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鈥檚 system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
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 鈥� the Council for Energy Independence 鈥� has presented a roadmap urging Germany to prioritise independence from natural gas in its energy policy. ...
12 Aug 2021, 13:25 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 Kerstine Appunn Coal ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:14 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Germany must 鈥渇inally鈥� do something to ...
29 Jul 2016, 00:00 The surcharge that German consumers pay through their power bills to fund renewable power looks set to rise again in 2017, think tank Agora Energiewende* has predicted. If power suppliers calculate bills fairly, this won鈥檛 necessarily ...
01 Nov 2019, 13:29 Germany can become largely carbon-neutral by the middle of the century at tolerable cost by overhauling its entire economy, but聽in order to do so must specify its 2050 emissions target as soon as possible, according to a study by ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Clean Energy Wire Sales of heating systems in Germany have dropped significantly in the first half of 2024, with uncertainty among customers meaning that manufacturers were selling 43 percent fewer systems than ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Energy costs for private households in Germany is around twelve percent above pre-war levels, as wholesale prices for gas and electricity fall rapidly, comparison portal Verivox said ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:01 The Social Democrats- emerging from a legislative period with a 鈥済reat deal of dissent鈥� in energy policy with its conservative coalition partner- are hoping to find new partners and new ways to drive forward the expansion of renewable ...
23 May 2025, 15:20 Germany finally has a new government, ending months of political uncertainty at a time when multiple global crises require a safe pair of hands at the steering wheel of the EU鈥檚 most populous member state and largest economy. Friedrich ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:24 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Federal Environment Agency (UBA) The share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 final energy consumption ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Storage Resources & Recycling MDR The planned construction of a recycling plant for used electric car batteries in Eastern Germany has been met with much opposition, according to a report from public broadcaster MDR. ...
30 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire / n-tv Large petrol station companies will need to offer at least one fast charging point for electric vehicles from 2028, according to a draft law agreed by Germany's government ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Clean Energy Wire The potential of so-called prosumers in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition should be exploited more to reduce costs and increase the system's stability, the Federation of German Energy and ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:51 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 International ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:25 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 ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:18 The German government overall has done a good job in maintaining energy supply security in the country in the turbulent year 2022, but risks to the energy system's stability persist also in 2023, says Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:21 Expert Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe Expert agency for renewable raw materials Bioenergy Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine ...
07 Feb 2025, 14:40 The fallout triggered by the dissolution of the French National Assembly last June continues to afflict political decisionmaking in France. The collapse of the Barnier government 聽in December, and the resulting ministerial reshuffle, ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:57 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities Clean Energy Wire Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in Germany's inner cities is declining, but many urban ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:13 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has found that high-income households emit more greenhouse gases than poorer citizens due primarily to their travel habits. ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:15 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 ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:25 S枚ren Amelang Society Tagesspiegel Background Far-right extremists in Germany have started to mobilise for a 鈥渉ot autumn鈥� of protests against soaring energy prices on social media, reports energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
18 May 2020, 14:08 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Edgar Meza Gas Cars Focus Online / 脰ko-Institut Despite ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
18 May 2020, 18:14 The German government has agreed to remove key hurdles to the rollout of renewable energies that had begun to slow the country's landmark energy transition. The deal between chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Three eastern German states will elect a new government in September 2024, marking a potentially pivotal moment in the post-reunification history of the country and for the future of its climate and energy transition policies. The ...
04 Jun 2025, 13:23 s.amelang Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Around 3,000 people have died due to high temperatures during each of the past two summers in Germany, said both the country鈥檚 environment agency (UBA) and its disease control authority, the Robert ...
24 Aug 2020, 12:29 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection, State of ...
07 Feb 2020, 12:58 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Energiewende WirtschaftsWoche Germany needs to revamp its energy policy to avoid issues with supply security and ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:37 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / MDR The energy ministers from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sixteen states have called on the federal government to examine lowering the electricity tax to the European minimum, and supporting ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:14 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 ...
25 Feb 2020, 13:38 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Claudia Kemfert German ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:55 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Kerstine ...
An online survey by YouGov found that 82 percent of Germans support central goals of the energy transition- to phase out nuclear power and switch to a renewable energy supply in the long term. Commissioned by Federation of German Consumer Organisations ...
17 Nov 2020, 14:02 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Society Clean Energy Wire The majority of Germans are willing to adopt a more sustainable ...
14 Oct 2024, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Die Zeit / ntv / ARD / Politico 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parties are gearing up for their election campaigns with around a year to go before the country鈥檚 next scheduled national vote. Chancellor ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt German power transmission grid operators have said that an additional 7.8 billion euros from the country's budget is needed to pay out renewable energy support in 2024, reports ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The Green Party is calling for major investments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 infrastructure, energy system, industry and administration to use decarbonisation and the energy transition as an ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:40 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Ecologic Institute ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:49 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The new Berlin state government consisting of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Left Party has presented its coalition agreement on Monday. The threey-party ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:59 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Agriculture Climate-Alliance ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market Policy Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government will not follow through with its original plan to return revenues from carbon price to citizens as compensation for rising CO2 prices in the ...
22 Oct 2014
22 Oct 2014, 00:00 Stuttgarter Zeitung "EnBW offers stakes in wind parks" German utility Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg (EnBW) is asking citizens to participate in the financing of 聽wind parks after offering stakes in wind farms to local communities ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:19 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 ...
13 Jan 2020, 14:02 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind dpa / Focus Online / Clean Energy Wire Doing away with the ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Clean Energy Wire Campaigners in Germany are calling for a regular prime-time show about climate change on public television, in order to draw more attention to the topic and educate the public on the necessity ...
16 Nov 2020, 13:35 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar dpa / Focus Online Germany's solar industry ...
04 Aug 2022, 13:55 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 ...
13 Jul 2020, 14:12 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Solar Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hollowed-out solar industry is hoping that the coronavirus crisis ...
04 Apr 2022, 13:51 The German government presented another piece of the puzzle to hurry along the growth of renewables in its energy mix, seen by now as much of a bid for fossil fuel import independence as a means of achieving climate neutrality by 2045. ...
19 May 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Politics Society Clean Energy Wire / Zeit Online The island of R眉gen on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Baltic Sea coast is to be included into law as a location for floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals despite local ...
07 Nov 2023, 12:25 With a wide range of measures to cut red tape and ease licensing procedures, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal and state governments want to speed up investments in and construction of renewable power installations, transmission lines, hydrogen ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:59 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 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
22 May 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Society Clean Energy Wire About one in five teenagers in Germany say they have never heard of climate change or the climate crisis, according to a survey conducted by the International Central Institute for Youth and ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:11 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars Clean Energy Wire Nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in relatively new diesel cars are still much higher ...
17 May 2023, 14:09 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green energy and climate action minister, Robert Habeck, has suffered a setback for his decarbonisation plans with the departure of his energy state secretary, Patrick Graichen. Habeck鈥檚 state secretary left his post following ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:14 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal ...
27 Jun 2022, 14:23 Kerstine Appunn International Security Clean Energy Wire The G7 leaders should agree on import tariffs on Russian oil and gas at their summit in Elmau, according to researchers from the economic institute IfW Kiel. "A tariff ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Funke Mediengruppe Global warming could make Germany a breeding ground for mosquitos and ticks transmitting tropical diseases such as dengue fever, the president of Germany's national disease ...
22 Sep 2020, 14:00 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
06 Sep 2022, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy Wire Germany no longer counts on receiving gas from Russia after deliveries through the pipeline Nord Stream 1 have been suspended indefinitely by Russian supplier Gazprom. 鈥淕as deliveries ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:11 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The unresolved question of future ...
27 Mar 2025, 12:57 Germany's prospective next government is stepping back from its predecessor's ambition to speed up the country鈥檚 coal exit to 2030, sticking instead to the original 2038 deadline. Leaked negotiation documents reveal that many ...
20 Jan 2022, 12:01 Germany's onshore wind power capacity is recovering from years of depressed expansion, but is still not close to levels necessary for the country鈥檚 renewables targets for 2030, the country's wind power industry聽said in its ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:40 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire ...
15 May 2020, 14:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The effects of climate change outside of Europe pose a much larger risk to Germany's ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:31 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f眉r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Cars Clean Energy Wire The share of renewable energies used in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport sector stagnated at 5.6% in 2019, a study ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables EU Clean Energy Wire A largely CO2-free German and European power supply by 2050 with renewable energy as ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire A large majority of 71 percent of voters in Germany say that the government must make sure that climate targets are met, but people lack trust in the abilities of major ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:24 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative ...
26 Apr 2022, 13:13 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Energy cost relief support for low-income households is not targeted enough to alleviate their burden, a new report by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in ...
19 Apr 2024, 14:30 Democratic parties across Europe should treat climate policies as a matter of social justice to combat the increasing threat of far-right populist politicians who oppose strong climate action, says Linus Westheuser, sociologist at the ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:19 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Transport ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Even as critics claim wind turbines are ruining the view at Germany's tourist spots, some destinations are making green energy infrastructure a focal point for visitors. Expert German Tourism Association Deutscher Tourismusverband ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society Clean Energy Wire Increased regulation threatens German citizens鈥� energy cooperatives, according to a survey by the national cooperative association DGRV. The cooperatives, which allow independent ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:34 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
17 Jan 2025, 15:00 Energy prices are becoming increasingly expensive for Italian businesses and households due to delays in the development of renewables and increases in the cost of gas on international markets. The rise in energy costs will be, along ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:10 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market Policy Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government is committed to returning revenues from the country鈥檚 rising national CO2 price for heating and transport to citizens, reports energy and climate ...
17 May 2024
17 May 2024, 11:28 After months of negotiations, politicians in the Netherlands reached a deal to form a new government that will include populist parties: the nationalist Party for Freedom (PVV) and the agrarian-populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB). ...
02 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU Clean Energy Wire EU member states鈥� national climate plans insufficiently address just transition issues, a crucial deficiency ahead of the introduction of a carbon price on ...
19 Dec 2018, 14:21 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy-related CO鈧� emissions dropped by more than six percent year-on-year as the country consumed 鈥渟ignificantly鈥� less energy in 2018, but with a greater share of renewables than last year, said energy market research group ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Clean Energy Wire Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:06 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A position paper by Germany's environment agency UBA calls for a drastic ...
About one in two Germans would consider investing in community renewable energy projects, a representative survey of 1,990 participants by Swiss University of St. Gallen found. While solar PV and wind power projects are the preferred types, investment ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:37 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� ...
28 Sep 2023, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Policy dpa A large part of the country鈥檚 revenue from the increasing national carbon price on fuel for transport and heating could be passed on to the country鈥檚 citizens from 2025, said finance minister Christian Lindner. ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
23 May 2019, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The impact of global climate change in Germany will be felt less ...
30 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Rachel Waldholz Solar Clean Energy Wire / pv magazine The number of sites that both operate ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German leaders see the country well-equipped to get through the coming winter in the ongoing energy crisis. The government had initiated the necessary preparations to secure ...
Sixty-eight percent of Germans say that the future federal government should put more effort into implementing the Energiewende 鈥� with just 24 percent claiming the government should continue as before, according to a representative Forsa survey, ...
A majority of Germans want the federal government to do more for climate protection, according to a representative survey by public broadcaster ARD, conducted by Infratest dimap. 74 percent of respondents said the government should do more, 22 percent ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Germany covered over one third of its entire net electricity ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:20 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire / ...
A vast majority of Germans broadly support the Energiewende鈥檚 aim to decarbonise the economy but a large proportion also says that the associated burden is not shared equally, the Social Sustainability Barometer study by the Institute for Advanced ...
27 May 2024, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach has called on the country鈥檚 hospitals and care facilities to improve their preparedness against the negative health effects posed by ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:40 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire There have been few positive developments in the state of the German environment in 2020, ...
21 Feb 2019, 14:36 The vast majority (90%) of Germans are supportive of the country's energy transition. However, more and more are losing faith in the government鈥檚 ability to pursue this landmark project in a socially just way, a new survey finds. ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire A broad alliance of environmental organisations and NGOs has launched an online campaign calling on the German government to pass on revenue from its national ...
15 May 2020, 14:07 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany is on track to widely miss its EU obligations to reduce CO2 emissions ...
30 May 2025, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government Clean Energy Wire The new German coalition government has agreed which measures and policies to tackle as priorities in the coming months, including an act to unlock hundreds of billions of ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:46 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Coal Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel Online Five ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:04 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German households are spending some 18 percent more on their energy use than a year ago, calculations by comparison website Verivox show. Compared to 2020, when the ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Transport Clean Energy Wire / tagesschau.de German transport minister Volker Wissing has renewed his rejection of a general speed limit on the country鈥檚 autobahns after a report found that the measure could save almost ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Wind Society Clean Energy Wire Onshore wind power has become more popular than ever among people living in Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine,聽 a poll 聽has found. One in three respondents said Russia's war and ...
Many German wind power projects that appear to be owned by citizens鈥� energy cooperatives can be associated with the major wind power planning company UKA, German national TV station MDR says in an article on its website. According to MDR, UKA is 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
12 May 2025, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany's new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche from chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security Clean Energy Wire German energy industry lobby ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:00 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The proportion of peole in Germany who consider climate change to be "the single most serious problem facing the world" has doubled since 2017 to 30 percent, the latest ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Grid Spiegel Online / dpa Five ...
04 Sep 2019, 13:12 The expansion of Germany's most important renewable energy source, onshore wind, has almost come to a standstill. Bureaucratic hurdles and resistance to new turbines from different interest groups mean that only a handful of new ...
Empowering individuals by allowing and enabling citizens鈥� energy projects could help 鈥渇ill the gap left behind鈥� by utility giants reluctant to invest in domestic renewable energy facilities, write Craig Morris and Arne Jungjohann for the US edition of The ...
01 Oct 2020, 13:25 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:35 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt f眉r Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Jessica Bateman Heating Clean Energy Wire The German federal government has approved over 2.7 ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Spiegel / Tagesspiegel German economy minister Robert Habeck has insisted that planned climate action measures must continue to be financed despite a constitutional court ruling which ...
15 Jul 2021, 09:30 The German environment ministry has called new EU proposals to reform the bloc's climate and energy policy 鈥渘othing less than a new industrial revolution in the European Union.鈥� The European Commission's comprehensive proposal ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:44 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
Most people in Germany say politicians are principally responsible for managing the shift towards sustainable consumption, according to a survey by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv). The vzbv says responsibility for sustainable ...
16 May 2025, 13:10 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars Clean Energy Wire Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in German cities 鈥� mainly ...
29 May 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Clean Energy Wire The share of cycling in short trips in Germany could triple by 2035, from 13 percent today to 45 percent, if consistent measures are taken to make cycling more attractive, a report by ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:17 The first draft of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Climate Action Law, presented last week, has laid bare conflicting views within the German coalition聽government over how the country should meet its climate targets. The proposal has drawn criticism from ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:12 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport S枚ren Amelang Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany's government has adopted a ...
29 Jul 2019, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Storage Clean Energy Wire The production of so-called power-to-x fuels must be regulated in ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Clean Energy Wire A broad alliance of labour unions, environmental and social organisations, as well as the protestant church, has called on the German government to speed up the transition ...
20 Feb 2015
20 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv World Energy Council 鈥淕别谤尘补苍 energy transition is currently not an export hit鈥� Many international energy experts doubt that Germany's energy transition works as a blueprint for other countries ...
18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
03 Jun 2025, 13:07 Expert Eurelectric European electricity industry interest group Electricity market EU Julian Wettengel Electricity Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Increased production and use of electricity across all sectors is key for the ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany could achieve climate neutrality by 2045 at a much lower cost through a combination of energy efficiency measures and a slower expansion of power generation and ...
22 Oct 2020, 13:09 One year ago, the German government decided that the country should become climate-neutral by the middle of the century. What was lacking so far, however, was a plan how to achieve this. In order to fill this gap, three think tanks ...
25 Apr 2025, 14:00 The aspiring German coalition government under conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to assume control at a time of unprecedented transatlantic turmoil for the EU. Amid a backlash against global climate policy led by the new US ...
10 Mar 2021, 13:25 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt f眉r die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 ...
19 May 2025, 17:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Policy Clean Energy Wire [UPDATE adds quotes by minister Reiche, Commissioner Ribera] The new German government should largely adopt the previous government's plans for building new gas power ...
16 May 2025, 13:12 Jennifer Collins Renewables Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire More than half of business leaders in eastern Germany rate the region's economic potential as "high" or "very high", with renewable energy seen ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:32 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport Clean Energy Wire More than 25 percent of Germans have poor access to local public transport, according to a report by Greenpeace, which is calling on the government to improve the situation. Based on data ...
01 Mar 2022, 14:31 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has initiated the first steps of a wide-ranging renewables reform that should make the country鈥檚 power supply almost 100 percent renewable by 2035. In a draft paper seen by Clean Energy Wire, the economy and climate ...
07 Jan 2019, 09:30 The impending phase-out plan for coal power in Germany will have a profound impact on the country's entire energy policy, says Antje von Broock of environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). The NGO is a member ...
23 Sep 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics WirtschaftsWoche The energy crisis forces Germany to rapidly rearrange its energy policy plans and will make a faster coal phase-out by 2030 impossible, Stephan Weil, state premier of ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:20 Germany's coalition government collapsed聽in November 2024 due to internal disputes over budget and economic policy. The country now gears up for snap elections in early 2025, against the backdrop of a flagging economy, the war in ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 EUElections2024 Clean Energy Wire The re-election of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has largely been welcomed by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, observers in the energy industry and by civil ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:00 Strong popular demand for climate action and a push towards more energy autonomy in the wake of the war in Ukraine have led Hungary鈥檚 populist leader Viktor Orb谩n to describe himself as an advocate of climate-friendly power generation. ...
05 Feb 2019, 14:23 Germany's four transmission grid operators have published their proposal for the 2030 electricity grid, including some 1,600 kilometres of new power lines and updating another 2,900 km. This comes with a price tag of 52 billion ...
Like other recent studies, the German Industry Association鈥檚 (BDI) study shows that cutting emissions by 80 percent by 2050 is technically and economically feasible, writes Andreas Mihm in an editorial in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But the ...
16 Jan 2017, 00:00 The best way for Germany to reach its 2030 emissions target for the power sector is by shutting down old coal plants, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) suggests. This strategy is more attractive than an additional CO2 levy, according ...
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11 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online/AFP/S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淯tilities increase nuclear provisions鈥� The utilities have increased their provisions for the nuclear exit in the last year, according to a report by press agency AFP ...
A majority of the German population generally supports the Energiewende, but there are different 鈥渁cceptance groups鈥� to be made out, according to a report on a survey conducted in 2015 by the Universities of Stuttgart and M眉nster in cooperation with ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics EU Dlf / Clean Energy Wire / dpa The European Union鈥檚 focus on climate in all policy fields is unnecessary and the Green Deal should be abolished, Maximilian Krah, the German populist far-right ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:07 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Several citizens in two German states have filed lawsuits against their state ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society EU Clean Energy Wire Security and affordability is the top priority for the future young Europeans want, followed by a liveable planet and social justice, according to the Next Generations Study 2023 survey by ...
29 Sep 2021, 13:42 Olaf Scholz has led Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) to an unexpected win in the country's 2021 elections. The finance minister of chancellor Angela Merkel's outgoing government has led a campaign based on continuity with ...
The number of people in Germany who think that affordable power is a "very important" feature of the country鈥檚 energy system is considerably larger than that of those who consider sustainable power production a priority, a survey conducted by ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire European parliamentary hopefuls have been urged against campaigning on the EU鈥檚 successes in dealing with issues such as climate change and COVID-19, as polls show many ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:43 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire ...
09 Dec 2019, 12:56 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Rose-Anne Clermont Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) outlined measures that demonstrate how EU ...
The high number of citizens鈥� energy projects among successful bids in the second round of wind power auctions- which can be attributed to a single project developer, UKA 鈥� has led to renewed criticism of the current auction regulations, writes J枚rg Staude ...
06 Dec 2024, 11:14 The appointment of Michel Barnier as France鈥檚 new prime minister in September sparked as many concerns as it ignited hopes for advocates of more ambitious climate action. But the former environment minister, who had laid some of the ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Handelsblatt The German government is considering allowing old coal power plants to remain on standby beyond the currently planned spring 2024 to help save gas and ensure supply security when necessary, ...
16 May 2019, 14:26 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The business climate index of ...
13 May 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Security Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche, has emphasised the value in working with European partners to ensure energy supply for the continent. 鈥淐ooperation with European ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Government Security Clean Energy Wire In an unusually emotional response to criticism over the government鈥檚 handling of the energy crisis, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised conservative CDU leader Friedrich ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy Society Rheinische Post The German government must quickly make good on its promise to introduce the 鈥榗limate bonus鈥� (Klimageld in German) support payments to citizens as it increases the ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire A geothermal extraction project in Germany is set to produce the world's first fully certified CO2-neutral lithium, a key ingredient for electric car batteries, ...
07 Jun 2024, 12:00 Right-wing populist parties opposed to climate action are gaining power and popularity across the European continent and are set to do well in the 2024 European Parliament elections. These parties strongly influence climate narratives ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:44 Edgar Meza Industry Policy EU Clean Energy Wire Expectations among industrial players and environmental NGOs are high for the EU鈥檚 highly anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a follow-up to the European Green Deal that aims to build on ...
19 Aug 2020, 13:52 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society Clean Energy Wire Climate change is still perceived as the top problem facing humanity, a survey 聽carried out in seven European ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ZDF Most of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading parties say they are committed to the country鈥檚 2045 climate neutrality target. In the last major聽 TV debate 聽on public broadcaster ZDF before ...
31 Jul 2018, 14:06 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy consumption fell by one percent in the first half of 2018 as warm weather in the spring reduced the need for heating. A rise in renewable energy generation that pushed out coal in the power sector also helped to cut ...
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20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency Clean Energy Wire More than 60 energy scientists call for improving energy efficiency policy in an open letter to the German government, arguing it would be as important as building more renewable power ...
04 Jun 2025, 16:37 The Danish government intends to use its EU Council presidency in the second half of this year to prioritise reaching an agreement among member states on a 2040 climate target for the European Union, said climate and energy minister ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:10 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy will take a bigger hit from the energy crisis compared to other European countries, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), business ...
21 May 2021, 12:20 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:18 Jessica Bateman Society Focus Online German climate activists from the Last Generation ('Letzte Generation') group are turning their attention to the 鈥渟uper-rich鈥� with a number of actions on the North Sea island of Sylt. ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy Clean Energy Wire Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
01 Nov 2019, 13:22 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit filed against the German government for not doing enough to avert ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Industry Clean Energy Wire The states of eastern Germany are benefitting from the transition towards a climate neutral economy and are well-positioned to emerge as a strong industrial hub thanks to their ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Residents in eastern German states are generally critical of the federal government鈥檚 energy and climate policies, while at the same time endorsing measures to reduce ...
10 Aug 2023, 14:20 Nearly halfway through its four-year term, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of energy crisis management to controversial climate policies. The coalition government of the Social ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:53 Jennifer Collins Policy Society Table.Media A new German think tank is set to focus on the impacts of climate change and climate policy on society, according to Table.Media. Founded by Brigitte Knopf, a member of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Council of ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country鈥檚 energy transition. Energy industry and ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:07 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Charlotte Nijhuis Policy Clean Energy Wire Reducing the environmental damages caused by greenhouse gases, nitrogen emissions, other ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:43 If the European Union doesn't include stricter rules for climate friendly farming in its main subsidy scheme (CAP), the farming sector will not achieve any emission reductions in the next ten years, a new report finds. Expert ...
28 Apr 2020, 12:28 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:42 Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz鈥� conservatives have won 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government. But it remained ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:25 The German government has been urged to quickly devise a plan on how to regulate and manage the start of the European Union carbon emissions trading system for transport and heating fuels in 2027. Measures need to be put in place to ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:25 Onshore wind power- the cornerstone of Germany's decarbonisation plans- 聽has suffered from chronically low additional installations in the past years. The industry seems to have achieved a turnaround in 2020, connecting almost 50 ...
01 Dec 2022, 12:20 One year after taking over 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 鈥渢raffic light鈥� coalition looks back at some turbulent first twelve months in office that were overshadowed by Russia鈥檚 attack on Ukraine and the subsequent ...
15 Jul 2022, 12:10 Hannah Naylor Transport Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) has proposed a permanent 69-euro ticket for citizens to use local and regional public transport across the country as a way ...
23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media Several formerly leading politicians from Germany's Die Linke (The Left) party have split off with the aim to found a new political party in the coming ...
16 Aug 2021, 13:41 Germany is set to widely miss its climate targets this year, according to a think tank analysis that adds pressure on the chancellor contestants to present plans for rapid emissions cuts. Six weeks before the country's general ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:20 Leading German economists have urged more innovation and investments to put the country that is still grappling with the fallout of the energy crisis and inflation back on a growth track. The German Council of Economic Experts forecasts ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:57 Aniket Narawad Storage Technology International Clean Energy Wire Germany is set to join the Global Battery Alliance, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference. Highlighting the critical role of batteries ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:19 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics ARD / WDR 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state will be governed by a coalition of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Green Party for the next five years, the leading politicians in North ...
21 Jun 2024, 14:14 On the night of the European elections, French president Emmanuel Macron did not wait until the official results were called to announce the dissolution of the country鈥檚 parliament and, consequently, to call new elections already by the ...
09 Oct 2014, 00:00 Resistance to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 subsidies for the renewables industry have left politicians questioning why financing for the UK鈥檚 Hinkley Point nuclear power station has been granted EU approval. Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire A large majority of Germans are worried that the ongoing rise in everyday costs will erode their standard of living, according to a survey by insurer R+V. "People feel their ...
02 Sep 2020, 12:55 A faster deployment of more renewable installations that run into less problems with citizens and are able to quickly survive in the market without government support are at the centre of a renewables law reform proposal by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
22 May 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Ensuring that flexible electricity use is accounted for in Germany's grid fee reform could allow for lower electricity bills, a group of energy providers and mobility ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices ARD / Clean Energy Wire A higher tax on meat products is needed to reduce the food sector鈥檚 impact on the environment and increase the well-being of animals, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government-appointed ...
27 Mar 2023, 13:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany has annual greenhouse gas reduction targets for individual economic sectors, but the country lacks 鈥渓ong-term, strategic considerations鈥� how to reach these targets and become ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:45 Edgar Meza Society International Clean Energy Wire People in Germany are less concerned about the impacts of climate change than the citizens of many other countries across the globe, according to a survey by Paris-based market research ...
03 Aug 2021, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Hamburger Abendblatt The cooperative bank Sparda in Germany's second largest city Hamburg is trying out a new "climate credit" scheme that is supposed to help clients finance more climate ...
22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in Europe鈥檚 largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
17 May 2024, 15:00 Just as France is marking the biggest drop in its greenhouse gas emissions in almost a decade, the debate about the country鈥檚 future energy policy continues in full swing. This applies to almost all sectors of the economy 鈥� and the ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The climate activist movement Extinction Rebellion plans several road blockades and other activities in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin starting on 7 October, saying they want to use ...
More than three-fifths of Germans believe that their government is not doing enough to limit the country鈥檚 impact on climate change, a survey commissioned by the solar power lobby group BSW Solar has found. In the survey, conducted by pollster YouGov, ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire All Germans want significantly more climate action from the party they would vote for in the upcoming federal election, with the exception of those who support the far ...
04 Jul 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices ARD The German government will not introduce a general speed limit on motorways to reduce the transport sector鈥檚 energy consumption amid the crisis fuelled by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, Chancellor ...
24 Feb 2021, 16:12 German forests have been damaged heavily by droughts, bark beetle infestations, storms and forest fires in recent years. In 2020, more surveyed trees died than in any year before, said the Forest Condition Report 2020 by the agriculture ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Tageszeitung (taz) A meeting of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 state ministers for transport has not produced an agreement on securing future funding of the country鈥檚 new nationwide public transport ticket, ...
13 May 2025, 13:37 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Renewables Government Clean Energy Wire The new German government鈥檚 energy policy framework is 鈥減romising鈥� despite few concrete quantitative targets in the coalition agreement, a report from Deutsche Bank ...
20 May 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Policy Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The German parliament and the Council of Federal States (Bundesrat) have given the go-ahead to several measures proposed by the government to reduce ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:48 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:35 Germany's outgoing government made important moves to protect the country against the worsening effects of climate change. Notably, it introduced the first legally-binding climate adaptation law and presented a strategy to protect ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Solar Policy dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire The German government is introducing tax breaks for the operation of small-scale photovoltaic systems and removing other bureaucratic hurdles to speed up the ...
24 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Renewables ...
27 Jul 2018, 13:55 Germany's coal mines seen from space, the talk on electric cars and Chinese-German battery production cooperation- 91tv's 2018 visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko presents his view of the Energiewende and its many big and small ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:46 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko ...
A shortage of space is increasingly pushing the German wind power industry into forests, sparking growing conflict between green energy advocates and conservationists, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. While only about five percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Policy Society Bild Three quarters of Germans worry about their future in regards to climate change, and many citizens say the government is not taking action rapidly enough,聽 a survey 聽by pollster INSA, commissioned by ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The decommissioning of local gas grids in German cities should be flagged ten years in advance to allow households to prepare accordingly and avoid the purchase ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:25 Following Croatia鈥檚 inconclusive elections in April, the country鈥檚 parliament finally approved the new coalition government on 16 May. The centre-right HDZ, which won the most seats, formed a coalition with the right-wing Homeland ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 Increasing the EU's renewable energy target without a clear idea on how to achieve it would undermine political credibility, according to German energy minister Peter Altmaier. Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv International ...
14 May 2019, 13:27 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 ...
27 Mar 2023, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German revenue from the European and national emissions trading schemes could amount to 227 billion euros for the years 2021-2030, said researchers from the ...
Citizens, politicians, and the industry all agree that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition must continue- but a clear plan on exactly how does not exist, writes Joachim Wille in Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淗ow central or decentral should the Energiewende be designed? ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday (15 April) after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 three remaining reactors. Operators said the switch-off happened ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics dpa / Zeit Online German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has cautioned that tackling climate change will require "giant steps" by governments and citizens around the world if global ...
20 Sep 2018, 18:33 Energy minister Peter Altmaier has announced new plans to accelerate the expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid, which is behind schedule but vital to the growth of renewable power production. The majority of new connections could be ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Germans' support for the climate movement has halved following the rise of highly controversial street blockades by more radical activists, shows a survey by More in ...
26 Aug 2022, 14:20 The German government has introduced a package of energy saving provisions for businesses and state entities that will take effect in September, just as key relief measures run out and citizens are set to face higher prices for fuels ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert German Biogas Association Fachverband Biogas e.V. Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The number of biogas plants installed in Germany is ...
07 Feb 2024, 13:54 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Policy Clean Energy Wire Most citizens want Germany to play a leading role in climate protection, but they are divided over how to achieve this, slowing down climate policy efforts, said the ifo Institute ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:37 The construction of new wind turbines in Germany picked up slightly again in the first six months of 2020, but expansion figures are still far too low to bolster an industry that suffered two years of steeply declining growth. As the ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Spiegel The political dispute about rising petrol prices in Germany shows the hypocrisy of many politicians鈥� climate policy approaches, writes Gerald Traufetter in an opinion ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / Reuters The investments in emission reductions by Germany's government need a "restart" that ends the current approach of "small measures" based on ...
08 Dec 2022, 08:58 Climate activists must strike a careful balance between conciliatory offers for discussion and constructive provocation, argues political scientist J茅r茅mie Gagn茅 from More in Common, an international non-profit initiative studying ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:30 Jessica Bateman Cars Society Clean Energy Wire Only 52 percent of Germans say they would consider purchasing a hybrid or electric car 鈥� a figure 15 percentage points behind the European average. According to the European Investment Bank ...
21 Jan 2021, 11:30 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:13 Italy has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) large democratic economies, but its positions on climate policy often remain ambiguous, says Luca Bergamaschi, co-founder of the think tank Ecco Climate. He ...
07 Feb 2024, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire Three quarters of Germans are in favour of a binding climate label for food, according to a聽 survey 聽by health insurance provider AOK. Seventy-six percent agreed with ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country鈥檚 political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
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14 May 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: Merz risks coalition spat with call to scrap EU supply-chain law 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, reiterated a call for the European Union to scrap rules designed to make companies pursue sustainable ...
26 Aug 2016, 00:00 In August, Germany held the fifth tender in its new auction pilot scheme for payments to large-scale solar projects. While officials overseeing the programme continue to praise its results and declining price levels, critics warn that ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire A group of experts largely rejected calls for tougher penalties for climate activists who stage acts of civil disobedience like motorway blockades or artwork attacks.聽 In response to a motion ...
05 Jun 2020, 15:13 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains many steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. The Clean Energy Wire ...
20 May 2025, 13:09 Edgar Meza International Clean Energy Wire Germanwatch is calling for greater support for Africa鈥檚 energy transition as the continent continues to provide raw materials for Europe鈥檚 green transformation. An upcoming meeting between ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Clean Energy Wire A projected increase in electricity demand and a reduction of power plant capacity able to supply electricity at any moment are set to represent concrete challenges for Germany' ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Wind Elections & Politics dpa A fifth of all mayors in Bavaria have called on the regional government to speed up the construction of wind turbines in the state,聽newswire dpa reported. In a cross-party appeal, 432 ...
16 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert 100% erneuerbar Stiftung Foundation for the promotion of decentralised, renewable energy Electricity market Renewables Energiewende Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The European Union should set up a joint transport infrastructure and storage facilities for CO2, said the German Green Party in its draft programme for the EU elections on 6-9 June ...
13 Nov 2019, 13:53 Government plans to tighten distance rules for onshore wind turbines are a threat to Germany's energy and climate targets, according to stark warnings by industry, trade unions and environmental NGOs. Strict minimum distances to ...
27 May 2016
27 May 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Panorama (ARD) 鈥淎bsurd Energiewende: climate law rewards electricity waste鈥� To be exempted from Germany's聽 Renewable Energy Act (EEG)聽 surcharge, 聽some companies just on 聽the threshold of ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:08 Rachel Waldholz Wind Society Hakai Magazine Two German towns in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein present a case study in how to build local support for the energy transition- or how to lose it, writes Paul Hockenos in a feature ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs SWR / Clean Energy Wire / dpa Germany is debating a range of ideas to boost sales of electric vehicles (EV) and support the transition of one of the country鈥檚 most important industries. The ...
28 Oct 2020, 15:00 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union as a whole could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60 ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:14 Edgar Meza Wind Security WirtschaftsWoche Despite warnings of potential security risks posed by Chinese components in wind turbines, major energy companies oppose a ban in Germany, arguing that the country's planned expansion path ...
10 Jun 2024, 14:54 Voters in Germany abandoned the parties of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government in their droves at the European elections, handing the conservative CDU/CSU alliance of European Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen a ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:48 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities Clean Energy Wire The level of air pollution, mostly due to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions from traffic, has ...
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 A leaked document outlines plans to transfer some provisions German utilities have put aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal to a state-managed fund. The Clean Energy Wire spoke to two policy analysts about the ...
10 Dec 2024, 14:45 The early end of Olaf Scholz鈥檚 coalition government follows a three-year term marked by crises and a deep internal dispute over funding for future climate and energy policies. Despite its noisy demise, the chancellor鈥檚 three-party ...
13 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Society Clean Energy Wire The government must make ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Business & Jobs Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung French energy company TotalEnergies says it plans to stay on its expansion course in Germany, welcoming the CDU/CSU and SDP coalition deal that will continue ...
25 Aug 2021, 11:25 As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal election in September draws closer, climate activists put pressure on all parties to back the 1.5掳C global warming limit outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement. After a year of continuous protests in 2019, the ...
17 May 2019, 12:58 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) / Tagesspiegel Background As ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy ZDF German economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck defended the German government鈥檚 decision to cut government support payments for energy transition and climate action projects as well as energy cost ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The increasing risk of prolonged droughts in central Europe warrants a "paradigm shift" in Germany's water management in order to avoid supply bottlenecks, the ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market Cost & Prices Policy Zeit Online The German government might not have enough money to pass on revenues from its national carbon price to citizens as a compensation for rising climate protection costs as ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Utilities Clean Energy Wire Germany should restart its transition away from fossil fuel-based energy with a larger focus on cost-efficiency, said local utility association VKU. Among the proposals for the country鈥檚 ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:53 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Soaring energy prices in March have led to a year-on-year inflation rate hike in Germany to 7.3 percent 鈥� ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire The planned gas levy designed to support 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 struggling gas importers could be undone before it even takes effect, energy policy newsletter ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty,聽conservatives and Social Democrats ...
02 May 2025, 09:30 The European Union should strive for a well-connected energy system designed in a way that allows different national strengths to complement each other, says Nikos Tsafos, deputy energy minister of Greece. The country is expected to ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire A broad alliance of more than 40 civil society associations and organisations聽 has called on the German government to step-up climate measures as the country is projected to miss its ...
17 May 2022, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Transport Clean Energy Wire / n-tv The transport committee in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national parliament (Bundestag) has voted in favour of 2.5 billion euros in financial support for the federal states to offer citizens public ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ARD German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the federal government is to reduce its spending and return to 鈥渇iscal policy normality鈥� after state support for citizens and businesses ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:54 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko ...
03 Jun 2025, 12:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / ARD The energy industry has welcomed the new German government鈥檚 鈥渋nvestment booster鈥� to stimulate growth in Europe鈥檚 biggest economy, which includes tax incentives for ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:39 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
15 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Bild 鈥淒obrindt plans doping tests for cars鈥� In response to the VW emissions scandal, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport minister Alexander Dobrindt plans to introduce spot checks for car emissions. 鈥淭here will be ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:26 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market Policy Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.4 billion euros in 2023, an increase of around 40 percent, the country鈥檚 environment agency (UBA) said. The country鈥檚 ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:40 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The majority of German consumers support a faster transition from ...
A majority of Germans (64 percent) are in favour of closing coal power plants in order to reach 2020 climate targets, even if this move would cost jobs or push up electricity prices, according to a poll by public broadcaster ZDF. In contrast, 31 percent ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Society EU Clean Energy Wire A majority of European Union citizens (66%) say that the war against Ukraine and its impact on the price of oil and gas should lead the bloc to speed up the green transition by reducing the ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:08 Germany and Europe must urgently strengthen their competitiveness and defence capabilities, government, businesses and NGOs said in first reactions the U.S. presidential election win by Donald Trump. Industry association BDI warned that ...
29 Apr 2015
29 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淩esidual Risk鈥� There are worrying parallels between the current E.ON split into two separate companies and the finance industry鈥檚 spinning off of risky assets into bad banks in ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:05 After election day irregularities caused Berlin鈥檚 2021 election results to be declared invalid, the city will head to the polls for a repeat vote on 12 February. The campaign has focused largely on perceived dysfunction of public ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:02 Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum f眉r Europ盲ische Wirtschaftsforschung Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire A price on CO2聽emissions in Germany's buildings ...
18 Mar 2022, 16:15 The EU's taxonomy has been widely perceived as a product of regulators eager to steer financial markets to a more environmentally-friendly and socially just future- a major misconception that is typical for the neglect given to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 political culture has ceased to vividly debate environmental challenges because 鈥� everybody has become green nowadays 鈥�, Bernhard P枚tter writes in an op-ed for Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淏ut the price for this is high,鈥� he says, arguing that a ...
08 Jul 2015
08 Jul 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv 聽 S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淭ricky Exit鈥� Getting rid of a nuclear power station after decommissioning it is as complex as building it in the first place, writes Thomas Hahn in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. A public hearing ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:36 Energy-intensive basic industries 鈥� such as steel, chemicals and cement 鈥� have to quickly introduce and scale up key low-carbon technologies to avoid wrong investments at a time when governments aim for a climate neutral economy by 2050 ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Society Elections & Politics EU Clean Energy Wire For people in France, Denmark and Switzerland, climate change is the most important of five major crises which Europeans say have changed the way they look at the ...
27 Jul 2021, 16:55 After several years of expansion doldrums, onshore wind power development in Germany has slowly picked up in the first half of 2021, but remains insufficient for renewables expansion and climate targets, the country's wind power ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:51 One week after the shock results for East Germany in the European elections, where populist parties made strong gains while the government coalition parties took a beating, chancellor Olaf Scholz met with state leaders from the East to ...
02 Sep 2020, 13:05 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Policy Society Clean Energy Wire The economic effects of the corona pandemic could slow the energy transition in Germany as ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:28 Renewables' growing raw material needs could become the energy transition's "Achilles' heel", warns Germany's environment agency UBA. It calls for better ecological and social mining standards to become an ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:27 Milou Dirkx Society EU Clean Energy Wire Action against climate change ranks among the topics people in Germany want the European Parliament to prioritise, according to the聽 latest Eurobarometer survey. Climate action and EU defence are ...
09 May 2025
09 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Montel: German zone split plan 鈥渉alf-baked鈥�, may lead to extreme prices聽 Large impact of weather on green output expected in the smaller of five proposed areas. Reuters: Germany's energy transition hits reverse so far in ...
31 Jul 2019, 13:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Rheinische Post The federal government is 鈥渇rightening鈥� the population with the debate about climate action measures such as higher prices for fossil car fuels and domestic ...
German Green Party think tank the Heinrich Boell Foundation has published its European Energy Atlas 2018, detailing the state of Europe鈥檚 energy transition. Among the topics covered are the role renewables play in job creation, as well as the ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:15 Many economists and climate researchers view raising the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels faster than currently planned as essential to reaching new, higher climate targets in both sectors. The debate about a ...
29 Sep 2022, 17:37 The German government has agreed on a relief package worth up to 200 billion euros to fight soaring energy prices. 鈥淧rices must go down 鈥� that鈥檚 our conviction, and the government will do anything to achieve that,鈥� said chancellor Olaf ...
12 Nov 2018, 14:15 Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze continued her push for a price on CO2 emissions, announcing plans to team up with fellow Social Democrat Olaf Scholz's finance ministry in order to prepare a concept in line with ...
02 May 2016
02 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淒windling chances for fracking鈥� The proposed fracking law has been delayed and might not be adopted in the current legislative period, writes Klaus Stratmann in ...
22 May 2025, 13:02 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany's renewable power expansion, the finalised phase out of nuclear, and the ongoing decommissioning of coal and gas power plants have had a positive effect on the country's ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Tagesspiegel The European Union has set itself 鈥渁 damn ambitious鈥� greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 and must therefore quickly negotiate and implement the relevant legislation, said German ...
Successful citizens鈥� energy projects in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first onshore wind power auction still have to prove that they can live up to their name, Bernward Janzing writes in the Tageszeitung (taz). While 93 percent of successful bidders in the auction were ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Elections & Politics Passauer Neue Presse / M眉nchner Merkur The leadership of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative opposition party Christian Democrats (CDU) plans to adopt a position paper that calls for the rolling ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
12 Sep 2022, 13:35 S枚ren Amelang Grid Heating Tagesspiegel / Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid agency has renewed its warning to citizens that using electric heaters instead of gas-powered heating systems could overburden the country鈥檚 power grids. 鈥淯sing fan heaters ...
09 Mar 2022, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Security Clean Energy Wire The pivot away from Russian energy imports will require Germany to double down on its energy transition efforts and apply a speed similar to that of Tesla with its new ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:42 Jack McGovan Efficiency Construction Clean Energy Wire Buildings in the worst energy efficiency categories have above-average carbon emissions, so targeting them first for refurbishments would have a significant climate impact, ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:40 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Rheinische Post 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country must stop its 鈥渆asy-peasy鈥� ("Pillepalle") approach to climate action and announced 鈥渞adical changes鈥� to her ...
09 Sep 2019, 12:00 Citizens have been a crucial driver of Germany's energy transition and many regard sustainability and especially environmental action a crucial feature of sound investments. Yet, the vast majority of savings in the country are not ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:32 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Federal Network Agency for ...
13 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) State secretary Baake says Germany must stop registering fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 At a panel discussion Tuesday, ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Society Clean Energy Wire Europeans aged over 30 show a better grasp of the causes and consequences of climate change than younger generations- but awareness of solutions is lacking across age groups, found a聽 survey by ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire High energy prices and supply chain challenges affecting large parts of the industry are paving the way for Germany to enter a recession, an analysis by private ...
08 Aug 2023, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Demand for heat pumps has slumped in Germany as a fierce debate about government plans 聽to decarbonise the heating sector unnerved many citizens. The number of subsidy applications halved in the ...
09 Oct 2023, 14:22 S枚ren Amelang Gas Heating Clean Energy Wire Few households in Germany turned down their heating last year to save energy, despite warnings of a supply crisis and sharply rising prices, according to an聽 analysis 聽by non-profit ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:00 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Society Watson / Rheinische Post 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Fridays for Future youth climate movement has renounced the more radical tactics (such ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars dpa / WirtschaftsWoche While sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in Germany have stalled recently, the share of citizens who would consider buying one in the future has risen considerably, a survey ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:14 The European Union wants to establish itself as the world leader in hydrogen technologies and will focus on ramping up electrolyser capacities in the next four years. According to the European Commission's hydrogen strategy, the ...
13 Feb 2023, 14:05 Milou Dirkx Climate & CO2 Society Coverage of climate change on German public television has increased over the past years but still lags behind other topics such as business news, leaving 鈥渁 lot of room for improvement鈥�, a聽 report ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:05 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The fight against climate change and environmental degradation continues to be a top concern for Germans even during the pandemic, according to a survey commissioned by the country' ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a surprisingly clear victory in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, in a boost for the bloc's ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security Clean Energy Wire / The Guardian / CNN German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected calls for immediately ending all energy trading with Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. 鈥淓urope鈥檚 ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:27 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Constitutional Court has declined to accept eleven constitutional complaints directed against existing state climate action laws and the lack of CO2 reduction paths ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany should develop a binding strategic framework for "good enough", in the form of a national sufficiency strategy, to reduce emissions as well as energy and raw ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:16 Expert Difu- German Institute of Urban Affairs Deutsches Institut f眉r Urbanistik Cities Society Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire German citizens would like to see their municipalities act more on climate ...
The imposition of a carbon fee and dividend 鈥� in which a tax is imposed on fossil fuels, with the revenues being returned back to citizens 鈥� would be both socially optimal and build public support for carbon pricing, American economist Gilbert Metcalf ...
27 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- Over 900 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 60 countries take part in the first Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry, the ...
08 Jan 2025, 10:08 Jennifer Collins Electricity Renewables Clean Energy Wire The share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation in Germany in 2024 reached a record high of 62.7 percent, with solar power smashing government expansion ...
27 May 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Clean Energy Wire Energy consumption in Germany has seen a 鈥渟urprisingly strong鈥� increase in the first three months of 2025, an analysis by AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) has found. Consumption ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:05 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Nine out of 10 businesses are in favour of ...
33 research projects presented their findings and proposals on how to transform the energy system in Germany in an environmentally friendly and socially acceptable way in Berlin yesterday. The projects, funded by the education and research ministry, focus ...
04 Oct 2018, 14:48 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shift from fossil fuelled and nuclear power will only succeed if the infrastructure is there to support a very different kind of energy system. But the country鈥檚 grid is just not up to the job of making proper use of all the ...
20 Dec 2023, 10:40 Money that Germany has earmarked for climate action should be spent on projects that have a direct impact on key sectors, says Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The economist warns against cross ...
29 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Energy associations Call for fair competition conditions for power storage facilities Energy business associations BDEW, BEE, BNE, BVES, VDMA and VKU have called on the parliamentary ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚聽Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union聽(NABU) has blasted聽 German government plans 聽to expand areas of the Baltic and North Seas for聽 offshore wind power ...
14 Jan 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Government Clean Energy Wire / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The ambitious energy transition plans by new German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck have drawn criticism from the opposition, ...
The apparent聽 success of citizens鈥� energy projects in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first onshore wind power auction in May was met with relief by those who feared the new support scheme might favour large companies at the expense of smaller bidders, Daniel Wetzel writes in ...
02 Nov 2020, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Europe's largest coach company FlixBus will suspend all of its bus and train connections in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by 3 November in response to the ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:22 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire High energy prices have little influence on the transformation needs of most of the 100 companies on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 HDAX stock market index compared to four other ...
Despite the picture portrayed by high approval ratings in surveys, public acceptance of the German Energiewende has fallen due to electricity costs, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Germans have declared their support for the switch to renewables, but ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Reducing the energy consumption of Germany's least energy efficient buildings is essential for聽letting clean heating technologies achieve the sector's climate targets, a report by ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:52 Wind, solar PV and other renewable sources overtook fossil fuels in German power production last year, according to preliminary data by the federal network agency (BNetzA) and think tank Agora Energiewende. Together with record-low ...
06 Nov 2023, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices dpa / Zeit Online More than a third of people currently using 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nationwide public transport ticket would end their subscription if costs went up much further than the current 49 ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's parliament is set to pass a package of energy laws after the minority government of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens found agreements with the ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Heating Handelsblatt Plans by the German economy and climate protection ministry (BMWK) to de-facto ban the installation of new oil and gas heating systems from 2024 are generating great uncertainty among homeowners, business ...
01 Jun 2017, 00:00 A large share of the emissions from towns and cities comes from traffic. If Germany is to reach its Energiewende goals, each will have to do their bit to reduce the number of vehicles on their roads, and steer citizens towards greener ...
05 Jun 2025
05 Jun 2025, 11:51 91tv Team Bloomberg:聽 There aren鈥檛 enough engineers to meet world鈥檚 growing hunger for power The world鈥檚 need for power is outstripping the workforce that can build it. Aging populations and anti-immigration rhetoric aren鈥檛 helping. ...
07 Jun 2023, 13:02 S枚ren Amelang Government Clean Energy Wire The German government spent around 1.5 billion euros on energy transition research in 2022, an increase of 13 percent compared to the previous year, said the economy ministry. 鈥淭his shows how ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:46 A position paper in which German finance minister Christian Lindner calls for fundamental economic policy changes has sparked outcry from coalition government partners, further destabilising an already weakened alliance. The paper was ...
17 Aug 2021, 12:19 Activists from the coalition group 鈥楢ugust Rise Up鈥� took to the streets in Berlin on Monday 16 August to call for more climate action six weeks ahead of the German federal election. Around two hundred people blocked the road in front of ...
15 May 2025
15 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Granada substation power loss pinpointed as ground zero of Spain's blackout聽 Energy minister says three initial incidents, whose cause has yet to be determined, led to loss of 2.2 GW of electricity. PV magazine: ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Expanding Germany's e-car charging infrastructure and more support for electric mobility options will be key issues at a meeting between Germany's government and ...
13 May 2019, 14:12 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices A CO鈧� price can be a useful building block of a package of climate ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:46 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher ...
21 May 2025, 13:19 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The new German government is aiming to increase investments in eastern Germany, where political opposition to current energy transition and climate policies has grown ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The biggest bottleneck in skilled labour supply affecting Germany's energy transition is in electrical construction, according to a report by the German Economic Institute鈥檚 (IW) ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The candidate for chancellor of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance, ...
03 Jun 2025
03 Jun 2025, 12:10 91tv Team IMF: Making germany grow again聽 Labor costs are main driver of decline in German price competitiveness, even more so than rising energy costs.聽 PIK: Scientists say next few years vital to securing the future of the West ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Heating Clean Energy Wire Climate-friendly heating technologies may now be predominant in new builds in Germany but the country鈥檚 existing buildings continue to rely on fossil fuels, shows a report by the German Energy ...
21 May 2021, 10:32 Germany has increased the emissions reduction targets in its transport sector. Following changes introduced by parliament,聽 the sector has to reach a share of 32 percent renewables by 2030. The use of biofuels made from palm oil will be ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:57 The second summer in a row with record temperatures has fuelled worries about the global climate crisis in Germany and sparked a sudden interest in room cooling systems, which remain a rarity in the central European country. Researchers ...
24 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025, 12:30 91tv Team IEA: Growth in global energy demand surged in 2024 to almost twice its recent average IEA鈥檚 Global Energy Review is the first global assessment of 2024 trends across the energy sector. Based on the most recent data, it covers ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire While the vast majority (91%) of Germans support a climate and environmentally-friendly economic transformation, many worry that it could lead to social injustice and threaten ...
05 May 2025
05 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 red tape creates a Berlin-sized hole in energy shift Military airspace restrictions are holding up wind-power projects, highlighting the challenges for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and defence plans. Montel: Critics ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:33 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cities Clean Energy Wire Climate activists have protested at a coal-fired heating plant in Hamburg that could be converted to use imported wood as a fuel due to the coal-phase out plans of Germany's second ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:38 European transmission system operators (TSOs) have recommended that Germany split its single electricity price zone into up to five bidding zones. This should maximise economic efficiency across the whole market area, ensuring security ...
21 Dec 2015, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 CO2 emissions have inched up in 2015 despite a rapidly increasing share of renewables in electricity production, according to first calculations by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen. The main cause for the year ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:13 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 ...
27 May 2025
27 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team ECB: The European economy is not drought-proof 聽 The degradation of natural ecosystems slows growth and leads to financial instability. Water scarcity, natural flood protection and water quality are most critical. Euractiv: ...
08 Apr 2015, 00:00 Regardless of recent squabbles about new power lines and rising electricity prices, Germans remain staunch supporters of the principles behind the Energiewende. Survey after survey shows a large majority of the population is in favour ...
30 May 2025, 15:00 Italy is facing a delay in the phase-out of coal, as the future of a major coal-fired power plant near Rome remains unclear, despite plans for its closure by the end of the year. The uncertainty is partly fuelled by industry concerns ...
08 Oct 2019, 11:00 Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion have begun two weeks of blockades and acts of civil disobedience by occupying two main traffic intersections in Berlin, demanding that Germany's government "tells the truth" ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:10 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire High incomes in Germany should be taxed more to generate funds for ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:59 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background The German government has ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:39 Preview 2020: Solar power in Germany has bottomed out from its breakdown a few years back and looks ahead at 2020 full of confidence that the odds are in its favour in the country thanks to the introduction of carbon pricing in the ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country鈥檚 overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
23 May 2025, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire / FT Economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche has confirmed media reports that her government agreed with France to largely drop its resistance to supporting new nuclear power ...
23 Jan 2020, 15:45 The expansion of offshore wind power capacity in Germany has exceeded that of onshore turbines for the first time ever last year. This is both due to a particularly bad year for onshore expansion and the increasing competitiveness of ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Government Clean ...
09 May 2023, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Society EU Clean Energy Wire European governments must ensure that no one is left behind during the move towards a climate-neutral future, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a聽 speech in the European Parliament, ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:35 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut f眉r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit盲t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The carbon ...
22 Oct 2020, 13:47 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid Clean Energy Wire Interruptions in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity ...
07 Apr 2025
07 Apr 2025, 13:36 91tv Team International Energy Agency (IEA)-聽 Our latest review of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy policies is out now聽 Report explores how making Germany's electricity system more efficient & resilient can support the energy transition, ...
23 Jun 2023, 11:00 The role of nuclear power within Europe鈥檚 energy transition is a clear point of contention between Paris and Berlin. However, there is much more agreement between the EU鈥檚 two largest powers on major strategic priorities, including the ...
22 Dec 2023, 08:48 Germany made dealing with the consequences of climate change more binding in 2023, and it must now use this momentum to step up implementation, says Christian Kind, adaptation head of programme at think tank adelphi. Spreading the costs ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Technology Heating dpa A growing number of towns on the shores of Lake Constance are planning to use the water鈥檚 thermal energy to switch to carbon-neutral heating,聽 reports 聽newswire dpa. 鈥淟ake thermal energy offers ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next chancellor 鈥� but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
09 Dec 2019, 12:58 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
07 May 2025, 13:03 S枚ren Amelang Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The election of Friedrich Merz as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new chancellor in an unprecedented second parliamentary vote was greeted with relief by the country鈥檚 energy, industry, and ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:17 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:40 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society Der Spiegel German consumer advocates are calling for a fair distribution of the energy transition's costs after the next government announced more ambitious climate plans. "If ...
15 Jun 2020, 15:11 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt f眉r Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Heating Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / ...
03 Jun 2025, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Grid Zeit Online Amid the phase-out of coal power, Germany plans to install new gas-fired power plants as a backup for renewable energy sources. Economy minister Katherina Reiche announced at a party convention of ...
08 Sep 2020, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Germany could soon enter an energy partnership that would see the central African country provide hydropower capacity to produce ...
Europe will have to 鈥渇ill the gap鈥� in cooperating with China on climate protection if the future US administration refuses to maintain the Obama government's impetus, German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said at the DENEFF financial forum ...
12 Sep 2023, 13:59 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The leader of four German states have asked the European Commission to pass a special wind energy quota for the country's South, arguing that the expansion of wind energy needs to 鈥減ick up ...
Greenpeace Energy and its subsidiary Planet energy aim to support citizens鈥� wind power projects in their planning phases in light of regulatory changes brought on by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). 鈥淭he new EEG slows down the expansion of ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Efficiency dpa / Merkur The German Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community is in favour of introducing tax incentives for homeowners who want to renovate parts of their homes to increase energy ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU FAZ / Clean Energy Wire Forty-one percent of economics professors said the EU should do more on climate, according to a survey by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo), writes Frankfurter ...
16 Mar 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Cities Politics Tagesspiegel At least five billion euros are to be earmarked for climate protection in the city of Berlin, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Cristian Democrats (CDU) decided, newspaper Tagesspiegel ...
10 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025, 13:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: AI data center growth means more coal and gas plants, IEA says Growth in artificial intelligence-focused data centers will drive demand for gas- and coal-fired power plants, according to new report. Tennet: 12 ...
04 Jun 2025, 13:29 s.amelang Technology Heating Clean Energy Wire A large majority of new residential houses and buildings in Germany feature a heat pump as their main heating system, showed numbers from the government鈥檚 statistical office Destatis. The ...
22 Jan 2020, 11:28 The German coal exit commission 's compromise reached in early 2019 was hailed as a breakthrough for cooperation between industry representatives, policymakers and environmental groups, as it outlined how to phase-out the fossil ...
14 May 2025, 13:25 Jack McGovan Mobility Cost & Prices Policy Clean Energy Wire A social leasing scheme could make it possible for low-income households in Germany to switch to an electric car without having to bear the upfront costs of buying a ...
05 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany has crossed a symbolic milestone in its energy transition by briefly covering around 100 percent of electricity use with renewables for the first time ever on 1 January. In the whole of last year, the world鈥檚 fourth largest ...
15 Aug 2022, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung (taz) The German economy and climate ministry (BMWK) is edging closer to introducing a 鈥渃limate check鈥� for all new laws that could become a prerequisite for future lawmaking in ...
15 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics NDR / Weser Kurier The Social Democrats (SPD) have emerged as the clear winner of the state election in Bremen, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 smallest state, while the Green Party suffered its worst result in the ...
30 Apr 2025, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Government Clean Energy Wire The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has approved the coalition agreement with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, led by chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, clearing the final major hurdle to ...
14 May 2025, 13:16 Jack McGovan Solar Clean Energy Wire A quarter of people in Germany either already have or plan to install a mini solar module on their balcony or in their garden, found a survey by comparison portal Verivox. Around nine percent of ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:53 S枚ren Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices The German government will temporarily reduce the value added tax (VAT) on natural gas from 19 to 7 percent in a bid to relieve gas customers struggling with rapidly rising prices ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean Energy Wire Power generation with solar panels and bioenergy plants has reached a new record level in Bavaria, the German state's economy ministry has said. Final data for 2018 ...
11 Apr 2025, 15:30 The biggest hurdles to building Germany's next government have fallen: a historic spending package has laid the groundwork for coalition negotiations between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance 鈥� winner of February鈥檚 snap election 鈥� ...
10 Mar 2016
10 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate Action Network 鈥淏reak free from fossil fuels鈥� Climate activist movement 350.org and Climate Action Network have announced a series of peaceful, coordinated actions 鈥渢o disrupt ...
10 Feb 2021, 13:05 The material demands of a transition towards a low-carbon energy system are immense, meaning countries like Germany that expand renewable power generation will have to greatly expand imports of many different raw materials over the next ...
10 May 2024, 15:00 Poland saw a change in power last autumn when a pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk took over after eight years of rule by the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS). Since then, however, the ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:17 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire At the Handelsblatt Energy Summit earlier this month, German economy ...
19 May 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's federal government needs to provide additional funds for climate mitigation and adaptation measures, and make these easily available to its states ...
13 Mar 2025
13 Mar 2025, 12:02 91tv Team Reuters: German parliament debates borrowing bonanza as clock ticks down Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament began a special session on Thursday (13 March) to debate a 500 billion euro fund for infrastructure and ...
20 May 2015
20 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 鈥淭he godmother of climate receives visitors鈥� The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is Angela Merkel鈥檚 reaction to the failed climate summit of Copenhagen ...
24 Apr 2025
24 Apr 2025, 13:14 91tv Team Reuters: German economy to flatline in 2025 as tariff turmoil hits, government says The German government cut its economic growth forecast and now sees stagnation in 2025 instead of a 0.3% expansion as uncertainty from global ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel鈥檚 future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
If future power needs are around 600 terawatt-hours, Germany would need 97 gigawatt (GW) of onshore wind, 25-35 GW offshore wind and 102 GW solar PV capacity, Schleswig-Holstein鈥檚 energy transition minister and head of the federal Green Party Robert ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:46 Onshore wind power is a key element of Germany's energy transition and a leading force of the country's renewables industry. But after years of rapid growth, the sector's expansion has almost come to a standstill in the ...
Protestors have called on the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state premier to call an immediate halt to the construction of wind turbines in the state, Welt reports. They argue that the construction of wind farms unfairly burdens state citizens and ...
29 Apr 2025
29 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Bloomberg: Spain slowly returning to normal after crippling blackout Spain and Portugal were returning to some semblance of normality early on 29 April, with many questions remaining about what caused one of Europe鈥檚 worst ...
20 May 2025, 13:06 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new government aims for a speedy adoption of the 2025 federal budget to finally end months of provisional budget operations resulting from the break-up of the previous coalition government. The finance ministry under its new ...
10 Apr 2025, 14:11 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 prospective government has agreed in its coalition treaty to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments and stick to existing climate targets. Faced with economic stagnation and the ...
09 May 2025, 16:15 Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is still trying to wean itself off Russian energy supplies. The bloc has come a long way from the dependency it once had, yet certain EU countries still rely on Russia for ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Wind Handelsblatt Meteorological institutes forecast mild weather in their new winter prognostics for Europe, concluding that less heating gas could be used but also that wind power production might decline as a ...
09 May 2025, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Clean Energy Wire The new German economy and energy minister, conservative Christian Democrat (CDU) politician Katherina Reiche, has said that Germany had to 鈥渇ind a new agreement on the ...
29 Jun 2021, 14:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Elections & Politics The conservative climate group KlimaUnion (ClimateUnion),聽which is made up of party members of the governing CDU/CSU alliance, released a position paper in which the members argue ...
19 Nov 2024, 13:28 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Greater clarity on the financial effects of energy efficiency renovations could help increase the rate of refurbishments in Germany's building stock, according to a report ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:06 The application of sustainable finance principles across the EU will take a major step forward in 2025 as reporting duties for environmental data are expanded to cover a much wider range of companies, says Matthias H眉bner, head of the ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire Unfavourable weather conditions led to a decrease of renewable energy generation in Germany at the start of the year, outweighing a growth in renewable capacity, figures released by energy ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German electricity consumers in areas with lots of wind and solar power could see lower grid fees from next year, according to newly published pricings aimed at more evenly ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Clean Energy Wire Setting up multiple local pricing zones instead of having one big market area could help bring electricity prices down in Germany and increase supply security, according to a report ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:15 The next German government must achieve what the previous few have not: increasing digitalisation, says Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of Energy Market Innovators (bne). Electricity system flexibility can only be ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:45 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) is filing lawsuits against five German states on behalf ...
21 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German energy transition could be 300 billion euros cheaper with more efficiency, finds report BCG & BDI industry association say investments currently planned in renewables, power grids and hydrogen far exceed ...
Germany is able to live up to its obligations in international climate protection and should not give up the pioneer role it has played in areas such as renewable energies and environmental technologies, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at ...
