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This month in ‘What the press say’:

Renewables with record global growth rates, the launch of Germany’s first hydrogen core network, and a comeback of pumped-storage power plants.

solarserver.de, 26 March 2025: “IRENA: Renewable energy achieves record growth” (in German only)

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has published its annual report entitled Renewable Capacity Statistics 2025. Solarserver takes a look at the most important facts and figures in the publication.

NDR, 27 March 2025: “Nordhorn: First section of the hydrogen network takes up operations” (in German only)

The NDR regional public broadcaster reports on the launch of Germany’s first hydrogen core network. The plan is to build a full network crossing the Emsland, Grafschaft and Münster regions to the Ruhr area.
 
tagesschau.de, 2 April 2025: “The comeback of pumped-storage power plants” (in German only)

For a long time, there was a consensus that pumped-storage power plants, which go back more than a hundred years, are not economical for their operators. This is now changing, as the energy transition makes storage ever more important.