The phenomenon of excess profits also occurs in solar and wind energy, report The standard. According to Energy Minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA), it is complex to intervene. “I don’t want to make people happy with a dead sparrow,” she says on Radio 1. – Nuclear energy has the greatest surplus profit, but these are unprecedented … Read more
Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon leaves on Sunday for a multi-day visit to Spain, in which he will visit the Basque Country and Catalonia. In the margins of this, he gave an interview to VRT Radio1 in which he had to acknowledge that something has gone wrong in his Flemish government since last week. On … Read more
– © BELGA – The saga surrounding the permits of gas-fired power stations has also left considerable marks within the Flemish coalition. The two other government parties, CD&V and Open VLD, are not pleased with the way in which Flemish Environment Minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA) has decided without consultation not to grant a permit to … Read more
– © BELGA – With the decision of Flemish minister Zuhal Demir not to permit the gas-fired power station in Vilvoord, Belgium threatens to come to a complete standstill again. Almost twenty years after the nuclear phase-out was approved, politics is losing itself in jousting. While all experts agree that time is of the essence … Read more
– Flemish Minister for Environment Zuhal Demir. — © BELGA – Energy dossier Brussels – The decision by Flemish minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA) not to license a new gas-fired power station in Vilvoorde is heating up emotions. Her solo smart chases coalition partners CD&V and Open Vld. A turbulent Flemish Council of Ministers presents itself. … Read more
– © BELGA – Flemish Minister for the Environment Zuhal Demir (N-VA) now also rejects the permit for the Vilvoorde gas-fired power station. And that was one of the gas-fired power stations that the federal government counted on for security of supply when the last nuclear power stations close. “This creates problems for all industrial … Read more
– – Ministers Tinne Van der Straeten (Green) and Zuhal Demir (N-VA) are razing each other’s climate approach. The Flemish and federal governments have clashed before about corona and the labor market reform, but the mutual discontent has never been more visible than it is now. It looks very likely that we will have counter-federalism … Read more
Flemish Minister for the Environment Zuhal Demir (N-VA) will not go to the climate summit in Glasgow after all. A corona infection in her cabinet throws a spanner in the works. – Bad luck. A day before Flemish Minister for the Environment Zuhal Demir was due to attend the climate summit in Glasgow, her head … Read more
– © BELGA – Flemish climate minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA) will not go to Glasgow on Sunday for the climate summit. Her chief of staff is infected with the corona virus, so international travel is out of the question for Demir. “Very rotten after three weeks of hard work on that climate plan,” says the … Read more
– An installer connects a heat pump to an existing boiler. — © Belgian – energy Flemish government The liberal climate proposal to ban gas as heating for new-build homes from 2023 is met with criticism in the construction sector. Isn’t more time needed? Can the local electricity grid handle that everywhere? – Nico Tanghe … Read more