Good ideas for a better future

High-rises replacing huts, tractors in place of oxcarts, LEDs instead of oil lamps: scarcely anything in today’s world is the same as it was a few hundred years ago. In the case of energy though, the…

Jan Hegenberg has been blogging about the food, energy and transport transition for years. An interview about how misconceptions influence our perceptions and why we should not let media reinforcement…

Grid expansion is too slow and the distribution of costs unfair. What needs to change? Capacities must be better measured, grid costs fairly distributed, grids digitised and incentives created to…

New ways are needed to connect energy producers and users where electricity grids are the bottleneck of energy transport. And also a new way of thinking about our energy system: decentralised,…

Electricity, heat and gas – energy can be transported in pipelines in all three forms. This new graphic shows where it comes from and where it is needed.

According to the plans of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, municipal heat planning is to become a mandatory duty for municipalities from 2023. And from 2026, they must have communal heat…