Energy & Infrastructure Correspondent, German Business Review
Jonas Richter reports on electricity networks, energy markets, rail and major infrastructure, tracking consultation, approval, construction and operation as separate stages.
Coverage prioritises Destatis, the Bundesbank, federal regulators, company reports and dated regional statistics. Estimates and company guidance are presented as such.
Jonas reports on infrastructure as a sequence of deliverable stages. Consultation, approval, financing, construction, commissioning and operation are kept separate so that a planned grid line, rail project or energy asset is not presented as usable capacity before it exists.
His work also focuses on bottlenecks and system effects. A project can be important because it removes a constraint elsewhere, so he follows network capacity, connection timing and cost allocation alongside the headline investment figure.
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