21 Sep 2018, 16:19 Germany will miss its climate targets for the building sector if it continues to neglect efficiency because of the increasingly tight housing market, environmental NGOs and efficiency associations warn. The climate action proponents ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas International Security Bloomberg / Politico US Vice President Mike Pence has reiterated his administration鈥檚 criticism of the controversial German-Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project in the Baltic ...
German wind power "will see a brief decline in 2019", but growth of the onshore sector is expected to normalise from 2020, writes the Commerzbank in its market assessments of the wind energy market. 鈥淲e continue to observe a robust global ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:34 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire The number of new electric car registrations in Germany rose almost 44 percent to around 36,000 in 2018, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). Given the ...
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the country鈥檚 most populous state and home to numerous emissions-intensive heavy industries, has launched an initiative to examine options for bringing down industry鈥檚 carbon footprint, the NRW ...
The German government should quickly narrow down its mid-century greenhouse gas reduction goal because energy policy decisions in the here and now depend on it, said German Energy Agency (dena) head Andreas Kuhlmann. 鈥淢y recommendation to the government ...
Households in Germany spent almost seven percent less on heating in 2017 due to lower energy prices, but there was no progress in climate protection because energy consumption remained unchanged, according to a study conducted by the German Institute for ...
A Greenpeace-commissioned study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology posits that Germany can still meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, provided that several brown-coal-fired power plants are ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The protection and expansion of German forests is becoming increasingly important to climate protection, as prolonged droughts have begun ...
17 May 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy The German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has presented its main fields of action for the economic restructuring of coal mining regions amid 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit, which a government-appointed commission ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Reuters The German government wants to extend beyond 2020 CO2-related compensation for energy-intensive industry, sources close to the coal commission told Reuters. The economy ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Finance International ICIJ / Urgewald The World Bank is touting investments in solar parks and other climate-friendly projects 聽but has continued to finance oil and gas exploration, pipelines and refineries that ...
A gradual reduction of coal-fired power production and the parallel expansion of renewable energy sources to 65 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2030 power mix would reduce electricity costs and emissions and allow the country to reach its climate target in the ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:33 Edgar Meza Transport Cities Clean Energy Wire Electric scooters can contribute to sustainable urban mobility, but their integration in urban traffic must be coordinated jointly by municipalities and e-scooter providers, according to a ...
12 Feb 2019, 14:14 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire German power grid operator Amprion and gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) are planning to build a 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas plant along with hydrogen infrastructure, a project they ...
17 Jul 2019, 12:47 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert WindGuard Deutsche WindGuard Renewables Julian Wettengel Wind Deutsche WindGuard / VDMA German offshore ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:22 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Cars Spiegel Online The roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany could lead to grid overload in ...
Energy-intensive companies have applied for exemptions from the renewables surcharge for significantly higher electricity volumes for the coming year, according to a dpa article carried by FOCUS Online. According to a response from the Federal Ministry ...
The protests against energy company RWE in that Hambach Forest are directed at a coal lobby that wants to show its power and create precedents, even though clearing the forest is now technically not necessary, Rainer Balcerowiak writes in an opinion piece ...
The German government has agreed to implement a decision by the European Commission on emission limits for power plants and industry facilities by 2021, meaning that many coal plants will have to undergo costly retrofitting, Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:58 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut f眉r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit盲t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Frankfurter Rundschau The German ...
The head of the German Council of Economic Experts (Wirtschaftsweise), Christoph M. Schmidt, says the country must replace its 鈥渆conomically inefficient鈥� support programmes for renewable energy sources with a uniform price on greenhouse gas emissions. In ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ruling conservative CDU party says its coalition partner Social Democrats (SPD) have to acknowledge that the expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable energy capacity will be more difficult than initially thought, Focus Online reports. So far, the SPD ...
Johannes Teyssen, the chief executive of energy company E.ON, said Germany is running the risk of losing the overarching plot of its Energiewende. He warned that the current government is focusing again too much on side-aspects such as the exact date and ...
27 May 2020, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Transport Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire While some media commentators welcome the deal to rescue 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national airline Lufthansa and say a lack of concrete sustainability criteria is justified, others write that ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Government COP24 Zeit Online Energy minister Peter Altmaier correctly said that Germany needs a new approach to climate action by the government and businesses, but it is now up to him and ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:00 S枚ren Amelang Grid Renewables Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states have decided on a joint approach in climate policy, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. State premiers agreed to push ahead with the ...
Better insulation for existing buildings to make them more energy efficient is the cheapest and most promising way to reach 2030 climate targets in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 building sector, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende* and the European ...
Industrial companies in Germany have invested 8.4 billion euros in 2016 in more sustainable technology that reduces, avoids or removes emission from environment, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. The figure equals about ...
German household power prices will remain largely unchanged in 2019 as higher grid fees and wholesale prices outweigh a dip in the surcharge paid for the roll-out of renewable energy sources. The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) expects the ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Despite a record renewables share in 2018, carbon-intensive lignite is still the country鈥檚 single most important electricity source, which shows that CO鈧� allowances ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Daimler, the maker of Mercedes cars, has ordered battery cells worth more than 20 billion euros by 2030.聽鈥淥ur electric offensive continues to gain momentum,鈥� company ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:48 S枚ren Amelang Coal Grid National Geographic Advocates of an American Green New Deal should look to other countries, including Germany, for successful examples, Alejandra Borunda writes for National Geographic. Germany, she says, shows ...
Though Germany has championed the use of clean energy, the country is struggling with the phase-out of lignite, one of its most important energy sources to date, writes Michelle Hackman in an article in the Wall Street Journal. It is an energy source ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The battery cell factory planned to be built in Germany by Chinese manufacturer CATL will have a much greater capacity than initially planned, Lukas Bay ...
The energy supply via district heating networks fell slightly last year in Germany. Operators supplied roughly 161 terawatt hours of heat, a decline of 0.6 percent, according to the statistics office Destatis. 鈥淭he main energy sources for district heating ...
The Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) calls for an end of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which is aimed at supporting the expansion of renewable energy sources financially. In a press release on its 鈥淎genda for Germany鈥� for the year 2030, the vbw ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:25 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Storage Hydrogen Technology pv magazine Two power-to-gas projects in Germany promise to boost the technology, Sandra Enkhardt reports for pv magazine. Utilities Edis and Gasag want to transform ...
28 Jan 2019, 17:56 The German government is ready to quickly supply financial means for the country鈥檚 exit from coal, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. It will now examine the details of the proposal agreed by the country鈥檚 coal exit ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:24 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Technology Clean Energy Wire VW has said it will sell combustion engines until the early 2040s, toning down media reports that it will ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Utilities Clean Energy Wire German utility RWE wants to invest about 1.5 billion euros net per year in renewables after a complex transaction that will combine the green energy activities of E.ON and Innogy under the roof ...
The surcharge German power customers pay with their power bill to finance the expansion of renewable energy is going to remain largely stable next year, according to calculations made by the energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende*. The renewables ...
Increasing the deployment of 鈥渧olatile鈥� renewable energies in Europe threatens power supply security across the continent, Klaus Stratmann writes in the Handelsblatt, citing an analysis from the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), ...
A coal-fired power plant in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, is to be replaced by a gas-fired plant with turbines delivered from Siemens, Handelsblatt Online reports. Upon its completion, expected in four years, it will be one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest gas ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire VW customers in Germany are once again placing more orders for diesel vehicles. Europe鈥檚 largest automaker said the share of new orders for diesel vehicles rose from 39聽percent ...
Large-scale installations used for storing renewable power as gas (power-to-gas) would be an interesting prospect for the east German lignite mining region of Lusatia, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Speaking at an event organised by the ...
27 Sep 2018, 13:57 Germany needs to have a rational and open public discussion about carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and storage (CCS) as ways to avoid releasing climate-harmful emissions from industry into the environment. A position paper by the ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:21 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Government Clean Energy Wire Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a candidate to succeed her at the helm of the ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Electricity market Climate Home News The end of coal-fired power production in Germany can be achieved much more quickly than proposed by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission if the government ...
It could be cheaper to connect future German North Sea wind parks to the Dutch power grid rather than running the cables to, and through, Germany, Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT suggests in its half-year report published on Wednesday. ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Cars ...
26 Apr 2019, 13:03 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Kerstine Appunn Utilities WirtschaftsWoche Utility Steag, which operates one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest coal plant fleets could find a new partial owner in waste company Remondis, ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Utilities Clean Energy Wire Hambach Forest in western Germany could be saved following the German coal exit commission鈥檚 agreement, but only at great cost, RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz said ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:07 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background While the government鈥檚 financial pledges for mining regions have paved the way for an agreement on structural support, ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Private households in Germany could save 9 billion euros and 18 million tonnes of CO 2 each year by following electricity saving advice, according to a survey ...
Business development banks like the KfW are an important source of funding for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and they increasingly use so-called green bonds to finance endeavours in clean energy production or e-mobility, G眉nter Heismann writes in the ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Tagesspiegel Background Operators of e-car charging stations in Germany could face regulatory confusion once changes to the country鈥檚 measurement regulation take effect, Jana Kugoth writes ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:06 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Cars Handelsblatt A group of western German companies including battery producer BMZ and start-up TerraE around Streetscooter-founder G眉nther Schuh are planning to establish a battery cell ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Society RP Online In many western industrialised countries, environmental policy is widening the gap between wealthy elites and poorer people, as the latter suffer most from ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:45 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire German luxury carmakers BMW and Daimler have unveiled a combined ride-hailing, parking, and electric car charging business, in a bid to counter new rivals like Google ...
The German Solar Association (BSW) and the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) 鈥渞egard the first joint auction [for onshore wind and solar power] as a failure,鈥� and call for separate auctions to be held in the future, the two organisations write in a ...
Nigeria, Africa鈥檚 most populous country and largest economy, can cover a big share of its growing energy demand with solar power, the German industry lobby group BSW Solar says in a press release. In an in-depth analysis of Nigeria鈥檚 solar power potential ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 rail operator Deutsche Bahn has stepped up its green energy ambitions. The company announced its intention to increase the share of renewable power in its total electricity consumption to 80 percent by 2030, reports the newswire dpa. One year ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 cyber crime agency in the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) warns that attacks on energy providers in the country could lead to a Europe-wide blackout, news website Spiegel Online reports. According to an internal BKA document seen by Spiegel ...
Talks on renewable energy policy in Europe have achieved an unexpected breakthrough, as negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU member states were able to reach a compromise, report Dave Keating and Fr茅d茅ric Simon for EURACTIV. The deal ...
02 May 2019, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Clean Energy Wire The economy ministers of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have written to federal economy minister Peter Altmaier and finance minister Olaf Scholz to demand tax breaks for home owners who ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:37 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:07 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics Government WirtschaftsWoche German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government have failed on climate protection policy and have not been able to come up with a vision ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:15 Transport Business & Jobs Reuters France and Germany have asked the European Commission to approve state subsidies for a cross-border battery cell consortium, including carmaker PSA with its German subsidiary Opel and French battery ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Prices for heating oil have increased by 37 percent over one year in Germany while gas prices only climbed by one percent, price comparison ...
The commission tasked with planning the phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany will get a climate expert as its fourth co-leader, Malte Kreutzfeldt reports in the Tageszeitung (taz). The climate and energy economist Barbara Praetorius is said ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics Federal Statistical Office The German sustainability strategy has mixed prospects for fulfilling its 2030 goals in many sectors, the Federal Statistical Office ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:10 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire ...
02 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
22 Mar 2019, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Cars International Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest carmaker, Volkswagen, and Swedish battery producer Northvolt have announced a joint research initiative called the European Battery Union (EBU). Partners ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:02 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire The government of the western German coal state and industrial ...
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04 Dec 2018, 15:32 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv EurActiv Germany will not withdraw its political support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia, its foreign minister said, as some lawmakers suggested curtailing the project to punish Moscow ...
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03 Dec 2018, 14:38 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Clean Energy Wire German environment minister Svenja Schulze has called on the international community to use the UN climate change conference in Poland to show willingness to raise ambitions in ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire A group of five major companies has called on the German government to do more to promote electric vehicles (EVs). In a joint initiative under the umbrella of global business ...
The daily routines of electric vehicle owners are made more complicated and expensive by high charging rates and few charging station, according to a press release from LichtBlick. The green energy provider writes that, in some cases, seven of the 11 ...
Nine federal states鈥� ministers of the environment and energy are calling for the introduction of a minimum CO 2 price at the federal level, according to an article in Handelsblatt. In a letter to federal economy minister Peter Altmaier, the ministers ...
A household near Berlin has commissioned 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 100,000 th residential battery storage system. At an official ceremony, state secretary Thomas Bareiss called the threshold an 鈥� important milestone 鈥� for the country鈥檚 energy transition. 鈥淪torage systems ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:26 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Reducing greenhouse gas ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 manufacturing industry and the services sector earned 70 billion euros in 2016 in sales of goods, construction material, and services related to environmental protection, according to a press release issued by the Federal Statistical Office ...
The German government will acquire a temporary 20 percent stake in power transmission grid operator (TSO) 50Hertz from Belgian Elia 鈥渙n national security grounds鈥�, the economy ministry (BMWi) said in a press release. The ministry said the decision was ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:20 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Achieving the 2030 and 2050 climate targets will benefit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy, according to a聽 multi-institute study commissioned by the environment ministry. ...
Heating systems that use renewable energies were installed in 65 percent of the just under 110,100 new residential buildings completed in Germany in 2017, writes the Federal Statistical Office in a press release. Forty-three percent of new buildings used ...
15 Feb 2019, 12:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has set out on a tour of South and Central America that retraces the steps of the famous 19th聽century ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Power customers in Germany paid the highest power prices ever registered in the country during the first three months of 2019, price comparison website Verivox says. With 29.42 cents ...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has grossly underestimated the growth of renewables in its influential World Energy Outlook (WEO) forecasts for political reasons in the past, green energy proponents have told the Deutsche Welle. 鈥淔ossil and nuclear ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Storage Start-ups Business & Jobs S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German home battery specialist Sonnen, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most prominent energy transition start-ups, which was taken over by Shell earlier this year, wants to become ...
02 May 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Technology Clean Energy Wire Germany is interested in finding an agreement with neighbouring Switzerland on how the Alpine country could contribute to German and European power supply security, the German ...
03 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
German power grid operator Amprion and its Belgian counterpart Elia have started building the first power grid connection between the two countries, according to an article by German newswire dpa carried by business weekly Wirtschaftswoche. Amprion said ...
12 Dec 2018, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity consumers paid 228 million euros in the first three months of 2018 in compensation to renewable energy operators because their power ...
11 Jan 2019, 14:06 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 BASF plans to become a green pioneer of the chemicals industry, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. CEO Martin ...
15 May 2019, 12:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A Climate Action Law in Germany that spells out clear sectoral emissions reduction targets is in the interest of energy-intensive industries like steel, environment ...
The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from ...
09 Jan 2019, 11:59 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Grid Utilities Reuters Energy group Uniper is building a gas-fired power plant in Germany, the country鈥檚 first in a decade, to serve as a 鈥渟afety cushion鈥� for grids coping with intermittent ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Politics Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire German magazine Der Spiegel has run a cover story on the climate crisis and the proposal by German economic and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition can only become a success if the country does not neglect efficiency, the second important pillar of the Energiewende besides renewables expansion, said acting German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries at the annual kick-off ...
The reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was postponed for the third week in a row on Wednesday. The changes proposed to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables law, which enabled the rapid growth of solar, wind and biogas generated power, are subject to disagreements ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:48 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 & ...
The EU could significantly reduce the financing costs of developing its renewable energy potential by setting up a guarantee programme,聽according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. 鈥淥ne euro of public funding would leverage 50 euros of ...
The German bio methane market grew slightly in 2017, according to the Sector Barometer Biomethane 2017/18 by the German Energy Agency (dena). Bio methane had a share of 1.9 percent of the renewable energy market in the power, heating and transport sectors ...
11 Feb 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar Business & Jobs dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Investors appear uninterested in the main factory of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 formerly biggest solar panel manufacturer Solarworld, which filed for ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:42 Rachel Waldholz Coal Transport Zeit Online The state-owned German railway Deutsche Bahn has tried to distinguish its service in recent years as a climate-friendly form of transit, highlighting its reliance on renewable power. But a 2007 ...
Rising German power prices pose significant difficulties for the country鈥檚 famous 鈥淢ittelstand,鈥� the large number of small and medium-sized companies that are a crucial part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial production chain, William Wilkes and Brian Parkin report ...
18 Dec 2018, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas International Clean Energy Wire Liquefied natural gas shipped from the US currently cannot compete economically with natural gas that is transported to Europe via pipelines, Wintershall board ...
03 May 2019, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities Clean Energy Wire Climate activists called for a swift end to coal-fired power generation at power plant operator RWE鈥檚 annual general meeting. Members of the Fridays for Future student protest movement ...
Political restrictions on wind power expansion rather than cost pressure in the sector are responsible for the current troubles of many wind power companies in Germany, Hermann Albers, head of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE), says in a press ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Rheinische Post The leader of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing Social Democrats (SPD), Andrea Nahles, has called for a quick implementation of the proposals made by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission, Jan Drebes ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE will win unconditional EU antitrust approval to buy the renewables businesses of E.ON and Innogy in a deal that will reshape the German energy market, according to an unsourced Reuters ...
14 Dec 2018, 13:35 Germany abstained from a call by nine other European countries for a stronger and extended role of carbon pricing at the COP climate conference in Katowice. The German environment ministry said it did not want to pre-empt the country鈥檚 ...
German energy company EnBW increased its operating result (adjusted EBITDA) by 6.4 percent to 1.14 billion euros in the first half of 2018, compared to the same period last year, the company said in a press release. Net profit attributable to the ...
05 Mar 2019, 15:32 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Start-ups Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Berlin e-car charging startup ubitricity has raised 20 million euros from new partner Honda and existing shareholders including French utility EdF ...
Buildings cause a third of German emissions, but the government continues to 鈥渟hamefully neglect鈥� this problem, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for tageszeitung. 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 really bother anyone that all climate targets are missed in this sector, ...
The biggest battery storage in Europe with a capacity of 48 megawatt (MW) started operation in the northern German town of S眉derl眉gum in June, the Renewable Energy Industry Initiative (IWR) reports. The lithium-ion battery storage can store the equivalent ...
09 May 2019, 14:04 S枚ren Amelang Cars Start-ups Bloomberg / Clean Energy Wire Volkswagen is about to find out whether consumers will back its 30-billion-euro strategy to topple Tesla as the electric car leader, write Chris Reiter and Christoph Rauwald in ...
The largely state-owned German energy company EnBW says it has achieved 鈥渁 financial turnaround鈥� in 2017, posting a profit of 2.1 billion euros in the fiscal year. At EnBW鈥檚 general meeting, CEO Frank Mastiaux said the turnaround was 鈥渁 key milestone in ...
Utility EnBW has launched its first 500-million-euro green bond with a 15-year term to maturity. The bond was oversubscribed after a few hours, the energy company said in a press release, adding that EnBW was one of the first German businesses to launch a ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Freight Cities Port of Hamburg / NDR The authorities of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest port in the city of Hamburg are looking into the feasibility of constructing a so-called hyperloop transport ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:47 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire Environmental activists occupied part of the ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:02 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Germany will not leave developing countries alone in dealing with climate protection and adaptation to climate change, said German environment ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged delegates at the UN climate conference COP24 in Poland to ensure progress is made in ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Clean Energy Wire German airlines TUIfly and Condor are among the ten least climate-damaging aviation companies in the world, NGO atmosfair says in its Airline Index ...
The European Energy Exchange in Leipzig on Friday auctioned a total of 4.36 million emission allowances for the German government that brought in 64.7 million euros, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The success of the auction marks a new ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:33 [CORRECTION: The German government announced to contribute an additional 1.5 billion euros to the Green Climate Fund, not 750 million euros.] Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics International Clean Energy ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Politics Welt Online The German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt is tightening regulations for the construction of new wind turbines in order to protect threatened bird species like the red ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters German utility E.ON forecast largely stable operating earnings of around three billion euros for 2019 thanks to rising renewables and network profits,聽 reports ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Curbing CO2 through the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has not hurt the profitability of companies or jobs in Europe between 2005 and ...
04 Feb 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Policy Welt am Sonntag The parliamentary group leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative party CDU, Ralph Brinkhaus, told newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview that the German ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Policy Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The so-called 鈥榶ellow vests鈥� protest against higher taxes on fuel and heating oil in France are a major disappointment for all who advocate a tax on ...
20 Feb 2019, 11:13 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Europe needs to pool its strengths with 鈥渁 genuine European industrial policy鈥� to remain a 聽manufacturing powerhouse in the transition to a low-carbon economy, according to France and Germany ...
The expansion of wind power generation in northern Germany is meeting resistance from politicians and environmental organisations alike, Welt Online reports in two separate articles. In north-eastern state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, politician Eckhardt ...
A coalition of several German environmental and energy federations urges the next government to introduce a price for emitting CO 2 to safeguard the country鈥檚 contribution to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. The current low oil price 鈥渕akes ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:57 Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� Leibniz-Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cost & Prices RWI The ...
26 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background German refineries have adequate oil stocks if import flows on the Russian Druzhba pipeline were to be halted, a spokesman for industry group MWV ...
The planned construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, known as Nord Stream 2, is not necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and Europe, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research ...
Car manufacturer Daimler has opened its third large battery storage facility in Elverlingsen, southern Westphalia, the company writes in an announcement. Together with Mercedes-Benz Energy, GETEC Energie, and The Mobility House, Daimler will store battery ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has renewed its criticism of the government鈥檚 lacking overview of energy transition costs, a court spokesperson told the Clean Energy Wire. Website Spiegel Online originally reported that the court asked the ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:41 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Rachel Waldholz Gas Security Reuters Manfred Weber, a leading candidate to become the next president of the European Commission, told ...
The federal government should reform its tax code to achieve the necessary rate at which residences are renovated to be made more energy-efficient in order to meet its goal of a nearly climate-neutral building stock by mid-century, the German Economic ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Policy Handelsblatt / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The stagnation in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 task force on a coal exit is mainly due to neglect or even obstruction by policymakers,聽 writes Klaus Stratmann in a ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Business Government Handelsblatt The German government鈥檚 decision to subsidise domestic battery cell production has encouraged formerly wary German companies to rethink their stance on ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Efficiency Government Die Welt German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has opted to pay expensive fines for failing to meet emissions targets rather than invest in climate action, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Cost & Prices Fraunhofer ISI The growing number of electric cars in Germany could in the long run bring down household power prices, the research institute Fraunhofer ISI says in a press ...
An increase in extreme weather events like storms, floods and snow pushed up the average electricity blackout time in Germany last year. The average interruption per power consumer rose to 15.14 minutes from 12.80 minutes in 2017, according to the Federal ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:23 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Gas Reuters Norway, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 top three gas suppliers with Russia and the Netherlands, could make further inroads into the German market as the country phases out coal, a top executive ...
26 May 2020, 12:43 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire An active removal of several hundred ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:24 A dispute over what is supposed to be its most important climate policy is adding to the woes of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing coalition. Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and their centre-left coalition partner SPD are ...
Car buyers around the world are 鈥渋n love with SUVs,鈥� J眉rgen Stackmann, member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, told the news agency dpa. By 2025, every second car sold by VW would be an SUV. According to Stackmann, the ...
27 Apr 2018, 00:00 The Energiewende is an indispensable project even if future economic returns remain uncertain, according to Christoph M. Schmidt, president of the RWI- Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, and chair of the German Council of Economic ...
Germany needs an end date for coal-fired power production and for internal combustion engines in cars to make progress in emissions reduction and ensure that its industries do not fall behind others in developing technologies of the future, Michael Nelles ...
A new government report detailing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 failure at emissions reductions increases the pressure on the country鈥檚 coal commission to agree on a speedy phase-out plan. Germany remains set to widely miss its self-imposed 2020 emission reduction target, ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International WWF / Greenpeace / DUH / BNE / VCI / BDI The European Commission鈥檚 plan to make the EU CO2-neutral by 2050 has been largely appreciated by environmental NGOs as ...
German energy think tank Agora Energiewende*, together with the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut), has published a new analysis of the recent reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). After remaining in the single digits for years, the ...
Germany will need to reform its renewables support system by 2019, said Stefan Kapferer, head of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). 鈥淚 am convinced that, although we may not have a major Renewable Energy Act (EEG) reform already ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:34 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Rachel Waldholz Nuclear phase-out taz / Clean Energy Wire Critics are denouncing plans to build a new interim storage facility for ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has fallen behind in the transformation of the energy industry triggered by the energy transition, and must now speed up its policy making processes to support the sector in reaching emissions reduction goals, the managing director of ...
Andreas Pinkwart, economy minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state and home to one of three German lignite mining regions, has called for a CO鈧� tax on oil and gas to ensure that power consumers do not have to shoulder all of ...
Enak Ferlemann, parliamentary state secretary in the transport ministry (BMVI), said that today鈥檚 form of e-mobility with batteries is only a precursor to drives based on hydrogen fuel cells, writes Olaf Preuss in Die Welt. Hydrogen made with offshore ...
07 Feb 2020, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Cars Clean Energy Wire German carmaker Opel, a subsidiary of French PSA, plans to manufacture enough battery cells for half a million e-cars annually in a new factory in western German Kaiserslautern from 2024. Opel ...
12 Dec 2018, 14:11 Bavarian state premier Markus S枚der called for a national exit from coal-fired power generation but rejected the current financial demands from coal-mining states to cushion the phase-out. In a speech on his new government鈥檚 priorities, ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security Handelsblatt Rainer Seele, chairman of Austrian oil and gas company OMV, has criticised the US ambassador to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 letter to contractors of Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 as a 鈥渃ompletely ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:45 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Rundschau It will be much tougher for the European Union to reach climate targets without climate 鈥減oster child鈥� UK after Brexit, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 manufacturing companies spent 3.3 billion euros on climate protection measures in 2016, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) says in a press release. In total, the sector (excluding construction) generated 31.8 billion euros in current ...
The German government tries to bring the headquarters of the envisaged European joint venture for battery cell production to Germany, a press release by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy ministry (BMWi) says. At a meeting of the European Battery Alliance in ...
18 Feb 2019, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Business & Jobs dpa / Rheinische Post German utility RWE estimates costs of 1.2 billion euros for each gigawatt (GW) of ...
German utility Uniper has launched a pilot scheme to produce methane gas from wind power as the country seeks wider uses for renewable energy, reports Vera Eckert for Reuters. The plant, set up five years ago in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind-swept Brandenburg state, ...
A fight over immigration policy between 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 two conservative sister parties paralyses the work of conservative ministers in charge of energy transition policies, Nikolaus Doll, Michael Fabricius and Daniel Wetzel write in Die Welt. Energy and ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance Clean Energy Wire The new advisory council on sustainable finance established by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has held its first meeting to debate how the country鈥檚 financial sector can better ...
28 Jan 2019, 12:39 Kerstine Appunn Security Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 foreign minister Heiko Maas urged the United Nations at Friday鈥檚 open debate of the UN Security Council to take the link between climate and security into account in all conflict ...
The rising price for CO 2 emissions in the EU鈥檚 Emissions Trading System (ETS) has created windfall gains for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and climate funds, the latest monthly report by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reveals. According to the July 2018 ...
In 2017, at least 5.4 billion euros were spent by the German government from the federal budget on the country鈥檚 energy transition, up about 20 percent from the previous year, writes the German Taxpayers Federation in a study. Four billion euros were ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:06 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Rheinische Post 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal commission will agree on a phase-out within around 20 years, according to Armin Laschet, premier of the western coal mining state ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:19 Rachel Waldholz Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Die Welt Diesel cars are regaining market share in Germany for the first time since the 鈥榙ieselgate鈥� scandal broke in 2015, Nikolaus Doll reports for Die Welt. In January, more than 34 percent ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:26 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire The German government wants to build on last year鈥檚 G20 final declaration regarding climate provisions, but the outcome of ...
03 May 2019, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Policy ZDF 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier is sceptical of the idea of introducing a tax on CO鈧�, he said on聽Maybrit Illner, a political television talk show by ...
Germany can save nearly 28 billion euros a year if it stops mining and using lignite, a study by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned by green power provider Greenpeace Energy has found. Apart from the costs of energy generation with lignite, which is ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:20 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Welt am Sonntag Miners will present the last piece of hard coal mined in Germany to the country鈥檚 president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable levy聽 decreases for the second year in a row, but the government should lower household power prices by abolishing exemptions for companies that do not compete internationally, writes Joachim Wille in an editorial in the Frankfurter ...
In an open letter published in the WirtschaftsWoche, Gunhild Grieve, head of investor relations at German utility RWE, refutes the advice that investors should get rid of 鈥渢oxic coal stocks鈥�. The suggestion had been made by Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Politics Focus Online The commission tasked with planning the end of coal-fired power production in Germany may be imperilled by internal differences that hinder compromise, climate ...
New German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said the energy transition is one of his ministry鈥檚 major projects, speaking as he took over the helm of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Friday. 鈥淭he project Energiewende ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) trade union, which covers workers in the mining, chemicals and energy sectors, has welcomed the move by likely coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD to give up on 2020 climate protection targets, Detlef ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Mobility Elections & Politics dpa / Focus Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport minister Andreas Scheuer has invited politicians from opposition parties to join the country鈥檚 mobility ...
Due to the sluggish advance of its energy transition in the heating and transport sectors, Germany is set to miss the EU target of covering 18-percent of final energy consumption with renewables by 2020, lobby group the Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) ...
With its Energiewende, Germany is a global role model, but only in terms of renewable energy development, writes Bernhard P枚tter in an opinion piece for the tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淚n terms of the difficult policy and economic decisions, we duck out like ...
German power transmission grid operator TenneT has started laying the first underwater kilometres of NordLink, a direct power connection between Norway and Germany, the company announced in a press release. Over the coming months, TenneT will lay 99 ...
The German government should put in place 鈥渃lear incentives鈥� to reduce CO 2 emissions, said Utz Tillmann, director of German chemical industry association VCI, in an interview with Tagesspiegel Background. The fledgling government has delayed policy ...
Intra-German flights should be completely prohibited and per-person air traffic should be capped, according to environmental and mobility experts, Markus Decker writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau. Air traffic in Germany increased by 2.3 percent in the ...
Representatives of German businesses have welcomed the announcement by new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier to work towards lower power prices for companies, Donata Riedel writes in WirtschaftsWoche. Christian Vietmeyer, CEO at the Association ...
The expansion of wind power in Germany must be accelerated both onshore and offshore to make good on climate action plans outlined in the government鈥檚 coalition treaty, industry organisations German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and Offshore Wind Energy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new coalition agreement means a visible increase in ambition for expanding renewable energy sources, Hubertus Bardt and Benjamin Tischler write in a guest commentary for Handelsblatt. However, 鈥済oals like these are easily made but hard to ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government International Tagesspiegel Background Germany could face fines of up to 300 million euros payable over three years for its failure to comply with emissions reduction targets under the EU鈥檚 ...
Germany can only reach its 2030 climate targets for the transport sector with ambitious EU car emission limits and a host of additional measures, according to a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) and the International Council on ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Technology Clean Energy Wire Airport operator Fraport AG and German start-up Volocopter have announced plans to explore the use of autonomous flying taxis at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Frankfurt Airport. ...
17 May 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Technology Clean Energy Wire The new five-seater electric air taxi by aviation company Lilium from Munich has completed its first flight successfully. According to the company, the Lilium Jet鈥檚 maiden flight ...
16 May 2019, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Finance Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel says the need for a reform of financial markets along sustainability criteria is one of the most pressing challenges the sector is facing. ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Politics German Chancellor Angela Merkel will personally weigh in on the stagnating negotiations over the end of coal-fired power production in the country, news magazine Der ...
According to the wind industry, German turbine operators supported under the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) should be able to sell their electricity directly to companies, reports Klaus Stratmann in the Handelsblatt. Until now, renewable electricity supported ...
Southern German company Heindl Energy proposes to overcome one of the energy transition鈥檚 central challenges 鈥� how to store renewable electricity on a large scale 鈥� with a pumped hydro system that does not require mountains, reports Ralph Diermann for ...
German energy company E.ON published its 5.2-billion-euro takeover offer for a minority stake in innogy, part of a plan to break up the RWE renewables carve-out, reports news agency Reuters. E.ON said its offer for the 23.2 percent in innogy not owned by ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new minister for the economy and energy, Peter Altmaier, wants to lower power prices for small and middle-sized companies. In an interview with Handelsblatt, Altmaier says companies that do not benefit from rebates for energy-intensive ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars Zeit Online The head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 mobility commission, Henning Kagermann, has said that a general speed limit would not be very effective in reducing transport emissions. ...
Belgian transmission system operator Elia will exercise its pre-emptive right to buy a 20 percent stake in German power transmission grid operator 50Hertz for 976.5 million euros, beating the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), reports Reuters. The ...
Despite the significant changes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system, the reliability of the power grid shows that there is a strong innovation dynamic in system services, writes the German Energy Agency (dena) in a report, citing redispatch measures as an example. ...
For now, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 southern neighbour Austria benefits greatly from exports of cheap German power, but this arrangement is about to come to an end, Irmgard Kirschko writes in the Austrian newspaper Kurier. An 鈥渁rtificial shortage鈥� at the border, which is ...
Producing gas using renewable power is crucial for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition if the country decides to pursue ambitious climate targets, according to a meta-analysis by energy management consultancy enervis commissioned by Leipzig natural ...
The co-chairman of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green Party, Robert Habeck, says a sweeping reform of taxes and levies for renewables and other energy sources is needed to make clean energy production cheaper vis-脿-vis carbon-intensive sources, the L眉becker Nachrichten ...
The decentralised blockchain technology could solve many of the IT security problems associated with the roll-out of smart meters, the German Energy Agency (dena) says in a press release. In an analysis published jointly with management school ESMT Berlin ...
The mining companies of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern coal mining area Lusatia should become more independent of the fossil energy source and diversify their businesses, Brandenburg鈥檚 state minister for economy & energy, Albrecht Gerber, has said in a press ...
The transformation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system is likely to increase the demand for natural gas of the world鈥檚 biggest importer even further, a study by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) said. 鈥淲e can expect a significant ...
The parties negotiating a new grand coalition government in Berlin seem to prefer to delegate important climate policy decisions 鈥� such as finding a date for a coal exit 鈥� to a future commission, rather than taking on the responsibility themselves, writes ...
Germans generally accept the idea that an energy transition costs money, but they are opposed to wasting money, Johannes Teyssen, manager of energy company E.ON, said in a joint interview with Green Party head Cem 脰zdemir in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background More than 700 scientists from German-speaking countries have signed a petition that explicitly backs students鈥� strikes demanding rapid climate action by the ...
Advantageous regulations, decreasing overall costs, a wider offer of different models and increased demand mean that e-mobility is on the verge of breakthrough in Germany, according to consultancy McKinsey. Similar to the developments in the solar PV ...
Germany has provided inspiring and visionary leadership on energy and climate for many years, but is now at risk of being left behind, according to former US Vice President Al Gore. While stakeholders met for the first session of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit ...
27 Jun 2019, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come out against putting a price on CO鈧� emissions by expanding the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to the transport, building and agriculture ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:15 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Tagesspiegel Background The European Commission has approved German government plans to impose diesel bans only in cities that significantly exceeded pollution limits, Markus Grabitz, Stefan ...
Nord Stream 2 is not just a natural gas pipeline 鈥� it is a controversial energy project that has significant geopolitical implications, Michael St眉rmer writes in a commentary published in Die Welt. The pipeline divides the EU and the military alliance ...
Contrary to many utilities in other European countries, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 E.ON and RWE lack a proper strategy for dealing with the energy transition, Bloomberg analyst Elchin Mammadov says on Dow Jones Newswires. The split-up of RWE鈥檚 spin-off innogy between ...
The energy transition in Germany, the Energiewende, has so far primarily focused on the decarbonisation of the power sector, but a greater emphasis on other sectors and synergies between sectors is necessary for the successful continuation of this ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:38 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Clean Energy Wire The members of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission are 鈥渨illing to work together constructively to find solutions鈥�, but the conditions are 鈥渃haotic ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:57 Expert Stefan Bratzel Director Cars Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire German carmakers are expected to catch up in the international e-mobility ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:06 Expert Federal Foreign Office Ausw盲rtiges Amt International Security Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Security Clean Energy Wire Germany has assumed a two-year seat as a non-permanent member of the United ...
01 Feb 2019, 13:53 The initial relief in Germany over a coal exit deal has given way to fresh discussions over how to implement the hard-won compromise. Chancellor Angela Merkel and politicians from her grand coalition government praised the agreement by ...
Germany is likely to miss several of its energy transition goals by 2020, including greenhouse gas reduction and transport sector goals, writes an expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in a short interim ...
The energy transition and climate protection are not among the new government鈥檚 priorities, and it would be more honest to give up on聽 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate targets 聽altogether, writes Daniel Wetzel in a commentary in Die Welt. The energy transition urgently ...
German utilities 鈥渉ave fallen far behind their competitors in Europe and the US,鈥� according to Johannes Teyssen, CEO of German utility E.ON. The companies鈥� meagre performance over the last decade has meant investments in research and development are lower ...
The coalition talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 Conservatives and the Social Democrats have revealed that Germany has problems with implementing the energy transition, writes聽Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk in the Bulletin of the Polish Institute of ...
The deal on innogy between utilities Eon and RWE is another sign of how weak the two former energy giants have become, after they failed to act in time on the shift towards a low-carbon energy supply, Jakob Schlandt writes in a commentary for daily ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport European Commission / Reuters The EU institutions have provisionally agreed to reduce CO鈧� emissions from new trucks and buses by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2019, writes the European ...
German steel company thyssenkrupp has started production of the synthetic fuel methanol from CO鈧� and other emissions in steel production, the company says in a press release. The fuel production from side products of steel smelting is part of the so ...
Germany needs the new Russian-German natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 because ambitious climate targets make gas 鈥渁n even more important energy source鈥� and reserves in Germany and the Netherlands are decreasing, write Christian Democratic (CDU) ...
The head negotiators of CDU and SPD in the coalition talks have praised the decisions on energy and climate policy as 鈥渁 good compromise鈥� (Armin Laschet, CDU) and a 鈥渉uge step forward鈥� (Barbara Hendricks, SPD). Hendricks, who is acting environment ...
Two of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy companies, RWE and E.ON, will publish their balance of accounts this month 鈥� a move that is likely to highlight the difficulties the industry is still grappling with amid the country鈥檚 energy transition, news agency dpa ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Cars Cost & Prices Agora Verkehrswende A transition of the German transport sector towards carbon-neutral mobility will not be possible without a comprehensive and 鈥渟ocially ...
The embattled Hambach Forest could turn out to become a symbol for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 acclerated coal exit as much as the nuclear disaster in Fukushima became a symbol for the country鈥檚 accelerated nuclear exit, J眉rgen Flauger writes in a commentary for ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars International Clean Energy Wire Registrations of new electric cars in the EU exceeded 100,000 for the first time last year, industry association ACEA says in a press release (in English). ...
The German federal government is struggling to implement an effective carbon pricing mechanism despite a consensus among climate experts about the need for such a scheme, writes Joachim Wille in the Frankfurter Rundschau. However, the recent call by Green ...
The EU鈥檚 2050 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal cannot be achieved without liquid fuels, the German Petroleum Industry Association (MWV) says in its annual report. The petrol industry lobby group says petrol companies want to contribute to a more ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Frankfurter Rundschau The southern German states of Hesse and Bavaria are passing the buck to each other on who should provide its territory for completing much-needed grid expansion plans, ...
As global new investment in renewable energies grew in 2017, Germany spent less on new renewable installations because the costs of offshore wind power have dropped, and the shift to auctions for onshore wind has created uncertainty, according to a report ...
Discount supermarket chain Aldi S眉d is equipping 28 of its branches along major traffic routes in Germany with electric vehicle charging stations, according to a dpa article carried by Handelsblatt. The move represents a shift from the group鈥檚 focus on ...
Germany is quickly reducing its conventional power capacities, risking a lack of secure capacity by 2023 at the latest, says the energy industry association BDEW in an analysis of the country鈥檚 power plants. Germany currently has power overcapacities. The ...
German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier will discuss options for closer cooperation with its neighbour Poland on battery cell production for electric cars, Welt Online reports. On a working trip to Poland next week, Altmaier will meet the Polish ...
The German wind industry has lauded the international optimism regarding the renewable energy source at the global fair WindEnergy Hamburg but complained that the interest of German politicians in this growth sector has faded. Nearly 1,500 exhibitors from ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics International MCC / PIK The United Nations Environmental Programme鈥檚 (UNEP) 鈥淓missions Gap Report鈥� on the divergence between the Paris Agreement鈥檚 goals and actual ...
The total cost of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition cannot be calculated merely by adding up the costs of individual assets, as some costs would arise even without a shift towards a decarbonised energy system, the German Federal Government writes in an answer ...
Russian gas company Novatek and Belgian group Fluxys, a natural gas transmission system operator, are planning to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the German Baltic port city of Rostock, Andreas Meyer writes in the Ostsee-Zeitung. According ...
The number of public and partially public electric vehicle charging points in Germany has risen by more than 25 percent from June 2017 to June 2018, to around 13,500, according to a press release from the German Energy Industry Association (BDEW). However ...
A price on CO鈧� in Germany would bring a push in innovation from which German companies could profit in international competition, Ottmar Edenhofer, designated director of The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), told Spiegel in an ...
14 Dec 2018, 10:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The Association for the German Language (GfdS) has made the term 鈥淗ei脽zeit鈥� (hot age) its Word of the Year 2018, saying it neatly conveys a topic that ...
Energy industry association VGB Power Tech says that the guaranteed capacity of German wind power is less than one percent of the 56 gigawatt (GW) of installed capacity in the country, Klaus Stratmann writes in the Handelsblatt. According to the ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze has called on the country鈥檚 energy-intensive industries to present plans to reduce their carbon emissions, Handelsblatt reports. At a meeting in early July, the Social Democrat (SPD) will meet representatives of ...
The German federal parliament has adopted legislation to allow for energy companies that had invested in nuclear power plants to receive compensation worth millions of euros, Die Welt reports. In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the German ...
A new University of Jena research project entitled 鈥淨uest for Energy鈥� will seek to develop novel solar technology to assist the transition to a low-carbon economy, the university says in a press release. With support from the German Academic Exchange ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:29 Expert Mojib Latif Head of the Research Division: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sports federations like the German Football Association ...
The political feasibility of carbon pricing depends more on public acceptance than on issues related to cost efficiency and economic benefits, a new study published by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change has found. In an ...
31 Jan 2019, 11:58 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars VW wants to establish its newly developed underlying platform for electric cars as an industry standard by licensing it to competitors. 鈥淲e want our Modular ...
The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) has called on the new German government to "reboot" financing of the energy transition. The costs of building up renewable capacity and updating the grid must be more fairly distributed, the ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:41 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel ...
The head of German energy company RWE鈥檚 workers鈥� council, Harald Louis, says activists in the embattled Hambach Forest who are trying to prevent the expansion of a nearby coal mine are 鈥渂lackmailing鈥� the company by using the country鈥檚 coal exit commission ...
The Free Voters, new coalition partners in Bavaria, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 southern economic powerhouse state, reject important grid expansion plans that are meant to improve the distribution of electricity from renewable power sources across the country, Claudia ...
Since the federal government has set out to extend its energy transition project into the transport sector, car use in Germany has not changed, writes Friederike Meier in Klimareporter. Unlike neighbouring countries the Netherlands and Denmark, where a ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition has so far failed to achieve the desired level of emissions reduction 鈥渂ut this glitch might even聽foster the process,鈥� Christoph Klunker writes in a research paper for the Observer Research Foundation. Find the paper in English ...
The 鈥渕arket slump鈥� in the German wind power sector, which continues to lead to job cuts at manufacturers and suppliers, is caused by government regulation, writes the German Wind Energy Association (BWE) in a press release. 鈥淥n the one hand, the federal ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire The German State Secretaries鈥� Committee for Sustainable Development says the country should become a leading location for sustainable finance and promote its principles both to other ...
Environment and climate policy 鈥� do not take place 鈥� in Germany under the current grand coalition government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an opinion piece ...
Manufacturing the materials used to build an average single family house in Germany consumes about the same amount of energy as heating an average four-person household for 20 years, Nicole Weinhold writes in renewable energy magazine Erneuerbare Energien ...
Although a new study has found that natural gas could replace coal as an electricity source without endangering the power supply, there are much cheaper ways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, Kathrin Witsch writes in a commentary in the Handelsblatt. ...
A coal phase-out is unnecessary and threatens energy security, the Coal Importer Association writes in a press release. Coal-fired power plants are needed to supply electricity to the grid during times when renewable energies cannot meet total power ...
A combination of lack of transparency and denial of legal protection means that German power grid fees cannot be sufficiently checked by consumers, consumer organisations, or even politicians, according to a legal analysis published by the Regulatory ...
Germany must start phasing out coal-fired power generation as the next step of its energy transition, and the matter was also on the agenda of the talks to form a new government coalition in Berlin, the state secretary in the economy and energy ministry, ...
Allowances for emitting a tonne of CO 2 have tripled in price, reaching nearly 16 euros on the European Energy Exchange on Friday, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes. The rise follows trading being at around 5 euros a year ago. Rolf Schmitz, head ...
For 2018, the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) projects a slight decrease in the country鈥檚 levy to finance renewables expansion, the organisation says in a press release. The Renewable Energy Act (EEG) surcharge will drop to about 6.71 euro cents ...
The German ministries for economic affairs and energy (BMWi) and environment (BMU) compete for taking the lead in the planned commission that is tasked with preparing the country鈥檚 coal exit 鈥� dubbed "coal commission" 鈥�, Reuters news agency ...
09 Dec 2015, 00:00 [Updates party statments to new draft text] Issues of differentiation, finance, loss and damage remain / High ambition coalition seeks attention and new partners / "Preparing for long nights" says German environment minister ...
Schleswig-Holstein鈥檚 state energy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has said NordLink 鈥� a direct power connection between Norway and Germany, currently under construction 鈥� is an important step for the European energy transition, Olaf Preu脽 reports for ...
Expanding the capacity of renewable energy sources in Germany should be focussed on long-term stabilisation effects on the energy system rather than cutting costs by maximising output, a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) suggests. ...
German utility RWE has reorganised its power generation business by spinning off its lignite and nuclear power operations into a separate company, the company says in a press release. The move was intended to 鈥渕ake our electricity generation companies ...
A renewable, controllable power supply would be less expensive than producing electricity in new nuclear power plants in eastern Europe, a study conducted by Energy Brainpool and commissioned by power supplier Greenpeace Energy finds. Poland, Hungary, ...
In the second joint renewables auction for solar power and onshore wind power in Germany, solar power bidders have secured the entire auctioned volume of 201 megawatts (MW) at an average support rate of 5.27 eurocents per kilowatt hour (kWh), the Federal ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire A meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ministers from her cabinet and leaders of the country鈥檚 transport commission tasked with ...
A quick phase-out of coal-fired power production would pose a threat to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy, the head of the pro-business party FDP, Christian Lindner, has said in an interview with national broadcaster ZDF, Montel News writes in an article. Closing coal ...
Once a world leader in renewables, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition progress has stalled and the 2020 targets are out of reach unless the next government realigns its policies, writes energy economist Claudia Kemfert in an article in Nature. The country should ...
Developers of smart meters are complaining that the German state鈥檚 licensing of the technology is taking much too long due to security concerns and increasing the risk that the country will fall behind its European neighbours, many of which are much more ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:42 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Cars Society Clean Energy Wire A large majority of Germans say that public transportation services should be offered free of charge, ...
The switch to renewable energies will make oil and gas 鈥渋ncreasingly less important trump cards鈥� in geopolitical conflicts and lessen energy鈥檚 significance 鈥渁s one of the strategic causes of geopolitical conflicts,鈥� writes German utility E.ON鈥檚 CEO ...
German renewable energy company innogy鈥檚 supervisory board has appointed Uwe Tigges as the new CEO, the company says in a press release. Uwe Tigges had initially been appointed as interim CEO of innogy following Peter Terium鈥檚 resignation from the ...
The federal government has published its National Reform Programme 2018, a report to be sent to the European Commission, in which Germany explains its policy reform plans. The section on energy and climate largely contains the provisions that Angela ...
Synthetic fuels will be competitive with conventional liquid fuels by 2050 and replace oil as the primary ingredient for transport and heating fuels by mid-century, a new study by consultancy Prognos, research institute Fraunhofer UMSICHT and the German ...
It is 鈥渟urprising鈥� that major German banks did so little to finance renewable energy internationally while the country was a driver of the global energy transition, Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development Institute (DIE) told Christian Schaudwet ...
21 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Deutschlandfunk / Die Welt As German forests continue to suffer from heat damage and bark-beetle infestation, the country鈥檚 鈥渕ost important ally for climate action鈥� is in danger, writes ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 soaring grid costs and negative power prices will likely be tackled during the talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) on renewing their grand coalition, reports Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. 鈥淲e ...
A state-managed fund for dealing with the financial legacy of lignite mining in Germany is the wrong way to ensure that the extraction鈥檚 long-term effects are dealt with properly, Antje H枚ning writes in a commentary for the General Anzeiger Bonn. Contrary ...
German foundation World Future Council (WFC) says the current state of the global energy industry is like the financial industry on the eve of the global crisis in 2008. The group called for a bailout fund to absorb losses suffered because of the ...
Germany scores poorly in a new ranking of EU member states鈥� ambition and progress on slowing global warming, according to a press release from Climate Action Network Europe, an umbrella organisation of European civil society groups working to fight ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government will have to find a way to change the current system of energy surcharges, regulations and economic incentives, which 鈥渓eads into a cul-de-sac鈥�, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German Energy Agency (dena) says in an interview with ...
The German government has agreed to abolish large regional differences in transmission grid fees by standardising them across the country in five equal steps. The implementation will begin at the start of next year, and completion is planned by early 2023 ...
The government鈥檚 goal of increasing the share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power mix from 50 percent to 65 percent by 2030 could substantially delay the point at which solar and wind power installations can become fully competitive, the consultancy Aurora ...
After the German federal government decided on 27 July to buy a 20 percent stake in north-east German transmission grid operator 50Hertz in order to protect this critical infrastructure from being partially owned by Chinese grid operator SGCC, the head of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 automobile industry has had a lot of 鈥� false friends 鈥� in the government in recent years, Green Party politician and head of the parliamentary commission on transport and digitalisation Cem 脰zdemir told Ansgar Graw at Die Welt in an interview. ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Most people in Germany are ready to implement changes to their lifestyle in order to reduce their individual impact on the climate, a survey commissioned by the European ...
A clear majority of voters in Switzerland have opted for a new energy law that aims to promote renewable energy, bans construction of new nuclear plants and fosters greater energy efficiency, Urs Geiser writes on swissinfo.ch. About 58 percent of Swiss ...
A dispute between the two south-eastern European states Serbia and Kosovo is said to be responsible for a voltage drop in the European power grid, which has caused many electronic clocks on the continent to run slow, Norbert Lossau writes in Die Welt. ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2020 climate target is practically out of reach, and the country now needs an emergency programme to reach its 2030 targets, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German Energy Agency (dena), told the Frankfurter Rundschau. In their blueprint for ...
The energy transition will mainly play out in power grids in the years to come, according to E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen. In an interview with the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, he said grids were his company鈥檚 most important business, which also ...
Chinese grid company SGCC鈥檚 plan to acquire 20 percent share in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operator 50Hertz worries German politicians and could refuel the debate on establishing a state-run transmission grid company, reports the Handelsblatt. It was a ...
By the end of 2017, renewables expansion in Germany exceeded targets by a considerable margin, but the country still lags behind on several other energy transition indicators, writes Hubertus Bardt for the industry-sponsored research institute IW K枚ln in ...
Germany produced more solar power than ever before in the first four months of a year in 2018, boosting power generation by 25 percent compared to 2016, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Handelsblatt. By the end of a particularly sunny ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Germany on Saturday, 18 August to discuss the controversial gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the New York Times reports. Apart from talks about the ongoing conflicts in ...
The country needs a 鈥渟ustainable and binding鈥� CO鈧� price in all sectors, including transport and heating, to correct mistakes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy tax and levy system, CEO of utility E.ON Johannes Teyssen told Die Welt in an interview. 鈥淲ith this, many ...
The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says the country鈥檚 coal exit plan should be accompanied by a plan to achieve 100 percent renewable energy supply. 鈥淥nly planning security for industry can lay the foundations for investments鈥� and prevent ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 recently-formed coal-exit commission must take into account the jobs of those employed in the coal sector, said Michael Vassiliadis, president of the mining, chemical, and energy industry union IC BGE, in an interview with Tagesspiegel ...
Due to its apparent lack of will to achieve a consensus, the mandate of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission should be annulled and the government itself should find a consensus on how to end coal-fired power production in the country, Angela Hennersdorf writes ...
Contrary to the German government鈥檚 promise to close the gap towards reaching the country鈥檚 2020 climate target as much as possible and take steps towards reaching the 2030 target, it 鈥� is doing nothing," Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in an opinion piece ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Bloomberg Researchers say low water levels on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Rhine river after 2018鈥檚 long summer drought could occur more frequently as a result of climate change, William Wilkes, ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Austria鈥檚 new government coalition of designated conservative chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the Green Party could serve as a role model for Germany, say several commentaries in ...
Forest protection has played an important role in the history of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende, or energy transition, and the current developments at the Hambach Forest, which is under threat by the expansion of a lignite mine, could end up as another example in ...
Construction of the direct current connection NordLink for the exchange of renewable energy between Germany and Norway has started, writes transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT in a press release. 鈥淔or the first time, the interconnector will directly ...
Most of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heavily indebted municipal utilities say investments associated with the Energiewende are the cause of their woes, Franziska Holler, Benjamin Oehlschl盲gel and S枚ren Gaum write for industry magazine Public Governance. In a survey of ...
In an interview with public broadcaster ARD, German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the proposal for a more ambitious EU greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 by Miguel Arias Ca帽ete, commissioner for climate action and energy. 鈥淚 am not so happy ...
German utility EnBW has increased its profits by one third in the first quarter 2018 compared to the same period last year, the company said in a press release. EnBW made 687 million euros in profits between January and March, with all business segments ...
01 Oct 2019, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities ...
The European Union鈥檚 2030 and 2050 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and objectives 鈥渨ill not be achieved without significant additional efforts鈥�, says a new 鈥淟andscape Review of EU Action on Energy and Climate Change鈥� published by the European ...
The storm 鈥淗erwart鈥� that hit Germany on the last weekend in October caused power prices to turn negative due to an excessive supply of wind power, thereby exposing 鈥渢he glaring malfunction鈥� of the country鈥檚 energy transition, Nando Sommerfeldt and Holger ...
The EU emissions trading system (ETS) is not sufficient for ensuring that Germany meets either its CO 2 emissions reduction goals or the other targets of its energy transition, the German government says in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left ...
Energy experts in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have slammed聽 plans by the state government 聽to tighten regulations for the construction of new onshore wind power installations, Dow Jones Newswires reports. The plan ...
Michael Liebreich,聽founder of renewable energy research organisation Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), has called the zero-support bid in German offshore wind power auctions 鈥� a risky and brave move.鈥� Successful bidders EnBW and Dong Energy were ...
Wind power turbines are 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important renewable energy source and in 2017 produced more electricity than coal plants for the first time, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO of Soventix, writes in a guest commentary in the pv magazine. 聽But it is 鈥渁 false ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition not only misses 2020 climate targets but fails on many other accounts too, according to the head of an expert commission tasked with monitoring the Energiewende鈥檚 progress. 鈥淓fficiency is a particular problem,鈥� economist ...
Demand for subsidised electric vehicles in Germany remains far below the level hoped for. By the end of March 2018, authorities had received a total of 57,549 applications for an e-car buyer鈥檚 premium, the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export ...
German energy utility RWE might be considering a partial takeover of its rival Uniper, J眉rgen Flauger reports for the Handelsblatt. RWE refused to comment but Flauger points out it has previously been interested in buying gas and coal-fired power plants. ...
A range of comparatively simple measures could increase the capacity of the German power grid within the next two to four years, energy think tank Agora Energiewende * finds in a study. An ad-hoc investment programme could improve the transmission grid to ...
Fast decisions on climate targets, renewable growth and fossil fuel phase-out are required to plan the future German grid system, a study by the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) within a project funded by the Ministry for Education and ...
German utility E.ON and Italian counterpart Enel have traded power using blockchain technology for the first time. E.ON called the first contract a 鈥渟ignificant milestone鈥� of the 鈥淓nerchain鈥� initiative, 33 European companies that aim to develop a ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry can reach its greenhouse gas reduction obligations for 2030 and 2050 purely by letting the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) do its work, Michael Vassiliadis, head of the mining and chemicals industry union IG BCE, said ...
Representatives of consumer protection and energy-intensive industry should be part of the upcoming so-called 鈥榗oal exit commission鈥� to ensure that cost arguments are taken into account, writes German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) director-general ...
Excitement over technological innovations and the digitalisation of the energy system are 鈥渙nly one side of the coin鈥� of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, Daniel Wetzel writes in weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag. 鈥淭he other side is that planners and architects ...
German energy company Uniper鈥檚 Board of Management has proposed to increase the dividend more than planned to 74 cents per share for 2017 for a total of about 271 million euros, the company writes in an ad-hoc announcement. The total dividend amount would ...
There is a consensus in Germany to gradually shift the energy supply to renewable sources and to reduce primary energy consumption- but the central question of energy storage is often bypassed, says Nicolaus R枚mer, head of hydro power company ...
German battery company sonnen wants to equip electric car users with a new charging box that not only allows them to draw electricity from solar panels on their homes, but also connects them to other users, making them part of a larger battery pool. The ...
The only way to enable 鈥淐hancellor [Angela] Merkel鈥檚 next government to reach the 2020 climate target is to exit from coal-fired power generation,鈥� writes Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International in a guest commentary in the ...
South Korean carmaker Hyundai has agreed a deal with Volkswagen Group鈥檚 Audi to collaborate on hydrogen car technology, hoping to boost an energy segment that has lagged behind battery electric vehicles, news agency Reuters reports. 鈥淭he fuel cell is the ...
The increase in the wholesale market price for electricity in 2018 has led to a reduction of the so-called 鈥渕arket premium鈥� that renewable power suppliers like wind and solar PV installations receive as a guaranteed payment, the German Renewable Energy ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar Utilities Clean Energy Wire / pv magazine Utility EnBW plans to build 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest solar power farm a nd intends to run the installation without claiming any support payments in a ...
German energy utility RWE earned profits of 2.2 billion euros in the first nine months of 2017, the company announced. After record losses of 5.7 billion euros in the full year 2016, the company profited from higher prices in energy trade, and from a ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 Leading Green politicians in Germany are optimistic an agreement to improve the country鈥檚 patchy climate record is possible in likely coalition talks with Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservatives and the free-market FDP. Despite major ideological ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy could be lowered even further next year if exemptions for energy intensive industries were financed via the federal budget, instead of with the levy, writes the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) in a press ...
Germany is seeking to limit China鈥檚 investment in sensitive firms, following revelations that state-owned China Southern Power Grid purchased a substantial share of a 1,650-kilometre natural gas distribution network and a 420-kilometre high- and medium ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industry is among the most efficient in the world and can hardly improve its energy intensity record by simply abiding by new regulations, a study by the industry-sponsored research institute IW K枚ln says. Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter ...
01 Apr 2019, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society Clean Energy Wire No other country in Europe is as sceptical of the success of e-mobility as Germany, an international survey commissioned by energy company E.ON has found. About one third of respondents ...
German welfare recipients do not receive enough money from the government to pay for electricity, according to the consumer protection organisation Verbraucherzentrale North Rhine-Westphalia. The organisation鈥檚 "North Rhine-Westphalia fights energy ...
19 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
German technology company Bosch and utility EnBW have opened a new large battery storage facility that helps stabilise the power grid, Bosch says in a press release. The battery consists of 768 lithium-ion modules that can provide energy quickly and help ...
The energy policy plans of the new government of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) bear the risk that the state 鈥渋n the medium and long run is left behind as an energy region 鈥�, Peter Berger writes in K枚lner Stadtanzeiger. In ...
Parliamentarians from the German opposition Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens took aim at the government鈥檚 policies pertaining to energy and the climate, and to the international context of the country鈥檚 energy transition, the Energiewende. At a ...
The German Environment Agency (UBA) says greenhouse gas emissions from the industries (excluding aviation) that take part in the European emissions trading system (ETS) fell by 3.4 percent last year 鈥� a steeper decline than Germany achieved in its overall ...
Power transmission grid operator Amprion and gas transmission grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) want to test power-to-gas (PtG) technologies on an industrial scale in Germany to better integrate electricity with the other sectors, the companies ...
Germany could ramp up its biomethane production from the current 9 terawatt hours (tWh) per year to 100 tWh by 2050, the German Energy Agency (dena) says in a press release. 鈥淏iomethane can contribute significantly to the energy transition without any ...
The Social Democratic (SPD) state premier of coal-mining state Brandenburg is at the forefront of a 鈥淧R-battle鈥� over the energy transition鈥檚 costs that usually is dominated by sceptics in the right-wing nationalist AfD party, J枚rg Staude writes for ...
The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) is reaching out for a 20 percent share in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid operator 50Hertz in a bid to gain valuable insights into a business area in which China strives for a leading global role, Thomas Sigmund and ...
Peter Terium, CEO of German renewable energies company innogy, started a pro-EU initiative, 鈥榃e4Europe鈥�, and calls for unified energy policy in an interview with Handelsblatt. 鈥淓urope is the foundation on which we build our business鈥� and it was in innogy ...
German utility EnBW has purchased German battery storage provider Senec in a bid to strengthen its position in a decentralised and renewable energy system, pv magazine reports. Senec Managing Director Maximilian von Grundherr said that the move will allow ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, wants to introduce a state support programme for climate projects in industry, she told the Rheinische Post. 鈥淭ogether with my cabinet colleagues from the economy [BMWi] and research [BMBF] ministries, I ...
The small municipality of Jemgum on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 North Sea coast could soon become home to a giant battery, which some hail as 鈥渢he Energiewende鈥檚 magic potion鈥�, Burkhard Fraune writes in the WirtschaftsWoche. The redox flow battery, which stores electrical ...
In October 2017, renewable energy sources contributed more to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power mix than ever before over the period of one month, Spiegel Online reports. Solar, wind, hydro, and bioenergy plants produced 44.1 percent of the country鈥檚 electricity in October ...
A projected substantial increase in the number of e-cars in Germany will pose major challenges for the country鈥檚 energy providers and power grids, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) says in a press release. The ZEW has carried out a survey ...
A fairer procurement of resources needed to manufacture renewable energy facilities would help the energy transition 鈥渕ake a real contribution to more global justice and climate protection,鈥� says catholic relief organisation Misereor in a press release. ...
23 Jan 2019, 11:04 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission will propose to protect companies and private households from rising electricity prices resulting from a state-driven phase-out of the fossil fuel,聽 Reuters news agency says citing a draft report [shorter ...
The bid by Danish energy supplier 脴rsted, formerly known as Dong, to build offshore wind farms in German waters without guaranteed remuneration is a 鈥� giant strategic bet 鈥� that is going to be profitable, 脴rsted CEO Henrik Poulsen says in an interview ...
E.ON鈥檚 interest in competitor RWE鈥檚 renewables spin-off innogy is also triggered by innogy鈥檚 4,000-odd existing contracts with municipalities, which grant the latter company the right to operate local grids, or give it a stake in local utilities, writes ...
Only solar bids have been successful in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first joint solar and onshore wind auction for renewables support, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. 鈥淚n competition, it simply is the technology that offers the lowest costs ...
The German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF) has welcomed the government鈥檚 new 鈥�Energy efficiency and heat from renewable energies,鈥� strategy, saying that measures to pool support schemes are long overdue. In a statement, DENEFF called ...
The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) proposes to introduce a CO鈧� price for energy consumption in heating, writes Dagmar Dehmer in an article in Tagesspiegel. According to a study, carried out by consultancy Prognos, the levy of 25 euros per tonne ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Handelsblatt Renewables supplied a record share to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power mix in 2018, but their contribution to a secure supply continues to be insufficient until cheap storage can be built ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:09 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Bloomberg While Germany is phasing out hard coal mining by the end of 2018, the country will continue to rely on imports for power production for some time, write William Wilkes, ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:01 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 Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert ...
German utility E.ON uses a smart grid with solar and wind energy, as well as a large battery, to supply a Swedish village exclusively with renewable electricity. 鈥淚n order to support the balancing of the local energy system, customers are engaged to ...
20 Mar 2017, 00:00 Germany aims to use a large international energy conference in Berlin to inject fresh momentum and ideas into the G20 process in the run up to the Hamburg summit in July. The Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 鈥� a two-day conference on ...
In a bid to avoid EU fines for excessive air pollution, the German government is considering plans to make public transport free of charge to improve air quality in cities. Transport experts welcomed the proposed measures designed to lure more people onto ...
If and when the RWE-E.ON deal is approved by cartel authorities and the companies, the restructuring of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy sector will be far from complete,聽writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece for Berliner Zeitung. 鈥淚t鈥檚 only a matter of time before ...
Decentralised renewable energy sources increase the importance of local distribution grids for making 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition work, a new study on municipal utilities by consulting agency Ernst & Young (EY) says. Distribution grid operators become ...
The next federal government should help low-income households afford electricity, through measures such as special rates or free basic volumes that cannot be cut off, Timot Szent-Ivanyi says in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. Szent-Ivanyi says ...
Municipal utility WSW in the western German city of Wuppertal says that it has launched the world鈥檚 first green power trading platform based on blockchain technology. Clients can buy electricity from local renewable power producers and determine their own ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars SWR 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first extensive all-year driving ban for older diesel vehicles has taken effect in Stuttgart, the hometown of carmakers Daimler and Porsche. Public broadcaster SWR reports that ...
The next German government alliance should not 鈥渟eal a coalition agreement that does not include the goal of achieving the 2020 target,鈥� Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the environment ministry told the Clean Energy Wire. 鈥淭he 2020 target is about ...
The German government has used a 鈥渃unning trick鈥� by making the state-owned business development bank KfW acquire a stake in grid operator 50Hertz that had been eyed by Chinese power company SGCC, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter ...
An 18 percent drop in global expenditure on renewable energy last year does not mean the energy transition is losing support, Stefan Merx writes for Handelsblatt. Figures compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance merely reflected that costs for installing ...
Contracts for difference (CFD) for renewable energy funding are the best available method to pass on cost reductions in different renewable technologies to the average power customer, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) says in its weekly ...
The Energiewende, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, has so far 聽seen too much political planning and not enough free market forces, making coal-fired power production one of the project鈥檚 鈥渨inners鈥� besides renewable energy sources, gas lobbyist Timm Kehler ...
The energy costs for energy intensive industries in Germany in December 2016 have reached the lowest level in seven years, the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut) said in a press release. The energy cost index in late 2016, which measures energy ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has released its 2030 grid development scenarios, including a 鈥渟ubstantially altered鈥� scenario based on a 65 percent share of renewables in the power mix, and on the additional auctions for wind and solar power promised ...
07 Aug 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang International Clean Energy Wire Germany has to step up its climate ambitions so Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn鈥檛 travel to the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September empty-handed, according to Climate ...
21 Dec 2018, 13:35 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Spiegel Online / dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German carmaker Volkswagen could cut up to 7,000 jobs at factories in Emden and ...
In two separate interviews, the CEO of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has vowed to continue contending for the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, which a court ordered to halt on 5 October. In an interview with the Rheinische Post, ...
08 Aug 2017, 00:00 Since 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende shifted into gear in the early 2000s, the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors have created over a million jobs, many of them in technical branches, such as renewable energy production, power ...
The German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), which advises the German government, has called for an e-car quota to push the energy transition in the transport sector. At least 25 percent of new cars and light trucks should be pure electric by ...
Rather than big flagship projects, 鈥渟ubversive innovations鈥� could prove more successful in making a breakthrough in the decarbonisation of the world鈥檚 economies, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) told ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 The German government has conceded that the country is on course to widely miss its 2020 climate target. The economic boom, the pressure of immigration, and high emissions in transport mean that the energy transition pioneer is headed ...
Consultancy Ernst & Young (EY) is developing an Energiewende Digitalisation Barometer for the German economy ministry, which will provide an annual assessment of the progress of the digital transformation of the energy system, reports Christian ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are not yet technically mature enough to contribute to climate action, the German government has said in an answer to a ...
17 May 2018
Organising a 鈥渏ust transition鈥� to a largely decarbonised economy has to become much more of a focus of the political debate, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest trade union umbrella group DGB said in a newly adopted decision at its annual congress this week. The DGB is the ...
The stagnation in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 CO 2 emissions in 2017 suggested by AGEB data implies that Germany has lost another year in the fight against climate change, according to Greenpeace. 鈥淭he disastrous record underlines what has been evident for so long: Without ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:51 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Storage Cars Clean Energy Wire Volkswagen has opened a pilot line for small-series battery cell production in Salzgitter in Lower Saxony and construction of a 16-gigawatt-hour (GWh) ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Cars Hydrogen Handelsblatt Fuel cell cars are often portrayed as an alternative to battery electric cars, but there is hardly any demand in Germany, writes Lukas Bay in business daily Handelsblatt. A mere 386 ...
The pro-business party FDP stands out at the ongoing Jamaica coalition talks for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next federal government with its 鈥渁stonishing claims on climate and energy鈥�, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in left-wing newspaper Die Tageszeitung (taz). Remarks by FDP ...
Germany is an industrial leader with a reputation for being 鈥渁 righteous leader in climate protection鈥�- but a closer look at its actions suggests it deserves to be labelled a 鈥渃limate change hypocrite鈥�, Paul Hockenos writes in Foreign Policy. While it may ...
鈥淐onsiderable legal concerns鈥� could stand in the way of German farmers鈥� demand for recurring compensation payments if power lines are built on their land, according to a law firm report commissioned by energy industry association the German Association of ...
A more efficient use of smartphones, computers, televisions, or other electronic appliances could reduce the power consumption of these devices by more than three quarters, the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) says in a press release. ...
The planned commission that will prepare the end of coal-fired power production in Germany does not include enough representatives from eastern Germany, the Left Party was quoted as saying in an article written by the news agency dpa and carried by the ...
03 Jan 2019, 12:00 Expert ICCT- International Council on Clean Transportation Transport Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Cars ICCT The International Council on Clean Transportation has published a collection of European vehicle market ...
Mercedes-Benz Energy teams up with US solar energy company Vivint Solar to bring Mercedes-Benz鈥檚 home energy storage system to California, the companies announced in a press release. Mercedes has been selling the batteries in Europe and South Africa this ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial heavyweight Siemens did not anticipate the rapid decline in renewable energy prices, particularly solar photovoltaic (PV) power, and consequently it had to implement significant layoffs in its conventional energy branch to compensate ...
The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar power capacity must be accelerated if the country does not want to miss out on one of the global energy transition鈥檚 most important trends, the German solar power industry warns in the Erneuerbare Energien magazine. ...
With an increase of almost 5 million tonnes of CO鈧� emissions, the transport sector contributed most to the rise of German energy-related CO鈧� emissions in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period last year, according to think tanks Agora ...
Key IT projects necessary for the digitalisation of the German energy transition are making no headway, endangering the 鈥渁mbitious large-scale project鈥�, journalist Peter Welchering told German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. These projects included ...
Energy transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country鈥檚 climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission next Tuesday. There ...
The importance of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥渃oal commission鈥� means it must not be led by the economy ministry alone, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in a commentary for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淚t鈥檚 a good sign that the new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, isn鈥檛 leaving ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Coal Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Power generation from coal was down 19 percent in Europe, and 22 percent in Germany, in the first six months 2019, according to analysis by climate change think tank Sandbag. 鈥�2019 ...
New US sanctions against Russia will have serious consequences for the energy supply in Germany and Europe, writes Kirsten Westphal of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in a guest commentary for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淭he ...
The approach to phasing out coal-fired power production in Germany has become a bone of contention between the prospective coalition partners, the conservative CDU and the environmentalist Green Party, as remarks made by both parties鈥� energy politicians ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition from nuclear and fossil energy to renewables has many sceptics and requires a lot of hard work, but shows that 鈥渋t can be done,鈥� Judith Lavoie writes on Desmog Canada. Manfred Fischedick of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate ...
The European Commission is considering antitrust proceedings against 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest transmission grid operator, TenneT, over suspicions that the company is creating artificial power bottlenecks on the Danish-German border, the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
A rapid decommissioning of fossil and nuclear power plants in Germany 鈥減oses the risk of knowingly causing an undersupply of guaranteed capacity by 2023 the latest鈥�, says the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) in a response to an analysis ...
04 Apr 2019, 14:37 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Germany reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 4.5 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to corrected estimates by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). This means the ...
23 Jul 2019
23 Jul 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann dpa / Die Welt Two economically powerful southern German states, Bavaria and Baden-W眉rttemberg, have announced that they will join forces to set up a new battery cell research centre, news agency dpa reports in an ...
Germany will not be able to reach its EU target of an 18-percent renewables share in final energy consumption by 2020 under the current conditions, writes the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) in its forecast for renewables development by 2020. ...
German energy start-up Conjoule is set to receive about 3.5 million euros from controversial Japanese nuclear plant operator Tepco, Jana Kugoth writes in Welt Online. The operator of the notorious Fukushima nuclear plant, which was severely damaged by an ...
Since the energy transition fundamentally changes the German energy industry, the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) will introduce a new advanced training regulation for 鈥渃ertified energy industry business administrators鈥�, ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest industry federation, BDI, warns that high power prices could lead to an exodus of companies to cheaper production locations abroad, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Spiegel Online. BDI head Dieter Kempf said Germany had ...
Digitalisation is the 鈥渒ey driver鈥� of a successful energy transition as it is needed to manage a decentral power supply, Heiko von Tschischwitz, founder of renewable power provider LichtBlick, told Handelsblatt. The times of 鈥渟imple supply鈥� were over and ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Technology Handelsblatt German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp plans to phase out CO鈧�-intensive coke-based steel production and replace it with a hydrogen-based process by 2050, ...
After a record 2017, Germany saw an 鈥渆xpected鈥� decrease in onshore wind power expansion in the first half of 2018, said German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and industry association VDMA Power Systems at a press conference in Berlin. The 鈥渕arket slump鈥� ...
In an interview with Deutschlandfunk鈥檚 J枚rg M眉nchenberg, Dieter Kempf, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), says reaching 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2020 target 18 months later would still be a very positive step. 鈥淚 believe that the world can see very ...
The fact that power prices in Germany occasionally turn negative and lead power producers to pay their customers for absorbing excess electricity should be no cause for concern but rather for celebration, energy think tank Agora Energiewende鈥檚* head, ...
German energy company EWE AG wants to test using an underground gas storage cavern for storing hydrogen produced from wind and solar power, as the need for regular natural gas storage has declined over the past years 鈥� a trend that is bound to continue ...
02 May 2018, 00:00 Josef Kallo, director of the Institute for Energy Conversion and Storage at Ulm University and coordinator of the Research Group Energy Systems Integration at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), says electric flight is not just a distant ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:05 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Cities Reuters German carmaker BMW has said that its hybrid cars could be converted to automatically disable the combustion engine when entering inner city areas, reports Reuters. BMW is ...
Swiss voters have been lured into voting for the government鈥檚 Energy Strategy 2050 by 鈥渁 phalanx of profiteers鈥� of the new law, Giorgio V. M眉ller writes in a commentary for conservative Swiss newspaper Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung (NZZ). The vote could have been ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:03 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Clean Energy Wire The most effective way to reduce CO鈧� emissions from air travel are investments in efficiency, says the German Aviation Association (BDL) in a paper. At the same time, ...
Germany takes an expensive 鈥渟pecial path鈥� in rolling out smart meters as regulated by the European Commission, according to an analysis by consultancy Baringa Partners, writes Franz Hubik in Handelsblatt. Germany had decided to roll out smart meters step ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:21 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Finance Reuters Forest fires are becoming increasingly likely because of climate change and are bound to cost insurers more than ever, with the deadly fire that ravaged northern ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest mining trade union has called on the next federal government to assign the tasks related to energy, transport, and housing policies to a 鈥榤inistry of energy transition鈥�. This would help the country avoid the current 鈥渦ncoordinated ...
