24 Jul 2023, 13:35 Jennifer Collins Heating Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire Local authorities across Germany may have to submit plans detailing how they are going to transition to climate-neutral heating systems in their jurisdictions six months earlier than ...
10 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025, 10:21 91tv Team Copernicus Climate Change Service: 2024 – a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 Multiple global records were broken, for greenhouse gas levels, and for both air temperature and sea surface temperature, ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that the government’s use of renewable energy operators' windfall profits to co-finance electricity price ...
17 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Bloomberg “Why Germany’s nuclear power exit is causing havoc for utilities” Financing the nuclear phase-out is the biggest challenge yet for Germany’s large utilities, which explains this week’s ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Tagesspiegel Background Germany will fail to achieve its 2030 target of a 65 percent renewables share in power consumption, even with added ambition in the latest draft for the ...
02 May 2022, 14:14 Voters in the northern wind power state of Schleswig-Holstein head to the polls this Sunday (8 May) to elect a new parliament in one of the regions most crucial to Germany’s efforts to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports and massively ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire A majority of households in Germany continue to save energy also more than two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which exacerbated a major energy crisis leading to ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:24 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The price of gas in Germany on average increased by 17.7 percent for private households and 38.9 percent for businesses and other large consumers in the first half of this year ...
“We will correct the ideological, much too fast expansion of wind energy” in North Rhine-Westphalia, said the Free Democrats’ (FDP) state chairman Christian Lindner in a video on Twitter, talking about coalition negotiations. His comments came just hours ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy Wire The German energy transition requires a “restart” as the country is on the verge of establishing a climate neutral energy system and renewables already account for about ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Extreme rainfall in Central Europe has led to large scale flooding, damaged homes and infrastructure, and resulted in the evacuation of hundreds of homes. While Czechia, ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:21 Sören Amelang Renewables Society Clean Energy Wire The German government can count on very broad popular support for its plans to accelerate the rollout of renewable energies, a survey has revealed. “The population is ready for a ...
Most people in Germany doubt that the country’s energy transition can be pursued according to plans and without greater difficulties, according to a representative survey that utility RWE presented at a debate meeting in Berlin. A majority of 69 percent ...
The reform of the Renewable Energy Act puts the Energiewende at a crossroads, writes political scientist and energy analyst Arne Jungjohann on environmental news website China Dialogue. “So far, citizens, communities and new investors have been the ...
02 Jun 2025, 13:24 Sören Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire The new German government could implement its planned support for electric car purchases in a socially fair manner without an additional burden on public coffers, argues a report commissioned by a ...
24 Apr 2020, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire The coronavirus crisis is set to have a significant impact on income from the German renewables' levy as power demand falls, consultancy enplify writes in an ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire Germany's energy industry has warned that the country might struggle to find investors to build new hydrogen-ready gas power plants, following the end of a ...
The G20 meeting in Hamburg is meant to address some of the most pressing global problems but many of the heads of state present at this year’s summit have a very poor record of defending human rights in their own countries, Christian Grefe writes in a ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Germany should give greater consideration to the uncertain development of economic output and population trends when planning the country’s future energy and infrastructure ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen FAZ German energy company Uniper has postponed its target to invest eight billion euros in growth and the green transformation by 2030 also due to a lack of demand for green hydrogen, CEO Michael Lewis told ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Society EU Clean Energy Wire Two-thirds of the people in Europe (66%) support stricter government measures to change people’s individual behaviour to tackle climate change, according to the second part of the European ...
13 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024, 12:03 91tv Team Carbon Brief: State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming Strong El Niño event contributed to exceptionally high global temperatures early in the year. IEA: Technology breakthroughs are unlocking ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:37 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Energiewende Society Spiegel Online The switch from fossil ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:42 Jennifer Collins Grid Clean Energy Wire / Wirtschaftswoche / taz / Reuters Berlin has ditched plans to buy the German business of Dutch electricity grid operator TenneT after tough negotiations, citing stretched public finances. Opinion ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:03 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Society dpa / Clean Energy Wire A German court has temporarily banned the construction of an electricity connection needed to power a planned gas drilling platform in the Wadden Sea, a World Heritage Site in ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country’s oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
Germany’s Energiewende should be democratic, ecologic and social, said the Left Party’s energy and climate spokesperson Eva Bulling-Schröter, presenting the Left’s energy policy cornerstones at an event by Forum Future Energies in Berlin. In the draft of ...
02 Aug 2019, 12:18 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 ARD A majority of Germans (72 %) say incentives are a better way of persuading the population to adopt more climate-conscious behaviour, while just 15 percent said bans were most effective, according to a ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt The EU’s planned battery regulation that is aimed at ensuring clean production conditions for batteries in Europe continues to irk German companies, who complain that the ...
01 Oct 2020, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s energy and economy ministry will launch a new round of debates on using carbon capture and storage (CCS), an idea that was deemed dead after a 2012 law ...
14 Dec 2015
14 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “For humanity” The Paris treaty is a “terrific day for humanity” and spells out clearly that the fossil era is coming to an end, writes Michael Bauchmüller in a commentary for ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:45 Sören Amelang Mobility Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany’s government has agreed on the country’s first ever pedestrian transport strategy that aims to strengthen walking as a sustainable and healthy way of getting around. Transport ...
08 Jan 2024, 13:54 Workers from agricultural companies across Germany have launched a week of authorised protests in the country by blocking roads and motorways with their tractors. They are demonstrating against cuts to tax breaks for diesel fuel widely ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:51 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind EU Clean Energy Wire Germany’s plans for a rapid expansion of offshore wind energy at the end of the decade could clash with similar plans of its neighbours around the North Sea, the country’s section of ...
10 Oct 2018, 17:18 Two days after the UN's latest IPCC report on global warming urged greater international efforts against climate change, the German parliament saw a heated debate about the implications for Germany. While the Green Party, which had ...
18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:16 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The past decade has seen a sharp drop in prices for clean ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire The German government is open to partnering with African countries on fossil gas projects, as well as blue hydrogen production (made from fossil gas, ...
The proposal by the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment to tighten emissions limits for new vehicles begs for a clarification by the German government “whether it wants to protect the climate or the car industry,” environmental NGO VCD says ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:50 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Bild am Sonntag Germany should set up a national fund endowed with billions of euros to ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:57 Jack McGovan Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Plasma technologies could open new options for decarbonising heat supply in industrial processes, offering an alternative to the use of green hydrogen, newspaper Handelsblatt reported. Swedish ...
25 Nov 2024
25 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team DW: Bosch to cut 5,000 jobs with car industry in crisis The car parts manufacturer said some 3,800 of the layoffs are to be made in Germany. Reuters: VW brand boss: layoffs, plant closures needed to fix carmaker's ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:51 Jennifer Collins Grid Solar Handelsblatt Germany's energy industry has urged for a standardisation of renewables' grid connections in order to speed up the process. Industry association BDEW said that grid operators had " ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Handelsblatt / n-tv American e-carmaker Tesla has applied for state subsidy payments in Germany to fund battery cell research and production in the host country of the company's planned new gigafactory, ...
15 Jan 2025, 11:20 As geopolitical tensions escalate and make UN climate negotiations increasingly difficult, the next German government should continue to explore alternative alliances to push for decarbonisation, says Marian Feist, senior research ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Carbon market Clean Energy Wire Germany should alter its current plans for a national carbon price for transport and heating fuel emissions and stick to a fixed price until the new EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:47 Sven Egenter Coal Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s planned exit from coal-fired power generation by 2038 is “too late from a climate policy perspective”, said Markus Söder, the Bavarian state premier and leader of ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire Europe should establish a so-called “Carbon Central Bank” – an institution to oversee a market mechanism to remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere – to reach climate targets, ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:05 The cheapest way to make the most of a growing renewable electricity supply is to ensure demand follows power generation, and not the other way around – which is still the case today. Dynamic electricity tariffs, which reward households ...
04 Sep 2024, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany is betting big on green hydrogen imports but the country should strengthen its own production as well because it is "uncertain" where those imports will come from in relevant ...
23 Aug 2024, 15:00 The summer holiday peak has arrived across Europe and most parliaments on the continent have gone into recess. But while federal politics won’t fully resume in Germany before 8 September, politicians and their observers have already ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:25 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The expansion of European electricity grid infrastructure and measures to increase demand flexibility could lead to a significant reduction in power prices, according to a report by ...
22 May 2025, 10:46 Carbon capture is set to play a key role in decarbonising the cement and concrete industry, says Jan Theulen, Group Lead Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) at Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest cement ...
08 May 2024, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EUElections2024 Clean Energy ...
26 Nov 2024
26 Nov 2024, 11:15 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz: disagree with EU fines for carmakers who miss CO2 limits German chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday there should be no fines in the European Union for car companies that do not comply with ...
11 Aug 2015
11 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Exhausted” RWE boss Peter Terium has announced the complete overhaul of his company, says Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is cutting out an immense bureaucracy of ...
23 Aug 2018, 18:15 Germany’s coal commission will not give any recommendation regarding mining-owner RWE’s plans to continue clearing forest for the planned extension of the Hambach lignite mine in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country's ...
09 Nov 2016, 00:00 Disagreements over the future of coal in Germany have blocked adoption of a long-awaited government roadmap for making the country almost greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. In a surprise move capping several days of uncertainty about the ...
07 May 2021, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Clean ...
19 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024, 11:48 91tv Team Eurostat: Renewables account for 24.5% of EU energy use in 2023 In 2023, 24.5 percent of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 1.4 percentage points compared with 2022. IISD: Fossil fuels ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
28 Nov 2024
28 Nov 2024, 10:30 91tv Team BPIE: EU buildings sector significantly off track to meet 2030 and 2050 climate goals Overall, the four key indicators of the EU Buildings Climate Tracker – CO2 emissions reduction, final energy consumption, renewable energy ...
The federal parliament’s committee for economics and energy has agreed to the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), including many last-minute changes, according to a press release. The government coalition parties, economy minister Sigmar Gabriel’s ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:50 Coal Die Zeit / Süddeutsche Zeitung More than one thousand climate protesters, including activists from the Fridays for Future movement, Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion, occupied the site of a planned opencast coal mine in western ...
05 Mar 2025, 17:07 Germany’s likely next government coalition parties have proposed an overhaul of state debt rules to make hundreds of billions of euros available for defence and infrastructure investments. The agreement, which faces a big hurdle in the ...
10 Jul 2024, 14:01 Sören Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Policy Clean Energy Wire Leading energy economists have called for splitting Germany into different electricity price zones to reflect regional differences in power availability, and to stop ...
04 Sep 2017, 00:00 For the second time within one month, Germany’s government has held a “diesel summit” to discuss the consequences of the emissions fraud scandal of the country’s major carmakers. After a first summit in early August with industry ...
26 Jun 2015
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Berliner Morgenpost /dpa “Vattenfall stops resettlement plans near lignite mine in Nochten” Energy utility Vattenfall has stopped plans to resettle around 1700 people near its open cast lignite ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:15 Germany made significant progress in the area of climate adaptation in the past legislative period, said Andrea Fischer-Hotzel from the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). From the national to the municipal level, there is now ...
17 Jun 2015
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv European Commission “EU on track to meeting 20 percent renewable energy target” The EU expects member states are on track to meet their target of a 20 percent share of renewables in gross final ...
27 May 2025, 12:17 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Technology WirtschaftsWoche In view of the massive energy capacity needed for artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, German energy company RWE is calling for government support to ensure the German ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:49 Edgar Meza Society EU Clean Energy Wire People in Germany would like to see more European cooperation in energy and climate policy, according to a survey conducted by market research institute Prolytics on behalf of the German ...
21 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Parties which stand for election in the European Parliament vote this weekend may face a "historic opportunity" to set the continent on track for ambitious ...
16 Jan 2023, 14:01 Sören Amelang Politics Clean Energy Wire Germany’s economic output stagnated at the end of 2022 but grew 1.9 percent over the whole year, fanning hopes it will avoid a winter recession. “Economic development in Germany proved to be ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchases by China may become a boon for Germany’s supply of the fossil fuel in the coming winter season, business daily Handelsblatt reported. In ...
13 May 2022, 13:00 Russia has started to use fossil fuel deliveries as “a weapon“ with the introduction of sanctions on Gazprom Germania, the former German unit of Gazprom, said economy and climate minister Robert Habeck. While the situation was ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Government International Clean Energy Wire Several climate and environmental NGOs have called on the German government to step up its leadership efforts and remain a reliable climate protection advocate ahead of the ...
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025, 12:20 91tv Team UN: Countries reach historic deal to cut shipping emissions Under new system, ships exceeding emissions limits need to acquire remedial units to offset excess pollution. BBC: Race to keep furnaces burning at British Steel ...
10 Nov 2020, 13:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Rules about bird protection will have to be standardised in all 16 states if Germany is to reach its wind power expansion targets, a group of energy industry associations have argued. ...
13 Sep 2024, 13:01 Jack McGovan Technology Society Clean Energy Wire A total of 12.9 million households in Germany- almost one in three- use at least one energy transition technology like solar panels, a heat pump, or an electric car, according to a ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Cars Clean Energy Wire The rollout of public electric vehicle charging points in Germany continued to progress at pace in the first half of 2024, despite existing charging networks not being well utilised, said the ...
26 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germans have handed Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term in the country’s federal election. Most likely, Merkel will have to start talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Green Party to form a so-called "Jamaica coalition, ...
04 Nov 2024
04 Nov 2024, 13:17 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany’s shaky coalition heads for a €75 billion budget reckoning Top judges to scrutinize levy on high earners and businesses. The ruling could bring the fragile coalition to the brink of collapse. S&P Global: ...
16 Sep 2016, 00:00 To decarbonise Germany’s economy, small amounts of renewable electricity will have to replace large amounts of fossil fuel. The policies to make this Energiewende happen must be decided now, the economy ministry says in a new discussion ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Fossil gas is set to continue to play a crucial role in Germany’s energy supply throughout this decade, and consumption will fall slower than authorities currently plan, said consultancy McKinsey ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Onshore wind power auctions held in November in Germany have led to a new record in submitted bids, the country’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. Bidders submitted ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Süddeutsche Zeitung The steel industry is “of geopolitical importance” for German industry and will therefore receive assistance from the government in mastering its ...
15 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025, 11:55 91tv Team Copernicus/WMO: European State of the Climate Report- 2024 warmest year on record During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast in climate conditions, with extremely dry and often record-warm conditions in the east, ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:25 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Spiegel, Tagesspiegel Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) alliance is set to name few climate policy details in its joint election ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Clean Energy Wire French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have vowed to uphold close Franco-German cooperation to ensure European sovereignty in key industrial areas as the new U ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Solar Clean Energy Wire / pv magazine Spaces alongside German highways could be utilised better to build solar energy systems, with around 250,000 potential sites identified in a report by the Federal Highway Research ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Elections & Politics ARD / ntv / Der Spiegel Germany’s major spending package that contains a reform of the country’s debt brake and hundreds of billions of euros of investments in defence, infrastructure ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:22 Expert Ottmar Edenhofer Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC, Director of MCC, Deputy Director and Chief Economist of PIK Climate & CO2 Energiewende Technology Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Freight Clean Energy Wire A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Business & Jobs Society Clean Energy Wire More attractive conditions are needed to make people join civil protection and disaster relief volunteer units as Germany faces more frequent extreme weather ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:50 Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Policy The deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU parliamentary group, Andreas Jung, has suggested consumers should pay less for electricity and receive an “eco commuters’ allowance”, ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire In order to reach climate neutrality in the most affordable way, Germany must ensure it can transport energy across its regions by expanding its electricity and hydrogen grids, ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country’s energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
03 Sep 2024, 14:09 Jennifer Collins Carolina Kyllmann Grid Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Reforming Germany's grids fees for industrial electricity consumers as a way to incentivise flexible power consumption and boost the use of ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:52 Several days of little sunshine and wind have pushed down renewable electricity production in Germany in early November, causing an increase of fossil fuel use and high power prices. However, energy analysts said such conditions are ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:22 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression “hot autumn“ describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy’s ...
21 Oct 2020, 13:41 The EU’s 27 agriculture ministers have found a compromise on how the 387 billion euros in farming subsidies should be spent in the years until 2027, agreeing to make certain environmental and climate standards mandatory and earmarking a ...
12 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024, 10:53 Julian Wettengel IEEFA: European LNG import terminals are used less as demand drops European Union (EU) LNG import terminals are being utilised less as demand for the fuel continues to decline across the continent. ECA: EU recovery fund ...
14 Nov 2024
14 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Euractiv: Likely future German coalition divided on energy, climate Germany's conservative CDU/CSU, led by Friedrich Merz, is expected to win the snap election on 23 February according to the latest polls but remains at ...
22 Nov 2024, 11:00 Social barriers make it tough for women to work in the solar sector in India, thwarting what could be a vibrant clean energy workforce in the world’s most populous country. Experts are calling for more attention to green skills and ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:08 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire In 2024, Germany recorded the highest surface temperatures in its North Sea since records began, with temperatures rising by up to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the long-term average, ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire Most people in Germany regard the mobility sector as a great threat to the country's climate targets and call for measures to reduce the impact of transport on greenhouse gas ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) has said it aims to strengthen Germany’s competitiveness as a basis for ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:12 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ...
24 Nov 2021, 16:23 The three parties planning to form the new German government have agreed on a coalition treaty that includes pulling forward the country's coal exit, "ideally" to 2030 from 2038, and rapidly speeding up the lagging ...
21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire The majority of employees in German companies are satisfied with the speed with which their employer is promoting sustainability efforts and say it is increasingly gearing its business ...
22 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024, 10:56 91tv Team Bloomberg: VW union calls for December walkouts in dispute over cuts Labour leaders and management are struggling to agree on how to cope with a drop in demand for electric vehicles, higher operation costs and increasing ...
03 Feb 2025, 13:35 Jennifer Collins International Kölner Stadtanzeiger / Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire / Politico The German government has warned U.S. president Donald Trump against starting a trade war with Europe, saying that if the country imposes ...
01 Nov 2024, 16:30 As the world heads to the international climate summit COP29, the European Union is in a tricky position. The Brussels machine is still getting back up and running after the June elections, with the European Commission chiefs yet to be ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Dlf Several chip and semiconductor manufacturers have criticised high taxes and levies on electricity as a disadvantage for Germany as an industry location in ...
In a bid to avoid the decision to implement climate protection steps such as introducing a price on CO₂ emissions, politicians often hide behind citizens who supposedly do not want such measures, Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for ...
Fiscal instruments should complement Energiewende efforts to fight populist criticism that climate protection was a luxury at the expense of the regular citizen, writes Bernhard Pötter in an opinion piece for tageszeitung (taz). “If citizens received a ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland’s new government has updated the country’s energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
11 May 2016
11 May 2016, 00:00 Sven Egenter EY "Germany 5th in EY renewable investment attractiveness ranking" Germany’s attractiveness as a location for renewable investments has declined, according to major business consultancy EY. Germany is ranked fifth ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:48 In a vote that has been hailed as "historic", Germany's parliament has adopted a law that will ensure the phase-out of coal power by no later than 2038. The decision follows two years of intense debate about the country& ...
03 Sep 2024, 17:20 Jennifer Collins Coal Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media So many of Germany's coal-fired power plants are already slated to go offline that the country's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) did not have to announce a ban on power ...
19 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024, 12:00 91tv Team DW: How has Germany's collapsed coalition scored on climate? Germany has long been regarded as a leader on climate action, but the outgoing coalition leaves a mixed legacy. G ov'ts of Germany, Singapore: Joint ...
29 Nov 2024
29 Nov 2024, 11:05 91tv Team Bloomberg: German government plans about €2 billion in new chip subsidies- Part of a push to build chip supply resilience in Europe- Intel recently delayed a 30-billion-euro chip factory in Magdeburg EU: ...
04 Apr 2019, 15:12 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 4.5 percent in 2018 as warm weather and higher prices dampened the use of climate-damaging fossil fuels. The government called the largest drop since the 2009 recession the “first notable ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel The head of the Federation of German Consumer ...
30 Nov 2021, 10:50 The three "traffic light coalition" parties have agreed to form Germany's next government and tabled a coalition treaty that they promise will put the country on a path compatible with Paris Climate Agreement 's ...
08 Nov 2024
08 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany's looming snap vote throws wrench into energy goals Energy was key area of contention within three-party coalition. Industry warns political crisis mustn’t delay key measures. Bloomberg: Spain’s ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Electricity market Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's government is planning a new levy for electricity consumers to fund the construction of the country's planned ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:15 Germany’s most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country’s strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
27 Sep 2021, 15:30 Germany is set to vote for a new government on 26 September. After 16 years at the helm of Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel will make room for a successor who will shape the country's energy and climate ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:39 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire Through climate change, air pollution, plastic waste and other environmental effects, the German economy creates external costs at the level of 13-19 percent ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany will be able to fully fill its gas storage facilities over the summer even if only a moderate volume of the fuel is available in the EU internal market, but there is still a risk of a ...
01 Nov 2024
01 Nov 2024, 11:32 91tv Team European Commission: EU gas storages 95% full ahead of 1 November, surpassing the 90% target The current gas storage level EU-wide is over 95 percent, according to the latest figures released by Gas Infrastructure Europe. ...
26 Nov 2019, 17:36 The effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in Germany, shows a government report on climate change adaptation. The average air temperature in the country rose by 1.5°C from 1881 until 2018, and more frequent heat waves ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:00 Julian Wettengel Solar Clean Energy Wire Germany will grow its solar PV capacity by an annual record of around 17.5 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2024, said energy industry association BDEW. This would bring total installed capacity in ...
15 Oct 2021, 12:32 Germany’s renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
22 May 2019, 13:45 Voters across the EU will head to the polls between 23 and 26 May to elect a new European Parliament. It’s one of three major European institutions — along with the European Commission and Council — due for elections or leadership ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:07 Edgar Meza Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Federal funds required to support the expansion of renewable energy in Germany could drop in 2025, according to an analysis by the Institute of Energy Economics at the University ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Online The German coalition government is considering a scrapping scheme for old boilers to try and overcome the dispute over how to move the transition to sustainable heating forward, reports ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire In the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy company RWE, the judge responsible for the case at a German ...
16 Mar 2021, 12:00 Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly nine percent in 2020- the largest annual fall since 1990- as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed down the use of fossil fuels and added to the effects of the shift to renewable ...
15 Nov 2024
15 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Eurostat: Euro area industrial production down 2.8% in September 2024 over one year ago Largest annual decreases recorded in Ireland (-7.3%), Luxembourg (-6.3%), Hungary (-5.3%) and Germany (-4.5%). The Guardian: Gas prices at ...
Offering municipalities financial incentives for building new power lines needed for the energy transition does not change the acceptance rate of the local population, according to a study by Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen ...
01 Apr 2025
01 Apr 2025, 11:22 91tv Team Politico: EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress. Eurelectric: Solar breaks historical record in ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung / Frankfurter Rundschau Germany’s environment minister Svenja Schulze is confident that the ministries relevant to the country’s greenhouse gas emissions record will eventually ...
23 Jun 2022, 13:02 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Hamburger Abendblatt The recently elected conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and Green Party alliance in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein has hammered out a coalition agreement with ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:39 Jennifer Collins Policy International Clean Energy Wire / FAZ / ARD Germany's economy and climate minister Robet Habeck and Indian renewable energy minister Pralhad Joshi are set to unveil a green hydrogen roadmap during a meeting ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Finance Policy Deutschlandfunk / Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner has announced that price subsidies for electricity and gas introduced during the ...
11 Dec 2018, 20:00 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
10 Mar 2025, 13:28 Germany’s likely next coalition government has agreed to a substantial electricity price cut to relieve households and companies and honour national and European climate targets. The Conservatives, under probable next chancellor ...
30 Oct 2024
30 Oct 2024, 10:49 91tv Team IEA: Global market for key clean technologies set to triple to more than 2 trillion USD over the coming decade as energy transitions advance IEA analysis shows complex interplay between energy, industrial and trade policies as ...
03 Mar 2015
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Correction: Corrects spelling of Marijn Dekkers, CEO of Bayer and President of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI). Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Greetings from the Stone Age” The new Moorburg ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire The results of Germany's latest offshore wind power auction indicate that revenues are on a sharp decline, reported energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
31 Aug 2021, 11:38 Ahead of Germany’s September federal election, almost all parties in parliament are calling for climate policies that quickly and lastingly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The country’s plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 ...
19 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024, 09:33 91tv Team Electric-Vehicles.com: Nio in talks to buy Audi’s factory in Belgium Move is part of its strategy to establish local production in Europe and avoid European Commission tariffs on imported Chinese EVs. Euractiv: Europe's ...
25 Oct 2024, 12:58 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Households installing smart meters could face higher costs in future, Tagesspiegel Background reported based on a draft amendment to Germany's energy industry ...
18 Sep 2024
18 Sep 2024, 12:11 91tv Team Reuters: German conservative Merz set to run for chancellor in 2025 vote The leaders of Germany's conservatives have agreed to nominate Christian Democrat (CDU) chief Friedrich Merz to run as chancellor in next year' ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities Berliner Morgenpost / Der Tagesspiegel An announcement by Germany’s federal transport ministry (BMDV) to expand a motorway in the centre of Berlin has caused a stir among local politicians and could also ...
16 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024, 10:08 Julian Wettengel Eurostat: EU economy greenhouse gas emissions:-4.0% in Q1 2024 In the first quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 894 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 4.0 percent ...
05 Dec 2024
05 Dec 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Corporate Europe Observatory: How frontline communities are impacted by the EU’s green extractivism Europe’s scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, report says. ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices RND / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is reducing its fossil fuel imports even as the cost of buying them has increased from 2021 to 2023, according to a report by the Öko-Institut ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Policy Clean Energy Wire German consumers will no longer have to pay the renewables surcharge on the power price as of 1 July 2022. The German federal parliament (Bundestag) passed ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:30 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire / WirtschaftsWoche A private energy transition for individual households could be both ecologically and economically worthwhile, according to a report by the consulting subsidiary ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire A robust political strategy based on realistic expectations for hydrogen production is needed as demand for the gas remains low due to its high costs and other factors, researchers at the Potsdam ...
23 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Reuters Nuclear commission wants utilities to supplement clean-up provisions The commission on payments for the nuclear clean-up insists that nuclear power station ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:43 German ministers and lawmakers, just like most of their peers across the European Union, are heading into the parliaments’ summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
10 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024, 13:44 With the summer break coming to an end, lawmakers in Brussels are back to school. After the newly elected European Parliament started its legislative term last July, all eyes are now on the formation of the next European Commission. ...
22 Aug 2024, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Clean Energy Wire About a third of drivers under the age of 30 in Germany expect to buy an electric vehicle (EV) the next time they change cars, according to a survey by opinion research institute Bilendi. The ...
19 Mar 2019, 14:08 Sven Egenter Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany needs e-mobility to reach its 2030 emissions reduction targets in transport, Chancellor Angela Merkel told an audience of think ...
10 Feb 2025, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Solar Clean Energy Wire Bids for Germany’s latest solar photovoltaics (PV) support tender exceeded the auctioned total capacity by more than twice, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. Projects ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire Heating with gas and oil could be cheaper for German households in this year’s heating season compared to the previous winter, said price comparison website Verivox. In ...
31 Oct 2024
31 Oct 2024, 10:27 91tv Team The Guardian: Record levels of heat-related deaths in 2023 due to climate crisis, report finds Almost half of global land area saw extreme drought for at least one month, according to Lancet Countdown. EEA: EU greenhouse gas ...
15 Jun 2020, 09:20 While geothermal energy is a viable alternative to curb emissions for heating and cooling, fears and high costs have limited its expansion. But Bavaria and now Baden Wurttemberg are forging ahead. The potential of geothermal energy, ...
16 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024, 11:48 91tv Team pv magazine: Research on agrivoltaics in Germany demonstrates strong synergies Recent research conducted by Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE on agrivoltaics show that not only did the crops grown under the PV panels benefit from the ...
16 Dec 2019, 10:24 Germany will miss its climate targets without leaps in technological innovation, even taking into account the recently agreed climate package, says Georg Nüßlein, deputy parliamentary group head of chancellor Angela Merkel’s ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German economy is emerging from its downswing slower than expected and will likely only achieve minimum growth of 0.1 percent in 2024, a joint analysis by five leading research ...
21 Oct 2024, 14:18 Jennifer Collins Solar Clean Energy Wire Solar energy expansion in major German cities is picking up speed, according to a report by renewable electricity provider LichtBlick, which looks at growth in installed roof-mounted solar ...
12 Oct 2022, 14:48 The European energy crisis is set to push Germany into a recession in 2023, as rising energy prices put a damper on industrial production and inflation means citizens will buy less, said the economy ministry in its autumn projection for ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:24 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Clean Energy Wire The electrification of industrial processes with renewable energy is the most cost-effective transformation path for the sector, the research consortium IND-E has stated in a report. The authors ...
23 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024, 11:47 91tv Team Reuters: Germany bets on India to reduce reliance on China From cars to logistics, German companies are largely optimistic about India's growth potential, tapping into a wealth of skilled young workers, a cheaper cost ...
15 Sep 2015
15 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Economy Ministry/Reuters German economy min: No nuclear stress test results yet Germany's energy minister Sigmar Gabriel rejected media reports about provisioning shortfalls for ...
02 Dec 2024
02 Dec 2024, 11:47 91tv Team Reuters: Nine Volkswagen plants on strike as labour battle escalates Strikes could escalate into 24-hour or unlimited strikes if a deal is not struck in the next round of wage negotiations. Politico: The powerlessness of ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Handelsblatt German transmission grid operator 50Hertz has called for a more balanced and careful approach when it comes to the further expansion of solar photovoltaics (PV), saying there is a risk of overloading ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices ZDF / Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background German politicians have largely welcomed the German Council of Economic Experts’ opinion on CO₂ pricing presented last week. The ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:58 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background It remains unclear whether Germany’s planned reform of its carbon storage law will make it through parliament ahead of the snap election in February 2025, ...
27 Nov 2020, 14:20 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany still has a long way to go in making mobility more environmentally and ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:27 Jennifer Collins Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / SWR Plans for a 2.75 billion euro cutting edge silicon carbide chip plant in Germany are up in the air, amid reports that construction has been put on hold indefinitely and that ...
07 Jan 2016
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “No climate protection without an energy transition in transport” Transport is absolutely crucial to decarbonising the economy and Germany should embrace a leading role, but ...
18 Apr 2018, 00:00 German ministers and European Commissioners will be among those explaining why an energy transition is a good idea for the world, at the fourth Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 17-18 April 2018. The Clean Energy Wire will give a ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:34 Edgar Meza Mobility Freight Clean Energy Wire Economic experts in Germany and France are calling for the two countries to coordinate strategies in the decarbonisation of road freight transport. In a joint statement, the Franco-German ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Grid fees for users in urban and in rural areas of Germany have, for the first time, been brought to similar levels, according to price comparison website Verivox. After a nine ...
13 Jan 2025, 10:15 A last-minute move by Germany’s government to call for a delay to key EU sustainable finance legislation has caused dismay among observers from the finance industry and beyond. At a time when economic and political uncertainty is ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:38 Expert Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e.V. Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Germany is currently the country most concerned about climate change out of the 28 surveyed for the August update ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Current plans for gas networks in European countries largely fail to account for the necessary decline in gas consumption in the coming years as states try to reach climate targets, according to a ...
20 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024, 09:53 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Climate Change Performance Index 2025 Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK take the lead in this year. Germany drops two places to 16th in this year’s CCPI. Bloomberg: EU considers changes to carbon border ...
01 Apr 2025, 12:50 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany is already experiencing the consequences of climate change and undergoing accelerated warming, according to a report by the country’s National Meteorological Service (DWD). The DWD ...
Bavaria is the only German state that made use of a law to set its own minimum distance for wind turbines from residential buildings, the German government has said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Free Democrats (FDP). The government says ...
29 Oct 2024
29 Oct 2024, 12:06 91tv Team 10 New Insights in Climate Science: Leading scientists review the most pressing findings New report responds to calls for policy guidance during a climate-critical decade. UN Climate Change: New climate change report shows ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Technology Clean Energy Wire Germany’s key document laying out its climate and energy policy targets and plans shows that the country “is underestimating the scale and complexity of the ...
29 Jan 2025, 11:18 As Germans prepare to head to the polls for the 23 February snap election, the weakness of the country’s large industrial base has become a campaign focus. Some opposition policymakers blame exaggerated climate policies for the troubles ...
23 May 2024, 13:59 Carolina Kyllmann Grid EU Clean Energy Wire Investments in Europe's distribution grids need to double to 67 billion euros per year by 2050, a report commissioned by electricity industry association Eurelectric found. Failing to ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics ARD The leader of Germany's largest opposition party, Friedrich Merz, has ruled out helping the minority government of chancellor Olaf Scholz to get major policy projects across the line ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:00 Croatia is feeling the consequences of climate change this summer. The country experienced long heat waves and record temperatures were recorded in the Adriatic Sea. This has led to more media attention on the topic of climate change, ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:46 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sales of new heating systems reached record level in Germany in 2023, with ...
22 Nov 2024, 13:13 Ruby Russel Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / Reuters Demand for jobs in the German car industry has reached a new low, according to a data analysis by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) in cooperation with online job ...
06 Nov 2024
06 Nov 2024, 13:24 91tv Team Euronews: Thousands of jobs to go at German car parts maker Schäffler The company is downsizing at 10 locations in Germany and five other sites in Europe, further illustrating the challenges facing the European car industry. ...
05 Sep 2024
05 Sep 2024, 11:01 91tv Team Le Monde: France's Macron appoints Michel Barnier, former European commissioner, as prime minister The appointment of the EU's former Brexit negotiator, a member of the right-wing Les Républicains party, comes after ...
12 Mar 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government Die Zeit / n-tv A public debate between Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck and Saxony’s state premier Michael Kretschmer in Berlin has showcased many of the problems the country is currently ...
22 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024, 11:28 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's Scholz working with industry to boost growth German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised on Tuesday to work with industry to revive growth in Europe's biggest economy, which he said had been hit harder ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Zeit Online Over half of all pure battery-electric vehicles (BEV) newly registered in Germany between January and August were sport utility vehicles (SUVs), according to the Federal ...
22 Mar 2022, 14:29 The Saarland state election on 27 March is the first major public vote since Germany’s new federal government assumed power at the end of last year. The election in the small state is therefore partly seen as an indicator on how voters ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire A new round of purchase incentives for electric vehicles planned by the prospective next German government has aroused scepticism among the country’s car industry, ...
22 Apr 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire / Süddeutsche Zeitung German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised the role of Norway in Germany’s energy supply, lauding the country as a reliable partner both during the energy crisis and ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:30 Burning less coal and an increase in renewable electricity has helped cause a drop in greenhouse gas emissions of three percent in Germany last year, said think tank Agora Energiewende. Preliminary calculations show that real ...
22 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024, 10:35 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: Germany's Deutsche Bahn must cut off DB Cargo aid after EU probe, say sources Germany's state-owned Deutsche Bahn will no longer be able to financially support its loss-making freight operator DB ...
07 May 2024, 13:31 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt ...
NGO Environmental Action Germany is launching a campaign to supplement what it says is inadequate air pollution testing by the government. A new web portal will allow citizens to report locations with high traffic pollution. DUH will then use a network of ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:55 Conservative CDU member Katherina Reiche looks set to become Germany’s new economy and energy minister in a government led by Friedrich Merz as chancellor. Reiche looks back at ten years in the energy industry, where she assumed leading ...
17 Dec 2018, 10:11 Nearly 200 nations agreed on a rulebook for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland. The deal on climate action rules was immediately hailed as a victory for ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:14 Sören Amelang Heating Clean Energy Wire Germany must systematically collect building efficiency data like all other EU countries, which would boost its lagging efforts to make its housing stock climate-neutral, according to the ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:45 Edgar Meza Storage Start-ups Clean Energy Wire Industrial cold storage facilities could become more efficient and be transformed into cost-saving energy storage facilities that contribute to grid stability, the German Federal ...
20 Sep 2024, 15:02 The worst floods in at least a decade hit southern Poland and neigbouring regions in mid-September due to extreme rainfall, which scientists said was likely more intense due to climate change. The situation has received wide political ...
22 Jan 2015
22 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wirtschaftswoche “RWE: shut down or sale?” RWE ’s deputy chairman of the executive board Rolf Martin Schmitz said that power stations hit by falling electricity prices could no longer turn a profit ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel The growing level of emissions caused by air travel has started to move into the debate about Germany’s climate action, Helge Hommers writes for the newspaper Tagesspiegel. A ...
07 Oct 2024, 09:30 We are almost exactly one year away from the next German federal elections. Or are we? The three-party coalition government led by chancellor Olaf Scholz is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:21 Joey Grostern Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Topsoil across much of Germany is significantly drier than usual for the beginning of April which could impact crop yields, with some of the driest springtime conditions since records began, ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Gas Politics Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed the buildout of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure and increased efforts to extract fossil fuels in the U.S. in an interview with ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:00 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Policy Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Industry representatives have largely welcomed Germany's plans to ramp up the hydrogen market, but called for amendments to a draft law to broaden ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy sector experts as well as industry representatives have warned that a shortage of constantly available electricity capacity could lead to new short-lived but ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Regions in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine are at a high risk of experiencing a drought in 2025, as an "extremely dry" winter could not regenerate ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:17 Jennifer Collins Cars Clean Energy Wire The number of battery-electric cars registered in Germany rose by 39.1 percent to 1.4 million in 2023, while the number of hybrids now stands at 2.9 million, according to the latest figures from ...
The conservative (CDU/CSU) parliamentary group said the EU Commission should instead support German efforts to improve air quality. “The lawsuit is the exact opposite of that,” transport spokesperson Daniela Ludwig said. “This is beyond my comprehension. ...
22 Aug 2024, 12:32 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating Rheinische Post Reaching Germany's district heating goals was put in jeopardy following planned cuts to the country's 2025 budget, local utilities association VKU warned, as reported by ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Europe could cover its electricity and green hydrogen needs with domestic production, but only if renewables expansion proceeds as planned, said researchers from ...
18 Oct 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Household consumers in Germany could be hit by rising electricity costs next year as distribution network operators increase their grid fees, energy software company ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:15 Sören Amelang Agriculture Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The largest German supermarket chains have increased their efforts to become more sustainable, but still don’t do justice to their central role in the transformation of the ...
19 Jul 2024, 15:00 Every year in August, Italy and its political scene grind to an almost complete halt for the summer holidays. The debate around the country’s energy transition has almost entirely narrowed down to a single topic: whether to return to ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany's government will have to amend its national clean air programme and present effective measures to reduce air pollution in line with EU rules, a court has ruled. ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:16 The expansion and maintenance of Germany’s rail and road network should be financed by a special fund outside of the regular budget, according to the government’s council of economic advisors. Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & ...
20 May 2019, 13:30 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities Clean Energy Wire A group of 30 ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Cars Clean Energy Wire Following a 27 percent reduction in sales of new battery electric cars (BEV) in Germany in 2024, a total of 1.65 million BEVs were registered in the country by 1 January 2025, showed existing ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany should have an honest conversation about how much strategic sovereignty it wants, and figure out what it is willing to pay to keep production of key energy-intensive sectors in the ...
29 Jan 2025
29 Jan 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Economist: Who is ahead in the race for Germany’s next parliament? Model gives the CDU/CSU "Union" a 97 in 100 chance of winning the most seats. Bloomberg: German industry lobby sees economy shrinking 0.1% this year ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:10 Edgar Meza Industry Clean Energy Wire German government leaders are hosting not one but two industry summits on Tuesday (29 October) as chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition seeks to deal with the country’s economic woes. ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany will likely miss its target for offshore wind power expansion by 2030, wind energy consultancy Deutsche WindGuard said in a status report commissioned by the main industry associations. ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 As Germany digests the result of this year’s federal election, the country prepares for yet another important vote, this time in the state of Lower Saxony. The early election in the country’s number one wind power state is seen as vital ...
30 Aug 2024, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Grid fees in areas with a high share of renewables in Germany will be reduced from the start of 2025, the country's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) said. According to the ...
13 Sep 2024, 12:06 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Planned hydrogen storage projects remain significantly behind forecasted demand, an issue which could affect Germany’s attempts to move towards a renewable energy system, found a report ...
A court in Germany has stopped plans of energy company RWE to build the country’s “most state-of-the-art” lignite power plant in Niederaußem in federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the newspaper WirtschaftsWoche reports. The court said citizens “ ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France’s ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June’s European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:03 Ruby Russel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The Bavarian Industry Association vbw's energy price index fell by nearly 30 percent in 2023, but the group says companies are still suffering from high energy ...
A fire under a moorland, caused accidentally during a military exercise in northern Germany, has released at least over half a million tonnes of CO 2, the NGO Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) says in a press release. The smouldering fire ...
25 Oct 2024, 13:52 Jennifer Collins Mobility Policy Clean Energy Wire / Süddeutsche Zeitung / dpa Rail passenger and freight transport is set to see strong growth over the next 16 years in Germany, but trucks and cars are expected to remain the dominant ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:30 This year's G7 leaders' summit in Italy, to be held in a secluded luxury resort in the Puglia region on 13-15 June, has been largely sidelined in the country's public discourse as the focus is firmly on the campaign for ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Clean Energy Wire Germany's industry could save up to 21 billion euros in energy costs annually if it generated heat more efficiently for the manufacture of products, according to a report ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics ARD / DW Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance of current chancellor Angela Merkel has reached a record low in the well-known Deutschlandtrend survey by infratest dimap, commissioned by public ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire New large scale batteries and hydrogen electrolysers could see their grid connection fee lowered in areas where there is surplus electricity, according to proposals made by ...
Onshore wind energy will become much cheaper in Germany over the coming years, with power costs dropping to 3 to 4.5 eurocents per kilowatt hour at top sites, according to a new study conducted by the think tank Agora Energiewende.* Find a press release ...
26 Oct 2021, 17:29 High gas, petrol and power prices are set to play a part in the ongoing negotiations to form the next German government coalition, which will shape the country’s energy transition policy for years. The election winner Social Democrats, ...
10 Feb 2016
10 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Spiegel Online “Internal market analysis: EU member states’ nuclear provisions more than 100 billion euros short” An EU analysis has revealed that the member states are not well prepared for the ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Most Germans are willing to pay higher prices and taxes to fight climate change, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) reports citing the ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:30 Jennifer Collins Wind Business & Jobs Die Welt The management board of Siemens Energy faced down displeased shareholders looking for answers to spiralling losses from wind turbine subsidiary Siemens Gamesa at the group's annual ...
27 Nov 2014
27 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Tageszeitung (taz) "Trade union association DGB gets on side with coal" What started off as an appeal by industry and energy unions is now supported by most German trade unions (apart ...
11 Sep 2024
11 Sep 2024, 11:18 Julian Wettengel EU Commission: State of the Energy Union Report 2024 shows EU progress The EU has managed to withstand critical risks to its security of energy supply, regain control over the energy market and prices, and accelerate ...
29 Nov 2024, 13:45 The collapsed coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz achieved a few important breakthroughs for Germany’s energy transition that should not be sacrificed for point-scoring in election campaigns, says Wolfram Axthelm from the Renewable ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:40 Sören Amelang Security Clean Energy Wire Climate change poses the greatest threat to German and European security because it destabilises states, undermines food security, increases conflicts over resources like water, according to ...
03 Dec 2024
03 Dec 2024, 11:35 91tv Team Nature: Why the EU must reset its Green Deal – or be left behind- comment The world has changed since Europe’s ambitious climate package was designed. Here’s how the agreement should evolve. Reuters: Dutch power grid group ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Zeit Online / Clean Energy Wire Geothermal energy is a key tool for reaching climate neutrality and could cover 40 percent of Germany's heating needs, the head of the country's geothermal association ...
08 Apr 2020, 15:30 The coronavirus crisis is driving many economies around the globe into recession, leading policymakers to draw up unprecedented spending plans to cushion the impact and enable recoveries. Activists, environmental think tanks and others ...
19 May 2022, 12:11 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire Some 66 percent of German households are in favour of raising the top tax rate to finance climate action, according to a survey conducted by the ifo Institute in cooperation with ...
28 Aug 2024
28 Aug 2024, 09:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: The secret behind Germany’s record renewables buildout As most countries struggle to install clean energy fast enough, Germany tackled the industry’s toughest problem: slow permitting, writes Bloomberg. Bloomberg: ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / dpa A drop in energy prices has led to an overall reduction in production prices in Germany over the past twelve months, the country’s statistical office Destatis has ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:30 Germany's environment ministry has warned that climate-neutral fuels made with renewables must not become an excuse for neglecting the domestic roll-out of renewables, increasing efficiency and other efforts to cut emissions. " ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany is set to reform its electricity market design as it moves to decarbonise its power sector. In a paper outlining fields of action, the economy ministry ...
Randomly selected citizens have been invited to participate in talks over finding a final repository for Germany’s nuclear waste, Dagmar Dehmer reports for Der Tagesspiegel. Anti-nuclear activists from the country’s controversial nuclear waste disposal ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Producing synthetic alcohol with renewable power could become a significant energy storage option for the energy transition, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) research ...
02 Oct 2024
02 Oct 2024, 11:21 91tv Team Bruno Burger (Fraunhofer ISE): In the first three quarters of 2024, around 106 million tonnes of CO2 were emitted from electricity generation in Germany This is 15 per cent less than in the first three quarters of 2023 and ...
20 Nov 2018, 10:30 Germany’s coal exit commission aims to propose a path for the country’s phase-out by the end of November. Agreeing a compromise on how to end the use of Germany's most important fossil fuel in such a short time will be difficult, ...
14 Apr 2023, 10:18 Nuclear power production in Germany comes to an end on 15 April 2023, marking a milestone in the long and controversial process of the technology's phase-out in the country. Europe’s energy crisis, fuelled by the fallout of Russia ...
Citizen energy projects and the development of wind power will suffer most from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) reform passed by both chambers of the German parliament, writes Hans-Josef Fell in a guest commentary for pv magazine. “The wind sector will ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices ARD / Clean Energy Wire The nationwide public transport ticket for Germany will still be available in 2024 but its monthly price may go up, the federal government and the country’s 16 states ...
05 Feb 2024, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union could achieve an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of 90 percent by 2040, compared to 1990, but the bloc must "consistently" implement the ...
08 Sep 2020, 14:31 Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The state premier of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, has expressed support for scrapping the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) surcharge, dpa reports in an article carried by ...
25 Jul 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany's railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) recorded a six percent drop in long-distance train passengers in the first half of 2024, compared to the first six months of the previous year. ...
02 Nov 2023, 13:52 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Policy Table.Media / Clean Energy Wire The budget earmarked to finance Germany's cap on electricity and gas prices during the energy crisis is far from being used in its entirety, according to figures ...
30 Sep 2024, 13:46 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire The German government's current plan for allowing carbon capture and storage (CCS) is far too permissive and set to delay the phase-out of fossil fuels, said environmental NGOs. They ...
28 Sep 2020, 13:18 Germany has made the first step in finding a final resting place for its nuclear waste in what will be an intricate, drawn-out process over the coming decade. An initial report by the Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Electricity market Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire Germany's plan to secure the supply of electricity at all times through hydrogen-ready gas power plants could not materialise ...
07 Oct 2024
07 Oct 2024, 10:53 91tv Team Bruegel: Europe’s 2040 climate target: four critical risks and how to manage them Achieving target will require massive expansion of renewable electricity generation, drastic reductions in fossil-fuel use, energy efficiency ...
05 Sep 2024, 13:57 Jennifer Collins Technology Heating Policy Clean Energy Wire / n-tv Germany wants to accelerate the use of geothermal plants coupled with large heat pumps and heat storage facilities by easing approval procedures hindering their ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:24 Joey Grostern Gas dpa / Clean Energy Wire State-owned liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals on the North Sea at Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbüttel handled the majority of Germany’s imported LNG last year, and operated at 65 percent capacity, ...
10 May 2023, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Gas NDR / Clean Energy Wire The federal government has decided on a location for the disputed import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the popular holiday destination island of Rügen, reported public ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The majority of Germans (74%) are prepared to make changes to their lifestyle to prevent global warming, a survey among 1,000 consumers commissioned by heating technology company ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Government ZDF / Clean Energy Wire Germany's coalition government is set to reopen budget negotiations after advisors to the finance ministry cast doubts on a draft agreement on a budget for 2025 ...
06 Oct 2022, 14:31 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Policy In a new strategy for biomass use, Germany plans to focus on recycling, efficient decarbonisation solutions, and using it as a material rather than a fuel for energy. The strategy, which will be ...
24 Jun 2016, 00:00 Germany’s first roadmap for decarbonisation by the middle of the century has been delayed amid industry fears that tough climate targets would endanger the country’s economic competitiveness and growth. The Environment Ministry in ...
18 Oct 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Grid Industry Hydrogen Technology Policy Handelsblatt Doubts over Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe’s (TKSE) strategy to decarbonise using hydrogen puts Germany’s plans for the construction of a hydrogen core grid at risk, gas grid ...
12 Nov 2024, 13:25 A cross-party effort in Germany is necessary to avoid that key policy proposals needed to achieve national climate and energy targets fall victim to the government coalition’s break-up, economy minister Robert Habeck has warned. ...
15 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024, 13:39 91tv Team European Council: COP29: EU calls for efforts to keep the 1.5°C goal within reach The Council approved conclusions that will serve as the EU’s general negotiating position for the UN climate change conference starting on 11 ...
12 Feb 2025
12 Feb 2025, 10:35 91tv Team European Commission presents 2025 work programme The Commission has adopted its 2025 work programme, outlining its ambition to boost competitiveness, enhance security, and bolster economic resilience in the EU. EIB Investment ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Construction Clean Energy Wire Germany should make better use of existing buildings instead of focusing on new construction to solve the housing shortage, researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and ...
10 Oct 2022, 13:41 The German state should support households and businesses with about 90 billion euros by early 2024 to lower gas bills, said an expert commission charged by the government with drawing up a plan to relieve gas consumers affected by ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry Clean Energy Wire Technologies to capture and store or use carbon dioxide from industrial processes will become "a special focus" of the next round of Germany's pioneering subsidy ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Government Clean Energy Wire The transport and environmental association Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) has criticised planned budget cuts for the maintenance and modernisation of Germany's railway system, as the ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:23 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Industry Policy Tagesspiegel Background / rbb The German state of Brandenburg, which surrounds the capital Berlin, plans to quicken the controversial capturing, transport, storage and utilisation of CO2 to ...
21 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024, 12:25 91tv Team Bloomberg: Scholz courts needed workers abroad as anti-migrant parties rise Scholz is betting on negotiating migration deals directly with foreign governments to secure skilled workers in understaffed industries. Reuters: Top ...
03 Sep 2024
03 Sep 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany’s populist surge puts nation’s climate momentum at risk With Germany facing vast changes, voters have little interest in more climate rules. The campaigns in both former communist states were mainly ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics BR / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Merkur A controversial decision by the government of Bavaria to delay the German state’s climate neutrality target to 2045 has drawn heavy criticism ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:34 Jack McGovan Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire The 40 large companies listed in the German DAX stock market index reduced their full value chain greenhouse gas emissions by a combined four percent in 2023, compared to the ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:19 Jack McGovan Politics rbb / Clean Energy Wire Germany and Poland have agreed on a 40 page action plan for the countries to collaborate more closely on issues like energy and security, reports rbb24. The announcement comes after German ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:20 Jennifer Collins Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Germany's federal government may have to pick up a one billion euro tab to dismantle a nuclear power plant that shut down in 1989 as the operating ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Wind Clean Energy Wire A majority of Germans continue to be in favour of further wind power expansion in the country, with 68.9 percent in western states and 54.4 percent in the East supporting the industry, showed a ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire / ARD With the official opening of a battery recycling plant in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, carmaker Mercedes-Benz plans to recover raw materials ...
03 Dec 2020, 13:48 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The German government has decided to free producers of green hydrogen from paying the renewables levy on the electricity they use in the process. Chancellor Angela ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:24 Norway now provides about half of the fossil gas flows to Germany, putting a spotlight on energy security. Industry experts warn that Europe's biggest economy is not prepared for a disruption of supply, for example due to sabotage ...
27 Aug 2020, 11:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire ...
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has started the second auction for onshore wind power in 2018. The tendered volume is about 670 megawatt and bids can be submitted until 1 May, the BNetzA says in a press release. The maximum support level is 6.3 ...
26 Sep 2019, 14:12 Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives insist on a low initial price tag for CO2 emissions to secure public acceptance for the government's new climate strategy. In the first parliamentary debate on the package unveiled ...
30 Sep 2024
30 Sep 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: VW’s second pofit warning exposes a carmaker in decline German manufacturer expects to sell fewer vehicles this year. Bungled EV shift and China slump are among VW’s many challenges. European Environment Agency: ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:15 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Technology dpa / Clean Energy Wire Three Western German towns are launching a trial to run the local energy supply without coal and gas, reports the newswire dpa in an article carried by ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:00 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Reaching climate targets will only be possible with a new sufficiency approach, German government advisors have said. "Ecological crises are progressing at an alarming rate ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:45 Jennifer Collins Mobility Tagesspiegel Background Germany is set to open the way for bidirectional charging of electric vehicles, which enables car owners to both withdraw power from the grid and to supply it back when the car is idle, ...
09 Sep 2024
09 Sep 2024, 11:35 Julian Wettengel FT: Mario Draghi calls for €800bn EU investment boost Former Italian premier demands ‘new industrial strategy’ to stop Europe falling behind US and China. EU Commission: The future of European competitiveness: Report by ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:03 Sören Amelang Industry Clean Energy Wire The global emission-cutting drive is among several factors dampening the long-term growth outlook of Europe’s largest economy, the country’s leading economic research institutes said in their ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire German industry's dependence on ...
01 Dec 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire To efficiently advance the energy transition and alleviate energy poverty, Germany's government should provide close to 17 billion euros over the next two years in targeted ...
13 Sep 2024, 15:00 The fate of France’s green transition remains on hold despite President Emmanuel Macron finally appointing a new prime minister in Michel Barnier. The decision to name a new prime minister had been a long time coming, following the ...
12 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024, 12:00 91tv Team ICCI: State of the Cryosphere 2024 – Lost Ice, Global Damage 50 leading cryosphere scientists warn that current climate commitments, leading the world to well over 2°C of warming, would bring disastrous and irreversible ...
13 May 2019, 14:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Agora Energiewende / Agora Verkehrswende [This article was based on the German version of the proposals. Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende published an English version on 15 ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Gas Clean Energy Wire The German government will hold the first round of tenders for hydrogen-ready gas fired power plants by the end of 2024 or beginning of 2025, the economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:50 India and a group of countries including the U.S. and Germany will not agree on a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a key international deal that was meant to promote the South Asian nation’s climate-friendly ...
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on citizens to make better use of existing financial support programmes to replace old heating systems in her weekly video podcast. She said households were crucial for increasing efficiency and the success of ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Industry International energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire German energy and industry representatives have expressed concern over the new tariff announcements by US president Donald Trump, ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country’s industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire The German economy and buildings ministries aim to connect 100,000 buildings to district heating annually in a bid to bring the sector closer to its climate targets. “We believe that district ...
31 Jan 2022, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German government should change the way operators of renewable energy installations are compensated to ensure a fair sharing of the burden of high electricity prices, ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Germany needs more targeted training for traditional craftsmen and other existing skilled workers to give them the expertise they need to work in the solar and wind power industry, ...
30 Sep 2015
30 Sep 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv FAZ/World Economic Forum “Praise for German competitiveness” According to the World Economic Forum’s new Global Competitiveness Report, Germany is one of the most economically competitive countries in the world, ...
14 Oct 2019, 11:00 Starting in 2021 and throughout the 2020s, many of Germany’s pioneer wind turbines, solar PV installations and biogas plants will stop receiving fixed feed-in tariffs, meaning many gigwatts in renewable capacity may be shut down if they ...
Prioritising efficiency measures that cost less or deliver more value than planned investment in supply resources and infrastructure is “a crucial building block” for Germany’s Energiewende, writes Andreas Jahn of the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire To reach its climate targets, Germany's building sector must phase out the use of fossil fuel boilers and introduce minimum efficiency standards for existing buildings, a ...
09 Oct 2024
09 Oct 2024, 10:29 91tv Team IEA: Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today With solar leading their rapid deployment, renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity ...
31 May 2024, 15:00 As the European elections approach and the political parties in Italy engage in divisive campaigns over European policies and the management of various international contexts, the country is preparing to host the summit of G7 countries ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:36 A sudden and sharp electricity price spike during a day of very little wind and solar power output in Germany has prompted the country’s grid regulator to investigate a possible market manipulation. Fossil backup plants that are meant ...
05 Sep 2023, 14:55 Jennifer Collins Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Germany is off track regarding many areas of its famed energy transition, with several indicators either "unrealistic" or at risk, consultancy firm McKinsey found in its ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:59 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv / Tagesschau / Watson The Green Party surged into second place in the Hamburg regional elections this weekend, doubling its share of the vote after a campaign in which ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire A group of experts charged by the German government to come up with a plan on how to ease the impact of rising gas prices has proposed additional measures to increase gas supply and lower demand, ...
The nuclear waste deal is positive because it was in the interest of all citizens that Germany’s large utilities did well in the long term, writes Dieter Keller in an opinion piece for Südwest Presse. Bankrupt energy suppliers would result in even higher ...
14 Jun 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / FAZ / Clean Energy Wire German newspapers call the government’s decision to cut energy taxes on fuels for three months to soften the impact of rising prices a “ ...
02 Sep 2024
02 Sep 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Thunderstorm Warnings Across Europe While Heat Builds in Germany Summer heat across Europe is giving way to extreme weather events from violent storms and flooding to wildfires. Climate change is increasing the ...
19 Aug 2019, 12:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Freja Eriksen Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Clean Energy ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
26 Aug 2024
26 Aug 2024, 12:57 91tv Team Bloomberg: Poland earmarks $1.2 billion to start first nuclear plant Finance minister outlined bid to decarbonise energy supply that would be country’s biggest-ever investment. Euractiv: Key solar panel producer to stay in ...
A last-minute fix to the rules for onshore wind tenders is designed to ensure commercial projects posing as citizens’ initiatives don’t dominate the next rounds of auctions. The government fast-tracked the most pressing change to the system, to be passed ...
Green politician Hans-Josef Fell criticises the federal government for proposing in its recently published " Concept for Civil Defence ” only “old, unfit concepts” such as military and police protection to deal with consequences of attacks or ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Renewables Cost & Prices Electricity prices in Germany could be made more flexible and fall during particularly sunny or windy conditions according to a proposed measure to adapt grid fees to renewable power supply by ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country’s next ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Germany’s weakened industrial sector coupled with the expansion of renewable energy sources have resulted in a record drop in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions traded in the EU Emissions Trading System ...
25 Sep 2024, 13:28 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Technology Society Heise online / mdr Work has begun on the construction of the world’s highest wind turbine in the eastern German lignite region Lusatia, reports technology website heise online. The ...
German citizens’ interest in renewable power contracts is declining, according to a press release from price comparison website Verivox. In 2016, 36 percent of consumers who switched power providers through the website chose green contracts, down from 76 ...
17 Sep 2021, 10:05 Never before in German history has climate policy played a role as big as it does in 2021. Even after one and a half years of a turbulent pandemic, credible climate policies remain the yardstick many voters plan to base their decision ...
The current passionate discussions about diesel cars, air quality and driving bans should be used to kick-start a wide mobility transition dialogue between politicians, the car industry, citizens and environmentalists, writes Martin Gropp in an opinion ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Carbon removal Industry International Die Welt A project that would connect Germany's Rhine-Ruhr industrial heartland to an undersea carbon storage project in the Dutch North Sea is set to be delayed by years, ...
22 Oct 2024, 13:31 Jennifer Collins Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Human-driven climate change was linked to more than 30 percent of the intensity and physical extent of an extreme drought which lasted throughout the summer of 2022 in Europe, according to a ...
17 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024, 13:44 91tv Team Financial Times: EU sticks to 2035 deadline for ban on sale of new petrol-driven cars Remarks prepared for incoming climate commissioner defend controversial measure, the FT says. PIK: Global water crisis threatens more than ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Policy n-tv / Die Welt The new support mechanism for accelerating the roll-out of electric vehicles in Germany through increased tax write-offs for company cars has been received well by the automotive industry, ...
25 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Institute for Applied Ecology / Friends of the Earth Germany Exit from lignite possible by 2030 Germany’s national and regional climate goals imply that lignite mining will have to stop much ...
25 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany sees €12.6 billion less in tax income by 2028 Finance minister Christian Lindner highlighted that the €7 billion in subsidies earmarked for US chipmaker Intel Corp in 2024 — which paused its investment on a ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:38 Sören Amelang Gas Utilities Clean Energy Wire Germany will take a 30 percent stake in Europe’s largest Russian gas importer Uniper to save it from bankruptcy due to skyrocketing prices. “Uniper is a company that has got into big trouble ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Clean Energy Wire European manufacturers in the construction industry should be made responsible for managing the waste created when their products reach the end of their lives, think tank BPIE ...
The Energiewende enters a new phase with more emphasis on new technologies and e-mobility – driven by citizens – than on the nuclear exit and the switch to renewable energies, German utility EnBW’s CEO, Frank Mastiaux, tells Bernd Freytag and Susanne ...
15 May 2024, 12:35 Jack McGovan Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany could meet 25 percent of its heat demand from deep geothermal energy and the government should therefore make better use of this energy source, says NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) in a ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:18 Germany needs to implement a host of measures to achieve a climate neutral electricity system effectively, climate policy research institute Ariadne said. More flexibility and efficiency should be the focus of power market reforms, as ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Society Clean Energy Wire Families could serve as particularly important "change agents" in tackling the climate crisis and not taking them on board neglects a huge opportunity, according to an analysis by the ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:45 Jack McGovan Policy Tagesspiegel Background Energy sector groups have called for improvements to a German interior ministry draft law set to regulate the resilience and physical safety of critical infrastructure, reports Tagesspiegel ...
Germany needs to rapidly and decisively reduce its coal-fired power generation capacity by roughly 50 percent to meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, writes the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in a letter addressed to economy minister Peter ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Electricity prices have risen particularly high for Germans with a low level of consumption due to a rise in basic costs of 30 percent from 2014 to 2019, according to an analysis by ...
07 Feb 2025
07 Feb 2025, 11:27 91tv Team Climate Home: UN gives countries more time to submit “quality” climate plans for 2035 The head of the UN climate change body has urged countries to submit new “first-rate” climate targets by September, after only a handful of ...
15 Oct 2018, 14:44 Germany’s renewable energy surcharge that is paid by consumers with their electricity bill and supports wind, solar, biomass and hydro power installations, is to fall by 5.7 percent in 2019, transmission grid operators have calculated. ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Heating Tagesspiegel Background Municipalities should expand their mandatory planning for future climate-friendly heating to encompass general energy distribution, think tank Agora Energiewende has proposed, ...
24 Nov 2024, 15:30 Politicians and civil society from Germany have said that the agreement on future climate finance at the UN climate change conference COP29 shows that international cooperation has prevailed even in a challenging geopolitical context. ...
08 Oct 2024
08 Oct 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Reuters: EU backing for China EV tariffs shows Berlin's waning influence Germany was one of only five EU members to reject tariffs after months of pressure from its carmakers, which rely on China for almost a third of ...
23 Aug 2018, 11:30 The German coal exit commission has set out on a tight schedule to devise a plan for phasing out the fossil power source – but shortly before its third official meeting federal states and opposition politicians have complained about a ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
15 Sep 2021, 17:52 In the run up to the German federal election, a group of young people have entered a third week of a hunger strike to call for more climate action- with one of the protesters being temporarily admitted to hospital. The group, which ...
06 Aug 2015
06 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv dpa “Green state ministers criticise Gabriel’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) reform plans” Environment and energy ministers from nine German states have warned Federal Minister for Energy and Economic ...
14 Jun 2024, 16:07 Poor results in the EU elections mean that governing is set to be anything but smooth sailing for Germany's ruling coalition. Pressure is mounting on all three partners – chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD, the Green Party and the ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) today started Germany’s second onshore wind power auction, the agency announced in a press release. With 1,000 megawatt (MW), the tender volume is 200 MW higher than the first tender. Deadline for bids is 1 August 2017 ...
22 Dec 2022, 12:40 Germany has taken important steps to secure its energy supply and help households and businesses cope with the energy crisis, but it is important to continue along this path consistently in the coming year, according to the country' ...
05 Jun 2019, 16:00 The European elections delivered major gains for Green parties in several countries, as voters signalled a strong desire for more aggressive action on climate change. In Germany, the Green surge was especially strong. The party doubled ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Heating Clean Energy Wire Sales of heat pumps in Germany dropped by almost half (46%) in 2024 but the industry is confident that support mechanisms will quickly lead to a strong increase in ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Many nuclear waste storage facilities in Germany are not up to safety standards with issues like rusting drums and interim sites being used without permits, ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:11 Sören Amelang Grid Clean Energy Wire Germany will have to invest around 650 billion euros into the expansion of its electricity grids by 2045, according to a report by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans Böckler ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:31 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar Utilities Clean Energy Wire Germany must urgently and massively step up the rollout of solar power in order to become more independent from Russian energy imports and reach its climate targets, the country ...
16 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Volkswagen Group VW aims to sell 2-3 million e-cars by 2025 Car giant VW plans a "major electrification initiative" with more than 30 new purely battery ...
25 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society Clean Energy Wire A third of people in Germany say they do not feel well connected by bus or train near their home, and are not satisfied with the number of departures at their nearest stop, according ...
17 Oct 2018, 14:44 The global energy transition is both accelerating and unstoppable, and will continue to disrupt many industries from carmaking to construction, according to green energy pioneer Amory Lovins. But the cofounder and Chief Scientist of the ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Heating Construction Clean Energy Wire The shortage of skilled labour is the decisive hurdle that keeps Germany from modernising enough buildings towards more energy-efficiency to reach climate targets, said ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:03 Hydrogen production with renewable power is seen by many countries as an essential tool to decarbonise the economy. The UK and Germany, the world’s two leading offshore wind power nations, have started to sound out how they could ...
Europe needs to triple its current offshore wind installation rate to keep with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5° Celsius, wrote consultancy Ecofys’s Michiel Müller in a guest article for energy post on 8 August. “Such ...
19 Sep 2024, 12:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German association of energy intensive businesses (VIK) has pushed back against plans to adjust industrial grid fees to incentivise flexible power consumption, saying it ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Leading members of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) have called for a reversal of the country’s nuclear phase ...
29 May 2024, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Rheinische Post Germany's economy minister Robert Habeck remains committed to plans for the state to take over the German business of Dutch electricity grid operator TenneT despite months-long failed ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung A proposal from Germany’s likely next chancellor for a “moratorium on dismantling” the remaining decommissioned nuclear reactors in the country has been met with reluctance ...
02 Nov 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Primary energy consumption is likely to hit a record low this year as Germany’s economy remains weak, according to a forecast by energy data service AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Energy ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:33 Ruby Russel Gas Zeit Online Construction of Germany's first onshore liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal has begun at Stade in the state of Lower Saxony, close to the northern port city Hamburg. Expected to be operational by 2027, ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:50 Jack McGovan Policy Clean Energy Wire The investments needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040 would help grow the EU economy by around two percent, think tank Agora Energiewende said in a report. It analysed the ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Europe's wind power industry and the German government have agreed on a set of measures to tackle challenges regarding the sector’s competitiveness, continued investments ...
As South Hesse’s regional assembly prepares to approve its renewable energy development plan by the end of this year, a new report published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) is likely to lead to increased criticism of wind power ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:20 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire A new alliance of companies, banks, insurers, and environmental organisations wants to invest in projects in emerging and developing countries in ...
29 Aug 2024
29 Aug 2024, 09:00 91tv Team IISD: Countries are underdelivering on fossil-to-clean energy finance pledge Germany, Italy, Switzerland and U.S. among countries not fully implementing pledges, the International Institute for Sustainable Development finds. ...
27 Aug 2024
27 Aug 2024, 09:00 91tv Team Financial Times: Spanish environmentalist poised to take charge of EU’s green agenda Teresa Ribera likely to become next commissioner for climate and environmen t, reports the FT. Bloomberg: Chinese EV maker Xpeng is looking ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:19 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Nine gas transmission system operators (TSOs) from countries bordering the Baltic Sea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that declares the aim to coordinate and facilitate the buildout ...
03 Jul 2024
03 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: German coalition nears budget deal as debt brake limits options- Scholz’s government to deliver draft as early as Friday- Budget sees cuts, but more spending on infrastructure, defense Carbon Pulse: EU ...
Through a new online programme, house owners in the south German town of Freising can now determine if their roofs are suitable for solar panels, and how much it would cost to install them, according to an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A ...
02 May 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Renewable energy capacity has increased rapidly in Germany in the past year, but the expansion must be accelerated further for the country to meet its target of sourcing ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Carbon market Industry Policy EU Clean Energy Wire The European Commission has greenlighted a German 6.5 billion euro scheme to prevent energy-intensive companies from relocating production to countries with less stringent ...
09 Aug 2024
09 Aug 2024, 10:16 Julian Wettengel Copernicus Climate Change Service: July 2024 was the second-warmest July globally in the data record July 2024 was the second-warmest July globally, at 0.68°C above the 1991-2020 average. It saw the two hottest days in ...
07 Aug 2024
07 Aug 2024, 13:41 91tv Team Reuters: German drugstore chain shuns Teslas over Musk's support for Trump Rossmann drugstore chain, which is among the largest in Europe, said its decision was with immediate effect and due to what it called an " ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Clean Energy Wire Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:50 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Germany's government wants to boost the expansion of hydrogen projects by giving them "overriding public interest" status, which would streamline planning ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Security Clean Energy Wire / rbb Germany’s outgoing economy minister, Robert Habeck from the Green Party, has warned that the next government must not create new energy dependencies and should instead ...
13 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024, 11:35 Julian Wettengel ISGlobal: Heat caused nearly 50,000 deaths in Europe last year – study More than 47,000 people died in Europe in 2023 due to extreme heat, says the study by Barcelona Institute for Global Health. E3G: Investment ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cars Clean Energy Wire Figures used by the government for planning the buildout of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Germany are “massively” overestimating the actual need for new charging points, ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:53 Rising energy and food prices and climate change top the list of main worries in Germany, several surveys show. Investing in renewables by a wide margin is seen as the best way to achieve energy independence from Russia by respondents ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:04 Jack McGovan Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Many German companies introduced energy efficiency measures and some shifted towards renewable power sources due to higher energy prices in the aftermath of ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche Parties’ failure to agree on final details of a reform to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Germany ahead of the election on 23 February will set efforts back significantly, industry ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
Ill-advised legislation and an alienation of citizens from renewable investments put the success of Germany’s energy transition in jeopardy, Hans-Josef Fell writes for EurActiv. The country continued to be internationally celebrated for its Energiewende, ...
Like many countries around the world, the Philippines could benefit from adopting certain German Energiewende policies, Laurence Delina writes in a commentary on inquirer.net. “Germany is obviously politically, economically and socially different” from ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:42 Ruby Russel Heating Clean Energy Wire Industry groups have criticised recommendations by Germany's Monopolies Commission to keep the consumer cost of district heating in check – claiming the proposed measures would actually ...
10 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024, 13:16 91tv Team Nature: Overconfidence in climate overshoot Global and regional climate change and associated risks after a temporary overshoot of global warming limits are different from a world that avoids it. Reuters: German economy ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:15 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Bild Two interior ministers of the German states Hessen and Bavaria have rebuked the ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:24 Jennifer Collins Agriculture EU Clean Energy Wire The newly passed EU law to restore nature has been met critically by the farming industry. The lobby group German Farmers’ Association (DBV) criticised it for being a "backward ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cities Clean Energy Wire A citizen initiative in Hamburg has succeeded in pushing for the end of coal heating by 2030 in the northern port city. “The use of coal in district heating has to be avoided as quickly ...
16 Apr 2024, 12:01 Jennifer Collins Company climate claims CORRECTIV The carbon offset market is a billion-dollar business that promises buyers they can compensate their climate-damaging emissions in one place by funding a green scheme elsewhere. But an ...
31 May 2024, 12:50 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire Germany has signed a declaration of intent with Italy and Austria to develop a green hydrogen import corridor in a bid to improve future energy security, the economy ministry ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Transport dpa Electric scooter schemes are seen as a scourge in many cities, with Paris even banning them, but in Germany demand for vehicles is growing, according to Plattform Shared Mobility, an association that ...
19 Apr 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Start-ups Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt The number of new start-ups in Germany increased by 17 percent in 2023, with energy sector companies on the rise, said a report by industry data provider Startupdetector. While ...
The IÖW has published a study on the role small home power generating installations can play in the German energy system, with regulatory recommendations to encourage their use. A growing number of citizens and businesses are generating power and partly ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / SWR Germany's nationwide flat-rate public transport ticket, the Germany-ticket, is at risk of losing subscribers now that the federal government and state transport ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:58 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Technology Clean Energy Wire Lightweight construction that reduces emissions in the different sectors contributes up to four percent of German total economic output, says a report by the economy ministry ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Finance Clean Energy Wire Fourteen percent of German households are already putting their money into sustainable investments, while another 30 percent can imagine doing so in the future, a survey by the government-owned ...
18 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ursula von der Leyen: "We'll stay the course on the EU Green Deal and the goals we set for 2030 and 2050" " We will now focus on implementation & investment" and "put forward a Clean ...
27 May 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is set to miss its 2030 energy efficiency target if it relies only on its existing policy measures, a report commissioned by industry energy efficiency ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:33 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:37 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / dpa / WirtschaftsWoche / ZDF Germany's environment minister has promised better precautions to prevent fraud in emissions reduction schemes abroad after a special session in ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Finance RND / dpa / Handelsblatt Biomass could continue to play an important role in Germany's future energy system, economy minister Robert Habeck told dpa as reported by media house RND. He announced a ...
22 May 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Industry Clean Energy Wire Widely available renewable electricity has become an important business location factor and competitive advantage for rural areas in Germany, the private industry-sponsored German ...
05 Oct 2018, 17:00 Clearing operations at the embattled Hambach Forest to make way for a coal mine have to be halted to decide whether the forest is protected by EU environmental rules, a German court has decided. The judges said energy company RWE did ...
15 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: The world’s power grids are failing as the planet warms Outages from Albania to Texas show how electricity networks aren’t ready for climate change. Reuters: Europe needs way to price critical minerals ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:30 Jennifer Collins Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire Germany's ports require huge investments to maintain their crucial position in supplying energy and goods, and to keep up with the energy transformation, said coastal state ...
