17 Apr 2015
17 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung "Powered out" The German nuclear power sector's聽final battle is currently being fought on paper, writes Markus Balser in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The likes of E ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Finance S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Banks and insurers have not been sufficiently accounting for the impacts of climate change, according to a risk report by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:06 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Storage Technology pv magazine Large-scale battery projects with a combined capacity of 226 gigawatts (GW) seek to be connected to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid, fanning industry speculation that the ...
26 Nov 2024, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Businesses in Germany invested 85 billion euros in measures to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, a 12 percent increase over the previous year, shows a survey ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:05 German consumers are swarming to shops to buy electric heaters as fears of a true gas shortage caused by Russia's war on Ukraine rise, but experts warn this could pose problems for power supply security. The majority of heating and ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Grid Tagesspiegel Background Europe has to better coordinate its electricity grid buildout, and other countries should learn from Germany's mistakes, said Michael Jesberger, member of the executive board at grid ...
28 Oct 2024
28 Oct 2024, 12:00 91tv Team WMO: Record-breaking greenhouse gas levels surged again in 2023 World Metorological Organisation 's lastest stocktake finds CO2 levels have increased by more than 10% in just two decades. Eurostat: Germany has h ighest ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:57 Jack McGovan Cars Clean Energy Wire The share of newly registered battery electric passenger cars (BEV) in Germany decreased to 12.5 percent in the first six months of 2024 (H1 2023: 15.8%), said the Federal Motor Transport Authority ...
21 Feb 2025, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon removal EU Clean Energy Wire EU scientific advisors聽 have called 聽for a rapid scale-up of methods to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Both nature-based carbon removal solutions, such as plants, and modern ...
20 Aug 2024, 13:26 The transport sector receives by far the biggest share out of all of Germany's government subsidies that are harmful to the climate, according to a report commissioned by the economy ministry. In their coalition agreement, the ...
31 May 2024, 12:52 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Policy Clean Energy Wire An alliance of environmental NGOs, a motorist club, trade unions and various labour unions and associations has called on Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner to slash ...
14 Jul 2022, 11:51 Germany must better prepare for the impacts of climate change, environment minister Steffi Lemke said, as a heat wave is sweeping across Europe exactly one year after deadly floods killed hundreds of people in Germany and neighbouring ...
07 Dec 2016, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party left energy and climate policy on the sidelines at the Christian Democratic Union鈥檚 (CDU) conference in Essen. The centre-right party laid the groundwork on Tuesday for its 2017 federal election ...
23 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025, 12:28 91tv Team Ember: Record 47% of the European Union鈥檚 electricity now comes from solar and other renewables聽 Another year of coal and gas decline cut EU power sector emissions to below half their 2007 peak and reduced reliance on imported ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in聽 its draft election campaign programme 聽that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
In a joint press release, regional branches of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE), the Industrial Union of Metalworkers (IG Metall) and the German Trade Union Association (DGB) have called on the future Schleswig-Holstein government 鈥渢o continue to ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:38 Ruby Russel Renewables Clean Energy Wire Eurelectric corrects figures: Power demand in the EU decreased by 5.1% in the first half of 2023, compared to 2022, and was 4.8% lower in the first half of 2024, compared to 2022. 聽 Electricity ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Government Table Media / dpa / Clean Energy Wire First draft proposals for changes to the constitution to introduce a special fund for up to 500 billion euros worth of infrastructure investments ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / rbb German chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 Social Democratic Party (SPD) has narrowly defeated the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to emerge as the strongest party in the ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Temperatures in Germany will this year be the hottest since records began for the third consecutive year, the country鈥檚 weather service DWD said. "Never since the end of the ...
29 Jul 2024
29 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Reuters: Trump effect in clean tech sector deepens angst in Europe's boardrooms European companies focused on clean energy are abandoning expansion plans, bracing for lower sales or see funding of U.S projects in ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Augsburger Allgemeine / dpa Germany's Olaf Scholz considers a gas drilling project off the coast of Germany and the Netherlands as likely, as environmentalists continue to push back, the chancellor told radio ...
04 Dec 2024
04 Dec 2024, 11:44 91tv Team Argus: Germany's 2030 coal phase-out ambitions called into question Earlier phase-out target is being reassessed owing to likelihood of further delays to power plant security act, which is meant to secure back-up capacity ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business & ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Storage Clean Energy Wire / dpa Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Policy Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Robert Habeck, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new minister for economic affairs and climate protection, will present an 鈥渙pening balance鈥� at the ...
08 Jul 2022, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire Both the federal parliament (Bundestag) and the council of state governments (Bundesrat) have passed this year鈥檚 first major batch of energy ...
03 Sep 2024, 12:29 Jennifer Collins Transport Clean Energy Wire A heavily subsidised public transport ticket introduced for three months in Germany in 2022 led to a significant increase in train delays and only marginally reduced traffic on the roads, ...
Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner wants to slow down wind power expansion throughout Germany, after having pushed for similar policy in the聽 new coalition agreement 聽for North Rhine-Westphalia, reports news agency dpa. 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 make ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Grid The German Green Party has called for an adjusted grid expansion plan in Germany that accounts for a drastically reduced coal power capacity as well as the foreseeable progress in ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:23 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire / Reuters The German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth has said the government regretted the U.S. withdrawal from international partnerships to support major global polluters鈥� socially ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Elections & ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:48 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire The UN biodiversity conference in the Colombian city of Cali achieved real progress by improving coordination between climate and environmental protection, according to ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:07 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany's climate policy and action are "insufficient" to meet its national and international climate targets,聽 according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project. ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
22 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Allianz sees damages worth tens of millions for German vineyards Insurer Allianz SE expects to pay German winemakers tens of millions of euros in insurance claims this year after many vineyards lost their ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:29 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen NDR German state-run energy company Uniper is trialling the use of a former salt mine in northern Germany for large-scale hydrogen storage, public broadcaster NDR聽 ...
17 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel EU Council greenlights 鈧�2.3 billion energy transition support for Germany The EU approved 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 amended recovery and resilience plan, which now includes an additional 鈧�2.3 billion to contribute to accelerating ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Heating Clean Energy Wire Public uncertainty about the government鈥檚 new policies to decarbonise heating have led to a collapse in heat pump sales in Germany, according to the country鈥檚 heating industry association BDH. ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
10 Feb 2022, 09:25 Germany aims to strengthen its climate foreign policy with the appointment of Greenpeace International head Jennifer Morgan as special envoy. The new 鈥渇ace of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 international climate policy鈥� will expand partnerships with other ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:24 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Climate change is still young Germans鈥� biggest concern, but they would rather politicians act on the topic than drastically change their own lifestyles, a survey ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Several environmental NGOs have said they will take legal action against a partial permit for a planned controversial gas extraction project off the coast of Germany and the Netherlands in the ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:41 Julian Wettengel EU Clean Energy Wire / Euractiv German environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) has slammed the EU member state governments' failure to consent to the bloc's Nature Restoration Law at today's (25 ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:39 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Solar ARD / Tagesspiegel Background The head of Germany's treasury, finance minister Christian Lindner, has reiterated his opposition to more state support for Germany's domestic solar industry. In an ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:25 As Germany's first climate "super minister", Green politician Robert Habeck will play a key role in fulfilling the future government's promise to get the country on a path compatible with the 1.5掳C global warming ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Clean Energy Wire Please note: This article has been updated to clarify that support for the target so far has been voiced only by the foreign ministry, while the government cabinet has yet to agree ...
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025, 11:50 91tv Team Science Direct: CO2-tax on emission-intensive agricultural goods could cut German agricultural emissions by 22.5% The CO2-tax could generate over 8.2 billion euros in annual revenue, analysis finds. Bloomberg: Europe threatens ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:21 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Germany is lagging behind European countries such as Norway and the Netherlands when it comes to transitioning its energy market away from fossil fuels, according to an ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:15 Julian Wettengel EU Clean Energy Wire / AP Government members and NGOs from Germany have welcomed the adoption of the EU nature restoration law by member states following months of delay. Member states on Monday gave their final ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Industry Policy Clean Energy Wire / WirtschaftsWoche The German government鈥檚 plans for a so-called capacity market, which would reward power plant operators for providing generation capacity rather ...
16 Sep 2024
16 Sep 2024, 12:13 91tv Team Bloomberg: Travel chaotic, damage mounts after Central European floods Widespread flooding in central and eastern Europe from days of unrelenting rain is playing havoc with rail transportation and causing more evacuations of ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs EU Clean Energy Wire The renewable energy sector offers promising opportunities for economically disadvantaged rural regions in the European Union that could not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:28 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Cars Clean Energy Wire A large majority of Germans opposes a general ban of combustion engine ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:48 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels Gas Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Germany covered just 6 percent of its natural gas and 2 percent of oil demand with domestic supplies in 2023 as production continues to sink, according to an ...
10 Sep 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Clean Energy Wire The agriculture and forestry sector could play an important role in the EU's goal to achieve climate neutrality by mid-century, while at the same time improving biodiversity ...
21 May 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Renewables Government Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background A law reform agreed by lawmakers from Germany's government coalition would speed up approval processes around the planning and construction of new ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire Almost 70 percent of Germans say that the climate crisis means a "fundamental rethink is needed in the area of mobility," shows a survey by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading technical ...
01 Aug 2024
01 Aug 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Footprint Network: August 1st marks Earth Overshoot Day With the beginning of August, humanity鈥檚 demand on nature鈥檚 resources this year surpasses Earth鈥檚 capacity to regenerate them, the international sustainability ...
24 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: EU wind industry warns Germany over large Chinese turbine deal Europe鈥檚 wind industry warned Germany that a deal for 16 Chinese offshore wind turbines risks fostering unfair competition for local suppliers ...
26 Jul 2024, 13:37 Joey Grostern Grid Clean Energy Wire / Der Spiegel A key operator of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid, TenneT, has hit several important milestones in its goal to expand the grid and help the country meet its decarbonisation plans, according ...
09 Jul 2024
09 Jul 2024, 11:00 S枚ren Amelang Carbon Brief: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit Recent warming has led to renewed debate around whether the world might pass the 1.5C Paris Agreement limit sooner previously estimated. ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Tipping risks from overshooting 1.5 掳C can be minimised Impact can be reduced if the warming is swiftly reversed, meaning emissions reduction in the current decade is crucial for ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:34 Thanks to more and more businesses publicly making 鈥渃arbon neutrality鈥� or 鈥渘et-zero鈥� commitments, the voluntary market for carbon emission offsets is booming both globally and in Germany. Critics, however, consider buying into projects ...
16 May 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann EU Table.Media Members of parliament from France and Germany have called for intensifying efforts to create a more coherent energy policy together with Poland, Table.Media reported. The three major EU member states ...
30 Jul 2024
30 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Reuters: Spain greenlights almost 300 renewable power projects with $18-billion investment The Spanish government has authorised the construction of almost 300 renewable power projects with a total capacity of more than ...
26 Sep 2018, 13:14 The German Football Association (DFB) has included a sustainability concept in its bid to host the 2024 European Football Championship. UEFA is set to select the host country this week. The DFB says it wants the tournament to contribute ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Construction dpa / Spiegel Bad insulation and the use of gas- or oil-based heating systems increasingly eat into the market value of residential property in Germany, according to a report by ...
31 May 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Renewable Energy Act | EEG Clean Energy Wire ...
France is importing much of its power from Germany and other neighbouring countries to cope with the cold winter weather, Stefan Br盲ndle writes for Berliner Zeitung. Almost 40 percent of French homes are heated with electricity from the country鈥檚 58 ...
17 Sep 2021, 11:37 Three candidates vie to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor in the most unpredictable federal election in decades that will determine the next steps Europe's largest economy takes on the path to climate neutrality. A recent ...
23 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Electrek: Porsche scales back 80% EV goal by 2030 amid falling sales, shifting market Although it could still happen, Porsche said the target was too ambitious and the transition 鈥渨ill take longer than we assumed.鈥� ...
07 Jan 2025
07 Jan 2025, 10:12 91tv Team E3G: Four tests driving EU politics in 2025 鈥� and what they mean for climate action Think tank E3G's 2025 EU climate policy briefing, includes timeline of events and developments. ICIS: Net imports of LNG from Russia into ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:38 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire A large part of Germany's future hydrogen demand could be supplied to the country via pipelines from neighbouring countries, according to a report by think tanks Agora Energiewende and ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:35 German lawmakers have reached a preliminary agreement to raise the planned CO鈧� price for the buildings and transport sectors. The starting price of the mechanism contained in the country's so-called climate package is to be ...
09 Jan 2025
09 Jan 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Northvolt owners back battery output as funding search continues EV supplier has been seeking investors post-Chapter 11 filing in US Swedish law requires shareholder assent after equity declines Bloomberg: Amundi, ...
22 Jun 2021, 12:56 The manifesto of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance for the upcoming national election remains vague on climate and energy, leaving plenty of leeway for possible government coalition negotiations with competitors like the Green ...
07 Jul 2022, 14:21 Germany's ruling parties have dropped the target of 鈥渘ear 100 percent renewables鈥� in the power grid by 2035 but agreed on more favourable conditions for solar PV and strict wind power expansion targets for laggard states in their ...
07 May 2024, 10:00 The impact of a populist party opposed to climate action is starting to make itself clearly felt in Spain. From climate budget cuts to suspending low-emission zones and reversing plans for green taxes: As a partner in several city and ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The final shutdown of seven lignite and eight smaller hard coal power plant units with a combined capacity of 4.4 gigawatts (GW) over the Easter holidays does not threaten Germany's energy supply security, ...
08 Jan 2015
08 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Dow Jones Newswires 鈥淩enewable development leads to uncertainty for municipal utilities鈥� Dow Jones reports on a study by the University of Leipzig for Commerzbank and the municipal utility ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:29 Julian Wettengel Finance COP29 Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire Upcoming negotiations on a new goal for financial support from richer countries to developing economies to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be 鈥渧ery ...
06 Sep 2024, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Finance Clean Energy Wire Greenwashing-related incidents have an overall negative effect on company stock prices, but only once financial supervisory bodies intervene, according to a report by finance NGO Finance Watch ...
25 Nov 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Table.Media / Zeit A planned law to ensure new gas power plants can be built in Germany to secure electricity supply as the country phases out coal power continues to hang ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥渢echnology-neutral鈥� joint auctions for wind and solar power projects are the result of 鈥渁 political bargaining process鈥� instead of sound economic strategy, Angelika Nikionok-Ehrlich writes for Energie & Management. 鈥淓ven the Federal ...
27 May 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany should lead the way in making mobility more sustainable, transport and environmental association Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) said following the conclusion of the聽 ...
Environmentalists and critics of current Energiewende policies are intensifying protests against major high-voltage transmission lines traversing Germany from north to south, news agency dpa reports. Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany ...
The next German government 鈥� possibly a Jamaica coalition of CDU/CSU, FDP and Green Party 鈥� must get 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy back on track, writes Holger Dambeck in an opinion piece for Spiegel Online. 鈥淎bove all, the future government parties must dare ...
10 Dec 2018, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Society ARD The UN is unlikely to find a solution to the world鈥檚 climate crisis, most Germans believe according to a survey commissioned by the public broadcaster ARD. In the ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:45 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Security G20 & G7 Clean ...
01 Jul 2024
01 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: Germany, Morocco agree alliance to support green hydrogen production and exports Germany is seeking to expand its reliance on hydrogen as a future energy source to cut greenhouse emissions for highly polluting ...
21 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024, 11:01 Carolina Kyllmann Politico: Germany ties itself to Taiwan on chips. It comes with risks. A new microchips plant by world leader TSMC is a boon for Dresden, but Berlin wants to avoid alienating its major trade partner Beijing. Bloomberg: ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:36 Ruby Russel Resources & Recycling International Clean Energy Wire German industry is calling for the country's international development budget to increase the country鈥檚 access to resources from developing countries. A paper by ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:15 Benjamin Wehrmann EU Security Der Tagesspiegel The European energy crisis caused by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine has created the right environment for 鈥渇inally and forcefully implementing a Europeanisation of energy and climate policy,鈥� ...
Many people in Germany support the energy transition in principle but refuse to accept a wind turbine or other visual changes brought about by the Energiewende in their neighbourhood, Ralph Diermann writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚s this a typical ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire The German environment ministry has presented a draft circular economy strategy as "a crucial element to reach climate targets and to create new possibilities for growth, ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:33 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating Clean Energy Wire People in Germany needed to use much less energy to heat their homes between September 2023 and February 2024 due to an exceptionally warm autumn and winter, and also benefited from a ...
Retiring most of Europe鈥檚 dirtiest power plants is cheaper than most people think, report Mathew Carr, Tino Andresen, and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. A price floor of 30 euros per tonne of CO 2- six times the current price- would cost each European ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:59 Poland is emerging from a long election cycle- from parliamentary elections last October that brought a change of government to local ballots in April, and finally the European Parliament elections earlier this month. All these bring ...
05 Jul 2024
05 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Germany to scrutinize Chinese turbine deal for offshore project-Government to look at impact on security and competition-Hamburg-based asset manager set to purchase 16 turbines Electrive: Tesla gets ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices International Tagesspiegel / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 finance minister Christian Lindner has warned against a 鈥渢rade conflict鈥� between the EU and the U.S. as a result of the American government鈥檚 ...
Most Germans are satisfied with the goals of the Energiewende and the measures taken to achieve them- but say that cost distribution is among the project鈥檚 greatest shortcomings, two different studies by the University of Kassel have found. People ...
Germany is a world leader on energy efficiency, according to IEA executive director Fatih Birol. Speaking at the presentation of the IEA鈥檚 Energy Efficiency report 2017 in Berlin, Birol said that聽鈥渆very German citizen had 580 dollars more to spend on ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:38 Germany is betting on sustainable hydrogen to decarbonise its economy and will largely have to import the fuel in future due to unfavourable local conditions for renewable electricity production. With its hydrogen import strategy, the ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:19 The far-right party AfD scored its first ever state election win in eastern Thuringia and came a close second in neighbouring Saxony, while the parties of the federal coalition government in Berlin recorded heavy losses. One year ahead ...
31 Jan 2025, 13:06 Joey Grostern Carbon market Business EU Clean Energy Wire Around three quarters of German companies are not able or only partially able to report emissions data from their suppliers outside of the EU, with two-thirds fearing that this ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:23 S枚ren Amelang Cars dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / Clean Energy Wire The expansion of Germany's charging network for electric vehicles is making fast progress. The network grew by 45,000 charging points to a total of nearly 146,000 ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Spiegel Online Climate action belongs in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Basic Law as a 鈥渂inding state task鈥�, a majority (59%) of respondents in an online climate policy survey by Spiegel Online say. About 70 percent of ...
The Moorburg coal power plant in Hamburg wastes the energy equivalent of 36 tonnes of hard coal per hour during normal operation because environmental organisations and citizen initiatives prevent it from聽 using waste heat for district heating, Olaf Preu脽 ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:41 Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal consumption continued its downward trend in 2024, helping to reduce the country鈥檚 climate-damaging CO2 emissions, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) based ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:25 Jack McGovan Solar Clean Energy Wire / PV Magazine There are too few installations of solar panels on the roofs of apartment buildings across Germany, making rental homes an underutilised source for renewable energy generation, ...
19 Dec 2018, 13:49 EU institutions have agreed on new rules for the internal electricity market, including capacity mechanisms, coal subsidies, cross-border power flows and access for more market actors who are free to set their own prices. The German ...
All German energy-related taxes and levies should be substituted by a national price on greenhouse gas emissions (CO鈧� levy), which would increase continuously over the coming years, according to a proposal by the newly-founded association for a national ...
Successful bidders in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 auction system for onshore wind power projects should be subject to penalty payments if they fail to implement their accepted projects in time, Hilke Wilts and Ruth Delzeit write in a policy brief by the Kiel Institute for ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt / Handelsblatt The slow uptake of electric mobility by German motorists could get a boost in 2025 thanks to changing attitudes and the availability of more affordable electric vehicles ...
29 Mar 2023, 14:19 The German government coalition has overcome a month-long dispute with a deal on comprehensive reforms in climate and environmental protection, the acceleration of major infrastructure projects, and billions for the modernisation of ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:26 Germany's coalition government has agreed a draft federal budget for 2025, which cuts funds earmarked for climate action and has come under fire for what researchers criticise as "optimistic assumptions without secure ...
Protests continue against 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned SuedLink power transmission line, the news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. Guntram Ziepel of the national association of citizen initiatives against SuedLink says his organisation 鈥� ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Sustainability issues have slid down the list of German managers鈥� priorities, a poll by business consultancy Horvath has revealed,聽 reports 聽newspaper Handelsblatt. The green transformation ...
21 Apr 2016
21 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv WWF Germany 鈥淕ermans want more climate action鈥� German citizens would like to see more engagement in the fight against climate change, environment organisation WWF Germany says, ...
27 Sep 2024, 13:33 It will be very difficult for Germany to reach its target of providing developing countries with at least six billion euros in climate finance from its federal budget by 2025, said government officials in Berlin. The recent budget ...
16 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Top polluter China鈥檚 shrinking emissions put carbon peak in play-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Use of coal for power generation tumbled in second quarter-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Nation鈥檚 emissions seen on track to begin decline ...
20 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Austria submits 2030 climate plan late as Germany, Spain flout June deadline Just ten EU countries have submitted their long-term climate action plans to Brussels, with Austria being the most recent, as large ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:13 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dts Significant parts of the population聽in Germany are not sufficiently prepared for the expected cost increases in fossil heating and mobility due to carbon pricing, said Dirk ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:40 Franca Quecke Company climate claims EU Clean Energy Wire Following a dialogue with the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities,聽Berlin-based fashion retailer聽Zalando has committed to removing "misleading ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:11 Ruby Russel Freight Clean Energy Wire Battery-electric trucks are the best option to reduce emissions from road freight transport, and market forces are working in their favour, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:15 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Renewables Clean Energy Wire / pv magazine A decentralised model for European renewable power generation would ...
06 Sep 2024
06 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Copernicus: Summer 2024 鈥� Hottest on record globally and for Europe During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind International n-tv / Bloomberg / Clean Energy Wire A new offshore wind power project in the German North Sea is causing a stir in the European wind power industry, as the project will be the first of its kind to ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:10 Edgar Meza Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany has awarded the most onshore wind contracts ever following the latest round of tenders by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). "The current round of tenders represents a record with almost ...
A farmer family from Germany has sued the federal government for failing to take adequate climate action and damaging the family鈥檚 economic livelihood, the newspaper Tagesspiegel reports. The extreme drought in large parts of Germany in 2018 has caused ...
12 Aug 2024
12 Aug 2024, 12:05 91tv Team Euronews: 鈥業 feel like there is no help鈥�: Year-round energy poverty for millions of Europeans as heatwaves hit A significant proportion of European homes are very difficult to keep cool in summer due to the way they are ...
13 May 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany will need more hydrogen than previously expected across all economic sectors by 2030, said the national hydrogen council in an updated assessment of future demand. The council gauged ...
93 percent of Germans say further expansion of renewables is important or very important, according to a study by TNS Emnid, commissioned by the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). The approval rate for renewables facilities in their own neighbourhood fell ...
More than 40 percent of work council representatives in the German wind power sector expect market conditions to deteriorate, trade union IG Metall Coast says in a press release. In a survey of wind power companies, around a quarter of respondents said ...
12 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024, 12:26 S枚ren Amelang S&P Global: Germany's gas storage operators warn demand curtailments still required ahead of winter Storage sites 84% full by mid-July but extreme cold could prompt gas shortages and empty reserves by February ...
30 Jun 2022, 14:07 On 1 July,聽Germany marks the end of its landmark renewables levy on consumer power prices. The surcharge helped to spur the growth of wind and solar power capacity for more than two decades but has also been criticised for contributing ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:59 Jack McGovan Industry Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Germany's steel-producing states and industry associations have called on the federal government to introduce measures for competitive energy prices, to ramp-up the hydrogen ...
16 May 2024, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid dpa Germany's electricity grid operators expect the expansion of the country鈥檚 distribution network to require around 110 billion euros of investments over the next ten years, the Federal Network Agency ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Germany's government cabinet is set to adopt a national circular economy strategy tomorrow (4 December), said the environment ministry. The ministry spells out targets ...
04 Sep 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Storage Cars Table.Media / Focus The German government is opposing new draft EU rules that could make it more difficult for battery production factories to scale up in the country, according to a聽letter to the EU ...
Matthias Miersch, deputy leader of the Social Democratic (SPD) group in the German parliament, reiterated his party鈥檚 call for additional renewables auctions 鈥� as foreseen in the coalition treaty 鈥� in an upcoming reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), ...
22 Sep 2021, 15:08 The conservative CDU has been heading Germany's government since 2005- and used its time in power to lay the groundwork for making the country the first climate-neutral industrialised nation before the middle of the century, says ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background The completion time of the high voltage power line Nordostlink in northern Germany is set to be completed around one year faster thanks to government efforts to ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:20 Faced with a 鈥渄rastic backlog鈥� of too-high emissions left by the previous government and with not enough measures in place to reach the 2030 climate targets, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new minister for the economy and climate, Robert Habeck, has ...
Federal Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is against establishing a commission to set a date on the phase-out of coal in Germany. Gabriel objected to the proposed commission as it would not address the situation of coal sector workers, saying it was ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:17 Jennifer Collins Construction Clean Energy Wire Germany's state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has opened a second sustainable station made of locally sourced and processed wood. In operation one year after construction ...
21 Feb 2020, 13:25 Greta Thunberg will travel to Hamburg to participate in the student climate protests preceding local elections in the maritime city on 23 February, according to media reports. The Swedish activist's presence at the "Hamburg ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Der Spiegel Germany's highly anticipated government strategy for constructing gas power plants as a backup for rapidly increasing renewable generation will be delayed by one year, news magazine Der ...
15 Oct 2024, 12:58 Jack McGovan Wind Cost & Prices taz The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has proposed a statutory maximum limit on prices for land use among industry complaints that rents for wind farms continue to rise, newspaper Tageszeitung ...
04 Jul 2024
04 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann France 24: EU slaps Chinese electric cars with tariffs of up to 38% The European Union on Thursday slapped extra provisional duties of up to 38 percent on Chinese electric car imports because of "unfair" ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The upcoming snap election in Germany will bring a 鈥渃hoice of direction鈥� for the country鈥檚 energy transition, as energy and climate policy positions vary among the different ...
26 Oct 2018, 10:47 As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU camp and the Social Democrats (SPD), suffer from voter flight due to the coalition鈥檚 constant quarrels, the Green Party emerges as one of the big ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal parliament has approved a controversial revamp of the country鈥檚 energy transition. The government coalition of economy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 Social Democrats and Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 Conservatives secured a majority vote for ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Society Clean Energy Wire Half of German households have never heard of dynamic power pricing, only months before it will be introduced in the country. In a聽 survey 聽by consumer organisations federation ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:05 Warnings by the works council at carmaker Volkswagen that the company plans to make significant cuts to its production sites and workforce in Germany have led policymakers to call for the protection of jobs and local economies. ...
21 Jun 2024, 12:52 Julian Wettengel Wind Clean Energy Wire Two investors have bid a total of more than 3 billion euros for permits to build offshore wind parks in the German North Sea, said the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) in a press release. The two ...
19 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Expert: EU, Greece should change mentality to face future wildfires By only focusing on firefighting without a prevention-focused holistic approach, it will be hard for the EU countries to face future ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany's grid agency BNetzA is set to adapt grid fees for industrial electricity consumers in a bid to incentivise flexible power consumption. In an impulse paper ...
02 May 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire / dpa German government representatives welcomed聽 the agreement 聽by the Group of Seven (G7) major economies to end coal power generation by 2035, and said EU emissions trading means that there is ...
27 May 2021, 14:41 Germany is taking another step towards achieving a fully renewable power system by completing the first electric cable connection with Norway, heads of government and ministers from both states have said at the official launch event of ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany has a record number of cars, but fewer people are using them on the road, according to an analysis 聽by聽transport policy聽think tank Agora聽Verkehrswende.聽"Despite a slight ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Eastern 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest lignite mine operator, LEAG, is ready to build one of Germany's first hydrogen-ready gas power plants. The company said the gas turbine power plant ...
12 May 2016
12 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Ministry for Energy and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Germany aims to give energy efficiency new push The German government has launched a new offensive to increase energy efficiency. ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:25 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Efficiency Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥渆xcessive鈥� energy efficiency standards for new buildings make the construction of new homes too expensive, proving fatal for people who need affordable housing ...
08 Oct 2019, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy ...
13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024, 13:14 Jack McGovan Clean Energy Wire A vast majority of municipalities in Germany have already suffered from the impacts of climate change, according to a survey commissioned by the country's environment agency (UBA). Seventy-seven ...
04 Mar 2016, 00:00 On 13 March, three German states go to the polls in regional elections. Last time these states voted, energy policy was the hot topic, and Germany elected its first Green state premier. Now, energy and the climate have been completely ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:25 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire German industry association BDI has called on the next government to focus on lowering energy prices at both the national and European level. In its recommendations for ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:17 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas transmission system operators have submitted a joint application for a planned hydrogen core network to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Due to be completed by 2032, the planned network would ...
11 Sep 2024, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Wind Handelsblatt Offshore wind parks located far away from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coast would be more profitable if they produce green hydrogen to send to the mainland by pipeline as well as having a direct electricity connection, ...
31 Jul 2024
31 Jul 2024, 14:15 Benjamin Wehrmann International Energy Agency: World adding 510 GW renewable capacity in 2023 means 50%-increase from a year before Under current policies & market trends, global renewable capacity is set to be 2.5 times higher by ...
08 Aug 2024
08 Aug 2024, 15:22 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Unpacking 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydrogen import strategy: 3 considerations for Global South partners Expectation that lower production costs can partially offset high conversion losses & transport costs may not ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:30 The climate impact of construction has mostly remained an afterthought in Europe's efforts to make its buildings climate-friendly, which has largely focused on heating emissions. Yet, as homes and offices become more energy ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:46 Jennifer Collins Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire / t-online Environmental NGO Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) called on German authorities to reject an application to allow the production of Russian-designed nuclear fuel rods in ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Industry Business & Jobs Technology Clean Energy Wire A 10 billion euro investment in semiconductor chip production in eastern Germany will secure the country鈥檚 emission reduction efforts, according to the government. ...
05 May 2021, 14:59 The German government has agreed to aim for climate neutrality as early as 2045, pulling forward its previous target by five years as part of more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases. In a reform to be presented next week, the ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:30 Jack McGovan Storage Clean Energy Wire With a turnover of over 15.7 billion euros, and a 46 percent growth increase in comparison to 2022, the energy storage sector鈥檚 expansion in Germany continues at a fast pace, according to industry ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 efforts to protect the climate by reducing its CO 2 emissions have largely been in vain because the country falls short of implementing a much needed coal phase-out, Petra Pinzler writes in weekly newspaper Die Zeit. 鈥淭he country of the ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire Charging an electric vehicle at home costs German drivers just half the price of refuelling a conventional car with petrol, according to聽 an analysis 聽by price comparison website Verivox. 鈥淭he ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Business Clean Energy Wire Sustainability in Germany is now firmly mainstreamed in the business sector, according to a survey by state investment and development bank KfW. Over half (53%) of German businesses consider ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:09 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A larger number of German voters have listed climate change as a top priority following the devastating floods in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:32 Jack McGovan Adaptation Business & Jobs Handelsblatt German companies are increasingly investing in adaptation measures like flood protections and new cooling systems for offices and factories in their efforts to deal with the ...
14 May 2024, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cities Clean Energy Wire Germany's towns and cities are insufficiently prepared to deal with more frequent and more severe flooding, periods of high heat, and drought and water shortages, a report by ...
02 Jul 2024
02 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Brussels urges EU countries to submit climate plans 鈥榓s soon as possible鈥� On 30 June, EU countries were legally obliged to submit their national energy and climate plans until 2030 (NECPs). These are key ...
13 Nov 2024, 12:02 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel More than half of companies in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important stock indices are lagging behind on their self-imposed targets for emission reductions, ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:27 After months of delay, lawmakers from Germany's coalition government have agreed to a reform of the country's climate action law, which would weaken the responsibility of ministries to ensure targets in their sectors are met. ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:23 Edgar Meza Heating Tagesspiegel Background Representatives of federal and state consumer protection ministries report an "urgent need for action" in view of recent price hikes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 district heating market, energy ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Industry Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire The break-up of the coalition government and insecure funding mean that it is unclear whether 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 pioneering 鈥榗limate contract鈥� subsidy scheme to slash industry emissions ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire This year's Petersberg Climate Dialogue will create space for ministers from about 40 countries to have "difficult discussions" on international climate ...
19 Apr 2024, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Germany should urgently tackle the task of restoring nature regardless of the outcome of the discussion on a European level, said Josef Settele, member of country's ...
07 Mar 2017
07 Mar 2017, 00:00 Regardless of who will win in Germany's next federal elections, increasing energy effciency in sector coupling and mastering digitalisation will be core aspects for ensuring a successful continuation of the energy transition, says ...
10 Jan 2022, 12:20 Without the anti-nuclear movement, the energy transition in Germany would likely look different. But despite a strong focus on fighting nuclear power, the civil society movement that marked the rise of the Green Party has always had the ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:11 Current polls suggest Germany's elections on 26 September will be followed by complicated coalition talks, but the Green Party refuses to reveal what they consider red lines during the negotiations. The party's climate policy ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:42 Edgar Meza Heating Construction Clean Energy Wire Heat pumps have doubled their share as a primary heating source in Germany throughout the past decade, according to the country鈥檚 Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Of all new ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Business Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Bureaucracy and energy are the top issues that German companies say the next government to should prioritise, according to a survey by economic research institute ifo ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:26 Edgar Meza Electricity Solar Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has simplified the registration of plug-in balcony solar photovoltaic (PV) units or 'balcony power plants' as of 1 April. "People ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:11 The German environmental organisations DUH and Greenpeace have launched legal action against major carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes Benz, as well as oil and gas company Wintershall Dea over their impact on climate change. The NGOs are ...
10 Nov 2023, 10:15 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ruling coalition has reached a deal on how to support industry struggling with high electricity prices in the coming five years. The package of measures, worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone, includes lowering the electricity ...
The first so-called 鈥渕otion conference鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned power transmission highways, dubbed SuedLink and SuedOstLink, has allowed a glimpse into the difficulties that lie ahead for the 2,000-kilometre long project鈥檚 implementation, Jens Tartler ...
03 May 2024, 10:42 Making buildings more sustainable hinges on being able to measure what sustainability actually means. Definitions and standards vary widely across Europe, making it hard to compare projects and assess progress. Certifications can ...
30 Aug 2024, 13:49 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Carolina Kyllmann Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire German car suppliers are losing market share internationally and need to be more flexible ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt / dpa Germany's cabinet will discuss a draft law to better protect so-called critical infrastructure against physical damage "shortly after the summer break", dpa reported in an ...
13 Jun 2024, 12:55 S枚ren Amelang Utilities n-tv Bavaria wants to take over numerous hydropower plants in the southern German state, if necessary by forcing a sale from operator Uniper, state premier Markus S枚der has said. He added the state would exercise ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:44 German ministers, high-level policymakers, as well as representatives from industry, science and civil society gather at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 9-10 April 2019 to discuss the progress of a global energy transition. ...
Many companies in Germany have understood that a more sustainable way of making business will dominate the economy of the future, Green politician Julia Verlinden writes in a guest commentarty in the Frankfurter Rundschau. But some of the country鈥檚 ...
14 May 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance Clean Energy Wire Germany should invest an additional 213 billion euros compared to current budget plans over the next ten years in public services and infrastructure to decarbonise its economy ...
16 Jul 2021, 15:30 The EU鈥檚 proposed new climate and energy legislation will effectively bring forward 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit date to 2030, and rising prices in the Emissions Trading System (ETS) mean coal will become unprofitable in most of Europe, said ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Cities S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / taz The City of Berlin鈥檚 plans for massive climate investments are on the brink of collapse after legal experts have deemed the current funding scheme as illegal, according to ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany's would-be governing coalition partners have concluded a treaty that is likely to result in a final deadline for coal-fired power production in Germany. The agreement reached after weeks of intensive talks largely confirms ...
13 Sep 2023, 14:20 Jack McGovan Cars Die Welt British oil company BP wants to build around 20,000 鈥渦ltrafast鈥� charging stations for electric cars as part of a larger investment push in Germany, reports Die Welt. By 2030, the company aims to invest a total ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:07 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire Almost three years after the peak of Europe鈥檚 energy crisis in 2022, many people in Germany are ...
30 May 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity International Clean Energy Wire France and Germany will strengthen bilateral cooperation to unlock the potential of flexibility in the electricity system, government representatives agreed on the margins of ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire Government representatives from Algeria, Austria, Italy, Germany, and Tunisia have signed a joint letter of intent for a new hydrogen corridor that should connect southern ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices Die Welt Representatives of the German energy industry say that the policy announcements by the new U.S. administration could benefit their country鈥檚 competitiveness if the next government ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Transport Clean Energy Wire German lobby group Rail Alliance has called for a quick ramp-up of cross-border European express and night train services as a way to replace flights and thus combat the transport sector鈥檚 ...
10 May 2024, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Representatives of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry have voiced doubts whether the government鈥檚 planned Power Plant Strategy, which is supposed to pave the way for the use of new ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 The European Parliament elections this week (6-9 June) are unlikely to cause a big rollback of existing EU Green Deal legislation, but a projected shift to right-wing 鈥� and often climate action sceptic 鈥� parties could lower ambition ...
27 Oct 2020
27 Oct 2020, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn dpa Countries should use nuclear energy because 鈥渆very path to reaching the Paris Agreement鈥檚 two degree warming limit would be near on impossible without it鈥�, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars dpa / Ingenieur U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among all electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in Germany last year. ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The short-term wind power expansion targets in Germany are unlikely to be met, given that project implementation of licensed wind farms is taking longer than expected, according to an ...
27 Nov 2024
27 Nov 2024, 11:03 91tv Team Euronews: Parliament gives final approval for new European Commission A majority of Members of the European Parliament gave the final approval to the new European Commission of Ursula von der Leyen, allowing the executive to ...
23 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn tagesschau.de 鈥淢ore eco and a little less nuclear鈥� Many German media are reporting about France鈥檚 new energy transition law, passed on Wednesday. The law says energy usage must be halved by 2050 and nuclear鈥檚 share of ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Policy EU Clean Energy Wire German economists are split on whether additional EU tariffs on electric cars from China are needed or appropriate, a survey by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) found. A third ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 YouGov / dpa A majority of Germans would refrain from short-haul flights (74 percent), eat 鈥渟ignificantly鈥� less meat (63 percent) and move without their car in inner cities (56 percent), according to聽 ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:21 Edgar Meza Gas Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) / Financial Times As the biggest importer of Russian oil and gas among all German states, Bavaria is struggling to find adequate replacements as proposed solutions from its ...
04 Oct 2018, 17:11 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has decided to reduce emissions from diesel cars in polluted cities by swapping old models for new ones and retrofitting some older cars. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:44 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / Spektrum Forests across Germany have become a source of carbon dioxide for the first time since records began, that鈥檚 the takeaway from a report by the agriculture ministry (BMEL). ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Grid Clean Energy Wire Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has confirmed plans by electricity grid operators to build five additional large-scale power transmission lines across several regions to support the ...
The German wind power industry keeps jumping from one output and price record to another, but it is nevertheless headed for a slump in 2019 if policymakers do not intervene soon, J眉rgen Gei脽inger, CEO of German turbine producer Senvion, says in a guest ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Solar Clean Energy Wire The technical potential of solar PV installations on agricultural land (also known as agri PV) in Germany largely exceeds the potential of other so far unconventional PV technologies ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Growing demand for minerals needed in renewable power installations, electric vehicles and other green technologies could trigger a lasting price increase for ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:56 Negotiators in Glasgow reached a breakthrough on the rules for global carbon emission reduction trade. After five years of unsuccessful deliberations since the Paris Agreement laid down the framework for a new market where states and ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:44 Jack McGovan Industry Cost & Prices Policy Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy price caps, implemented to help consumers with rising costs during the energy crisis, often did not compensate businesses for price increases to the ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:59 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Europe needs a new way of using resources and should bring together design and sustainability, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen writes in an op-ed ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang International EU The European Parliament and the EU member states must insist on improvements to the European Commission's insufficient plans for emission reduction to rapidly make the bloc more independent from ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Clean Energy Wire German stakeholders in agriculture support calls for an EU-wide benchmarking system, arguing that this could help reward sustainable practices in the sector. Such a system has been proposed ...
31 Aug 2016, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 refugee policy continues to dominate the political debates across all federal states and immigration trumps other topics in the upcoming state elections in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Clean Energy Wire The share of people in Germany who say that their diet does not contain meat has remained largely unchanged in recent years, figures in the agriculture ministry's nutrition report ...
24 May 2024, 14:08 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Clean Energy ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / Clean Energy Wire The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country鈥檚 coal power phase-out聽from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:17 Edgar Meza Mobility Policy Spiegel / NDR Germany's economy ministry has invited stakeholders to a car industry summit to discuss the current industry crisis, Spiegel reported. Representatives of the country's carmakers, the ...
18 Apr 2024, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Wind Clean Energy Wire Permits for new onshore wind power installations in Germany reached a record high of 2.6 gigawatt (GW) in the first three months of 2024, said industry group Fachagentur Windenergie an Land (FA ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / Die Zeit Germany has experienced its third warmest winter season since records began, according to the country's meteorological service,聽DWD. An average temperature of 4.1 ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:22 Edgar Meza Wind Clean Energy Wire Think tank Agora Energiewende has聽 outlined 聽a number of possible solutions that could speed up the expansion of offshore wind power in Germany. Supply bottlenecks and price increases are currently ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / BR The plan to reform 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 debt brake to allow greater defence spending and set up a 500-billion-euro special fund for infrastructure faces another hurdle ...
27 Jan 2015
27 Jan 2015, 00:00 Die Welt 鈥淪tandstill; Little movement in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest offshore wind park鈥� Germany's largest offshore windpark, the 3-billion-euro 鈥淏ard Offshore 1鈥� in the North Sea, remains beset with problems, costing as much as 2 million ...
21 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team AP: Ford, facing economic headwinds and weak EV sales, to cut 4,000 jobs in Europe Of the total, 2,900 jobs would be lost in Germany, 800 in Britain and 300 in other European Union countries. Reuters: Volkswagen enters third ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:21 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry, which is central to Europe鈥檚 plans to establish a green hydrogen economy, is calling for postponing existing deadlines for using the climate-neutral gas, reported business ...
08 Dec 2014
08 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Der Spiegel 鈥淧ower monster eats the Chancellor鈥� Frank Dohmen und Gerald Trautfetter in Der Spiegel say the government is under pressure to draft and pass a law on the power market design by summer ...
17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Federal Environment Agency 鈥淐limate protection contributions of the transport sector by 2050鈥� Germany's transport sector will need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 98 percent to ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany needs an "energy plan" to ensure energy prices remain affordable for households and businesses while protecting the climate, two conservative state premiers write in ...
02 Oct 2024, 12:49 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Transport Heating International Clean Energy Wire Germany and the UK are lagging behind on the path to climate neutrality, while Denmark and Norway are making 鈥渟ignificant strides鈥�, according to a report by the ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:49 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Policy Tagesspiegel Background The German government will evaluate methods for CO2 removal and storage in its聽first online聽consultation on a planned long-term strategy for negative emissions to help ...
14 Jan 2015
14 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel鈥檚 three building sites for the Energiewende" In an analysis piece for Dow Jones Newswires, Christian Grimm gives an overview of the three biggest issues of ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:17 Germany's Council of Experts on Climate Change has confirmed that the country's transport sector again exceeded its annual greenhouse gas emissions limit in 2023, and that current policies are insufficient to put the sector on ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Clean Energy Wire The transition to climate-friendly heating is slowly gathering pace in Germany with the country's first major city announcing a 2035 phase-out date for its gas grid. MVV, the local ...
Placing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned power transmission lines below ground will require a massive material and political effort, Andreas Macho writes in WirtschaftsWoche. The exact location of the two transmission lines SuedLink and SuedOstLink, which are supposed ...
18 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024, 13:20 91tv Team Bloomberg: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 would-be leader touts his recipe for a growth miracle Merz wants voters to back a distinctly pro-business agenda Political compromises may water down what he can achieve DW: Germany approves more ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background With just six weeks to go before 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliamentary elections in late February, several parties have specified their ...
01 Oct 2024
01 Oct 2024, 10:44 91tv Team dpa: Renewables cover 56% of Germany's electricity in first three quarters This represents an increase from 52% in the same period last year. Energytransition.org: Germany's mixed record disappoints the climate ...
24 Nov 2023, 12:46 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire A shortage of at least 300,000 skilled workers by 2030 looms over Germany as demand for jobs in the country's renewable energy industry sector rises, according to聽an analysis ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Utilities Zeit Online Germany's electricity grids are not yet equipped for the projected increase of power consumers such as electric cars and heat pumps, the CEO of the local utility of southern German city ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Policy Clean Energy Wire / Zeit / n-tv A law requiring German municipalities, states and the country as a whole to adapt to the effects of climate change has now come into force (1 July). For the first time, ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:29 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Heating Clean Energy Wire Germany needs to invest 120 billion euros in energy-related ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire If the global temperature rise is to be limited to 1.5掳C, Germany has nearly or fully used up its "fair share" of the remaining global CO2 emissions budget, the German ...
The current legislative period must be used to significantly advance the transport transition in Germany, said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier at the Tagesspiegel鈥檚 Future Mobility Summit in Berlin. 鈥淚 believe that we have to bring the ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:21 Germany is largely on track to reaching its national target to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030, but is set to fail its EU goal for sectors such as transport, buildings and agriculture, according to ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:33 Germany is still set to miss its emissions reduction targets until 2030 and lacks a real strategy for the years that follow, said the country's key government advisors on climate policy. Recent official projections 鈥� which had seen ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:19 The use of gas from all sources will become more important as Germany seeks to decarbonise its economy and phase out nuclear power, the new head of Germany's largest energy industry lobby group, BDEW, has said. The Energiewende& ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German car industry produces the most electric cars in Europe and globally comes second only to China, ...
25 Sep 2024, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Heating Society Clean Energy Wire The rate of energy-efficient housing renovations in Germany improved slightly in the last couple of years, but remains far below the levels needed to reach the country鈥檚 climate ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine The heads of many renewable energy companies showed mixed opinions in whether Germany can meet its targets for green electricity generation, according to an article in newspaper ...
29 Oct 2021, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Policy Clean Energy Wire Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy, known as green power purchase agreements (PPAs), should become a central part of Germany's ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany's renewable energy sector employed 387,700 people in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 15 percent and the highest level in a decade, said the economy ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel / Bild / dpa German policymakers, industry experts, environmental NGOs and unions were split over a proposal to support the country鈥檚 ailing car industry with a new 鈥榗ash for clunkers鈥� ...
The maximum support rate for onshore wind power installations in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables auctions scheme has been raised to 6.3 cents per kilowatt hour to ensure competition among bidders and a continuous expansion of the energy source, the Federal Grid ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:09 Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt The European Union should make the fight against climate change one of its top priorities and turn such leadership into an economic opportunity, the head of German engineering ...
The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has launched the first joint tender for onshore wind and solar power. The auctioned capacity is 200 megawatts (MW), the agency says in a press release. 鈥淭he technologies directly compete for the lowest cost in ...
Environmentalists suspect trees that provide a habitat for protected birds of prey have been cut down to make way for a wind farm in the German costal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Maik Baumg盲rtner writes for Spiegel Online. Wildlife NGO Nabu ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:12 S枚ren Amelang Coal International Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Germany has committed an additional 200 million euros to help Colombia reach its climate targets. During the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro鈥檚, visit to Germany, the ...
A series of interviews conducted by the European Commission among over 27,900 Europeans in March reveals that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 strong support for climate action is no longer 鈥渁 unique feature鈥� of the country compared to its European neighbours, Dagmar Dehmer ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire A shortfall of skilled labour is threatening 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a sustainable industry, engineers鈥� association group VDI director Adrian Willig has warned. The number of ...
09 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Handelsblatt The slur of programmes and initiatives aimed at boosting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 emissions ...
05 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Wind Hydrogen Technology A European hydrogen test project has successfully linked a wind turbine with two electrolysers, which could make it possible to generate off-grid green hydrogen at sea and drive down production ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire The next stage of the search for a final repository for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear waste is launched today with a series of public information events in major German cities, the Federal Office ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Government WDR A group of German citizens and NGOs has filed a lawsuit with the country鈥檚 constitutional court to oblige the government to pursue a more rigorous climate ...
The chief of the German chancellery, Peter Altmaier, says Germany can still meet its own national 2020 climate protection goals despite increased emissions in 2016. He told public TV channel ZDF鈥檚 show 鈥淏erlin direkt鈥� that he would 鈥� not give up on the ...
18 Nov 2014, 00:00 The Energiewende is gradually transforming German homes 鈥� not just towards greater energy efficiency but to become producers as well as consumers of energy. Expert Institute for Housing and Environment Institut Wohnen und Umwelt ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The extreme weather events Germany experienced in recent years have served as a 鈥渨ake-up call鈥� for many people in the country to ramp up their individual emissions reduction ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power was a "historic mistake," Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told business daily Handelsblatt. ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:45 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire German gas consumption decreased yet again in 2023, while the country's role as a European gas hub diminished further following the halt of Russian pipeline gas supply in 2022. Gas use was ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 steel and chemical industries, the country鈥檚 government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance聽 has warned. These sectors ...
Hamburg start-up Enyway has started to rent out pizza box-sized fractions of its first large solar-array for 39 euros each, report J眉rgen Flauger and Kathrin Witsch in Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he average Joe can now actively participate in the energy transition,鈥� ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire Germany cannot realistically reach climate neutrality by 2045 without using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, several research academies have said in a ...
Germany must make it easier for citizens and associations to legally challenge environmental permits, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Failure to implement such a reform required by EU law could lead to a substantial fine. ...
31 Aug 2018, 13:36 With its vast amounts of hydro energy, many would like Norway to become Europe鈥檚 鈥済reen battery鈥�, supplying neighbours with steady power when there is little wind or sun. An extreme heat wave and dry weather in the first half of 2018 ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:53 Ruby Russel Renewables EU Clean Energy Wire German industry associations have welcomed a decision by EU energy ministers to extend temporary measures 聽to reduce dependence on Russian gas and protect EU energy consumers from price spikes ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 green energy industry has for years dashed from one record to the next, but this trend is set to slow down, Thorsten Knuf writes in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淵es to green energy but, please, not too much, such is the government鈥檚 ...
11 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024, 11:24 91tv Team Guardian: The collapse of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government will delight Trump 鈥� and his European friends The German dream of centrist, stable government has been dashed by geopolitical forces and the cult of balanced budgets, writes Paul ...
29 Mar 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Policy Clean Energy Wire The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Germany's system of financing its renewables build-up through a surcharge on power bills does ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire / Electrive German transport minister Volker Wissing has said that the government will launch first auctions for the right to set up electric truck charging infrastructure along the ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Carbon removal Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Companies are no longer allowed to label their products 鈥榗limate neutral鈥� in Germany without adding a detailed explanation to ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society dpa / ZfK Optimism that Germany can achieve its national energy transition targets is moderately growing in Germany, a survey by consultancy EY has found. The share of respondents saying that the ...
27 Oct 2023, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Clean Energy Wire The "mood" in Germany's and Europe's wind industry is "clearly trending downwards" compared to six months ago, according to a survey among industry stakeholders by ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:50 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Clean Energy Wire German households that are impacted by traffic are more likely to support specific measures that ...
21 Oct 2020, 12:22 The average air temperature in Germany has risen by about 1.6掳C from pre-industrial times and the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in the central European country. The government鈥檚 progress report on its climate ...
06 Nov 2019, 09:11 Energy and climate policy observers grade Angela Merkel's government 3.7 points out of 10 for climate efforts in a mid-term review. Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists say plans for a CO2 price in transport and heating ...
06 May 2025, 13:18 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire The new German government should push ahead with income-based financial support for key energy transition technologies to allow low- and medium-income households to transition ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Solar Heating Clean Energy Wire Nearly every third house owner in Germany (29%) plans to install a solar power system in the coming two years, a survey conducted by energy company E.ON shows. "The commitment of ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables dpa / Welt Online Several German states and the federal government have reached an agreement on key aspects of the country鈥檚 much-needed transmission grid expansion, news agency dpa reports in an ...
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 4 at the UN climate conference: EU and G77 + China clash over differentiated responsibilities / A 2掳C slogan translates into a 1.5掳C target / Government compensation for CO2 emissions in transport Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung Low wholesale electricity prices are causing a hefty increase in the federal funds required to pay renewables operators the legally agreed upon support amounts in 2024, show ...
09 Oct 2023, 13:49 The parties of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government coalition suffered heavy losses in two state elections in economically strong Hesse and Bavaria in western and southern Germany, while populist parties including the far-right AfD celebrated ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Energy consumption in Germany has fallen significantly in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period one year before, energy industry and research initiative ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang Business Society Clean Energy Wire Much of today鈥檚 business reporting still ignores the dramatic impact the climate crisis has on companies, making it vulnerable to greenwashing and lagging behind institutional investors, ...
The government coalition of conservative CDU and pro-business FDP in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has passed legislation on the limitation of wind power expansion, Welt Online reports. NRW鈥檚 economy minister Andreas ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:29 S枚ren Amelang Cars Cost & Prices Zeit Online / Handelsblatt German finance minister Christian Lindner has called for ending government subsidies for all electric cars. 鈥淲e simply cannot afford misguided subsidies anymore," the ...
19 Feb 2024, 09:49 Julian Wettengel Industry Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt The European Commission has approved a subsidy scheme by the German government worth 4 billion euros to help reduce emissions from industry production. Support would be given ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:38 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out International S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischer Rundfunk Local politicians from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 border region in Bavaria have expressed concerns about the security of nuclear power stations planned in the ...
13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024, 10:16 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU car lobby aims for two-year delay of 2025 emissions targets Informal paper says car industry faces fines up to 鈧�16 billion. Reuters: DSV to create global logistics giant with $15.9 billion Schenker takeover ...
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Europe's ageing buildings are particularly vulnerable to the damaging effects of climate change, with homes increasingly threatened by floods or at risk of becoming unbearably hot to live in. The job of adapting the spaces where ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:32 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government must act quickly, trigger large-scale investments and set the right framework to ensure the country transforms its economy to reach climate neutrality by 2045, said industry association BDI and Boston ...
01 Oct 2024, 13:12 S枚ren Amelang Storage Resources & Recycling EU Clean Energy Wire The longevity of electric car batteries will cause a scarcity of recycled raw materials, making some of the EU鈥檚 targets for battery recycling unrealistic, researchers ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Three out of four Germans say it is right for scientists to get involved in the climate policy debate if political decision-making does not take into account their research ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire As the European Union has entered into the process of selecting a new leadership team for the next legislative term after the June elections, key climate science advisors call on the ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Carbon market Clean Energy Wire The European Union should set up a carbon central bank as part of a proper regulatory structure to effectively remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere to help reach ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:41 A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on land use shows that climate change is threatening the world's food supply and livelihood, making it an "existential question", said German ...
02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:12 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Finance Society Clean Energy Wire Clients and financing partners both increasingly demand more climate action from German companies, which respond with a growing emission reduction engagement, according ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Clean Energy Wire Renewable energy sources are set to contribute about 38 percent to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gross power consumption in 2018, a two-point increase over the previous year and a new ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:01 The beginning of reelected U.S. president Donald Trump鈥檚 second term in office has prompted calls from German government representatives, researchers and civil society actors to strengthen European efforts to uphold global efforts to ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government coalition parties have locked horns over the envisaged 65 percent share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gross power ...
20 Mar 2024, 10:10 Julian Wettengel EUElections2024 International EU Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media / Reuters The German government has said it will give its consent to the EU nature restoration law in an upcoming member state meeting which is set to ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Wind rbb Municipalities in the north-eastern German state of Brandenburg are to receive a share of the profits generated by wind farms, reports public broadcaster rbb. The state government adopted a law which obliges ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Handelsblatt An alliance of industry associations, trade unions and farmers has called on Germany's government to halt planned underground electricity grid expansion projects and instead build three ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Cars EU Clean Energy Wire Germany's alliance of centre-right conservative parties CDU/CSU is aiming to reverse the ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035, which the EU decided on last year, according to a ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:12 Heating While renewables now account for a significant portion of electricity consumption in Germany, energy used for heating and cooling is lagging far behind,聽 Kathrin Witsch writes in Handelsblatt. About half of total energy consumed ...
02 Oct 2024, 16:10 Germany's fight against the devastating long-term impact of climate change has reached a new milestone, with the environment ministry (BMUV)聽presenting a draft strategy that, for the first time, sets measurable targets to increase ...
04 Mar 2019, 12:01 The school student protests for rapid climate action make headlines in Germany as well as in other countries, putting pressure on politicians to take a stance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this weekend she 鈥渟trongly welcomes鈥� ...
13 May 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has called for a wider reform of the system of fees that finance the country鈥檚 electricity grid and is considering an option where ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire The UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on 5-15 June are set to be marked by 鈥渢ough negotiations under high pressure from the fossil fuel lobby,鈥� NGO Germanwatch said. By all indications, ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire / Der Spiegel Representatives of German government coalition parties have voiced diverging views on the consequences for transport if a law reform is delayed that would ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Policy Clean Energy Wire / WDR Key short-term energy saving rules are set to run out this week, as Germany has come out of a comparably mild winter and managed to avoid a severe gas shortage. A key regulation with ...
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Ten days before the plan to fix 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 "climate gap" is set for cabinet approval, it is still unclear how much the power sector will contribute toward the carbon emissions target of a 40 percent cut by 2020. Expert BMWi- ...
10 May 2019, 11:33 Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed forming a coalition of the willing among European Union countries for CO鈧� pricing in transport, buildings and agriculture to meet 2030 climate targets. At a meeting of EU leaders in ...
16 Feb 2015
16 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淕oodbye coal鈥� 鈥淣ow the British also have their Energiewende,鈥� Bj枚rn Finke comments on British plans to exit coal announced over the weekend. He argues London鈥檚 energy ...
23 Aug 2024, 12:39 Jack McGovan Solar n-tv Germany saw a record level of solar power output in July despite sunshine levels being lower than the previous year, broadcaster n-tv reported. At 10.1 terawatt hours (TWh), solar power accounted for around 43 ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities Correctiv / Wirtschaftswoche Many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 large local utilities continue to bet on fossil gas for heating and stall the transition to more climate-friendly ways to heat homes, found business weekly ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire The year 2023 was the windiest in Germany in more than 15 years, providing excellent conditions for wind electricity generation, said Germany's National Meteorological ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Hamburger Morgenpost / Tagesspiegel / Die Zeit / Merkur / Radio Hamburg Just one week after their defeat at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 snap election, the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf ...
24 Apr 2024, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media The German parliament (Bundestag) could vote on the highly disputed reform of the country鈥檚 climate action law as early as this Friday (26 April), according ...
23 Aug 2024, 12:34 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Germany could cover at least part of its future critical raw material demand with domestic production, found a report by the Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire All six eastern German states have set up a joint initiative on renewables-based hydrogen. It is intended to closely connect politics, business and science on the fuel "in order to fully ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables Germany's lignite power production fell to the lowest level since 1963 last year, while hard coal power ...
04 Oct 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Gas NDR / Clean Energy Wire The cost of a planned permanent onshore import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in northern Germany is likely to be more than expected and require additional state support, reports ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Society Clean Energy Wire Anchoring health, climate and environment in all government departments and ministries is one of the recommendations put forward by Germany's health and resilience expert council, an ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire German municipalities fail to adequately deal with the question of retiring no-longer-needed local gas grids due to the energy transition, because they face high financial and regulatory hurdles, ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:29 Edgar Meza Solar Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Better recycling infrastructure is needed for discarded solar panels in Germany, especially as waste volume is set to increase in the coming years, according to a report by ...
09 May 2025, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU ARD / Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire The new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has called for a 鈥渞estart鈥� of Franco-German relations at his first international trip on Wednesday (7 May), after his ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics ntv / Clean Energy Wire The industrial jobs that will be lost due to the end of coal-fired power production in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern mining region Lusatia have already been replaced by new ...
23 Sep 2021, 12:45 鈥淎chieving net-zero鈥� emissions by the middle of the century is a goal that few would fault. But when it comes to reaching a balance of greenhouse gases and carbon removal 鈥� as not all emissions from food and industrial production can be ...
02 Aug 2024, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A draft agreement on a budget for 2025 by the German coalition government might have to be re-opened after advisors to the finance ministry (BMF) found that it might ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU dpa / t-online The sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Germany must grow by about 75 percent this year compared to 2024 for carmakers ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Start-ups Clean Energy Wire Germany should make the most of its start-ups in its efforts to reach climate targets and strengthen the country as a business location, said the German Startups Association in a paper with ...
16 Jan 2024, 12:51 Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A global rush to find natural hydrogen (H2) is intensifying the focus on what could turn out to be a much cheaper source for the gas, seen to play a key role in the energy ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Deutschlandfunk / ARD / n-tv The influential business association Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged the government of chancellor Olaf Scholz to quickly implement measures that ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Policy RND A draft law from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 agriculture minister, Cem 脰zdemir, to protect the country鈥檚 forests against the effects of climate change has come under criticism for being significantly watered down ...
15 May 2024, 12:33 Jack McGovan Transport EUElections2024 EU Clean Energy Wire Rail travel should be the focus of legislative and investment decisions in the aftermath of the 2024 EU elections, an alliance of rail industry and NGOs said in an open letter ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 The first block of a large coal-fired power station has just gone online in Hamburg, even as two thirds of German fossil-fuelled facilities fail to turn a profit and their operators are applying for many to be mothballed. So is the ...
19 Dec 2018, 14:19 Diesel driving bans in numerous German cities are a major blow to many car drivers, the country鈥檚 carmakers, and its leading politicians. Now, the NGO that set the ball rolling on the bans is eyeing legal steps to end the world-famous ...
By banning private diesel cars from the inner city, Oslo has done what German municipalities do not dare to do, Claus Hecking writes on Spiegel Online. The controversial diesel ban is the first of its kind in the often smog-ridden Norwegian capital, ...
17 Sep 2024
17 Sep 2024, 12:27 91tv Team Reuters: Von der Leyen names new European Commission with focus on climate change, security, competitiveness European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen named her team, which will lead the EU's most powerful ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Transport dpa / Clean Energy Wire Germany's railway service reliability took a severe hit in June 2024 due to the effects of extreme weather events, reported news agency dpa. Ageing and ...
20 Nov 2017, 00:00 After almost five weeks of deliberations, the pro-business Free Democratic Party has pulled the plug on Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 efforts to form a coalition government made up of her conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the Greens and the ...
05 May 2025, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Several environmental and political NGOs have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new government to force state-owned gas company SEFE to halt purchases of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and make a clear ...
18 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024, 14:10 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU鈥檚 green shift under threat as the hit to consumers gets real Pushback on transport and heating policies is building Looming real-world impact fuels backlash as deadlines near Transport & Environment: T ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:54 Jack McGovan Transport ARD / Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire One of the most used stretches of the German rail system will be closed for the next five months due to major modernisation works, ARD reports. The repairs on the 70 kilometre ...
05 Apr 2024, 11:50 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The number of companies in Germany which say they offer goods and services that contribute to climate protection has reached 30 percent, according to results of survey by the state-owned ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Clean Energy Wire The German network agency BNetzA has approved the route for the first section the key electricity transmission power line SuedOstLink, which is set to transport offshore wind power from the ...
22 Jul 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Bild am Sonntag A survey by weekly tabloid Bild am Sonntag found people in Germany would be willing to spend an average of 32 euros per month on climate action. Around 16 percent of ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:09 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Rundschau The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the regional parliamentary election in Lower Saxony, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest wind power producer, with 34 percent ...
23 Sep 2019, 09:41 The German government coalition has reached an agreement on the country's climate action strategy, including a pricing system for carbon emissions in all major sectors. The Clean Energy Wire presents reactions to the deal. S枚ren ...
19 Sep 2024, 11:38 S枚ren Amelang Policy International Security Clean Energy Wire / Deutschlandfunk Germany commits to 鈥渟ystematic climate and environmental protection in line with the Paris Climate Agreement鈥� in the Arctic in聽 new policy guidelines ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new environment minister, Svenja Schulze, has said the country has 鈥渉ad a deficit in climate action for many years鈥� and urged that 鈥渨e have to change course鈥� to meet emissions reduction ambitions. In her speech at the regional industry event ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Coal K枚lner Stadt-Anzeiger / Clean Energy Wire Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner has rejected a coal phase out by 2030 if the country lacks affordable energy, newspaper K枚lner Stadt-Anzeiger reported. ...
16 May 2025, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new government will present a comprehensive programme of measures to put the country on track to reaching climate targets by the end of 2025, the new environment ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Heating Clean Energy Wire More and more households are turning to air conditioning to stay cool in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increasingly hot summers. The share of households using air conditioning has grown to 19 percent ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire / Reuters 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 special envoy for international climate action Jennifer Morgan welcomed the climate and energy diplomacy priorities adopted by the EU Council ...
10 Dec 2024, 13:33 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Achieving climate neutrality before mid ...
Two citizen action groups have collected almost 50,000 signatures on a petition calling for amendments to the rules on wind turbine construction in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, Dow Jones Newswires reports. The signatories want the rules ...
14 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024, 10:51 91tv Team Guardian: Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature鈥檚 carbon sink failing? The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models 鈥� and could rapidly accelerate global heating. Bloomberg: ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:26 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire Artificial intelligence (AI) has started to arrive in some areas ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society Die Zeit / Der Spiegel The fight against a planned resettlement of five villages due to expansion of a lignite mine in West Germany continues, writes newspaper die Zeit. In a state parliament hearing, the ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Edgar Meza Gas Grid Clean Energy Wire The German government has kickstarted the planning for a gradual decommissioning of the country鈥檚 gas distribution network in order to organise a smooth transition to climate-neutral ...
30 Aug 2024, 13:09 Joey Grostern Solar Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has announced that bids for ground-mounted solar PV from July have been successful, according to an agency press release. 鈥淭he ...
15 Jun 2021, 10:53 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background The conservative CDU/CSU union of outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel aims for an earlier switch from fixed prices to market-based prices in ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:15 Much of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable power capacity is facing uncertainty regarding its business models as generous feed-in tariffs for many wind, solar and biogas plants end in the 2020s. With the country needing more, not less, renewable power ...
Private cars remain the favoured means of transportation for most Germans, but they are only used for 45 minutes per day on average, a study commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transport ministry (BMVI) has found. About 43 percent of all trips are made with either ...
22 May 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel International G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) ...
10 Jul 2023, 13:00 Germany is bracing for summer heat and drought, as temperatures across Europe reach record levels and the rest of the world faces unparalleled extreme weather events. With the first heat warnings, dropping water levels in major rivers, ...
17 May 2024, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung A German court has ruled that the country's government must improve its climate policy plans to reach the 2030 emissions reduction target, as ...
11 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024, 10:23 91tv Team WBGU: German govt advisors call for international water strategy with regional platforms In a climatically and geopolitically heated world, the challenges surrounding water are becoming substantially more acute, said the ...
02 Feb 2022, 12:52 With its Green Deal the European Union has embarked on the transition to a climate neutral economy by 2050, and it has made sustainable finance a key pillar of its efforts. The EU taxonomy 鈥� a system that defines companies鈥� activities ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Solar Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Solar power is set to lead renewable power expansion both in terms of capacity and generation in Europe in 2024, with Germany set to install more solar capacity than any other country, ...
16 May 2024, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire Technological measures to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere face significant economic and institutional hurdles in Germany said a research team led by the Helmholtz Centre for ...
29 May 2024, 14:30 In a bid to help Germany reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045, the government has presented a draft law reform that would allow the storage of CO2 under the seabed, as well as onshore 鈥� but only if the federal states choose to do so. ...
The federal environment ministry (BMUB) will continue to use citizens鈥� participation processes to develop climate policy in the future, the ministry said in a press release. 鈥淲hat we learned in the stakeholder process helped us in developing the Climate ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The number of operational onshore wind turbines installed in Germany has shrunk in the first six months of 2024, when 250 new installations were added while 280 older ones were taken ...
24 Feb 2015
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淓U wants to break Moscow鈥檚 energy power鈥� A draft of the EU Commission鈥檚 concept for a European Energy Union (due to be published tomorrow) includes new rules for ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Seven lignite-fired power plant units with a combined capacity of 3.1 gigawatt will finally be shut down in Germany at the end of March, after their decommissioning had been postponed due ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Politics Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire / dpa The vice president of the parliamentary group of the Social Democrats (SPD), part of Germany's ruling coalition, has spoken out against ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A planned hydrogen "core" network in Germany has come under criticism for being larger than necessary and therefore becoming too expensive, reports Handelsblatt. ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:43 Edgar Meza Adaptation Cities Clean Energy Wire The majority of cities in Germany do not adequately protect people from the increasing incidence of extremely high temperatures associated with the climate crisis, according to a聽 report ...
07 Nov 2023, 12:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Electricity Security Clean Energy Wire Germany saw a slight drop in ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Clean Energy Wire / ARD Germany's national railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) plans to test long-range drones that can survey railway tracks after severe weather events. From 2025, DB plans to deploy ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Clean Energy Wire The EU still lacks an ambitious industrial strategy to accompany the Green Deal to strengthen the bloc's industry and ensure it is able to keep up in the global race for the green ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:37 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The discontinuation of the German government's electricity grid subsidy, as well as a rise in the national CO2 price for heating have not translated into bigger bills for new ...
04 Apr 2023, 14:03 Edgar Meza Renewables Politics Tagesspiegel Background / epd The state of Lower Saxony is aiming to become a pioneer in geothermal energy, Tagesspiegel Background reports, citing an article by the epd news agency. "Geothermal ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire There鈥檚 a large imbalance between current investment and the potential for cheap hydrogen production in individual European regions, according to a new report. Regions with high potential to ...
16 May 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire To decarbonise freight transport more quickly, government action should prioritise the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric trucks, said the German Council of ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire A package of measures to boost the use of solar energy in Germany by removing red tape, approved by parliament on Friday (26 April), will significantly accelerate the rollout of the ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Germany is expecting a below-average grain harvest due to difficult weather conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a preliminary harvest ...
A shorter implementation period has led to a rise of the average price offered in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest auction for onshore wind power installations, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in a press release. The increase to 4.6 eurocents per kilowatt hour ...
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hamburger Abendblatt 鈥淗amburg puts focus on development of green energies鈥� The city-state of Hamburg is profiting from Germany's Energiewende in the form of investment and new jobs, the ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Insurance companies expect damages from extreme weather events in Germany to amount to at least seven billion euros by the end of 2024 and are calling on the government to ...
28 Nov 2023, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Grid Clean Energy Wire Grid operators in Germany will be ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Efficiency Policy Clean Energy Wire Getting the energy transition in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating sector off the ground will be difficult since most investments have to be made by private citizens rather ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire The Group of Seven (G7) large industrial democracies can be a key forum for 鈥減ioneering new cooperation鈥� on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), wrote researchers from Germany and ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany needs more clarity on the future role of fossil gas in its energy system to allow industry to make the right investment choices, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a ...
28 Mar 2022, 10:56 A complete disruption of energy trading between Russia and the rest of Europe would have grave consequences for the economies of Germany and other EU countries, says energy and security policy expert Kirsten Westphal. If the flow of gas ...
23 Aug 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Cars Clean Energy Wire / Reuters Germany needs biofuels and synthetic fuels made from renewable electricity (e-fuels) to ensure that the country's existing fleet of combustion engine vehicles can help reach climate ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:50 Joey Grostern Wind Society SWR A group of about 6,660 people are behind a slew of over 440,000 letters objecting to plans for wind farm developments in 40 areas in the Neckar-Alb region of Baden-W眉rttemberg, according to reporting from ...
Germany saw strong onshore wind power expansion in the first half of 2017, but development could severely slow after the transition phase from set feed-in tariffs to auction-based remuneration by 2019, said German Wind Energy Association (BWE) and ...
13 May 2024, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire German forests are in a poor state, as four out of five trees of the most common species 鈥� spruce, pine, beech and oak 鈥� are damaged, said the agriculture ministry' ...
04 Oct 2024
04 Oct 2024, 10:18 Julian Wettengel Politico: You could kill the EU, says France. No, you could, Germany replies. Macron and Scholz clash again over how to counter protectionist America and Chinese power. Bloomberg: New solar to meet most of Europe鈥檚 ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire In its highly anticipated first auction for the import of green hydrogen products, Germany has awarded a contract to receive green ammonia from Egypt. 鈥淏etween 2027 and 2033, at ...
04 Sep 2024, 13:28 Jennifer Collins Cars Policy Wirtschaftswoche / n-tv The German government is readying the implementation of new tax breaks for electric company cars, amid collapsing sales and mooted unprecedented plants closures at VW, reported ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:37 Edgar Meza Gas Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German government is set to increase value-added tax (VAT) on natural gas after temporarily lowering it in 2022 to counter gas price hikes related to Russia's war on Ukraine. The ...
03 Sep 2019, 17:45 Following key regional elections in eastern German Saxony and Brandenburg, the conservative parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's grand coalition 鈥� the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) 鈥� have ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Jack McGovan Solar Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most recent push to boost the rollout of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the country, which is set to be agreed upon in parliament on Friday (26 April), could result in ...
