08 Jul 2017, 00:00 The German presidency and chancellor Angela Merkel pulled off a ¡°solid¡± diplomatic success on climate policy by closing the ranks of all G20 members except the United States at the summit in Hamburg, experts for climate diplomacy said. ...
27 Aug 2020, 11:48 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:58 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Hydrogen Handelsblatt Renewables energy company Siemens Gamesa is to start production of green hydrogen in addition to wind power, CEO Andreas Nauen said in an interview ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 After a year filled with events that put ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ climate policy in the limelight, such as the G20 summit in Hamburg, the COP23 in Bonn, or the debate over coal in the ill-fated ¡®Jamaica coalition¡¯ talks, the country¡¯s political life ...
29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt ¡°Steel before a great exodus¡± The EU¡¯s plans for a reform of the emissions trading system might lead to a mass exodus of steel companies from Europe, reports Carsten Dierig in Die Welt. ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn COP26 Clean Energy Wire New pledges made at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow mean that wealthy nations will almost deliver on their promise to provide 100 billion US dollars per year in climate finance to ...
26 May 2021, 13:27 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Clean Energy Wire The aviation sector requires a very high fleet-wide blending rate sustainable fuels in order to reverse the trend of rising CO2 emissions as the sector continues to grow, says the German ...
10 May 2021, 14:27 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Hydrogen German?federal?and state?governments and industrial leaders have? agreed ?on a roadmap aimed at establishing?climate-friendly?power-to-liquid (PtL)?aviation fuel?production.?The? PtL ...
25 May 2021, 13:18 Expert Climate Neutrality Foundation Stiftung Klimaneutralit?t Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Industry Efficiency Edgar Meza Mobility Clean Energy Wire The Berlin-based Climate Neutrality Foundation is calling ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars Clean Energy Wire Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
06 May 2021, 13:06 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Sectors of German industry are struggling with rising carbon prices and demanding help from the government, which has made CO2 pricing a key part of its climate protection ...
26 Jan 2015
26 Jan 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Online ¡°Aigner under pressure¡± Writing for S¨¹ddeutsche Online, Frank M¨¹ller reports on tensions between Bavarian energy minister Ilse Aigner and state prime minister Horst Seehofer, as Aigner prepares ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Cars Clean Energy Wire The heads of Greenpeace Germany and an activist from climate protest group Fridays for Future activist have filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen in a German court accusing the carmaker of failing to do ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union¡¯s? forest strategy ?should ¡°meaningfully flank and complement¡± the forest policies of the member states but not replace them, the agriculture ministers of Germany and Austria have ...
28 Nov 2014
28 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv RBB Info Interview with Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks With the Climate Action Programme, due to be passed by cabinet next week, Germany is on track to reach its greenhouse gas reduction ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:57 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Cars Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Around 77 percent of motorists drive slower than 130 km/h on German ...
21 Dec 2018, 15:08 Germany plans to use its diplomatic clout during its two-year term on the UN Security Council to ensure that climate change concerns are an integral part of UN security policy. People who are most vulnerable to global warming, such ...
17 Nov 2020, 15:38 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Zeit Online Germany needs a ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:05 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cars dpa / Focus Online Carmaker VW says an earlier German coal exit is necessary for the company to ensure its electric car fleet receives the clean power it needs to ...
07 Nov 2014
07 Nov 2014, 00:00 Spiegel Online ¡°Protest against climate policy: Greenpeace dumps 8 tonnes of coal in front of Gabriel¡¯s ministry¡± Enivronmental group Greenpeace dumped eight tonnes of lignite coal in front of the German Economics Ministry on Thursday, ...
28 Oct 2014
28 Oct 2014, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv AG Energiebilanzen Mild weather bridles German energy use in 2014 Mild weather in Germany has curbed energy use for heating so far this year and should result in a 5 per cent drop in primary energy usage for 2014 ...
28 Oct 2014, 00:00 The rise in renewable energy production and a mild winter have probably led to a decline in carbon emissions in Germany this year, energy research group AG Energiebilanzen said. Overall, German energy use dropped to the lowest level ...
14 May 2019, 16:28 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel said that her new climate cabinet will debate how Germany could reach climate neutrality by mid-century. Should the ministers find a ¡°sound¡± way to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, ...
05 Nov 2021, 12:23 Edgar Meza Transport Freight Elections & Politics Spiegel / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The Greens and pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), which look set to join the Social Democrats (SPD) in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ next coalition government, ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza Transport Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Leading German environmental organisations are calling for an immediate halt to the construction and expansion of highways and for a new federal mobility law to be passed ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- While millions of Europeans will look skyward for a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse on March 20, technicians at German power grid operator TenneT will be glued to their controls. When the moon covers parts of the sun, the ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:18 Expert F?S- Green Budget Germany Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire If Germany gradually reduced ten particularly climate ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:47 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Clean Energy Wire The future German government needs to implement a federal mobility law to ensure the transition to a climate-friendly transport sector, says transport and environmental association ...
22 Mar 2016
22 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt ¡°To inflate or to die¡± Nordex, the small Danish wind turbine manufacturer, has confirmed the takeover of the wind branch of the Spanish group Acconia. The cartel ...
02 Sep 2021, 14:00 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ CO2 price on fuels, introduced in January, is an additional burden for low-income households, according to a report commissioned by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations ...
14 Aug 2020, 13:56 Renewables Industry industrie.de Engineering and technology firm Bosch is expanding its use of renewable electricity, with the goal of reaching climate neutrality at its 400 worldwide locations by the end of the year. According to? ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance Clean Energy Wire One of the main objectives of this year¡¯s UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:23 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Wind Clean Energy Wire Dutch transmission grid operator?TenneT recorded a more than 21 percent increase in offshore wind energy transmission from the North Sea to ...
05 Jul 2017, 00:00 The pressure on Germany to take global leadership on climate action has been constantly mounting since US President Donald Trump decided to take the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. Ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:41 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism ...
18 Sep 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel German household power costs are moderate as a share of GDP per capita when compared to other European countries, despite being among the highest in absolute terms, an analysis by price ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:37 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Utilities Handelsblatt The German government has requested permission to support ...
19 Aug 2020, 13:50 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean ...
22 Mar 2021, 12:16 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut f¨¹r Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU The European Union should create a ¡°climate club¡± with other large emitters instead of ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Focus Online / B?rsen-Zeitung Plans by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ future government coalition to bring forward the coal exit to 2030 have elicited criticism from state politicians in the country¡¯s coal mining regions, Focus Online ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:23 Edgar Meza Transport Clean Energy Wire / Reuters ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ aviation industry has presented a joint master plan to bring air transport more in line with climate protection. Presented by leading industry groups, including the German ...
09 Nov 2017, 00:00 German state secretary for environment says ETS reform shows EU can work together on climate policy / Negotiators progress on technical details of Paris rulebook / COP president Fiji was world's third most climate-impacted country ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) were the two most popular parties among young voters in the German elections, an analysis conducted by research institute ...
29 Feb 2016
29 Feb 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Rheinische Post ¡°Union demands lignite fund¡± Mining union IG BCE argues Germany will need lignite power production until 2047 and should create a fund to finance the technology after it stops earning money in about 15 ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:52 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire A rapid roll-out of charging infrastructure as planned by the German government could significantly speed up the uptake of electric vehicles, according to a report by the ...
23 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland The German government is pushing for the establishment of an international climate alliance aimed at accelerating the implementation of the Paris Agreement, ...
03 Mar 2021, 12:20 Expert Ferdinand Dudenh?ffer Professor and Director, Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Germany should double the price for diesel and petrol fuel ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:48 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire Interest in electric cars is growing rapidly in Germany, according to a survey by the Technical Inspection Authority (T?V). Nearly one in four respondents (23 percent) said they already have ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Hydrogen EU Leopoldina / Acatech / Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities In a joint statement, leading German scientific institutions, including the German National Academy of Sciences ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:00 As some of the richest democracies in the world, the Group of Seven (G7) have the opportunity to strike a ¡°grand bargain¡± with developing nations on combatting climate change at the same time as health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Transport Clean Energy Wire / WirtschaftsWoche / ...
25 May 2020, 12:38 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Julian Wettengel Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire Solar and wind power in Germany could supply ...
28 Apr 2020, 10:59 The coronavirus crisis has put a spotlight on deteriorating transatlantic relations as both continents focus on the well-being of their own populations and U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push his America First strategy. Over ...
12 Jan 2021, 13:48 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Freight Clean Energy Wire The German transport ministry ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Car production numbers in Germany have been falling since late 2019 and unresolved raw material supply bottlenecks look set to continue to have a negative impact, ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Security ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:24 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU Clean Energy Wire The German government cabinet has approved the programme for its EU Council presidency one week before the start of its six-month tenure next week (1 ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:04 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Industry dpa / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / RND German industry federation BDI has warned ...
10 Dec 2015, 00:00 [Updates new draft release] Shorter draft with less brackets and clarity on long-term target / EU fights for differentiation and sees red lines on ratcheting up ambition crossed / Saudi Arabia as the symbol for "self-destruction ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany can remain a leading market and innovator in mobility and car production also after the shift to electric vehicles ¨C but this will be a ¡°herculean task¡± and corresponding policies ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:34 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German energy company Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg (EnBW) is running trials of a floating wind turbine ...
18 Oct 2021, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ARD / Clean Energy Wire / n-tv The possible new German coalition government of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic party (FDP) could install a ¡°new climate ...
22 Dec 2020, 13:05 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Policy Clean Energy Wire A large majority of Germans are prepared to make significant lifestyle changes to help ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:51 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Energy Wire Taking issue with efforts by the German government to tighten climate targets in its decision to amend the Climate Action Law, which is set to be voted on in parliament on 24 June, ...
25 Jan 2021, 12:36 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:20 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire A new funding model should link payments for climate protection performance for forest owners with ambitious biodiversity standards, the federal environment ministry (BMU) has proposed ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:48 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Digitalisation Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government wants to make server farms climate neutral by 2030, sparking concern in the industry, Handelsblatt reports. Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said she ...
16 Dec 2021, 11:11 Discussions about climate action tend to centre around the need for mitigation ¨C reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming. But even if we get on track to limiting warming to 1.5C, scientific projections show ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:43 Grid Cars Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ federal government believes the country has sufficient power generation capacity to accommodate a major expansion in the number of electric cars, according to a parliamentary report. The government ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:41 Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition ?nerg¨¦tique / Deutsch-Franz?sisches B¨¹ro f¨¹r die Energiewende Renewables Energiewende Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International ...
17 Mar 2021, 12:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Clean Energy Wire Climate activists from the Fridays for Future movement across the world will take to the streets on Friday 19 March for their seventh Global Climate Strike. With the slogan ...
29 Jul 2021, 13:35 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ environment ministry wants to start systematically collecting data about damage caused by climate change in a register, following the recent devastating floods that hit the ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Cars Technology Clean Energy Wire Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability (LBF) have developed a lightweight battery pack to reduce the overall weight of e-car batteries. ...
27 Jul 2017, 00:00 Germany's most important carmakers have met in "secret workshops" since the 1990s in order to reach agreements on technological standards and prices, according to a report by news magazine Der Spiegel. The companies ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:36 Rachel Waldholz Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / pv magazine The drop in electricity demand driven by the coronavirus pandemic will likely lead to more hours of negative wholesale electricity prices in Germany this year, according ...
13 May 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid Clean Energy Wire Following severe ...
13 Oct 2020, 13:58 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Coal EU Clean Energy Wire The Polish state-owned PGE energy company¡¯s plans to expand the?Tur¨®w?opencast mine threaten to pollute German water supplies, the advocacy ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:29 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Disputes about coronavirus recovery funds slow down climate action in the EU, Hendrik Kafsack writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The veto of Hungary ...
14 May 2021, 14:14 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society Agriculture Tofu sausages, veggie burgers and other plant-based alternatives to meat are quickly becoming more popular in Germany, but their share remains tiny when compared to animal products. ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Clean Energy Wire The capacity of pumped storage hydro power stations available to the German energy system is expected to grow by about 1.4 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, with roughly one third of the capacity being ...
25 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale ...
24 Jun 2020, 17:30 Germany is one step closer to finalising legislation on the planned coal exit by 2038 at the latest, as the government approved a draft contract between the state and companies to flesh out the country¡¯s farewell to lignite. Among other ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:31 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Expert The German Gas and Hydrogen Industry Fossil fuels Gas Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire As Germany plans to exit both nuclear and coal power generation over the next years, gas plants ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:42 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German aviation industry is open to reducing the number of domestic flights to lower emissions, according to an industry concept paper ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Unabated and strong climate change could make the whole of Germany ¡°a hotspot for climate change risks¡± by the end of the century, said the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) based on ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:20 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ political parties should combine climate protection ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:42 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new CO? price on transport and heating fuels, which goes into effect on 1 January 2021, could mean some companies initially pay twice for their emissions, ...
20 May 2021, 12:28 Edgar Meza Society Agriculture Clean Energy Wire The eating habits of German consumers are increasingly favouring greater climate protection, sustainability and less waste, according to a new survey published Wednesday by the Federal ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:13 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU In an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau, Green Party colleagues?Lisa Badum, a member?of the German parliament, and ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:03 Julian Wettengel Cities Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ municipalities and the federal environment ministries have agreed that municipalities will receive better counsel and support for efforts to adapt to a changing climate. The government ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:30 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics tageszeitung (taz) ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Left Party has agreed the most radical election programme yet in terms of climate protection goals and demands at its party convention on 19-20 June. Climate is the key ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Freight Bayerischer Rundfunk / AFP / Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ transport minister Andreas Scheuer continues to pursue a ¡®cash for clunkers¡¯ scheme for old lorries. Since large lorries with alternative drive systems, ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:12 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Zeit Online Charging an electric vehicle at a public charging point can be significantly more expensive than doing it at home, Zeit Online writes. The price of electricity at a public charging station can be ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:57 Kerstine Appunn Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Higher costs for gas infrastructure and the new CO2 price in the heating sector are set to increase gas costs for German households in 2021, consumer comparison site Verivox has ...
31 May 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Cars EU Clean Energy Wire Ahead of a European court ruling, the vast majority of German cities are within nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air quality limits, show final 2020 data published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:17 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Technology Clean Energy ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:43 Expert ifeu- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Edgar Meza Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg (ifeu) has published ...
20 Nov 2020, 14:31 Julian Wettengel G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire The Group of Twenty (G20) major economies could play a crucial role for global climate action next year, said a German government official in Berlin ahead of this year¡¯s digital G20 summit ...
21 Apr 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Grid Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Network Agency ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Clean Energy Wire The sales of bicycles and e-bikes in Germany increased by 16.9 percent in 2020 compared to the year before, amounting to 6.44 billion euros, the German bicycle industry association (ZIV) ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire Governments across the world have to make the 2020s the ¡°decade of sustainability¡±, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 20th annual conference of the German Council for ...
16 Sep 2020, 13:05 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Technology NDR After a two-year trial period in the town of Klixb¨¹ll in northern Germany, renewables company SkySails Power is looking to build more of its turbines powered by large kites ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Transport Clean Energy Wire German urban air mobility company Volocopter has raised an additional 200 million euros in funding from a wide range of investors to help ¡°solidify [its] leading position¡± in the market and ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:19 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Grid Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Network Agency ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:38 Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw?rtiges Amt International Security Julian Wettengel Security Clean Energy Wire German foreign minister Heiko Maas has reiterated his government¡¯s calls to make climate change a key focus of all ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Zeit / FAZ German media commentators have taken a closer look at the Green Party¡¯s climate action emergency programme for the first 100 ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Reuters The state-run fund created to pay for the intermediate and final storage of ?nuclear power station waste ?in Germany has so far coped well throughout the ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:15 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Spiegel Germany needs to do more on climate, Markus S?der, leader of the ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:00 S?ren Amelang Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire BMW has stepped up its plans for the electrification of its vehicle fleet and will turn Mini into a pure e-car brand. The Munich-based carmaker said the last new Mini with a combustion ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:50 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Clean Energy Wire Global aviation is responsible for 3.5 percent of human-made climate ...
18 Mar 2020, 15:03 Rachel Waldholz Cost & Prices Society Focus Online German households are choosing green energy sources at the highest rate in years, Focus Online reports, citing figures from the rate comparison site Verivox. So far this year, 65 ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor calls on world to walk the talk, fails to deliver strong statement on German coal / Representatives from science, climate and environmental NGOs, and vulnerable small island states appealed to Merkel to meet the ...
29 Oct 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 ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:27 Rose-Anne Clermont Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire As part of a revised industrial energy strategy drafted by economy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU), the German government contemplates capturing and storing ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:55 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Coal Clean Energy Wire Two German hard coal power stations and ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Clean Energy Wire The German government must take into account the heterogeneity of requirements in electric commercial transport when developing charging infrastructure, the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Transport Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ railway operator Deutsche Bahn and airline Lufthansa are planning on making rail travel to ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:44 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Clean Energy Wire New internal combustion engine vehicles should be taxed exclusively according to their CO2 emissions to accelerate the switch to electric mobility, the Climate Neutrality Foundation writes in ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:17 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / FAZ Extreme weather events in Germany have hit the forestry sector hard, resulting in damages of 13 billion euros over the past three years, according to a new report by the German ...
07 May 2020, 13:58 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Household electricity prices in Germany are the second highest in Europe, topped only by prices in Denmark. While Danish households paid 29.2 euros per 100 kWh on ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Clean Energy Wire The switch from coal-fired power generation and oil-fired heating to natural gas increases the greenhouse effect of energy supply by around 40 percent due to methane emissions, ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:36 Charlotte Nijhuis Grid Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Dutch grid operator TenneT wants to invest up to six billion euros annually in grid expansion in Germany and the Netherlands in the next three to five years, the company writes in ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:47 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Industry S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung The protest against Siemens¡¯ involvement in the Adani coal mine project in Australia and the company¡¯s handling of the situation is a cautionary example ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:34 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Industry Cost & Prices EU Clean Energy Wire A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) ...
15 Apr 2020, 15:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire The German Petroleum Industry Association (MWV) has urged the government to ramp up the use of synthetic fuels in the mobility sector during the "economic restart" that will ...
23 Mar 2020, 08:55 The United States administration, politicians and industry warily watch European Union debates on introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism, which would put a CO? price on goods imported to the EU to reduce the risk of carbon ...
11 Dec 2019, 12:56 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Clean Energy Wire In response to several strains on the ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 ¨C marked by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years ¨C German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:38 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Storage Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire Renewable ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:46 Expert City of Berlin Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection Senatsverwaltung f¨¹r Umwelt, Verkehr und Klimaschutz Berlin Climate & CO2 Transport Cities Julian Wettengel Transport rbb / Tagesspiegel ...
27 Jan 2021, 13:30 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Mobility Clean Energy Wire The German transport ministry (BMVI) has commissioned the German Aerospace ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Electricity market Renewables Clean ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:16 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cities Clean ...
24 Sep 2021, 11:20 Their goal is to create an entirely new industry, one that will become as important as today¡¯s oil and gas giants, because the world will be in desperate need of removing carbon to mitigate climate change. Swiss company Climeworks has ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut f¨¹r Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen Technology Clean Energy Wire Researchers in Germany have combined ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:49 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:55 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:49 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas International Handelsblatt Tumbling prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) due to the coronavirus pandemic are worsening conditions for planned gas import terminals in Germany, Klaus Stratmann ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:24 S?ren Amelang Storage Technology Clean Energy Wire Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa has begun storing renewable power as heat in about 1,000 tonnes of volcanic rock in the Northern German city of Hamburg. Electricity heats the rock to ...
22 Oct 2019, 14:09 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Efficiency Clean Energy Wire The number of full-time employees working in the environmental protection sector rose from 251,222 in 2016 to 263 ...
21 Aug 2020, 13:59 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Der Spiegel Methane leaks in municipal gas pipe systems produce an estimated 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents annually in Germany, according to Der Spiegel, which cites a new study by an ...
27 May 2020, 13:32 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Clean Energy Wire Costs of stabilising the German power ...
14 May 2020, 14:17 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire The introduction of automated heavy trucks could further shift transport from rail to road, according to a report by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Aerospace Center (DLR) on the ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire In Germany, 238 railway connections with a total length of 4,016 kilometres could be reactivated, the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) and the Pro ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:50 German foreign minister Heiko Maas has said that climate action is the country¡¯s new foreign policy imperative, as the security implications of its effects can already be seen across the globe. Germany aims to play a leading role in the ...
23 Jun 2020, 13:52 EU Clean Energy Wire A group of non-governmental organisations warns in a report that corporate interests could push for and achieve climate-damaging EU legislation during the country¡¯s upcoming EU Council presidency. Lobbycontrol and ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire Solar power projects? again ?secured the entire volume of capacity available in the fourth joint auction for new solar and onshore wind, as no onshore bids were submitted, the German Federal ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:56 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 ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:08 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Clean Energy Wire The controversial resettlement of five ...
21 May 2019, 13:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:11 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire The economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis must be the ...
11 May 2018, 00:00 The climate talks in the city of Bonn failed to meet expectations they would deliver a draft rulebook for the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement. After eleven days of negotiations, an extra session in Bangkok is now planned in ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:27 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Storage Cars Clean Energy ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:45 Renewable energy sources delivered a fresh record in Germany in the first half of 2019 with a share of 44 percent in electricity consumption as stormy weather boosted wind power production on land and at sea, utility association BDEW ...
18 Apr 2019, 15:15 Germany must make ¡°enormous efforts¡± to reach its climate and energy targets in the transport and buildings sectors, according to a draft of the government¡¯s 2019 progress report on the energy transition. The leaked paper includes new ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:00 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities Clean Energy Wire German energy companies RWE and innogy are jointly looking into large-scale production of green hydrogen and ...
23 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire A German court has ruled to revoke the so-called mixed-price system used to set prices on the energy balancing market. The Higher Regional Court of D¨¹sseldorf¡¯s decision follows a ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:53 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kennedy Nyavaya Grid Wind Clean Energy Wire Several European grid operators have proposed to build at least ten artificial ¡°energy islands¡± as wind power hubs in the North ...
15 Feb 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Oil and gas giant Shell is buying German home battery storage company Sonnen, turning the pioneer into a wholly owned subsidiary once regulatory ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:34 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Electricity market Clean Energy Wire Due to the 2018 heat wave in northern Europe, some German power plants had to ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:43 S?ren Amelang Renewables Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Germany lags behind many other countries in the global trend to finance renewable power installations via power purchase agreements (PPAs), according to a paper by ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to test a hydrogen-powered train in an effort to ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:59 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Charlotte Nijhuis Cars Clean Energy Wire [Update adds December 2020 data and graph] The number of newly registered electric cars in Germany tripled in 2020 ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Germany, Finland, France and Portugal¡¯s National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) drafts include ambitious goals but ¡°lack details and concrete measures¡± to ensure ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:41 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
25 Jan 2021, 12:37 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Germany is among the 20 countries that have been most affected by climate change in the past two decades, according to the Global ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:34 Coal Die Zeit Coal workers in the mining region of Lusatia in eastern Germany are preparing for an uncertain future as the country¡¯s coal exit moves forward, writes Anna Saraste in Die Zeit. With a variety of operations in the area, ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:03 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt German chemicals companies BASF, Covestro and others are eager to find more sustainable substitutes for many raw materials ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Wind International Clean Energy Wire The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has called on the government to stand by the aim of achieving net-zero emissions across Europe by 2050 and urged concrete ...
19 Nov 2020, 13:53 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Der Spiegel State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn will sharply cut back its use of coal power by increasing the share of renewable electricity,? reports ?Gerald Traufetter in ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:48 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
19 Mar 2019, 14:11 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The growth in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewable electricity output triggered by the country¡¯s energy transition policy is ¡°quite an achievement,¡± the JP Morgan Energy Outlook 2019 authored by ...
23 Jun 2020, 14:00 Helping European Union member states find a compromise on a coronavirus recovery package in July will be a first test for the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, says Sophie Pornschlegel, senior policy analyst at ...
02 May 2019, 13:35 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut f¨¹r Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Kerstine Appunn Technology Nature Communications A new system run together with existing air ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:34 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology Clean Energy Wire A new project in northern Germany aims at establishing "the world¡¯s first" power ...
03 Dec 2020, 13:49 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars Clean Energy Wire German car manufacturers are increasing CO2 emissions and risking billions in EU fines with the increasing number of SUV models, Greenpeace says in a report. According to the NGO¡¯s evaluation of ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cost & Prices Spiegel Online Preferential treatment of energy-intensive industries in Germany? cost households and non-privileged companies up to eight billion euros in 2017, Stefan Schultz ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Wind Frankfurter Rundschau Sluggish power grid expansion ...
31 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Coal Electricity market Utilities Clean Energy Wire / Reuters RWE AG, one of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest utilities, has raised its earnings expectations for 2019 due to a stronger than anticipated performance in its energy trading ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Renewables Clean Energy Wire Demand for green electricity contracts in Germany is on the rise again after several years of shrinking interest, according to the price comparison website Verivox. In June ...
07 Aug 2019, 13:58 Freja Eriksen Grid Clean Energy Wire A fourth high-voltage, direct-current line going from northern to southern Germany is required to enable the country¡¯s planned transition to renewable energy, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:22 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Gas International Clean Energy Wire The EU ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:43 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars Clean Energy Wire The intensifying public debate over climate change in ...
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 5 at the UN climate conference: Negotiatons are not "leaping forward" / 1.5¡ãC should be mentioned in agreement / German climate action in the spotlight at home Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:55 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Business Society Clean Energy Wire Purchase decisions for durable products and their long-term use contribute ...
06 Mar 2019, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Renewables Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ northern states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein ¨C both of which generate more renewable electricity than they can use within their ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Gas Grid Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Producing hydrogen from renewable energy is already cost-competitive in niche markets and likely to be competitive in industrial-scale applications within a decade, according to a ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Electricity ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:54 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Cars EU Handelsblatt / Focus Online Europe needs to show more speed and commitment to the expansion of charging infrastructure for electric ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:58 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Cars Clean Energy Wire The number of public ...
27 Oct 2020, 13:28 International dpa Germany is eager to work more closely with the United States on climate action once again, foreign minister Heiko Maas said in statements reported by dpa this week. Maas said that he and environment minister Svenja ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:16 Policy Society Clean Energy Wire The Covid-19 pandemic can offer insights into how to cope with the climate change crisis in terms of risk management and policy reaction,? a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) study says ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Clean Energy Wire / Bizz Energy A group of environmental NGOs in Germany has intensified its resistance to the construction of the country¡¯s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid Hydrogen Technology Clean Energy Wire Renewables-based gases such as hydrogen and synthetic methane will be increasingly important for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ to reach climate targets, say gas transmission grid operators ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:34 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Policy Clean Energy Wire A group of politicians from ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
08 Jan 2021, 12:39 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Latest data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service show that globally 2020 was on par with the warmest year ever recorded (2016), marking the end of the warmest decade on ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Grid Digitalisation Tagesspiegel ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ grid operators are working on their defenses against hacker attacks on their critical infrastructure, Christian Schaudwet writes for energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
02 Jul 2019, 14:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire For the first time, solar energy topped the list of sources for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ net public electricity ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:21 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt The German cement industry (VDZ) has presented plans for the decarbonisation of cement and concrete in a? study outlining its effort to become climate-neutral by 2050. "We ...
25 Apr 2019, 13:05 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Digitalisation Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government isn¡¯t doing enough to support the country¡¯s digital infrastructure, data-centre operators told Inga Janovic in an article for ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:13 S?ren Amelang Society Clean Energy Wire Older people in Germany are more likely to consider climate and environmental protection an important topic than younger adults, a? poll ?by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) has revealed. " ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn International G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire The heads of state and government from the G20 (Group of Twenty) major economies have formally confirmed their cooperation on climate protection. Despite the United States ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:10 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out NWZ Online The northern German state of Lower Saxony has been rattled by Dutch plans to assess the construction of?up to? 10 new ?nuclear power plants, one of which could be? located near ?the German ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:25 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Clean Energy Wire The total power storage capacity ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Digitalisation Technology Clean Energy Wire Energy company E.ON has installed ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ first smart meter in a household, the ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:59 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Destatis Federal Statistical ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:29 Agriculture Wirtschaftswoche / Clean Energy Wire A petition to put greenhouse gas emissions labelling on food was heard by the German parliament¡¯s petition committee after it was signed by nearly 60,000 people, writes Pauline Faust in ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Grid Agora Energiewende With the new offshore grid fee ...
13 May 2020, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Angela Merkel has said EU member states will have to re-negotiate their contributions to greenhouse gas emission ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:30 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 ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Efficiency Government Tagesspiegel The new draft law on the energy efficiency of ?buildings, proposed by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ interior (BMI) and economy and energy (BMWi) ministries, does ...
03 Jun 2019, 14:04 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars Clean Energy Wire Electric cars are unlikely to reduce ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ carbon footprint by any ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Washington Post If ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel is really serious about her? promise to make the country climate-neutral by 2050, her first step would be to reverse the end of nuclear power by 2022, ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:23 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Utilities Clean Energy Wire German energy company RWE has ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:49 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Utilities Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and energy ...
11 Mar 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Finance Clean Energy Wire German reinsurance heavyweight Munich Re has introduced an insurance for operators of battery storage installations that shields them against the risk of their products not performing ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:30 Governments from across the world will descend on Glasgow next week for the UN climate change conference COP26, with the UK presidency¡¯s key objective as keeping the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5¡ãC within reach. It is set ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:17 Rachel Waldholz Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business & Jobs Bloomberg Oil major Shell plans to transform itself into ¡°the largest electricity power company in the world¡± by the early 2030s, and the recent purchase of German battery ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:10 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ mobility transition is a matter for Chancellor Angela ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Clean Energy Wire A support programme by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy and economy ministry will save some 1.4 million tonnes in CO 2 per year as of 2020, the ministry said in a press release. By initiating 1,300 projects ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid Rheinische Post German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has called for faster progress on updating the country¡¯s energy grids as this was essential to a coal-free energy system. In an interview with the ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:09 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany must pay more attention to the impact of renewable power development on habitats and species, the country¡¯s Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) says. ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:12 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Electricity ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Cost & Prices Frankfurter Rundschau High prices for domestic coal-fired power production turned Germany into a net importer of electricity at the end of April after years of being an export champion, Frank ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar Clean Energy Wire The roll-out of solar thermal installations in Germany slowed down in 2018 despite an ongoing construction boom. The number of new installations dropped to 71,000 from 78,000 ...
21 May 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The expansion of onshore wind power capacities is turning into a highly controversial issue for the regional elections in the three eastern German states Thuringia, ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:42 Freja Eriksen Storage Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany is stepping up research in the battery cell sector with a new institute, in a bid to break the dependence on Asian battery cell makers. ¡°We will not leave this field to others, but ...
28 Mar 2019, 13:23 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / Clean Energy Wire German utility EnBW will invest billions of euros in its power grids and other ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:45 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Policy Clean Energy Wire The EU can meet its 2030 climate targets and even ratchet up its commitments in time for the 2020 UN climate summit, writes energy transition think tank Agora Energiewende* in a ...
06 May 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Handelsblatt At the beginning of his term, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy and economy minister Peter Altmaier said he wanted to reduce the power price burden for small and medium industrial companies, but a year ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:10 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire Energy company EnBW¡¯s CEO Frank Mastiaux said Germany will build a ...
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23 Jul 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire Most residents of German apartment buildings are unable to charge an electric car at home, according to a study by influential drivers¡¯ club ADAC. Only 4 percent of apartment buildings assessed had a ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:48 Coal Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Der Spiegel Coal company LEAG says it is dismantling buildings in the Sorbian town of M¨¹hlrose in the eastern Lausitz region as part of the plan to relocate the town¡¯s residents. The town is slated for ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Technology Clean Energy Wire The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) says power-to-x technologies are a ¡°key element in reaching ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ and Europe¡¯s energy policy goals,¡± but need ...
14 Feb 2019, 13:52 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Handelsblatt A deal by German power companies RWE and E.ON to reshape German energy markets could face resistance from regulators, J¨¹rgen Flauger, Till Hoppe and Jeremy Gray report for business daily ...
08 May 2019, 13:31 German industry heavyweights including chemical maker BASF, HeidelbergCement, gas supplier Linde and steelmaker Salzgitter say they are prepared for profound emissions cuts, but still lack the necessary market signal from policymakers. ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The German government supports European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen¡¯s proposal to increase the bloc¡¯s 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target to between 50 and 55 percent, ...
26 Feb 2021, 17:01 Countries across the world and especially the top greenhouse gas emitters must redouble their climate efforts if the global community is to reach the Paris Agreement¡¯s goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2¡ãC ¨C ideally 1.5¡ãC, ...
28 Mar 2019, 09:15 S?ren Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology Clean Energy Wire One in four startups in Germany contributes to environmental and climate protection, according to a report by the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:17 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Wind energy carried from the North Sea by transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT rose by 16 percent in the first half of ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Technology International Stiftung Offshore Wind Energy Together with international partners, the German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has initiated a project to study the removal of ...
16 May 2019, 13:57 Expert Ecologic Institute Energiewende Policy International Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire The current emissions reduction and energy transition plans by all of the 28 EU member states do not ...
20 Dec 2018, 13:59 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Alternative fuel passenger cars are benefitting from declining sales ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Renewables Renew Economy ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation rose to 47 percent in the first five months of 2019, reports Giles Parkinson in Renew Economy on the basis of data by ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:36 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Cars Clean Energy Wire The production of all Mercedes cars in Germany will run on CO2-free energy by 2022, according to parent company Daimler. The carmaker said it was ¡°the first major ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Clean Energy Wire Offshore wind power capacity in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ territorial waters grew steadily in 2018, but the wind power industry says it will have to speed up to meet energy transition ...
15 May 2019, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire There is so far little evidence that German companies whose CO? emissions are limited by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are responding by setting up ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire In a broad alliance, industry associations and workers¡¯ unions have developed joint ¡°Guidelines for CO? pricing¡± in Germany. In a position paper, energy industry ...
09 Oct 2020, 13:38 S?ren Amelang Cars dpa / Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire People in Germany are set to buy more pure electric cars and plug-in hybrids than diesel cars soon, a survey commissioned by price comparison website Verivox shows, news agency dpa ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology Cleantech Group Ten German startups are among the 100 most innovative clean technology companies from around the globe, according to US-based ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Storage Clean Energy Wire German industrial conglomerate Siemens has launched its first battery storage system geared toward private homes. Homes that generate their own electricity from sources like solar panels will be ...
10 Jan 2019, 09:15 The German coal exit commission is set to deliver its final recommendations for the country¡¯s coal exit in February 2019, but this report is likely to be only the beginning of a long and controversial policymaking process in the country ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Storage Clean Energy Wire The batteries of electric cars can make a significant contribution to keeping the power grid stable as power generation shifts towards intermittent renewable energy sources, carmaker ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:20 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency S?ren Amelang Coal Finance International Clean Energy Wire German government-owned business and development bank KfW stops financing all coal ...
08 May 2019, 13:16 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang Gas Wind Business & Jobs Reuters German engineering conglomerate Siemens is spinning off its gas and power business, which has dragged on the firm¡¯s performance as the rise of ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Finance Utilities dpa / Focus Online US investment bank Goldman Sachs says German utilities RWE and E.ON remain good investments, despite the coal exit, newswire dpa reports in an article carried by Focus Online. In an ...
21 Dec 2018, 13:33 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv ...
05 Aug 2019, 13:17 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Digitalisation Government Security Handelsblatt The Association of Energy Market Innovators (BNE), a lobby group of grid-independent energy suppliers in Germany, has criticised the German ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:28 Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs International The Hill / Bloomberg Opinion Opinion writers are invoking ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Energiewende in their arguments over US proposals for a Green New Deal (GND). ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ experience proves the Green ...
22 May 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire A group of more than 1,000 companies from Germany has joined the appeal by student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) for greater climate action efforts. Under the label ...
09 Apr 2019, 12:40 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ahead of tomorrow¡¯s first meeting of the so-called climate cabinet, German finance minister Olaf Scholz has launched his vision for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition. In his ...
02 May 2019, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire The first three months of 2019 have seen the lowest level of onshore wind power expansion in Germany since the year 2000, says the FA Windenergie an Land (Onshore Wind Power Agency), a group ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:51 S?ren Amelang Gas Business Hydrogen Start-ups Technology Clean Energy Wire The cosmetics industry is increasingly interested in using renewable hydrogen, according to German electrolysis start-up sunfire. Hydrogen made with renewable ...
15 Feb 2019, 11:44 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar Utilities Clean Energy Wire German utility EnBW and renewable power plant operator ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Clean Energy Wire The German government has set aside 45 million euros for research in zero-emission ship engines to ¡°make a significant contribution to the energy ...
18 Jul 2019, 17:05 A fuel switch from coal to gas cut emissions from German fossil fuel power plants by a third in June 2019 as compared to the same month the year before. Lower gas prices and higher costs for CO2 allowances are part of the explanation. ...
04 Jan 2019, 11:00 German climate and energy policy must urgently become more proactive in 2019 to increase companies¡¯ planning and investment security, says Mario Ohoven, president of the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:17 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:40 S?ren Amelang Transport Clean Energy Wire Marking ¡°groundbreaking progress,¡± a German pilot project has made kerosene using concentrated sunlight, water and CO2 for the first time, according to the German Aerospace Center (DLR), which ...
11 Dec 2018, 15:47 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Policy Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal commission will hold its next full plenary meeting on 25 January, followed by the last meeting on 1 February, a commission source told Clean ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:26 Expert WBAE- Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection Agriculture Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Germany is a laggard when it comes to sustainability in its ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:21 S?ren Amelang Start-ups Utilities Wirtschaftswoche Shell¡¯s acquisition of home battery start-up Sonnen and its plans to become the world¡¯s largest power company worry German utilities, Konrad Fischer and Angela Hennersdorf report for ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tagesspiegel The ministries responsible for implementing climate policy in Germany get bad marks from newspaper Tagesspiegel in an analysis of their first year in office after the ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / Handelsblatt The European Commission announced Tuesday that it will not raise antitrust objections to a major part of the deal between German utilities RWE and E.ON, Reuters reports. The approval ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:45 Freja Eriksen Coal Society Clean Energy Wire Forty-one mayors from Germany, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Montenegro and Slovakia have signed a declaration calling on the European Union for more ...
13 May 2019, 14:14 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Two weeks before the European Parliament elections, German voters have said that climate and environment protection are the biggest challenges for the future of the European Union,? a ...
The merger of German energy companies Wintershall and DEA creates Europe¡¯s biggest private oil and gas company at a time when international climate researchers urge industrialised countries to tame their appetite for carbon-intensive energy generation, ...
Flexible energy options, such as energy storage, smart charging electric vehicles, demand response, and interconnectors are needed to ensure that the energy transition proceeds on an optimal path, according to a Bloomberg NEF report focused on the UK and ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:06 Industry Handelsblatt Politicians must urgently implement EU-wide mechanisms that help ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ heavy industry to continue to be successful while transitioning to greenhouse gas neutrality, says Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy retail companies face rising costs for purchasing power at the wholesale market, the energy industry lobby group German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) says in a press release. In 2016, energy companies on average paid ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:50 Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw?rtiges Amt International Security Climate & CO2 Security dpa / n-tv The United States has, for the moment, put a halt to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ambitions to set up a system to monitor climate change-related ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Responding to the cancellation of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ buildings commission, the governing Social Democrats (SPD) are calling on their coalition partner, Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Security Clean Energy Wire The German government supports the Dominican Republic in its preparations for a UN Security Council (UNSC) high-level open debate about the impacts of ...
01 Oct 2020, 16:41 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel EU Clean Energy Wire EU ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Nuclear phase-out Politics ZDF The German economy and energy minister, Peter Altmaier, defended ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ continued reliance on coal, saying on public broadcaster ZDF it was the only ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:16 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire The opposition Green Party has called on ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government to rapidly implement the recommendations of the ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:40 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv ...
10 May 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cities Clean Energy Wire Restructuring the landscape of big cities may be key to a successful climate policy, as large conurbations and their growth are a top source of carbon emissions around the ...
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04 Jun 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire The influential industry lobby group BDI has criticised ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government for damaging the economy with unclear and erratic policymaking in areas such as climate, energy and taxation. ¡°There has to ...
At a meeting in the Rhenish lignite mining region, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit commission debated first proposals on how to cushion the effects of an exit from coal-fired power generation in affected regions. A draft interim report, seen by the Clean Energy Wire, ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:21 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Deutsche Welle / Quartz Coal mining workers in the Rhineland have mixed feelings about the pending coal exit, Gero Rueter reports in a feature for Deutsche Welle. The ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Electricity market Cost & Prices Tageszeitung ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ export surplus of electricity reached a new monthly record level in January, Bernward Janzing writes in the Tageszeitung (taz). ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Efficiency Die Welt The sluggish emissions reduction in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ heating sector could mean the country will face severe financial sanctions by the European Union for failing to ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:15 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel Background The German government has presented an incomplete National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) draft to the European Commission at the last minute ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:47 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Transport EU Clean Energy Wire / Der Spiegel / dpa ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ transport minister ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Cars Clean Energy Wire The German company ACISA has signed an agreement with state-owned Bolivian YLB group to cooperate on the exploitation of lithium reserves in the world¡¯s largest ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:19 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Security Clean Energy Wire German Chancellor Angela Merkel said climate change was one of the major security policy issues of today, in a video podcast ahead of the Munich ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Gas Security Federal Network Agency / Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs & Energy German authorities want to test the country¡¯s resilience to a severe natural gas shortage ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:19 Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ Die Gr¨¹nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Finance dpa / Focus Online ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Climate Action Law planned for 2019 must include a price for ...
02 Apr 2019, 13:52 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Politics Society Clean Energy Wire Germany should strive to find consensus on the ...
24 May 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Italian energy company Enel has announced it will enter the growing market for e-car charging stations in Germany, Kathrin Witsch reports for business newspaper Handelsblatt. ¡°The ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has launched a series of tests into the use of hydrogen in a working blast furnace aimed at reducing CO2 emissions ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Germany needs a ¡°national master plan¡± to save its forests as carbon sinks and the federal government should provide 800 million euros over the coming four years to states ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:53 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Clean Energy Wire German education and research minister Anja Karliczek has urged the country¡¯s business community to get on with large-scale domestic battery cell production. Batteries are a ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:39 Expert RWI ¨C Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI ¨C Leibniz-Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Cost & Prices ...
The German Energy Agency (dena) has gathered a group of companies from the energy, automotive, aviation, chemicals and mineral oil, mechanical and plant engineering, insurance and finance sectors to launch a global alliance for power fuels. The list of ...
03 May 2019, 13:20 S?ren Amelang Storage Hydrogen Technology A German consortium has launched a research platform to store renewable hydrogen in a salt cavern. Following a two-year research project, the partners of the HYPOS alliance plan to build the ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:20 S?ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE expects to spend heavily in the US green energy market as it maps out its future in global renewables after its pending asset swap with peer E.ON, Tom K?ckenhoff, David French, and Vera ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Household prices for electricity and natural gas in Germany have risen substantially in March 2019 compared to the same month in the previous year, price comparison website Verivox ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:19 S?ren Amelang Storage Business & Jobs pv magazine German battery storage supplier Sonnen has received a 25-million-euro loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), reports Marian Willuhn in pv magazine. The EIB said supporting ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Welt Online Kay Scheller, president of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Court of Auditors (Bundesrechnungshof), says the government should ¡°seriously consider introducing a CO2 price¡± to meet the country¡¯s emissions ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:37 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Business Clean Energy Wire While the UN climate conference enters its critical phase, climate protection has long become a business worth billions for German companies, write ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Grid Clean Energy Wire Grid operators TenneT and TransnetBW have presented their detailed plans for the route of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ large north-south electricity line ¡°SuedLink¡±, running from windy Schleswig-Holstein down to ...
11 Jan 2019, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Cities Clean Energy Wire Berlin start-up Ubitricity will transform up to 1000 street lights in the German capital into charging stations for electric vehicles. An additional 600 wallboxes ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German environment ministry (BMU) says it will open a research centre focused on reducing emmissions in energy-intensive industries in the eastern German ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:49 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany has the highest electricity prices in Europe both for households and industry, according to EU data. German households are the only ones in the EU which ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:13 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Government International Clean Energy Wire ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:25 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Renewables Handelsblatt / Wuppertal Institut As members of the coal exit commission debate a concrete timetable for ...
At an event held by the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) on 27 June, parliamentarians from the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the Greens, and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) called the government¡¯s climate and energy policy measures misguided. ...
The first smart meter in Germany has received a license from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) two years after the government decided on a large-scale roll-out, Jakob Schlandt writes in energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. The ...
The regional municipality association Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) mulls selling its shares in German energy company RWE as ¡°grave changes on the energy market¡± mean that ¡°the time of big plant operators is over,¡± Welt Online reports. LWL ...
In a back-room deal, passages in the EU Renewable Energy Directive pertaining to self-consumption of power by small consumers were apparently changed at ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ urging, writes Tagesspiegel Background. On June 14, European Commissioner for Climate Action ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:27 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ? transport task force ?has postponed the deadline for presenting its highly anticipated proposals on how to lower emissions in the sector to meet the official ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Freight dpa / airliners.de The emissions caused by the growing volume of global air travel are a problem that needs to be addressed more vigorously to minimise the effect of international tourism on ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:38 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Government International Clean Energy Wire ...
04 May 2020, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Grid Clean Energy Wire Germany made important progress in expanding the power grid in 2019, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in its? annual report. Of 7,700 kilometres of planned grid expansion, 1,300 km have been ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:24 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 CarbonBrief If the German government adopts the commission recommendations for a coal exit by 2038, coal capacity would barely fall faster than a business-as-usual pathway over ...
Around 70 partners, including grid operators, power producers, consumers, and traders in eastern Germany, have launched a trial to find cheap and efficient ways of resolving costly grid congestion on windy days, for example by using demand flexibility, ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Society Clean Energy Wire Amid the coronavirus crisis, German Fridays for Future student climate activists are focusing on online activities for the announced? Global Climate Strike ?on 24 April. The protesters are ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices Greater emphasis on large-scale solar power plants built on open land could cut the costs of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition by up to 3.5 billion euros by 2030, according to a study commissioned by ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt When presenting the European Commission¡¯s plans for a carbon-neutral EU in 2050, energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete¡¯s? remark that certain ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:52 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Storage Lausitzer Rundschau Eastern German lignite mine operator Leag, a subsidiary of Czech energy company EPH, plans to build a large-scale battery near its power station in Schwarze ...
12 Dec 2018, 13:17 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Clean Energy Wire Renewable power generation in Germany is headed for a record this year, according to utility E.ON. ¡°By year-end, we expect more than 200 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Welt Online Industrial giant Siemens wants to get rid of its nuclear energy legacy and shift responsibility for about 10,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste onto the German state, ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:51 Rachel Waldholz Grid EurActiv The German government aims to rapidly expand the power grid to keep up with the planned transition to renewable energy, but farmers say new infrastructure could damage valuable crop land, Florence Schulz ...
10 Jul 2018, 15:01 Wind and solar power, together with other renewable sources, have overtaken coal as ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ most important power source, figures released by the industry group BDEW show. But this milestone in the history of the country¡¯s energy ...
Several German federal states have revamped their approach towards the energy transition and climate protection. In a joint initiative, the states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate are calling for a reform of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to speed ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:20 Expert GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Climate & CO2 Technology Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Climate & CO2 Gas Clean Energy Wire Large amounts of methane, a major greenhouse ...
A price on carbon emissions from fossil fuels could help to drastically reduce the cost of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ renewables surcharge for customers and effectively accelerate emissions reduction in the country, according to an expert opinion commissioned by the ...
Energy start-up Lumenion, Vattenfall Energy Solutions and Berlin-based housing company Gewobag have kicked off a steel storage pilot project in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ capital to store excess regional wind and solar power, the companies announced in a press release. ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:40 Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Government Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal commission can conclude its work soon if the country¡¯s finance minister puts enough money on the table, the head of the ...
Gas suppliers received an average 3.42 cents per kilowatt hour for the gas they sold to final consumers in 2017, a decrease of three percent on 2016. ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ statistics office said households on average paid 4.96 cents, a decline of 4.4 percent. ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:55 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Society Die Welt Activists¡¯ elevation of the Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to expand ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:40 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society dpa / die Welt / taz ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer on Thursday (20 August) to discuss climate policy,? dpa reports in an ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:32 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
23 May 2019, 12:22 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Coal Climate & CO2 ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Utilities Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility RWE announced this week that it was cancelling plans to build a new ...
As renewable energy facilities supply a growing share of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ electricity, the power grid is struggling to cope with their fluctuating output, Peter Ilg writes for Zeit Online. On very sunny or windy days, too much electricity surges into the network ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Handelsblatt / Zeit Online / FAZ German media commentators have cautiously welcomed the announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping that his country aims for carbon neutrality by 2060. China¡¯s ...
02 Aug 2019, 12:19 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Freight Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Aviation Association (BDL) said it wants to bring CO2 emissions from air traffic to zero- after months of rising criticism from ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ power and natural gas customers face ¡°considerable¡± price rises in 2019 as more than 200 suppliers have announced to charge 4.4 percent more for energy, the price comparison website Verivox says in a press release. For a household with an annual ...
The German economy and energy minister, Peter Altmaier, has renewed calls for a European battery cell factory to counter Asia¡¯s dominance in the sector. ¡°We need competitive, innovative and environmentally sustainable production capacities for battery ...
21 Dec 2018, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The new coalition treaty for the incoming government between the conservative CDU and the Green Party in the German state Hesse bears the ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:31 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire The decision to postpone the COP26 UN climate negotiations because of the coronavirus pandemic drew praise and concern from Germany. Government officials, experts and ...
12 Feb 2019, 13:01 S?ren Amelang Grid Storage Spiegel Online German grid operators plan to build three gigantic batteries with combined discharge capacity of 900 megawatts (MW) to relieve grid congestion from 2025, Manuel Berkel reports for Spiegel Online ...
11 Mar 2019, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Government Clean Energy Wire Most homeowners in Germany support the country¡¯s transition towards a low-carbon economy but are unhappy with the project¡¯s slow progress, a survey commissioned by heating ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:56 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel EU Clean Energy Wire ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid WirtschaftsWoche / Economy & Energy Ministry German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said the government will raise the compensation payments for land owners who provide their property for the ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Wind Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Engineering conglomerate Siemens, oil giant Shell and German grid operator TenneT have called for stepping up the country¡¯s plans to roll out offshore wind, in ...
08 Aug 2019, 14:10 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 The Guardian Heat, drought and storms, as well as beetle and fungi plagues, have damaged an area of German forest the size of 200,000 football fields this year, leading politicians to raise the issue to a ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Utilities Bloomberg The push to scrap the use of coal as a power generation fuel by Germany and other European countries could make Finnish energy company Fortum think twice before launching a bid ...
The German government will stick to its plan to introduce a Climate Protection Law in 2019 despite? major internal difficulties ?harrowing the coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD). A first ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Economic Trends Research Taxes and other regulatory burdens are much lower for electric cars than for other low-emission vehicles that run on biofuels or synthetic fuels, according to a ...
The German government is preparing the launch of a commission tasked with finding measures to make buildings more energy efficient and bring down carbon emissions in the heating sector, Susanne Ehlerding writes in the energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
The states of Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia are pushing for stricter rules on minimum wind turbine distances near settlements and for curbing planning privileges that enable wind parks to be planned and built in less time. The Bundesrat, Germany ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition is expensive and ineffective, writes economist Joachim Weimann of the University of Magdeburg in a guest commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Despite high financial support for green energies and high electricity ...
The renewable energy sector will be competitive without financial support within the next four to five years, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier said on the sidelines of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. As an example, ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:14 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The number of electric cars worldwide rose 64 percent last year to reach 5.6 million in early 2019, according to the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen ...
