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February 9, 2012
Vattenfall
The following articles have been tagged with "Vattenfall":
Vattenfall to contest nuclear phaseout
Business & Money: 2 Nov 11
Swedish energy giant Vattenfall is reportedly preparing to take the German government to the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes over the closure of its nuclear power plants.
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Gorleben protests reawake as nuclear lobby work revealed
Politics: 30 Oct 11
As around 6,000 people protested around Germany against a shipment of nuclear waste due to go to the Gorleben storage site next month, a newspaper published a dossier documenting the nuclear industry’s lobbying work.
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Germany rejects carbon dioxide storage plans
Politics: 23 Sep 11
Germany’s upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, has knocked down a proposal to start storing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide underground in a bid to reduce emissions.
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Customers wasting billions on electricity
Business & Money: 14 Sep 11
Germans could save billions on their electricity bills if they would simply change power providers, according to a special report published by the Monopolies Commission.
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Energy firms plan legal attack on nuke phaseout
Business & Money: 19 Jun 11
Germany's leading energy companies are hiring top lawyers to mount a legal challenge against government plans to phase out nuclear power by 2022. The firms are hoping to secure massive compensation deals.
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EnBW warns nuclear moratorium to hit profits
Business & Money: 19 Apr 11
Germany’s third biggest electricity supplier EnBW has warned of dramatically reduced profits for this year in the wake of the moratorium on the country’s nuclear power plants.
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Nuclear companies cut off eco-fund payments
National: 10 Apr 11
Four energy companies that run German nuclear plants said Saturday they have stopped payments to an environment fund after the government went back on its decision to keep the plants open for longer.
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Merkel defends nuclear power reversal
Politics: 17 Mar 11
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday defended her decision to temporarily shut down the country’s older nuclear reactors, telling parliament that recent events in Japan had caused her to reconsider the risks of atomic energy.
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Bundestag blackout – MPs without WCs
Politics: 8 Mar 11
German parliamentarians in Berlin sent their employees home on Tuesday after an electricity failure at the Bundestag and surrounding government buildings rendered even many toilets inoperable.
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Activists scale CDU roof over nuclear extension
National: 28 Oct 10
Greenpeace activists occupied the roof of the conservative Christian Democrats' party headquarters in Berlin on Thursday, hanging an enormous banner in protest of a planned parliamentary vote to extend the life of Germany’s nuclear reactors.
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Vattenfall to build €1-billion wind farm in Germany
Business & Money: 21 Oct 10
Swedish energy group Vattenfall said on Tuesday it would invest about €1 billion along with Germany's Stadtwerke München (SWM) in a 80-turbine offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
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Thousands protest against nuclear energy
National: 18 Sep 10
Tens of thousands demonstrated in Berlin on Saturday against the government's proposal to extend the life of Germany's nuclear power plants for another decade or more.
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Germany to extend life of nuclear reactors
National: 6 Sep 10
Germany said Monday it would extend the life of its nuclear reactors by an average of 12 years after marathon talks on the controversial issue that will shape the energy policy of Europe's top economy.
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Merkel calls nuclear energy summit to decide course of action
Politics: 5 Sep 10
Battered from all sides by environmentalists, lobbyists and bickering ministers, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to host a nuclear energy summit on Sunday - an issue set to dominate politics in the coming months.
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Opposition to planned nuclear tax grows
National: 20 Aug 10
Some 40 German bosses and economic figures lashed out Friday at a government proposal to tax nuclear energy production, warning it would hamper investment in Europe's biggest economy.
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What's on in Germany: August 12 - 18
Lifestyle: 12 Aug 10
This Week's Highlights: Horse racing in the Rhineland, classical music at the Hamburg zoo and fireworks over the Bodensee.
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Premium rate service lines to drop fee for waiting callers
Business & Money: 19 Jun 10
The infuriating telephone queues on premium rate customer ‘service’ lines where the caller pays in full to hear music or repeated recordings telling them how valued their custom is, will soon be free.
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Germany's first offshore wind farm joins power grid
Science & Technology: 27 Apr 10
Germany’s first offshore wind farm officially starts up on Tuesday in the North Sea. The €250-million pilot project is meant to spearhead several other coastal power plants in the coming years.
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Vattenfall sells German power grid to Australian fund
Business & Money: 12 Mar 10
The Swedish energy group Vattenfall said on Friday it will sell its German high-tension power grid to Belgium's Elia and Australian investment fund IFM for €810 million ($1.1 billion).
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Deutsche Bahn to launch electro-car sharing programme
Science & Technology: 18 Dec 09
German national rail provider Deutsche Bahn plans to start a pilot programme in Berlin and Potsdam in summer 2010 to test an electric car sharing service, financial daily Handelsblatt reported on Friday.
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Utilities hiking power prices
Business & Money: 18 Nov 09
Two German utilities – Vattenfall and EWE – announced on Wednesday they would dramatically raise electricity prices for their customers starting next year, blaming the higher cost of renewable energy.
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E.ON sells power grid to Dutch group for €1.1 bln
Business & Money: 10 Nov 09
Germany's largest energy concern E.ON said on Tuesday that it would sell its German extra high-voltage distribution network to the Dutch group TenneT for around €1.1 billion ($1.6 billion).
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Nuclear reactor shuts down after malfunction
National: 24 Jul 09
One of Germany's most modern nuclear power stations was shut down on Friday due to a technical fault, operator RWE said, less than three weeks after problems at another reactor hit the headlines.
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Steinmeier says coalition cramping election campaign
Politics: 11 Jul 09
Challenger to Chancellor Angela Merkel in September’s general election, Frank-Walter Steinmeier says their awkward power-sharing arrangement is cramping his ability to campaign against her.
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Nuke plant needs more checks after emergency
National: 10 Jul 09
Suspected faulty fuel rods at an aging German nuclear power station prompted its Swedish operator to announce further checks on Thursday only days after a short circuit forced an emergency shutdown.
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Krümmel nuclear plant won't resume until 2010
National: 8 Jul 09
A German nuclear power station that underwent an "emergency shutdown" at the weekend will remain offline until April or May 2010 while repairs are carried out, its Swedish operator has said.
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Nuke incident shuts off Hamburg traffic lights
National: 4 Jul 09
Hundreds of traffic lights in Hamburg stopped working Saturday after a power cut caused by an incident at a nuclear power station, an energy company said.
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What's on in Germany: April 16 - 22
Lifestyle: 16 Apr 09
This Week's Highlights: Lionel Richie takes the stage in Frankfurt, a spring festival swirls through Munich, and one of Germany's biggest art fairs kicks off in Cologne.
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Navigating Berlin's 'Cult of the Artist' exhibitions
Lifestyle: 8 Dec 08
Berlin might be a magnet for modern artists, but the city is also staging an ambitious ten-exhibition “Cult of the Artist” show veering from Koons to Klee. Daniel Miller separates the wheat from the chaff so you don't have to.
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Energy company cooperation could curb consumer costs
Business & Money: 27 Oct 08
Rising energy prices could be curbed by an upcoming cooperation between three of Germany’s largest electricity providers, EON, Vattenfall and EnBW.
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Brown coal: Germany's big dirty secret
Science & Technology: 15 Oct 08
Vattenfall burns the dirtiest coal on earth in Germany. Thousands of homes have been destroyed by mining, and more will follow. Exberliner's Seymour Gris explores whether their new ‘carbon capture’ technology will make a difference.
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20,000 visitors expected at WindEnergy trade fair
Business & Money: 9 Sep 08
Thirty-five countries are taking part in the WindEnergy 2008 trade show that begins in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein on Tuesday.
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Brandenburg fires up experimental CO2 power plant
Business & Money: 8 Sep 08
Swedish energy company Vattenfall will fire up an experimental coal power plant in Brandenburg on Tuesday with the aim of trapping the unwanted carbon dioxide emissions.
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What's on in Germany: September 4 - 10
Lifestyle: 4 Sep 08
This Week's Highlights: A wine festival in Frankfurt, a triathlon in Cologne, gospel music in Hannover, and salsa in Munich.
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Vattenfall loses reduced charges case
Business & Money: 14 Aug 08
Energy giant Vattenfall has been ordered to pay €50 million to its competitors and reduce its network charges, after losing a court battle with German regulators on Thursday.
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German atomic waste transport cancelled for 2009
National: 29 Apr 08
Transport of radioactive waste to a storage facility near the German town of Gorleben from a reprocessing plant in France has been cancelled for the coming year, German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.
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Record profits for German construction giant Hochtief
Business & Money: 26 Mar 08
Germany’s biggest construction company, Hochtief, said Wednesday that sales this year should surpass the record reached in 2007 and that net profit would also be higher than the previous year.
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EON sells network to avoid EU wrath
Business & Money: 28 Feb 08
German power company EON will sell one of its networks to appease an EU request that aims to stimulate competition in the European energy sector.
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Unions warn of strike at Vattenfall
Business & Money: 30 Jan 08
Unions threaten to strike at the Swedish-owned utility company if their wage demands are not met.
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