05 Jul 2021, 12:57 Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy Clean Energy Wire Citizen energy cooperatives are planning fewer new projects than in previous years, a survey conducted by the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV) showed. Thirty ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:22 Milou Dirkx Citizens' energy Renewables Clean Energy Wire The German government is under increasing time pressure to legislate energy sharing opportunities and meet EU requirements originally set for mid-2021,? said ?the German ...
21 Aug 2019, 11:57 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Citizens' energy Tagesschau The expansion of renewable electricity ...
24 May 2024, 14:31 Julian Wettengel Citizens' energy Society Clean Energy Wire Germans continue to widely support the country’s energy transition but policymakers should put more focus on building trust with the population, foster its ownership ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:10 Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Solar pv magazine Plug-in solar panels accounted for 200 megawatts (MW) of added photovoltaic (PV) power capacity in Germany in the first half of 2024, pv magazine reports, citing data from the Federal ...
06 May 2019, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy ZDF Germany needs a nationwide masterplan for climate action that is applicable to all towns and municipalities, according to Gerd Landsberg, the head of the confederation of German towns and ...
15 May 2024, 12:32 Jack McGovan Citizens' energy Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Convincing those living in rural areas of the importance of the energy transition is a “basic requirement” for transforming the energy system successfully, according to a ...
02 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar Clean Energy Wire Almost a third of Germany's residents are planning to install – or have already installed?– a small plug-in solar photovoltaic (PV) unit, often known as a balcony ...
08 Apr 2024, 14:08 S?ren Amelang Citizens' energy Solar dpa The number of households in Germany operating solar panels on their balcony continued to rise rapidly since the start of the year. More than 50,000 mini plug-in PV systems usually consisting ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar Clean Energy Wire A “radical simplification” in the registration, installation and commissioning of plug-in solar units is needed in Germany to involve more homeowners and tenants to ...
27 Oct 2021, 13:36 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Citizens' energy Renewables Clean Energy Wire Citizen groups planning renewable energy projects in Germany should receive free advice and funding to enable their successful participation in the ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Leuphana University of Lüneburg Energiewende Business & Jobs Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Renewables pv magazine, ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:17 Expert Agency for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection (AEEPM, Romania) Bioenergy Transport Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy Wind Many people in Germany, including those generally in favour of renewable energies, remain ...
10 Mar 2015, 11:02 Since the energy transition took off in 2000, millions of Germans have become energy producers, investing in solar panels on their houses and buying shares in wind parks. Citizens' engagement is one reason that support for the ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:57 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany’s renewable energy production capacity is to a ...
28 May 2021, 13:29 Germany’s push to replace conventional power with renewables like wind and solar PV has not only altered its energy system and shaken up established energy utility giants, it has also turned millions of Germans into electricity ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:17 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Citizens' energy Energiewende Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background German citizens want to participate in the energy ...
21 Aug 2019, 12:01 Freja Eriksen Citizens' energy Solar Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Work has begun on the first crowdfunded solar park in Germany with a capacity of about 1.3 megawatts, energy company BayWa r.e. and? online energy market place ...
02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Germany’s population has great sympathy for the transition to a low-carbon economy and the nuclear phase-out, also known as the Energiewende. Nevertheless, some of the key projects, such as new infrastructure, face resistance and are ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:55 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Cities Society Clean Energy Wire Public support for climate protection measures such as the introduction of speed limits or the building of wind turbines, is split markedly between rural and urban ...
31 May 2021, 11:05 Many of Germany’s early renewable energy pioneers were experimenters with onshore wind technology. Inspired by the example of neighbouring Denmark, which had already proven the effectiveness of wind technology in the early 1990s, a ...
02 Jun 2021, 10:44 After 20 years, many pioneer clean energy projects are losing their guaranteed feed-in tariff, with possible repercussions for citizen involvement in the energy transition. In the solar sector, this change is mainly affecting households ...
01 Jun 2021, 10:25 After 20 years, many pioneer clean energy projects are losing their guaranteed feed-in tariff, with possible repercussions for citizen involvement in the energy transition. Without the support of the feed-in tariff, power production ...
19 May 2017, 00:00 The dominance of citizens’ energy projects among the successful bids in Germany’s first onshore wind power auctions comes as a big surprise for industry observers. Not only did citizen cooperatives account for the bulk of accepted ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:26 S?ren Amelang Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Tageszeitung The Dutch oil company Shell and pension fund PGGM have expressed interest in buying? the Dutch energy company Eneco, owner of? Germany’s largest green power provider ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:46 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Citizens' energy Renewables Cars Clean Energy Wire Most households in Germany "not only support the energy transition ...
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Encouraged by federal legislation such as the Renewable Energy Act, the governments of many German states have worked hard to make the Energiewende a success, as well as a business opportunity for their citizens. Others have been slower ...
08 May 2015, 00:00 Feed-in tariffs set by government or parliament have supported rapid expansion of renewable power production, along with falling costs. Now the government wants to move to a more market-based approach. With this is mind, the 2014 ...
30 May 2017, 00:00 Germany’s energy transition is a vast national project that is reshaping the entire country- but it is not happening at an equal pace everywhere in the country. 91tv takes a look at the county Marburg-Biedenkopf in the central German ...
18 May 2021, 13:33 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. ...
12 May 2025, 13:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Most people in Germany continue to be very concerned about the impact of global ...
27 Jan 2016, 00:00 The centrepiece of Germany's Energiewende in the power sector is to undergo a profound revision this year. The government has tabled a draft law for the reform of the Renewable Energy Act, which has stirred a heated debate. The ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:17 The governing coalition parties in German parliament have agreed on higher tender volumes for next year's wind and solar PV installations. But parliamentarians did not make headway on a new renewables target for 2030, which has ...
16 May 2025, 14:30 As Croatia goes to the polls for local elections on 18 May the green transition has been relatively absent in political campaigns. Citizen participation in the transition has picked up with the opening of the first large-scale solar ...
19 Mar 2025
19 Mar 2025, 10:40 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's energy use dropped 1.1% in 2024, AGEB says Germany's energy use dropped 1.1 percent in 2024 on mild weather and a weak economy, but the decline slowed its pace after an 8 percent drop in 2023 ...
13 Oct 2020, 13:54 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Heating Society Clean Energy Wire People in Germany would like to see more factual information around policies to make heating and transport more climate-friendly, such as carbon pricing, and they attach great ...
27 Apr 2023, 12:57 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society Clean Energy Wire Energy ...
22 May 2025, 12:58 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Policy Clean Energy Wire The German government must quickly provide clarity on how it plans to cut emissions in the heating sector and create reliable framework conditions, a host of energy industry ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:57 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire The reform of Germany& ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:17 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Tagesspiegel Background / Tagesschau ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background The latest version of amendments to Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) includes a tougher climate goal for the electricity sector, which should ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:51 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BWE- German Wind Energy ...
19 Apr 2024, 15:00 A series of politically turbulent months for Croatia culminated with early parliamentary elections on 17 April. The short campaign didn’t leave much space for discussions on energy policy, but when asked, all the biggest parties claimed ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
12 May 2022, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:18 Jack McGovan Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Local communities should be involved in making decisions about the energy transition in order for the shift to clean energy to be successful, concluded researchers from the Research Institute ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:53 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 dpa / Handelsblatt Online Germany’s ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:25 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Jack McGovan Grid Solar Clean Energy Wire Necessary regulatory and technical precautions ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 Germany’s first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of “green” hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating “clear and pragmatic” requirements for green ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of Energy ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 [UPDATE with new details on 2025 renewable target in paragraph 3, ads News Digest items] German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers will meet on Tuesday to work out a compromise on reforming the core piece of legislation behind ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:29 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Renewables Clean Energy Wire Renewable power sources covered around 57 percent of Germany's gross ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:39 Bennet Ribbeck Cost & Prices Policy Most Germans say that the country’s landmark energy transition is not implemented in a socially just way as the burdens are not fairly distributed (63%), and they have little trust in politicians ...
14 Feb 2025, 13:20 Bennet Ribbeck Society Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire A climate strike in Berlin by the youth movement Fridays for Future (FfF) ahead of Germany’s snap election at the end of next week ended up attracting far fewer ...
15 Jun 2022, 15:01 German states will have to actively look for areas that can be designated for wind farm construction in order to meet government targets. The cabinet is forwarding another set of draft laws aimed at accelerating the country’s energy ...
03 Sep 2019, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:06 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt The German government’s draft update of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) is not ambitious enough, as it fails to take into account developments that increase the need for renewable ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Society Clean Energy Wire The energy transition is placing an uneven financial burden on Germany‘s poorest households – and transition costs related to heating are impacting these citizens ...
06 Jun 2024, 14:00 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International Clean Energy Wire ...
21 Feb 2025, 15:00 Croatia is exploring the possibility of constructing small modular nuclear reactors, a technology not yet commercially available. The economy ministry has set up a taskforce to investigate possibilities and locations, as well as ...
12 Apr 2024, 14:08 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Carbon market EU Clean Energy Wire The German government should use its national experiences to support EU neighbours in ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:38 The share of renewables in the transport, electricity and heating sectors increased in 2020, said an analysis by the government’s AGEE stat working group and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). As larger amounts of biofuels were used ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Heating Elections & Politics Rheinische Post Ahead of Germany's snap elections, economy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has warned that overturning a law aimed at reducing stubbornly high heating emissions ...
07 Apr 2022, 11:20 Germany wants to fight the climate crisis and its heavy dependence on fossil fuel imports by speeding up the rollout of renewables with a massive overhaul of key energy legislation. In the “biggest energy policy reform in decades,” the ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire / ZDF Many people in Germany have no idea that the planned expansion of EU carbon pricing could significantly push up their fossil fuel heating costs, in some ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Some 70 percent of respondents from several European countries see the energy transition as everyone's responsibility and believe all citizens should be actively involved, ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:53 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:52 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency S?ren Amelang Heating Clean Energy Wire Germany must launch an " ...
11 Mar 2024, 12:52 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire Corrected: The renewable share in energy consumption in 2022 was 20.8 percent and ...
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 Large parts of northern Italy were devastated by the country’s fourth floods within a year, triggered by intense rainfall on 19 and 20 October. Parts of Sicily, in the south, were also severely impacted. The floods came as Italy’s ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Company climate claims Society Clean Energy Wire A citizens’ assembly on improving nutrition in Germany has? called for ?a mandatory government food label that includes information on the product’s climate impact, as well ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:38 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Der Spiegel Most German citizens still believe the energy transition is ...
29 Apr 2015, 00:00 Germany’s first auction for large solar arrays attracted many bidders but did not push prices below the current feed-in tariffs. On average, successful bids came in at 9.17 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), compared to a feed-in tariff of ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:09 S?ren Amelang Heating Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Electrical and IT companies in Germany have called on Germany's parties to not discredit the energy transition in the federal election campaign leading up to the vote ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:02 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire The escalating energy crisis in Europe threatens to push German middle class ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:11 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The past year was “a record year” for ...
20 Feb 2023, 16:47 On the path to a climate neutral electricity system that is largely covered by renewable sources, Germany is planning a reform to its electricity market. Inaugurating the ‘Climate Neutral Electricity System Platform’, the economy and ...
The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has called the dominance of citizens' energy cooperatives in the first round of onshore wind power tenders a "surprise"? and a "pleasant signal". Citizens' cooperatives increased wind ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:22 Hannah Naylor Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are preparing a formal list of additional measures to aid German citizens cope with the dramatic increase in energy prices, reports dpa news ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:46 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Swiss study has shed light on the efficiency gains of so-called “grey energy” ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:15 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S?ren Amelang Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire Decarbonising the freight transport sector will require a shift from planes and trucks to ...
“颁颈迟颈锄别苍蝉' energy is the big winner” of Germany’s first round of onshore wind power auctions, said Rainer Baake,?state secretary in the economy ministry (BMWi), in a press release on the results. 93 percent of all successful bids for the auctioned ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:45 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert IZES- Institute for Future Energy Systems Institut für Zukunfts Energie Systeme Citizens' energy Electricity market Expert ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / ARD Railway and road infrastructure are priority areas for Germany’s major investment package for infrastructure and climate neutrality, the country’s chancellor-in ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German government should use revenues from carbon pricing to lower or abolish several components of the electricity price, rather than make good on its plan to ...
06 Jan 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Solar Clean Energy Wire The German solar industry marked a milestone at the turn of the year, as the total capacity of all installed solar power systems surpassed 100 gigawatts (GW), said industry association BSW Solar. ...
23 May 2025, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Clean Energy Wire Germany's rural areas should introduce an integrated combination of public transport services to entice people to choose sustainable mobility instead of private cars, a report by the ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:30 Edgar Meza Adaptation Society Clean Energy Wire Germany's major aid organisations are urging the future government to increase civil protections in light of " the disasters resulting from rapidly increasing global warming and ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:33 Franca Quecke Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire / Science Media Center Over two thirds (69%) of the world's population are willing to contribute "1% of [their] household income every month to fight global warming, ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:43 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:42 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire More people in Germany say they want the government to invest CO2 price revenues in renewable energy sources and to lower grid fees, than compensating citizens through an ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:33 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Most German companies are in favour of the country's energy transition, with 85 percent supporting the policy agenda, according to a survey commissioned by the German Technical Inspection ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:41 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:30 Franca Quecke Carbon market Cost & Prices Society dpa / Zeit Online The planned climate bonus (“Klimageld”) payment to return state revenues from carbon pricing to citizens as compensation for rising CO2 prices is an “excellent idea ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:01 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Government Zeit Online The German government has said that the allocation of so-called 'climate bonus' (Klimageld) to citizens to help alleviate high CO2 costs must start at the latest when the new ...
25 Apr 2016
25 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv PV-magazine “EEG reform: state chamber wants exemptions for citizens’ energy” Germany’s second parliamentary chamber, which represents the 16 states, has passed a resolution ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:23 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:32 S?ren Amelang Society Clean Energy Wire Austria’s branch of the “Last Generation” (Letzte Generation) climate action group has announced its dissolution, arguing its direct action protests cannot be successful. In an open? letter ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:43 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The Citizens' Assembly on Climate, formed earlier this year and made up of 160 randomly selected German citizens, has published a list of guiding principles and recommendations on how ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:49 The German government and a broad alliance of business and civil society groups are calling on citizens to save energy with an advertising campaign aimed at reducing dependence on Russian imports while also accelerating the country’s ...
11 Sep 2017, 00:00 Wind power lobby groups say new funding rules are resulting in unrealistically low compensation, squeezing wind farm operators and turbine manufacturers, while measures to help citizen-owned projects compete in the sector are being ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:12 Edgar Meza Heating Construction Clean Energy Wire The climate-friendly conversion of Germany's building sector should include socially-just financing models, as housing, heating and retrofitting costs increasingly place a burden on ...
11 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire An alliance of civil society groups has issued an? appeal ?to the German government to not implement planned cuts in the 2025 budget and avoid damage “to the economic, ecological, and social stability ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Members of Germany’s governing coalition have agreed on new rules to ensure a significant increase in the country’s renewable power production. However, exact targets of the much-anticipated reform of the country's landmark ...
31 Mar 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
06 May 2022, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The head of energy industry association BDEW has called on the government to examine further measures that could relieve households amid rising energy prices. “Since the beginning of ...
23 Sep 2020, 15:30 Germany's government has agreed on an overhaul of the country's Renewable Energy Act, the core legislation for its landmark energy transition, to enable a share of 65 percent renewables in 2030 power consumption and a ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Energy Wire The twelve largest chemicals production sites in Germany caused ...
05 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Zeit Online Lawmakers of Germany’s largest opposition party alliance have called for an expert assessment of whether recently decommissioned nuclear ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Joey Grostern Adaptation Cities Clean Energy Wire Campaigners from the NGOs German Environmental Aid (DUH) and German Children’s Aid (DKHW) have ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:06 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
02 Mar 2020, 14:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:20 Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire / MDR / epd / Tagesspiegel Background UK mining and metals company Zinnwald Lithium could begin lithium mining operations in Germany’s Eastern Ore Mountains as soon as in 2030 in ...
07 May 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Society EUElections2024 Clean Energy Wire A majority of EU citizens want the union to play a leading role in global efforts to counter climate change, a? survey ?ahead of the European elections by More in Common has ...
27 May 2021, 13:28 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The next government after the ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany's revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.5 billion euros in 2024, up around 100 million euros from the previous year, said the country's Federal Environment ...
05 May 2023, 14:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire In a bid to greatly improve ...
According to a survey by Leipzig-based research and consulting group Hitschfeld, 53 percent of residents in Germany would invest in renewable energy projects. Young educated people in particular? indicated a great willingness to do so. Social aspects ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Society Clean Energy Wire The German government should protect poorer households against incurring higher costs from the rising national carbon price, researchers at the Mercator Research ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Society Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The “Last Generation” (Letzte Generation) climate activist group has said it is dropping its name and will change its tactics by focusing on social issues related to climate change. ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:15 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Jessica Bateman Wind Clean Energy Wire The price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) specified in Germany’s ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:14 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire People in Germany rank security as their top priority when it comes to energy supply, according to a survey by consultancy EY. The majority (61%) of those surveyed ranked energy supply ...
24 Jun 2024, 14:12 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Government ARD / Handelsblatt As Germany’s coalition government struggles to agree on the country’s tightening 2025 budget, chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended planned austerity measures that would see major ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:15 Next year will be a difficult one for climate policy, says Susanne Dr?ge, head of climate protection and energy at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Governments will have to show whether they are still committed to strong climate ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:41 Edgar Meza Society Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt / Dlf Former German Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht on 8 January officially launched her much-anticipated political party, the " ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government Clean Energy Wire Most citizens? surveyed ?by Germany’s civil servant union (DBB) believe the state is overburdened and incapable of achieving effective results in key policy areas. Climate action ...
11 Dec 2020, 13:07 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Frankfurter Rundschau Germany’s government and parliament are struggling to complete the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the law that guides the ...
10 Oct 2023, 12:38 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Society ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government Clean Energy Wire Most people in Germany want the government to take on new debt to invest in areas that are important for security and prosperity in the future, rather than complying with strict ...
27 Mar 2025
27 Mar 2025, 12:11 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump unveils 25% auto tariff, threatens new levies on allies The new tariffs, which will hit German automakers in particular, will take effect on 3 April — one day after a broader range of so-called reciprocal ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Efficiency Clean Energy Wire After keeping pleas to the public to use less energy to a minimum amid the Ukraine war and the ensuing energy crisis so far, the German government has published efficieny advice ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire A majority of people in Germany (53%) agree that the next government should do more for climate protection, according to a survey commissioned by environmental NGO ...
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 [Updated 11 April with results from fourth round of solar PV auctions] Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have driven the expansion of renewable energy in Germany, but in 2014 the government decided to gradually replace them with an auction system. ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:09 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Onshore wind power was significantly ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:16 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt The German government’s budget crisis could be largely solved by cancelling ...
25 May 2021, 13:24 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Many publicly-owned buildings in Germany do not meet the energy efficiency requirements in line with the country’s climate targets, shows a report published by the NGO Environmental Action ...
14 May 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Society Clean Energy Wire Climate change is a great concern for middle-aged and older people in Germany, according to a survey published by the German Centre of Gerontology. People over the age of 43, which is defined as ...
16 Oct 2017, 00:00 The average price of new solar power installations in Germany has fallen below five cents per kilowatt hour for the first time ever. Since the introduction of auctions in 2015, prices for the technology have declined by more than 40 ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:16 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Climate Neutrality Foundation Stiftung Klimaneutralit?t Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Industry ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:48 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind dpa / Der Spiegel The expansion of onshore wind power in ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire The introduction of a so-called climate premium (“Klimageld”) to return the revenues from Germany's national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens will ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:43 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:35 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage Hydrogen Efficiency Clean ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:31 Jennifer Collins Mobility dpa / ARD The number of rail journeys in Germany has increased since the introduction of a new nationwide 'Germany ticket' in May,? according to a report by news agency dpa published by broadcaster ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Clean Energy Wire The demand for solar power panels in Germany has ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:42 Edgar Meza Society Clean Energy Wire / Tageszeitung (taz) The Scientists for Future organisation and the Bürgerbegehren Klimaschutz (BBK) climate action group have launched a citizen's climate council. The NGOs have assembled a ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:56 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Society Clean Energy Wire An overwhelming but slightly shrinking majority of people ...
19 May 2020, 14:23 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Wind Handelsblatt / RND The number of approved applications for ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:33 The rollout of solar panels and wind turbines is unlikely to be hampered by supply problems caused by the war in Ukraine, but the production of electric cars could take a hit, German business associations told Clean Energy Wire. The ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire 73 percent of participants in a German online survey said they are dissatisfied with the progress of the country's landmark energy transition. Most (77%) see too much ...
21 Apr 2020, 13:30 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Julian Wettengel Wind Clean Energy Wire There is no one-size-fits-all approach to boosting popular acceptance for local wind ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Business Policy Clean Energy Wire Support for Germany's energy policies varies starkly between employees backing populist parties compared to those supporting the centre left or centre right, according to a study ...
11 Oct 2021, 13:26 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St?dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The Association of German Towns and Municipalities (DStGB) ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:30 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Companies in Germany's ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire Several NGOs and industry trade union IG BCE have called on the government to make fundamental changes to how the state uses its financial powers to push the transition to ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:42 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert Wuppertal ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:32 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire More than half of Germans say they are “very” or “extremely” concerned about climate change, but there is also widespread concern over the costs of the energy transition, with 55 ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Die Welt The mayor of Hamburg has warned against burdening citizens with too ambitious climate targets, as Germany’s second largest city might be headed for a referendum on its emissions ...
25 May 2023, 13:28 S?ren Amelang Policy Tagesspiegel Background The German government could revive the neglected idea of returning?revenue from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to the population to help lower income households,? ...
31 Mar 2020, 13:25 Expert Bundesverband Bioenergie Federal Association for Bioenergy Bioenergy Renewables Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen ...
27 Feb 2023, 14:08 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Carolina Kyllmann Solar Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Targeted immigration of ...
28 May 2025, 13:16 A higher court in Germany has set an important precedent, arguing that large global emitters can be held responsible for climate damages under the country’s civil law, legal experts representing environmental NGOs said. The court, ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Society Clean Energy Wire Three in four houseowners in Germany wish ...
08 Jul 2024
08 Jul 2024, 11:00 S?ren Amelang Reuters: France faces coalition puzzle after left-wing surge Left-wing bloc comes first but no majority in parliament Macron's centrists second, far-right RN in third place Unexpected outcome leaves France in limbo ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:04 Following intense criticism of the German government's planned minimum distance rules for wind power by industry and environmental groups, economy minister Peter Altmaier says the government has not made a final decision on what ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:23 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s largest parties call for the abolishment of the EEG surcharge – the levy power consumers pay with their electricity bills to help finance ...
07 May 2019, 12:30 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Government Handelsblatt Germany's government coalition is facing yet more heated debates about how to plug a gap in the country's budget, as the deficit in next year's?federal funding could be even bigger ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
02 Jun 2016, 00:00 The latest reform of Germany’s renewable energy law is taking shape – on Tuesday the federal government and the heads of the 16 states reached an agreement on essential aspects of a reformed bill, such as the amount of onshore wind and ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:36 [updates with comment from German Wind Energy Association BWE] Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:47 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities Clean Energy Wire More than two-thirds of municipal utilities in a survey by the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) consider the country's target to reach climate neutrality by 2045 ...
03 Feb 2023, 13:36 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Solar PV expansion in Germany jumped ...
28 May 2019, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:21 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Clean Energy Wire The number of household solar power ...
The government coalition has agreed last-minute changes to the contested reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) in order to boost citizen energy projects, reports Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Citizen energy projects need to participate at ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:46 After an exhaustingly hot summer, the end of September and beginning of October ushered in extreme rainfall events and flooding in several Croatian cities along the coast and in the hinterland. At the start of November, higher ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:50 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The second oversubscribed onshore wind ...
29 Jan 2015, 00:00 The German government has launched a pilot scheme that requires operators of open-space solar installations to bid for subsidies, rather than automatically receiving them. Berlin hopes competition among solar energy producers will ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:52 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Cities Society Clean Energy Wire The initiators of an upcoming referendum on committing the German capital Berlin to 2030 climate neutrality have expressed confidence the vote will be successful, ...
07 May 2025, 15:00 The six-month wait for a new German government came to an end when Friedrich Merz was finally confirmed as chancellor in a day of high drama in parliament on 6 May. Stakeholders and observers have urged the new chancellor to keep energy ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DENEFF- German Industry ...
Germans are almost all in favour of expanding the use of renewable energy, despite the fact that government subsidies for renewables mean that Germans pay high electricity prices in relation to other European countries, writes David Meyer in an article ...
30 Sep 2024, 12:00 The late summer months brought bad energy and climate news for Croatians. August – a traditionally low activity month during the holiday season – saw record-breaking heat, with temperatures exceeding long-term averages by almost 5°C in ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:10 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The German government’s push for ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:05 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang Solar Clean Energy Wire The business confidence of Germany's ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:57 Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz wants to enter coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz, after the German elections’ result has paved the way for the two parties to form a government ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government Clean Energy Wire Only about one in four people in Germany believe that the state is able to fulfil its tasks and implement effective policies to tackle the important topics of migration, education, ...
16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:18 Finding a proper economic policy response to the U.S. government's "Inflation Reduction Act" to lure green energy investments into German and European projects will be one of the key challenges the government is going to ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Sven Egenter Solar Society Clean Energy Wire An overwhelming majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:10 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St?dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:18 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society Clean Energy Wire Independence from oil and gas imports is an important goal of the energy transition, according 86 percent of Germans responding to a recent representative survey ...
17 Mar 2023, 14:25 A year after the launch of Russia's attack on Ukraine, Germany appears to be emerging from the energy crisis relatively unscathed. Russia’s war has dealt a heavy blow to Europe’s biggest economy, because it was particularly ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:55 The German wind power industry has warned of the "precarious" situation of the country's dominant renewable power technology. As the industry gathered in the northern German town of Husum for one of the sector’s most ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Society Government Clean Energy Wire Public opinion on climate action in Germany is highly polarised, with a large part of society (56%) wishing for more climate action and around a quarter (24%) denying human-caused ...
29 Jun 2022, 12:59 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Clean Energy Wire An undersubscribed auction for solar power ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:03 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Solar Storage Clean Energy Wire The number of solar power storage devices ...
24 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024, 11:31 Julian Wettengel IRENA: Record growth drives cost advantage of renewable power Eighty-one percent of renewable additions in 2023 were cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, offering countries a compelling business and investment case to ...
15 Mar 2016
15 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Was the nuclear phase-out unconstitutional?” Germany’s Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will on Tuesday and Wednesday hear parties in the case of the country’s nuclear phase ...
28 Oct 2021, 14:34 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Clean Energy Wire Germany's existing power grid could handle much more electricity ...
23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:43 Franca Quecke Cars Cities Clean Energy Wire Following the decision by the citizens of the French capital Paris in a recent referendum to triple the parking fees for SUVs, NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has announced formal ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:54 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Die Zeit Climate action and the European Green Deal are at the "top of the list" of the Federal ...
Almost two-thirds of German residents say the government is thwarting the country’s energy transition in heating by not providing enough consumer incentives to switch from systems burning fossil fuel to those using renewable energy, according to the ...
22 Nov 2019, 12:01 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Solar Clean Energy Wire Business sentiment in the German solar power ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:22 Expert F?S- Green Budget Germany Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Jessica Bateman ...
04 Oct 2021, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The German Environment Agency (UBA) has called to raise the country’s greenhouse gas emission ...
03 May 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society Clean Energy Wire Approval rates for the construction of new wind turbines in the vicinity of people's homes in Germany can rise significantly if local electricity prices would drop as a result, ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Climate policy could be a ...
A large majority of Germans (82 percent) believe that the Energiewende is an important project which they personally consider the right thing, but many think that costs are too high, according to a survey by research company GfK, commissioned by natural ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire A ban on sales of new combustion engines by ...
23 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany's emissions fell stronger in 2018 than originally assumed, the country's ...
12 Apr 2022, 09:53 Russia’s attack on Ukraine has added a new dimension to Germany’s ambitious aims for ramping up the share of renewables in its energy system. Marking a “ historic turning point,” the fast elimination of fossil fuel imports for Germany ...
11 Mar 2022, 14:26 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Security Clean Energy ...
25 Sep 2015
25 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Spiegel Online “Exhaust affair: VW tricks increase doubts about climate calculations” Car manufacturers are not only using tricks to stay under nitrogen oxide thresholds in tests but also to reduce ...
05 Mar 2021, 14:14 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU Handelsblatt In a blow to Germany's ambitious wind power ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:41 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables ...
02 Jul 2020, 12:57 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:07 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
23 May 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire Acceptance of the energy transition in Germany would greatly improve with the introduction of a compensation mechanism for citizens to counter cost increases caused by CO2 ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:24 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:39 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire A mandatory minimum distance for wind turbines from residential areas would severely ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:54 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Mobility Agriculture Hamburger Abendblatt Germany’s meat consumption needs to be reduced by half in order ...
Ninety-five percent of Germans say that increased use and expansion of renewable energy is important or very important, according to a representative survey by Kantar Emnid, commissioned by Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). It also found broad support (65 ...
16 Dec 2024, 14:02 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Many people in Germany associate climate policy with state control and the fear of being financially overburdened due to decisions made by the departing coalition government, ...
15 Sep 2021, 13:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
30 Mar 2020, 14:11 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
The German town Saerbeck’s citizens’ energy project ‘Climate Community’ shows that local, small-scale ownership could be the key to a successful energy transition, writes Audrea Lim for National Observer. With a large community?described as PIMBYs ( ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:00 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:18 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:52 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Freja Eriksen Wind Clean Energy Wire Wind energy will be Germany's most important power ...
13 Jul 2021, 13:07 The German energy ministry has increased the country’s estimated power needs in 2030-- a figure that will be crucial after the general elections in September, when a new government has to set renewable energy expansion targets based on ...
19 Nov 2024, 13:31 Ruby Russel Mobility Cost & Prices Politics Berliner Morgenpost The city of Berlin has agreed to cancel its 29-euro monthly public transport ticket in a bid to cut government spending. Scrapping the budget subscription price is part ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:10 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The role of global warming and climate action in German media has grown ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:49 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Renewables Clean Energy Wire The climate ...
The support of German citizens for the country’s Energiewende [energy transition] is unwavering, a poll commissioned by the country’s Renewable Energy Agency (AEE) and conducted by pollster Kantar Emnid has shown. According to the AEE, 93 percent of ...
19 Apr 2021, 14:00 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire A new study commissioned by the German Environment Agency (UBA) examines how ...
11 Aug 2022, 17:39 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Clean Energy Wire [UPDATE adds paragraph on third relief package] German chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he is confident European Union member states will show solidarity in the energy crisis exacerbated by ...
15 May 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced a mixture of policy restarts and continuity in his first government declaration in parliament, ...
02 Sep 2020, 13:03 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Renewables Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Power supplier Greenpeace ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:07 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International Clean Energy Wire Ensuring compliance with a possible supply chain act that makes certain ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:46 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Clean Energy Wire A scheme to boost solar power production in ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:14 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:34 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society ZDF / Clean Energy Wire Several German cities are considering, or are already brokering, deals with climate activists from the group Last Generation to end their disruptive protests in ...
08 May 2023, 13:30 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St?dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Municipalities in Germany expect the ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire / ARD Serbia’s president Aleksandr Vucic visited a lithium mining project in eastern Germany together with German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a bid to underline the two ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables Heating Clean Energy Wire The share of renewable energy in German ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:02 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire There is high acceptance for ambitious climate policy in Germany, although many citizens are dissatisfied with the political implementation of the energy and transport transitions, the largest ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:24 Expert F?S- Green Budget Germany Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:17 The European Commission has expressed doubts that Germany's planned compensation payments to operators of lignite-fired power plants in the context of the country's coal phase-out are in line with EU state aid rules, and ...
15 May 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society Clean Energy Wire The majority of citizens in the German state of Bavaria would accept wind turbines in their vicinity under certain circumstances, a survey commissioned by the Initiative Climate ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:31 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices RP Online, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government’s approval of a 200 billion euro relief package to help business and citizens pay skyrocketing energy prices has been largely received ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cities Clean Energy Wire Industrial and commercial zones in urban areas ...
01 Jun 2023, 14:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Adaptation Clean Energy Wire New and increasing infectious diseases are among the many negative consequences of climate change in Germany, shows the first part of a new report coordinated by the ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany will not add ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:23 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Clean Energy Wire Researchers in Germany are ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:13 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Solar Clean Energy Wire Representatives of the German solar industry have ...
13 Aug 2020, 13:48 Germany’s government has set out to accelerate planning procedures for infrastructure projects linked to the energy transition with a focus on speeding up onshore wind power expansion in particular. Utilities welcomed the streamlining ...
29 Sep 2021, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Organically produced milk derived from pasture-fed cows is more environmentally friendly than milk ...
12 Nov 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Electricity Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Environmental groups from Germany and Austria have come out in opposition to two proposed hydropower projects in the Alps, emphasising their negative impacts on biodiversity, ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Reports that one billion euros of funding to improve Germany’s railways will instead be spent on building more roads have alarmed rail transport associations and NGOs in ...
Lowering energy costs is one of the most important goals for Germans in the Energiewende, according to the “Stiebel Eltron Energie-Trendmonitor 2018” report, seen by the Clean Energy Wire. Seventy-two percent of the respondents in the representative ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:34 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:29 Expert European Energy Exchange (EEX) Electricity Electricity market Gas Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The first sell-off ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire Germany's national price on CO2 emissions of fuels used in the transport and heating sectors lacks acceptance among the population, shows a survey by the Hans B?ckler ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:46 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Government Clean Energy Wire A pause on funding from Germany’s Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF) has been lifted for programmes under the economy and climate action ministry (BMWK). The option to apply ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
04 Jan 2022, 11:00 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Solar Clean Energy Wire / pv magazine Germany saw the installation of 240 ...
02 Jul 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cities Der Tagesspiegel Not satisfied with the Berlin state government’s climate protection targets, a broad-based citizens’ initiative is aiming to mount a referendum to make the German capital carbon ...
10 Mar 2023, 13:29 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire A new solar PV strategy tabled by the ...
12 Jul 2024, 15:00 The European elections are over and, as was widely expected, centre-right conservatives finished on top, leaving everybody else in the European Parliament the duty to find common ground with the biggest group and form an alliance. ...
12 May 2022, 14:00 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Edgar Meza Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany’s 16 federal states have sufficient space ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:51 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire The cost hikes and uncertainties triggered by the energy crisis have not shaken German citizens’ belief that the energy transition must have a high priority, according to a survey. Sixty-nine ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:26 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Industry Handelsblatt The German industry federation for metal-processing companies, WVMetalle, is calling for an ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:46 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Edgar Meza Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany saw the highest number of new wind energy capacity ...
12 May 2023, 13:51 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The flat-rate ticket for nationwide public transport in Germany ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:43 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany’s forests can provide the annual sink capacity needed to achieve ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:32 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background [UPDATE adds draft programme key content] The German Left Party (Die Linke) looks set to out ...
17 Dec 2018, 12:51 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Germany’s economy is particularly sensitive to ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:12 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Nuclear phase-out pv magazine / Clean ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:30 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Eleven environmental associations and citizens' initiatives have joined forces to come out against? controversial technologies to capture and?store CO? ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:09 Freja Eriksen Grid Clean Energy Wire Corrects position of Felix Matthes, who is research coordinator at the Institute for Applied Ecology, not the institute's head. Power grid expansion is set to become the German energy transition ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:23 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
24 May 2024, 12:00 The far-right populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is Germany's only large party to unequivocally reject any action against climate change- but its impact on the country's efforts has been limited. The AfD has not yet ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:25 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Wind Clean Energy Wire Over 2,000 megawatts (MW) of onshore wind installations ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:54 Jack McGovan Policy Society Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Greenpeace and Germanwatch filed a new constitutional complaint against the German government’s “inadequate” climate policy, especially when it comes to the transport sector, ...
07 Jan 2020, 14:00 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche St?dte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Clean Energy Wire A more rapid and determined climate and energy transition policy is ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:44 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Freja Eriksen Heating Clean Energy Wire German energy efficiency ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:17 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar pv magazine The expansion of solar power in ...
28 Nov 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said his government would continue to pursue its green transition plans even in the face of a budget crisis resulting ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs rbb Residents of the Grünheide municipality near Berlin have rejected the planned expansion of the local Tesla factory in a non-binding referendum, public broadcaster rbb reported. Asked about ...
21 Jul 2023, 12:23 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:41 Europeans will head to the polls one year from now to elect a new EU legislature that will shape the bloc’s energy and climate policy in the years leading to the 2030 climate target deadline. With its Green Deal strategy to make Europe ...
02 Nov 2020, 13:59 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars Welt am Sonntag Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has imposed a fine of twelve million euros on ...
20 Dec 2023, 09:05 Europe has no time to lose in formulating its renewed emissions reduction ambitions after the results of next June’s European Parliament elections become known, says Simone Peter from the German Renewable Energy Federation. A “Fit-for ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:52 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang Wind Germany's economy ministry has ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:16 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang Solar Storage Clean Energy Wire The number of battery storage systems linked ...
07 Apr 2025, 09:39 Croatia is making moves on renewable energy reform, including new rules for self-supply, storage, and energy communities, but long-standing challenges persist. Grid bottlenecks continue to slow solar expansion, and major energy ...
06 May 2021, 13:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Finance Clean Energy Wire The German Environment Agency (UBA)? is calling for more detailed environmental and climate protection ...
06 May 2021, 13:05 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Most residents of the eastern German state of Saxony are in favour of the switch to renewables, but many are still concerned about new wind turbines being built near their home ...
Further development of the German energy transition depends on the participation of citizens, writes Joachim Wille in Frankfurter Rundschau. While there is generally big support for the Energiewende among the population, more detailed surveys showed that ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:55 Ruby Russel Renewables Clean Energy Wire [UPDATE adds FA Wind survey] The vast majority (80%) of people in Germany support the country's ongoing transition to renewable energy, a survey commissioned by the German Renewable Energy ...
A large majority of Germans says the continued expansion of renewable energies is important (24 percent) or very important (68 percent), according to a survey conducted by forsa and commissioned by the energy company EnBW and the newspaper Welt. Only a ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:34 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The expansion of onshore wind power in ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Clean Energy Wire / Die Zeit Germany’s government has formally adopted the country’s draft budget for 2025 and amended the 2024 budget, which had become a difficult task after a court ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Industry Handelsblatt Cuts to battery technology research in Germany, which were triggered by a court ruling that confounded funding plans for climate and energy projects, could see the country fall behind in a ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:39 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Clean Energy Wire Parts of the ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:53 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S?ren ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:21 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology Clean Energy Wire Wind power production in Germany could be ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ZDF / Clean Energy Wire In the face of high inflation driven by rising energy prices, German finance minister Christian Lindner wants to relieve citizens with a tax cut of more than 10 billion euros, ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:09 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire The German Bundesrat, the council of state governments ...
03 Aug 2021, 14:15 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Clean Energy Wire The construction of new solar PV installations in ...
02 Feb 2021, 14:05 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar pv magazine / Clean Energy Wire New photovoltaic capacity in ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:38 S?ren Amelang Adaptation Society Clean Energy Wire Citizens expect the German government to take decisive action against the consequences of climate change, and are calling for the greening of inner cities to counter increasing heat, as ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:16 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Hydrogen Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean ...
In 2016, private citizens owned 31.5 percent of installed renewable power capacity in Germany, making them the most important investors in the sector ahead of energy companies (15.7 percent), developers (14.4 percent), farmers (10.5 percent), and funds ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:08 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Renewable Energies Agency ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:16 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The climate impact of a product is only modestly influenced by how it finds its way to ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:44 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The current difficulties caused by the ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:27 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Handelsblatt ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Almost 3,000 ...
26 May 2023, 13:38 S?ren Amelang Heating Elections & Politics K?lner Stadt-Anzeiger / Table.Media / Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and finance minister Christian Lindner, who leads the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), have ...
27 Apr 2020, 14:13 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables ...
31 Jan 2025, 14:00 Poland’s energy transition is lagging and set to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel and nuclear energy for baseload capacity. A far-right party is pushing against new renewable investment with a referendum on a pending new wind farm ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Gas Society Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt / NDR As a gas drilling project off the German North Sea island of Borkum advances, environmental organisations have renewed calls to shutter the new extraction site. Groups ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Adaptation Clean Energy Wire / dpa, Die Zeit / Table.Media The German government’s upcoming ‘Water Strategy’ aims to improve ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:07 Months of negotiations among the parties in Germany’s governing coalition about the country’s 2025 budget have ushered in “record investments” into renewable power, industrial decarbonisation, electric mobility and a faster transition ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:58 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:09 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:33 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Clean Energy Wire The amount of packaging waste accruing in Germany has reached a new record high, the Federal ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cities Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Urban greening and parasols in hotspots should help protect people in Germany's cities during periods of high heat. With a new urban heat protection strategy, the ...
28 Oct 2020, 10:44 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Germany has already surpassed last year’s ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:43 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:02 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire / NDR The closure of Germany’s last wind turbine rotor ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:52 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Welt am Sonntag ? Please note: an earlier version of this blurb sent on ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:03 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German government's ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / AFP Germany stepped up the fight against climate change at the start of ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background Critics of Germany's roadmap for phasing out lignite-fired power plants have ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Handelsblatt / ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:04 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The European Energy Exchange (EEX) in Leipzig has been mandated to sell ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:17 Expert Bundesverband Bioenergie Federal Association for Bioenergy Bioenergy Renewables Expert Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe Expert agency for renewable raw materials Bioenergy Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:31 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Renewables Storage Clean Energy Wire Germans ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:16 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Utility EnBW has started ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire Eastern German lignite mine and power plant operator LEAG has rejected ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities Clean Energy Wire Air pollution with nitrogen dioxide has fallen below legal limit values in most cities across ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 EIB / YouGov US citizens are somewhat more optimistic than EU citizens about the economic benefits of measures to combat climate change, according to a survey by online pollster ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum für ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background There are still no liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contracts between German and Qatari companies almost five months after economy minister Robert Habeck visited the gulf state in March to ...
09 Dec 2024, 14:00 The break-up of Germany's coalition government could further undermine public acceptance of the energy transition's costs, warns Brigitte Knopf, head of the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which focuses on climate policy' ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:28 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The number of newly installed wind power ...
26 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:10 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices An ambitious and ...
30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe’s most intense heatwave in recent years finally comes to an end, following at least 35 days of well-above average temperatures, life in Italy has slowed into the summer break. In mid-August, the entire country grinds to a halt ...
29 Mar 2022, 14:07 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Kerstine Appunn Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Having announced higher renewables targets ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:56 S?ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Climate action has dropped in German voters’ priorities vs economic growth over the course of the past five years, according to a? survey ?conducted by the Konrad Adenauer ...
02 May 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire By April, household energy costs in Germany had dropped nearly one third in the six months since the peak of the energy crisis, an? analysis ?by price comparison website Verivox has ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The expected dismantling of thousands of old wind turbines in Germany could overburden ...
24 Mar 2022, 14:20 Germany’s government coalition has decided a wide-ranging relief package to help shield citizens from rising energy costs exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine. The government plans to introduce a 300-euro tax bonus for employed ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:37 Germany is unlikely to face the kind of massive power outage which hit Spain and Portugal on 28 April, as the country’s system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Bild / ARD / Clean Energy Wire The German government coalition partners are debating ways to lower the burden on citizens as energy prices have increased substantially over the past months, reports ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire People in Germany are increasingly doubtful that the country will achieve its 2030 climate targets, from the expansion of renewable energy to the growth of electric vehicles on the country& ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Clean Energy Wire An group of energy, economy and finance experts – the Council for Energy Independence – has presented a roadmap urging Germany to prioritise independence from natural gas in its energy policy. ...
