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Analyses | | Konrad Mazur

Gazprom has permission to buy the German company Envacom

The German anti-trust office on 26 October granted Gazprom permission to purchase the German company Envacom. The Russian giant has been making efforts for several months to buy this firm, which is operating in the sectors of renewable…
OSW Commentary | | Konrad Mazur

German companies strengthen their cooperation with Russian gas suppliers

It is possible that while establishing the details of cooperation between the Russian and German companies, Russia will try to put pressure on Germany to give up competing projects such as Nabucco. However, a well-diversified German energy…
Analyses | | Konrad Mazur

Germany wants to pursue its resources strategy in Mongolia

The German-Australian consortium BBM Operta and Macmahon signed a deal for extracting 15 million tonnes of coal annually, worth US$ 2 billion from the Tavan Tolgoi mine. Siemens concluded an agreement for the construction of gas turbines…
Analyses | | Konrad Mazur

Coal and gas power plants to replace part of nuclear power plants in Germany by 2014

On 30 September, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) presented its data on German power plants and the progress in the construction of new blocks by 2014. According to these data, 676 blocks with a total output of 112 GW are…
Analyses | | Konrad Mazur

The Bundesrat has rejected the CO2 storage law

Under the rejected CCS law, which was meant to implement the EU directive regarding the introduction of clean carbon technologies, small and medium-sized pilot storing facilities with a capacity of up to 3 million tonnes per year would be…