10 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel FT: Northvolt to cut jobs and sell off unit to survive EV chill Swedish battery maker has been grappling with factory problems and slow growth in European EV take-up. Bloomberg: Europe braces for last of Ukraine’s ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Gas Security Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The EU isn’t prepared to properly deal with a future gas crisis like the one resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to a new report ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:10 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources ...
24 Mar 2015, 00:00 German utilities say plans to cut 22 millions tonnes of CO2 emissions from the energy sector by demanding additional emissions trading allowances from older power plants amount to an exit plan for the brown coal industry. But despite ...
06 Jun 2024, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire / Rheinische Post A nationwide mandatory insurance against natural hazards will be “an important topic” at an upcoming meeting between Germany’s ...
22 Jan 2024, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Technology Handelsblatt / Reuters German chemical company BASF's sale of Wintershall Dea assets to UK producer Harbour Energy could be a risk for the country's security, because it ...
22 Jan 2024, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Grid Solar Cars Clean Energy Wire / WirtschaftsWoche German retailers say that significant delays in connecting new electric vehicle (EV) charging points and solar PV installations to the local electricity grid are ...
25 Sep 2024
25 Sep 2024, 12:17 91tv Team Bloomberg: Climate change made Europe's deadly floods worse and more likely More intense rainfall is expected as global temperatures rise. Global warming is becoming a costlier problem for Europe. Bloomberg: Where cargo ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Many companies in Germany’s vast "Mittelstand" sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) still place high importance on sustainability, despite ...
26 Nov 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Electricity market Clean Energy Wire Energy company RWE has been found for the fifth time in a row to be in a dominant position in the German electricity market, according to a report by the Federal Cartel Office. Although ...
10 May 2023, 12:23 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling Security Clean Energy Wire Germany should make its landmark energy transition more crisis-resilient by increasing independence from raw materials that are needed for climate-friendly technologies ...
Germany might prevent the adoption of stricter EU emission rules for lignite plants, reports Malte Kreutzfeldt in left-wing newspaper tageszeitung (taz). According to the environment ministry, it remains undecided whether Germany will oppose the new rules ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:12 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany’s famed “Mittelstand” sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) has coped well with turbulent prices on the energy markets caused by the Ukraine war, ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s federal government “should finally come clean” and tell citizens that climate action on the required scale is impossible without higher costs, writes ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire The fast pace of Germany’s solar PV expansion is causing concerns among energy companies about the buildout’s effect on the grid, business daily Handelsblatt writes. “If ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire As the share of renewables in Germany's electricity mix increases, so does the potential for households to benefit from lower wholesale power prices. In the first ...
14 Nov 2022, 12:12 Edgar Meza Finance Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire / Politico Parliamentarians from Germany's ruling parties SPD, FDP and the Greens have announced an agreement for the country to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) ...
15 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form Germany’s next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
27 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024, 11:07 Julian Wettengel Bloomberg: German front-runner for chancellor wants to bury Merkel’s legacy Friedrich Merz, the conservative candidate for the chancellery, plans to deregulate the ailing economy and reverse his predecessor’s migration ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire The council of German state governments has called for a speedy and comprehensive reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) to ensure the country reaches its 2030 target of expanding ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Germany should introduce a "balanced catalogue of measures" to secure its supply of necessary raw materials as the world shifts through a dual transformation of ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating Clean Energy Wire The vast potential of geothermal energy generation for heating has so far been under-utilised in Germany, but a new exploration process launched by the economy and climate ministry ...
26 Sep 2024
26 Sep 2024, 11:00 91tv Team AP: The leaders of Germany’s Greens are quitting after several election defeats The leaders of Germany’s Greens, one of three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s troubled coalition government, announced Wednesday (25 September ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Business Clean Energy Wire Germany has slipped to one of the last places in an index ranking industrialised countries for their attractiveness as a business location, a report found. The country slipped four places to ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:16 Sören Amelang Renewables Finance Süddeutsche Zeitung The EU’s green investments label could slow down Germany's energy transition as many renewable projects don't qualify for it, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. Banks are only ...
05 Aug 2024
05 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Politico: No, the EV isn’t dead — just briefly comatose Despite gloomy stories about the collapse in sales of electric vehicles, what’s really happening on the markets is more of a pause than a retreat. Benar News: New ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:04 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
29 May 2024, 14:07 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Clean Energy Wire The production of low emissions cement and steel is set to become cheaper than that of counterparts produced with fossil fuels before the middle of the century, according to a report by the ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: German, French companies less hopeful over economic recovery Companies in the euro zone's two largest economies are growing more pessimistic, surveys showed on Thursday (26 July), raising concerns over ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Clean Energy Wire / MDR The government of central German state Thuringia has criticised neighbouring state Bavaria and the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) for opaque planning of one of the country’s important ...
16 Jul 2024, 12:23 Edgar Meza Gas Handelsblatt EU countries are increasing Russian gas imports despite the bloc’s efforts to reduce fossil fuel from Russia in the wake of the Ukraine war, Handelsblatt reports. EU countries imported around 30 percent more ...
01 Nov 2019, 15:35 Green and sustainable finance in Germany is not thinkable without the country's state-owned development bank KfW. The bank installed after the Second World War to finance reconstruction in Germany has become a major funder of ...
Germany’s grid agency (BNetzA) has launched the first 2018 onshore wind and solar tenders. In a change to previous auctions, all onshore wind projects now need to have a planning permission to place a bid, the agency said in a press release. Citizen ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Cars Technology EU Clean Energy Wire / NDR / NZZ German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed the start of construction of a battery cell factory by Swedish Northvolt in northern Germany for being "of strategic ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Controversial plans by the German government to reform the country’s key legislation for reaching climate targets faces legal challenges by NGOs and an opposition lawmaker ahead of a parliamentary vote scheduled for Friday. ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society Clean Energy Wire An overwhelming majority of Germans want the country to ramp up its climate adaptation efforts and better prepare the country's infrastructure against increasingly regular ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:27 Germany’s renewable energy surcharge (EEG surcharge) that is paid by consumers with their electricity bill and supports wind, solar, biomass and hydro power installations will rise by about 5 percent to 6.756 cents per kilowatt hour (ct ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:52 Franca Quecke Gas Heating Clean Energy Wire Berlin-based heating system installer Thermondo has stopped selling gas heating systems, shifting its focus entirely to more climate-friendly technologies, such as heat pumps and PV modules, ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:34 Sören Amelang Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Germany’s Green Party economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has expressed confidence that the country’s efforts to reach climate neutrality by 2045 would not be derailed by a ...
Social Democrat and federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel blocked a reform of power grid fees for political reasons, writes Heike Göbel in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Gabriel backtracked because a reform “would be very ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire Blockchain, one of the world's largest electricity consumers, could significantly reduce its power needs through conscious network design, according to a report by the German ...
30 Aug 2024
30 Aug 2024, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann DW: Why are the German state elections so important? For the first time in post-war German history a far-right party could win a state election. Euractiv: The ins and outs of approving EU Commissioners EU member states ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:13 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Following a rapid rise in household solar panel installations, Germany’s total number of PV arrays has passed the five million “milestone,” according to industry association BSW-Solar. ...
16 Apr 2024, 11:59 Jennifer Collins Solar Handelsblatt After months of wrangling, Germany's three-party coalition has agreed a long-disputed raft of measures to boost solar expansion in the country, reports newspaper Handelsblatt. The new measures, ...
12 Jan 2017, 00:00 The German government lacks clear overview of the costs of the country’s shift to renewable energy, according to the country’s Federal Court of Auditors. The auditors said the economy ministry had “no overview of the financial ...
Bavarian conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters have signed a coalition treaty for the coming five years in Germany’s southern economic power house and largest federal state. The alliance aims to make climate protection a ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Representatives of Germany’s renewable power industry have criticised the government’s planned legislation package for expanding the capacity of solar, wind and other renewable energy ...
20 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024, 09:15 91tv Team Bloomberg: Tesla could help far right secure win in German state vote Tesla’s first factory in Europe was supposed to revitalize the region near Berlin with thousands of jobs and millions in extra tax revenue. It succeeded on ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire The planned expansion of district heating in Germany will require 43.5 billion euros in investment by 2030 to help the country reach its climate targets, said a report by analysis ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar ZfK / Montel Cloudy weather conditions expected for the Easter weekend have alleviated fears by grid operators in Germany that a high supply of solar power during a period of low consumption could lead to ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:39 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire Today's electric cars already have a lower lifecycle climate footprint than combustion engine cars, and by 2050, EVs will also perform better in other environmental ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:57 Carolina Kyllmann Construction Clean Energy Wire Excessive bureaucracy and lack of acceptance for used building materials are getting in the way of Germany's targets to increase recycling rates of construction products, according ...
05 Nov 2024, 12:57 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Ruby Russel Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire / ARD The BGE (Federal Company for ...
19 Feb 2025, 13:00 As the new U.S. administration under president Donald Trump upends decades of transatlantic relations and the wider geopolitical order, Germany faces the challenging task of resetting relations with its neighbours to ensure a strong EU ...
06 May 2024, 12:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The number of electric vehicles (EVs) exported from Germany rose sharply in 2023, meaning that EVs accounted for about one quarter of all car exports that year, the country’s ...
The 800 km “Südlink” cable from the North Sea to Baden-Württemberg and the 500 km south-east connection between Saxony-Anhalt and Bavaria will both not be finished before 2025, Ulrich Milde writes in the Leipziger Volkszeitung. The grid operators have to ...
25 Oct 2023, 11:00 Germany's economy ministry wants to strengthen the country as an industrial location with a new industry strategy, a key aspect of it being a so-called bridge electricity price for energy-intensive companies. Robert Habeck wants to ...
03 May 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire Heating system sales in Germany fell by close to a third in the first three months of the year compared to the same quarter of 2023, with heat pump sales recording a sharp drop, according to ...
The government of Luxembourg has written a complaint letter to the European Commission, lamenting the plan of neighbour country Germany to implement hardware retrofits of diesel cars in only a few selected regions for a few car owners, website Spiegel ...
The northern German city of Hamburg has begun to enforce the diesel driving ban it introduced as the country’s first city last week, the public broadcaster NDR reports. The ban that affects short stretches of two major roads in the port city and include ...
29 Jul 2019, 13:43 Freja Eriksen Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel Online German right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has presented an declaration on its environmental policy agenda stating that the influence of CO2 on ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:15 Edgar Meza Storage Technology Policy Clean Energy Wire / WirtschaftsWoche A research and development alliance representing Germany’s battery industry has blasted government plans to slash research and development funding for the field, ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Clean Energy Wire One in every ...
The energy transition in Germany does not achieve most of its goals, and its progress has slowed down over the last few years, a study conducted by the consultancy Prognos and commissioned by the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) has found. Improvements ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire / Rheinische Post Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the sluggish rollout of wind power in the south of the country "depressing" and warned that the three southern states – Hesse, Baden ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:54 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Edgar Meza Gas International Clean Energy Wire The highest Dutch court has put a halt to gas drilling off the German North Sea island of Borkum. The ...
01 Dec 2023, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Clean Energy Wire Germany's grid agency has proposed to reduce electricity grid fees in areas with a high share of renewables, in a bid to distribute the costs of rolling out wind and solar energy more fairly ...
Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks called the search for a final repository for Germany’s nuclear waste a “test case for our democracy”, reports Rheinische Post. The search would require citizens to take on responsibility. “Not in my backyard” ...
30 Mar 2022, 14:45 Germany must decide which companies are considered crucial enough to receive gas in case of a shortage caused by Russian supply cuts, Kerstin Andreae, head of energy industry association BDEW told Clean Energy Wire. Andreae welcomed ...
The state of Hesse is offering mediators to communities likely to oppose wind turbines to allow parties to discuss issues in a fact-based and target-oriented manner, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. More than 35 councils have used the mediators ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:04 Germany's highest court has ruled in a landmark decision that the government's climate policies are insufficient because they lack detailed emission reduction targets beyond 2030. The court said the country's Climate ...
13 Apr 2023, 11:38 Even 15 years after its first climate adaptation strategy, and despite deadly floods and droughts, Germany is still failing to integrate climate adaptation into everyday decision-making at all levels. Insurers have sounded the alarm ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:41 Sören Amelang Cars Utilities Clean Energy Wire The German government's subsidy programmes for the rollout of public e-car charging infrastructure are so ineffective that they should be rebuilt from scratch, the country's ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany can be “fairly optimistic” regarding its gas supply in winter 2023/2024, said energy industry association BDEW, one year after Russia ended its pipeline supply to the country on 31 August. ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:34 Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country’s ...
12 Nov 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Grid Security Clean Energy Wire / Der Spiegel Disruptions to electricity supply within the German network remained around the ten-year average in 2023, the year in which the country had to deal with the fallout of the ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:36 Edgar Meza Solar Clean Energy Wire Rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) in the EU is thriving due to new strategies and regulatory changes adopted by the bloc since 2022, in large part because of Russia's war on Ukraine, according to a ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables RBB East German energy company LEAG plans to put a major lignite plant in partial reserve from May to September due to the projected high output of renewable power installations in that period, public ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:48 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs More than one in five jobs in Germany are related to “green activities”, while less than one in 20 are in emission-intensive industries, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Clean Energy Wire Regional train travel has increased by 28 percent since the introduction of the Germany-wide monthly public transport ticket one year ago, according to national railway service DB. ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:11 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Algeria, Tunisia and Spain could be the best and most cost-effective countries from which Germany can import green hydrogen if pipelines are ready for transport, according to an analysis by ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to greatly expand the use of geothermal energy in Germany. The Social Democrat (SPD) said his goal was to tap into the renewable energy’s ...
24 Mar 2025, 11:00 Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia’s war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:07 Sören Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is considering to stabilise electricity prices with a new instrument designed to reign in rising grid fees. "I want us to protect private ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:47 Joey Grostern Coal Society Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / Clean Energy Wire Bürgewald, an empty village on the edge of the Hambach open-cast coal mine in the western German state of North Rhine Westphalia, has been bought back by the local ...
The biggest dilemma of the new rules to be set for finding a final repository for nuclear waste in Germany is between “time and thoroughness”, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an op-ed for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. On the one hand there has to be a fair ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs EU Handelblatt / Clean Energy Wire The opposition by the German co-governing Free Democratic Party (FDP) could prevent the planned adoption of sustainability and human rights rules for the EU's ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs dpa / Zeit Online German chancellor Olaf Scholz has unveiled plans to hold an industry summit later this month in a bid to address the ongoing woes in the country’s manufacturing sector. ...
A climate survey published by the European Investment Bank (EIB) shows a north-south divide in EU citizens’ sentiment towards global warming. Southern Europeans are more concerned and see it as a more immediate threat compared to northern Europeans, who ...
07 Feb 2018, 00:00 Agreeing on climate and energy policy was one of the simpler tasks during Germany's coalition negotiations, says Social Democratic (SPD) energy spokesman Bernd Westphal. However, he concedes that the challenges awaiting the country ...
29 Oct 2019, 08:40 Clean Energy Wire is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how Germany's energy transition is transforming the commercial landscape. To showcase these big changes in the world’s fourth largest economy, this new series ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Construction Clean Energy Wire Germany must set a good example worldwide when it comes to construction with timber, agriculture minister Cem Özdemir said during the " Charter for Wood 2 ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas International Clean Energy Wire / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed two contracts that are set to supply Germany with liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a duration of at least 15 ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Policy EU Table.Media The consequences of Germany's current budget struggles will have implications on the European Union, but the extent of the impact will depend on decisions taken by the ruling coalition ...
13 May 2015
13 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv ARD tagesschau.de “The German energy transformation is impressive” Ernest Moniz, the United States Secretary of Energy, has praised Germany’s development of renewables but said the US were not ...
26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:55 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Companies in the German manufacturing and service sectors generated 107.5 billion euros in revenue from output that ...
24 Apr 2024, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire With a very ambitious climate policy, the transport sector can be transformed in the long term from the "problem child" of German climate action efforts into one that ...
17 May 2024, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire There is a significant potential in the northern Baltic states, especially in Finland, to produce green hydrogen for export to central Europe, said a report by certifier and consultancy DNV, ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:25 Sören Amelang Policy Security Tagesspiegel Background The German government has agreed to hand extra power to the country’s grid agency to improve the protection of critical energy infrastructure. The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Wind Freight Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Germany’s Federal Association of Offshore Wind Energy (BWO) is calling for greater capacity for the country’s ports in order to expand turbine installations at sea. Offshore wind ...
20 Dec 2024, 08:44 Germany’s next government will inherit a major policy predicament: How can it finally initiate serious transport emission cuts against a backdrop of tight finances, a struggling car industry, and a crumbling transport infrastructure? ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany’s onshore wind power capacity continued to grow apace in early 2025 after four gigawatts (GW) of new turbines were licensed in the first three months of the year, industry ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:27 Jack McGovan Electricity Storage Table.Media / PV Magazine The long-awaited electricity storage strategy by Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), due to be published today (19 December), is unlikely to meet the expectations of the ...
30 Apr 2025, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire In the waters of the German North and Baltic Seas, the options for marine carbon dioxide removal and geological storage are limited to just a few approaches, said researchers from the ...
21 May 2024, 14:09 Jack McGovan Grid International Clean Energy Wire The construction of a major power line connecting Great Britain to Germany through the North Sea has begun in the coastal city Wilhelmshaven in northwestern Germany. Spanning a total ...
28 May 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire In an effort to boost climate-neutrality in the shipping industry, the German government is bringing together representatives of the maritime sector, science, industrial and environmental ...
23 Sep 2019, 14:12 The future of Germany's much criticised climate strategy hangs in the balance as the Green Party vowed to amend the package, and experts warned legal hurdles threatened the government's concept for a CO2 price. Yet, Chancellor ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt A shortage of more than 200,000 skilled workers threatens to slow down Germany’s energy transition, according to a report by the Institute of the German Economy (IW) ...
19 Jan 2021, 09:30 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 federal states and the federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and ...
While Germany is perceived by experts to be the world’s top green economy performer, the country comes in fifth for its actual performance, according to development and green growth communications consultancy Dual Citizen LLC. The consultancy’s 5 th ...
The government should use the unused part of the e-car buyer’s premium budget to finance the expansion of much-needed private charging points for electric cars, and thus heed the proposal put forth by Andreas Obersteller, president of the Federal Office ...
27 Nov 2020, 14:33 A little more than one year after Germany’s so-called “climate cabinet” presented a big policy package to reach 2030 climate targets, its members will meet again on 2 December – but this time only to take stock, not decisions. ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Gas dpa / ntv / Handelsblatt Deutsche ReGas, the operator of Germany’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the island of Rügen, expects a much higher utilisation rate of the installation this ...
Rising power costs stir people’s emotions because everybody uses electricity and because they suggest a malfunction of government control, writes Til Huber in a commentary for merkur.de. But costs are largely driven by the past solar boom, and recent ...
08 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATE- adds quote from WWF's Günther in paragraph 5, more external content)- The nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, in the wake of a tsunami five years ago on 11 March, was a key turning point in German energy policy. Chancellor ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:08 Edgar Meza Transport Freight Technology Clean Energy Wire The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is working with industry partners and research institutions to develop a megawatt charging system that would enable battery-powered ...
Germany is following a “proactive strategy in developing comprehensive environmental policies” but should make greater efforts to improve air quality for the sake of its citizens’ health and quality of life, the European Commission said in a country ...
Politicians and citizens in Saxony-Anhalt have discussed the future of the region after the closure of lignite mine Profen in 2035. Local politicians and business representatives are worried about the 3,000 employees that work for coal company Mibrag and ...
02 Apr 2024, 10:30 “Reuse and recycle” is a catchphrase most people associate with plastic bags or bottles. But our homes, schools and offices are also made with materials that are far too valuable and carbon-intensive for single use: They shouldn’t ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
27 Mar 2015
27 Mar 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv European Commission “Commission refers Germany to Court over coal power plant in Moorburg” The European Commission is taking Germany to court over its newly open Moorburg power plant near Hamburg, saying the ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry in southwestern Germany worries it will be left behind as planning for the country's core hydrogen grid advances. According to a survey among regional chambers of industry and ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Climate resilience should be at the forefront of reconstruction and repair efforts of homes that have been damaged by storms, the General Association of the German Insurance ...
A study by the influential Pew Research Center has found that confidence by citizens around the world in the leadership skills of German Chancellor Angela Merkel decisively outweighs that in US President Donald Trump. While 42 percent of respondents in 37 ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:05 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society dpa / Clean Energy Wire The largest beer tents at Munich’s famous Oktoberfest are to become "climate-neutral" within five years at the latest, reports newswire dpa. The ...
21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung / Greenpeace Energy “Flawed subsidies” Britain is planning a different kind of energy transition, writes Björn Finke in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. While they want to shut down all ...
11 Jan 2024, 14:17 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Policy Table.Media / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt The German government plans to cut development aid and funds earmarked for rail freight transport and cycling paths as part of saving ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a report commissioned by utility E.ON. “The hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry FAZ / Clean Energy Wire The German government is continuing its push for carbon capture and storage technologies with the draft of its planned Carbon Management Strategy, reported Frankfurter ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:20 Jennifer Collins Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A mooted cap on industry power prices could stall green energy expansion in Germany by making investments in wind and solar unprofitable, according to a report by business daily ...
11 Jul 2024
11 Jul 2024, 13:54 Sören Amelang Bloomberg: Searing heat triggers fuel-supply worries at oil refineries in Europe and beyond Poland temperatures could reach levels that disrupt refining, while Greece and Turkey both suffered wildfires in recent weeks. AP: ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:43 The EU is struggling to decarbonise its buildings, most of which are heated by fossil fuels that spew planet-heating gasses. But it has the technologies to go green. The bigger problem, experts say, is overcoming the barriers to rolling ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:28 Franca Quecke Transport Freight electrive The German government has terminated two subsidy schemes for electric trucks and buses, the transport ministry (BMDV) told specialist publication electrive. The cancellation applies to two ...
30 Nov 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Heating Policy Government Clean Energy Wire The German government will have to present emergency climate action programmes with short-term measures to reduce emissions in the transport and building sectors, ...
05 Nov 2024, 13:24 Government members and political observers have warned that Germany must avoid a high-stakes gamble among government coalition parties at critical time for the country and Europe. As disunity in the three-party coalition becomes more ...
10 Aug 2021, 12:56 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The world is heating up, but the German government is clinging to its coal phase-out date in 2038, writes Michael Bauchmüller in a commentary for Süddeutsche ...
The General German Automobile Club (ADAC) says it has proof that the mechanical retrofitting of older diesel cars in order to cut air pollution “is not only possible but also highly effective.” The influential car club says that tests carried out by its ...
17 Dec 2020, 13:51 German energy consumption was at a “historic low” in 2020, largely due to the effects of the Covid19 pandemic, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) based on preliminary data. The researchers also said energy ...
23 Aug 2024
23 Aug 2024, 10:50 Carolina Kyllmann Fortune: Greenpeace files supreme court case accusing Finland of climate inaction A group of environmental and rights organisations said Thursday (22 August) that they were suing the Finnish government for violating ...
13 May 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars Freight Clean Energy Wire Delaying climate action in the transport sector will lead to a significantly more expensive transition to climate neutrality by 2045, said think tank Agora Verkehrswende in a new ...
09 Oct 2023, 14:24 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Reuters Germany should phase out its subsidy scheme to cap electricity and gas prices, introduced during the energy crisis, by the end of 2023, said the ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:15 Jennifer Collins Transport Cost & Prices n-tv The price of the Germany Ticket, a monthly subscription allowing passengers to travel on regional transport across the whole country, is set to increase next year from its current 49 ...
24 Nov 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany’s network of charging points for electric cars is growing rapidly, according to utility association BDEW. “As of 1 October, 113,112 public charging points with a total of 5.2 gigawatts (GW) ...
20 Sep 2019, 20:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel's so-called "climate cabinet" has put together the bedrock for future climate action legislation in Germany, just in time for UN Secretary-General António Guterres' Climate Action Summit in ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:24 Sören Amelang Heating Cities Clean Energy Wire District heating already supplies more than a third of houses in Germany’s three largest cities of Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, according to utility E.ON. In Munich and Hamburg, the share ...
31 Mar 2025, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Merkur An election promise by German conservative alliance of the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) to abolish parts ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU Clean Energy Wire The German chemical industry says the European Commission’s proposals to fight the energy price crisis in Europe may be sufficient to fight energy poverty but are not likely to help ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling International Clean Energy Wire Africa could become Europe's most important partner for the development of the energy transition, provided the right kinds of investments are made at ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Solar Clean Energy Wire The expansion of photovoltaic (PV) systems in Germany continues to grow as more companies and private households opt for solar energy. By April 2024, the number of PV systems reached 3.4 million, ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire The row between Germany’s coalition partners over key climate and energy policies such as industry support shows no sign of letting up despite a two-day retreat ...
15 May 2025, 13:37 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background One of Germany's major gas grid operators has joined the pipeline project "H2Med", which is set to transport hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula towards ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:37 Edgar Meza Efficiency Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / Politico Germany’s construction minister, Klara Geywitz, has pushed back against EU plans to mandate energy-efficiency renovations for the bloc's worst performing buildings, she told ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Efficiency Clean Energy Wire The energy efficiency investment index by University of Stuttgart, which assesses current and planned activities in German industry on energy efficiency twice a year, has reached a historic ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:06 Jennifer Collins Renewables Clean Energy Wire The number of power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Germany grew by 323 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year, according to a market analysis by the country's energy agency (dena) ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:05 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire More than half of German companies say that the energy transition has negative effects on their competitiveness, shows the energy transition barometer survey by the German Chamber ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Heating Clean Energy Wire Deep geothermal energy can make a major contribution to the decarbonisation of Germany’s heating sector, a paper published by researchers from the Fraunhofer and Helmholtz associations shows. ...
05 Dec 2022, 09:35 With motorway and airport blockades as well as attacks on artworks, climate activists have caused a stir in Germany. The actions have provoked mainly negative reactions from politicians, the media and the general public, following ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:22 Sören Amelang Adaptation Renewables Changing weather patterns will boost the role of hydropower in Germany’s energy transition, Bavarian industry associations have said. “Due to increasingly rainy winter months, [we] expect an increase ...
07 Jul 2015
07 Jul 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Headwind” The rapid increase in the number of wind turbines is leading to rising resistance in many rural areas in Germany’s north, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung in a full-page report on the ...
24 Jun 2024, 14:00 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s conservative opposition party alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) are looking to save some 35 billion ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:20 Opposition parties have strongly criticised the German government coalition’s climate policy package in a first parliamentary debate on key legislative elements, such as the planned major climate action law. The first reading in the ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Cities Clean Energy Wire Relevant stakeholders at a parliamentary hearing on 16 October called for more financial resources and less bureaucracy for the decarbonisation of Germany's heating grids. The ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:15 Sören Amelang Transport Industry Clean Energy Wire Climate-neutral industrial alcohol made with renewable electricity appears to be the most suitable synthetic fuel to decarbonise international shipping, researchers from the Institute ...
About 220 wind turbines in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will have to be dismantled after 2020 because they lose eligibility for guaranteed feed-in tariffs after 20 years of service, Juliane Lange writes for Ostsee-Zeitung. It ...
12 Jan 2023, 11:20 Netflix styles itself as a climate action leader, but the world’s most popular video streaming service is far from eliminating all of its emissions, despite a 2022 net zero target. The US company with more than 220 million subscribers ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:34 Sören Amelang Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Electricity from large ground-mounted solar PV systems combined with batteries has become cheaper than that generated from fossil power sources in Germany, researchers from ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:28 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Corrects tender volumes to GW from MW. Investors again showed insufficient interest to build all of the onshore wind farms on offer in Germany’s latest tender. The auction remained ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:25 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating dpa Half of those living in Germany don’t want to use less energy to heat their homes than they did last year, with most arguing that they've already made all of the cuts they can, reports ...
07 Nov 2022, 13:35 Sören Amelang Renewables Industry Clean Energy Wire Excessive red tape hinders Germany’s shift to a low-emission economy, according to a report by industry association BDI. Planning and approval procedures are not only becoming ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Construction Süddeutsche Zeitung A draft "modernisation" law intended to speed up housing construction in the southern German state of Bavaria has met resistance in cities and municipalities, as local ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:21 Joey Grostern Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Methanol derived from green hydrogen could play an important role in Germany’s transition to a decarbonised economy, a paper from the German Energy Agency (dena) has found. The compound, which is ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann EUElections2024 EU Zeit Online Germany's government coalition parties- chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party, and the Free Democratic Party (FDP)- have laid out conditions for ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:52 Jack McGovan Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Many industrial companies have submitted proposals for low emission investments to the German government's scheme to reimburse them for the extra costs associated with climate ...
20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet’s role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
03 May 2022, 13:54 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Efficiency Clean Energy Wire An increasing number of German municipalities are struggling with higher energy costs, a survey by state-run development bank KfW has found. Around 50 percent of the ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Finance Correctiv Leading German insurance companies continue to provide cover to liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure, even as they often make sustainability a key corporate goal, investigative news outlet ...
31 May 2024, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy minister has awarded steelmaker ArcelorMittal 1.3 billion euros to drive the decarbonisation of its production sites in the states of ...
The deconstruction of the nuclear plant Isar 1 in the southern German state of Bavaria is proceeding as planned, according to the state’s environment ministry. But environmentalists are concerned that radioactive fuel elements remain in the plant as ...
The price for onshore wind power fell a further ten percent in Germany’s third auction for the technology to an average of 3.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. The federal grid agency (BNetzA) said the winning bids came almost exclusively from projects proposed ...
02 Feb 2024, 14:01 Franca Quecke Heating Tagesschau / Clean Energy Wire German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called for more transparent and fairer prices for district heating customers, reports Tagesschau. "You can't change ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The proportion of advertised jobs related to the energy transition rose from 1.8 to 3.8 percent between 2019 and 2024 in Germany despite multiple economic crises during that ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:03 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Forests across Germany absorbed 52.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2021, which corresponds to 6 percent of the country’s annual emissions in the same year, according to ...
29 May 2024, 13:42 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire Developed countries finally made good on their pledge to mobilise 100 billion U.S. dollars in climate finance for developing countries in 2022, two years later than promised, the ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:18 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire More than one million new solar power systems were installed in Germany last year, an all-time record, according to the country’s solar industry association BSW. The new arrays had a ...
16 Jan 2019, 13:16 The German government has pledged long-term payments to lignite mining regions, removing a major hurdle to reaching a compromise over the country’s coal exit. After a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:36 Germany must increase efforts to reduce emissions even as the European Union introduces stricter climate legislation, said Brigitte Knopf, deputy chairwoman of the country’s Council of Experts on Climate Change. While the EU will also ...
15 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024, 10:00 Julian Wettengel Wallstreet Journal: The story of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general; President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:56 Sören Amelang Heating Policy dpa Germany's Green Party parliamentary group wants to support the country’s struggling economy with a 30 billion euro investment programme that focuses on energy-efficient building modernisations. An ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann International Handelsblatt International Energy Agency (IEA) head Fatih Birol is weary of too much optimism about energy security in Europe ahead of the 2023 winter, he said in an interview with newspaper Handelsblatt. ...
13 May 2019, 14:03 Julian Wettengel Efficiency Rheinische Post Horst Seehofer (CSU), German federal minister of the interior, building and community and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s climate cabinet, will propose making the climate-friendly ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Transport dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany plans to electrify only around 66 kilometres of railway lines in 2025, falling well short of its targets to expand overhead electricity lines and replace diesel-powered ...
18 Nov 2022, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann International Clean Energy Wire Poland and Germany have agreed to intensify their cooperation on energy policy through joint projects on energy efficiency, renewables, infrastructure and the energy market design. “The ...
14 Aug 2024
14 Aug 2024, 10:30 Julian Wettengel The Guardian: Germany has issued arrest warrant for diver over Nord Stream explosions, says report Investigators said to believe Ukrainian man was one of team that planted explosives on pipelines in September 2022. ...
The strong showing by the Christian (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) in the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia shows that voters have put more emphasis on economic policy and wealth, writes Heike Göbel in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government Clean Energy Wire A ...
16 Jan 2019, 14:18 Berlin aims to slash carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2050. For a city growing at a rate of 50,000 inhabitants a year, that’s no mean feat. But Ramona Pop, Berlin’s Senator (minister) for Economy, ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German state subsidies are set to increase to 67 billion euros in 2024 from 38 billion euros in 2021, mainly driven by efforts to green the economy and the energy ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire A consistent policy mix promoting decarbonisation and climate neutrality can significantly reduce energy imports and electricity costs for Germany in the next ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:30 Ruby Russel Transport Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Projects to build green hydrogen electrolysers at refineries are being cancelled because oil companies lack guarantees that the investments will be profitable, even though the ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:14 Edgar Meza Cars Clean Energy Wire Demand for purely battery-electric vehicles (BEV) dropped dramatically in Germany during the first half of 2024 and the country’s automotive sector is bracing for a gloomy full year as high prices and ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage EU Die Welt Plans by the European Union to measure the carbon footprint of battery production based on the host country’s electricity mix are causing concerns among Germany’s automotive industry, which fears ...
15 Dec 2014
15 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Electricity crime story” Wherever they can afford it, German towns and municipalities have been buying back power grids and gas supply networks and are beginning to generate ...
22 Dec 2023, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Energy Wire Germany’s Green Party lawmakers in federal parliament (Bundestag) want the country to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) or capture and use (CCU) in sectors where – with ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Politics Society Tagesspiegel As the political debate over immigration in Germany is becoming less heated in line with the decreasing number of migrants seeking access to the country, the party that ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International Clean Energy Wire The future of the energy system in economic powerhouse state Texas will be a key feature during an upcoming trip of German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to the United ...
22 May 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Industry Clean Energy Wire Using public procurement contracts and quotas for climate-friendly basic materials could help drive demand for climate-friendly products like green steel or cement, the German economy ministry ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:44 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Handelsblatt Construction of a hydrogen "core" network in Germany has been further delayed as its future operators and the electricity grid agency BNetzA await an EU decision on state aid, reported ...
The new law for finding a permanent nuclear repository in Germany aims “ to offer proof that an enlightened society can find a place for the waste that nobody wants to have,” Michael Bauchmüller writes in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung. But for this ...
06 Sep 2022, 14:05 Julian Wettengel Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany must use the price advantage of renewable energy sources to weather the energy crisis over the coming winter and beyond, said the renewables association BEE. The lobby group said ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:33 Faced with a crisis in the construction sector and a housing shortage, the German government has decided to suspend the tightening of new building efficiency rules initially planned for 2025. Climate activists decried the agreement as a ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:45 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Germany could cover a sizable portion of its lithium needs in the coming decades by extracting the metal from existing geothermal wells, researchers have calculated. Lithium is a ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government Süddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
“As far as possible,” German carmakers themselves have to put right the “serious mistakes” made during the diesel crisis, said Chancellor Angela Merkel after a two-day cabinet retreat in Meseberg near Berlin. “The customer or taxpayer cannot be made ...
06 Aug 2024
06 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Georg Zachmann: Share of heat-pumps in new buildings in Germany doubles from <30% in 2019 to >60% in the first month of 2024 Gas-boilers dropped from >50% in 2015 to 5% in the first month of 2024, says Bruegel ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:01 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Government International Clean Energy Wire Germany will attempt to move towards a "social-ecological" market economy model that puts great emphasis on diplomacy to advance the global fight ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:19 Jennifer Collins Gas dpa Germany has no plans to downgrade from the "alert level" of its gas emergency plan, saying the supply situation remains "tense" two years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine upended ...
19 Feb 2024, 15:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics EUElections2024 dpa / Reuters / Der Spiegel / Zeit Online / Politico / Tagesspiegel / Augsburger Allgemeine European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is seeking a second term at the ...
22 May 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Politics Clean Energy Wire An economist and regional state secretary will become Germany’s new energy state secretary following the departure of Patrick Graichen due to violations of the ministry's compliance rules. ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire The German government has proposed the right steps to accelerate the rollout of photovoltaic (PV) systems, local utilities association VKU said ahead of a parliamentary discussion about ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Security Clean Energy Wire [Adds paragraph on related study about climate policy perception by science platform WPKS] The “increasingly tangible” threat of climate change and other risks at a global scale, such as the ...
The new Climate Action Plan 2050 being prepared by Germany pursues an “absolute priority” of climate protection, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion-piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The plan is still vague but postulates targets which nobody is ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Süddeutsche Zeitung Bavaria’s economy minister Hubert Aiwanger’s presentation of the southern German state’s energy policy strategy has angered opposition politicians due to the government ...
21 Aug 2019, 16:00 Moment of truth for German climate policy: Right in time for the UN Climate Action Summit, chancellor Angela Merkel's government is due to present a raft of measures to drastically cut emissions. The eagerly awaited announcements ...
09 Mar 2022, 13:32 Sören Amelang Coal Gas International General-Anzeiger Europe could manage to stop Russian energy imports by using more coal for power production in the short term, said the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:57 Germany will continue to aim to provide 6 billion euros annually in funds to developing countries for climate mitigation and adaptation by 2025, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said. The government would do so despite a recent ...
08 Nov 2022, 14:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The southern German state of Bavaria is set to invest 500 million euros in renewable energy and hydrogen production projects, the state’s economy minister, Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters), ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:51 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of Germany’s largest energy company, RWE, has warned that high prices for energy due to limited ...
13 Feb 2023, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Policy Clean Energy Wire The German states have signalled their readiness to expand onshore wind power in the country “in almost unknown unity”, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said. His ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire A new analysis shows that domestic green hydrogen is “more competitive than expected” compared to imports of the snythic gas made with renewable power sources, which are the focus of the ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:33 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany’s push for energy independence triggered by the Ukraine war could boost the country’s emission reduction efforts in the medium term, as well as economic growth and ...
08 Nov 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire Industry representatives and environmental groups have warned the German government against scrapping key components of the country’s Climate Action Law in a planned ...
17 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Policy Clean Energy Wire A government-sponsored "renaissance of Europe's solar industry" is needed to ensure secure access to resources and hardware components that are ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Renewables International Clean Energy Wire Associations from the German and Ukrainian renewable energy industry have agreed to work together more closely to speed up the energy transition in both countries. The ...
14 Jul 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business & Jobs Finance Handelsblatt The strategic shift of US investment management firm BlackRock to align its financial operations with sustainability criteria starts having an impact on ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind EU Clean Energy Wire The governments of Denmark and Germany have signed a legally binding cooperation agreement for a joint offshore wind power project on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, the economy ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:46 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Despite all the changes that are necessary to protect the ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Energy Wire German chemicals company BASF has inaugurated a demonstration plant using a new electricity-based technology that could reduce CO2 emissions in certain production steps by at ...
06 Sep 2022, 13:50 Germany should keep two of its three remaining nuclear power plants on standby beyond the planned phase-out date at the end of the year to help secure power system stability in the coming winter if necessary, economy and climate ...
Grid operators TenneT and TransnetBW published a variety of updated route suggestions to lay direct current power lines from Germany’s windy north to the industrial south, after protests against overhead lines had forced the companies to revise original ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:58 The global growth of renewable power sources is an encouraging trend for climate action but needs to be better coordinated to ensure international targets are met, according to Germany’s economy and foreign affairs ministers. ...
22 May 2018, 00:00 Energy transition pioneer Germany is about to launch a highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power, the most prominent blemish on the country’s climate record. The government will likely nominate the coal exit commission on ...
The federal government ignored many of the results of the environment ministry’s stakeholder consultation process for the Climate Action Plan 2050 because of strong pressure from economic interests, according to a report commissioned by Greenpeace. The ...
The German system of taxes and levies needs a comprehensive reform to allow for the introduction of an effective carbon price without creating a major burden for power customers, think tank Agora Energiewende has found in an analysis. The think tank says ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:25 Sören Amelang Adaptation Clean Energy Wire More than half of the forest in some central German regions is "severely damaged" following extreme drought periods over the past years, according to a report by the Helmholtz Centre ...
01 Oct 2024, 13:09 Sören Amelang Wind Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Building “energy islands” in the North Sea to produce green hydrogen using 20 gigawatts of offshore wind power can save Germany billions of euros, according to a report by the Fraunhofer ...
14 Jun 2024, 13:02 Sören Amelang Adaptation Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Due to rising global temperatures, the first hobby farmers in Germany have started growing olive groves, which are on track to becoming profitable in the future, reports ...
The focus on climate in Bavaria’s coalition treaty between conservative parties Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and Free Voters is a surprise, writes Peter Issig for the Die Welt. “Some of it seems to have been copied directly from the Greens,” writes ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:19 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost ...
25 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Italy to present hydrogen corridor plan in autumn, may involve Switzerland The so-called SouthH2 Corridor would connect North Africa, Italy, Austria and Germany, allowing renewable hydrogen produced in the ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Wind Handelsblatt The sweeping tariffs introduced by US president Donald Trump could lead to higher electricity prices around the world, said Hendrik Andersen, CEO of Danish wind turbine manufacturer ...
24 May 2019, 17:25 Young climate activists across Europe took to the streets Friday to demand more ambitious climate action from politicians two days ahead of the main day of the EU elections. In Germany, “Fridays For Future” students protested in more ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Clean Energy Wire Germany will enter into solidarity agreements for gas supply with Italy and Switzerland in a bid to improve energy security across Europe in response to the energy crisis of 2022, the ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Storage WirtschaftsWoche Carmaker Volkswagen (VW) plans to install large battery storage capacities in northern Germany to store wind and solar power for times of little output, ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany is currently heavily dependent on imports of raw materials key for energy transition technologies, but the government is only in the early stages of ...
Utilities like E.ON once thought that they could meticulously plan the decommissioning and dismantling of their nuclear power plants- but the reality is proving this approach wrong, writes Bernward Janzing in the taz. E.ON found “unexpected contamination” ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Clean Energy Wire Energy industry association BDEW has presented a proposal for a new electricity market design in Germany, with a new capacity mechanism at the heart of the plan. “The current ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government dpa / n-tv Germany's Court of Auditors has criticised the supplementary budget presented by finance minister Christian Lindner, which rededicates billions of euros reserved for ...
18 Oct 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire Germany's coalition government is considering steps to enable the use of more green electricity that is currently curtailed due to grid bottlenecks, ...
03 Feb 2022, 12:36 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:26 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Clean Energy Wire Germany's grid agency (BNetzA) ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:31 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Electricity market Tagesspiegel Background Energy markets have largely recovered from the upheaval caused by the coronavirus, and most experts expect few lasting consequences except that coal ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:53 Sören Amelang Society EUElections2024 EU Clean Energy Wire A broad alliance of German environmental NGOs, unions, consumer, and church groups has called for a “European Green and Social Deal” to be implemented in the next EU legislature ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz travelled to Nigeria in a bid to secure new energy and economic partnerships, and help diversify Germany's energy ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry EU Clean Energy Wire Greening Europe’s industrial base, ensuring resilient clean-tech value chains and setting up a new EU climate fund should be among the priorities of the next European ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Der Spiegel A proposed subsidised electricity price for heavy industry would not be effective for the economy as a whole, according to a report by the German Institute for ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire German companies are being driven to increase their commitment to sustainability by the younger generation and the competition for future employees, according to the ...
16 May 2023, 13:43 Jessica Bateman Grid Heating Germany’s electricity grid may struggle to cope with the millions of heat pumps planned for installation around the country, experts have warned. The government is aiming to connect 500,000 heat pumps to the ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:10 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Government Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's government has appealed November's court ruling that required it to present emergency climate measures after failing emissions reduction targets in ...
13 May 2020, 13:21 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cost & Prices International Clean Energy Wire Germany's ranking in the World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Index has slid to 20th this year from 17th last year. "It ...
19 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024, 11:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Reuters: How Germany aims to get to net zero without breaking the bank €17 bln gap in 2025 budget will make costly task of shifting industries and agriculture to net zero emissions more difficult Euractiv: Czechs pick ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:58 Edgar Meza Transport Clean Energy Wire A working group made up of government officials and industry representatives focusing on climate-neutral aviation is calling for clear commitment by political leaders and industry to the market ...
21 Feb 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Handelsblatt In order to achieve Germany’s ambitious energy transition targets, the pace of wind and solar power expansion is expected to quadruple in the coming years, but a lack of skilled ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:32 Sören Amelang Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany must pay more attention to social and environmental impacts in its ambitious rollout of offshore wind energy, environmental NGOs and unions have said. “The protection of nature, species and ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Improving circular economy principles for the use of steel, cement and plastics could help Germany’s energy-intensive industries reduce their greenhouse gas ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Handelsblatt / Guardian A “climate-neutral, prosperous and equitable” European economy is possible by 2050, said EU commissioner for climate action and energy Miguel Arias Cañete in an ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:00 Ruby Russel Industry Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire A survey by consulting firm EY has found that only one in five companies considers Germany a compelling place to decarbonise production – with excessive bureaucracy the biggest ...
08 Sep 2021, 12:30 The Left Party would enter negotiations to form Germany’s next government with a demand to abolish the recently introduced carbon price on transport and heating fuels, according to MP Lorenz Gösta Beutin, a climate and energy expert ...
22 Jan 2024, 15:09 Franca Quecke Heating Clean Energy Wire / Welt am Sonntag Heat pump sales in Germany reached a record of almost 400,000 units last year, but the positive development is at risk in 2024, the German Heat Pump Association (BWP) has said. ...
30 Jun 2023
30 Jun 2023, 12:20 Julian Wettengel NOZ / Clean Energy Wire / Zeit German environment and consumer protection minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) supports the European Commission’s push to reign in false “greenwashing” claims by companies, she told Neue ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Clean Energy Wire Electric vehicles (EVs) tend to function more reliably and have fewer breakdowns than internal combustion engine cars (ICEs), the German Automobile Club (ADAC) has found in an ...
28 May 2015
28 May 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Eurostat/ZEW German households pay second highest power price in EU Household electricity prices in Germany are among the highest in the EU. According to the EU’s statistics office Eurostat, German households on ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is conducting test runs today (21 September) for a possible gas supply crisis, aiming to practice what would happen should the agency need to order ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Wind Transport Hydrogen German coastal states want hundreds of millions of euros from the federal government to transform their ports into energy hubs for liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and offshore wind, reports ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:21 Germany has a rare window of opportunity to introduce CO₂ pricing as part of a comprehensive reform of the country’s energy taxes and levies and must urgently use it, according to economist and government advisor Andreas Löschel. To ...
08 Oct 2018, 16:58 Anti-coal activists in Germany and beyond experienced a sudden change in fortune on 5 October, when a court ruling boosted their cause and provisionally stopped plans of energy company RWE to cut down the embattled Hambach Forest in ...
10 May 2024, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb / Die Welt Activists protesting against the expansion of the Tesla factory in Grünheide have tried to enter the factory's premises, leading to clashes with police and arrests made on the US ...
26 Oct 2021, 12:43 The booming voluntary market for CO2 emission offsets is facing a hairy double counting issue that could stop further growth in its tracks. While high-aiming businesspeople are preparing a new standard to scale the market and make it ...
09 May 2019, 14:11 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Policy Clean Energy Wire The Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) – part of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s alliance of centre-right parties – is sceptical regarding the introduction of a new CO₂ tax. The ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:54 Kerstine Appunn International ARD The escalation of violence in Kazakhstan is causing concern among German businesses who were planning to tap into the country’s rich potential for developing climate-friendly technologies, renewable ...
08 May 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire The industry-affiliated NGO German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy (Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft) has called on Germany’s government to come up with an ambitious ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Die Welt / Handelsblatt A slump in new electric vehicle (EV) registrations in Germany could set the country's electromobility growth target back at least five years, according to industry expert Ferdinand ...
15 Mar 2022, 10:46 More drastic forms of climate protest such as recent hunger strikes and motorway blockades risk widening the divisions within the German youth climate movement, says social movements researcher Dieter Rucht from the Berlin Social ...
04 Aug 2021, 13:06 Germany's energy use in the first half of this year exceeded 2020 levels, as the economy recovers from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, figures by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) show. However, total ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Europe must debate a framework to ramp-up a hydrogen economy on the continent as a key element of its move towards climate neutrality, said German energy industry association BDEW. “There ...
26 Mar 2025, 13:53 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire Representatives of around 40 governments have used a climate conference in Germany to call for multilateral cooperation in combatting climate change, even as some countries are stepping ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating Handelsblatt Many gas grid operators in Germany have not decided yet whether to use the possibility to increase their fees now in order to protect their dwindling customers from a massive price hike in the ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany could play a decisive role in the global transition to renewable energy, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:45 The members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) have unexpectedly voted for a more left-leaning leadership, casting doubt on the future of the coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance. The ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:10 Rachel Waldholz Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Cost & Prices IWR Online Germany’s “green energy account”, which funds the country’s renewable roll-out, currently shows a record surplus of 5.7 billion euros, according to ...
18 Apr 2016
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Der Tagesspiegel “Czech investor wants to take over brown coal operations” A year and a half after Sweden's Vattenfall said it would sell its German lignite ...
27 Nov 2018, 15:07 Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Government Germany will ultimately need a price on greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors that does not overburden citizens with lower incomes in order to complete its ...
17 Aug 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Power prices on the European Energy Exchange (EEX), based in the eastern German city of Leipzig, have reached a new all-time record level in day-ahead auctions of 553 ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Tagesspiegel / t-online U.S. car manufacturer Tesla will have to revise its plans to expand its gigafactory for electric cars in the German state of Brandenburg over concerns the new buildings would be partly ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:08 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in renewable energy expansion, news agency dpa reports in an article published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Industry International Clean Energy Wire Germany has signed agreements to intensify its cooperation on climate and energy with Chile and Uruguay, with strong focus on decarbonising emission-intensive industry. At the ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The German parliament (Bundestag) has given the green light for the construction of a 9,700-kilometre pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:27 Sören Amelang Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Extreme weather events, rising sea levels and higher temperatures are straining the delicate ecosystem of the Wadden Sea, researchers have warned. “Climate change is having profound effects on ...
08 Aug 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Start-ups Industry Technology Handelsblatt German nuclear fusion start-up Marvel Fusion has blamed a lack of government support in Europe for its decision to build a laser fusion facility in the US, in a ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:47 China’s prime minister has branded allegations from Europe of Chinese overcapacities in key technologies such as solar panels as unfounded. The “theory” of unfair competition would not hold and China was merely using its national ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire / Süddeutsche Zeitung Rising temperatures in Europe could have a negative impact on one of the world's most important regions for growing hops, a key ingredient in beer ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Frankfurter Allgemeine The current carbon footprint of Germany's blue chip companies, the 40 largest listed companies in the DAX stock market index, will cause global temperatures to rise by ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:18 Edgar Meza Grid Storage Handelsblatt Sales of large-scale battery storage units are booming in Germany but their role in facilitating and advancing the energy transition appears to have been impeded by their increasing use for profit, ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire Nearly half of the people in Germany say the plan to close nuclear plants before coal is right, a survey commissioned by price comparison website Verivox has found. In the ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire The world needs a "new approach to climate finance," German chancellor Olaf Scholz said at his government's Petersberg Climate Conference in Berlin. He ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:54 Milou Dirkx Transport Clean Energy Wire The flat-rate 'Germany Ticket' for public transport has not led to a significant reduction in car use, said a report by the Technical University of Munich. Data collected via surveys and ...
07 May 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Company climate claims Society Clean Energy Wire Commercials that promote climate-damaging products are in violation of Germany’s State Treaty for Media, the labour union-affiliated Otto-Brenner-Foundation said. The ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:41 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Industry dpa / Der Spiegel Tough and lengthy approval procedures are slowing down the ...
12 Jan 2021, 13:52 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Heinrich Böll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The market for used electric vehicles (EVs) is growing fast in Germany, the country's most important motorist club, ADAC, has found. Second-hand EVs are becoming “a true ...
17 Apr 2024, 13:30 The election victory of the pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk in late 2023 stirred high hopes for the start of serious climate policies in Poland after an eight-year lull during the rule of the right ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:21 Germany’s energy consumption in 2022 went down by 4.7 percent compared to last year, hitting its lowest level since the country’s reunification, according to preliminary data by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Aniket Narawad Electricity Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean Energy Wire / dpa Germany's net exports of electricity in the first half of this year were significantly lower than in the same period in 2022. The ...
08 Apr 2022, 14:13 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & ...
17 May 2022, 12:51 Edgar Meza Efficiency Clean Energy Wire The economy and climate ministry has presented plans to make Germany save more energy and increase efficiency, particularly in view of the impact of the war in Ukraine on Russian fossil fuel ...
The Green Party has failed to learn from past experience that insisting on controversial demands can cost the party dearly in terms of voter approval, Ludwig Greven writes in a commentary for Zeit Online. While the world is “grappling with Donald Trump,” ...
Germany’s municipalities have criticised proposals by the transport ministry (BMVI) to allow cities to introduce selective driving bans for certain route sections in inner cities that grapple with high air pollution levels, Welt Online reports. “If some ...
17 May 2022, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire / SZ / Tagesspiegel Background German energy industry association BDEW has called for a “hydrogen ramp-up law” to ensure that the country quickly takes the steps necessary to build up a market ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:33 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics dpa / Zeit Online Climate change and the energy transition should ...
Less than half of German citizens would approve of driving bans for extremely polluting diesel cars, Focus Online reports. In a representative survey conducted by pollster YouGov ahead of a crucial ruling by a Germany administrative court that could ...
A referendum in Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city, seeks to ban the use of coal power for heating and electricity generation by 2030, Sven-Michael Veit writes for the Tageszeitung (taz). “We in Hamburg have to take the coal exit in our own hands,” ...
02 May 2019, 11:32 Clean Energy Wire is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
03 May 2021, 12:59 The landmark ruling from Germany’s top court has catapulted climate to the top of the political debate as government coalition partners shifted into election campaign mode, blamed each other for shortcomings of the country’s Climate ...
06 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany has launched official talks on phasing out coal in power generation. The aim is to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have remained stubbornly high despite the country’s ongoing shift to renewable power. The government on ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Precious raw materials contained in wind turbines or e-cars should be recycled and reused to supply crucial resources for Germany’s energy transition, according to the ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:49 Julian Wettengel Renewables G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire Leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) influential economies have agreed on the aim to triple of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, but stopped short of calling for an ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:51 Julian Wettengel Wind EU Clean Energy Wire German energy industry players have welcomed a European Union package of proposals to strengthen the bloc’s wind power industry. The main goal of the measures in the package should be to ...
26 Apr 2024, 14:01 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Policy Government Clean Energy Wire Germany’s parliament has approved a controversial reform of the country’s key legislation for reaching climate targets, to the outrage of many NGOs who say the changes ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:11 Sören Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Resources & Recycling Rising metal prices could slow the shift towards a low-emission energy system, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) said in a report. "If we ...
04 Jul 2022, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU Der Tagesspiegel The EU has to come up with a clear and stringent solidarity mechanism to prepare for a shortfall of Russian gas deliveries next winter to avoid repeating mistakes made in cooperation at the ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Clean Energy Wire The energy ministers of Germany's federal states have criticised the government's climate package for being full of "gaps and shortcomings" and called for measures to ensure ...
11 May 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire German buildings minister Klara Geywitz has warned against increasing energy standards for new buildings, saying the sector was already making a major contribution to ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:37 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire From January to September 2023, wind turbines fed almost 89.9 million megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity into ...
06 Dec 2019, 14:56 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Clean Energy Wire The new leaders of Germany's Social ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza International Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany expects cooperation with Indonesia to expand and intensify in the coming years, particularly in the areas of renewable energy and raw materials, the ...
28 Mar 2024, 13:51 Edgar Meza Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire German gas consumers will be hit by higher gas prices in April after a temporary value added tax (VAT) reduction expires at the end of March, Tagesspiegel ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The construction of hydrogen storage facilities beyond the existing caverns is crucial for the energy system of the future, especially as a basis for solar photovoltaics (PV) ...
23 May 2024, 14:41 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jack McGovan Cars Hydrogen Handelsblatt The head of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), Hildegard Müller, has called on the government to expand ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Renewables Hydrogen ...
27 Apr 2016
27 Apr 2016, 00:00 (CORRECTION- In first paragraph on e-car premium: Government and industry will invest 600 million euros each, not 600,000 million euros; government will invest an additional 400 million euros in charging stations, not 400,000 million ...
German transmission grid operators published their provisional route proposals for SuedLink and SuedOstLink, the direct current high-voltage power lines to connect Germany’s windy north with the power-hungry south. The routes were “not set in stone,” said ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Several large energy companies say that a potential bottleneck for components needed for gas turbines in power stations could threaten Germany's plans for expanding gas-fired power generation in ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Clean Energy Wire Additional political efforts are needed to close the public "financing gap" for measures needed to meet Germany's 2030 climate targets, according to a Green Budget Germany (FÖS) ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:16 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said that using overhead powerlines for Germany's necessary grid expansion up to 2045 could save as much as 35 billion euros ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling Volksstimme / SWR The government of Saxony-Anhalt plans to explore the extraction of “battery-grade” lithium in the eastern German state, the newspaper Volksstimme reported. Deposits ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire Many data centre operators, local authorities and energy suppliers are putting projects to use waste heat from data centres on hold as they struggle to find suitable customers, a survey by the ...
08 Jan 2024, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire / electrive / Auto Motor und Sport Germany's transition to battery-electric cars slowed in 2023, data on new registrations by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) show. ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU Reuters / Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The postponement of Franco-German government consultations has been labelled as a “ diplomatic earthquake ” in ...
The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) wants to “end the sustained subsidies system of the [Renewable Energy Act] EEG” with its priority grid access and feed-in tariffs for renewables, writes the party in its draft programme for the autumn federal ...
11 Jun 2015
11 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv DPA / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau “Coal levy threatened” The levy on emissions from old coal-fired power stations is on the brink of failure, insiders have told German press agency DPA. ...
27 May 2016, 00:00 Update 27 May 2016 [European Commission approves state aid for closure of lignite power plants] | The government has approved wide reaching power market reform, including a phase-out plan for some lignite plants. A "coal reserve ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:10 Boasting about “climate neutral” products or vague plans to become “net zero” is turning into a legal risk for companies, as activists drag firms into courts over deceiving consumers with questionable climate pledges. A raft of landmark ...
30 Oct 2019, 13:45 Sören Amelang Solar Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Solar energy has made a "spectacular comeback" in Germany- in sharp contrast to struggling wind power, reports Anna Steiner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The ...
17 Mar 2021, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics n-tv A group of 29 MPs of Germany's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) has proposed a radical makeover of Germany's system of taxes, levies and surcharges on ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:07 Sören Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany’s plans for the rollout of e-car charging infrastructure are greatly exaggerated, the country’s energy industry has warned. The government currently aims for one million public charging ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society WirtschaftsWoche The renewed push for renewable energy expansion in Germany leaves no more room for the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mentality that has long stalled the buildout of wind turbines, solar ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:56 Sören Amelang Electricity Renewables Clean Energy Wire Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, according to calculations by utility association BDEW and the Centre for Solar Energy and ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:57 Sören Amelang Technology Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire Extending the average lifespan of smartphones to between five and seven years could reduce Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions from such devices by around half, ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International Clean Energy Wire The EU and the U.S. should have strong incentives to develop a joint green agenda – given their shared aim to foster decarbonisation while “de-risking” from China ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:10 German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron held an informal meeting aimed to nurse the crucial Franco-German axis for Europe’s industrial transformation on the way to climate neutrality. In Hamburg, northern ...
31 Jan 2025, 11:49 Joey Grostern Storage Clean Energy Wire Almost 600,000 new stationary battery storage systems were installed across Germany in 2024, increasing the country’s storage capacity by 50 percent year-on-year, according to preliminary data ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:45 Jack McGovan Electricity Heating Clean Energy Wire Corrects third paragraph to specify share of heat pump sales compared to all heating sytems sold, a previous version of the article incorrectly stated this was the share of heat pumps ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:30 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU n-tv A seemingly perfect storm resulting not only from the war in Ukraine but also from the extreme drought in the entire Alpine region and low water levels in rivers France is shaking European ...
27 May 2022, 13:31 The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems “predominantly” carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:39 Aniket Narawad Policy Society Clean Energy Wire Climate activists in Germany have accused the government of watering down a key law to ensure emissions reductions during the global climate strike organised by the Fridays for Future ...
10 May 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany’s energy system will need ‘green’ gas to become climate neutral, but government must set the right framework conditions to ensure the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy, said several gas ...
31 May 2022, 14:14 Edgar Meza Industry Heating Handelsblatt As Germany reorients its energy policy in the wake of the Ukraine war and seeks to increase gas imports from other sources than Russia, it should also promote greater energy efficiency and make ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire The German offshore wind power industry has proposed a range of measures for the country’s next government that could set off “a Germany-wide economic miracle at sea” by boosting the output of ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire German drugstore chain DM is no longer allowed to advertise several of its own brand products as ‘climate neutral’ or ‘environmentally neutral’, a court ruled on 26 July. In a ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Wind Clean Energy Wire / dpa Electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion announced plans to build power lines to bring electricity from wind turbines in the North Sea to consumers in power-hungry ...
24 Mar 2022, 14:07 Vladimir Putin’s announcement to only accept payment in roubles for gas deliveries to Europe has rattled Germany’s energy industry and sent natural gas prices soaring. Economy minister Robert Habeck called Russia’s move a “breach of ...
23 Aug 2023, 09:00 The German coalition government’s Climate Action Programme 2023 is insufficient to meet 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets- and overestimates its total potential to lower emissions, said the country’s Council of Experts on ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Energate Messenger Germany's green energy fund has slipped into the red for the first time since 2013, data compiled by the country's transmission grid ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Gas Government EU Clean Energy Wire / Reuters / ZDF Climate and energy policy has emerged as a key issue for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and members of his cabinet on their first official trips abroad. Scholz ...
01 Mar 2024, 14:06 At the height of its popularity just a few years ago, the climate protest movement Fridays for Future brought over a million people to the streets in Germany and across the world. Yet the movement now fights against losing relevance in ...
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 The debate over grid extensions to balance over-supply of wind power in Germany’s north with high demand in the south continues as the consulting process in Bavaria fails to yield a concrete decision on their necessity. Grid The ...
Members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group in the Bundestag have strongly criticised the current draft of federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks’ Climate Action Plan 2050, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann write in ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:11 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Clean Energy Wire The demand for energy-efficient building renovation programmes offered by Germany's government ...
28 Jun 2024
28 Jun 2024, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Associated Press: Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU’s top jobs European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the EU’s powerful executive branch. News agency AP ...
22 Jul 2015
22 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv energytransition.de “‘5 megatrends’ for a global energy transition” There are five global ‘megatrends’ pointing to a world-wide energy transition, according to an overview by renewable power ...
05 Mar 2020, 14:39 Rachel Waldholz Cars Clean Energy Wire Over one third of German car owners (36 percent) say they could imagine buying an electric car in the next five years, but more than half say it’s not an option, in large part because of the cost. ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:12 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire New homes constructed in Germany will be eligible for tax credits without the need for tighter efficiency standards. “This is our offer to the construction and real estate industry ...
04 Oct 2024, 12:19 Joey Grostern Solar dpa The number of plug-in solar systems dubbed “balcony power plants” in Germany has surpassed 700,000 as of 2 October, having doubled since the start of 2024, according to reporting from news agency dpa, citing data ...
24 Jan 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire German households had to pay significantly less for heating in 2024 than in the previous year, as the prices for gas and heating oil fell during this period and the weather ...
10 May 2021, 14:32 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Utilities Die Welt Germany's largest electricity producer RWE has set its sights on becoming the leading provider of renewable energy in numerous industrialised countries. In an ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International Clean Energy Wire Effective climate action in Germany and Europe will require sustained economic growth to demonstrate that a more sustainable way of living is possible without giving ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Heating Clean Energy Wire The city of Berlin could cover up to ten percent of its future heating demand with waste heat, according to a report by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Institute for ...
15 Oct 2024, 14:30 Fifteen companies in Germany have been awarded support guarantees in the first round of the so-called ‘climate contracts’ scheme that is meant to put the country’s industry sector on track towards climate neutrality. Economy minister ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Security Germany might ...
A large majority of the German public supports the transition to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy. Our visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko (@MwelxTax) says some might miss the boat. ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:43 Sören Amelang Efficiency Policy dpa The German government has announced a comprehensive programme for energy savings as part of its push to reduce Germany's dependence on fossil fuel imports. "As the federal government, we ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:12 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:55 Jack McGovan Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany has started a multi-year campaign to measure wind speeds around 280 kilometres off the German Noth Sea coast to prepare the expansion of wind farms in the area. The government is ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Agriculture Der Spiegel / ARD Severe floods like those affecting large parts of southern Germany in June are no longer a “once-in-a-century” event, but rather “a new reality” that the country must come to ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Die Zeit The parliamentary group of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) has presented its own concept for reducing power prices for energy-intensive industry – an idea so far ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:19 The new year is going to pose the great challenge for Germany’s government to ensure that companies hit by the ongoing energy price crisis do not choose to relocate their business, according to Frederik Moch, head of energy policy at ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Finance International Security ARD / RND / POLITICO The European Union on Thursday announced wide-ranging economic sanctions against Russia in response to president Vladimir Putin’s military attack on Ukraine- but didn’t ...
14 Apr 2020, 14:26 Freja Eriksen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Der Spiegel Industry actors in Germany have proposed changes to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) that would help them avoid possible lawsuits over failures to pay the renewables surcharge, ...
22 Feb 2022, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Utilities Clean Energy Wire The current price hikes on electricity and gas markets creates a real danger of market manipulation, the German Monopolies Commission – a permanent expert committee advising ...
Germany’s radioactive waste will probably stay in castor casks above ground near (former) nuclear power stations for a century, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. A final underground repository is unlikely to be filled before the year 2117, Wetzel says. ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:27 With competing ideas for Germany’s industrial recovery, chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition is showing clear signs of disunity. Ahead of the crucial round of talks for agreeing next year’s budget, coalition party ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices dpa / Handelsblatt The scooping up of windfall profits of energy companies in Germany should end by mid-2023, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said. The measure that ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire Germany has completed its final auction to provide compensation for the early retirement of coal plants, with fewer operators participating in the tenders than initially hoped for, the Federal ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:05 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire The German government is supporting the establishment of Africa’s first green ironworks with a grant of 13 million euros. A consortium consisting of three German companies, CO2Grab, TS ...
21 Dec 2023, 10:12 Preparing a fast expansion of renewable power will be a key challenge for governments across Europe in 2024, says Sarah Jilibert-Schabram of the Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition (DFBEW). France and Germany both have stated ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:45 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire High energy prices are hitting companies unevenly across Germany’s 16 ...
21 Dec 2018, 09:32 Ambitious climate action and a resolute energy transition are already possible in Germany but the country's government has yet to prove how serious it is about putting words into action, says Andreas Kuhlmann, the head of the ...
19 Jul 2019, 14:04 Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the introduction of price on CO2 emissions as part of a package to reach the country’s 2030 climate targets. In her annual mid-year press conference, Merkel said experts had made a convincing case for ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:09 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany’s economy minister and vice chancellor Robert Habeck has questioned the country’s commitment to a largely balanced budget, given the massive financial requirements for ...
30 Mar 2022, 13:49 Germany has triggered the first stage of its national gas supply emergency plan over fears that Russia might soon cut supplies if it doesn't receive payments from foreign buyers in roubles. The government called on all consumers to ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:38 Edgar Meza Business Clean Energy Wire The majority of Germany’s large companies expect that the transformation to a climate neutral economy will have no negative or even positive effects on their international competitiveness, and ...
15 Oct 2024, 12:50 Jack McGovan Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Sales of cars from German manufacturers VW, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Mercedes in the EU, USA and China are 2.1 percent lower in 2024 so far than the same time period last year, despite ...
19 May 2022, 12:00 Germany has reacted largely positively to EU plans for ending dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the European Commission’s RePowerEU Plan an “important initiative” that could give fresh impetus to ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire 2023 marked Germany's hottest year since records began in 1881, according to preliminary analyses by meteorological service DWD. The year's average temperature reached 10.6 ...
13 Jun 2024, 12:57 Sören Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire The EU’s preliminary tariffs on electric cars made in China are “the wrong instrument” and will slow the transition to clean mobility, Germany’s car industry and the country’s utilities have warned. ...
29 Oct 2018, 16:39 The elections in the German state of Hesse have set in motion a major shift in the country's political landscape. Germany's national government coalition parties took the second pounding at regional elections in a row, ...
10 May 2022, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Clean Energy Wire The business confidence index for Germany’s solar power industry has reached a new all-time high, as solar PV installations become more and more popular among house owners and the government’s ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:22 Joey Grostern Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany looks set to exceed its 2030 onshore wind power target by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis by the Google-backed think tank Goal100. Considering the number of applications and permits for ...
Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city’s single largest source of CO 2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire Digitalisation can induce almost one quarter (24 percent) of the emission reduction that Germany needs to reach its 2030 greenhouse gas target, according to the country’s digital industry ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire About one in four companies classified as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany has compiled its own sustainability report in recent years, technical ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:38 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Policy Clean Energy Wire The German government has started its largest green hydrogen import auction yet. For the first time, one portion of the tender worth 2.5 billion euros in total will be funded jointly by ...
15 Nov 2023, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The German government is supporting the construction of a 9,700-kilometre-long pipeline network to transport hydrogen across the country and to its neighbours, the economy ministry said in ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:15 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Efficiency Clean Energy Wire / Münchner Merkur The number of applications for state support to pay for counselling on how to improve energy efficiency in residential buildings reached a new high of 80,000 ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Salt caverns could be an effective location for storing hydrogen in Germany due to their geological, physical and chemical properties, according to a report published by the Institute of Energy ...
28 May 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza Mobility Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Wirtschaftswoche Nearly one in four Germans support a ban of short-haul flights, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by news agency dpa, Handelsblatt reports. One in ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:57 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:48 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Industry association vbw has ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:16 Jack McGovan Adaptation Cities Clean Energy Wire Areas destroyed by floods in western Germany in 2021 should not only be restored, but be rebuilt in a way that makes them more sustainable and resilient against future flood events, said ...
28 Apr 2022, 14:00 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Heating Clean Energy Wire Germany's ambitious plans for making the economy more climate-friendly are in jeopardy because of skill shortages, a union and craft group alliance has warned. "The ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Industry EU Clean Energy Wire / The Guardian / Reuters An EU discussion to restrict the use of health and climate-damaging chemicals could bring the bloc’s energy and mobility transitions to a standstill, German ...
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22 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv BDEW “Taxes and fees reach a new record high” The power price remained steady at the beginning of 2016 compared to a year ago, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
11 Feb 2025, 14:06 Bennet Ribbeck Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The price of gas for new customers in Germany has risen sharply over the past year, said price comparison website Verivox. The average price across Germany increased by 43 percent, ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Security Clean Energy Wire Pressure is mounting to better protect the coasts of Germany and other North Sea countries against threats such as storm tides. Rising sea levels and increased rainfall and floods ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Government Handelsblatt The new German government’s promise to grant companies so-called “super write-offs” for investments in climate-friendly projects could be obstructed by a lack of clear definitions and ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Finance Tagesspiegel The operator of Germany's stock exchange, Deutsche Börse Group, is profiting from increasing climate action activities through its energy trading branch EEX, the newspaper ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:55 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire German companies increasingly ...
