About EUWID Neue Energie

EUWID Neue Energie

EUWID Neue Energie is the weekly specialist publication for renewable energies, energy efficiency and system transformation, published by EUWID Europäischer Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH in Gernsbach – the publication that watches the energy transition where supply meets demand. Launched in 2015 through the merger of the existing information services EUWID Neue Energien and EUWID Energieeffizienz, it follows the convergence of energy generation and intelligent energy use – reporting on the markets, technologies, policies and business models of the energy transition for the professionals who are rebuilding the energy system.

Overview

EUWID Neue Energie is published by EUWID Europäischer Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH, based in Gernsbach in Baden-Württemberg. It appears weekly, in print and digital form, and maintains the portal euwid-energie.de as its continuously updated online counterpart. Like all EUWID services, the offer is aimed exclusively at businesses – a B2B information service for the energy industry's professionals.

The publication's programmatic subtitle says it all: "Erneuerbare Energien – Energieeffizienz – Systemtransformation" (renewable energies – energy efficiency – system transformation). The readership spans the new energy economy: project developers and operators of wind, solar, biomass and hydro plants; utilities and municipal energy suppliers repositioning themselves in the transition; traders and direct marketers navigating increasingly volatile power markets; manufacturers of energy technology from turbines to inverters; energy-service companies building contracting and efficiency businesses; investors and financiers funding the transition's capital-intensive projects; policymakers, associations and researchers shaping and studying the transformation.

What distinguishes the publication is its focus on the interface between energy supply and energy demand – precisely where the energy transition creates new business models and where traditional market roles dissolve. When a former electricity consumer becomes a "prosumer" with a PV system and storage, participating in balancing markets together with other swarm-storage operators, or when a traditional supplier discovers the energy customer as a potential provider of controllable loads, EUWID Neue Energie reports on the markets, regulations and technologies behind these shifts. Customer needs have long grown beyond pure energy demand: energy services offer ways to satisfy this expanded interest and bind customers long-term – and the publication documents how the industry's players are seizing these opportunities.

History

The launch of EUWID Neue Energie dates to 2015, when EUWID announced the new weekly publication as a response to a new phase of the German Energiewende. After the first successes in expanding renewable energies in the electricity market, the challenge had shifted: the entire energy system needed to become future-proof, requiring a fundamental restructuring of supply structures and the networking of energy supply with energy demand.

The new publication deliberately merged two existing EUWID information services – EUWID Neue Energien and EUWID Energieeffizienz – into a single format, following the logic that questions of energy generation and intelligent energy use were growing together. With smaller interventions in market activity no longer sufficient, a fundamental restructuring of supply structures was underway, bringing the networking of energy supply and energy demand at many points. The integration allowed the editorial team to observe developments at the interface of supply and demand precisely – the space where falling wholesale prices, reduced capacity additions and new flexibility needs were creating both challenges and opportunities.

Since its launch, the publication has accompanied the energy transition through its successive phases: the reform of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and the shift from feed-in tariffs to auctions, the coal phase-out and the parallel nuclear exit, the hydrogen ramp-up with its infrastructure debates, the electrification of heat and transport through heat pumps and e-mobility, and the digitalization of the energy system from smart meters to virtual power plants. Each phase brought new markets, new regulations and new business models – and the weekly publication documented them all for an industry that had to reinvent itself continuously. The portal euwid-energie.de extended the weekly print rhythm into continuous online coverage, with newsletters, market data and archives serving the industry's daily information needs.

Content and Sections

The content of EUWID Neue Energie follows the energy transition across its dimensions, from the electrons on the power exchange to the molecules in the gas grid. Market reporting covers electricity, gas, heat and emerging markets such as hydrogen and balancing power – prices, trading developments, and the regulatory frameworks that shape them. Technology coverage addresses wind, solar, biomass, hydro, storage, sector coupling, smart grids and digital energy platforms.

Policy reporting is a core strength: the publication tracks energy legislation from Berlin and Brussels – EEG reforms, the German government's energy packages, EU directives on renewables and efficiency, grid regulation and market design – analyzing what new rules mean for business models and investments, project economics and financing conditions. Company news follows the industry's players: project developers, utilities, technology manufacturers, service providers and investors, their strategies, partnerships and personnel changes.

Energy efficiency – the second pillar inherited from the predecessor publication – covers the demand side: building efficiency, industrial energy management, energy services and contracting, and the technologies that reduce consumption – the often-neglected half of the transition that determines how much new generation the system actually needs. The system-transformation perspective ties it all together: how generation, grids, storage, demand flexibility and digitalization combine into a functioning new energy system. Background analyses, statistics and exclusive research give subscribers the depth they need for decisions in a fast-moving market.

Publisher and Organization

The publisher is EUWID Europäischer Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH, based in Gernsbach in the northern Black Forest. EUWID operates a family of specialist market-information services covering energy, pulp and paper, wood products and panels, recycling and packaging – each with its own editorial team, portal and weekly publication rhythm, and each applying the same methodology of independent, fact-oriented reporting. The energy service applies the publisher's proven methodology – independent, fact-oriented market reporting based on the editorial team's own research – to the energy transition.

The editorial team in Gernsbach covers the energy markets with the same rigor that EUWID applies to its raw-material price services: verified facts, independent analysis, and a strict separation from commercial interests. The subscription-based business model – aimed exclusively at companies, with print, online and combined options – funds journalism that serves readers rather than advertisers. Customer service and editorial contacts support the subscriber community.

Digital Presence

The digital presence of EUWID Neue Energie centers on euwid-energie.de, the portal that extends the weekly publication into continuous coverage of the markets driving the energy transition. The site publishes current news on energy markets, policy, technology and companies, organized by topic for the professional reader. Subscribers access market data, analyses and the archive; a weekly newsletter delivers the headlines to inboxes across the industry.

The portal follows the EUWID platform model: personalized dashboards, topic alerts, searchable archives and e-paper editions of the weekly print publication. The digital offering serves the energy professional's daily workflow – checking market developments in the morning, researching background for investment decisions, tracking regulatory changes that affect project economics.

Through its combination of a weekly print publication, a continuously updated energy portal, newsletters and market-data services, EUWID Neue Energie serves as the information service of the energy transition's practitioners – the weekly briefing for everyone whose business depends on understanding how the new energy system works, what it costs, and where it is heading. In a sector where policy can remake markets overnight, that weekly rhythm of verified, independent reporting is the industry's early-warning system.