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Top German court rules grid connection payments for battery storage projects are permissible
ESS News
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July 15, 2025
Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe has upheld the legality of grid connection payments for battery storage systems. This decision by the Cartel Senate had already been anticipated following oral arguments heard several weeks...
Pipeline Consortium Lands Major German Energy Project
Pipeline Technology Journal
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July 15, 2025
A consortium led by Friedrich Vorwerk Group SE has secured a substantial pipeline contract from Gasunie Deutschland, a transmission system operator, to construct the 86-kilometer (53-mile) ETL 182 energy transmission conduit. The order, valued in...
Mad Men, fascism, and the American dream
Meer
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July 17, 2025
Much like Siegfried Kracauer argues in From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947) that Weimer German cinema foreshadowed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, the creators of Mad Men’s depiction of the American...
Mubadala invests in German energy efficiency firm
Semafor
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July 14, 2025
A consortium including Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala bought German energy efficiency company Techem in a deal valued at €6.7 billion ($7.8 billion). Partners Group, Singapore’s GIC, and TPG had sought to buy Techem but their deal fell through in May,...
Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics | Carolin Würfel
The Guardian
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July 15, 2025
In February 1990, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran the headline “Why are they still coming?”, adding: “In West Germany, hatred for immigrants from the GDR could soon reach boiling point.” That year, resentment towards so-called newcomers...
Dubai’s Luxury Real Estate Market Breaks Record with 62.7% Surge in AED 10M+ Sales in H1
MENAFN
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July 13, 2025
(MENAFN- Clickon Group Mena) Engel & Völkers Middle East, a leader in premium residential and commercial real estate services, reported a record-breaking first half of 2025, as Dubai’s luxury property market outpaces global peers in scale, growth,...
Clean Planet Energy plans Lincolnshire recycling facility
Packaging News
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July 16, 2025
The 25,000 tonne-a-year capacity ‘ecoPlant’ would become the company’s second site in the UK. Its Teesside facility is expected to start operations next year. CPE director of expansion and development Tom Field said the Sleaford plant would be a...
Global New Material International: Driving a Green Future Through Innovation
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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STUTTGART, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 16, 2025-- As global economic integration accelerates, materials science—the foundation of modern industry—is undergoing a profound transformation. Global New Material International Holdings Limited (GNMI)...
Hyde Park Stories: Making the Museum of Science and Industry — the Field Columbian Museum
Hyde Park Herald - Illinois
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Editor's note: This story is the second of three about the building housing the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park. As the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition drew to a close, three driving forces led to the creation of the...
What’s Nvidia More Valuable Than? The U.K. Economy, World's 30 Richest And Total NYC Real Estate Make The List
Forbes
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Topline After becoming the world’s first-ever $4 trillion company Wednesday, the scope of artificial intelligence colossus Nvidia’s size is hard to grasp, as the less than 40,000-person company is now worth more than 97% of the world’s economies...
Scandic signs hotel in Hamburg
TPH News
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July 16, 2025
Scandic Hotel Group has revealed plans to add a further hotel to its German portfolio, with an opening planned for the northern port city of Hamburg. The company has made an early commitment to operate a new hotel, yet to be built, that will rise...
Floating platform aims to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater and air
E&T
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July 16, 2025
A floating platform is being developed that can produce low-carbon synthetic fuels from a combination of wind energy, seawater and ambient air. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have installed a modular plant on a...
Germany’s Subcontracting Ban in the Meat Industry
Social Europe
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July 11, 2025
A landmark German law has drastically improved working conditions in the meat industry by banning subcontracted labour. Five years ago, the German government enacted the Occupational Health and Safety Inspection Act (Arbeitsschutzkontrollgesetz,...
How cryptocurrency can rescue real estate in Pakistan
The Express Tribune
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July 8, 2025
Listen to article Pakistan's real estate sector, once considered a pillar of economic stability, is now grappling with a credibility crisis. Widespread fraud, unchecked land mafias, tax evasion and manipulation of property records have all...
German report: Netanyahu tried to oust Merkel aide in dispute over submarine deal
Haaretz
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July 10, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to have Christoph Heusgen, then an adviser to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, fired around 2010 during negotiations for Germany to supply Israel with a sixth submarine, according to a report by...
Swiss Crowdfunding Stabilizes After Years of Decline with Signs of Stagnation
Fintech News Switzerland
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July 16, 2025
Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Switzerland News once a month in your Inbox In 2024, the Swiss crowdfunding market showed signs of stabilization after years of decline. According to a new report by the Lucerne University of Applied...
German Daycare Under Siege: Parents Demand Action After Repeated Incidents from Neighboring Migrant Shelter
[your]NEWS
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July 10, 2025
Children and teachers live in fear as migrants and homeless residents from a next-door shelter repeatedly trespass, threaten staff, and disrupt daily life at a German kindergarten. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom A daycare center in the German city of...
Germany funds Reederei Bernd Sibum’s green newbuilds
Offshore Energy
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July 10, 2025
Germany’s Reederei Bernd Sibum has received funding from the German government to make its ships, which are being built by Dutch shipbuilder Damen, even more sustainable. Courtesy of Damen As informed, the four combi freighters (CF) 3850 under...
German startup CYNiO raises over €2 million for next the step in the specialty chemicals industry
EU Startups
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July 9, 2025
Freiberg-based chemical startup CYNiO has successfully raised over €2 million in investment capital to scale its sustainable technology for isocyanate production and strategically expand its product portfolio. The funding was a result of a joint...
Court rejects battery developer bid to be exempt from grid connection fees
Renew Economy
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July 17, 2025
Battery operators will not be exempt from a levy for the construction of the electricity grid if this is required for their connection, one of Germany’s highest courts has ruled. “Even if they can relieve the overall grid, the installation of...