are likely to prevail..

With the iCube developed by our team, we are independent of grid fluctuations and outages! The system integrated into our building automation system also stores electricity from PV and CHP for internal use and supplies all consumers without interruption. We are equipped for the future of energy and advise our customers from practical experience!

The AGFW's seven election touchstones are very easy to remember. "Energy transition in the heating market", "Efficiency First: Expansion and modernization of CHP", "Seizing the opportunities of district heating", "Secure and cost-effective power supply with CHP", "Accelerating the heating transition", "More renewable energies and waste heat in district heating systems" and "Integrated urban development only with district heating".

Once upon a time, there was a country that had an electricity grid. It belonged to the "Big Five", i.e. to the then Bayernwerk, VIAG, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall groups. All five actually belonged to those who had once paid for their lines with their "fees": In other words, the electricity customers. Even if only somehow via their villages, towns, districts or federal states.

A new SMP pre-series center is being built in Schweig After an extremely short planning period, the official ground-breaking ceremony for the SMP pre-series center takes place. Gammel Engineering, together with Kaulich & Hoffmann, the engineering office for architecture, electrical building services, is commissioned with the planning services for the technical building equipment.