01 Jul 2019, 13:35 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire / Financial Times Environmental and development organisation Germanwatch has said it is “relieved“ that 19 of the G20 countries at ...
05 May 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire Funding opportunities to replace heating systems to ones which run using renewable sources should be increased to cover up to 80 percent of the total costs, the Green Party parliamentary group ...
25 Jun 2019, 13:36 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Süddeutsche Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire A heatwave with temperatures expected to rise to around 40° Celsius has fanned calls ...
At the next UN climate conference in Poland, the German government can credibly call on the international community to put more effort into climate protection only if it successfully manages its own coal exit, write Ottmar Edenhofer and Hans Joachim ...
Germany’s second largest city Hamburg plans to fundamentally reorganise its district heating system by using natural aquifers as year-round heat reservoirs, writes Frank Drieschner in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. “It’s about storing the summer’s heat ...
27 Apr 2023, 13:00 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Policy dpa Cities and municipalities in the state of Bavaria have demanded more money from the state government for climate protection measures, according to a dpa report in Die Zeit. The state government ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:38 James Jackson Transport Policy Die Zeit The German government plans to cut funds for bike paths, while leaving spending for roads unchanged, reports weekly Die Zeit. According to the draft budget for 2024, funds allocated to the ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire A broad alliance of environmental NGOs, police unions and traffic accident victim organisations has called for the swift introduction of a general speed limit on the ...
18 Dec 2020, 14:17 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Cars WirtschaftsWoche / Clean Energy Wire Despite Volkswagen’s (VW) positioning as a pioneer in the mobility transition, the car manufacturer does not do enough to sell its ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The coalition agreement by Germany's would-be coalition parties CDU/CSU and SPD is a step towards "realistic" Energiewende policy, says CDU energy policy spokesperson Joachim Pfeiffer. He argues a coal exit date for ...
28 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The launch of the latest offshore wind power auction could signal a “critical stage” for the technology’s role in Germany’s energy transition, the offshore wind industry has said. The ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Der Spiegel A draft report commissioned by the German government shows that the country’s current and planned climate policies are not enough to reach the official target of net-zero ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Efficiency Heating Der Spiegel Gas boilers sold as "hydrogen ready" deceive consumers and are set to cost buyers dearly, according to German consumer organisations. Hydrogen produced with renewables will ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars Hydrogen Reuters German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a radical shift in mobility to ensure the country reaches its 2030 climate targets, reports news agency Reuters. “We can only achieve this ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German municipalities are increasingly caught between rising climate protection needs and limited resources, a report by state-owned development bank KfW found. ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire Germany has pledged at least 112 million euros to support Kenya in implementing “its ambitious goal of switching entirely to renewable energy sources by 2030,” the ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind pv magazine / Die Welt The total ...
In an interview with Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche, Daniela Jacob, head of Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), said Germany’s phase out of nuclear energy would result in a short-term increase in carbon emissions because coal cannot be substituted ...
Andreas Pinkwart, Free Democratic (FDP) state energy minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, welcomed several energy and climate provisions of the draft coalition treaty between the conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD). Admitting that the ...
06 May 2020, 13:36 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Green stimulus Handelsblatt A stimulus package for the German car industry looks highly likely following a conference call between Chancellor Angela Merkel and industry executives, but details will remain ...
Germany is headed for record solar power generation next week as forecasters predicted intense sunshine, reports Rachel Morison for Bloomberg. “Output from photovoltaic panels in Germany could reach as high as 28,318 megawatts on May 7, according to ...
28 Apr 2020, 12:31 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Transport Cars ARD / Clean Energy Wire In an interview with public ...
09 Aug 2018, 14:07 Record-breaking temperatures and a prolonged drought have increased public pressure on Germany’s coal-exit commission to make climate change mitigation its top priority. Countless media reports are invoking the extreme weather as a ...
The next government must put much more emphasis on energy efficiency measures if climate targets are to be reached, according to the German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF). In an open letter addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ...
10 Oct 2016, 00:00 German federal states want to ensure that the sale of new diesel and petrol cars in the European Union ends by 2030, in order to protect the climate. The surprising cross-party initiative in the upper house of parliament (Bundesrat), ...
03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Ruby Russell Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy State secretary Baake: power market 2.0 guarantees supply security Germany’s economy and energy ministry is proposing a reform of the power market based on an energy ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt German homeowners remain underinsured against extreme weather events like floods, which are ever more likely as a result of climate change. Two years after devastating ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Following the attacks of the Nord Stream pipelines in September, the German government wants to expand the requirement for operators of so-called critical infrastructure (kritis) ...
Denmark has in many respects been a role model for the Energiewende, but not all ideas put into practice by the small northern neighbour country are transferable to far bigger Germany, Jens Tartler writes in Der Tagesspiegel. Germany is much more densely ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:58 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Tagesspiegel Berlin wants to become climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this, climate senator Regine Günther (Green Party) proposed an amendment to the city’s Energy Transition Act (EWG) on 9 February, ...
A ban on registering new combustion engine passenger cars from 2030 would directly or indirectly affect around 620,000 jobs in Germany – or 10 percent of the country’s industrial workforce, according to a study by Institute for Economic Research (ifo) for ...
29 May 2020, 13:01 The German government is set to make the large-scale use of offshore wind power to produce emission-free hydrogen a cornerstone of its long-anticipated national hydrogen strategy, reports Tagesspiegel Background. With additional ...
Buyers of Tesla Model S must pay back government support they received to purchase the car, the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) has announced in a press release. BAFA estimates that its action applies to approximately 800 people. ...
06 Jan 2021, 18:13 A German state government attempts to circumvent looming U.S. sanctions on the contentious natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 with the help of a “climate” foundation. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where the pipeline will land, ...
More and more new car buyers in Germany are considering vehicles that don't just run on fossil fuels, the German Energy Agency (dena) writes in a press release. According to a survey commissioned by dena, 27 percent of respondents said they intended ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:18 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel likes to think of herself as a politician who “thinks things through to the end” – but the constitutional court’s judgement on the hasty 2011 nuclear exit suggests otherwise, writes Thorsten Knuf in a commentary for ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire The German government will make a total of 4 billion euros available by 2026 to improve the state of natural ecosystems, with the goal of making them more resilient and ...
14 Jun 2019, 09:07 Clean Energy Wire is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:51 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background The environmental group Friends of the Earth Germany ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Digitalisation Security Digitalisation offers an opportunity to make power grids more resilient during transition to renewable power sources but may also make the energy system more vulnerable, researchers of the tech ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Society Lausitzer Rundschau A 200-inhabitant German village will be demolished to make way for a lignite coal mine, after many years of uncertainty related to the future of coal power in ...
06 Jun 2015
06 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Oxfam / E3G “Let them eat coal” Five of the G7 countries are burning more coal now than before the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009, while the G7 coal plants together emit ...
18 Nov 2015, 00:00 Days before the UN climate conference in Paris, Germany is taking stock of its national climate protection efforts. The government says the country is making “good progress” with its energy transition, but independent experts warn that ...
The EU is committed to reaching a target of at least 27 percent renewable energy of its overall energy consumption by 2030, the member states’ energy ministers agreed in Brussels. This formed part of a package of agreements on the Renewable Energy ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Spiegel Online / energate messenger Germany's ambassador to the EU, Michael Clauß, has warned that the German EU Council presidency cannot take place as planned due to the coronavirus pandemic, ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cars Clean Energy Wire German exports of electric cars rose more than 65 percent last year to some 500,000 units valued at 24.2 billion euros, statistical office (Destatis) reports. While foreign trade of electric vehicles is ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Germany’s governing CDU party has become embroiled in a high-level dispute over the right approach to its future climate and energy policy. Calls by ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:17 Sören Amelang Policy Clean Energy Wire Contradictory tax incentives are a major hurdle for making the German economy more climate-friendly, according to an analysis by Green Budget Germany (FÖS) commissioned by the Bertelsmann ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Industry EU Clean Energy Wire / Financial Times / Reuters / NY Times German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed the European Commission’s decision to further relax state aid rules for clean technologies as part ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:54 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels International Clean Energy Wire Germany and Poland have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen their cooperation on oil supply security and to protect refineries in both countries, the German ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:05 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The German coal commission’s agreement to gradually phase out coal power has left investors and ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:04 Sören Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany is set to spend less than half of the funds originally planned on the modernisation of its ailing railway system, report business daily Handelsblatt and other media outlets. ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:07 Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has reassured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Germany would do everything to ensure Ukraine remains a gas transit state even after the completion of the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline. ...
As a result of the diesel crisis, used car sales were down 1.9 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year, according to the German Association for Motor Trade and Repair (ZDK). “Auto dealers are deeply unsettled," ZDK president Jürgen Karpinski ...
A survey by insurer CosmosDirekt and research group Forsa suggests many German car owners are open-minded when it comes to e-mobility. The report found that 57 percent of German car owners could imagine switching to a plug-in or pure electric car for the ...
According to grid operators, German power consumers will have to shoulder grid fee rebates for energy-intensive industry in excess of 1 billion euros next year, sparking renewed calls for reform of the system to pay for keeping the grid stable as ...
08 Feb 2019, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The contentious Russian-German gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is a political issue – contrary to what some German industry representatives say – and ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:03 Carolina Kyllmann International Clean Energy Wire Germany wants to promote the development of a climate and environmentally-friendly economy in Africa, the development ministry (BMZ) announced in its “ Africa strategy ”. “Africa is ...
26 May 2020, 12:45 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Cars Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine / NZZ / Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Volkswagen lost a key legal battle in the long-running Dieselgate scandal on 25 May when a court ordered that a customer is ...
Hurricane Irma's devastation in the Caribbean will fuel small island nations' demand for support from the world’s large greenhouse-gas-emitting countries for damages attributable to climate change at the UN climate conference in Bonn in November ...
16 May 2019, 14:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire A new law that is aimed at ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:29 Sören Amelang Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany needs a profound shift to a renewable transport system to improve local air quality instead of ineffective diesel driving bans, according to Germany’s National Academy of Sciences ...
02 Apr 2015
02 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt Fracking law: “German Angst” There is no rational explanation for the resistance against fracking among German parliamentarians, Thomas Sigmund writes in an opinion piece for the ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background While heat pump sales increased more than 50 percent in 2022, oil and gas boilers continued to dominate the German heating market, according to the annual heating ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The national infrastructure for producing and using green hydrogen in Germany is beginning to take shape, as the government seeks to support market scale-up for the renewable fuel. ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg will focus not only on the economic growth, but also on sustainable growth, Reuters writes, quoting a podcast of the Federal Press Office. "We've got to have a 'win ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Hydrogen Deutsche Welle The German government wants to promote a culture of innovation to develop CO₂-neutral aviation, reports Deutsche Welle. "We want to make Germany a leading ...
27 May 2019, 13:47 Rose-Anne Clermont Cars Deutsche Welle German auto parts supplier Bosch was ordered to pay a 90 million euro fine on 23 May for its role in "negligently infringing its quality control obligations," according to investigators ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv REN21 "Renewables 2015: Global Status Report" Paris-based non-profit group REN21 has published its annual report on the global status of renewable energy around the world. The 250-page ...
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 In Czech company EPH, Vattenfall might have found a buyer for its lignite coal mines and power stations in Lusatia. But as the companies involved refuse to comment, environmentalists warn that coal has no future in a country that wants ...
A farmer from Peru, who has sued Germany’s major utility RWE over the effects of its decade-long greenhouse gas emissions, has achieved a stage win after a German appeal court ruled his claim was “admissible”, Deutsche Welle reports. “A court in the ...
22 Oct 2019, 14:17 Edgar Meza Finance Handelsblatt While Germany’s federal government has welcomed the increase in “green investment”, the country’s central bank remains unsatisfied with the term and is calling for a clearer definition of what constitutes ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:28 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility German commuters are slowly returning to public transport following the coronavirus lockdown. The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) said the positive trend is evident in the ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt German conglomerate thyssenkrupp finds it increasingly difficult to spin off its troubled steelmaking division, Kevin Knitterscheidt and Martin Murphy write in Handelsblatt. In order to successfully sell ...
Investor demand for innogy, RWE’s renewable spin-off, exceeds the number of shares on offer in the stock market debut scheduled for next week, reports Handelsblatt. “The initial public offering of RWE subsidiary innogy seems to turn into a success story ...
A large majority of Germans is not satisfied with the way the federal government aims to prevent diesel driving bans in inner cities, according to a survey by online pollster YouGov, commissioned by news agency dpa. About two-thirds of respondents said ...
29 Oct 2019, 14:22 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Only eight months after launching their combined car sharing with great ambitions, BMW and Daimler have grown highly sceptical of the business, write Markus Fasse and Franz Hubik in business daily ...
15 Mar 2018, 00:00 Germany's new environment minister Svenja Schulze is a new face in Chancellor Angela Merkel's fourth cabinet. But the Social Democrat inherits a range of well-known challenges- from coal emissions to air pollution by diesel ...
04 Mar 2015
04 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) “No capacity payments to coal- and gas-fired power plants” Additional payments to operators of coal- and gas-fired power plants are currently not ...
The expansion of wind power capacities will slow down significantly in Germany’s coastal state Schleswig-Holstein, writes Matthias Popien in Hamburger Abendblatt. The state government recently announced that 1,300 of the current 3,100 windmills in the ...
A socially acceptable coal exit in Germany is possible and could be financed through the CO₂-emissions trading earnings, according to a report by enervis energy advisors GmbH, commissioned by the German service sector trade union ver.di. “Our proposal ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:58 Julian Wettengel EU Tagesspiegel Background Future energy relations between the European Union and the UK remain somewhat uncertain after the post-Brexit trade agreement reached over the holidays delegated many decisions to expert ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:13 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Rheinische Post / Clean Energy Wire Germany’s environment minister Steffi Lemke has called for industry to save water as drought and water shortages continue to hit in the country. “The ...
15 Dec 2015, 00:00 The widely celebrated Paris Agreement has intensified the debate about how Germany can achieve its endangered climate targets. Most commentators and climate activists argued the results of the climate summit vindicated demands that ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:53 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities manager magazin / Handelsblatt Stocks of German wind and solar park operators had a successful start to 2021 as ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:35 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire Homeowners with gas heaters in Germany on average will be paying about 1,000 euros more for heating energy this year, even after state measures to reduce bills have been ...
The fact that E.ON sticks to the majority Uniper sale in September despite the fossil spin-off’s lousy results is a bet on the future of the Energiewende, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Renewable power’s share will remain stuck in low single digits and ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany’s first full cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) reached the import terminal in Wilhelmshaven on 3 January, energy company Uniper said. The ship Maria Energy was loaded with approximately ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The last two of a group of eight lignite power plant units are entering Germany’s security standby, reports news agency dpa. RWE’s unit C at ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance COP26 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A month ahead of the international climate conference COP26 in Glasgow, 220 financial institutions call on 1,600 companies to define solid targets to reduce their greenhouse ...
Incoming environment minister Svenja Schulze will keep Jochen Flasbarth on as state secretary, Flasbarth confirmed to the tageszeitung (taz). The 55-year old Social Democrat is “central to German environment policy”, well-connected in the EU and UN, and ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:51 Edgar Meza Mobility Cars Handelsblatt Electric cars will need to account for most new registrations in Germany in just four years and the end of new combustion engine cars will have to begin in 2030, says a report by the National ...
A report about a proposal by one of Germany’s coal commission co-heads for a coal exit by 2038 has caused irritation. Co-chair Ronald Pofalla also proposed taking 5-7 gigawatts of coal capacity off-line and into a security reserve by 2020, and ...
The federal government will demand at the diesel summit on Wednesday that German carmakers pay for software updates for Euro-5 and Euro-6 diesel cars, according to the draft for the final summit statement, reports Daniel Delhaes in Handelsblatt. It will ...
22 Dec 2020, 12:28 Edgar Meza Wind Spiegel Online / Clean Energy Wire Germany’s Green Party is ready to accept exceptions to nature conservation in order to accelerate the expansion of wind farms, Valerie Höhne writes in Spiegel Online, citing a Green ...
Gas deliveries from Russia to Germany via the Opal pipeline fell by around 30 percent after Poland successfully appealed before the European Court of Justice. The ruling suspended a deal that would give Gazprom greater access, removing a key hurdle to the ...
15 Nov 2022, 12:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany still needs a bigger push to speed up renewables expansion to avoid a prolonged cost crisis and ensure that the country reaches its targets, said the Renewable Energy Federation (BEE). ...
26 Oct 2022, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire Despite reductions in heating energy demand in German households during the pandemic years 2020 and 2021, CO2 emissions haven’t dropped enough to reach climate targets, results from the ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt The European Commission (EC) has concerns over Germany’s economy ministry plans to create incentives for the construction of new gas-fired power plants with a combined capacity of about 25 gigawatt (GW) ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:43 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire More than 60 local German utilities have called for the introduction of a mandatory share of renewables-based gases to be added to the country’s natural gas supply for sectors not covered ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Government Bild Zeitung In a bid to achieve the high renewable power expansion targets for the end of the decade, German chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to make the buildout a priority and hold talks with the 16 ...
Implementing pathways away from coal-fired power production in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is feasible in the major coal-using economies within 20 to 30 years, according to a comparative study on six countries, including Germany, Australia, ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Policy Tagesspiegel Background German economy minister Peter Altmaier said the government plans to agree on a “Hard Coal Exit Law” in autumn, and the decision on which plants are shut down first will be taken via ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:17 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Hydrogen Clean ...
16 Mar 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Clean Energy Wire The number of e-bikes sold in Germany might overtake conventional bikes for the first time in 2023, cycling industry associations ZIV and VDZ said. Last year, almost every second bicycle sold ...
23 Jun 2020, 15:13 Tough talks on how to make the European Union climate neutral by 2050 are a major challenge for Germany’s 6-month EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020. The negotiations for a European economic recovery programme will be a ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Utilities Clean Energy Wire A broad alliance of German regional and municipal energy suppliers has jointly called for a protective shield against soaring energy prices and requested a special ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:01 Sören Amelang Heating Clean Energy Wire The electrification of heating is gathering pace in Germany as sales of heat pumps increased by more than half last year. Sales rose 53 percent to 236,000 units, making heat pumps the technology ...
The German government’s recently decided concept to avoid diesel driving bans in German inner cities is based on outdated data, reports Martin Gropp for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The grand coalition decided to introduce special measures in Germany’s ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 dpa / WirtschaftsWoche Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed ending coal-fired power production in the country by 2038 as proposed by Germany’s coal exit ...
17 Dec 2014
17 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Nuclear power companies should pay 17 billion euros into fund” The German government plans to establish a fund for the costs of dismantling and disposal of nuclear power ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:44 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Carolina Kyllmann Grid Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire The so far sluggish installation of smart meters in ...
21 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
The German Farmers' Association (DBV) has criticised German and EU transport policy, saying conventional biofuels were necessary for climate protection beyond 2020. “Traditional biofuels” based on rapeseed, sugar beet or grains are sustainable, and ...
16 Jun 2023, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The premiums for insuring residential buildings could double over the coming decade in the face of increasing damages caused by climate change, the German insurance ...
Retrofitting older diesel cars to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions could be financed “fully or for the largest part possible” through a support mechanism, a group of government advisors writes in a draft report, Markus Balser and Michael Bauchmüller ...
23 May 2016
23 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt / Süddeutsche Zeitung “Energiewende gets more expensive” The energy and economy ministry believes a rise in the renewable surcharge for next year is “likely,” according ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Society Clean Energy Wire / ZDF German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said he has “great respect” for climate protesters but sees the village Lützerath — which is due to be demolished and replaced ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:00 Carolina Kyllmann Gas International COP27 Clean Energy Wire The German government has signed two memoranda of understanding with Egypt to strengthen partnerships on liquefied natural gas (LGN) and green hydrogen. The cooperation, which ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:20 Edgar Meza Solar Clean Energy Wire Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has increased maximum support rates for ground-mounted solar system tenders by 25 percent to 7.37 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). The move is expected to make ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel Berlin-based carbon-offsetting non-profit organisation atmosfair has increased its revenues by more than 40 percent in 2018, as more and more flight passengers use its services ...
30 Aug 2019, 15:19 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Transport Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung / Tagesschau MPs from the conservative German government coalition party ...
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Major utility E.ON has abandoned plans to spin off its nuclear power plants when it splits in two next year. The operation and decommissioning of the company’s German nuclear activities will not be transferred to the new spin-off Uniper ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:19 Edgar Meza Politics International Clean Energy Wire Germany is seeking to diversify supply chains and increase international cooperation on climate protection with Asian countries, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to Vietnam ...
Mercedes-Benz will stop production of residential batteries, ending a short-lived challenge to storage systems made by Tesla, start-up Sonnen and others, reports Julian Spector for Greentech Media. Little over two years after the launch, Mercedes-Benz ...
The cooperation between German logistics company Deutsche Post DHL and US carmaker Ford on an electric delivery vehicle can be described as an "inverted world", writes Helmut Bünder in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Deutsche ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Heating Clean Energy Wire The use of energy in Germany has become increasingly efficient since the 1990s, but not at the ...
24 Mar 2015
24 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv dpa / AFP Opposition to Minister Gabriel’s power station levy – discussion postponed The debate over the levy for older power stations emmitting CO2 beyond a certain limit, proposed last week by ...
06 Sep 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Cars Cost & Prices Focus / Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel The German Taxpayers Federation is calling for an end to the high state subsidies for electric vehicles, news weekly Focus reports. The federation’s call follows on ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:05 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Julian Wettengel Cars Bild am Sonntag / Reuters Germany’s motor vehicle authority KBA is investigating Daimler on suspicion that 60,000 Mercedes cars were ...
03 Nov 2020, 14:10 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Agriculture Clean ...
High wind power production during a storm led to a total of 35 hours of negative wholesale power prices over the holidays in Germany, writes Daniel Wetzel for Welt Online. “Because of the holidays, industry did not need the power,” and grid operators at ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Sören Amelang Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire The trend towards heavy and fuel-guzzling sports utility vehicles ...
25 May 2021, 13:20 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Welt am Sonntag Audi boss Markus Duesmann is calling for a clear political commitment to electric cars from German politicians, Welt am Sonntag reports. Instead of building a hydrogen infrastructure and ...
21 May 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Using residues from industry production in the making of cement can substantially reduce the basic material’s carbon footprint, a group of researchers from the University of Halle ...
31 May 2023, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Transport Business & Jobs Die Welt Chemicals producer BASF is deploying a new freight vessel adapted for low water levels in the Rhine river, newspaper Die Welt reported. Shallower water in Germany’s ...
31 May 2019, 12:16 Clean Energy Wire is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
24 Apr 2020, 09:30 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire The European Union’s planned coronavirus “recovery fund” should be used to make substantial investments ...
22 Jun 2023, 13:58 Carolina Kyllmann Technology Clean Energy Wire Timber is set to displace other emission-intensive building materials like cement and steel as Germany looks to decarbonise its construction sector, according to a government strategy. ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Clean Energy Wire The German government is ‘systematically blocking’ important climate protection measures despite legally binding targets for emission reductions in all sectors, according to a group of ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Clean Energy Wire Chinese manufacturers of electric cars are increasingly gaining a foothold in Germany’s car market, May 2023 figures released by Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) ...
The Federal Constitutional Court is to rule on utilities’ rights in their case against the government over the shut-down of nuclear power plants, Corinna Budras writes for FAZ. Nuclear power plant operators RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall are suing the German ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Clean Energy Wire Europe is on track to have sufficient capacity for supplying its economies with liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the coming 10- 15 years, taking into account existing plans to expand the import ...
20 Dec 2018, 09:06 The weak and fragile German government is unlikely to implement the drastic measures needed for a speedy coal exit, regardless of the coal commission 's proposals due early next year, according to energy policy reseacher Claudia ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:26 German environment minister Svenja Schulze has sent a first draft of the planned Climate Action Law to the chancellery for “early coordination”, even as conservative politicians continue to criticise key elements and demand for it to be ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:50 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Stuttgarter Nachrichten / Clean Energy Wire Regional transmission system operator Terranets bw in Baden ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt Several researchers interviewed by business daily Handelsblatt are sceptical that Germany will be able to ramp up its hydrogen supply to the extent the government plans to. It is “highly uncertain ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit At the end of her term in office, German Chancellor Angela Merkel aims to resume her former self-styled role as “ climate chancellor ”, motivated by the Fridays For ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:44 Sören Amelang Gas Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s economy ministry has renewed its rejection of the controversial " fracking " method to produce natural gas, in response to a call by the finance ministry to allow using the ...
The turnover of German companies in the business of supplying energy efficiency solutions grew about 6 percent to 143 billion euros in 2016, compared to 2015, according to a study by German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF) and ...
09 May 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Clean Energy Wire The German coal exit will likely be completed before the 2038 end-date agreed on by the country’s coal exit commission, environment minister Svenja Schulze has said. “This will happen much faster ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Renewables Clean Energy Wire Several environmental NGOs call on the German government to align the more rapid buildout of renewable energy with protecting and expanding ‘ green infrastructure ’ such as natural wetlands ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Fossil gas will be a crucial part of Germany’s power and energy supply for at least another ten years, because the expansion of renewables and the electricity grid are lagging behind, said ...
The German federal cabinet finally approved the government’s Climate Action Plan 2050 as the basic framework on how Germany is to become largely greenhouse gas neutral in 2050. In a press release, environment minister Barbara Hendricks pointed out that ...
05 Aug 2015
05 Aug 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Reuters “German environment agency takes aim at auto sector over climate change ” The German Environment Agency (UBA) has called on the German transport sector to step up efforts to combat climate ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:55 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire There ...
27 Nov 2018, 14:00 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The exceptionally dry weather that has gripped Germany over ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag Despite Germany’s debate over stepping up national climate action intensifying, demand for air travel with the country’s largest airline, Lufthansa, is rising ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Denmark tops the latest edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by NewClimate Institute, Climate Action Network and Germanwatch, which saw Germany fall ...
The German government is working on a concept to reduce emissions from diesel cars in German cities which will include swap and retrofit options, said transport minister Andreas Scheuer during a live video chat on Instagram. “We are currently talking ...
A quick end of coal-fired power production in Germany and a parallel expansion of wind and solar power capacities would reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to meet the 2020 and 2030 climate target in line with the Paris Agreement, a study by research ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:40 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Nuclear phase-out Süddeutsche Zeitung A second runtime extension for Germany’s remaining nuclear power plants ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany should not push for more ambitious EU car fleet emission limits. “I think the [European] Commission’s proposal forms a reasonable basis” for the upcoming negotiations, Merkel said at an event hosted by the ...
22 May 2023, 13:32 Sören Amelang Heating Policy n-tv/RTL / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz said he does not expect any fundamental changes to his coalition government’s controversial plans to phase out fossil fuel heating systems. The ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society Clean Energy Wire German rail company Deutsche Bahn has signed a partnership agreement with the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship to transport teams and fans across the country in a climate ...
15 Feb 2018, 00:00 In a bid to avoid EU fines for bad air quality, the German government has proposed to make public transport free of charge in polluted cities. But contradicting many press reports, the government clarified it had no plans for a blanket ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire Germany and the U.S. are jointly pushing for a fundamental reform of the World Bank with an increased focus on the climate crisis, and agreed that it should be finalised at the ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:16 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Extending the range of battery-based electric cars with an additional hydrogen fuel cell makes more sense from an economic and environmental perspective than using huge batteries, said ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:59 Sören Amelang Cars Handelsblatt German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ‘car summit’ this week was too narrowly focussed on electric mobility and industry interests, writes Dieter Fockenbrock in a commentary for the business daily ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire The influential lobby group Federation of German Industries (BDI) has said that a “blockade mentality” by environmental NGOs has prevented a compromise within Germany ...
06 Mar 2023, 12:14 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The consequences of climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros by 2050, found a report by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), the Institute ...
The cost of expanding Germany’s power transmission grid onshore and in the Baltic and North Seas to adapt to the future power system brought on by the Energiewende could be between 50-52 billion euros until 2030, the country’s four transmission system ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Heating Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media Germany’s three ruling parties have finalised a deal on a controversial heating law to phase out gas and oil heating. The government will cover up to 70 percent of homeowners’ ...
07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Federal Motor Transport Authority Number of e-cars on German roads rises to 25,502 The number of pure electric vehicles on German roads rose to 25,502 at the beginning of the year, an increase of 35 percent compared to ...
26 Nov 2015
26 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Germany plans the exit” A spectacular change in German energy policy is taking shape a few days before the start of the climate summit in Paris, writes Thorsten Knuf in ...
The once illusory concept of a carbon-neutral combustion engine could soon become a reality, German car industry supplier Bosch says in a press release. With synthetic fuels- so-called “eFuels”- CO 2 could become a valuable resource for making petrol, ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:03 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire Germany’s nuclear phase-out will not affect the country’s reactors used for research purposes, which can continue to operate after the country’s three remaining nuclear power stations ...
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Record renewables growth in 2015 meant Germany exported more coal-generated electricity than ever before, hampering the country's efforts to protect the climate, according to energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende. The data ...
The Berlin administrative court has ordered Germany’s capital to introduce driving bans for diesel vehicles on parts of eight roads suffering from exceedingly high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) pollution, reports the public broadcaster rbb24 in two ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung In order to secure stable access to critical raw materials, Germany could financially support companies competing on global markets for ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Coal Clean Energy Wire The planned coal phase-out in eastern Germany could threaten water supply in and around the country’s capital, as significantly less groundwater will be pumped into the river Spree ...
02 Jul 2019, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The likely next government coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and the Left Party in Germany’s smallest state Bremen wants to declare a ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Journal of Animal Ecology Many migrating birds have learned to avoid potentially deadly wind turbines, but this behaviour equals a loss of habitat for the animals, researcher Ana Teresa Marques and others write in ...
27 Oct 2015
27 Oct 2015, 00:00 CORRECTION- Vattenfall's underlying operating profit was 3,388 million SEK in the third quarter of 2015, not 3,388 billion. Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Vattenfall 3rd quarter results / Two 500 MW lignite units will be ...
German and Austrian energy regulators have agreed to cap peaks in the exchange of power from October 2018 to reflect lagging grid development between the two countries, announced Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and E-Control in separate press releases. ...
Six years before Germany's last nuclear plant is due to go offline, the utilities’ lawsuits over the legality and costs of the phase-out procedure pose a final but major obstacle for the nuclear exit, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung ...
10 May 2023, 12:20 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire Germany should introduce a ‘climate passport’ for people displaced by the effects of climate change, an independent government advisory panel has proposed in its annual report. The Expert ...
The chief of Angela Merkel's chancellery, Peter Altmaier, wants ambitious EU and international goals for climate protection, instead of special national targets. “I am completely convinced that the path of national targets is wrong,” he told a ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:49 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s federal budget draft shows spending on the “Energy and Climate Fund” (EKF) tripling in 2021 to ...
03 Nov 2020, 15:03 Governments in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are wary of the impact the US election could have on international climate action cooperation. While a win by incumbent President Donald Trump would likely exacerbate existing disputes on ...
German utility company Uniper swung back to profit, posting a net income of 782 million euros in the first nine months of 2017, after a loss of 4.2 billion euros due to "substantial impariment charges" in the same period last year, the company ...
20 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Gabriel needs a masterplan” The Paris Agreement has shown that coal will need to be phased out faster than currently planned, writes Joachim Wille in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
In an opinion piece for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Michael Bauchmüller asks if Chancellor Angela Merkel can be trusted, after the parties in exploratory talks to form a new grand coalition government dropped Germany’s 2020 climate target. The outgoing coalition ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Gas Security NY Times / ZEIT, ARD, SWR / Dlf German defence minister Boris Pistorius has reacted cautiously to media reports that a pro-Ukrainian group could be behind the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:08 Siemens is planning a hydrogen research laboratory and innovation campus in the east German city of Görlitz, where the company’s turbine plant was previously due to be shut down. Chancellor Angela Merkel called the plans a “milestone” ...
Police in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have started clearing the anti-coal activist camp in the embattled Hambach Forest, the Rheinische Post reports in a live blog. Police set up a perimeter around the forest and started ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Süddeutsche Zeitung / Welt Online The embattled Hambach Forest, which has become a symbolic place for anti-coal protesters in Germany, might not be cut down to make room for a nearby lignite mine, Rolf Martin ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Clean Energy Wire Long approval procedures and insufficient land designation mean the expansion of wind power capacity across Germany is too slow to meet climate targets, a report by the federal and state ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire A new start in German-African relations is needed to diversify raw material providers and reduce dependencies, a report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) ...
US President Donald Trump has lambasted the German reliance on Russian energy resources, saying the country is “totally controlled by” and “captive of” the fossil fuel exporting giant, according to international media reports. “Germany is totally ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Clean Energy Wire Asset managers active in the area of sustainability see investments in liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Germany as risky, said a report by the Science Platform for Climate Protection (WPKS). Germany ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Politics Tagesspiegel Background The northwestern German state of Lower Saxony plans to become climate neutral by 2040. Following a regional parliamentary election in October, the ruling Social ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:05 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire The German states home to carmakers ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Gas Tagesspiegel, Clean Energy Wire Germany’s gas reserves have reached 98.52 percent of full capacity, with more than 240 terawatt hours’ worth of energy (preliminary data from 30 October) – the highest level ever achieved, ...
Workforce representatives of Germany’s car industry fear “massive job losses” due to the transition from the combustion engine to electric drives, write Nikolaus Doll and Philipp Vetter in Die Welt. In a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, works ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Der Spiegel Right-wing populist parties could make major gains in the coming European elections, with many of them bringing a new climate scepticism to the chamber and making it ...
13 May 2016
13 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Bundesregierung / dpa-AFX “Federal and state governments stall on green electricity reform” Chancellor Angela Merkel and the state premiers postponed a decision on contentious issues ...
21 Jan 2015, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks looks forward to the UN climate summit and the role of Germany's climate action programme, hails the global contribution made by German renewable technology and doubts the economic sense of ...
26 Nov 2014, 00:00 The German government looks set to approve plans to force the power sector to reduce carbon emissions by an additional 22 million tons by 2020. Environmentalists worry the plans don't go far enough and are calling for more coal ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire With a rather low offshore wind power capacity expansion of 342 megawatts (MW) in 2022, Germany must quickly gear up to bring the buildout in line with its ambitious renewable power targets, wind ...
08 May 2023, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Recent examples of investment decisions on climate-friendly technologies in Germany and Europe show that the continent is on the right track to respond to the U.S. Inflation ...
24 Aug 2020, 12:45 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices EU WirtschaftsWoche Germany and ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany will get through winter with its gas supply and the likelihood of a severe shortage has decreased further due to savings efforts, said the country’s gas storage operator association INES. ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall wants to grow in Germany after selling all of its lignite activities in the country, report Vera Eckert, Christoph Steitz and Tom Kaeckenhoff for Reuters. The company counts on promising heat operations in its largest foreign ...
27 Jun 2017
Germany's economy ministry (BMWi) has signed a contract with the country's nuclear plant operators that regulates the funding of nuclear waste disposal, the BMWi has said in a press release. The BMWi and the four utilities E.ON, EnBW, RWE and ...
27 Sep 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Clean Energy Wire High energy prices and possibly also pleas by the German government to save gas appear to show an effect among households in the country: The head of the federal grid agency (BNetzA) Klaus ...
In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s Kerstin Schwenn, German minister of transport Andreas Scheuer, a member of the conservative CSU party, said the retrofitting of millions of diesel cars to make them cleaner and reduce emissions ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Gas Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung The German environment minister has urged to stop gas extraction plans near the north-western island of Borkum, newspaper Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung reports. Dutch company ...
18 Nov 2017, 00:00 Bonn had delivered what was necessary to be on schedule for the decisions needed at COP24 in Katowice, the Germany delegation said / Negotiations finished in the early hours of 18 November / Last contentious issues still debated through ...
20 Dec 2022, 14:10 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Government Clean Energy Wire The German government and the country’s largest gas supplier Uniper have agreed on a framework to carry out the struggling company’s nationalisation ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:29 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables Clean Energy Wire Higher electricity demand, fewer fossil power plants, and insufficient renewable energy, combined with extreme weather conditions, could lead to gaps in Germany’s power supply ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:29 The world is already facing “unequivocal" consequences of climate change and damages will increase rapidly with rising temperatures, the United Nation’s climate science body IPCC is warning in its new landmark report. The paper on ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt / Handelsblatt / Reuters The home state of Volkswagen, Lower Saxony, would not tolerate a large-scale reduction in staff at Germany’s largest carmaker, state premier Stephan Weil (SPD) ...
08 Oct 2015
08 Oct 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) “Average duration of power supply cuts per consumer and year less than 12 minutes for first time” The average power consumer in Germany ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas Clean Energy Wire The German government will stick to its plan to add gas power capacity in the country, despite the difficult supply situation for the fossil fuel caused by the energy crisis. “I would ...
29 Jun 2015
29 Jun 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “Unemployment benefit for coal” The apparent death of the levy on old coal-fired power plants is bad news because the alternative presented by major utilities and mining ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Policy Clean Energy Wire The expansion of onshore wind power capacity in Germany in 2022 again remained below the level required for reaching the country’s renewable power targets, a shortcoming that ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire A system to trade CO₂ emission allowances, rather than a carbon tax, is the better way to steer Germany towards climate neutrality in the long run, Chancellor Angela ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:21 Sören Amelang Adaptation Policy Clean Energy Wire Cities and municipalities must act urgently to better protect children against UV radiation, which is increasing as a result of climate change, Germany’s environment ministry and the ...
29 May 2019, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics CNN The results of the European elections mean that Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) must give better answers on the climate issue, the German ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Clear and sunny weather, a solar eclipse and no blackout- Germany's power system has passed an important test. The eclipse was a taste of the future, as the rise in renewables will make fluctuations of this magnitude regular events ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Security Der Tagesspiegel A new resource strategy that includes stronger state involvement could be forthcoming in Germany after a report commissioned by the economy and climate ministry (BMWK ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv BMUB / Deutsche Welle “Germany asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors” Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The announcement of a new microchip factory of U.S. semiconductor producer Wolfspeed with an investment by German automotive industry supplier ZF has been welcome by ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Die Zeit The vote by EU energy ministers to introduce a price cap on natural gas is a bad compromise for Germany, Anja Stehle wrote in an opinion piece for Die Zeit. The price ceiling, taking effect at 180 euros ...
29 Sep 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Clean Energy Wire The Free Democrats (FDP) in Germany’s government coalition have criticised the decision by Green Party economy and climate minister Robert Habeck to transfer two of the ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung The Climate Action Law proposed by Germany’s environment ministry is “a planned economy approach” that could “paralyse the country without making progress on climate action,” ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Die Welt As solar power deployment is picking up fast around the globe, Germany and Europe must act now to regain a stronger position in the production of solar PV hardware so as to reduce ...
17 Mar 2023, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Large parts of the North Sea experienced the warmest or second warmest winter temperatures since records began, Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) said. In the ...
25 Nov 2022, 13:03 Sören Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Spiegel Online Power prices will rise more than 50 percent for millions of households in Germany at the turn of the year if government plans for a cap on prices are not taken into account, ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:40 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire The need for a raw material supply ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Clean Energy Wire Many German cities have improved their cycling infrastructure in recent years, but the majority of cyclists in the country continue to consider road traffic to be unsafe for them, according ...
04 Mar 2015, 00:00 The consultation period for the government's green paper on power market reform is over and submissions reveal stakeholders' different ideas and priorities for a redesign. Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Electricity ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:30 Germany takes first tentative steps towards a change away from area-based farming subsidies to payments made depending on the environmental performance of farmers. The government cabinet has agreed on how to implement European rules ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire With European cooperation and an “appropriate design” of climate policy, the seemingly diverging calls for change by French yellow vests ...
21 Nov 2022, 13:59 Sören Amelang Renewables Policy The lack of cooperation between authorities, supply chain problems, rising costs, a lack of skilled workers and legal issues are the main culprits for Germany’s failure to massively speed up the ...
08 May 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology Clean Energy Wire With the inauguration of a new onshore wind power testing mast with a height of 300 metres, project developers in Germany hope it will pave the way for a new generation of wind ...
Electric cars will one day dominate Germany’s roads, but in the meantime cars with fuel cells that generate power from hydrogen could contribute to the country’s transition in transportation, Lukas Weber writes for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The steel pipelines used in Germany’s gas grid are generally suitable for the transport of hydrogen, said the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW). “The ...
The Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) claims that cruise ship companies operating in Europe are 'greenwashing'. “For years now, the shipping companies have proclaimed wholeheartedly that they want to become more environmentally ...
26 Oct 2022, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Industry Clean Energy Wire Plans by the German government to "retroactively or disproportionately" skim off windfall revenues of the photovoltaic (PV) industry could lead to a market collapse, said the ...
07 Jul 2020, 13:22 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cost & Prices Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire German households ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire The German government has said its new digitalisation strategy will help in the fight against the climate crisis and in efforts to transform the economy. Environmental data and ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:58 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Business manager magazin Germany’s state-owned energy supplier Uniper will continue to have a stake in nuclear plants abroad even after the end of the technology’s ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire With its largest offshore wind power auction to date, Germany aims to make progress on its ambitious target to nearly quadruple capacity by the end of the decade – and could ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Grid Die Welt German grid regulator BNetzA is facing a backlash ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:15 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Gas Hydrogen Technology Wirtschaftswoche French oil major Total keeps an eagle eye on German projects that use ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:15 Sören Amelang Cars AFP / heise online The German government wants to stick to the development of synthetic fuels despite the planned phaseout of combustion engines at EU level by 2035. €1.9 billion have been earmarked to support the ...
25 Oct 2021, 17:19 Developed countries have said they will deliver on their pledge to provide 100 billion US dollars per year in climate finance to support developing nations by 2023, three years later than originally planned. However, a “climate finance ...
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty have kicked off in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy Wire ...
03 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Spiegel Germany’s government has postponed a decision to include a planned new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of the Baltic Sea island of Rügen in the country’s LNG ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:24 Students in Germany and around the world are expected to walk out of school Friday for what is being billed as a “global strike” to demand action on climate change. Organisers hope it will be the largest demonstration yet in the series ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU dpa / Focus Online A new pipeline connecting Spain with France and the northern European grid could be finished within a year, the head of Spanish gas grid operator Enagas, Arturo Gonzalo Aizpiri, told news ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Coal dpa The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Saxony-Anhalt has said his state will not follow an agreement on an early coal phase-out made in the heavy industry state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in ...
The dangers of our planet sliding into a “hothouse Earth” state are speculative but real, argues Georg Ehring in a commentary carried by the public radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, referencing a scientific paper published by a team of scientists, ...
EU energy ministers are attending an informal meeting in Bratislava this week to discuss steering and monitoring mechanisms for the European Energy Union, sustainable financing structures for low-carbon technologies, energy prices and energy supply ...
Intensified cross border connections and the increased transfer between European electricity markets could help reach EU climate targets, according to a study by Fraunhofer ISE and the National Technical University of Athens. With the cooperative project ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:35 Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire German energy company RWE is set to bring three lignite power plant units in the western part of the country back online in the coming days to help secure power supply during the coming winter, ...
14 Feb 2019, 13:58 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas International Internationale Politik A u-turn on the controversial Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 – currently under construction in the Baltic Sea – is unlikely, Christian ...
A legal opinion for the federal parliament says carmakers’ failure to disclose the use of 'defeat devices'- which reduce an engine’s performance during emissions testing- represent “a continuous and severe violation of the law”. The opinion from ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire The looming trade conflict between Europe and the U.S. about government subsidies for green investments could be significantly defused after the American ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Handelsblatt Landlords in Germany will have to participate in a carbon dioxide (CO2) levy for residential buildings that so far has solely been borne by tenants, reports news agency Reuters in ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:45 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars WirtschaftsWoche A first draft of the final report by Germany’s transport commission does not include sufficient measures to bring the country’s transport emissions down in line with ...
Remarks by China’s vice economy minister on banning combustion engines in the foreseeable future spell trouble for German carmakers like VW, Daimler and BMW, Max Hägler writes in an op-ed for Süddeutsche Zeitung. German carmakers are still struggling to ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt Excessive EU regulation is stalling the development of competitive hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, the head of Germany’s ...
31 May 2019, 13:34 Sören Amelang Transport Efficiency Policy Clean Energy Wire German ministers proposed to expand public transport and to offer billions in tax breaks for the modernisation of buildings during this week’s second meeting of the government ...
Helmar Rendez, chairman of Germany’s newest lignite company LEAG, has pushed for a swift decision over the possible expansion of open pit mining in the Eastern German region of Lusatia, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. “This is no decision that we can ...
12 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Reuters/RWE RWE says it will ‘only just’ meet 2015 earnings forecast German utility RWE on Thursday said it would just manage to meet its 1.1-1.3 billion-euro adjusted net income forecast for 2015, after a 29 ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:04 Carolina Kyllmann Wind BR24 / Clean Energy Wire Bavaria’s controversial 10H rule, which sets a minimum distance between wind turbines and settlements, largely slowed down the expansion of wind power in the state, a report by the ...
12 May 2017, 00:00 In what is often dubbed “the small-scale federal election”, voters in Germany’s industrial powerhouse and most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia decide on a new government on 14 May. The exit from coal-fired power generation – a ...
27 May 2020, 13:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities Clean Energy ...
15 May 2020, 16:34 The U.S. administration is aggressively promoting the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European partners, portraying it both as a supply that would help them diversify away from Russian gas and as a way to reduce greenhouse gas ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German politicians are calling for investments in urban planning to better prepare cities for extreme weather events, such as the ...
20 May 2020, 13:38 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Clean Energy Wire The German government is preparing to buy a stake in Dutch transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT as part of a ...
18 May 2020, 14:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Security Germany boasts the highest energy security level in the world, due in large part to the wide spread use of renewable energy sources in the country, according to a study by Abdelrahman Azzuni and Christian ...
20 Dec 2018, 15:02 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 2018 has been the warmest year in Germany since measurements began in 1881, the German National Meteorological Service (DWD) said in a press release. The average temperature in 2018 was 10.4°C and thus ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:44 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean Energy Wire Calculations by the ifo Institute for Economic Research suggest that postponing the decommissioning of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power plants would not help the ...
Last Friday's vote in the German parliament in favour of plans to find a final nuclear repository could finally herald an end to the decades-old conflict over where to store Germany's nuclear waste, Daniel Wetzel writes for Welt Online. But ...
Influential municipal shareholders are threatening to pull out of Germany's largest electricity provider, RWE, unless the company's prospects brighten, reports Jürgen Flauger in German business daily Handelsblatt Global Edition. Guntram Pehlke, ...
The Economic Council of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU says the party should give serious consideration to a minority government, in order to avoid a new grand coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD). In a statement, the economic ...
09 Jan 2019, 10:45 Energy and climate policy has played a notable role in recent elections in Germany, where public opinion is split over the course of the country's coal exit and diesel emissions in inner cities, says Michael Schäfer, head of ...
The head of carmaker Daimler AG's works council, Michael Brecht, says the move from conventional cars to e-cars could threaten jobs in the coming years, Reuters reports. "The number of staff you need to build a combustion engine is roughly ...
The German government has reached an agreement with the European Commission on the country’s plans to impose passenger car tolls for highways, writes Florian Eder for Politico. Until now, the main point of contention was that the scheme proposed by German ...
04 May 2020, 13:37 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Heating Clean Energy Wire ...
08 Feb 2021, 13:16 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Agrarheute / dpa The 16 German federal states have been unable to find a solution on how to spend farming subsidies allocated to ...
Even the Uniper prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO) says that conventional power generation “faces the risk of disappearing completely from the market” in the long-term, writes Chris Bryant in a comment for Bloomberg. “It's not every ...
12 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Simply carry on” G7 politicians want to rid the world of fossil fuels but German industry will demand support for the decarbonisation, Karl-Heinz Büschemann writes in the ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have vowed to work together closely at the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg to further shared goals and overcome diplomatic difficulties with third countries. During a visit in Berlin, Xi said ...
27 Nov 2020, 14:22 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars EU Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against excessively strict exhaust regulations for the European car industry, Handelsblatt writes. Europe shouldn’t say it won’t ban the ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany must improve precautionary and adaptation measures against the negative impacts of climate change in order to fulfil its human rights obligations, said the German Institute ...
08 Sep 2016, 00:00 Environmental organisations have responded to a government proposal to decarbonise the economy with outrage. They say the Climate Action Plan 2050 will fall well short of meeting climate targets, and accuse the environment ministry of ...
13 Oct 2022, 13:30 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire The green and digital transition in the European Union will further widen the gap between major cities and high-tech regions on one side and rural areas and regions with CO2-intensive industry ...
12 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Reuters “Germany says firms set aside enough nuclear decommissioning funds” According to the government, stress tests show that nuclear power plant operators have set aside enough funds to pay for decommissioning ...
Following the German constitutional court’s ruling this week upholding the government's 2011 decision to accelerate the nuclear exit, nuclear plant operators are continuing legal proceedings against the state, Jost Müller-Neuhof writes in ...
04 Sep 2020, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Cars Focus Online German transport minister Andreas Scheuer has called for a “well-developed and cross-border network of [charging] stations in Europe which guarantees uncomplicated and fast recharging” for electric and ...
Europe’s former biggest PV panel producer SolarWorld will file for insolvency, the company said in a press release. “Due to the ongoing price erosion and the development of the business,” SolarWorld is now “over-indebted” and lacks a positive prognosis, ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Cars Spiegel Online European Union member states, backed by the German government, want to ensure that diesel cars are allowed to emit 43 percent more nitrogen oxides (NOx) when tested on the road as opposed to in the ...
26 Jul 2022, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Clean Energy Wire An agreement by EU countries to curb gas use during the coming winter is a signal of unity and solidarity in the face of the current energy crisis, said German economy minister Robert Habeck. ...
20 Oct 2022, 14:27 The German government has said it increased public climate finance for developing and emerging countries to 5.34 billion euros last year, meaning the country is on track towards reaching its target of 6 billion euros by 2025. Together ...
19 Sep 2018, 15:20 The German government has launched a new advisory panel to reduce transport emissions in line with national climate targets. The task force will broaden the focus of an earlier panel concentrated on electric cars, to discuss the entire ...
27 Jun 2022, 13:57 Kerstine Appunn Grid Clean Energy Wire Germany’s federal parliament (Bundestag) has passed a first batch of energy legislation, designed to accelerate the expansion of the power grid and protect consumers from rising energy prices when ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German government’s plan to introduce a subsidy scheme with so-called “climate contracts” for less climate-damaging industry processes will also include small and medium-sized ...
12 Sep 2022, 13:37 Sören Amelang Transport Freight Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany’s national railway operator Deutsche Bahn plans to transport large amounts of green hydrogen on trains, offering an alternative to transport through non-existent ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Policy Clean Energy Wire A German strategy on carbon capture and use (CCU) or storage (CCS) – the carbon management strategy which is currently being developed by the government with stakeholder input – ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Finnish state-owned utility Fortum has officially completed its purchase of a majority stake in German utility company Uniper, the company ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:38 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Focus Online Despite a reduction in road traffic, nitrogen oxide ...
Low water levels in the Rhine river after a prolonged drought have disrupted fuel and chemical supplies on the vital European trade route, sparking concern over potential economic impact and raising questions about how climate change will hit Europe’s ...
29 Jan 2019, 15:02 Following a sharp drop in new onshore wind power installations in Germany in 2018, the industry warns that mounting resistance against new turbines endangers a sufficient supply of renewable energy demanded by industry and national ...
18 Sep 2018, 18:50 The country’s coal exit commission said there were no predetermined decisions regarding a date for the end to coal-fired power generation. Following irritation about reports of a supposed compromise on a 2038 end date, economy minister ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:16 Germany will spend over 40 percent of the farming subsidies it expects to receive from the EU on climate, biodiversity and other sustainability-related practices, the country’s 16 state agriculture ministers have agreed after 33 hours ...
Germany's coal exit commission has published its interim report on how to cushion the effects of ending coal-fired power generation in the three remaining mining regions. The report contains, among other things, proposals for better transport and ...
01 Aug 2019, 09:00 Germany’s fleet of lignite power stations has likely lost more than 600 million euros in the first half of 2019, as profits “collapsed” and fixed costs could not be covered, according to modelling by Sandbag. The climate change think ...
30 Jul 2015
30 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv German Wind Energy Association (BWE) / German Engineering Association (VDMA) “Breather for the German wind industry” Onshore wind power development in Germany decreased by 34 percent ...
23 Jan 2019, 18:16 Germany’s detailed coal exit path and the end-date to coal-fired power generation remain unknown only days before a highly anticipated phase-out proposal is due to be published. A leaked draft of the final report of the country’s coal ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The ...
23 Jan 2019, 10:55 Power prices are less of a concern for some industry sectors and coal-heavyweight RWE has long been about “much more than coal” – industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out dpa / Zeit Online Extending the runtime of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power plants will do very little to help the country weather the looming gas supply crisis, economy and climate minister ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:52 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Table.Media / Clean Energy Wire In a bid to achieve its climate targets, the German government aims to bet more strongly and more quickly than previously thought on the controversial technologies of ...
German carmakers haven't taken electric mobility seriously, but suddenly it is even dawning on faithful VW drivers that cars with fossil combustion engines will be phased out at some point, writes Henning Peitsmeier in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Hannah Naylor Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany consumed 14.7 ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:11 Hannah Naylor Renewables Wind Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Despite the German government’s efforts to increase onshore wind power, in the first half of 2022 there has been a loss of wind turbines by dismantling of the infrastructure in the ...
06 Mar 2020, 17:00 High methane emissions could unseat natural gas as the lowest-carbon fossil fuel, and the EU needs to exert pressure on the US to get a grip on the issue, says Samantha Gross, fellow in the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt / Die Welt “Federal government disappoints power station operators” Operators of fossil-fuelled power stations should only receive very limited funds for keeping power ...
11 Oct 2022, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out AFP The German coalition government hasn’t been able to come to an agreement over the economy minister’s proposed runtime extension scheme for two of the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:28 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Following the increase in severe flooding events in Germany over the past years, the country’s weather service DWD has improved its ability to forecast such events. “Thanks to ...
23 Sep 2022, 14:02 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Sören Amelang Gas Security Clean ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Clean Energy Wire / BR Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has reacted with irritation to a German nuclear plant operator’s objection to his plans for putting two of the remaining ...
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 A vote in the European Parliament on the reform of the EU's emissions trading system has prompted applause by some and disappointment from others. The Clean Energy Wire has compiled some of the reactions out of Germany to the ...
25 Sep 2016, 00:00 In a move to fast-track the full ratification of the 2015 UN climate treaty (Paris Agreement), the German parliament has unanimously approved the terms of the treaty, helping to pave the way for it to enter into force before the end of ...
22 Nov 2018, 15:06 The German government wants to postpone the deadline for the conclusion of the country’s coal exit commission. Sources told the Clean Energy Wire the commission may have to extend its work on the phase out of the fossil fuel until ...
17 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt / Ministry for Environment “Everything for the climate” The Ministry for Environment (BMUB) is about to enter the second phase of consultation for its Climate Action Plan 2050, and has ...
10 Aug 2022, 12:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Half of the major companies listed in Germany’s Dax 40 stock market index increased their CO2 emissions in 2021, as recovery effects from the pandemic allowed many ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security dpa / Zeit Online / Clean Energy Wire One of the two nuclear plants in Germany slated to go into an emergency reserve until April 2023 has to undergo urgent maintenance work due to a valve ...
Ending coal mining and coal-fired power production in Germany would mean that the country’s most populopus federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), alone would need tens of billions of euros to cope with structural economic changes, the state’s ...
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 [UPDATES with comments from VKU] German politicians, climate activists, scientists and media celebrated the "historic" Paris climate agreement. Some business associations as well as activists pointed to flaws of the deal, and ...
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Analysts have welcomed a new planning framework for the German grid that works on the basis of less lignite being burned in Germany, saying grid development must serve the country’s climate targets. Expert DIW- German Institute for ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire The German heating sector must be reformed from its core and made more efficient to weather the energy supply challenges ahead, the state-funded Federal Environmental Foundation ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government has said it will carry out a second assessment of the benefits of extending the runtime of the country’s remaining nuclear plants beyond their ...
The switch to the new car emission test procedure WLTP is one reason why Germany’s economy recorded a slight dip in the third quarter. “The latest weakness can be explained by a curious coincidence of special circumstances. For instance, there were ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Activists from the Fridays for Future student group have called on the German government to set up a special fund for “massive” investments in climate action. “We ...
Around 750,000 people have signed an online petition to protect Hambach Forest against plans by utility RWE to clear it for the expansion of a nearby lignite mine, reports the newswire dpa in an article carried by Focus. Over the past 14 days alone, 300 ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:02 Sören Amelang Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany’s federal government, several of its states and grid operators have agreed on how to implement the country’s more ambitious targets for the expansion of offshore wind turbines. With the ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Bild-Zeitung Leading Green Party politicians in Bavaria have said that a limited extension of the southern German state’s remaining nuclear plant would be an option if the federal government’s current ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:27 Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung The politically sensitive idea of splitting Germany into ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Bloomberg / Clean Energy Wire Germany has reached its target to fill gas storages to 95 percent two weeks ahead of the 1 November deadline, the economy ministry (BMWK) announced. “The well-filled storage facilities ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Der Spiegel Nuclear plant operators in Germany are unenthusiastic about the prospect of having to revise their long-prepared decommissioning plans despite growing calls for the extension of runtimes, ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:46 Germany's so-called climate cabinet- a round of ministers with key responsibilities touching climate issues- has decided to discuss options for a carbon price at its first meeting in Berlin today. Environment minister Svenja ...
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), the party foundation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU, has compiled and updated an overview of private-sector involvement in financing climate protection in the G20 countries. Find the report ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating Clean Energy Wire The ...
06 Jul 2022, 12:03 Russia’s war against Ukraine pushes governments across Europe to overhaul their plans for gas infrastructure such as pipelines or import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Substituting only half of Russian gas imports forces ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:37 Sören Amelang Cars Manager magazin Tesla has searched for bats in the wooded area where it plans to build its German car factory and also plans to resettle ants living there, reports manager magazine. In addition, the US carmaker ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Süddeutsche Zeitung The announcement by Spain, Portugal and France to pull the plug on the MidCat gas pipeline project across the Pyrenees comes as a “disappointment” for Germany’s government, which had hoped to ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:51 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Die Zeit Since the start of the pandemic, climate activists from Fridays for Future have shied away from organising mass demonstrations and turned to soft lobbying instead, Nele Spandick ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Die Welt / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called on the country’s states to massively ramp up their onshore wind power efforts, newspaper Die Welt reports. ...
04 Feb 2020, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Handelsblatt The carbon border adjustment mechanism envisioned by the European Commission as part of its landmark Green Deal package is problematic and could lead to trade disputes with ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Building construction on land at high risk of flooding is continuing apace in Germany and must stop, the country’s insurers have warned. "Only climate-adapted construction can reduce the ...
In a wide-ranging acceptance speech to members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) after his nomination as Chancellor candidate, former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz also spoke about environment and climate protection. Schulz said ...
29 Jul 2022, 12:22 Hannah Naylor Coal Electricity market Freight WirtschaftsWoche In an attempt to maintain electricity production whilst gas deliveries continue to tighten, transport capacities in Germany, particularly rail, are struggling to keep up ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:39 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 EU Clean Energy Wire Germany must purchase more than eleven million emission allocations totalling several million euros after overshooting its EU greenhouse gas emissions targets in the sectors ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out n-tv The German Green Party has rejected criticism from the conservative CDU/CSU opposition alliance over economy and climate minister Robert Habeck’s decision to put two of the country’s remaining ...
16 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Study: Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) “Environmentally harmful subsidies amount to over 52 billion euros” Even as Germany focuses much effort and funding on climate protection measures, it ...
24 Oct 2022, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Coal EU Clean Energy Wire Four German coal regions are set to receive a total of 2.5 billion euros from the EU’s Just Transition Fund (JTF) to help them shift to a climate-friendly economy, the European Commission said ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Rheinische Post To save gas and money, German households should be incentivised to use less energy for heating, the president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), Klaus Müller, has told newspaper ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Tagesspiegel The German Social Democrats (SPD) have demanded a clear stance on the country’s envisaged coal exit from their bigger partner in the governing coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ...
11 Oct 2022, 12:39 Edgar Meza Solar Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Germany’s solar industry continues to have a largely positive outlook and assessment of the current business climate in the sector, shows the German Solar Association’s (BSW) third ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 As Germany’s Jamaica coalition talks are approaching a critical point, the Green Party appears to soften core climate policy demands in an attempt to achieve similar concessions from its negotiating partners. Party leaders say that ...
09 Sep 2015
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Summer, sun and sorrows” There has never been more green energy in Germany’s grid than in the first half of this year, state secretary Uwe Beckmeyer from the Ministry for ...
06 Jul 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs WirtschaftsWoche The local availability of renewable power sources could increasingly become a boon for northern German states and could shift the country’s industrial centre of gravity ...
06 Feb 2015
06 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv DIW studies “Electricity Grids and Climate Targets: New Approaches to Grid Planning” The latest assumptions that will be used in the government's grid development plan take new climate ...
15 Nov 2022, 14:04 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen NDR / Clean Energy Wire The first jetty for arrival of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been completed in northern German Wilhelmshaven, with the first delivery set to arrive in mid-January 2023, reports ...
