11 Apr 2016, 00:00 With backing from economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, thousands of German steelworkers rallied against EU reform plans for the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) on Monday. Gabriel said there must be no contradiction between climate ...
07 May 2025, 11:40 91tv Team Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Orsted cancels major UK offshore wind farm as costs jump The move is a significant blow to UK plans to boost the clean energy source in the coming years, and also a setback for the offshore wind ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:11 Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The popularity of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 temporary 9-euro public transport ticket has not only shown that people are willing to embrace public transport and stop using their cars if such ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:37 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The German Green Party's candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, has said her party would ...
19 May 2025
19 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team FT: Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France Berlin has signalled to Paris it will no longer block French efforts to ensure nuclear power is treated on par with renewable energy in EU legislation, ...
09 Feb 2021, 14:40 The energy transition marks the single largest effort in history to reduce industrial waste by pursuing the goal of burning zero fossil resources and replacing them with renewables- but it does not come without waste on its own. Germany ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:38 S枚ren Amelang Gas Heating Welt / Clean Energy Wire / Zeit / taz 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas industry has welcomed the coalition government鈥檚 compromise on the transition to climate-friendly heating, while some media commentators and environmental ...
The reform of the Renewable Energy Act, which includes the introduction of tenders for renewables, is a challenge for all Energiewende players- but especially for citizens, according to a new brochure by the German Cities Council, local utilities ...
Frank Appel, director of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 postal service Deutsche Post AG, says the country is unlikely to achieve its aim of shifting a considerable share of its freight transports from road to railroad 聽to reduce emissions, Alfons Frese writes for Der ...
16 May 2025
16 May 2025, 12:45 91tv Team Carbon Brief: Clean energy just put China鈥檚 CO2 emissions into reverse for first time Electricity supply from new wind, solar and nuclear capacity was enough to cut coal use despite rapid power demand growth. DW: Belgian ...
15 Jun 2020, 10:30 A mainly fossil energy guzzler, heating in Germany has taken a back seat to the Energiewende's poster child, the power sector. But the 鈥淲盲rmewende鈥�, or heating transition, has significant potential to curb emissions and is ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government鈥檚 target of sourcing 80 percent of the country鈥檚 electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann International EU Handelsblatt France and Germany are preparing a relaunch of their cooperation on energy policy, competitiveness, and technology for when conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has formed his ...
09 Apr 2024, 14:00 German environmental NGOs have welcomed a landmark climate victory by an association of women in Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights as a breakthrough for climate action. The court found that the European Convention on ...
21 May 2025
21 May 2025, 12:50 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU likely to propose quota to ban Russia gas imports by end 2027 The European Union is likely to propose a quota as the mechanism to enforce a bloc-wide import ban on Russian gas by the end of 2027, which officials ...
26 Mar 2015
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Ministers and energy experts meet at international energy conference in Berlin Under the slogan 鈥渢owards a global Energiewende鈥� the first Energy Transition ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Society Clean Energy Wire A clear majority of people in Germany say that the environment must not be damaged in order to increase economic growth, a major survey by the country's ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:02 S枚ren Amelang Heating Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has agreed on a draft law requiring municipalities to submit plans for the transition to climate-neutral heating, but has softened interim targets for ...
22 May 2025
22 May 2025, 12:05 91tv Team FT: Northvolt failure raises stakes for Europe鈥檚 battery industry Swedish start-up鈥檚 fate raises fears its European peers will also perish in the 鈥榲alley of death鈥�. Bloomberg: Spain, Portugal urge EU effort on power link after ...
15 May 2025, 13:43 Expert DGNB 鈥� German Sustainable Building Council Deutsche Gesellschaft f眉r Nachhaltiges Bauen Climate & CO2 Efficiency Cities Construction Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Construction Clean Energy Wire Climate-friendly homes ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:00 A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the courts into a new and powerful line of defence in the fight against climate change. An increasing number of judges now consider global warming a ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Aachener Zeitung The case of a new wind farm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that took nine years to complete illustrates the difficulties project developers across the country face when trying to ...
26 Oct 2020, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S枚ren Amelang Society Clean Energy Wire People in Germany believe that politicians and consumers share equal blame for slow progress in climate action. In a survey ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity ...
30 Mar 2016
30 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Reuters/SMA Solar 鈥淪MA Solar returns to profit on foreign demand鈥� SMA Solar, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest solar group, posted its first operating profit in three years thanks to strong foreign ...
28 May 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire Homeowners in Germany installed more gas boilers than climate-friendly heat pumps when replacing their heating systems in 2024, though the gap is closing, found a report by the government ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Cities Clean Energy Wire With only a few days to go before the referendum to make 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital climate neutral by 2030, the debate over the ambitious initiative intensified among policymakers, experts, and in the ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt ...
The new German system for tendering renewable energy projects to the cheapest bidder urgently needs to be amended to avoid severe planning insecurity for the wind industry, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. The reduction of ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:44 German businesses, researchers and civil society have welcomed that democratic and pro-EU parties continue to have a large majority after the 2024 EU elections, but warned that wins for the populist and far-right camp means that it ...
05 Jun 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Utilities Clean Energy Wire Auctions for new gas-fired power plants in Germany should be held before the end of this year, economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche has said. While the ...
The coalition agreement between Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) would mean that citizens鈥� energy projects will lose a key advantage in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables auction system, writes Marlies Uken for Zeit Online. ...
The average support rate for all successful bidders in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second onshore wind power auction was 4.28 eurocent per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh). 鈥淭he average support rate decreased by more than a cent per kilowatt hour, compared to the first round,鈥� said ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Security Clean Energy Wire Accelerating the transition to largely domestically produced sustainable energy such as wind and solar electricity is the only way to really ensure energy security in Europe, said the European ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:54 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire The average heating consumption of oil, gas and district heating rose by over 23 percent in Germany between October 2024 and February 2025 compared to the previous heating ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German government鈥檚 reduction of energy taxes on fuels between June and August 2022 to soften the impact of rising prices due to the energy crisis has not been fully passed ...
Germany can teach Ireland many lessons about how to transition to a low-carbon energy system, writes Margaret Ward in an article in The Irish Times. Its citizen-owned renewable energy projects have created innovative business models and increased support ...
23 Jul 2020, 14:14 Bioenergy Cities Die Welt A biogas plant has started operation in Hamburg which can supply around 5,700 households with energy by producing methane from the city鈥檚 largest sewage treatment facility, Julia Witte writes in Die Welt. The ...
09 May 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Security Clean Energy Wire Germany must speed up the electrification of its rail network for military purposes as well as for environmental reasons, said the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) ...
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Energy experts say the German chancellor's secpticism over extensive payments to conventional power plants as back-up for renewables sends a strong signal that capacity markets may not be on the cards in the upcoming power market ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:30 Despite encountering many difficulties, Germany's so-called coal exit commission will manage to sketch a pathway out of coal-fired power production that is acceptable for everyone involved, says Peter R枚ttgen of renewable energy ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Renewables Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), which is currently run by the Greens, who will likely not be part of the new coalition government, has presented ...
23 May 2023, 13:44 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Society Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz labelled the protest actions from climate activist group Last Generation, who glue themselves to artwork or roads, as 鈥渃ompletely nutty ...
26 Jul 2018
26 Jul 2018, 16:22 Following last year鈥檚 strong growth, wind energy expansion in the first half of 2018 dropped substantially. Wind power groups are calling on the government to launch the special auctions for renewable energies that it agreed to hold in ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:38 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Julian Wettengel Agriculture Clean Energy Wire A more vegetarian or vegan diet could halve Germans鈥� diets鈥� greenhouse gas emissions, shows a report ...
07 Oct 2022, 13:32 The state election in Lower Saxony on 9 October is the first major vote in the country since the energy crisis fueled by Russia's war has started to take a toll on the German economy. The ballot in the state that hosts most of ...
13 May 2025
13 May 2025, 11:46 91tv Team Bloomberg: Southern Spain outages preceded nationwide blackout, report says About 2.2 gigawatts of capacity went offline in the south of Spain less than a minute before the complete collapse of the Iberian Peninsula鈥檚 ...
15 Aug 2016, 00:00 Germany's energy ministry wants to give top priority to saving energy in its move to a renewable future. It admits the long-term targets of the energy transition, or Energiewende, will be missed with current policies, and that ...
21 May 2025, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Clean Energy Wire The cost of extracting water from Berlin鈥檚 main river, the Spree, should be increased to reduce future demand and help prevent conflicts about allocation, economists at the German Institute ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables Clean Energy Wire German energy group LEAG, the country鈥檚 second biggest electricity producer and a key lignite company, plans to build the country鈥檚 largest renewable energy site in the eastern Lusatia coal ...
11 May 2020, 13:48 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Freja Eriksen Society Clean Energy Wire Almost 60 percent of Germans said the climate crisis will have larger long-term effects than the coronavirus聽 in a ...
German utility E.ON鈥� chief operating officer for grids and renewable energies, Leonhard Birnbaum, demands a change to the country鈥檚 onshore wind power auctions to ensure that professional wind power project developers cannot benefit from advantages given ...
The council of federal state governments in Germany (Bundesrat) wants to counter 鈥渦ndesirable developments鈥� in the country鈥檚 auction system for onshore wind power by changing the rules for citizens鈥� energy projects, the Bundesrat says in a press release. ...
19 Jan 2021, 12:21 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Cars Clean Energy Wire Structural challenges pose a threat to the competitiveness of Germany as a business ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:02 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire Some 10 percent of 30 million households in Germany still reliant on fossil fuels for heating are unable to adequately warm their homes or are "heavily ...
18 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025, 12:02 91tv Team BETD: German government hosts 11th Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue聽 Event brings together representatives from over 130 countries to discuss the financing and roll-out of the global energy transition. S&P Global: Gascade ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Construction Clean Energy Wire Germany's first database of materials for the country's entire building stock could provide an important foundation for increasing the rate of reuse and recycling of ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:34 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 tageszeitung (taz) [UPDATE adds Left Party quote] The German government has declined to specify the amount of greenhouse ...
22 Dec 2023, 15:00 The German government has to fund a wide range of its ambitious climate and energy transition projects for 2024 with considerably less money than initially planned. A ruling by the country's highest court on the constitutionally ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:23 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
06 Dec 2016, 00:00 According to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 constitutional court, the government鈥檚 2011 decision to speed up the nuclear power phase-out was in line with constitutional requirements. Nuclear power plant operators argued the move amounted to expropriation ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Long-distance bus service provider FlixBus insists on being included in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned monthly 49-euro ticket for nationwide public ...
24 Feb 2025, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Households in Germany continue to pay higher energy prices compared to pre-energy crisis levels, price comparison website Verivox said on the three-year mark of Russia's war of ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy International Clean Energy Wire / Bloomberg / Tagesspiegel Background German chancellor Olaf Scholz is strengthening ties with the Central Asian region, signing accords for energy and ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:21 Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire / ntv The majority of rare earth imports into Germany in 2024 came from China, according to data by the country's statistical offce (Destatis). Rare earth ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Thousands of scientists from a broad section of fields have come together to urge Germany's next government to prioritise climate policy. "We are very ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:51 The European Commission unveiled a series of plans to make the bloc's industry more competitive, reduce energy costs and cut red tape. Germany's industry associations called the proposals an important first step in the right ...
19 May 2023, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Policy WirtschaftsWoche / WAZ / FAZ The cronyism allegations and subsequent departure of energy state secretary Patrick Graichen, as well as the public dispute about government plans for a de-facto ban of fossil heaters ...
23 Apr 2025
23 Apr 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: German regulator plans to cut 1.5 billion euros of power grid fee costs Germany's energy grid regulator BNetzA said the payments are no longer necessary because green power has now reached such high volumes that ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean Energy Wire The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has cautioned that new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power, as a means to mitigate global warming, must not slow the rollout of ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / FAZ / Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is facing several challenges linked to its plans to nationalise Europe鈥檚 largest buyer of Russian gas, Uniper. The company operates ...
25 Apr 2025
25 Apr 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Politico: German coalition member backs US easing Nord Stream sanctions in Russia peace talks One of Germany's leading Social Democrats said Thursday that a potential U.S. move to ease sanctions on Russian energy could be ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:48 La铆s Clemente Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The student climate protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) has announced to bring activists to the streets in 25 German cities on 18 June. As German COVID-19 ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices dpa Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said he aims to lower German electricity prices in the country's climate cabinet, where聽 key decisions 聽on German climate action legislation ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:16 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Policy Clean Energy Wire Progress of German energy transition continues to be mostly stagnating, 聽a report by research centre Prognos carried out on behalf of the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said ...
30 Apr 2025
30 Apr 2025, 11:14 91tv Team ESA: Satellite launched to count forest carbon The European Space Agency鈥檚 Biomass satellite was designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world鈥檚 forests and their crucial role in Earth鈥檚 carbon cycle. IEEFA: EU ...
28 May 2025
28 May 2025, 11:29 91tv Team WMO: Global climate predictions show temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming 5 years Global climate predictions show temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five ...
04 Apr 2022, 14:04 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire Tenants living in well-insulated homes in Germany will have to shoulder the lion鈥檚 share of their CO2 costs for heating, while landlords must cover most of the bill in ...
04 Jun 2020, 14:06 The German government coalition has decided to reboot Europe's largest economy with a 130 billion euros stimulus package that contains steps to further the country's landmark energy transition. Aside from comprehensive actions ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:04 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The leader of the Germany's governing ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Heating Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Germany could continue to emit greenhouse gases past its 2045 deadline to become climate neutral, with Norwegian certification company DNV forecasting emission ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Government n-tv There are not enough skilled workers to carry out infrastructure modernisation improvements set out in Germany's historic investment agreement, the Association of German ...
20 May 2025
20 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Prospect: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next move could make or break green Europe Urgent national security and economic demands are competing with the country鈥檚 climate commitments. European Commission: Economic forecast for Germany After ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal dpa / Stern Germany's mining labour union and the premier of a lignite mining state have warned against speeding up the country's coal exit under a new government. In their current ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany's economy ministry expects the country's GDP to rise 0.3 percent in 2025, according to its annual report. A report from autumn put growth at 1.1 percent, however, ...
23 May 2025, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Security Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is looking to convert a large part of its fuel supply to renewable energy-based e-fuels. At an industry summit hosted by business daily ...
17 Feb 2021, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Renewable Energy Act | EEG Policy Handelsblatt / pv magazine Plans to scrap Germany's renewables levy are maturing within Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with a new ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:37 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Clean Energy Wire The German Climate Action Programme 2030 will only become ...
12 May 2025
12 May 2025, 12:08 91tv Team ENTSO-E: Expert panel initiates the investigation into the causes of Iberian blackout聽 Panel launched on 9 May led by experts from Transmission System Operators aims to find root causes of the blackout; will make ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:39 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should act quickly to kickstart the hydrogen economy with concrete steps as not enough has been done in practice so far, said the Association of German Engineers ...
07 Apr 2022, 12:53 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire European oil companies have earned some three billion euros in additional revenues since the beginning of the Ukraine war thanks to the high prices for diesel and petrol, ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 As the current legislative period draws to a close, The Clean Energy Wire asked key stakeholders to review the last four years of German energy and climate policy 鈥� and tell us what they would like to see from the next government. ...
06 Dec 2024, 09:25 Ensuring the timely construction of new hydrogen-ready gas power plants must be a top priority in energy policy for Germany's next government, says the head of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Lobby ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:29 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Deutschlandfunk Germany's opposition Green Party has dared too little in their decisions at the party's ...
22 Apr 2025
22 Apr 2025, 12:35 91tv Team FT: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 neighbours eye share of Friedrich Merz鈥檚 big spending plans 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economically liberal neighbours are warming to relaxing EU state subsidy rules for the long term, as they bet on their national industries ...
02 Apr 2025, 10:05 They may rail against immigration and climate action on stage but behind the scenes, far-right leaders across Europe welcome labour migrants who are needed for the continent鈥檚 energy transition. To fill its rapidly widening skill gaps, ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Expert VZBV- ...
15 Apr 2021, 15:15 The European Union鈥檚 decision to increase its greenhouse gas reduction target to at least 55 percent by 2030 could mean that Germany has to decrease emissions by much more than its current target. Much depends on the concrete proposal ...
24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025, 10:30 91tv Team DW: German election results explained in graphics Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics. Bloomberg: German Social Democrats ditch Scholz ...
The conflict between citizens鈥� right to clean air and car owners' right to protection from depreciation on diesel vehicles could be solved by introducing a 鈥渂lue badge鈥� with a transition period for older cars, Eric Heymann, analyst at Deutsche Bank ...
26 May 2025, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Security Funke Mediengruppe 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity supply infrastructure increasingly represents a target for cyber attacks, Claudia Plattner, president of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) ...
27 Apr 2020, 13:10 In the fight against climate change, hydrogen made with renewable electricity is increasingly seen as a silver bullet for sectors with particularly stubborn emissions, such as heavy industry and aviation. As a result, the emission-free ...
24 Mar 2022, 12:26 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany's environment ministry has launched a plan for immediate action on climate change adaptation. In a press release, the ministry said it will be supporting municipalities ...
25 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025, 11:25 91tv Team The Guardian: German parliament sits for first time with AfD as main opposition 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with the far-right Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) the strongest opposition faction, ...
08 Apr 2025
08 Apr 2025, 11:31 91tv Team Copernicus: Warmest March in Europe and lowest Arctic winter sea ice The average temperature over European land for March 2025 was 6.03掳C, 2.41掳C above the 1991-2020 average for March, making it the warmest March for Europe. ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Electric vehicles can save up to 300 euros a month compared to cars with diesel and petrol engines, according to a cost analysis report by Greenpeace. Despite temporary tax ...
02 Apr 2025
02 Apr 2025, 11:06 91tv Team IEA: Promising new technologies face market uncertainty in pivotal moment for global energy innovation New IEA report highlights recent progress and emerging risks across the energy innovation landscape worldwide, with ...
15 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025, 11:45 91tv Team dpa: Parties row over Germany's shift to 'green' steel Conservative leader Merz doubts viability of climate-friendly steel, but labour union says it's industry's only chance of survival. Andreas ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has won separate greenwashing lawsuits against airline Lufthansa and apparel company Adidas on the grounds of misleading consumers with ...
31 Mar 2025
31 Mar 2025, 13:48 91tv Team DLR: Harvesting the sun, protecting the vines 鈥� innovation for sustainable agriculture聽 Agrivoltaic pilot project in Spain combines photovoltaics with sustainable, organic viticulture and improves water and energy efficiency. ...
16 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025, 11:50 91tv Team DW: Euro emerges as safe haven amid Trump tariff turmoil聽 Anticipating European recovery amid US uncertainty, foreign investors shift capital from dollars into European stocks and bonds. EnergyTransition.org: New German ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Grid Der Spiegel Bureaucratic hurdles and citizens鈥� initiatives ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:19 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Green stimulus Handelsblatt Leading figures of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance have called ...
04 Apr 2025
04 Apr 2025, 11:05 91tv Team NYTimes: Volkswagen to add 鈥榠mport fee鈥� to cars sold in US The company鈥檚 move is one of the first and clearest examples of automakers using price increases to deal with the 25 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on car and ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germans spend a much lower share of their income on energy bills than many other EU citizens, according to the German Economic Institute (IW). German households pay ...
27 Apr 2022, 11:40 S枚ren Amelang Edgar Meza Transport Berliner Zeitung Berlin's Kreuzberg district plans to ban car parking in a neighborhood with 20,000 people, repurposing the space for children to play on the street, Berliner Zeitung reports. The ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Handelsblatt Germany is stepping up its research on geothermal energy storage, a way of storing heat energy between seasons using water, business daily Handelsblatt reported. Research is currently underway in ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government should soon introduce a so-called climate premium (鈥淜limageld鈥�) to return the revenues from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to citizens, ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire State support granted for energy efficiency and renewable energy measures in private households increased to 14.4 billion euros in 2024, up from 12.3 billion euros in 2023, said ...
06 Mar 2025
06 Mar 2025, 11:29 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's nuclear lobby says up to six reactors could restart Germany's nuclear engineering lobby said up to half a dozen nuclear power stations could, in theory, be reopened despite closing in 2023 as a ...
13 Jul 2019, 13:04 Germany should introduce a price on carbon emissions for sectors such as transport and buildings currently not covered by the EU Emissions Trading System, the government鈥檚 top economic advisors have proposed. This would work as an ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire The collapse of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government could threaten important energy transition projects across the country if no precautions are taken ...
A move from feed-in tariffs to competitive auctions risks roiling the German renewable energy market, writes Vaishnavi 聽 Chandrashekhar in Yale Environment 360. In response to falling technology costs and high renewables surcharges paid by consumers, ...
11 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Clock ticks for German fiscal bonanza but Merz ally optimistic A senior ally of Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday (11 March) was optimistic about securing support for a massive increase ...
16 Feb 2016
16 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv E-World Essen State economy minister warns against decreed coal exit Garrelt Duin,聽economy minister for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest federal state- North-Rhine-Westphalia- warned against a ...
28 Feb 2025
28 Feb 2025, 11:54 91tv Team AP: UN talks end in Rome with nations backing $200 billion a year plan to protect nature Global negotiators concluded an extended session of the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP16, with key commitments on funds ...
13 May 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Transport Clean Energy Wire A number of environmental organisations, trade unions and others have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new transport minister, Patrick Schnieder, to commit to sustainable local and regional transport in his ...
05 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert German Investment Funds Association Deutscher Fondsverband Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire The volume of assets managed in retail funds under sustainability criteria in Germany has doubled over the past five ...
04 Oct 2022, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / ZDF The German states are calling for greater financial support by the federal government in the energy crisis, urging a quick introduction of a national gas price brake to ...
09 Apr 2025
09 Apr 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: German power prices to stay high as link to gas seen stronger Electricity prices in Germany will remain elevated as their link to natural gas is poised to strengthen over the coming years, analysts say. DPA: Trump ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:48 S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Clean Energy Wire German business associations have launched an appeal to redouble energy saving efforts in order to avoid gas shortfalls this winter. 鈥淭he heating period is less than 100 days away and is ...
28 Apr 2025, 10:45 Insufficient grid connections mean that Central Europe and Northern Europe cannot benefit from cheap, competitive solar power from the Iberian Peninsula, says Joan Groizard, Spain鈥檚 secretary of state for energy. Better interconnection ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:27 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:47 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs International Clean Energy Wire The expansion of renewable energies, in particular geothermal, as well as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shortage of skilled workers needed to implement its landmark energy transition will be ...
14 Oct 2024, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid in line with the growing share of renewable energy sources will require the build-up of greater national production ...
30 May 2025, 12:41 Julian Wettengel Grid Clean Energy Wire Current planning for electricity grid development in Europe and Germany may underestimate infrastructure and flexibility needs as it uses simplified weather assumptions and idealised prosumer ...
18 Mar 2025, 16:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Government Clean Energy Wire Germany's parliament has adopted a constitutional reform to allow the country to take up hundreds of billions of euros in new debt to finance ...
The decision by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) to increase the maximum support rate for onshore wind power installations in renewables auctions to 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour was 鈥渁 first step to correct undesired developments鈥� in the tender ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:08 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society Clean Energy Wire Germans have particularly strong aspirations for their country to become more environmentally friendly when compared to people in many other countries,聽 a survey by the ...
24 Apr 2025, 17:08 Poland is driving European efforts to end the reliance on Russian fossil fuel imports and has announced an 鈥渆conomic nationalism鈥� policy in response to US tariffs, which could have an impact on energy and climate policy. In the meantime ...
01 Apr 2025, 17:38 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Clean Energy Wire Planned investments to expand and modernise the EU's electricity grids by 2050 fall short of the necessary amounts of money required to support the bloc's move to climate neutrality, ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The volume and costs of measures required to manage the stability of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid decreased in 2024, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. These so-called re ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Heating Clean Energy Wire More than 200 climate and energy organisations have warned German municipalities against falling prey to gas industry lobbying for including hydrogen in their obligatory local plans for ...
04 Oct 2022, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society n-tv / Der Spiegel Hospitals and other public health institutions in Germany will receive financial support from the state to cope with rising energy prices, health minister Karl Lauterbach ...
05 May 2017, 00:00 Nicknamed the 鈥渃radle of the Energiewende鈥� by its own government, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, embodies some of the most pressing challenges and solutions to the country鈥檚 energy turnaround. With their decision in ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Society International ARD A majority of Germans support the measures governments are taking against Russia even if they lead to problems with energy supply, a survey by infratest dimap commissioned by public broadcaster ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 12:00 As the European Union鈥檚 focus shifts away from climate action and towards increasing security and competitiveness, the question whether it will set a 90 percent emissions reduction target for 2040 has become central. Dave Keating *** ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:43 Jack McGovan Heating Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The new German government after the election on 23 February should implement an ambitious heating package that promotes the expansion of climate-neutral heat supply, said ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 12:00 91tv Team Ember: EU generated record 30% of electricity from wind and solar in first half of 2024, surpassing fossil fuels for first time Ember's 2024 review shows highlights of energy transition's development. The Guardian: & ...
Many diesel cars affected by the looming driving bans in Germany for having too high exhaust emissions are being exported to eastern Europe and especially to Poland, where anti-pollution policies still are less severe, the NGO Transport & Environment ...
13 Dec 2022, 11:30 European countries will continue to deal with the energy crisis throughout next year, and seek sufficient gas supply on world markets while boosting renewable energy and key technologies such as heat pumps. However, the biggest climate ...
18 Jan 2018, 00:00 German industry believes the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy can boost its status as a manufacturing powerhouse by protecting the climate. Reducing emissions by 80 percent by 2050 is good for the economy under the right policy framework ...
22 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Europe extends hand to US, warns of 'race to bottom' German chancellor Scholz voices cautious optimism after first contact with Trump administration. Politico: EU鈥檚 Clean Industrial Deal to cover 6 themes ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:31 Bennet Ribbeck Business & Jobs International Clean Energy Wire European industry could profit from a possible US drawback in climate-policy related collaborations, said 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock. Climate ...
13 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
28 Feb 2022, 13:58 The outbreak of war in eastern Europe is sending shockwaves through 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 political class and is reshaping the energy transition debate, as the country鈥檚 most important energy trading partner Russia increasingly turns into a ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:20 Edgar Meza Grid Society Clean Energy Wire Berlin-based think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial has called for alternative methods to finance electricity grid expansion in Germany. The current financing of electricity grid expansion via grid fees ...
14 Jun 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International KPMG Germany is one of seven European countries in the top ten of international auditor KPMG鈥檚 鈥� Change Readiness Index 2019 鈥�, assessing countries鈥� ability to manage change and build a ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:25 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest industry lobby group, the ...
27 Mar 2018
27 Mar 2018, 00:00 Germany saw its greenhouse gas emissions dip slightly in 2017, as wind power continued to replace coal-fired electricity generation and hard coal power plants were shut down, new estimates released by the Federal Environment Agency show ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:41 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels Clean Energy Wire The G7 group of industrialised nations failed on a 2016 pledge to phase out "inefficient fossil fuel subsidies" by 2025, according to a report commissioned by NGO Greenpeace ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:15 The two most influential members of the EU, Germany and France, agree on the urgent need to jointly decarbonise Europe鈥檚 energy system and put supply security on a safer footing after the tumultuous energy crisis year 2022. Russia鈥檚 war ...
06 Jun 2019, 17:11 Germany continues to be off track regarding many of its energy and climate targets according to the economy ministry鈥檚聽 latest progress report on the energy transition. In an accompanying opinion, government advisors lament that the ...
28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 loss to the far-right in this June鈥檚 EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:20 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire The German parliament has passed the聽 latest reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG),聽which specifies a timeline of tenders for renewable power installation additions until ...
28 Feb 2025, 15:00 Last week鈥檚 parliamentary snap election changed 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 political landscape: The former tripartite 鈥渢raffic light coalition鈥� of chancellor Olaf Scholz has been clearly voted out- and conservative CDU opposition leader Friedrich Merz ...
26 Jul 2024, 13:32 Joey Grostern Adaptation Clean Energy Wire More workers are being exposed to heat stress across the world due to climate change, with Europe and Central Asia experiencing the largest rise in excessive heat exposure in 20 years, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy policy has not lived up to its climate and renewables expansion targets and has failed to adequately integrate citizens in planning procedures, Simone Peter of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) and Stefan Kapferer of the German ...
26 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Vattenfall to build Germany's largest offshore wind farm Swedish power utility Vattenfall said it has made a final investment decision for two wind farm projects in the German North Sea, Nordlicht 1 and 2, the ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 On 2 August, the CEOs of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major car manufacturers will meet with federal and state government representatives to discuss ways to reduce pollution from diesel cars. Recent cartel allegations shed a new light on the meeting鈥檚 ...
21 Nov 2022, 10:32 It remains virtually impossible to make truly "climate neutral" products in a modern economy, despite the rapid increase of such labels, says Susanne Spies of Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Entirely ...
05 Oct 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire Several lignite power plants in Germany will be allowed to return to the market this winter to help secure supply and save gas during the heating period, said the economy ministry in a press ...
Around 6,000 European climate change activists aiming to "block coal infrastructure, to call for an immediate phase-out" of lignite mining, 聽have gathered in Germany's coal districts, writes Chase Winter in an article for Deutsche Welle. ...
17 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025, 11:28 91tv Team Euronews: "The West as we knew it no longer exists," von der Leyen argues amid Trump tensions聽 "We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules," European Commission head says in interview. Bloomberg: ...
11 Apr 2025, 12:30 Climate will play a smaller role under 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government and greater ambition will be mostly pushed by the opposition, says Johannes Hillje, a political communication advisor who has worked with several German ministries. The ...
27 Mar 2025, 10:12 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Industry Clean Energy Wire / Table Media [UPDATES article to include support for scheme in coalition talks.] The European Commission has approved a support scheme worth five billion euros to help ...
16 May 2025, 13:20 Expert BMUKN- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesminister f眉r Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Policy Government ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 11:48 91tv Team Bloomberg: Porsche has nowhere to hide as Trump unleashes next tariff wave While Mercedes and BMW have some flexibility due to factories in the US, Porsche has no plants in North America. Bloomberg: German minister says Trump ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Cities Clean Energy Wire Municipalities in Germany warn that they could be running out of money soon and are struggling to implement a wide range of their tasks, including guaranteeing a reliable ...
02 Apr 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Europe could reduce its spending on security and defence by cutting its reliance on fossil fuels 鈥� thereby starving Russia of funds from oil exports which are critical ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:03 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Rheinische Post / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The ideas the German government's climate cabinet members and government parties have put on the table so far "will hardly be ...
29 May 2019, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The Energiewende (energy transition) is the linchpin of German climate policy, but the governing parties do little to deal with opposition, explain the ...
30 May 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Funke Mediengruppe / Bild / n-tv Plans by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 labour minister to assist households struggling with high energy prices and inflation by paying them a 鈥渟ocial climate money鈥� have led to ...
With projects officially defined as citizens鈥� energy again dominating the second onshore wind auction, the risk of not reaching the expansion targets after 2018 increases, writes the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) in a press release. 鈥淲e see the ...
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest concerns regarding the European Commission鈥檚 energy policy proposals are potential impact on its own transition to renewables power, as well as power market reform. Kerstine Appunn International Renewable Energy Act | ...
14 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025, 11:26 91tv Team Reuters: German premium carmakers' sales battered in China and Germany amid slowdown Germany's top-end carmakers took a battering at home and in China in 2024, sales volume data showed, as wealthier consumers held ...
21 Nov 2023, 08:43 The debates over the fallout of last week鈥檚 shock constitutional court ruling on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 state budget borrowing rules are in full swing, as the government faces difficult decisions on how to fill a 60-billion-euro gap in its special ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire The premiers of Germany's five northern coastal states demand a renegotiation of the controversial 1,000-metre minimum distance rule from residential areas for onshore wind turbines included ...
05 Mar 2025
05 Mar 2025, 11:25 91tv Team European Commission boosts European automotive industry's global competitiveness As part of an action plan for the sector, the Commission proposed to weaken CO2 limit rules for carmakers. Bloomberg: Europe鈥檚 EV market ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Water levels at Lake Constance are nearing a historic low point following a lack of rain and reduced snow meltwater coming from the Alps, reported public broadcaster ARD. While low water ...
30 Oct 2014
30 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Der Tagesspiegel "Vattenfall wants to sell lignite operations" The Tagesspiegel reports that Swedish government-owned utility Vattenfall is looking to sell its German lignite mining and ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics Die Welt German climate activist group 鈥淟ast Generation,鈥� known for its controversial forms of protest, such as road blockages and attacks on artworks, is considering the establishment of a ...
06 May 2025, 14:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 designated next environment minister Carsten Schneider may not have much background in climate policy, but his experience in navigating political divide in the country鈥檚 east and its population鈥檚 fatigue of constant changes ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar Wind Federal Network Agency ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire Dividing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 single power price zone into several individual regions could reduce final electricity prices for consumers across the country,聽 said a report by ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:21 Hannah Naylor Gas Society dpa Berlin鈥檚 parliamentarians and tourists alike will soon feel the impact of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 drive to save energy, in response to looming gas shortages. The Reichstag parliament building is in the process of ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:57 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire / ZDF A landmark court hearing initiated by a Peruvian farmer and ...
23 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany may have to resort to an unusual measure to comply with the EU's 2020 climate targets in sectors not covered by the union's emissions trading scheme (ETS). Achieving the non-ETS goal looks increasingly unfeasible, a ...
25 Apr 2025, 09:00 European and UK leaders have pledged to cooperate closely to strengthen energy supply security, and said bringing down fossil fuel imports and ramping up domestic clean sources is the only way to do so. At an energy security summit in ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:10 S枚ren Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, conservative Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, has reached a breakthrough deal on the 500-billion-euros ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:52 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background The German government鈥檚 planned relief package to shield consumers from rising energy costs exacerbated by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine is facing increasing criticism partly due to ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire Households in East Germany on average pay nearly a quarter more for energy than those in the West if adjusted for purchasing power, an聽 analysis 聽by price comparison website ...
20 Aug 2024, 12:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Business & Jobs Technology Reuters / Clean Energy Wire Nationalism and resentment endanger investments in key future technologies,聽Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the ceremony for the start ...
17 Feb 2025
17 Feb 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Jacques Delors Centre: One month into Trump: Europe鈥檚 hour New U.S. president means dangers for rest of the world by demolishing rules-based international system, disdain for environment. Building defensive and dissuasive ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The next German government must restructure climate policy to make sure the whole population can participate in the transition, the Climate Neutrality Foundation ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel Renewables expansion in Germany and across the world is insufficient to help keep global temperature rise below 1.5掳C, a key goal of the Paris Climate ...
08 Jan 2020, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire German media have commented on the news that a sharp drop in coal use put a break on Germany's CO2 emissions last year and pushed the country "surprisingly鈥� close to its ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Society Clean Energy Wire The share of homeowners who say they don鈥檛 have the money to install climate-friendly technologies has increased significantly in Germany. 41 percent of property owners ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:35 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 climate package to reach 2030 targets ...
22 Nov 2024, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics MDR / dpa Three parties have agreed to form a coalition in Germany's eastern state of Thuringia following elections in September. The Christian Democrats (CDU), Social Democrats (SPD) and ...
Resilience strategies for energy systems could help better compensate or prevent blackouts, German National Academy for Science and Engineering (acatech), Leopoldina and Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities said in a joint paper. The ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Cars EU Clean Energy Wire A ruling by the EU鈥檚 top court that Germany failed to clean up the air in several cities for years is a 鈥渟lap in the face鈥� for the government, said NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH). The ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society Clean Energy Wire The German far-right nationalist party AfD is among the most climate-sceptical of European populist parties, explicitly denying that humans impact the global climate ...
17 May 2021, 13:31 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) is putting a market ...
Energy company EnBW wants to increase the acceptance of new wind farms in Germany by inviting private citizens to acquire a share in the projects even though the company does not need any financial capital, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. EnBW ...
20 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025, 14:00 91tv Team AP: Jury finds Greenpeace USA must pay over $660 million in case over Dakota Access protest activities NGO plans to appeal and had said earlier that a large award to the Texan pipeline company could threaten to bankrupt the ...
13 Nov 2020, 14:53 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG Government pv magazine / Clean Energy Wire The German government this week rejected a range of changes to the draft reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which had been proposed by the the ...
Citizens鈥� primary motive to get involved in energy cooperations is not personal financial gain, reports Craig Morris on energytransition.de. A new study by researchers from Leuphana University reveals that 鈥減ersonal profits are one of the least important ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:52 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government Clean Energy Wire / Deutschlandfunk Cuts in public funding for energy research could lead to a "massive decline in German industry's ability to innovate in technologies for the ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire The cost of buying and running a new gas boiler in Germany is predicted to be twice as high as a heat pump over a 20-year period, according to a report by non-profit ...
17 Aug 2022, 15:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs ...
Scholars from the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (I脰W) and several universities have published a handbook for local governments and other players on how to better engage citizens in the transition of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system. The handbook, ...
19 Oct 2016, 00:00 The German government decided on a pact to free nuclear power plant operators of responsibility for storing radioactive waste, and transfer it into the hands of the state. Utilities welcomed the decision made on Wednesday, while critics ...
28 May 2019, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The results of the European elections, in which the Greens surged driven by concerns over global climate change, mean that energy companies must ...
28 Sep 2018, 12:24 Germany still lacks an overview of the total cost of the Energiewende and the government must improve cost transparency, efficiency and coordination of the energy transition in order to keep citizens鈥� trust, the Federal Court of ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:05 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) 鈥� the second strongest polling party ahead of Germany's snap elections on 23 February 鈥� is the only major party to outright reject the scientific consensus behind human-induced climate ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:47 The public debate in Poland in recent weeks has been dominated by international security and the implications of the rift between the new US administration and Europe on Ukraine. Beyond the frontpage news, there has been progress on ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:17 Charlotte Nijhuis Society Clean Energy Wire Most young Germans are in favour of the energy transition, according to a survey conducted by the German environment ministry (BMU) and the federal agency for nature conservation (BfN). Two ...
Consumer organisations, social associations and local utilities cooperate to counteract energy poverty, writes Lukas Zdrzalek in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The electricity suppliers help finance so-called energy saving consultants, provided by the associations, ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:20 Jack McGovan Storage Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Deep bodies of water in northern Germany have been found to contain large amounts of lithium that could be used to help produce batteries for the energy transition, ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:36 If Germany doesn鈥檛 help existing and promote new renewable energy installations, it risks a 鈥済reen power gap鈥� in 2030, Simone Peter, President of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says. With the EU tightening its climate ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:52 Germany's pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) plans to argue the case for using emissions trading as the main tool for fighting climate change if they become part of the next federal government. The party wants to extend the ...
06 Aug 2019, 14:12 S枚ren Amelang Society International Clean Energy Wire Germans consider "the environment, climate and energy" the most important issue facing the country at the moment, according to a EU poll. 36 percent of respondents named it ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:45 Exceeding the 1.5掳C temperature limit of the Paris Climate Agreement would jeopardise the prospect of living in security and prosperity in Germany and globally, says 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first-ever National Security Strategy. In the document, the ...
16 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024, 10:45 91tv Team The Guardian: Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month. DeSmog: ...
06 Jan 2025
06 Jan 2025, 10:43 91tv Team HydrogenInsight: German chancellor calls on EU to shelve 'excessively strict' green hydrogen definition Scholz argues that planned projects cannot compete based on what the European Commission will accept is a ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Deutschlandfunk / Spiegel German economy minister Robert Habeck has said that the government intends to tighten the country鈥檚 antitrust law amid concerns that oil companies do not pass on ...
27 Mar 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Clean Energy Wire People in Germany's cities are completing more journeys by bicycle or foot, while the dominance of cars is decreasing, the latest 'Mobility in Germany ' report commissioned by ...
04 Mar 2025
04 Mar 2025, 11:39 91tv Team Euractiv: Von der Leyen proposes more relaxed CO2 target compliance for new cars European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced she will propose a more relaxed three-year timeframe for the automotive industry ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Business Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire Large food retailers in Germany have a long way to go to make good on their sustainability promises, according to a report by Dutch think tank Questionmark. ...
28 Apr 2025
28 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Euronews: Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:45 Jennifer Collins Grid Hydrogen dpa / Clean Energy Wire The buildout of crucial energy infrastructure in Germany is making progress: The first 525 kilometres of Germany's hydrogen core grid will be built in 2025, with gas operators ...
17 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025, 13:00 91tv Team FT: Green energy stocks fall back to levels last seen 5 years ago聽 Uncertainty over political support for clean transition depresses market. Reuters: Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in landmark climate ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:35 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Clean Energy Wire ...
27 Jan 2025
27 Jan 2025, 13:00 91tv Team Reuters: BASF 2024 earnings miss estimate by 1 billion euros on impairments Germany's top chemical maker BASF reported a drop in annual earnings below estimates on Friday (24 January), weighed by impairments on surface ...
06 May 2025, 17:15 In a bumpy start to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new coalition government, conservative leader Friedrich Merz managed to secure a majority in parliament to become the next chancellor only in the second round of voting. The unprecedented failure to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government has reached an agreement to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from diesel cars in German cities. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze called the deal 鈥渁 very large step鈥� to improve ...
03 Jun 2025, 12:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Importing shipped green hydrogen from Africa could be more expensive for Germany than previously thought, according to a joint study by TU Munich, Oxford University and ETH ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Solar and heating industry associations have appealed to politicians at the federal and state levels to show clear policy commitments to the energy transition after ...
08 Jan 2025
08 Jan 2025, 10:14 91tv Team Reuters: Automakers to pool CO2 emissions with Tesla, Polestar to meet EU 2025 rules Automakers facing tougher European Union 2025 emissions rules are planning to buy carbon credits from electric vehicle companies including ...
09 Aug 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire The German finance ministry (BMF) is working on a scheme to further reduce the financial burden of gas price increases, which are expected to ...
07 Mar 2018
07 Mar 2018, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has chosen her close ally and former head of the Chancellery Peter Altmaier as the next economy and energy minister. This puts the political heavy-hitter in charge of shaping 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende at a ...
Blockchain will revolutionise 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy market, potentially rendering major utilities redundant, Kathrin Witsch and Christine Coester write in a commentary for Handelsblatt Global. The digital ledger technology, which allows users to exchange money ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 10:50 91tv Team Eurelectric: Europe needs an energy security strategy based on clean electrification A new report demonstrates the need for a new approach to energy security based on clean electrification to reduce fuel imports dependence, ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:22 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 ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire The costs and other burdens of climate action must be spread in a fair and balanced way across society to ensure social cohesion and avoid individual hardship, the German ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 13:57 Administrative "simplification" will be a key focus of the European Commission's 2025 work programme, trade and economic security聽 commissioner Maro拧 艩ef膷ovi膷 told MEPs during the European Parliament鈥檚 plenary session in ...
25 Feb 2015
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淏rave new world鈥� The single market for European energy that EU citizens have been waiting for for years, is now called the Energy Union, Thomas Ludwig writes in an opinion piece for ...
07 Jun 2019, 12:57 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眉ndnis 90/ ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks鈥檚 statement about a possible scrap bonus for combustion engines hints at a coercive policy approach to reducing cutting emissions from the transport sector, Heike G枚bel writes in a commentary for Frankfurter ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Handelsbatt Offshore wind farms in the German North Sea generated around eight percent more wind power last year compared to 2023, transmission system operator TenneT said. At 20.8 ...
15 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy Wire Leading members of the German government have renewed calls for perseverance and willingness to make sacrifices to beat the energy crisis, with the upcoming heating season set to drive up ...
03 Feb 2025, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Solar Cars Heating Clean Energy Wire Around two-thirds of homeowners in Germany plan to have a solar power system installed by 2029, according to a survey commissioned by Munich-based climate NGO Initiative ...
Several citizens鈥� and environmental groups in Germany have reiterated their call for a standstill agreement on lignite mine expansion until the speed and scope of the country鈥檚 coal phase-out has been determined, Ralph Jansen writes in the K枚lner Stadt ...
23 Dec 2022, 14:20 The German government coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz looks back at a turbulent first year in office, which has been dominated by the reality check of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine and the European energy crisis. The turmoil in global ...
13 Feb 2025
13 Feb 2025, 13:49 91tv Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)- Little potential for "climate plantations" within planetary boundaries Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is being discussed as a way to remove ...
18 Feb 2025
18 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany set to scale down climate ambitions- Billions in climate subsidies have been frozen for months- Main parties focusing on security, migration before election CNBC: Wind energy just had a record year in ...
03 May 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Society ARD A large majority of Germans (81%) see a great need for action to protect the climate and say that climate change cannot be stopped without restrictions on people鈥檚 lives,聽 according to a representative ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany has seen its driest February to mid-April months since 1931,聽 according to the country's meteorological service DWD. 聽聽 DWD 聽recorded about 40 litres of rain per square ...
17 Oct 2016, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise less than expected in 2017. Still, discussions about the cost of the country鈥檚 Energiewende project and ways to reform the renewables support dominated the public ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating Clean Energy Wire Research institute Fraunhofer IGE is setting up a research laboratory for geothermal energy generation in western German North Rhine-Westphalia, the country鈥檚 most populous state. ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:27 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 SPD- Social Democratic ...
Many countries in Latin America have started their own energy transition plans but they should incorporate lessons, such as citizens鈥� participation, from the German Energiewende, writes Emilio Godoy for Inter Press Service (IPS). 鈥湷冶鸢静共圆忖�檚 transition ...
06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift towards the cooling ...
11 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024, 11:42 91tv Team France24: Germany's Scholz calls for European EV subsidy plan Chancellor's call comes as country's flagship auto industry struggles with the transition to battery-powered cars. WEF: The Cost of Inaction: A CEO ...
24 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: German power grids need higher earnings to fund energy transition, TSO says Grid operator Amprion argues regulator should raise the cap on returns on infrastructure spending. Germany Trade&Invest: Germany Earns ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire The German parliament has let a deadline for implementing higher renewable energy capacity targets pass, causing both energy industry stakeholders and climate ...
29 Apr 2021, 14:43 In an unexpected decision widely hailed as historic, Germany's highest court has ruled that the government's climate legislation is insufficient, lacking detail on emission reduction targets beyond 2030. The decision ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Policy Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung Grid operators and energy industry representatives in Germany are calling on political leaders to approve immediate measures to better control small solar installations following the ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International S眉ddeutsche Zeitung聽 A large green hydrogen production project currently planned in the southern African state of Namibia aimed at supplying 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industry with the fuel has led the German ...
28 Jan 2025, 12:58 Slowing down industry decarbonisation in Germany would result in a dangerous loss of competitiveness in emerging green markets, says Philipp Verpoort, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Instead, the ...
08 May 2019, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / ARD Germany's Manfred Weber and the Netherlands' Frans Timmermans 鈥� the two most likely candidates succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission President 鈥� ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal聽 Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany's railway service Deutsche Bahn has聽 inked an order 聽worth one billion euros for new ICE high speed ...
20 Feb 2025
20 Feb 2025, 10:16 91tv Team Carbon Brief: Profile: Germany The nation with both the most renewable power and the highest emissions in Europe. Agora Energiewende: Update FAQ on Germany's Energiewende An interactive dashboard with data and FAQs on the ...
02 Aug 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Four in ten industrial companies in Germany are considering production cuts in the country or relocating parts of their production capacities outside of the country due to ...
14 Aug 2018, 14:31 Technical fixes, better communication and smoother planning procedures are to accelerate 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid expansion, the energy minister has proposed in a new plan. Heading off on a visit to contested power line building sites in western ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel / dpa 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new price on carbon in the heating and transport sectors does not always reflect 鈥渟ocial realities鈥�, environment minister Svenja Schulze and finance minister Olaf Scholz ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas Clean Energy Wire Electricity connectors and pipelines are crucial to leverage the potential of closer cooperation on energy and climate between Europe and the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region, ...
Carbon emissions in Germany will only be reduced if the country commits itself in earnest to 鈥� a turnaround in transport policy 鈥�, education minister Johanna Wanka told Frankfurter Rundschau in an interview. Wanka said she had made research on e-mobility ...
31 Jan 2025
31 Jan 2025, 11:39 91tv Team Euractiv: Norway鈥檚 governing coalition breaks over EU energy rules row Norway is bound to adopt EU energy laws as a member of the European Economic Area 鈥� which the eurosceptic Centre Party has opposed. FT: 脴rsted replaces ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:00 Voters in the EU will head to the polls in June 2024 to elect the next European Parliament, kicking off a months-long process to pick the bloc鈥檚 new leadership that will shape climate policy until the end of the decade. It will face the ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Clean Energy Wire A large majority of the German public continues to support the energy transition, but financial hardships as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could dampen households鈥� willingness to ...
If the immediate engagement in the energy transition has subsided a bit in Germany, it is because the Energiewende has become part of daily live, not because citizens lack interest, Heiko von Tschischwitz, founder of green power supplier LichtBlick, told ...
14 May 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Society Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt / Ludwigshafen 24 / TAZ The mild winter and low rainwater levels could have severe consequences for Germany's agriculture, shipping industry ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:26 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The vice chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group Andreas Jung is launching a new ...
26 Mar 2020, 14:03 Expert Heinrich B枚ll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Climate action tops the wish list of German citizens for their government ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Cars Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Registrations of new plug-in electric cars in Germany fell by more than a quarter in 2024 compared to the previous year, while the average CO2 emissions of newly registered ...
07 Mar 2025
07 Mar 2025, 11:28 91tv Team Politico: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Merz has 2 weeks to deliver historic spending revolution Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it鈥檚 now a race against the clock. DW: Peruvian ...
A court in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen has ordered the first driving ban for older diesel cars on an Autobahn, the German highway famous for its long sections without speed limits. The court ruled that the city of Essen in federal state North ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU鈥檚 rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
21 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025, 11:00 91tv Team AP: Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement 鈥� again Move is blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies. Ursula von ...
20 May 2025, 13:11 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A key plan by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new government to introduce a subsidised electricity price for industry and revive the sector could be prevented by European Union law, business daily ...
Germany could work as an example to Mexico concerning the social challenges and consequences of a transition from fossil to renewable fuels, writes Juliana Fregoso for Forbes Mexico. Mexico could learn from German Energiewende experiences that energy ...
As Germany moves forward with renewable energy deployment, the country should both preserve nature and allow for the development of landscapes, according to a new project published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. At present, landscape ...
The price drop at the onshore wind auction is good news for consumers and policymakers, but they increase the risk that the construction of wind energy projects will fall off a cliff in 2019 and 2020 in Germany, according to the Wind Energy Association ...
The number of new renewable energy cooperatives has decreased by another 25 percent in 2015, compared to 2014 figures, cooperatives association DGRV found in a survey. Last year saw the establishment of 40 new cooperatives. But the boom years are over, ...
12 May 2021, 11:31 The German government has given the green light to the necessary legal changes to speed up the country's bid for climate neutrality, aiming to hit the goal five years earlier in 2045. Cabinet approved a reform of the country's ...
26 Feb 2025
26 Feb 2025, 10:30 S枚ren Amelang Bloomberg: EU pitches new Clean Deal as industries struggle to compete European Commission to outline measures to reduce energy costs. Politico: Europe鈥檚 impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green ...
03 Mar 2025
03 Mar 2025, 12:15 91tv Team DW: Social Democrats lead Hamburg state election: early results The Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens look set to be able to continue their coalition in the northern city state of Hamburg following a regional election ...
06 May 2025
06 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team DW: Why is Germany's Friedrich Merz, so unpopular? Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has hit a snag in his attempt to form Germany's new government. His personal popularity is low.聽Most Germans don't trust ...
21 Aug 2018, 15:33 The projected rise in CO2 prices in Europe could see coal-fired power plants being replaced by gas plants in Germany, thereby saving millions of tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions and helping the country to achieve its energy transition ...
09 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germans will elect a new federal government in autumn 2017. Security, economic stability and refugees are likely to dominate election campaigns, but keeping the Energiewende on a steady course and fulfilling 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 international ...
03 Dec 2018, 11:28 Politicians across party lines, environmental and industry groups and researchers alike are in favour of a price on carbon emissions in all sectors. There is debate on details such as the pros and cons of a carbon tax versus a trading ...
09 Sep 2019, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Elections & Politics The Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) 鈥� sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU 鈥� has agreed on what it calls a " ...
28 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Finance Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire EU rules have pushed many investment funds to drop terms like 鈥渟ustainable鈥� or 鈥渃limate鈥� from their names if they could not live up to the promise, even though guidelines ...
12 May 2025, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The massive nationwide blackout in Spain and Portugal on 28 April continues to raise questions across Europe regarding the incident鈥檚 origins and the conclusions that need ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:58 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs International Bloomberg Germany sounded a note of caution as energy ministers from EU member states debated a proposal to aim for net-zero emissions from the bloc by the middle of the century, reports ...
The German government must take precautions to secure citizens鈥� acceptance for future wind power expansion, as it is a central pillar of the country鈥檚 energy transition, writes the energy think tank Agora Energiewende* in a report. Municipalities located ...
02 Jun 2025, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation Clean Energy Wire / Zeit Heavy rainfall and flooding caused insured damages worth 2.6 billion euros in Germany last year, around one billion euros more than the long-term average, industry association GDV聽 said. ...
14 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Economist: Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? 聽 Bombshell fiscal package鈥攃urrently under negotiation鈥攔epresents more than just the start of deficit spending on defence. It is the beginning of a new European growth ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) wants to 鈥渕ake a pact with the states鈥� and present a law to accelerate the building of new power lines, he told Funke Mediengruppe ahead of today鈥檚 Grid Summit with the states鈥� energy ministers in Berlin. ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany's economy and climate ministry has welcomed the European Commission鈥檚 plans for the automotive sector, arguing it will increase the sector's international competitiveness. "With ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:41 The opening of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea gives Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel an opportunity to show her climate policy credentials and welcome the German-Norwegian project as a milestone for the energy ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:19 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 carbon emissions have fallen sharply in 2019 for the third year in a row, bringing the country closer to climate targets it had already written off. But progress in emissions reduction is heavily tilted towards the energy and ...
Exempting citizens鈥� energy projects from subsidy auctions for green power fed into the grid 鈥� laid out in the Renewable Energy Act reform 鈥� could ensure the continued presence of these small decentralised companies and thus the population鈥檚 support for ...
21 Feb 2025
21 Feb 2025, 12:18 91tv Team E3G: German election 鈥� What鈥檚 at stake? Next government must develop joint EU strategy for competitiveness and decarbonisation. DW: German election: Parties face off over Ukraine, NATO, Trump Top German politicians traded ...
27 Feb 2015, 00:00 Amidst political tussle over new power lines crossing Germany from north to south, which many see as one of the next big steps in the country's energy transition, the grid agency in charge has called the power highways in question ...
23 Jul 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars ARD The German transport minister, Andreas Scheuer, has proposed the introduction of a road toll for passenger cars in the whole European Union, public broadcaster ARD reports in its daily news programme ...
07 Jan 2025, 14:01 Jennifer Collins Heating dpa / Clean Energy Wire More than a third of Germany's municipalities are working on municipal heat planning to help phase out fossil fuel systems, with 13 percent already finished with their plans, reports ...
14 Oct 2020, 14:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire Germany will try to retain most of its wind power capacity that will lose its guaranteed remuneration after dropping out of the 20-year feed-in tariff support scheme ...
09 Dec 2024
09 Dec 2024, 13:40 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz not ruling out Berlin taking stake in Thyssenkrupp steel Chancellor meets top representatives of ailing steel sector to discuss high energy prices, cheap competition and shift to decarbonisation. ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:44 Jack McGovan Transport Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel Air taxis and other electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) are not useful mass transport technologies for the energy transition, according to a report by the Leibniz ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Energy costs in Germany have dropped 30 percent since the height of the energy crisis 12 months ago, according to analysis by price comparison website Verivox. Costs for heating, ...
02 Jun 2025
02 Jun 2025, 13:29 91tv Team European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change: Staying the course on climate action essential to EU security and competitiveness Board calls on the European Union to maintain high climate ambition as it revises the ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:31 Edgar Meza Society Clean Energy Wire A large majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion of renewable energy, but the percentage of those who see it as very or extremely important has declined, according to the ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel Background Plans to adapt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Climate Action Law to allow for national emissions compensation measures to also take place in countries outside of the European Union ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Allowing several key electricity transmission lines to be built above ground, as well as improved planning to connect offshore wind parks to the shore, could drastically reduce ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:15 Germany is increasingly at risk of failing EU-mandated climate targets for the transport and building sectors, show projections by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The agency聽 warned that despite shrinking overall emissions, ...
05 Feb 2025
05 Feb 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Agora Energiewende: Stronger incentives needed to fast-track Europe鈥檚 heating transition With current policies, Europe may end up installing tens of millions of new fossil fuel boilers by 2040, jeopardising climate and energy ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 91tv Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined 鈧�25 million for greenwashing German prosecutors have fined asset manager DWS 25 million euros after a lengthy probe found the firm guilty of greenwashing, or making ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices WDR A new controversial fuel price rebate took effect in Germany on 1 June as part of a government package aimed at cushioning the financial impact of the Ukraine war on citizens. Through ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen FAZ / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 finance minister Christian Lindner, a Free Democrat (FDP), has proposed several tax exemptions for combustion engine cars that run exclusively on renewables-based ...
24 May 2024, 15:00 The curtain is coming down on five years of EU energy and environment legislative drama. Since the 2019 鈥済reen wave鈥� that helped put the spotlight on sustainable policy, dozens of laws have passed through the complex process of EU ...
07 Nov 2024
07 Nov 2024, 10:00 91tv Team Politico: 聽 Scholz bows out of COP29 climate summit after government collapses 聽 The decision follows a dramatic breakdown of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-party coalition government. Bloomberg: Italy renews push to revise EU鈥檚 combustion ...
10 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025, 11:30 91tv Team E3G: Europe鈥檚 competitiveness push and what it means for climate action In its first 100 days, the European Commission has put into motion a series of flagship plans intended to boost the EU鈥檚 economy in difficult times. So ...
23 Jan 2020, 13:29 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire / Deutsche Welle The German government has expressed disagreement with a聽 ruling 聽by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which states that countries may not deport ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Tagesspiegel Background U.S. gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernova has expressed doubts about the plans by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 prospective next government to connect 20 gigawatts of gas-fired power plants to the ...
07 Feb 2024, 10:30 The European Commission has recommended that the bloc reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, saying the EU's Green Deal now needs to become an "industrial decarbonisation deal." Politicians from member ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) predicts the country will need lower reserve power plant capacity, and projects a reduced demand for grid management measures in winter ...
11 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Politico: Friedrich Merz鈥檚 cabinet: Who will lead 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 key ministries? Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives and their Social Democratic Party (SPD) counterparts have struck a coalition deal, but party ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Primary energy consumption in Germany dropped to a new low in 2024 amid聽warmer weather, a continued weakness of the country鈥檚 economy, and ongoing efficiency gains, the Federation of ...
10 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024, 12:00 91tv Team RWE: Head of German energy company "not concerned" about Trump's effect on renewables "It鈥檚 not all down to politics," says CEO Krebber, expects U.S. green power business to flourish. dpa: Ford's ...
24 Apr 2024, 14:15 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German economy ministry sees "signs of a slight economic upturn" in the country as energy-intensive industries have expanded their production since the beginning of ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Politics rbb / taz The city of Berlin has edged a decisive step closer to a new government coalition led by the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), after the incumbent Social Democrats (SPD) gave the green light to ...
30 May 2025
30 May 2025, 11:40 91tv Team Politico: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Merz vows to keep Nord Stream 2 pipeline switched off Some German politicians have pushed for the restoration of the flow of gas from Russia to Germany via the Nord Stream pipelines. UBA: Nature-based ...
24 Feb 2023, 11:00 One year after Russia started its devastating war on Ukraine, the energy policy landscape of Germany and most of Europe has changed radically. European states to a large extent lowered or even completely cut their reliance on Russian ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Enthusiasm for Tesla purchases has waned considerably in Germany in the wake of the political activities of the US car company鈥檚 CEO, Elon Musk, according to market ...
15 May 2025, 12:15 The new German government鈥檚 coalition agreement remains too vague on climate policy to make sure emission-cutting targets are met, warned the country鈥檚 Council of Experts on Climate Change. A comprehensive climate action programme, ...
22 Jun 2017, 00:00 Germany's energy transition can only be successful if it is created by citizens themselves in a socially fair way, the Left Party writes in its election campaign programme. The Left is currently the largest opposition group in the ...
17 Dec 2015
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Zeit 鈥淲e can do it one more time鈥� Germany needs nothing less than a second energy transition in order to achieve its climate target of reducing emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050, writes Petra ...
20 Dec 2024, 13:07 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Wind power output in Germany is not at risk of increasingly being decimated by so ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire Limited capacity and environmental risks mean that carbon storage in the German North Sea should only be used for residual emissions that remain unavoidable, said ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Staatsanzeiger Baden-W眉rttemberg / Clean Energy Wire Dissatisfaction with 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy policy and soaring prices are driving company investments out of the southwestern ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Wind EU Clean Energy Wire Europe installed a total 16.4 gigawatt (GW) of new wind power capacity in 2024, down from 18.4 GW achieved in the previous year, according to data by industry association WindEurope. " ...
12 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024, 13:23 91tv Team Financial Times: Norway campaigns to cut energy links to Europe as power prices soar Country鈥檚 energy minister describes 鈥榮hit situation鈥� as domestic prices hit highest level since 2009. Electrive: Germany's economy ...
17 Apr 2025, 15:00 The return of nuclear energy in Italy is slowly but steadily shifting from possibility to concrete political project. The transition to renewables, meanwhile, has entered a paradoxical phase: installation numbers are solid yet local ...
24 Jan 2025, 15:30 Germany has fully switched into election campaign mode ahead of the national vote on 23 February. Parties have presented their manifestos, with key energy transition issues including the future of industry, boosting investments, energy ...
03 Feb 2025
03 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany opens way for gas beyond 2035 with subsidy extension 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament has extended a support scheme for some gas plants by four years to 2030, in a law hurried through just before the general election on ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Politico / Clean Energy Wire / Reuters The European Union as a business location is set to profit from additional infrastructure investments planned by the likely next German government, Philipp J盲ger of the Jacques ...
04 Sep 2020, 15:15 The era of Chancellor Angela Merkel will come to an end when Germans head to the polls next autumn after what looks set to become an unusually dramatic run-up to the federal elections. With no clear front-runner for her succession in ...
26 May 2025
26 May 2025, 11:06 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump extends deadline for 50% tariffs on EU goods to July 9 U.S. president Donald Trump said he would extend the deadline for the European Union to face 50 percent tariffs until July 9 after a phone call with ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:46 The EU member states' agreement on reforming the bloc's electricity market has been hailed as a success from ministers in France and Germany, whose dispute over the role of nuclear power in European climate action has ...
11 Nov 2014
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online "Energy efficiency in companies: Hidden chances for climate protection" Greater energy efficiency efforts by companies could help Germany save nearly a quarter of the聽CO2 emissions necessary to ...
12 May 2025, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Die Zeit Most people in Germany say they do not think that the country is going to meet is national climate target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, a聽 survey 聽commissioned by ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Security Clean Energy Wire Germany and Europe are well prepared to deal with serious disruptions to their gas supply in the long term, according to a report by consultancy PwC assessing the reliability of gas ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:44 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
23 May 2025
23 May 2025, 11:00 91tv Team Financial Times: Merz backs Nord Stream ban to prevent US and Russia restarting gas link German chancellor is worried about reigniting domestic row over Russian gas imports. Reuters: German Q1 GDP upgraded as orders rush to ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:24 Jennifer Collins Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt Every second e lectric car sold in Germany in the first quarter of 2025 was made by Vol kswagen, while two out of three newly register ed e-vehicles came from German manufacturers, ...
05 May 2025, 15:32 The choice for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new transport minister suggests the country is unlikely to face a profound policy overhaul to get the emission-intensive sector on track to meet ambitious 2030 climate targets. Long-serving conservative ...
10 Feb 2025
10 Feb 2025, 13:25 91tv Team Reuters: Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system, severing Soviet-era ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / Clean Energy Wire German industry groups and other car lobby organisations have said the European Parliament鈥檚 decision to back a ban of new combustion engine cars in 2035 is a blow to climate protection ...
05 Nov 2024
05 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ember: Nominated EU Commissioner for Energy is being put to the test in the EU Parliament Think tank Ember agrees with candidate Dan Jorgensen's stated aim to prioritise grid modernisation. T&E: Our take on the EU ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Technology Heating NDR The northern German city of Flensburg has commissioned one of the world鈥檚 largest seawater heat pumps to supply climate-neutral heat through its district heating system, reports regional public ...
03 Feb 2025, 14:49 Germany is increasingly looking outwards to find skilled workers to fill its green labour gap, especially to India. Joint collaborations aim to tackle a critical challenge faced by both nations: securing a skilled workforce capable of ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:17 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Renewables Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Germany's performance has improved slightly in consultancy McKinsey's biannual "Energy Transition Index," with targets now deemed " ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:40 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
02 Feb 2015
02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淔rom nuclear proponent to power line opponent鈥� In 2008 Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said that extending the run-time of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear power stations was " ...
27 Feb 2025
27 Feb 2025, 13:14 91tv Team Bloomberg: Don't sound the death knell for Germany's green wave yet The nation鈥檚 industrial giants believe clean technology is the best bet for the future. That should be an incentive for Friedrich Merz to stay the ...
29 Jun 2020, 12:53 Renewables covered more than half of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power consumption in the first six months of 2020, according to a first estimate聽 by think tank Agora Energiewende*. As coal use dropped and demand was low due to the coronavirus crisis and ...
27 Nov 2015
27 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv dpa Criticism of environment minister鈥檚 鈥榮olo鈥� push for coal exit North-Rhine Westphalia鈥檚 state premier Hannelore Kraft and her economy minister Garrelt Duin have criticised Federal Environment ...
17 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025, 11:35 91tv Team Reuters: Chinese buyers interested in unwanted German Volkswagen factories, source says Buying a factory would allow China to build influence in Germany's prized auto industry, home to some of the oldest and most ...
04 Feb 2025
04 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team EEA: EU maritime transport: progress made but environmental, sustainability challenges persist Europe鈥檚 maritime sector is making progress towards greater sustainability but will need to increase its efforts over the coming ...
04 Jun 2025, 11:00 Nuclear fusion technology presents a huge chance for European industry, which the continent must pursue without delaying the rollout of renewable energies, says Markus Roth, co-founder of nuclear fusion startup Focused Energy. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not ...
26 Mar 2025, 13:43 Bennet Ribbeck Society Clean Energy Wire Human rights organisation Amnesty International and other NGOs have criticised official charges against members of the German Last Generation climate movement because of 鈥渟uspicion of forming a ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Society Clean Energy Wire A large majority of Germans think addressing climate change must be part of the post-COVID-19 economic recovery. In聽 a large-scale, international 聽survey of 30,000 ...
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 On 26 April 1986 a nuclear meltdown at a Soviet reactor in today鈥檚 Ukraine sent radioactive particles across Europe and shockwaves through the political debate over nuclear safety. 30 years on from the Chernobyl accident, Germany is in ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:40 Sven Egenter Finance Security Clean Energy Wire Russia鈥檚 cuts to natural gas supplies and the wider economic fallout from the war against Ukraine will push the German economy into recession, analysts at Deutsche Bank forecast. 鈥淎 likely ...
The rise in prices in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest onshore wind power auction is an 鈥渁pproximation to the real market value鈥� of the technology, the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) says in a press release. Previous auctions were characterised by 鈥渕assive ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:05 Germany will see the first hydrogen flow in pipelines from next year after the country鈥檚 "core hydrogen grid" was approved. The backbone of the long-distance transmission network for hydrogen will be slightly smaller than ...
13 Jul 2017, 00:00 Germany should implement a national tax on carbon emissions in order to meet its own emission reduction targets in the an efficient and straight forward way, the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) proposed based on a study by ...
23 Nov 2016, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industry should work with the government to reach the goals in the country鈥檚 newly adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 rather than criticise the plan or individual measures, energy state secretary Rainer Baake told a conference ...
20 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Trump to declare national energy emergency, unlocking new powers Actions set to touch full spectrum of the US energy industry in bid to unleash domestic production. European Commission: Strategic dialogue on the ...
In this year鈥檚 second auction of onshore wind power capacity, not enough bids were submitted to cover the 670 megawatts (MW) on offer, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in a press release. 鈥淭he moderate undersubscription of an auction confirms a ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:57 Jennifer Collins Industry Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire Companies in Germany are increasingly experiencing short power outages of up to three minutes, with the number of companies reporting such "flickers", as they are ...
19 Oct 2020, 13:02 Kerstine Appunn Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 recent e-car boom 鈥� a聽 record number 聽of electric vehicles were registered in September 2020 鈥� is partly thanks to generous government incentives 鈥� but ...
02 May 2025, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Table Media / Handelsblatt Several international climate policy experts have warned that the next German government鈥檚 decision to strip the foreign office of its responsibility for ...
While 69 percent of residents in eastern Germany still support the country鈥檚 energy transition in principle, this figure is well below the 78 percent that expressed approval in 2015, Die Welt reports, citing a study by energy provider enviaM and Leipzig ...
02 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Government International T&E: How to defuse the EU鈥檚 carbon tax time bomb The decision to create a Europe-wide carbon price was right but creates significant political risk. The good news is it can still be fixed. Carbon ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Storage Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Germany can store enough hydrogen in salt caverns alone to meet more than the maximum expected national and European demand needs, the economy ministry (BMWK ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze wants a discussion 鈥渁bout the existing models for CO鈧� pricing that do not put an additional burden on citizens, but still provide an incentive to reduce CO鈧�,鈥� she said in a parliamentary debate. Schulze said that ...
28 Jan 2025
28 Jan 2025, 11:44 91tv Team Reuters: Germany election 2025: Parties, polls and key issues Here are the main parties contending, their poll standings, and the key policy issues ahead of a snap national election on 23 February. Bloomberg: Germany fears ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:17 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Electricity payments provided as part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 basic unemployment benefit will leave recipient households out of pocket by up to 197 euros next year, price comparison website Verivox said in a ...
23 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024, 11:23 91tv Team DW: Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to 鈧�58 The "Deutschlandticket" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ...
22 Oct 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Clean Energy Wire / Focus Online A key high-voltage power line set to transport electricity from Germany's windy north to the industrial south has begun construction. Grid operator TenneT has laid the first ...
13 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024, 12:00 91tv Team Wall Street Journal: RWE warns of U.S. election's impact on offshore wind German energy company outlines 1.6 bln dollar buyback, says project off U.S. east coast could be delayed. CNBC: Rivian-Volkswagen joint venture ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The absence of climate mitigation measures is the greatest threat to prosperity and security in Germany and Europe, a group of environmental organisations said in a joint ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Cities Politics Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel / RBB Berlin鈥檚 Senate has adopted a five-billion-euro climate protection fund to flow into mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, power supply and the economy. The ...
18 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024, 11:15 91tv Team Bertelsmann Stiftung: Climate neutrality: The OECD and EU countries best equipped to lead the way The analysis compares the effectiveness of national policies in climate protection, energy transition and circular economy ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Heating Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire A 鈥榟ardship fund鈥� for households heating with oil or wood pellets has been agreed by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government, newspaper Handelsblatt reports. A total of 1.8 ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables Clean Energy Wire The incoming coalition government in the eastern German state of Brandenburg has said it aims to continue the expansion of renewable energies to make the region surrounding the country ...
06 Dec 2024
06 Dec 2024, 12:28 91tv Team S&P Globa l: Spain's Grenergy sees Germany, US as prime markets for battery storage expansion "Fantastic opportunity in Germany for stand-alone [battery] projects," chairman says. AFP: Europe's oldest ...
09 Jun 2016
09 Jun 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Federal government Gabriel rejects commission with exclusive focus on coal exit Germany's economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said he will not convene a commission ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society Clean Energy Wire The majority of people in Germany view renewable energies favourably, but many worry about costs associated with the energy transition and there are clear differences between the ...
20 Dec 2024, 10:13 Large-scale solar PV developers have not been able to overcome Nigeria鈥檚 reputation as a risky place to do business, a problem which can be seen across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite tremendous solar potential, very little of it has been ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:04 Jack McGovan Industry EUElections2024 EU Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire More than 70 companies from across Europe have come together to demand an industrial deal from the European Commission and member states under fear of falling ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Energy imports to Germany cost 131.7 percent more in July 2022 than one year before, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said. The 223.6 percent increase in the ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next coalition government should push to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating systems, said a wide alliance of sector associations in a joint appeal. The ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Electricity Clean Energy Wire Primary energy consumption in Germany has continued to decrease in the first half of 2024 with the country consuming 3.4 percent less than the same period the previous ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
16 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 S枚ren Amelang World Economic Forum:聽 These are the biggest risks we face now and in the next 10 years "Extreme weather events" rank second in the short term of two years and first in the long term of 10 years. Bloomberg: ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
11 Feb 2025
11 Feb 2025, 11:00 91tv Team PIK: Research institute compiles 85,000 individual studies about climate policy, offering "wealth of evidence" Over a quarter of studies reviewed from 2020 or later; Potsdam Institute for Cliamte Impact Research ...
07 May 2019, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire An increasing number of Germans say they have major worries about climate change (61 percent in 2019 compared to 37 percent in 2017) and many are calling for action in ...
The far-right party Alternative for Germany (Alternative f眉r Deutschland, AfD) may be largely focusing on immigration and not playing a direct role in German federal policy, but its influence can be seen even in energy and climate policy, writes ...
Technological progress, systematic services, and efficiency have made the German wind power industry 鈥� a powerhouse of the energy industry 鈥�, according to Uwe Beckmeyer, state secretary in the Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWi). In a press release ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:46 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Bavarian state premier Markus S枚der has reaffirmed his government鈥檚 intention to take over more than 80 power plants on the southern German state's rivers from energy company ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Energy and climate cooperation, as well as countering migration, will be among the top priorities of Italy's G7 presidency this year. Led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the country's right-wing government will bring its ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation Society Die Welt / Main Post One of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 final traditional wooden sled manufacturers is halting production because of climate change, report ed daily paper Die Welt. 鈥淭he fact that there is virtually no ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire In preparation for a possible 鈥� if unlikely 鈥� severe shortage of natural gas supply during winter, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided it will take into account ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:01 Ruby Russel Heating Clean Energy Wire Heat pump sales in Germany are set to fall to around 200,000 units this year, from 350,000 in 2023, according to the German Heat Pump Association (BWP), which blames the 45 percent decline on ...
24 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024, 13:15 Germany's economy minister has proposed a ten percent state aid premium for industry investments to boost the struggling economy and ease the path to climate neutrality. Robert Habeck said the country is falling behind ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:30 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 SPD- Social Democratic ...
27 Apr 2022, 12:35 S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire The renovation of existing residential buildings to increase energy efficiency has become more cost-effective than ever before due to the massive spike in energy costs, according to a聽 ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
17 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024, 12:28 91tv Team Reuters: Europe's carmakers discount EVs, hike petrol car prices as new emissions rules loom The European Union will drastically lower its cap on automotive carbon dioxide emissions from Jan. 1, meaning at least one-fifth ...
