21 Jul 2022, 14:12 Edgar Meza Gas EU Clean Energy Wire German policymakers and utilities have welcomed a European Commission聽 proposal asking EU聽member states聽to聽adopt聽voluntary measures to reduce聽gas聽consumption amid fears of Russia cutting off ...
01 Feb 2016
01 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淚t won鈥檛 happen without buyer鈥檚 premiums鈥� Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet car industry representatives on Tuesday to talk about incentives for e-mobility, reports ...
06 May 2015
06 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) New incentive programme for energy efficiency measures The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has announced a new support package to ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas International Security France and Germany have struck a compromise allowing Berlin to remain the lead negotiator with Russia on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline to Europe, reports news agency ...
19 Jul 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Reuters Growing concern over global warming in Germany has seen the Green party rise to record popularity in polls, and made a Green chancellor a real possibility, Madeline Chambers writes for ...
11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Agora Energiewende 鈥淲ithout a decisive change of course the emissions trading system will fail permanently鈥� Only the rapid introduction of a market stability reserve to increase the price of CO2 emissions can salvage the European system ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire Registrations of new electric vehicles collapsed in Germany following cuts in buyers鈥� premiums at the beginning of the year. Registrations for battery electric vehicles dropped about 83 percent ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann International G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire The G7 countries have to deliver a breakthrough in international climate policy that is commensurate with the urgency of protecting natural habitats in grave danger due to ...
The construction of wind power plants in the German state of Hesse could upset fans of Grimms' fairy tales as one of their stories鈥� favourite locations, the Reinhardswald, could become a wind farm location, G眉ven Purtul writes on Worldcrunch. While ...
19 May 2022, 12:07 Edgar Meza Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark have agreed to expand offshore wind power generation capacity in the North Sea tenfold to at least 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2050. The countries are also set to ...
09 May 2022, 14:15 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Heating Clean Energy Wire A large-scale switch to heat pumps, solar energy, and better demand-side management in the heating sector ...
02 Mar 2016
02 Mar 2016, 00:00 tageszeitung 鈥淪hort-sighted cap fans鈥� Despite fighting climate change being a national objective and renewables now the cheapest source of energy, leading conservative politicians want to use reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to ...
02 Aug 2022, 14:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Coal S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The decision by ...
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淢etal vs coal鈥� Unions are deeply split on the issue of the proposed coal levy, according to an article by Michael Bauchm眉ller in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Germany's聽 IG ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Transport S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Tagesspiegel German federal and state transport ministers have agreed to support the implementation of a nationwide 49-euro local public transport ticket but funding still needs to be ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire The German government has chartered a fifth floating import terminal (FSRU) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help the country wean itself off Russian pipeline gas and ensure supply security,聽 the ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Policy Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media A draft bill that would seal a deal to phase out biofuels derived from food or feed crops should be voted on by ministers 鈥渁s soon as possible鈥�, German environment ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Handelsblatt Edison The combined electricity generation of wind turbines (111 terawatt-hours (TWh)) and hydro power (17 TWh) in 2018 equalled the electricity consumption of all German households (estimated at ...
19 Sep 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cars Handelsblatt The boom of battery electric cars could face a significant hurdle next year as rising power prices and the end to state support could eat up cost advantages compared to combustion engine vehicles, ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:57 Jessica Bateman Wind Clean Energy Wire The German government鈥檚 ambitious offshore wind power expansion targets triggered a construction increase in the first half of 2022, although no turbines were built. According to a press release ...
10 Jan 2023, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany should be able to fill its gas storage units ahead of next winter, said the country鈥檚 gas storage operator association INES. 鈥淓ven with reduced LNG import volumes and a complete halt of ...
21 Jan 2019, 12:26 An internal working paper by the task force responsible for proposals to cut emissions from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport sector has stirred public controversy. Federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer, whose own ministry appointed the ...
27 Apr 2020, 14:17 Top politicians from Germany and more than 60 large companies have warned that the climate crisis must continue to be a top priority, even as the world economies grapple with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of this week鈥檚 ...
07 Apr 2022, 13:51 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean Energy Wire Letting existing nuclear plants run longer will lead to large amounts of renewable energy ...
02 Jan 2015
02 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt / dpa 鈥淪olar boom continues to ebb鈥� Germany built 1.95 gigawatts-worth of solar installations in 2014 鈥� 43 percent fewer than the year before, the Handelsblatt writes, reporting ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Heating RND The drastic gas price increase has pushed the sale of heating systems burning oil in Germany.聽"From the beginning of January to the end of July, twelve percent more oil heaters were delivered by ...
10 Aug 2022, 12:13 Hannah Naylor Cars Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire / electrive.net The local utilities Stadtwerke Speyer and Stadtwerke Schifferstadt are planning to investigate how to source lithium from below the Rhine River in western ...
A group of seven countries 鈥� comprising France, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Greece, Ireland and the UK 鈥� have issued a common position on the reform of Europe鈥檚 electricity market, saying 鈥渟trategic reserves鈥� for electricity should not receive favourable ...
An EU ministerial meeting dedicated to the consequences of the diesel scandal has been cancelled after German transport minister Andreas Scheuer said he would not be able to participate because of other appointments, reports Till Hoppe in the business ...
Environmental NGOs sandbag and Greenpeace have dubbed German utility RWE Europe's worst air polluter. 鈥淔our of the ten most toxic companies have their main coal plants in Germany:聽RWE, EPH, Uniper, and STEAG.聽This is no coincidence: Germany burns ...
16 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Spiegel Online 鈥淕rid Agency: About 350,000 households had their power cut off鈥� The number of power cut-offs in Germany rose by two percent to a new record in 2014, reports Spiegel Online. According ...
A pilot project in the city of Hamburg tests how container ship pollution in ports could be reduced by propelling them with electricity via mobile generators powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), reports the public broadcaster NDR.聽The LNG PowerPac, a ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
15 Jan 2015, 00:00 German trade unions are vocal stakeholders in the Energiewende, wary of job losses in the conventional energy sector and campaigning for labour rights in the growing renewables sector. Their importance is amplified by their traditional ...
29 Jun 2022, 13:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire / Reuters Germany will ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry and the operators of two of the country鈥檚 three remaining nuclear plants have agreed on a concept for keeping them in an emergency reserve beyond ...
13 May 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Heating Clean Energy Wire With the current legal framework for energy and climate policy, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 building sector climate target would be missed by a wide margin, said energy industry association BDEW in a report. The ...
13 May 2022, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire An alliance of environmental NGOs has called on parliamentarians to make significant changes to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned acceleration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects to ensure that the current ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Tagesschau / Frankfurter Rundschau Shareholders of Germany's Lufthansa have accepted the conditions of a multi-billion euro bailout which gives the government a stake in the company and 鈥� according ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut f眉r Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
For the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), a combustion engine ban is a no-go in coalition talks after the September elections, CSU head Horst Seehofer said in an interview with Funke Mediengruppe. It would 鈥渟trike at the roots of our prosperity,鈥� ...
28 Apr 2016
28 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淎 bird in the hand鈥� The proposed fund for nuclear storage costs is in breach of some fundamental principles, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an op ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire / ZDF Germany is facing severe gas supply shortages in the coming winter if it fails to introduce the right measures, according to scenarios mapped out by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The ...
14 Jun 2022, 13:02 Edgar Meza Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The German state of Bavaria and Scotland have signed an agreement aimed at the joint development of green hydrogen. The letter of intent expands cooperation on business and science. Bavarian ...
12 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Hydrogen DENEFF / PwC 鈥�10 percent turnover growth in the efficiency sector鈥� Companies in the business of supplying energy efficiency solutions grow much faster than the rest of the economy, ...
14 Sep 2015
14 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淓U casts doubt over lignite compromise鈥� The European Commission has doubts about whether the German government鈥檚 plan to put some old lignite power plants in a so-called capacity reserve is ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Germany announced an additional 84 million euros to support Pakistan as part of both countries鈥� climate partnership at an international conference, in the wake of ...
There is much detail work to be done until the UN Climate Change Conference will start in Polish Katowice on 2 December, said the German environment ministry after a preparatory meeting in Krak贸w. However, the will of governments to agree on a rulebook ...
01 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid Clean Energy Wire Transmission grid operator Amprion has announced that it will cut CO2 emissions in its operations by a minimum of 63 percent by 2032. ...
Experts commissioned by the German federal government at the diesel summit in 2017 agree that diesel vehicle hardware retrofitting is an effective measure to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. However, they are ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Government Handelsblatt / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung No agreement was reached at a meeting by the German government coalition leadership convened to settle disputes over climate protection and the construction of ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:56 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy Wire The hasty buildout of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 liquefied natural gas (LNG) import infrastructure is turning into a ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire The economy ministers of Germany and the Netherlands, Peter Altmaier and Eric Wiebes, have signed a joint declaration at the sidelines of joint cabinet consultations ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:56 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Total ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cities S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The Bavarian capital Munich has declared a 鈥渃limate emergency鈥�, joining more than 60 other German municipalities to have done so over the course of 2019, reports S眉ddeutsche ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:44 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Eastern German lignite company LEAG has accepted a loan of over five billion euros from ...
02 Jun 2022, 13:53 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel The planned structural transformation of the former East German states towards more sustainable industry 鈥� including renewable energy generation-- holds great potential but it ...
In an interview with RP Online鈥檚 Jan Drebes and Kristina Dunz, German environment minister Svenja Schulze calls for an increase in subsidies for electric delivery vans in an effort to boost electromobility and clean the air. Schulze said she was working ...
11 May 2017, 00:00 Once the flagship of German solar energy, PV panel manufacturer SolarWorld has filed for insolvency, in what founder Frank Asbeck called a 鈥渂itter step for the German solar industry鈥�. The company blamed plummeting prices caused by ...
06 May 2021, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / SZ / General-Anzeiger German media commentaries largely welcome the government鈥檚 agreement to increase the country鈥檚 climate targets, but caution that the goals must now be underpinned ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire The question of how to replace natural gas supply from Russia will play an 鈥渆normous role鈥� at upcoming leaders鈥� summits of the European Union, the G7 and NATO, said a German ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire While three quarters of German energy companies expect artificial ...
An increase in transport sector emissions drove up 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 total greenhouse gas emissions for the second time in a row in 2016, according to the the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). At 909.4 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent, emissions were 2.6 million ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:10 S枚ren Amelang Gas Bild am Sonntag 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 finance minister Christian Lindner has renewed his call for allowing the controversial fracking technology to increase gas supplies. 鈥淭he ban should be lifted,鈥� the head of the Free Democrats ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:24 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Clean ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Transport Clean Energy Wire Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the leaders of German state governments have agreed to each shoulder half of the costs for a nationwide 49-euro-per-month local public transport ticket next year, ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Bioenergy Clean Energy Wire Germany is betting on more biogas production in order to save natural gas with a view to possible shortages during the winter. The government will remove regulatory hurdles to an increase of ...
28 Sep 2018, 15:37 Germany's solar power industry used to be a leader of the renewable technology's global expansion but a series of political blunders has killed off solar power companies and passed the torch on to China, solar power researcher ...
15 Sep 2022, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire The number of cars in Germany has risen to a record high, illustrating the obstacles the country faces on the way to sustainable mobility. 鈥淐ar density has risen continuously in the past ten ...
13 Jul 2022, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Heating Government Clean Energy Wire German government ministries have launched a set of immediate action programmes that are to ensure emission reductions in the laggard buildings and transport sectors ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:44 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars FAZ / Der Spiegel German car industry supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is to discontinue development for combustion vehicles, CEO Wolf-Henning Scheider said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ...
Hardware retrofitting of older diesel cars would be 鈥渁n economic waste of tax money or carmakers鈥� money鈥�, writes Daniel Delhaes in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. The retrofits would take years, when driving bans are already being introduced, and the ...
05 Mar 2015
05 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt /McKinsey Germany 鈥淢cKinsey: Energiewende indices improve鈥� The McKinsey Energiewende Index, a bi-annually published analysis of how well Germany is achieving its energy transition targets, ...
25 Jul 2022, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German government will have to invest almost half a trillion euros to reach its 2045 climate neutral target, according to an analysis by consultancy Prognos for public development ...
The city of Berlin will double the support paid to entrepreneurs that decide to buy an electric car, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The so-called buyer鈥檚 premium for commercial vehicles will be raised from 4,000 euros, paid for by the federal ...
Daimler鈥檚 embroilment in the car emissions manipulation scandal shows that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important industry is still miles away from coming clean, writes Markus Balser in a commentary for the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung entitled 鈥淎 heavy blow for [Daimler CEO ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:03 Edgar Meza Cars Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading car rental company Sixt has announced plans to increase the share of its electric vehicles in its global fleet to between 70 and 90 percent by 2030. That share is expected to reach 12 ...
The European Commission had approved, in a February state aid ruling, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 security standby of lignite plants scheme, and said that future rules on the design of the EU electricity market would not influence this ruling. The Commission now says this ...
Two-thirds of employees in the German lignite sector are older than 45 years (2015 data), according to a report published by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰koinstitut) for the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Therefore, 63 percent of the employees ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt The share of newly registered battery electric cars has met the level of registrations of diesel cars in Germany聽for the first time in 2022, thanks to strong sales in anticipation of ...
25 Feb 2020, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Coal Energiewende dpa / Focus Online A major eastern German lignite (brown coal) mine is resuming operations this week, six months after work was halted by an environmental lawsuit,聽 newswire dpa reports in an article ...
07 Jan 2020, 11:30 Preview 2020: European climate diplomats are facing a busy 2020, and Germany looks set to play a key role as it holds the EU Council presidency in the second half of the year. After the UN climate conference in Madrid left many ...
26 Aug 2022, 12:56 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport Clean Energy Wire Coal and oil were the most important commodities shipped on German waterways, with almost 12 million tonnes each between January and May of this year, said statistical office Destatis. Coal ...
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche told the carmaker's shareholders investments in e-mobility will weigh on company results, reports the news agency dpa. 鈥淢ore electric cars are good for the CO鈧� footprint, but not so good for our corporate earnings 鈥� at ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government takes on a leadership role in international climate protection 鈥� a role fostered by the fact that the German population has overwhelmingly supported the transition to a greener economy, writes Ruby Russell in an article for ...
The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and WWF Germany have developed a new online platform that assesses the climate impact of financial regulations in Germany and the EU. The Finance Fit for Paris tracker reviews laws and current measures to ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Utilities Reuters / Clean Energy Wire RWE, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest power producer, reported a 20 percent increase in core profits in the first half of 2019, boosted by a stronger than expected performance at its energy ...
28 Oct 2015
28 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv dpa 鈥淲orkers鈥� representatives and politicians advocate German production of e-car batteries鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sole car battery producer, car manufacturer Daimler, will discontinue production this year, ...
The proposed goal by EU ministers to cut the average CO鈧� emissions of new passenger cars by 35 percent by 2030 is 鈥渘ot mature,鈥� the head of the metal industry union IG Metall J枚rg Hofmann told Alfons Frese in an interview with the Tagesspiegel. 鈥淚 can& ...
The problem with being in power for a long time is that it becomes possible to judge a politician by whether they fulfilled their promises, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an op-ed for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Angela Merkel in her 13 th year as chancellor is ...
10 Nov 2020, 13:47 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Renewables ...
03 May 2022, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany and India have signed a declaration of intent on a "Partnership for Green and Sustainable Development" which will include German support for reforestation in India ...
British鈥揇utch multinational oil and gas company Shell and ITM Power will build the world鈥檚 largest hydrogen electrolysis plant at Shell's Rhineland refinery in Germany, the companies announced in a press release. With a peak capacity of 10 megawatts, ...
China's e-car quota means electric mobility is the propulsion system of the future, writes Christoph Giesen in a commentary in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭he debate is over. Discussions about fuel cells, which are still taking place in Germany, will ...
BMW head Harald Kr眉ger has rejected VW CEO Matthias M眉ller鈥檚 call to end the privileged tax treatment of diesel cars, reports Handelsblatt. 鈥淚 think abandoning the diesel subsidies is wrong. This is not justifiable for the customers that have bought a ...
VW is responsible for one of the largest industrial frauds in the post-war period and still tries to profit from it, writes Angelika Slavik in a commentary in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The carmaker is offering up to 10,000 euros for the trade-in of an old ...
01 Oct 2019, 17:30 Germany is set to reach its goal of doubling contributions to international climate finance to four billion euros annually by 2020 compared to 2014 figures. A gap had become clear earlier this year, but a budget draft states that this ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas n-tv Power production with natural gas increased in Germany in May and July despite political pledges to minimise the fossil fuel鈥檚 use amid the supply crunch caused by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, news ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Welt am Sonntag The German government is considering setting up a company with state participation to oversee the establishment of a national hydrogen network as part of the country鈥檚 move to climate neutrality ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:03 The influential German industry association BDI wants the country to opt for the lower end of its 2050 climate ambitions. The lobby group says a 95 percent reduction in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is currently聽 鈥渢otally ...
Three years after the uncovery the diesel scandal, transport minister Andreas Scheuer is pushing carmakers to more rapidly advance the transition to electric mobility, according to a dpa article carried by Berliner Morgenpost. At the 鈥� diesel summit 鈥� ...
14 Jul 2022, 13:15 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Transport Heating Clean Energy Wire The government action programmes for bringing the high-emitting transport and buildings sectors back on their emission reduction trajectories, has been criticised for ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:17 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Solar Technology Clean Energy Wire New textile-based solar cells woven into truck tarps could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling systems or other onboard equipment, writes Fraunhofer Institute for ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire Undertaking a climate friendly refurbishment of an average one-family home, including the installation of a heat pump, solar panels and insulation measures, will cost about 49,000 ...
11 May 2022, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
28 Apr 2016, 00:00 The German government has decided to spend one billion euros to boost e-mobility, with the car industry contributing another 600 million euros. Starting in mid-May, buyers of pure e-cars will receive a premium of 4,000 euros, among ...
28 Mar 2022, 18:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy Wire The international community must not lose sight of major issues such as climate change despite the new situation Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine has brought, said German ...
28 Mar 2022, 13:18 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
26 Jun 2020, 12:15 S枚ren Amelang Cars WirtschaftsWoche German car industry association VDA will launch a working group to look into the sustainability of plug-in hybrid cars because these are often driven in combustion engine mode rather than using the ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire More than half of all newly registered trucks in Europe, the US and China will be electric by 2035, according to a new study by McKinsey & Company presented at this year鈥檚 German car show ...
On 31 December, Germany will close the Gundremmingen B nuclear reactor in Bavaria, leaving the country with seven reactors to be shut down by the scheduled end-2022 nuclear exit, writes Craig Morris in an article for Energytransition.org. Morris retraces ...
12 Feb 2015
12 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Windmesse/Handelsblatt 鈥淕E and Deutsche Telekom join forces for energy transition鈥� US industrial conglomerate General Electric and Deutsche Telekom will cooperate to offer new solutions for smart ...
This summer's heatwave show that Germany must exit coal quickly, according to Greenpeace. The NGO said 10 of their activists ascended a glacier on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 highest mountain, the Zugspitze, to unfold a banner saying 鈥淪ummer 2018: heat, drought, ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the government emphasised plans to speed up renewables expansion as a ...
The term 鈥渏ust transition鈥� was used at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue to mean limiting the economic consequences of decarbonisation in regions of industrial countries 鈥� a reasonable demand, Bernhard P枚tter writes in an opinion piece for tageszeitung (taz ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:16 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Bloomberg NEF Germany ranks fifth in Bloomberg鈥檚 2018 global renewable investment report. China remains the leader with total investments of 100.1 billion dollars, followed by the US (64.2 billion), Japan (27.2 ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:00 Jessica Bateman Gas Security Zeit / Tagesspiegel / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 opinion writers have weighed in on the government鈥檚 liquid natural gas (LNG) deal with Qatar, concluding that the country has little choice but to accept an ...
19 Jul 2022, 14:23 Hannah Naylor Gas Hydrogen General Anzeiger Egypt鈥檚 president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged to assist 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 move towards independence from Russia by supplying natural gas and agreed on a green hydrogen partnership during a meeting ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating Clean Energy Wire A local utility in southern Germany city Mannheim is building one of Europe鈥檚 largest heat pumps in a trial project attempting to use energy from the Rhine River for heating. The ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ZDF The cold snap that has gripped large parts ...
18 Jun 2019, 08:43 Germany will join a growing group of EU countries to support the pledge to aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, increasing the likelihood EU leaders will agree to the goal at a meeting this week (20-21 June), several media outlets report. ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:30 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ...
03 Mar 2022, 12:46 Edgar Meza Technology Clean Energy Wire While Germany remains a leading source for environmental technology patents 鈥� currently holding a 13 percent global share 鈥� its growth rates in the area are clearly lagging behind in an ...
The number of cars and trailers in Germany has risen by 1.1 million in 2017 to a total of 63.7 million, the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) says in a press release. The most used brand is VW with 21.5 percent, followed by Opel (9.8 percent) and ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is expected to adopt a regulation on 13 July that would allow operators of certain hard coal plants to temporarily reactivate their units to help ...
25 May 2022, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Wind Tagesspiegel Background Bidders offering to implement offshore wind power projects with the lowest CO2 footpring聽 could have an advantage in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future renewable power auctions that determine who gets to install ...
17 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淐an E.ON survive alone?鈥� Writing for WitschaftsWoche, Christof Sch眉rmann says there are doubts over whether the new E.ON, which will split from its fossil-fuel business in a few weeks, will be ...
15 Nov 2018
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government cabinet has decided on an amendment of the federal imissions law to prevent diesel driving bans in cities where nitrogen oxide limits are exceeded by 25 percent (50 micrograms NO 2 per cubic meter air instead of 40 micrograms). Under ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Clean Energy Wire / ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:52 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables Clean Energy Wire German energy consumption has decreased three percent in the first three months of 2019, ...
23 May 2022, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Gas International Tagesspiegel Background The EU鈥檚 and, in particular, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 urgent drive to replace Russian gas imports has revived controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Canada, to the dismay of ...
1.5 million households in Germany owned an electric bicycle at the beginning of 2015, reports Germany's statistics agency Destatis. In total, the number of electric bicycles was 2 million. Read the press release in German here. ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:30 Industrialised countries are taking pains to convince developing nations at the 13th Petersberg Climate Dialogue that they will live up to their emission reduction and climate finance commitments despite the fallout from the Russian war ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:06 Edgar Meza Heating Clean Energy Wire German heating company Stiebel Eltron expects to produce a record 80,000 heat pumps by the end of the year, a 60 percent increase over 2021 amid booming demand for environmentally-friendly and ...
The debate between politicians and scientists in one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most popular political talk shows 鈥� Anne Will 鈥� makes clear that this year鈥檚 heat wave and resulting draught is unlikely to fundamentally change 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy, writes Joachim ...
02 Mar 2022, 12:15 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Heating Clean Energy Wire In view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the security of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply, the Wuppertal Institute sustainability research think tank is calling for increased ...
Each federal ministry must come up with a plan to help achieve the country鈥檚 2030 climate goals by the end of 2018, Environment Minister Svenja Schulze writes in a guest article for Tagesspiegel Background. The federal government鈥檚 climate protection law, ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 Dieselgate, looming driving bans in German cities, an election debate on phasing out combustion engines, and the rapid ascent of e-car rival Tesla 鈥� this year鈥檚 Frankfurt car show (IAA) comes at an awkward time for German carmakers. The ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Government dpa / Der Spiegel 叠补惫补谤颈补鈥檚 ruling conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party has accused the German grid agency (BNetzA) of actively discriminating certain regions of the country in the gas supply ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:01 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende S枚ren Amelang Heating Cities Clean Energy Wire Two thirds of new residential buildings completed in 2018 in Germany are heated with renewable energies. ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) plans to streamline planning and approval procedures for faster construction of wind turbines, rail projects and even houses, newspaper Handelsblatt聽 reports. The ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:33 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Government Clean Energy ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire Governments across the globe must use the 2020s to establish methods to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide removals 鈥� CDR) to ensure that Paris Climate Agreement targets can ...
The world's first hydrogen fuel cell train has started commercial operation on 17 September in the German state of Lower Saxony, French rail group Alstom announced in a statement. The Coradia iLint, built by Alstom in Salzgitter, Germany, is equipped ...
03 Jun 2019, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean ...
France, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany announced at the One Planet Summit in Paris on Tuesday that they would 鈥渆xamine or introduce鈥� an effective CO 2 price in "relevant sectors," according to a 聽press release from the German ...
Unemployment benefits in Germany are insufficient to cover average power costs, price comparison website Check 24 says in a press release. People receiving Germany's 鈥淗artzIV鈥� benefits pay on average 158 euros more for electricity than budgeted for ...
16 May 2022, 13:07 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire Foreign ministers of the seven leading western industrialised states (G7) have committed to supporting emerging and developing countries in their endeavour to transition towards climate ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Wind Clean Energy Wire The number of construction permits issued for new onshore wind turbines in the first three months of 2022 fell 14 percent compared to the same period last year, wind energy industry association ...
29 May 2019, 12:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post / n-tv The German conservative party CDU has said it will work on a reform of the country鈥檚 system of taxes and levies on energy to better align ...
29 May 2019, 12:13 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Tagesspiegel Background / BDEW ...
15 May 2020, 14:21 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport Der Spiegel Largely due to the coronavirus crisis, German railway service Deutsche Bahn (DB) has an 11-billion-euro hole in its budget, ...
28 Mar 2022, 12:50 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire Heating costs for a single-family house using a heat pump are considerably lower this winter than in homes using natural gas heating systems. The electricity costs for heat ...
19 May 2015
19 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Bloomberg / Handelsblatt 鈥淕ermany, France Seek Curb on Fossil Fuel Pollution This Century鈥� To control the risks of climate change, Germany and France want to almost completely forego the use of ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Olaf Scholz has assured the country鈥檚 eastern states that they will receive support in dealing with the fallout of an embargo on Russian oil supplies. ...
15 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淏uyer鈥檚 premium for e-cars still cannot be applied for鈥� Customers still cannot apply for a buyer鈥檚 premium for new e-cars after the ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid dpa / Die Welt Around 2,200 people in the states of ...
German auto supplier Bosch has every right to be proud of its improved diesel technology, which it says leads to far less nitrogen oxide emissions, but economic success depends on the reputation of diesel as a whole, writes Susanne Preu脽 in an opinion ...
The German capital Berlin could be one of the next cities to introduce driving bans for older diesel cars, public broadcaster rbb reports. According to documents by the Berlin Senate, the bans the would affect 200,000 vehicles 聽are 鈥渋nevitable鈥� and could ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Tagesspiegel Background EU member states are behind schedule with bilateral agreements on how to help each other out in case of severe gas disruptions in the bloc, reports Steven Hanke for Tagesspiegel Background ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:00 Jessica Bateman Agriculture International The German economic cooperation ministry (BMZ) has announced plans for a climate and development partnership with the C么te d鈥橧voire. This will involve restoring five million hectares of tropical ...
17 May 2019, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende NABU / Wuppertal Institute It is possible to reduce 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 100 percent by 2050 while at the same time maintaining a high level of nature ...
The rise in the price of carbon emissions, coal, and gas means that new onshore wind and solar can compete with the short term-costs of generating electricity from existing hard coal and gas plants for the first time, writes Dave Jones in an analysis for ...
23 Jan 2015
23 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt / sh:z 鈥濼he North focuses on wind power鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northern state of Schleswig-Holstein wants to increase its share of renewables in the power mix and for heating and wants to lower energy ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:37 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Deutsche Welle Urging the German chancellor to declare a climate emergency, campaigners from the global Extinction Rebellion movement chained themselves to the fence of Angela Merkel鈥� chancellery in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport minister Andreas Scheuer quizzed Daimler chief executive Dieter Zetsche over the extend of possible emissions-cheating software in the company鈥檚 models, write Franz Hubik and Brian Hanrahan in Handelsblatt Global. The talks came after ...
14 May 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Energiewende The rapid expansion of renewable power sources in Germany has not been matched by a parallel drop in carbon emissions and energy research experts of聽 science academy ESYS say 聽that there ...
US carmaker Tesla has outstripped 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 premium carmakers in sales of luxury cars in Europe for the first time, Nick Gibbs writes in Automotive News Europe. 鈥淭esla's Model S outsold the luxury flagships of Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi,鈥� Gibbs ...
10 May 2019, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Energy company BayWa Re says it will build 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first large-scale solar power installation to be operated outside the system of state-mandated incentives. The company says ...
09 May 2019, 14:06 S枚ren Amelang Gas Storage Technology Forbes 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 share of renewable energy continues to rise but the capacity of the national grid is constrained, putting a spotlight on power-to-x technologies to store the renewable energy, ...
18 Nov 2022, 14:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy Wire A major gas shortage in Germany during the coming winter has become 鈥渉ighly unlikely,鈥� the country鈥檚 gas storage operator association INES has said. In a review of supply scenarios for ...
03 May 2022, 12:30 Edgar Meza Efficiency Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Viessmann Group, has said it plans to invest 1 billion euros in the next three years to expand its heat pump and green climate product portfolio and broaden its manufacturing footprint ...
06 Jan 2016
06 Jan 2016, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Rheinische Post 鈥淕rand coalition plans buyers鈥� incentives for electric cars鈥� The German government plans to introduce new incentives for e-cars, transport minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Rheinische Post. 鈥淎 ...
The German government has postponed a decision on the hardware retrofitting of manipulated diesel cars, saying it plans to come to a conclusion by the end of the last week of September, the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung reports. 鈥淲e want to make a decision soon,鈥� ...
27 Apr 2015, 00:00 The environment ministry has rebuffed utilities鈥� criticism of the planned levy for coal-fired power plants and maintains the sector shoulder its share of cutting CO2 emissions. Government and researchers stress the need for efficiency ...
12 May 2022, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Society G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire / Die Zeit Several major environmental groups have urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to step up the country鈥檚 climate action efforts and make the topic a priority of the G7 ...
German utility RWE is considering selling its majority stake in Hungary's second biggest power plant and related lignite mines, as the German utility reviews its struggling generation assets across Europe, report Tom K盲ckenhoff and Krisztina Than for ...
06 Jun 2016
06 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Tagesspiegel 鈥�80 percent renewables are not a problem鈥� There is much more flexibility in the German power grid to cope with renewables development than currently needed, said Boris ...
05 Aug 2022, 13:53 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry lobby groups in Germany have called on environment ...
As the European Union is preparing to introduce new rules that will limit CO 2 emissions from cars and vans between 2021 and 2030, environment minister Svenja Schulze has called for these limits to be strict. 鈥淭he transport sector is our problem child,鈥� ...
25 Jul 2022, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Gas Bild / Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post The German government is considering financial aid to protect households that can鈥檛 afford rising gas bills, reports tabloid Bild. Coalition sources told the paper that ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:40 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Energy Wire / manager magazin The Federation of German ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:48 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Society Germany hit its highest temperature ever on July 24, when the town of Geilenkirchen in the state North Rhine-Westphalia recorded 40.5 degrees Celsius, yet the record may stand of only one day as ...
23 May 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to try and convince 鈥渄oubters鈥� of the urgent need to mitigate climate change. But environmental organisations said her credibility as 鈥淐limate Chancellor鈥� was severely damaged because Germany had ...
15 Dec 2022, 14:03 Julian Wettengel Gas Government Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry expects a significant import overcapacity if all planned floating and fixed onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals are implemented as planned, reports Table ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The German government is setting up two new funds with a total of 550 million euros to support the development of the global hydrogen economy through cooperation, especially with emerging and ...
The natural gas network plan for 2018 to 2028 will include plans for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first national liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) said in a press release. BNetzA said supply security was a 鈥減riority鈥� in the agency鈥檚 ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / WirtschaftsWoche / Welt / Frankfurter Rundschau German media have praised the EU Council鈥檚 decision to raise the bloc's 2030 climate target as a success for the country鈥檚 ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities Clean Energy Wire Energy company聽 RWE plans to build an ammonia terminal 聽at the site of the planned import harbour for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the northern German city of Brunsb眉ttel to ...
Germany plans to split the common power price zone with its neighbour Austria in July 2018, according to a press release by the federal economy ministry (BMWi). This did not mean a split of the countries' power markets, said state secretary Rainer ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
13 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Night storage heating has comeback thanks to the Energiewende Night storage heating, ovens that take up power at night when there used to be an over-supply of cheap power and ...
French car company PSA Group has agreed to buy Opel and its British Vauxhall brand from General Motors in a deal valuing the business at 2.2 billion euros, OPEL announced in a press release. 鈥淏y acquiring Opel, the French group leapfrogs rival Renault to ...
14 Jun 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 Science ministers of the G7 countries have agreed on a number of measures to promote greater climate change research, CO2 removal and protection of the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus. A meeting in Frankfurt on ...
23 Jun 2022, 13:05 Edgar Meza Policy EU Euronews, Clean Energy Wire The European Parliament鈥檚 approval on 23 June of a draft law overhauling the bloc鈥檚 emissions trading system (EU ETS) has been met with widespread criticism from industry and ...
09 Apr 2019, 13:29 The speed of energy transition innovations led by start-ups around the world continues to exceed expectations and is our biggest hope in the fight against climate change, according to Christoph Frei, secretary general and CEO of the ...
30 Mar 2022, 12:05 Edgar Meza Heating Clean Energy Wire The electrification of the heating sector could be a key component in making Europe become less dependent on Russian gas, according to an internal report by S&P Global Commodity Insights. The ...
Two-thirds of Germans say that the commitment by the government to get past the diesel scandal was bad or very bad, according to a survey conducted by pollster Kantar Emnid, and commissioned by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv). Sixty ...
Back in 2016, the German Federal Ministry of Transport (BMVI) pushed for a legal provision blocking environmental organisations from taking legal action against the model approval and sale of diesel cars with high emissions, according to a letter obtained ...
04 Jun 2015, 00:00 G7 countries hope to present their vision of a long-term target for climate protection at their upcoming summit in Germany, according to a German official. Industrialised nations could also make pledges to decarbonise their economies, ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:50 German industry, politicians and environmental NGOs have criticised first details of the European Commission proposal for a more ambitious 2030 climate target. Plans for more stringent passenger car emission rules and the inclusion of ...
Driving restrictions for cars that aim to cut down on air pollution in certain areas are permissible, a German court has ruled, according to a Reuters report. "Safeguarding health is more important than the right to property and the general liberty ...
05 Jun 2019, 12:33 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned coal exit in 2038 may have hardly any effect- and ...
Mercedes-Benz plans to invest 1 billion dollars in making electric vehicles in the US state of Alabama, reports Nathan Bomey in USA Today. The investment will go both聽to an expansion of the German luxury brand's existing plant near Tuscaloosa and to ...
One of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most famous children鈥檚 TV characters weighed in on the car emissions debate, swapping its combustion engine car for a bicycle in a video posted on Twitter. German public broadcaster WDR posted the video which shows the animated mouse from ...
German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's (KIT) spin-off company INERATEC has developed a compact power-to-liquid plant鈥檚 chemical reactor that converts hydrogen produced from solar power together with carbon dioxide into liquid fuels, writes KIT in ...
07 May 2019, 13:30 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Financial Times Operating profits at German carmaker BMW plunged 78 percent in the first quarter of 2019 after the German carmaker was ...
Berlin start-up ubitricity, which upgrades existing street lights to electric car charging stations, has won New York鈥檚 Local Climate Action Tech Competition. Ubitricity鈥檚 technology could be instrumental in helping New York achieve its climate action ...
The planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 鈥渋s a raw example of how Berlin captures the EU machinery,鈥� writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in an article for The Telegraph. 鈥淏russels set aside EU law on Nord Stream, yet enforced it on ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Policy Clean ...
14 Jul 2022, 12:22 Kerstine Appunn Jessica Bateman Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire German company Novocarbo has announced it is building and implementing the country鈥檚 first network of "carbon removal parks". In a press release, the Hamburg ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Several NGOs have rejected a proposal by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) to reduce the price for petrol that skyrocketed in ...
23 Apr 2015
23 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv ZDF heute.de 鈥淐limate levy on coal: Gabriel puts his foot down鈥� With pressure and criticism from coalition partner CDU-CSU increasing, Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has defended his ...
20 May 2022, 13:44 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Energiewende International World Economic Forum The global energy transition has stalled, partly because of the continued use of coal power worldwide and slower-than-necessary improvements in energy intensity, according ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:20 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Engine manufacturer and Volkswagen (VW) subsidiary MAN Energy Solutions shows a firm commitment to sustainable hydrogen ...
The Munich Security Conference included climate change and emissions pollution as some of the biggest issues for international security in its 2018 report. 鈥淚n the end, few experts doubt the long-term effects a changing climate will have on international ...
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Chemicals industry and energy minister sign joint statement on energy and climate policy. Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BMWi- ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ICIS / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background German chemicals producer Wacker has complained that rising energy prices caused by the progressing phase-out ...
26 Sep 2018, 13:53 The German Football Association (DFB) has included a sustainability concept in its bid to host the 2024 European Football Championship. While the plan lacks concrete goals for action, awarding the tournament to Germany could obligate ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Security Tagesspiegel Background The parallel construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline and a sea terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reduce 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 dependence on individual ...
Car giant Volkswagen has been fined one billion euros by German prosecutors over diesel emissions cheating, reports the BBC. The carmaker said it did not plan to appeal the fine, which is one of the highest ever imposed by German authorities on a company, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel expects China to relax its new rules on electric cars, reports Deutsche Welle. The talks on softening the ambitious e-car quota were "on the right track," Gabriel said during a visit in Beijing. The ...
The German car industry continues to lobby hard to soften EU emission limits, but its foot-dragging in the shift to electric mobility has alienated EU policymakers, writes Silke Wettach in the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. The carmakers want to ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Energiewende International Clean Technica The negative view of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition that includes a phase-out of nuclear power held by many US observers is unwarranted and should be ...
Plans to open a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein could weaken arguments about the country's dependence on Russian gas- a key criticism of US President Donald Trump, Klaus Stratmann writes in the ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:22 Edgar Meza Coal Utilities ARD, Rheinische Post RWE, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy company, has halted early retirement of employees in reaction to the government鈥檚 decision to increase the use of coal-fired power while gas supplies are low, ...
29 Jul 2022, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Reuters / dpa / ARD / Tagesspiegel Background Germany will introduce a levy consumers would pay with their gas bills from 1 October to help importing companies pass on rising costs for the fuel, ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Security Handelsblatt Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will cooperate on an accelerated energy transition to meet their climate neutrality targets, the UAE鈥檚 Minister of Foreign Affairs and International ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Tagesspiegel In order to achieve the best possible climate action in ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:44 Edgar Meza Technology Tagesspiegel Background The German government鈥檚 recently published聽draft amendment to the country鈥檚 battery law聽aimed at improving battery recycling in the country does not go far enough for waste management ...
Carmakers' plans to set up a brand-independent e-vehicle charging network along Europe鈥檚 long-distance routes is not only smart but necessary, writes Martin Gropp in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淭hose who move in the premium ...
08 Apr 2015
08 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv 聽Handelsblatt 鈥淐ommunal utilities sound the alarm鈥� Low electricity prices at the power exchange and the dominance of renewable energies mean many communal utilities are now unprofitable, according ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:43 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels International Clean Energy Wire A majority of ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / n-tv online Halting coal mining at the embattled Hambach Forest would cost operator RWE 聽more than a billion euros, the company said in an article by news agency dpa carried by website n-tv online. ...
The outcome of the general election in Germany will not substantially influence the country鈥檚 relations with the United States, as Angela Merkel is likely to remain chancellor, says Elmar Brok, Christian Democrat member of the European Parliament in an ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport ministry aims to spend an additional 250 million euros until 2019 to kick-start the market for hydrogen and fuel cells in the transport sector. Fuel cell vehicles in public transport and company fleets are the focus of the new ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Technology Clean Energy Wire An international research project aims to assess the potential of geothermal energy as a replacement for coal-powered heating in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 western state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). ...
The share of diesel cars in total new passenger car registrations in Germany fell to 38.8 percent in 2017, (from 45.9 percent in 2016), the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) says in a press release. The share of petrol cars increased to 57.7 percent ...
The decision to lay 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned major high-voltage power transmission lines S眉dLink and S眉dOstLink predominantly below ground has done little to calm resistance to both projects, writes Laura Cwiertnia for Zeit Online. Farmers worry that their soil ...
26 Oct 2022, 13:34 Jessica Bateman Mobility Clean Energy Wire A new report has found that shared e-mobility options, such as e-scooters and e-bikes, can help reduce overall transport emissions in cities. Researchers from institute Fraunhofer ISI analysed ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Rheinische Post The leader of the conservative CDU party鈥檚 parliamentary group, Ralph Brinkhaus, has called for 鈥渉undreds of billions of euros鈥� to be invested in climate action over the next ...
The pivotal mistake by the auto industry was not diesel technology itself, but holding on to it for too long, writes Grischa Brower-Rabinowitsch in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. German carmakers had not focused on new propulsion technologies early ...
18 May 2022, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Clean Energy Wire / FAZ There will be no fixed shutdown sequence with regard to individual consumers or sectors in case of a stop or stark reduction of gas supply from Russia, the Federal Network Agency ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Clean Energy Wire / Bloomberg The embargo on Russian coal agreed by the EU will be 鈥渢emporarily unpleasant but tolerable鈥� for the German economy, Karen Pittel from the Institute for Economic Research (ifo ...
The apparent preparation of clearing operations in the Hambach Forest is a sad event for many environmentalists who have hoped to preserve the old trees for years, but they should keep their focus on making progress in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, ...
Closely monitored regulations on the car industry should be implemented on an EU level, as this is 鈥渁pparently difficult鈥� within Germany, Martin Unfried writes in an opinion piece for tageszeitung (taz). Unfried says the German government is too cosy with ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire Increased digitalisation in the energy sector can offer significant but limited opportunities to save greenhouse gases, according to a new report by the Institute for Ecological Economic ...
The German constitutional court's intricate judgement聽on the country鈥檚 accelerated nuclear exit has caused confusion at the stock exchange, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt for taz. Although nuclear plant operators were granted 鈥渁dequate鈥� compensation by the ...
The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) together with auto club ADAC will file a class action lawsuit against Volkswagen for 鈥渋ntentionally and immorally causing harm to and betraying customers with software manipulation鈥� to obfuscate its ...
15 Feb 2019, 13:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv ...
20 Jul 2022, 12:58 S枚ren Amelang Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany will use a fifth floating liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal in its drive to wean itself off Russian gas imports at a pace 鈥渘ever seen before鈥� in the country. A private consortium will ...
05 Jan 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Carbon market Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German government raked in a record 12.5 billion euros from European and national emissions trading programmes in 2021, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reported. ...
15 Feb 2019, 11:34 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Electricity market Gas Grid Tennet / Gasunie Gas and electricity grid infrastructures need to be much better aligned to guarantee the ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 Deutschlandfunk Exceptionally low power production from coal plants in the first half of 2019 shows that price signals are an effective way to protect the climate, Theo Geers writes in an opinion ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 [CORRECTION, due to mistake in transcription: in reply to 4th question, diesel cars have "always been allowed to emit more NOx than petrol cars", not CO2] On 2 August, the CEOs of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major car manufacturers will meet ...
Leading carmakers' plans to set up a European e-vehicle fast-charging network show the amount of pressure on the car industry, Peter Fahrenholz says in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not only spectacular on a technological level. ...
German port industries and state politicians call for removing the cap on offshore wind power expansion, Jan Peter Naumann writes in DVZ 鈥� Deutsche Logistik-Zeitung. The current expansion corridor of 15 gigawatt (GW) by 2030 had to be expanded to 30GW by ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas International Security Rheinische Post The Russian-German Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a 鈥渨in-win鈥� project that will benefit both Europe and Russia, Moscow鈥檚 ambassador in Germany, Sergey ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:31 Edgar Meza Transport Clean Energy Wire German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun to electrify rail lines in the north of the country with an innovative new electrical infrastructure that will charge battery-powered trains and ...
Germany can take the most climate-damaging coal power stations off the grid by 2020 while also accelerating its nuclear exit without putting supply security at risk, according to an analysis by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In a detailed 鈥渟hutdown ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Efficiency Rheinische Post Heating energy consumption in buildings of the German government has been increasing in recent years, rising from 111 kilowatt hours (kWh) per square metre in 2015 to ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Finance Handelsblatt The end of coal-fired power production comes with profound implications for German energy companies who have banked on the fossil fuel so far, but analysts say buying ...
German car maker BMW has rebutted accusations by environmental organisation Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) that it manipulated diesel cars to have lower emissions under lab test conditions than in real life use. Klaus Fr枚hlich,聽Member of the Board of ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy The German Green Party is calling for a radical overhaul of the country鈥檚 forests to better protect the natural landscape from extreme heat and drought, news agency dpa reports in an article ...
02 May 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels International Security Clean Energy Wire Germany has said it will support an embargo on Russian oil imports if the EU member states agree on it. Foreign minister Annalena Baerbock has聽 confirmed 聽that ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:10 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Der Spiegel If the asset swap of energy companies and utilities RWE and E.ON goes ahead as planned, the resulting company would have 鈥渦nprecedented market power鈥�, Ines ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire Digitalisation is key for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but progress remains slow, says the report by consultancy EY commissioned by the economy and ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Energiewende Wall Street Journal Germany is set to have the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 dumbest energy policy鈥� after the coal exit commission recommended to end coal-fired power generation by 2038, writes the ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-party government coalition is pressing ahead with plans to quickly end the support to renewable energy operators directly via consumers鈥� power ...
Environmental NGO WWF Germany is calling on the G20 finance ministers to show a clear commitment to climate protection at the upcoming meeting in Washington, DC., after they聽 made no mention of the issue in the communiqu茅 that followed their last meeting. ...
A capacity market in Germany could cost two billion euros annually, RWE鈥檚 new CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said in an interview with Rheinische Post. 鈥淭wo billion euros is not a lot considering that the power consumer receives supply security for all those ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Coal RP Online The German state is not liable to compensate coal plant operators over the coal phase out, Birgit Marschall says in an article for RP Online. The federal parliament鈥檚 research service concludes that while ...
27 May 2021, 14:00 As climate protection has become a mainstream issue in German politics, taking up centre-stage in the election programmes of most parties, youth climate activists are broadening the scope of their activism. The Fridays for Future school ...
22 Jan 2019, 17:31 Germany and France have signed an update to their landmark 1963 post-war 脡lys茅e friendship treaty, showcasing their commitment to European cooperation in the face of Brexit and growing nationalism in several member states. The treaty ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Clean Energy Wire European imports ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:30 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:21 Hannah Naylor Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 foreign minister has reassured small island states that suffer the most from climate change that Germany will deliver on its climate financing promises and indicated support in ...
"Designing the world's future" was the topic of this year鈥檚 Youth20 Dialogue Forum in Hamburg, where young people from more than 20 countries met to discuss global issues including climate change. The forum presented recommendations to ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Coal Handelsblatt Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has come out against ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her proposal to adapt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 emissions law to prevent diesel driving bans in cities where nitrogen oxide limits are only slightly exceeded. In an interview with public broadcaster hr-iNFO, Merkel said this ...
While it is unfortunate that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Administrative Court has postponed a ruling on diesel driving bans aimed at cutting air pollution in cities, the court case has already been a 鈥渟lap in the government鈥檚 face,鈥� according to German transport ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU Clean Energy Wire The energy and economy minister of the southern German state Bavaria, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), has called on the federal government to remove bureaucratic hurdles at the EU level that ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:34 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Efficiency Security Tagesspiegel More than 58,000 people in Germany have signed a petition submitted to the German Bundestag demanding a national speed limit, car-free Sundays and a ban on domestic flights to ...
German utility RWE said the planned initial public offering (IPO) of shares in its renewables, retail and network unit Innogy would also include some of the parent's existing shares, reports Reuters. It added that the exact number of shares to be ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The government approved what it claims to be the largest climate action package in the country鈥檚 history. Most observers applauded the commitment to emissions reduction goals by 2020. But environmentalists criticised the lack of a ...
The electric utility of Frankfurt an der Oder, a city located on the German-Polish border and not to be confused with Germany's banking capital Frankfurt am Main, has joined its Cottbus counterpart and decided to replace its coal-fired cogeneration ...
The EU General Court's approval of anti-dumping measures for imports of solar panels from China is a pyrrhic victory for Europeans, because the duties simply increase consumer prices, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche ...
The German car industry has high hopes for synthetic fuels, but their plans could backfire in light of global efforts to electrify transport, writes Jens Tartler in Tagesspiegel. Synthetic fuels, produced with the help of renewable electricity, could be ...
Battery manufacturers say so-called gigafactories for battery production won't be economically viable in Europe for years, Daniel Wetzel writes for聽Die Welt. The car industry must first agree on a standard, Christian Riedel, spokesperson of Johnson ...
22 Nov 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Finance Clean Energy Wire Achieving a climate-friendly transition in the automotive sector will require better information disclosure by carmakers to make the sector fit for investments from financial actors ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Efficiency Clean Energy Wire German companies鈥� recent spending on energy efficiency and their plans for efficiency investments are higher than ever before,聽 according to a survey conducted by ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Cities rbb / Clean Energy Wire The city of Berlin will launch a 鈥渉eat aid鈥� programme for homeless people that is aimed at assisting those in need of cooling and hydration during increasingly hot ...
24 Oct 2016, 00:00 Plans for a new climate department in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport ministry could signal the issue will receive greater policy attention after years of neglect by the ministry, according to activists. But they also warn a new department alone is ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Efficiency Die Welt Increasing efficiency is crucial for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but there has been little progress on the issue, which is strongly neglected in comparison to ...
The leaders of the G7 must fully commit to climate protection and the implementation of the Paris Agreement, and industry 鈥渘eeds more than a minimum consensus鈥�, said Dieter Kempf, president of Federation of German Industries (BDI), in a press release. 鈥淣o ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:20 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry EU Clean Energy Wire Despite high CO2 prices, emissions from coal-fired power stations in Germany have nearly reached pre-pandemic levels, according to a report published by the German Emissions ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Politics WirtschaftsWoche 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has disappointed many observers with 聽what they consider an 鈥渆rratic and sluggish鈥� administration of his department, ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen EU Tagesspiegel Background Europe and Africa should intensify their cooperation on renewables like wind and solar as well as green hydrogen production, which would have benefits for both sides, ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:03 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Bloomberg Volkswagen is setting up its own charging and electricity unit in a bid to make the German manufacturer鈥檚 upcoming battery-powered cars more attractive to buyers,聽 reports Oliver ...
Writing for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jasper von Altenbockum says the prospective government has made unexpectedly short work of climate protection policy. Where the CDU/CSU, FDP and Greens haggled over fossil fuels for weeks, the conservatives and ...
Power plants of the mining and manufacturing sectors produced 10.4 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gross electricity in 2015, with 50 terawatt hours (TWh), reports Germany's statistics agency Destatis. Most power of the industrial plants is used for self ...
06 Jul 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Tagesspiegel Background The reactivation of mothballed coal plants in Germany- in response to the energy crisis fuelled by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine- could include old lignite-fired power stations which do ...
Major German share placements this week include Uniper, E.ON鈥檚 conventional power spin-off, and Innogy, RWE鈥檚 green subsidiary. Each is worth billions, the report says. Analysts estimate Uniper's market value at 5 billion euros, Handelsblatt Global ...
09 Apr 2019, 12:44 Kerstine Appunn Transport Cars Tagesspiegel German transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) doesn鈥檛 want a decision for 鈥渢ransport technology of the future鈥� to be made prematurely, Henrik Mortsiefer writes in Tagesspiegel. 鈥淭o only ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background Plans to build import infrastructure for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Germany are quickly taking shape as more companies decide to invest, but NGOs and ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers鈥� Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire A new protection strategy for moorlands adopted by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government aims to better ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:16 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Die Welt The German Green party is calling for higher taxes on domestic flights and lower taxes on train tickets and an eventual end of domestic flights. A paper ...
22 May 2017, 00:00 Germany and China increased pressure on the US government to stay in the Paris Climate Agreement ahead of the G7 and G20 summits. The continuing uncertainty about the US position puts 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 aim to agree on a G20 energy and climate ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
The government of central German federal state Thuringia strictly opposes the construction of major high-voltage transmission lines on its territory, Th眉ringer Allgemeine reports. The government led by the Left Party (Linke) argues the grid operators鈥� ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Handelsblatt The regions singled out by the government to slow wind power expansion because of lacking grid capacities do not match the areas where a curtailment is needed most, according to grid operators, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) has presented his proposal to reduce emissions from diesel cars in German cities to the chancellor and the heads of carmakers BMW, Volkswagen, and Daimler, Daniel Delhaes, Markus Fasse, and Martin Murphy ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Utilities The ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Die Welt The lack of skilled workers to install wind turbines, build train tracks or install heat pumps is a major hurdle to German government plans to transform the country鈥檚 economy in line with ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:07 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Die Welt The ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Rheinische Post The 鈥渃lear recommendations鈥� on CO鈧� pricing given by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 top economic advisers 鈥渕ark a milestone鈥�, Klaus Stratmann argues in an opinion piece in ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:58 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Energiewende Business & Jobs rbb Former environment minister J眉rgen Trittin (Green Party) has heavily criticised energy minister Peter Altmaier for 鈥渟tifling 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables industry鈥�. In ...
The German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies is to strengthen its position as a supplier of electric cars with the acquisition of US chip manufacturer Wolfspeed, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Among other things, the California-based company& ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Energiewende YaleEnvironment360 Germany has long been a global leader in developing and deploying low-carbon technologies, but now faces mounting criticism for failing to significantly reduce its ...
French President Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 call for a European price of 25-30 euro per tonne of CO鈧� has received mixed reactions in Germany, reports Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. German utilities argue that the proposed scheme would put the ...
In a commentary in the online magazine, Erneuerbare Energien, Nicole Weinhold writes that despite the best quarter ever for German wind power producers, expansion in the coming years is likely to be curbed. Projects that were successful in Germany's ...
The German parliament's finance committee has decided to extend motor vehicle tax exemptions for e-cars for five years in order to push sales of the technology, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The committee also agreed that e-car drivers can charge ...
24 May 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market EU Handelsblatt The European Commission鈥檚 plans to use the sale of CO2 permits as a source of additional income is a risk to the EU鈥檚 entire climate architecture and emission reduction targets, utility RWE ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Energiewende Government Bloomberg 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 long-time Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will leave her successor a long list of unsolved tasks once she leaves office, which will happen in 2021 the ...
16 May 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Rheinische Post / ARD / Clean Energy Wire The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have won the elections in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia by a wide margin, meaning ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Efficiency Society Spiegel Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest residential property company, Vonovia, has said it will reduce its investments in building modernisation by 40 percent, citing a 鈥渄ramatic ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire Demand for low-emission heating systems is rising rapidly in Germany, but a large majority of buyers are still opting for installations powered by fossil fuels. Sales of heat pumps rose ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:56 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Renewables Heating Clean Energy Wire More than two-thirds (70.7%) of the residential buildings completed in Germany in 2021 are heated ...
29 Jun 2022, 12:51 Kerstine Appunn Cars Cost & Prices EU Clean Energy Wire EU member states have approved the end of fossil fuelled passenger cars in 2035 and found compromises on emissions trading and a 鈥淪ocial Climate Fund鈥�. The fund will be used ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Transmission grid operator Tennet has certified the solar power home battery producer Sonnen to become a control energy provider for the German power grid, ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Renewables Finance Bavarian Economy and Energy Ministry Since according to a new report Germany has been overtaken by France as the G20鈥檚 most attractive target country for investment in ...
02 Jul 2015
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Zeit "Energiewende: Coalition agrees to put coal plants on reserve" Many German media reported the government decision to place 2.7 gigawatts-worth of coal-fired plants into a reserve for use when ...
08 Apr 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas WirtschaftsWoche Plans for starting new natural gas extraction off 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 North Sea coast are making progress despite protests by local residents and environmental groups, business newspaper WirtschaftsWoche ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Utilities International Uniper The German energy company Uniper has called plans by the French government to end coal-fired power production by 2021 鈥渋nadequate鈥� and urged Paris to ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Solar Clean Energy Wire Several German ministries have launched a coordinated initiative to better use the potential locations for constructing new renewable energy installations. In one of the first ...
03 May 2019, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Policy Society Deutsche Welle The southern German city of Constance has become the first in the nation to pass a resolution declaring a聽 climate emergency, according to a Deutsche Welle report. The resolution, which was ...
02 Jun 2015, 00:00 Europe must deliver on its own targets for a successful climate summit in Paris at the end of this year, the head of the German Chancellery, Peter Altmaier, told a business conference on Tuesday. At the same time, he stressed that the ...
The EU鈥檚 fleet emission limits for 2030 will have an effect similar to a quota for electric cars, according to Volkswagen. The new limits will be so low that carmakers could only reach them by selling a certain percentage of electric vehicles, said Stefan ...
European budget commissioner and member of Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party G眉nther Oettinger says new EU car emission limits must not be so strict they harm the industry. 鈥淪ome politicians are simply too na茂ve on this and think that the car ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:22 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Government EU Clean Energy Wire The NGO Germanwatch has called on the European Commission to present an ambitious second part of the 鈥淔it for 55 package鈥� of energy and climate ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:15 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire The shutdown of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 last remaining nuclear power plants will not cause supply shortages, according to calculations by the department of energy, transport and environment at the ...
05 Mar 2020, 14:35 Rachel Waldholz Coal Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia, says it cannot accept the federal government鈥檚 proposed coal exit law without major amendments, arguing that ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:24 Rachel Waldholz Transport Cars Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 main association of skilled tradesmen says cities must find ways to reduce traffic and vehicle emissions without banning cars and trucks from city centres, arguing that such bans would ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:07 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 In a moving message to his future grandchildren, German ISS commander Alexander Gerst appealed to humanity to finally get its act together on climate change. 鈥淩ight now, it looks like we 鈥� my generation 鈥� ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:01 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Utilities Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire The wave of short-notice contract cancellations ...
14 Dec 2021, 12:12 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Gas Clean Energy Wire A new report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions conducted by the International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS) on behalf of renewable energy consultancy DWR ...
31 Jul 2019, 13:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
06 May 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Wind Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that laws requiring wind park operators to give neighbouring residents or communities the opportunity to share in the profits are ...
If climate action and renewables growth are constrained under the new US administration, the EU must step up its efforts and join forces with China and India, according to a joint report by Allianz Climate Solutions, NewClimate Institute and Germanwatch. ...
Considerable discrepancies between the German Green Party鈥檚 draft election programme and the 鈥� Ten-point plan for Green governance 鈥� it published in May will make this weekend鈥檚 federal party conference difficult, writes Henrike Ro脽bach in an opinion ...
Achieving a 65 percent share of renewables in power consumption by 2030, as determined by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government coalition, will require a clear regulatory framework and parallel investments in infrastructure, work on which must start as soon as possible, ...
30 Nov 2015, 00:00 Day 1 at the UN climate conference: Paris must deliver an ambitious, comprehensive, fair and binding agreement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the climate conference in Paris / Germany's Environment Minister called for ...
29 May 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is a vast national project that is reshaping the entire country. But it is happening on a local level, too. Here, the Clean Energy Wire looks at the path that one eastern German city is taking towards ...
The United States' 鈥渟hort-sighted and irresponsible鈥� withdrawal from the Paris Agreement has prompted the G20 engagement groups to call on the remaining G19 member states to 鈥渃onvincingly show their willingness to implement the deal鈥� at the upcoming ...
Driving bans on diesel vehicles will take effect on selected roads in Hamburg after Whitsunday, the city鈥檚 environment senator, Jens Kerstan, told the newspaper Die Welt. 鈥淭he road signs have been ordered, and once everything is settled legally, the rule ...
13 Oct 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background While Germany is building up an infrastructure to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) at its North and Baltic Sea coasts in record time, there continues to be uncertainty about where the ...
Aldi S眉d will become Germany's first major climate-neutral food retailer from January 2017, the company announced in a press release. Aldi S眉d uses up to 80 percent of electricity from its solar PV facilities and will acquire the remaining power ...
31 May 2019, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the world to do 鈥渆verything humanly possible鈥� to combat climate change and pledged to do her part,聽 reports Euractiv. 鈥淐limate ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:10 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / Neues Deutschland Environmentalists are raising concerns about the planned transport of reprocessed nuclear waste from England back to Germany, newswire dpa reports. Last ...
Energy and climate policy must be key policy areas for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government in 2019 in order to significantly reduce carbon emissions and make a substantial contribution to limiting climate change, Social Democratic (SPD) energy and climate politician ...
30 Dec 2014
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel / BMUB 鈥淕ermany produces fewer carbon emissions鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions are likely to have fallen by three percent in 2014, according to Environment Minister ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
German energy company Uniper faces a loss of 550 million euros and fails to get out of the red after the first three quarters of 2018, the company says in a press release. The company owned by Finnish energy provider Fortum says that the 鈥� increased CO 2 ...
The landmark deal between German utilities E.ON and RWE remains on track for completion next year according to RWE, reports Tobias Buck in the Financial Times. Both groups reported quarterly results that were broadly in line with market expectations and ...
Low water levels following a prolonged drought in Germany and very modest wind conditions have put a strain on the business of energy company EnBW, which pursues a rigorous strategy of replacing nuclear and fossil power generation capacity with renewables ...
Reducing emissions across all sectors in Germany and gearing the energy system towards renewables and greater efficiency will be a 鈥渓ong-distance run that you can hardly practise for鈥�, Anton Berger writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a ...
The neighbours of a lignite power plant in the city of Bergheim in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 western region of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) are suing the energy company RWE over its plans to replace four older generating units at its Niederau脽em plant with a modern coal ...
Germany energy company E.ON has said it has reached the first 鈥渕ajor decisions鈥� in the planned integration of former rival company innogy into its own company structures. In a press release, the company said it would continue to run by the name E.ON in ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 role as host of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg will not be easy should the US administration decide to pull out of the Paris Agreement, because other countries 鈥� 鈥渢he eternal laggards鈥� 鈥� would 鈥渞elapse into old blockade ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables dpa / Die Zeit Amid the debate between France and Germany over the use of nuclear power in the EU鈥檚 emissions reduction plans, the Green Party in southwestern German state Baden-W眉rttemberg ...
Russia will continue to be an important trading partner also in a future that gradually substitutes fossil energy sources with renewables, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said at a the German-Russian Resource Conference in Potsdam ...
The German government cabinet has decided a collection of energy law amendments, which include the introduction of additional renewables auctions in 2019-2021, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The press release 鈥� while not giving many ...
The German government expects difficult negotiations in climate and trade policy with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, reports Henrike Ro脽bach in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淚n terms of trade and climate, the communiqu茅 ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt The demand for zero-support renewable electricity is booming and the latest sign is a large-scale power purchase agreement (PPA) energy company EnBW concluded with ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:35 Paul Gordon Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Climate activist group Fridays for Future (FfF) will stage its next global climate strike on Friday (25 March), calling not only for more action to prevent global warming but also ...
05 May 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Even with significantly higher CO2 prices on transport and heating fuels, Germany will not reach targets set in the country鈥檚 Climate Action Law, shows a report commissioned by the German ...
30 May 2016
30 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt 鈥淓U wants to split Germany into two power price zones鈥� The European Commission 鈥渋s threatening to split [Germany] into two power price zones,鈥� which would make power more ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire A first hydrogen test delivery from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has arrived in Germany. The shipment in the form of the hydrogen derivative ammonia reached the port of Hamburg, the economy ...
The government's difficulty finding agreement on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050 聽was a preview of similar negotiations in the future, writes Theo Geers in an opinion piece for Deutschlandfunk. 鈥淓very saved tonne of CO鈧� will have to be seized from ...
The energy consumption of German industry remained unchanged in 2017. According to the statistics office Destatis, 87 percent was used 鈥渇or energetic purposes such as electrcitiy and heat production.鈥� The remaining 13 percent was used for the production ...
Improving energy efficiency in non-residential buildings requires approaches specifically tailored to different sectors such as retail, offices, hotels and communal buildings, according to an analysis by the German Energy Agency (dena). 鈥淭here is no such ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and its Social Democrat (SPD) partners have agreed to keep their promise to speed up the expansion of renewable power installations, ending months of wrangling, reports Thorsten Severin for Reuters. ...
Despite the increasing share of renewable聽power and the agreement on additional renewable actions, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition has lost momentum, writes the Stuttgarter Nachrichten in an editorial by business correspondent Alexander del Regno. 鈥淭he ...
26 Aug 2019
26 Aug 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Handelsblatt Six German industry associations have claimed that the country's coal-fired power plants would be in danger of "abrupt shutdowns" if the federal environment ministry introduces stricter ...
The energy ministers of Turkey and Germany have agreed to cooperate more closely on the issues of renewable energies, energy efficiency, infrastructure, integrated energy (sector coupling) and regulation, their letter of intent signed at the second German ...
23 Feb 2015
23 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Tagesspiegel 鈥淒istribute radioactive legacy throughout the country鈥� Because only two German states have volunteered to store nuclear waste returning from processing plants abroad, the radioactive ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Peter Altmaier will invite businesses to an electricity price summit in January to discuss rising power prices for small and medium- sized companies, he announced this week. Industry association BDI said that rising power prices ...
The German Green Party should not overlook the concerns of workers in the steel or car industry when it debates the decarbonisation of the country鈥檚 economy, metalworker union IG Metall head J枚rg Hofmann said as a guest speaker at the Greens鈥� annual party ...
Costs stemming from differences in regulation in individual countries have the potential to distort an otherwise competitive level playing field in cross-border renewable energy auctions in Northwestern Europe, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende* ...
07 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The heads of government of eastern German lignite states Brandenburg, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt have called for EU support to cope with the transition away from coal, news agency dpa reports in an article ...
Peter Altmaier鈥檚 track record as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister lacks actions, particularly in energy policy, Antje H枚ning and Birgit Marschall write in the Rheinische Post. 鈥淭he energy transition resembles a construction site, and the planned coal ...
The global energy transition will require the presence of a sizeable international market for synthetic fuels and Germany will have to import significant amounts of green fuels created by converting renewable energy with so-called power-to-x technologies, ...
Unveiling its Climate Strategy 2.0, the German Farmers鈥� Association (DBV) said climate change posed an enormous challenge for German farmers. 鈥淟ike no other economic sector, agriculture and forestry are directly affected, as extreme weather events in the ...
The greenhouse gas reduction target set for the energy sector in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050 and the resulting accelerated coal exit will cut the total workforce connected to the lignite industry almost in half by 2025, according to a study by the ...
Think tank Agora Energiewende has launched a new publication series in English that is taking a closer look at the fundamental issues of transforming energy systems toward a low-carbon paradigm. The publications draw on the German experience, but also ...
The demand for land to construct wind turbines and solar power arrays is set to replace monetary costs as the central restrictive factor for renewable power expansion and will become 鈥渢he new currency鈥� of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, the Energiewende, a ...
Renewable power sources are not only competitive compared to conventional energies, they are also more and more sought after by industrialised and emerging nations alike, a report published by the consultancy Deloitte finds. As an example, the study cites ...
A survey commissioned by price comparison website Verivox has found that almost one in five Germans says people should pay higher power prices in order to facilitate investments in the decarbonisation of the energy system. In the survey with over 2,000 ...
The energy transition offers plenty of opportunities for German businesses, but the current government coalition has done little to solve key issues for the industry, writes the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) in its 2018 ...
The German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Stuttgart University aim to store renewable power in the form of heat on a 鈥減ower plant scale,鈥� reports Sandra Enkhardt in pv magazine. The institutes agreed to build the ...
With federal elections coming up in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel 鈥渘eeds some sort of win on climate change at the G20鈥�, Andrew Light, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI) told the Washington Post. Things will 鈥済et interesting鈥� at ...
European countries must increase their focus on supply security and safeguard their solidarity in critical power supply situations, according to a joint appeal by energy industry associations. The continent is no longer characterised by a large supply of ...
21 Jun 2019, 13:32 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight Tageszeitung (taz) German railway operator Deutsche Bahn has agreed to a massive increase in passenger and freight capacities in ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German power consumers will save some 5.6 billion euros on their electricity bills once they stop paying the renewable surcharge as of 2023, the new government says in its coalition ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:42 Edgar Meza Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung In an op-ed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, economics editor Johannes Pennekamp calls on Germany government to justify its refusal to cut off oil and gas imports from Russia with ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:52 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
The quarrels in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission over a proposed end date for coal-fired power production in 2038 will continue to weigh on the country鈥檚 reputation as a progressive energy transition advocate, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO at solar power project ...
The council of federal state governments (Bundesrat) has called on the German government to remove several regulatory hurdles for renewables support in cities. In their decision, the states said they want the government to better support tenant ...
Modern solar PV installations in Germany have the lowest power generation costs of all technologies, the Fraunhofer ISE research institute writes in a press release. Depending on the type of installation and the sun's intensity, generating one ...
The embattled Hambach Forest has to be cut down to ensure a secure power supply for Germany, energy state secretary Thomas Barei脽 said at an event organised by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) in London, Adam Vaughan writes in The Guardian. Barei脽 said ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Government International Der Spiegel The German foreign ministry under Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) will create a new position of state secretary for international climate policy, reports Der Spiegel. The Bundestag ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International Clean Energy Wire The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
The global transformation towards a decarbonised energy system has positive effects for human security, such as reducing the dependence on fossil resources supply chains, strengthening the access to energy as an economic factor, and thus increasing ...
14 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv RWE 鈥淧oll 鈥� Lignite is essential stabiliser for energy supply鈥� Two thirds of Germans believe electricity prices have a large influence on the competitiveness of German industry, according to a ...
22 Apr 2022, 12:42 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire The European nuclear power sector is highly dependent on imports of Russian uranium, according to a report 聽by NGOs Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), the Nuclear Free Future ...
The world鈥檚 largest car manufacturing supplier, Bosch, plans to create more than 20,000 jobs worldwide this year to meet the demand created by digitalisation and e-mobility, the Tagesspiegel reports. The group currently has 390,000 employees, some 250,000 ...
Concrete measures to improve air quality in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most polluted cities are one of her new government鈥檚 first tasks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Klaus Kleber in an interview with broadcaster ZDF. 鈥淭he new transport minister 鈥� but I myself will ...
23 Aug 2022, 13:34 Edgar Meza Industry Heating Clean Energy Wire German companies use the vast majority of their entire water consumption for cooling, according to statistical office Destatis. Companies used a total of 15.3 billion cubic metres of fresh ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading position in energy transition technologies and renewables is uncatchable for countries embarking on their own 鈥淓nergiewende,鈥� French energy expert Gerard Magnin says in an interview on Spiegel Online. The former board member of French ...
This week's G7 summit in Italy comes 鈥渁t the right moment" to talk about the Paris Climate Agreement with the US administration, but it will be a 鈥渃ontinuous dialogue鈥� in a long process until the G20 summit in Germany in July, said a German ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and climate policy lacks decisiveness and a coherent approach, according to representatives of the country鈥檚 industries. 鈥淕ermany must urgently take an integral approach to the climate-friendly modernisation of our economy, instead of ...
Several German states are demanding that the federal government and the EU should protect the steel industry from stricter environmental regulations and rising electricity costs, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. In a draft of the joint final statement for ...
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and its French counterpart CNES signed a cooperation agreement to realise the Franco-German climate satellite MERLIN. From 2021 onwards, the satellite will measure the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the ...
Diesel cars should lose their privileged tax treatment in Germany to release funds for the development of more environmentally friendly engine technologies, VW CEO Matthias M眉ller said in an interview with Handelsblatt. M眉ller said investing in other ...
Microsoft has announced it will partner with German utility E.ON to develop a smart home platform to manage everything in a house that runs on electricity, report J眉rgen Flauger and Christof Kerkmann in Handelsblatt Global Edition. The partnership will ...
Aligned with the goals of the energy transition, the federal government cabinet has decided 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 7 th energy research programme, the economy ministry said in a press release. 鈥淭he Energiewende is an ambitious modernisation project for our economy. ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany narrowly managed to meet its emissions budget for 2020 under the EU鈥檚 climate action targets for sectors such as transport and buildings (Effort Sharing Decision), the final ...
Germany has accused Italian carmaker Fiat of using illegal software for its emissions treatment systems, according to a Reuters report. A transport ministry letter to the European Commission, seen by Reuters, said that tests by German authorities could ...
The German energy industry is utterly unsatisfied with the government鈥檚 energy policy track record after the first six months in office, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淲e鈥檙e lacking someone to set the pace in policymaking,鈥� says ...
The need for reform in German energy policy is 鈥減iling up鈥� under the current grand coalition government, said Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group in a plenary debate on the economy and energy budget for 2019. Economy minister ...
After a German top court ruled that German cities may ban diesel cars from polluted areas, the City of Hamburg announced that it would follow through with plans to introduce driving bans for older diesel vehicles on two of its most polluted roads starting ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:43 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Employing multi-stakeholder task forces like 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The German government has presented a draft action programme worth 4 billion euros over the coming four years for moorland protection, forest projects and other natural climate action ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel endorsed a hard-fought EU environment minister compromise deal for a 35 percent cut in new car emissions by 2030, reports news agency Reuters. 鈥�(There is) a revisions clause for 2021, since the question of how fast we can ...
German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has rebuffed opponents of the planned SuedLink power transmission line by reportedly not joining a planned meeting in the economy ministry (BMWi), Heinz Wraneschitz writes in the pv magazine. Critics also ...
The German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has commissioned a study of the country鈥檚 options for capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions to lower its carbon footprint, Manuel Berkel writes on Spiegel Online. According to the article, energy ...
The modernisation and decarbonisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating sector has enormous carbon emissions reduction potential that needs to be tapped more, the energy minister of the German coal state of Brandenburg, Albrecht Gerber, says in an article carried by ...
The more equally power costs are allocated among the population, the more willing German power customers are to finance the changes associated with the energy transition, a study conducted by the research institute RWI and published in the Nature Energy ...
German bilateral cooperation such as with the state of California in the USA is 鈥渁 good recipe to implement a sustainable and dependable energy system quicker, cheaper, and more efficiently,鈥� said state secretary Thomas Barei脽 in a statement ahead of a ...
The German finance ministry sees the car emissions scandal as a risk to the country鈥檚 economy, reports Reuters in an article carried by The Guardian. 鈥淕iven the importance of the automotive industry [the diesel crisis] must be classified in the medium ...
For the first time, union leaders from Germany's mining unions met with representatives from the annual 鈥渃limate camp鈥� and local environmentalists in the Rhenish lignite coal mining region, reports Leonie Sontheimer in taz. While all agreed that ...
Top representatives of the German government have criticised Chinese plans to impose a mandatory quota for e-cars by 2018, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Beijing erected market barriers that discriminate ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire Low-income households will receive a one-off heating cost allowance by the state, the German government cabinet has decided. In a response to rising prices for ...
The investments made by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany in recent years have started to pay off and reduced the companies鈥� exposure to high power prices, German state-owned business development bank KfW said in a press release. ...
Fears of a surge in support for the right-wing populist party AfD must not influence the speed of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit, 叠别谤濒颈苍鈥檚 Green energy senator Ramona Pop says in a reply to Brandenburg鈥檚 state premier Dietmar Woidke, published in the Tagesspiegel. ...
20 May 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post A church in the town of Kerpen-Manheim, in the western German Rhenish coal mining region, has been prepared for demolition to expand a nearby coal mine, the Rheinische Post reports. About ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:36 Kerstine Appunn Carbon market Electricity market Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German wholesale power price more than tripled in 2021 to an average of 97 euros per megawatt-hour (MWh) compared to the previous year, pushing it ...
The German government has no concrete plans to make public transport free of charge. The government proposal of free public transport, contained in a letter to the EU aiming at avoiding financial penalties for exceeding pollutions limits, is just one ...
20 Jan 2022, 11:54 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Global climate policies must be shaped towards different countries鈥� strengths and weaknesses if they are to be successful, a leading German economist has said. In an opinion piece for Der ...
After campaigners鈥� hopes were dashed that the Swedish government would veto the sale of state-owned utility Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite coal assets to Czech investor EPH, a number of NGOs have called on German and international banks to stop funding the ...
The German energy industry is optimistic and sees itself well prepared for the future, financial services company KPMG said in its Future Readiness Index 2018. While its future readiness is "solid", it is currently facing only the beginning of a ...
The designated new economy and energy minister of the German federal state of Brandenburg, J枚rg Steinbach, is likely to keep the pro-coal stance of his predecessor, Albrecht Gerber, who announced his resignation on 21 August citing private reasons, Igor ...
In the row over the expansion of a lignite mine and the clearing of a nearby forest, German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that 鈥渟olutions can only be found through negotiations and talks, and not in public debates,鈥� news agency Reuters ...
Renewable energy financing by the Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, a bank that provides refinancing for agriculture and rural areas, plummeted in the first half of 2018 compared to the same period last year, the bank said in a press release. 鈥淐hanges in ...
