Lumenaza aims to connect 1.4m solar households with regional market
By Sonja van Renssen on 15 November 2016
A new software platform in Germany lets utilities buy and sell “regional electricity” by connecting up small producers with consumers.
Articles by Sonja van Renssen
Why the Paris climate deal is a win for energy companies
By Sonja van Renssen on 21 December 2015
Paris deal provides the certainty of a long-term goal with the flexibility of carbon markets – a significant step towards a global level playing field.
Former fossil fuel giant wants to be Uber of energy market
By Sonja van Renssen on 8 October 2015
RWE’s head of energy innovation talks about her role at the helm of a department that’s not a department. Her job? To think non-utility ideas.
New Vattenfall CEO: “What is true for E.On, pretty much true for us”
By Sonja van Renssen on 15 December 2014
Vattenfall’s CEO Magnus Hall likens the selling of its lignite operations in Germany to E.On’s recent decision to dump centralised fossil fuel generation.
Five take-home messages from the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2014
By Sonja van Renssen on 17 November 2014
IEA presented its World Energy Outlook for 2014. For the first time ever, it looked ahead as far as 2040 painting a sobering picture.
What Slow Food can teach Clean Energy
By Sonja van Renssen on 7 November 2014
In the food and energy sectors, there is a movement underway taking a holistic value chain approach to create a more secure, sustainable, affordable system.
Europe’s great climate and energy test
By Sonja van Renssen on 21 October 2014
EU leaders meet this week to set foundations of climate and energy policy for 2030. Can Europe convince the world it has a credible strategy?
EU’s global cleantech leadership at risk
By Sonja van Renssen on 14 February 2014
Europe is still the leader in clean tech, but 70% of new wind capacity and 40% of new pv panels were installed outside Europe.
European energy giant flags rise of renewables and ons-site generation
By Sonja van Renssen on 5 December 2013
CEO of Europe’s second largest utility says renewables to take biggest chunk of energy market and energy companies will need to get closer to customers.
How fossil fuel lobby tried to destroy EU climate policy
New book outlines how the Magritte Group – a fossil fuel lobby – has tried to destroy climate and renewable energy policy in Europe.