International agreements for climate protection and 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050 spell a prosperous future for the country鈥檚 wind power industry, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) said in a press release. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind power industry 鈥渉as an ...
The German government鈥檚 spending on energy research has more than doubled since 2006, the German Parliament (Bundestag) said in a press release. Research investments rose from around 400 million euros in 2006 to more than 875 million euros in 2016, ...
The next German government will have to overhaul the country鈥檚 system of energy-related taxes and surcharges in order to allow the next phase of the energy transition, the head of the department for energy policy (heating and efficiency) at the economy ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading business executives are taking climate and environmental protection increasingly serious, according to a survey presented at the COP26 climate ...
The energy industry hovers between shock and sensation since it has become clear that several companies are ready to build offshore wind power plants without any support payments, Frank-Thomas Wenzel writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. The German Engineering ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 supermarkets are to receive a climate-friendly makeover. Environment minister Barbara Hendricks, together with the association of German retailers (HDE), has started a 1.3 million euro promotion campaign aimed at identifying energy saving ...
The share of renewable energies in German gross power consumption was 32 percent in the first quarter of 2017, a slight increase compared to the same period in 2016, German utility association BDEW said in a press release. Power generation by wind, solar ...
Germany is a pioneer for new technologies in the energy industry, according to World Energy Council (WEC) Germany. This was underlined by the fact that digitalisation is one of the most dominant topics in Germany, according to survey results from decision ...
07 Apr 2016
07 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Bundestag Federal government rejects national CO鈧� price floor The federal government continues to have reservations over a national price floor for carbon allowances, according to ...
Financing issues regarding the contentious offshore gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 could be resolved with the signing of agreements for the project with ENGIE, OMV, Shell, Uniper and Wintershall. The five European energy companies will together provide 50 ...
Several EU countries are rejecting an ambitious and binding energy efficiency goal proposed by the EU Commission in its winter package, reports Hendrik Kafsack in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The EU Council Presidency, currently held by Malta ...
05 Apr 2016
05 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Federal Environment Agency 鈥淓missions trading: industry鈥檚 emissions almost unchanged in 2015鈥� The CO鈧� emissions of German energy intensive industry remained virtually unchanged for the ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal ...
21 Mar 2017, 00:00 Over 1,000 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 90 countries take part in the third Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry. The following ...
The energy transition of any given country can be divided into three phases, write Christopher Burger and Jens Weinmann in Harvard Business Review (HBR). Energiewende 1.0 is characterised by kick-starting renewables power production. Germany is currently ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:35 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Edgar Meza Cars Reuters The EU Commission has charged German automakers ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:35 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany should refurbish its ...
RWE鈥檚 CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz has fuelled expectations that the company will target the UK energy market for future acquisitions with comments in a聽 recent German newspaper interview, writes Jillian Ambrose in The Telegraph. With its capacity market, the ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture International Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment ministry (BMUV) will launch four new projects worth a total of 32 million euros to protect wetlands and peatlands abroad, it announced on the occasion of ...
30 Jun 2015
30 Jun 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) 鈥淲颈苍诲 strengthens power sector, renewable heat and transport stagnate鈥� The share of renewables in total German power consumption has risen to a record 32.5 percent in the ...
The German government spent 876 million euros on energy research last year, a slight increase over 2015, reports Dagmar Dehmer in Tagesspiegel. Two thirds of the money went into renewables and efficiency research, followed by nuclear fusion and nuclear ...
10 Apr 2017
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 current system of levies, taxes, and fees on energy is unsuitable for the next phase of the country鈥檚 energy transition, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. For heating oil, these add up to a mere 0.6 cents per ...
12 Aug 2021, 13:27 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Security dpa / Clean Energy Wire German energy group Uniper, which is involved in the financing of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, is seeing risks for the project even after ...
Only a small part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 inflexible conventional power generation is required to guarantee grid stability, according to the German Renewable Energy Federation BEE. The lobby group said the Federal Grid Agency鈥檚 (BNetzA) finding that many plants do ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ministry (BMWi), together with industry associations VSM and VDMA, has started an initiative intended to implement energy transition in maritime traffic, news agency Reuters reports. At the 10th National Maritime Conference in Hamburg, ...
Germany needs to lower emissions in the heating sector by one fifth by 2020 in order to meet the government鈥檚 climate goals, Hartmut Netz writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭o comply with the plan, twice as many buildings would need efficient retrofitting ...
The German Energy agency (dena) says it regrets that the government failed to reach a compromise on the GEG, a bill that would have modernised energy efficiency standards for German buildings. In a press release, dena head Andreas Kuhlmann called the ...
10 Jul 2015
10 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt Experts disappointed by government deal on coal, grid extension Most members of the Handelsblatt鈥檚 Energy Academy 鈥� a group made up of around 230 energy experts 鈥� are disappointed with ...
In the midst of its transition to low-carbon energy generation, Germany has re-entered the top 20 in the World Economic Forum鈥檚 (WEF) Global Energy Architecture Performance Index. The index examines the affordability, environmental sustainability, and ...
Utilities should expand their product range beyond power, gas, water and heat to sell innovative services or even electric appliances, according to an online survey for the study 鈥淭丑别 future of energy: What consumers really want鈥� by consultancy AXXCON. ...
China, Germany, Denmark, Mexico and other countries plan to form an international Energy Transition Coalition this year 鈥渇or accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy 蹿耻迟耻谤别鈥�, writes International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in a press ...
The government coalition of the conservative CDU/CSU and Social Democrats (SPD) has failed to agree on a law (GEG) that would set new energy efficiency standards for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 buildings by 2019, Jens Tartler writes in Der Tagesspiegel. Social-Democrat ...
Norwegian hydropower company Statkraft and Dutch grid operator TenneT plan to intensify cooperation in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in order to optimise the market integration of wind power, TenneT has said in a press release. Statkraft, ...
Germany and Australia have signed a letter of intent to intensify cooperation in the areas of energy and resources, the German economy ministry said in a press release. Rainer Baake, German state secretary in the economy ministry, and his Australian ...
In a parliamentary inquiry, the Left Party asks the federal government for information on its contact with fossil and renewable energy interest groups. The party is worried that the voices of representatives of the fossil sector were heard more, which ...
A joint report by the International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Energy Agency, on investment needed by 2050 to transform the world鈥檚 energy supply in line with Paris Climate Agreement targets, shows competing visions of a clean energy ...
Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. "We want to use our G20 presidency this year to find a common position for all ...
German energy companies are pouring resources into digitalisation across the entire value chain of the industry, writes Bernward Janzing in the Handelsblatt. Both old, established companies and new, creative start-ups are jumping on board, he writes. ...
Changing the world鈥檚 energy supply from fossil fuels to renewable sources would result in net economic gains, according to a study by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA). The agencies鈥� study, ...
14 Feb 2022, 14:15 Jessica Bateman Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Film industry leaders and politicians in Germany have announced plans for climate standards in film production, S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Online reports. 聽Speaking at a panel event during the ...
06 May 2016
06 May 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淓verything for the global climate鈥� A leaked draft of the Climate Action Plan 2050 shows the path the German environment ministry wants to take to聽carbon neutrality ...
The German head of Danish North Sea windpark operator Dong Energy, Martin Neubert, told German press agency dpa that a discussion over expanding wind power by 700-800 megawatts per year is 鈥渋n the distant future,鈥� because infrastructure isn鈥檛 expanding ...
18 Jun 2020, 12:00 A joint push by the EU and China remains the best hope to drive global climate action and build momentum ahead of next year鈥檚 UN climate talks, researchers and NGOs say. The coronavirus pandemic has shifted national priorities, raised ...
08 Jun 2016
08 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) that is to take ...
05 Nov 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs COP26 Clean Energy Wire Instead of distributing increasing amounts of their profits to shareholders, publicly-listed German corporations should invest more in climate protection, development and aid NGO ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) are to make energy efficiency a priority for energy policy in the coming legislative period, Hubertus Heil, deputy chairman of the SPD鈥檚 parliamentary group, said during a speech on his party鈥檚 energy policy ambitions ...
US business magazine Fortune published a long article by Jeffrey Ball on the generational project German Energiewende, society鈥檚 costs for the expansion of renewables, the benefits of the transition and the possibilities for other states to follow Germany ...
It is 鈥渘onsense鈥� that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende destroys big utilities because it is a peculiar and unique policy, writes Ingo Arzt in a commentary in the left-wing taz. 鈥淭丑别 global utility world faces massive upheavals that will push companies into ...
Greater energy efficiency, sector coupling and digitalisation are going to be core areas in energy policy that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government will likely have to focus on, according to federal economy ministry state secretary Rainer Baake. During a speech at a ...
Renewables are the most positively received energy sources for Germans, while the country鈥檚 population largely rejects higher electricity prices and taxes on fossil sources, according to a four-country cross-national survey by Cardiff University, Climate ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Clean Energy Wire State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with an additional 190 gigawatt hours (GWh) of offshore wind power annually, the railway ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy consumption- and probably the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions- increased slightly in 2016, says energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) in its report on energy consumption. The data confirms AGEB鈥檚 estimates from ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Coal TAG24 / Clean Energy Wire A lignite (brown coal) power station in the eastern German town of Chemnitz is going to be shut down by 2023, instead of the last unit running until 2029, the management of plant operator ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:14 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Heating Clean Energy Wire Agora Energiewende * and the聽 Climate Neutrality Foundation 聽have unveiled a聽 roadmap 聽aimed at facilitating the necessary heating transition to make the building sector ...
German cities may be able to ban or limit cars from driving into their centres, should a draft regulation compiled by the environment ministry (BMUB) at the urging of the federal states enter into effect, Spiegel Online reported Saturday. Under the ...
Using power storages and other technologies to relieve the electricity grid can significantly lower the cost of the energy transition and avoid grid expansion, writes German Energy Agency (dena) in a new study. 鈥淲e need a bridge between the market and the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Economy Ministry (BMWi) aims to launch an 鈥�energy transition in transportation鈥� by financially supporting research and development projects on sector coupling and electrification in the sector, the ministry said in a press release. The BMWi ...
The large-scale cultivation of energy crops has been a political 鈥渕istake鈥� and 鈥渋n part a wrong track of the Energiewende鈥�, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks said in Handelsblatt. She calls for a reduction of the production of plants used ...
Germany is ranked 5 th on the Worldbank鈥檚 Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) index that compares states鈥� policies and regulations in the energy sector. Countries are scored using 27 indicators in the three pillars energy access, energy ...
German household consumers save 10 percent of heating energy on average, if they receive a one-time energy efficiency counselling and monthly information on consumption, according to results of a pilot project coordinated by German Energy Agency (dena), ...
The rapid rise of renewable energy systems in recent years could signal that 鈥渢he world is entering an era of clean, unlimited and cheap power,鈥� The Economist writes. But while it was 鈥渁bout time鈥� renewables played a more important role, the 鈥渄irty secret ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:13 Jessica Bateman Elections & Politics EU Clean Energy Wire A post-Merkel coalition government is likely to help drive forward the EU鈥檚 climate targets, an analysis by Deutsche Bank has concluded. In a paper, analysts for the bank ...
Peter Teffer writes in an article for EU Observer about the challenges ahead for Germany to reach its climate targets, such as a coal phase-out- which is likely to be discussed after the federal elections in autumn. Read the article in English here. For ...
28 Mar 2022, 12:49 Kerstine Appunn Gas Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal parliament (Bundestag)聽 has passed 聽legislation forcing gas infrastructure operators to fill storage facilities to certain levels throughout the year in order to avoid shortages ...
Some communities in Bavaria are expressing their displeasure with the expansion of wind power in the region, and fewer wind turbines were erected in 2016, writes Horst Peter Wickel in the Welt am Sonntag. In Bavaria last year, 124 new wind turbines were ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza Solar Cities pv magazine The German capital is a step closer in making solar PV systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine. In a special meeting, the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Renewable Energy Act (EEG) could produce results that go against its intended purpose of cutting emissions by supporting low-carbon energy generation, EurActiv.de reports. The EEG, combined with the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (ETS), caused an ...
18 Jun 2021, 12:57 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU Clean Energy Wire The industrial lull caused by the pandemic largely contributed to a 12 percent decrease in CO鈧� emissions from power and industry units in Germany last year, according to a new report ...
Germany and Poland are crucial for filling the EU energy union with substance, but controversies over differing interests have stalled progress in energy policy cooperation, according to a paper from the German Institute for International and Security ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing conservative parties CDU and CSU risk undermining聽 one of the country鈥檚 key climate protection targets 聽by postponing the adoption of a planned law on energy efficiency in public buildings,聽Jens Tartler writes in Der Tagesspiegel. ...
Nuclear plant operators in Germany revoked around 20 lawsuits against the state in return for government guarantees of a limited financial liability for the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out, Stefan Schultz writes on Spiegel Online. The utilities E.ON, RWE, ...
11 Oct 2021, 14:19 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Several German economists and researchers have criticised the annual greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets laid down in the Climate Action ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & ...
German energy company innogy has teamed up with technology company Kiwigrid to develop a new platform for organising a decentralised power supply system, innogy said in a press release. 鈥淐entralised power plants are a thing of the past,鈥� innogy writes, ...
31 Mar 2015
31 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv 聽 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) 鈥淭rend reversal: Emissions decrease to lowest level since 2010鈥� German greenhouse gas emissions have decreased in 2014 for the first time in three years, ...
Fossil power plants are disappearing from the market too quickly when they are still needed to supply the country with power on days with little sun or wind, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. 鈥淎t the moment, the bad economic framework conditions lead to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Association of energy-intensive businesses (VIK) is among the founders of聽 a network for energy efficiency, dubbed KEEN, the association has said in a press release. Six companies from the mining, electrical engineering, food industry and energy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 pioneering turn toward clean energy is approaching another milestone with a new round of auctions for wind power expected to push the price of electricity from renewables to record lows, write Weixin Zha, Brian Parkin and Tino Andresen in a ...
06 Jan 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende 鈥� the country鈥檚 double shift to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy 鈥� yielded mixed results in the past year, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende. Thanks to a partial switch from ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Bioenergy Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal agriculture ministry has launched a new support scheme for farmers to encourage investment in emission-reducing treatment of farm manure. Liquid manure, slurry, ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Tagesspiegel Background The European gas infrastructure would have to be changed quickly and extensively to be able to maintain supply in the event of an embargo or export ban on supplies from Russia, but ...
The G20 Sustainability Working Group under German leadership aims to develop a 鈥楪20 Climate and Energy Action Plan鈥� in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July, Eva Kracht of the German environment ministry (BMUB) said at an event by Climate Transparency ...
German energy policy will not serve as a global energy policy blueprint, but as inspiration, according to the World Energy Council (WEC) Germany. In a survey, 60 percent of energy experts from 42 countries said the Energiewende could not serve as a global ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy Wire / Die Welt The operator of the controversial gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 has announced that the project is almost complete. The last pipe segments connecting Germany and Russia through the ...
Social Democrat and former state secretary Brigitte Zypries is 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. Previous economy minister Sigmar Gabriel handed over his duties today. 鈥淪igmar Gabriel did a good job in tying up lose ends of ...
Sigmar Gabriel has assured industry bosses the energy transition鈥檚 impacts on industry and the country鈥檚 competitiveness would be minimised and market forces would play a greater role in the sector. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Renewable Energy Act is likely to see further ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire NGOs have called on the German government to immediately start the process of phasing out fossil gas use and set an end date for 2040 to ensure a transformation in line with the Paris Agreement ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:43 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
The German shipping industry calls for greater financial support by the state to push its transition to more climate-friendly fuels, dpa news agency reports in an article carried by Die Welt. About 1,000 ships could run on liquefied natural gas (LNG) by ...
21 Nov 2014
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Zeit Online "Is Sigmar Gabriel secretly burying the Energiewende?" A 鈥減rogress report鈥� from the Economics Ministry on the Energiewende shows evidence of a political struggle over the ...
German battery manufacturer Sonnen is the first small & medium enterprise to win the 1.5 million-dollar Zayed Future Energy Prize. The annual award has become one of the most prestigious in the cleantech industry. Sonnen called the prize the 鈥淥scar of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and economy ministry (BMWi) is searching for alternative ways to fund the country鈥檚 switch to renewables, reports Nathan Witkop for Montel. The ministry tendered for a study to explore 鈥渕odels for the future financing of renewable energy鈥� ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:05 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background The German government is examining how it can support the domestic offshore wind sector, which is suffering from a slowdown in activity, Steven Hanke writes in Tagesspiegel Background, citing a ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:17 Expert Ember Climate & energy think tank Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Coal EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union鈥檚 electricity demand was back to pre-pandemic levels in the first half of 2021, but thanks ...
The federal government, regional states, and municipalities will have to invest in energy efficiency in new building projects, according to a draft law, reports Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. The economic and environmental ministries鈥� proposal for a law ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:37 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Green hydrogen technology can help reduce emissions from industry, transport and heating in ...
17 Nov 2014
17 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt "Why the coal phase-out was really cancelled" 聽In an analysis of the current debate over whether Germany should phase out coal power in order to reach its greenhouse ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:18 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Gas Clean Energy Wire Oil and natural gas production in Germany continues to decline sharply, shows an annual report for 2020 published by the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG). It ...
The northern German city of Hamburg hopes for a 鈥淪ilicon Valley for renewable energies鈥� as Siemens is testing a new energy storage system, writes Olaf Preu脽 for Welt Online. The system would heat up rock fill with excess wind power, which a turbine later ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:46 Jessica Bateman Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society Clean Energy Wire Seventy percent of Germans would support a ban on short haul flights in order to better protect the climate, a survey has found. A聽 poll 聽carried out by YouGov on behalf ...
28 Jan 2015
28 Jan 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Cabinet agrees to auction plan for solar subsidies The German economics and energy ministry said the government cabinet had signed off on its plans to auction the ...
09 Apr 2021, 09:39 Julian Wettengel Renewables Clean Energy Wire [CLARIFICATION: Agora Energiewende said Q1 developments in the power market show greenhouse gas emissions could rise in 2021. Drops reference to 2020 target.] 聽 Unfavourable weather ...
Wind and solar power continue to face large cost reductions, according to a meta analysis of 15 studies on energy technology investment costs by Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). 鈥淢ore good news for the Energiewende is that also for storage technologies ...
When it comes to heating, there is 鈥渆normous potential鈥� for cooperation between the housing sector and the energy industry, according to a new study commissioned by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). The results show that ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport ministry (BMVI) has commissioned a regulatory roadmap to integrate the power and transport sectors, according to law and consultancy firm Becker B眉ttner Held (BBH), which is in charge of the project. BBH said it will investigate what ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:44 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Focus Online E.ON objects to a study arguing the German utility and many other large companies fall short of their net-zero carbon promises, news website Focus Online reported. The ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:45 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Activists from student climate movement Fridays for Future plan to take to the streets worldwide and in over 350 German cities for a global ...
The higher crude oil聽price resulting from OPEC鈥檚 agreement to reduce its output could benefit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, Claudia Kemfert writes in a commentary for the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). 鈥淎 higher oil price facilitates the ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire A CO2 price as a surcharge on the fuel price, with the entire revenue flowing into a uniform per capita refund, is by far the fairest form ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Stocks of Baltic cod, a popular white fish, have collapsed due to overfishing and climate change and are unlikely to recover, researchers have聽 said. Western ...
04 Oct 2021, 13:40 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 Mobility Hydrogen Clean ...
The German Institute for Urbanistics (Difu) has launched an online tool to help German municipalities calculate the economic impacts of refurbishing buildings to modern energy efficiency standards. The 鈥渧alue creation calculator鈥� processes data on the ...
Medium-sized businesses in Germany will have to further improve their energy efficiency in order to stay internationally competitive, according to a study by the government-owned banking institution KfW. KfW compared the competitiveness of over 2,200 ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Handelsblatt Some of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest CO2 emitters have taken advantage of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to ensure their own emissions remain low-priced, according to a Handelsblatt report by ...
Energy and climate policy is likely to play a minor role in the 2017 election campaign programme of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The party leadership on Monday decided on the ...
The project 鈥渆nera鈥� in the rural North-Western German region of Eastern Frisia could become the next step on the way to establishing smart energy grids across Germany, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥渆nera鈥� is aimed at steering energy flows so ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Welt am Sonntag The German government is preparing the necessary regulatory steps to make it possible to export and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in seabeds outside Germany, reports ...
Costs connected to the German Energiewende and high industry power prices could hurt the country as a location for business investments, Willem Huisman, president of the chemicals company Dow Germany, told the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) ...
The current German renewable energy surcharge will not be enough to put the Energiewende on a sound financial basis, due to growing demand for electricity in transport and heating (sector coupling), economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said at the annual ...
Germany is ranked 29th in this year鈥檚 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by environmental organisation Germanwatch 鈥� a position blamed on lagging greenhouse gas emissions reduction and the lack of a clear roadmap for ending coal-fired power ...
German utility E.ON aims to transform the global offshore wind generation market with high-altitude wind power generation technology, the company announced in a press release. New technology is harvesting wind by using a sail comparable to kite surfing in ...
21 May 2021, 13:16 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire The German government is taking firs steps to partner with West African nations in the development of a ...
According to business consultancy PwC, there are around 100 "virtual power plants" in Germany, which usually pool different kinds of renewable energy projects, Steffen Ermisch reports in Handelsblatt. 37 of them participate in the market for ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:24 Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw盲rtiges Amt International Security Paul Gordon Transport Government Clean Energy Wire / RTL German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) wants to use regular scheduled flights more frequently ...
15 Sep 2021, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Resources & Recycling The German environment ministry (BMU) has set up a stakeholder process to assess the status quo of standardisation and describe the requirements for future standards, in a bid to enable a more ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:35 Paul Gordon Industry Policy Clean Energy Wire A company alliance has called for closer cooperation on the capture, storage and transport of CO2聽between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In a聽 joint letter, the signatories 鈥� among ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:27 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 Gas Heating ...
The energy consumption in industry was 4,016 petajoules in 2015, a decrease of 0.7 percent compared to 2014, writes 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 statistics agency Destatis in a press release. 鈥淎s in the previous years, the main energy sources in industry were natural gas ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:27 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Resources & Recycling The use of regrowing biotic raw materials such as cereals and wood accounted for 16 percent, or 224 million ...
Primary energy consumption in Germany 2016 is likely to be on the same level as the previous year, according to estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Germany consumed 9,815 petajoules between January and September 2016- 0.3 ...
The German environment ministry supports three new water management projects in Jordan under the umbrella of the 鈥� Export Initiative Environmental Technologies 鈥�, according to a press release. The projects are to help Jordan bring down energy costs in ...
The environment group Nabu plans to advocate for 鈥渟tricter limits鈥� on the construction of wind turbines in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 forests, writes Daniel Wetzel in Welt Online. Despite being 鈥済enerally in favour of the energy transition and wind power expansion鈥�, a ...
Germany remains in fifth place in business consultancy Ernst & Young鈥檚 (EY) renewable energy country attractiveness index (RECAI). EY ranks 40 countries on their attractiveness for renewables investment and deployment opportunities, based on energy ...
Peruvian farmer Sa煤l Lliuya is suing German utility RWE in the District Court of Essen, saying the company鈥檚 carbon emissions drive climate change and threaten his home town Huaraz, writes Gero Rueter for Deutsche Welle. Lliuya says global warming is ...
The German gas industry believes gas is being 鈥渄iscriminated against鈥� in Energiewende policies. In heating, renewable gas was being treated as a fossil fuel, and CO 2-savings by gas-powered cars were not counted as decarbonisation measures, said Timm ...
The federal cabinet today decided on reform drafts for two energy policy projects: The law regulating state support for combined heat and power (CHP) plants will be changed to include tenders for CHP facilities with a capacity of 1-50 megawatts, according ...
The Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) say the Renewable Energy Surcharge consumers pay with their power bills could rise to 10 cents by 2025 and should be reformed. 鈥淲e need a discussion about alternative models, such as financing it with taxes or ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to an auction-based system to stabilise renewable development is the right way forward, writes David Wortmann, head of renewable consultancy DWR eco, in an op-ed in Wirtschaftswoche. But the government gets in the way of the planning ...
17 Jun 2021, 13:03 Edgar Meza Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) is aiming to become climate neutral a decade earlier than its previous 2050 target. Announcing its new 2040 target, the company said it would already be ...
The use of renewable energy in electricity, heating and transport saved Germany around 8.16 billion euros in fossil fuel imports in 2015 compared to 1990 levels, according to a report by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko Institute), ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:03 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU Clean Energy Wire A European CO2 border adjustment payment can be a first step towards a fairer competition environment regarding emission costs but not accounting for indirect emissions means that a ...
Oil and natural gas will continue to play a crucial role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy consumption in the coming decades, writes Regine Palm in Handelsblatt. The two fossil combustibles will contribute about 60 percent to the country鈥檚 energy mix in 2040, according ...
The prospects of permanently increasing energy prices due to the renewables development have caused a dispute between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing coalition partners from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), writes Tobias ...
The German government plans to put the brakes on wind power development in the country鈥檚 windy north because the electricity grid could not be extended quickly enough, writes Philip Oltermann in The Guardian. 鈥淪ome analysts argue that while Germany is ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Grid Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), in charge of regulating the power grid and overseeing the country鈥檚 grid expansion planning, will reportedly get the prominent head of the Federal Consumer ...
The progress of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition varies immensely throughout the country, a study published by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) suggests. In rural areas and particularly on the coasts, the transition to a clean and ...
On 14 October, German grid operators will announce the renewables surcharge (EEG-Umlage) for 2017. For this occasion, the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) has put together a paper that discusses important legal changes to the EEG made over the ...
Sales of energy efficiency products rose 10 percent to 65.4 billion euros in 2014, according to the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis). 鈥淭丑别 turnover generated from products for increasing energy efficiency and for saving energy is much higher than that ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is leading to an increased number of houses being renovated and insulated, which can inflate rents, Tobias Lill says in an opinion piece in the Huffington Post. The growth of renewables has also led to higher power prices that ...
The energy demand to heat German apartment buildings fell six percent last year because of energy-efficient insulation and modernisation, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) cited in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The study is ...
The German gas sector initiative 鈥� Future Natural Gas 鈥� has started a PR campaign criticising the high-emissions coal industry, petrol and diesel cars, and positioning natural gas as the cleaner alternative, reports Nils-Viktor Sorge for manager magazin. ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:32 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Clean Energy Wire / Tagesschau The hard coal power station Moorburg in Hamburg was closed down for good on 7 July, reported public broadcaster Tagesschau ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:40 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Kerstine Appunn Cars dpa The government鈥檚 new eligibility requirements will make it harder for people to access a government subsidy on the purchase of a plug-in hybrid ...
The governments of Germany and India aim to strengthen their energy partnership, particularly in the field of renewables. 鈥淭丑别 Indian expansion target is an additional power generation capacity of 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar PV, 60 GW of wind and 15 GW of ...
The German Energiewende was expensive and unfair because the project was 鈥減oorly crafted鈥�, according to an opinion piece by Richard Fuchs for Deutsche Welle. 鈥淭丑别 cheaper wind and solar power become, the more private electricity customers pay for power. ...
The Green party鈥檚 proposed ban on petrol and diesel engines by 2030 is 鈥渆conomically damaging, ecologically questionable, and practically impossible鈥�, writes the head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 pro-business party FDP, Christian Lindner, in a commentary for Die Welt. He ...
As China has begun to refocus the G20 energy agenda on sustainability, Germany should use its upcoming presidency to further boost the importance of energy within the intergovernmental institution, writes Andreas Kraemer in a policy brief for Canada-based ...
Resistance against wind energy is growing in Germany because the country already has 26,600 turbines- many of which need to be switched off when it is windy because of grid overload, writes Franz Hubik in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
The cabinet of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has approved a new framework for lignite mining in the state, which confirms an earlier announcement to reduce originally-approved mining plans. NRW鈥檚 environment ...
Has launched a tool to help municipalities rate the benefits of developing renewable energy infrastructure under different investor and operator models. An online tutorial for the too is now available. See the press release in German here.聽 ...
In 2014, the EU already met final energy consumption target values set for 2020 and is on track to reach the target value for primary energy consumption, according to a report by the EU Commission. With a share of 19.7 percent in 2014, Germany was the ...
High electricity feed-in from renewables increases the chance of negative power prices, according to a new study by Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen). 鈥淩eaching ambitious renewable energy targets increases the frequency of ...
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) with the support of the German environment ministry (BMUB) is holding a workshop on integrating higher shares of renewable energy in the island nation of Cuba in the country鈥檚 capital Havana. According to ...
The economic ministry鈥檚 proposal to counteract low energy prices by raising energy taxes in its Green Paper on energy efficiency is suitable, according to a paper by environmental NGO Green Budget Germany (F脰S). Low energy prices harm the Energiewende and ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:33 Edgar Meza Wind Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest onshore wind tender has resulted in 240 new planned wind turbines with a combined capacity of 1,110 megawatt (MW), just under the total offered volume of 1,243 MW, the Federal Network ...
innogy鈥檚 stock market debut on 7 October could turn into 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest initial public offering (IPO) since 2000, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. innogy- RWE鈥檚 renewable spin-off- wants to attract investors interested in a stable and reliable ...
The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) demands a governmentally-carried public debate among politicians, the industry and unions on a future energy concept for Germany to ensure a 鈥渂asic consensus鈥� in the society. In a press release, the BWE criticises ...
A new study by acatech, the German National Academy for Science and Engineering, looks at supply and demand for raw materials in modern energy technologies, and asserts that enough supply is available to meet demand. The challenge lies in meeting demand ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind rbb Hundreds of wind turbines in the eastern German state of Brandenburg will be decommissioned this year because they will lose their guaranteed funding after 20 years in operation and can no longer be operated ...
The German government is 鈥渁gain leading the way in renewable energy 辫辞濒颈肠测鈥� with the switch from set feed-in tariffs to an auction-based system for renewable power, writes Johannes Urpelainen, Associate Professor at Columbia University. 鈥淎uctions are the ...
23 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt 鈥淭丑别 German government knew the cheating technology鈥� The German ministry for transport has known for a long time that car manufacturers are using technologies that interfere ...
22 Feb 2016
22 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt Industry softens Energiewende-bashing At the latest meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party鈥檚 economic council (CDU Wirtschaftsrat), business leaders softened their ...
Hamburg offers little open space for renewable energy plants, but the city is developing a plan 鈥� known as 鈥淣ew 4.0鈥� 鈥撀� to tap renewable energy being increasingly produced in the neighbouring state of Schleswig-Holstein, Olaf Preuss and Julia Witte gen. ...
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 The shared electricity market between Austria and Germany was seen as a major achievement in 2002 but now it is coming under pressure from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increasing generation from renewables, showing the disintegrative side effects the ...
10 Feb 2022, 14:18 Jessica Bateman Coal n-tv The state premier of easterm German coal mining state Saxony Anhalt has said he believes the goal for an earlier coal phase-out date in 2030 is unlikely to be achieved, news website n-tv reports. Speaking ...
The heads of the conservative CDU-CSU parliamentary groups in the German Federal Parliament have complained about a letter by energy minister Sigmar Gabriel stating that previous governments had 鈥渋gnored鈥� the necessary integration of the German energy ...
Volkswagen AG has begun discussions with German solar energy group SMA Solar Technology AG about a possible collaboration on energy storage, James Ayre writes in Clean Technica. Talks so far appear to be in the early stages, however. SMA has said it is ...
Until now, tenants in Germany had to pay the renewable energy surcharge of 6.35 cents per kilowatt-hour that finances the state-guaranteed price, or feed-in tariff, for producers of renewable energy even if the building they live in is installed with a ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Clean Energy Wire The federal government in Germany has to rethink its role in supporting public transport systems and change its approach from pouring money into new projects to instead creating ...
Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
Hamburg-based energy provider HanseWerk operates one of the most modern electrolysis plants in the world, Olaf Preuss writes in Die Welt. The key technology can be used to store energy by converting electricity generated by wind and solar sources into ...
Reducing the dependence on imported fossil fuels is one of the targets of German energy policy 鈥� but is the switch to an energy system based on domestic renewables the answer, ask researchers from the Ifo Institut, Center for Economic Studies, in an ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:30 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour ...
The Energiewende is a mammoth project and includes a number of risks. News agency dpa, in an article carried by Wirtschaftswoche, runs a 鈥渇act check鈥� of common claims regarding the energy transition, namely 1) the energy transition increases power costs, ...
Sales of large battery systems for solar installations are on the rise despite a decline in new photovoltaic (PV) installations, Walther Rosenberger writes in Stuttgarter Nachrichten. According to the German Solar Association, the number of installed ...
11 Nov 2021, 16:01 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. Meanwhile in ...
A pilot project from New York could become a threat to traditional energy suppliers, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The so-called blockchain technology which is used to encrypt and secure data that is transmitted between users ...
Photovoltaics specialist IBC Solar is developing a solar park tailored to the needs and possibilities of energy cooperatives, thereby adapting to changes brought on by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). Solar PV parks with a capacity of up to ...
Primary energy consumption in Germany rose by 1.6 percent in the first six months of 2016, compared to the same period last year, the AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) reports. The reasons are the colder weather at the beginning of the year, a growing economy, ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean Energy Wire Together with French manufacturer Alstom, German railway company Deutsche Bahn is going to start trial runs with the country鈥檚 first battery-powered passenger train. Test operation of the so ...
Some 350,000 households in Germany are unable to pay the power bills, Craig Morris writes in Energytransistion.de. The figure is available in data provided by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency. Such statistics, however, remain largely unavailable in ...
A global Energiewende is already underway, but world leaders should give it a further push at the upcoming G20 meeting in China, according to a WWF report. 鈥淎s the current level of coal in the mix remains a problem to be solved for Germany, the country ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy storage market will聽see significant growth between 2015 and 2021 to reach an annual value of 1.03 billion US dollars (about 0.93 billion euros), according to a new study by GTM Research. This is to聽be triggered in part by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal sector remains strong enough to noticeably hinder the energy transition, writes Stefan B枚脽ner of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in a research paper. He examines the coal sector in Germany amid the Energiewende with the goal of ...
Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) are launching an official complaint against Germany with the European Commission because of the 鈥渋nadequate implementation鈥� of the energy efficiency directive (EED). The environment ...
The Energiewende cannot succeed without a heating transition, because the heat market is the most important final energy consumption sector in Germany, writes the government-owned financing institution KfW鈥檚 research division in a paper. However, the ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The executives of companies worldwide are becoming increasingly concerned about climate change, but in Germany less so in global comparison, said ...
The federal government wants to give 100 million people in the global south access to sustainable, renewable energy by 2030, they have stated in an answer to parliament. This is to be achieved through a range of new bilateral and multilateral energy ...
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has published its 2016 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard. Germany is ranked as the world leader in energy efficiency, followed by Italy, Japan, France and the UK. The US came 8 th. The ...
A trial by utility Stadtwerke Hannover and university researchers has shown that electric cars are suitable to serve as flexible power storage to balance the grid, reports Bernd Haase in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. During the trial with 40 e-cars, it ...
21 May 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital ...
With 967.5 million euro, German utility EnBW has achieved a 24.2 percent lower operating result in the first six months of 2016 than in the same period in 2015. The company expects results for the whole year to be five to 10 percent lower than last year. ...
The German government is paying more attention to its internal coalition agreement from 2013 than to the Paris Climate Agreement, Dagmar Dehmer writes in an op-ed for the Tagesspiegel. This is why the reformed Renewable Energy Act could does not support ...
The recently introduced buyers鈥� premium for electric vehicles is insufficient to kickstart the Energiewende in the transport sector, according to a metastudy by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) for the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). Many comprehensive reforms ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:37 Jessica Bateman Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen EU Tagesspiegel Background German industry association BDI has criticised the EU鈥檚 natural gas taxonomy plans due to conditions regarding the share of climate-friendly gases in newly built ...
Despite 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 recent reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the country鈥檚 wind power sector remains hopeful that new revisions to the law could soon follow Bundestag elections next year, Die Welt reports. Indeed, next year鈥檚 elections are the key ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:20 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Cars Clean Energy Wire Berlin has expanded its ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 foreign policy with Russia is one of the reasons why the federal government backs the creation of an EU Energy Union at the same time as the construction of the contentious pipeline Nord Stream 2 that is to connect the two countries, writes ...
The German government partially or fully waived the country鈥檚 renewable energy levy for 717 companies last year because of a special equalisation scheme to mitigate competitive disadvantages for energy intensive industries, Petra Hannen writes in PV ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transformation from conventional to renewable energies (Energiewende) is creating conflict with nature conservationists, writes Oleg K枚dding-Zurm眉hlen on Deutsche Welle. In Bremerhaven on the North Sea coast, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende has so far failed to turn the country away from the electricity production from hard coal and lignite, writes Emilio Godoy in an article on Inter Press Service. 鈥淭丑别 persistence of fossil fuels casts a shadow on [骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚] green ...
01 Apr 2019, 14:09 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Politics Society Deutsche Welle / Spiegel Online / taz / dpa Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continued to make waves in German media over the weekend, after she spoke to a crowd of thousands at ...
The Renewable Energy Act (EEG) should be ditched and replaced by a carbon tax, writes Dieter D眉rand in an opinion piece in WirtschaftsWoche. 鈥淚t is time for a clear cut: get rid of the EEG. In its place could be a simple tax on CO 2,鈥� writes D眉rand. 鈥淭his ...
The reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) could spell the end for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grassroots energy cooperatives, reports Guy Chazan in the Financial Times. The new auction system poses large financial risks for cooperatives, members of the sector told ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 COP26 Clean Energy Wire The G20 summit in Rome has achieved good results on climate policy, said German chancellor Angela Merkel. 鈥淭hat is a good signal for Glasgow," she said. Ahead of the UN Climate Change ...
15 Feb 2022, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Climate action and the protection of biodiversity need be more closely linked, according to a German scientist contributing to the UN鈥檚 climate change report, which ...
The federal government cabinet has today decided on the draft budget for 2017 鈥� which now has to be approved by parliament. The economy and energy department will be allocated 7.4 billion euros, 3 billion of which will be used in research, development and ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Edgar Meza Cars Government Clean Energy Wire Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has taken 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading political leaders to task for ...
Efficiency investments in buildings have a significant impact on real estate prices, according to an analysis by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). But the impact on rented apartments is smaller than on freehold property, reducing the ...
Siemens has raised its profit outlook after large orders- 鈥減articularly in Power and Gas and Wind Power and Renewables鈥� in Europe and the Americas- pushed third quarter order figures beyond forecasts. The company now expects basic earnings per share this ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel is spending some 15 million euros on a campaign for energy efficiency (Deutschland macht鈥檚 effizient), designed to stimulate energy efficiency in households, companies and councils, WirtschaftsWoche ...
A poll of 1,000 people in Germany shows that three quarters would like to see renewable energies replace fossil energy entirely, a survey by heating and cooling technology company Stiebel Eltron found. Eighty-five percent of participants said that they ...
The G20 group of countries, whose energy ministers are going to meet in Beijing this week, are responsible for around 75 per cent of global energy consumption and energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. State secretary Rainer Baake, who is going to ...
Natural gas as a partner for renewable energies is the 鈥渒ey to a low-carbon energy system鈥�, said Eirik W忙rness, senior vice president and chief economist at Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil, in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche. W忙rness criticised ...
14 May 2021, 14:16 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters German energy company Uniper has agreed to consider an earlier than planned shutdown of its controversial coal-fired power plant Datteln 4, Reuters reports. "Should future ...
Important shifts in power relations within the energy sector occur in the course of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, according to a new research publication by Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS). 鈥淭丑别 reality is that power over certain ...
German municipalities see energy supply and mobility management as important topics in 2030, according to a survey by the Society of Automotive聽and Traffic Systems Technologies of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). 68.3 percent of the surveyed ...
The European Parliament has called for raising the EU鈥檚 energy efficiency target to 40 percent by 2030 and for binding targets for member states to achieve the 30 percent renewables target by 2030. There should also be binding requirements for increasing ...
In 2014/15, the iron and steel industry has received about 2 billion euros per year in reliefs and exemptions from taxes and fees for electricity and CO 2, according to an analysis by Green Budget Germany (F脰S), commissioned by the Green parliamentary ...
A new research project by Fraunhofer institute IWM in Freiburg is going to investigate the secure use of hydrogen in natural gas pipelines. The project will run for 4 years and cost 9.4 million euros, 1 million of which will be contributed by the federal ...
27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Bruderm眉ller, CEO ...
After the British vote to leave the European Union, the EU鈥檚 energy union plans are at risk of being 鈥減ut on the back-burner until more pressing issues are worked out,鈥� writes Sara Stefanini for Politico. In light of the UK鈥檚 presidency of the Council of ...
Neither the addition of gas-fired power plants in southern Germany nor a sharp decrease in power production from lignite in eastern Germany would limit the need for new power grid infrastructure, a study by Prognos AG, RWTH Aachen, E-Bridge and FGH on ...
11 Feb 2016
11 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Der Tagesspiegel 鈥淕overnment sees no future for two thirds of ski regions鈥� The government predicts that with a 2 degree Celsius warming, 61 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ski regions would not be suitable ...
There are no regions in Germany where power grid bottlenecks justify the government鈥檚 plan to slow down renewable development with the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) ...
18 Dec 2020, 14:11 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Electricity Grid Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background The separate planning procedures ...
Deutsche WindGuard has published offshore wind statistics for the first six months of 2016. 聽Compared to the first half of 2015, less offshore wind turbines (OWT) were added to the grid. Forty-three OWT with a capacity of 258 megawatt (MW) first fed into ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire While a majority of Germans know that climate protection requires a different kind of mobility, most of them have serious reservations about electromobility and are largely ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:23 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire The tax cuts for company cars in Germany are undermining the country鈥檚 efforts to get a ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:41 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Handelsblatt Energy company Vattenfall would like to expand its involvement in wind energy in Germany, J眉rgen Flauger writes in the ...
To be able to avoid high re-dispatch costs for grid stabilisation, German researchers are testing a new system to better predict power generation of wind and solar PV parks, writes the science journal nature. With the research project EWeLiNE, Fraunhofer ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government after the September election must quickly introduce measures and instruments to ensure the country reaches the ...
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- Germany needs a national instrument to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector to meet climate targets by 2020 because even a reformed European Emissions Trading System (ETS) alone will not have enough impact, leaked ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 Agreement text expected Saturday morning / Germany, EU reiterate push for ambitious deal/ Leaders get on the phone/ Scientists fear weak deal Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Seven European transmission grid operators (TSO) have launched an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The aim of 鈥淓urobar鈥� is to securely and efficiently ...
08 Apr 2016
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Berliner Zeitung 鈥淭丑别 federal government is shifting into reverse gear concerning Energiewende鈥� The federal government鈥檚 plans to reform the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) will lead to ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Spiegel, rbb As expected, the Berlin House of Representatives has passed a law making solar photovoltaic (PV) systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Spiegel writes. The Berlin ...
16 Sep 2015
16 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv /sites/default/files/files/article/media-utility-shares-slump-criticism-coal-plant-export-financing/clew-reporters-guide-2015.pdf S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淲hy shares of E ...
The European Union would lose a strong voice for ambitious climate protection policy if the UK leaves following last week鈥檚 referendum, writes Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in a guest commentary for Capital. A ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany will raise its federal budget contribution for international climate financing from the current four billion euros to six billion euros annually by 2025. The success of the ...
To secure the transport of large quantities of renewable power to the main consumption centres in Europe, an extension of the current electricity grid is needed, according to the ten-year network development plan (TYNDP) published by European Network of ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:55 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Charlotte Nijhuis Cars Clean Energy Wire The transport sector will not automatically become more sustainable through the adoption ...
Declining prices for power storage systems will prompt a 鈥渘ew wave of investment鈥� in the PV sector over the coming years, according to German Solar Association managing director Carsten K枚rnig, writes Recharge. "More and more people are utilising ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear and coal phase-out both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when ...
19 Jan 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen G20 & G7 Germany will use its presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies this year to turn the group into 鈥渁 nucleus of an international climate club,鈥� said German chancellor Olaf Scholz at the ...
06 Apr 2016
06 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Ministry for the Environment and Nuclear Safety Using nuclear energy is an 鈥榓berration鈥� The nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl almost 30 years ago showed that using nuclear energy ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:44 Kerstine Appunn Coal Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government has spent 16.3 billion euros supporting projects to help coal mining regions with the transition away from the fossil fuel industry, a first report by the federal ...
11 Dec 2014
11 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Study: Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) 鈥淗ow the world sees the Energiewende鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende 鈥� the shift from conventional and nuclear energy to a renewable power supply 鈥� is the focus of ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt / FAZ Almost 200 submitted hydrogen project proposals showed a 鈥渉igh interest鈥� and readiness to invest in the technology in Germany, the economy ministry told business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:01 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire At first sight, this election result could be interpreted as a defeat for climate action because both the Green Party and the Left Party, which have the most convincing answers ...
12 Mar 2015
12 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Spiegel Online 鈥淟et the utilities die鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest utilities are in an existential crisis of their own making, writes Nicolai Kwasniewski in a commentary on Spiegel Online. 鈥淭丑别 survival of ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire The strict minimum distance rules for new onshore wind turbines in Bavaria need to be relaxed to ensure a faster expansion of the renewable power source, the state鈥檚 economy minister Hubert ...
Federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks said that the government鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050 will show more precise goals than her ministry鈥檚 final version, which is now in the consultation process with other ministries. 鈥淲e will have to put back ...
19 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv taz 鈥淭丑别 blind spot has to go鈥� It is good and important that the future of coal power in Germany is finally being discussed, Patrick Graichen, head of the Berlin based think-tank Agora Energiewende ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Institute for Renewable Energy (IWR) 鈥淲颈苍诲 power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
11 May 2021, 13:30 Edgar Meza Industry Clean Energy Wire The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has opened a new research facility in the eastern state of Brandenburg that will focus on alternatives to fossil fuels as part of its efforts to decarbonise ...
11 Dec 2017, 00:00 A round of fresh 鈥榞reen鈥� finance pledges by companies and investors marks the kickoff on 12 December in Paris of a climate finance summit initiated by French President Emmanuel Macron. However, NGOs say that the developments so far have ...
23 Dec 2020, 13:43 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 Kerstine Appunn Grid Storage Cars ...
04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Decision on e-car support postponed The German government has postponed the decision about how to boost e-cars until March after a high-level meeting with ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:18 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Heating Handelsblatt German households are increasingly switching to electric heat pumps when upgrading their heating systems and analysts predict demand will continue to grow, Handelsblatt reports. Heat ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:23 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:05 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Investments in the former coal mining region in the western German state of ...
07 Dec 2021, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Bioenergy Clean Energy Wire The potential of cannabis for climate action and sustainability should be included in the new German government coalition鈥檚 plans, the German Cannabis Industry Association (BvCW) ...
17 Mar 2021, 13:04 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Electricity market Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background The planned tightening of the EU climate target for 2030 would significantly increase CO2 prices in European emissions trading and thereby largely ...
17 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin has approved a plan to expand its bicycle route network to a total of 3,000 kilometres, Tagesspiegel reports. "We will increase the proportion of ...
19 May 2021, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Grid Clean Energy Wire Project planning for additional powerlines in Germany has been slowed down by the Covid-19 pandemic as many public consultations were postponed or held online, Jochen Homann, president of the ...
18 May 2015
18 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Tagesspiegel / Petersberg Climate Dialogue VI Merkel wants carbon trading scheme for the whole world Environment ministers from around the world meet in Berlin today and tomorrow to discuss and ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:15 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Kerstine Appunn Transport Seven major German cities want to test 30 km/h speed limits on a large scale. While inner-town speeds ...
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty are underway in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy Wire ...
11 Feb 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Only a fraction of the two percent of land surface the German government wants to reserve for wind power production will actually be needed for constructing turbines, environmental ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:35 Julian Wettengel EU Clean Energy Wire NGO Germanwatch聽 has welcomed 聽the Franco-German statements on climate action after the two government cabinets met virtually on Monday (31 May), but called for greater speed of cooperation. 鈥淲e are ...
16 Dec 2021, 12:23 Edgar Meza Coal Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Institute for Economic Research (ifo Institute) has warned that the planned economic transformation of lignite mining regions could fail if subsidies are not better targeted. The federal ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:29 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 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said vulnerable countries must be put centre-stage and kicked off the conference with a pledge to raise Germany's contribution to the climate change adaptation fund by 50 million euros. ...
13 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
02 Dec 2014, 00:00 An annual report from Germany's grid regulator highlights developments in the German power sector. The report shows a high degree of grid stability in 2013 and only a small increase of average prices paid by households as ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Elections & ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:44 Edgar Meza Transport Cities Die Zeit / Clean Energy Wire The proliferation of electric kick scooters in European cities in recent years cause more damage than benefits for the environment, Daniel Reck, a researcher with the Swiss ...
02 Jun 2021, 12:14 Expert Climate Neutrality Foundation Stiftung Klimaneutralit盲t Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Industry Efficiency Julian Wettengel Agriculture Clean Energy Wire The Climate Neutrality Foundation has proposed a ...
29 Oct 2015
29 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Federal Environment Agency (UBA) 鈥淓nergiewende: Industrial consumers can use power more flexibly鈥� German industry could make their power demand more flexible and thus reduce load by up to 6 ...
30 Oct 2015
30 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv UN Climate Change Secretariat 鈥淕lobal response to climate change keeps door open to 2 degree C temperature limit鈥� A report assessing the 140 climate action plans submitted to the United Nations ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background Less money has been spent out of the Federal Energy and Climate Fund (EKF) than was available in 2020, Tagesspiegel Background writes after seeing the 2020 balance sheet of the ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:41 Jessica Bateman Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Manager Magazin/ Handelsblatt An NGO has filed lawsuits to try and force BMW and Mercedes to stop producing internal combustion engines by 2030 at the latest. Environmental organisation ...
25 Feb 2016
25 Feb 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Fraunhofer ISE 鈥湷冶鸢静共圆忖�檚 electricity export surplus brings record revenue of over two billion euros鈥� Net electricity exports earned Germany a record 2.07 billion euros last year, according to think tank Fraunhofer ISE. ...
30 Oct 2020, 10:18 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Clean Energy Wire Some 110 billion euros will need to be invested in expanding and updating 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity network by 2050 in order to meet the demands of the energy transition, according to a study ...
06 Jul 2015
06 Jul 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt Global Edition 鈥淧ower provider鈥檚 new playbook鈥� German utility RWE is planning a major reorganisation聽 in response to the rising tide of renewable energies in the German power market, much like 聽rival ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Cities Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin plans to speed up its coal exit, regional newspaper Tagesspiegel聽 reports. The prospective city government composed of the Social Democrats (SPD), the ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:09 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The weather in Germany last year may have been average overall, but severe rainfall in July led to the worst flooding in decades, with 鈥渃atastrophic consequences鈥�, according to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Cars Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament ...
14 Dec 2020, 11:13 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion is making headway 鈥� despite the Covid19 pandemic 鈥� but the power market is in need of a thorough overhaul if the country is to pursue its ambitious electrification targets while keeping up high levels of supply ...
11 Mar 2016
11 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Ministry for Environment 鈥�5 years after Fukushima: Nuclear power has no 蹿耻迟耻谤别鈥� The nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago showed that atomic power was never 100 percent controllable, ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:48 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:28 Edgar Meza Coal Finance Clean Energy Wire As part of its efforts to achieve a coal phaseout in Germany by 2030, Commerzbank is introducing a number of measures aimed at decreasing business linked to fossil fuels. From 1 January, ...
31 Aug 2015, 00:00 German households and industry made great strides last year to use energy more efficiently, according to energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Just 4.8 gigajoules of energy were needed to produce goods worth 1,000 ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:14 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry ...
19 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv taz 鈥� die Tageszeitung 鈥淎mong energy pioneers鈥� Chancellor Angela Merkel should use her visit to Brasilia this week as an opportunity to breath fresh wind into the political dialogue concerning ...
21 May 2021, 12:49 Edgar Meza Solar pv magazine Germany is seeing a major boost in residential photovoltaic installations and that is leading to an increased uptake in home storage systems, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine, citing a report by EUPD ...
18 Mar 2021, 13:57 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union is planning to make the CO2 uptake of natural sinks part of its path toward climate neutrality, but depending on the specific rules a loss in stored greenhouse ...
16 Aug 2016, 00:00 The rise of volatile wind and solar power in the share of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity generation means that keeping the grid stable becomes an ever more complex 鈥� and potentially costly 鈥� task. Predicting how many renewable megawatts will be ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:03 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Heating Clean Energy Wire The Federation of German Industries (BDI) wants ...
24 May 2017, 00:00 Days before the G7 summit in Italy, foreign governments praised German Chancellor Merkel for her international leadership on climate and urged her to sway US President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement. ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany has reached its target of one million registered battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, said the government in a press release. This means the country has reached ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:11 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Edgar Meza Agriculture Clean Energy Wire The adaptation of forests to the consequences of climate change is the most important task facing forest ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Hamburger Abendblatt Copper producer Aurubis from Hamburg will enter the budding e-car battery recycling market and plans to open an industrial-scale pilot plant within the next five years, ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas demand is set to increase significantly from 90 billion cubic metres (Bcm) today to 110 Bcm by 2034 as the country exits both nuclear and coal, said the energy research company and ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:30 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire The German government says green hydrogen production projects with partner countries should not come at the expense of local ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire A broad-based coalition of environmental groups and police representatives is calling for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government to impose a聽general speed limit on聽the country鈥檚 ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:43 In a last TV debate three days before the German elections, the representatives of almost all major parties have agreed that more rapid and effective climate protection must be a priority for the next government. At the same time, the ...
29 Oct 2021, 13:35 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren Amelang ...
06 Jan 2021, 13:19 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 EU Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The new US ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:18 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Carbon removal Fossil fuels Technology Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:00 Kerstine Appunn Grid Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power transmission grid operators聽(TSO)聽have said that the construction of key electricity lines will likely be delayed by several years,聽 reports Jakob Schlandt in Tagesspiegel ...
07 May 2021, 12:03 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Elections & Politics Security Clean Energy Wire The co-leader of the German Greens, Annalena Baerbock, emphasised possibilities ...
07 Oct 2021, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry In its efforts to slash CO2 emissions in steel production, thyssenkrupp Steel has announced what it describes as a milestone on its path to climate-neutral steel 鈥� its new bluemint Steel brand, produced with less ...
16 Apr 2015
16 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv IG BCE / Friends of the Earth Germany Supporters and opponents of coal gear up for mass protests The heated debate over the future of coal in Germany will be taken to the streets next weekend, as ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Clean Energy Wire Almost a quarter of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind turbines require a new business model when fixed payments under the country鈥檚 Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after their 20-year guaranteed support period, ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire Freezing gas infrastructure and subsequent supply outages happening in Texas during a recent winter storm are 鈥渆xtremely unlikely鈥� in Germany, gas grid operators said. 鈥淭丑别 transmission ...
11 May 2015, 00:00 Large utilities are being forced to take radical steps to reshape their business models to fit the new energy landscape. But experts say it remains to be seen if they can innovate their way out of the crisis. Expert BDEW-German ...
12 May 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Handelsblatt German education and research minister Anja Karliczek is calling for immediate investment in research and development of technologies to remove CO2 from ...
