21 Dec 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Clean Energy Wire Germany has become the first member state to join an EU scheme to support domestic renewable hydrogen production through the European Hydrogen Bank. Under the "Auctions-as-a-Service鈥� ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling International dpa / Die Welt Germany looks set to vote against lifting the current ban on mining the seabed in international waters at a conference on the future of deep sea mining, news ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:29 Jack McGovan Gas Security Clean Energy Wire Germany is expected to completely fill its gas storage by the 2024/2025 winter, according to storage system association INES. Gas levels remain sufficient and the association doesn鈥檛 expect to ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Policy Clean Energy Wire Carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) alone will not be sufficient to enable a rapid decarbonisation of Germany's energy-intensive industry, the academic advisory board of the ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung One day after being thrashed by voters in two state elections, the three parties of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government coalition went into damage ...
26 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut f眉r Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating Clean Energy Wire / Badische Neueste Nachrichten The south ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out BR Southern German state Bavaria will retire its last major coal plant this week because the plant in Zolling near Munich was used less and less, also after the country completed its nuclear ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:48 Jack McGovan Adaptation Tagesspiegel Reinsurance company Munich Re's top climate scientist has said that many settlements destroyed by floods shouldn鈥檛 be rebuilt. With reference to Germany's Ahr valley, which suffered 40 ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:36 Bennet Ribbeck Renewables Wind Focus Online Many autobahn exits in northern Germany are too small to handle the transportation of modern wind turbine rotor blades and should be enlarged, according to several German states,聽Focus Online ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Chemicals company BASF will cut up to 2,600 jobs worldwide due to cost pressure from the energy crisis, with the majority of positions axed in Germany. The company said it will cut ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Mobility Transport Clean Energy Wire / ARD The number of passengers using inner city public transport increased by 10 percent in Germany in the first six months of 2023 compared to the same period of the previous year, ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Efficiency n-tv / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 construction minister has opposed stricter energy efficiency requirements for new housing in order to boost the struggling sector. As Germany reaches ...
07 Dec 2018, 09:13 With her decision not to seek re-election as party chair and chancellor, Angela Merkel has kicked off what is a novelty for her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU): an organised internal election campaign for the party鈥檚 ...
22 Dec 2022, 09:12 Hungary鈥檚 climate movement is struggling to build on the earlier success of the country's Fridays for Future student protests to make their voices heard. Nonetheless, many activists believe that spectacular acts of civil ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU Clean Energy Wire Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are well positioned to play a key role in a future global hydrogen economy- but must strengthen cooperation on infrastructure projects, said ...
20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Sigmar Gabriel has made strong statements against capacity markets, with the utilities once again insisting they are needed to ensure investment in the power sector. The state secretary for energy said that with current overcapacity, ...
26 Feb 2016
26 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淭he 54 billion-euro bill鈥� On balance, it doesn鈥檛 matter how much the decommissioning of atomic power plants and the storage of nuclear waste will cost 鈥� it鈥檚 already clear that ...
31 May 2022, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung All countries in Europe and beyond need to take 鈥渆xtraordinary measures鈥� to reduce their fossil energy demand in response to the supply crisis exacerbated by ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire Germany and Algeria are discussing closer bilateral cooperation in the rollout of renewables and green hydrogen during a visit by economy minister Robert Habeck to the north African ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:30 In a bid to improve Germany's poor emission reduction record and to identify economic perspectives for people employed in the waning coal industry, the grand coalition government in 2018 set up a commission tasked with managing the ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:28 After shying away from the debate for a long time, Germany's political leaders are finally considering putting a price on CO2 to help reach the country's climate targets. Chancellor Angela Merkel and her " climate cabinet ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Twenty-seven youth organisations from the fields of climate, social affairs, trade unions, development, religion, civil protection, environment and sport have ...
25 Jan 2019, 11:58 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission has begun what could be its decisive meeting on Friday. In crucial last-minute talks, the commission must agree on a timetable to phase out the climate-damaging fossil fuel for electricity production ...
27 Apr 2022, 11:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Die Welt German finance minister Christian Lindner, head of the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), has warned against accelerating the energy transition 鈥� a move driven by his Green Party ...
18 Jan 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Government Handelsblatt The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group opposition is calling on the German government to accelerate planning and approval procedures and greater investment in the expansion of ...
26 Jul 2017, 00:00 The SPD, Germany's oldest party, has been a junior partner to Angela Merkel's conservative union in the grand coalition since 2013. The Social Democrats have traditionally been the country's "labour party" and ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:35 Edgar Meza Electricity Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Net electricity consumption in Germany may not rise as much in the coming years as assumed in current regulatory planning, according to a report by consultancy McKinsey. ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Better financing, hedging tools and support for innovation are needed to strengthen the production of energy transition technologies in Germany and Europe, economy ...
22 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs Clean ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:43 The new chapter of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on mitigating climate change effects. Commentators from Germany regard the report as 鈥渁 clear call to society and policymakers for ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling EU Handelsblatt European states have to seriously explore possibilities to source key raw materials for more climate-friendly technologies domestically instead of relying on imports from ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind Clean Energy Wire Germany is likely to reach its target of having a total offshore wind electricity capacity of 30 gigawatt (GW) in 2031, one year later than planned, said several industry groups in a joint press ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society Clean Energy Wire A need for energy supply security has increased acceptance in the German population towards the expansion of renewables, a survey by the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) found. ...
15 May 2024, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Transport FAZ The European Union is set to fail its target to have 1.2 percent of all aviation fuels available at EU airports comprised of synthetic fuels like e-kerosene by 2030, because global production lags behind, ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
05 Feb 2025, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt The German government and industry players are considering using parts of the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea for hydrogen deliveries ...
26 May 2021, 10:29 The EU's bid for climate neutrality puts a big question mark over the future of generating electricity by incinerating waste. The fiercely disputed process emits CO2 and toxins, although its proponents point out that it prevents ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron to ramp up the country鈥檚 hydrogen production capacity and invest in the development of small modular nuclear ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:41 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society S枚ren Amelang Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire German government buildings are much too inefficient to contribute to the country's climate ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire High energy prices are beginning to bite into companies鈥� investment plans and curtail production in Germany, raising the spectre of de-industrialisation in the country ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling n-tv / Clean Energy Wire Lithium from southeastern European country Serbia could bolster Germany's ambitions for establishing a domestic battery production industry. German ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dpa / Der Spiegel / DVZ 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 railway operator Deutsche Bahn has laid claims to almost one third of the entire 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund planned by the ...
13 Nov 2023, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German economy ministry warns of a significantly higher future demand for hydrogen storage capacity than previously assumed, reported Tagesspiegel Background. In its 鈥楪reen ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Security Welt am Sonntag / Clean Energy Wire A new law planned for the better integration of solar energy sources into 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity system bears the risk that foreign powers gain control over relevant ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Gas International Clean Energy Wire / Zeit Online / t-online The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has called on economy minister Robert Habeck to follow the example of the U.S. government and declare a moratorium ...
10 Dec 2015, 12:00 The question is no longer whether 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future will be nuclear-free 鈥� or even when, since the government is committed to completing the phase-out by 2022. But the logistics of pulling the plug on what was until recently one of the ...
24 May 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Policy AFP / Tagesspiegel Installing plug-in solar run 鈥榖alcony power plants鈥� in German households should be simplified through a reduction of regulatory hurdles, the country's economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
29 Apr 2021, 12:30 With its Climate Action Law and the Climate Action Programme 2030, Germany's government coalition has presented a far-reaching climate strategy that is aimed at putting the country on track towards reaching its climate targets. The ...
18 Mar 2022, 14:48 The new German three-party coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz had started its term at the end of last year with optimism to launch a vigorous climate action programme after two difficult years in a pandemic. But the 鈥渢raffic light ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Clean Energy Wire The German education and research ministry (BMBF), through a new support programme for nuclear fusion research, aims to lay the groundwork for building the country鈥檚 first ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:38 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire Germany's utility companies have warned that the country's slow digitalisation is imperilling its landmark energy transition. "Without digital ...
25 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Government Clean Energy Wire Internal spats and external crises have caused the German ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire Germany plans to intensify its international cooperation on the energy transition with Norway and Portugal, with government ministers visiting both countries this ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire Cloud and edge computing hold great promise to increase the efficiency of a future decentralised energy system, yet the widespread use and acceptance of these solutions still face ...
18 Nov 2015
18 Nov 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Balance Sheet of Energiewende Germany has published an assessment of its national climate protection efforts. The government says Germany is making 鈥済ood ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:19 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:14 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Freja Eriksen Renewables ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire Germany and Australia plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of energy, climate protection and emissions reduction, German economy minister Robert Habeck together with ...
06 Mar 2020, 13:57 Freja Eriksen Heating Die Welt The housing group Vonovia, which acts as Germany's largest landlord, has called on the state to support energy efficient renovations in rented homes, writes Die Welt. Although the group's rental ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:00 The UN climate summit COP25 in Spain is the last meeting of its kind before countries around the world are supposed to step up their ambitions under the Paris Climate Agreement in 2020. Germany has made several key climate action ...
12 Mar 2020, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy-intensive companies from Germany are calling for an EU-wide electricity price for industry as a simple instrument to safeguard the sector's global competitiveness during ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BVG- German Geothermal Association Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany needs a masterplan for deep geothermal energy in order to reap the technology' ...
07 May 2020, 13:56 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar pv magazine Germany's market for solar energy and home storage systems will collapse if the government doesn't deliver on its promise to remove the existing cap for support payments, ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:27 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Vattenfall Germany ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire The Emsland nucelar power plant in northern Germany can only make a minimal contribution to gas savings and energy price reduction, a report by analysis company Energy Brainpool ...
21 Mar 2024, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Jess Smee Agriculture Society Spiegel Online / Clean Energy Wire Increasingly 鈥渞ancid鈥� or 鈥渕uddy鈥� tasting olive oil appears to be the first prominent example of climate change blighting what people eat in Germany, the ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Clean Energy Wire The 鈥榠ntensive use鈥� of German coal power plants lead to additional emissions of 15.8 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022, according to a report by consultancy Energy Brainpool commissioned by Green ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire Plans to sell the western German coal plant operator STEAG could present a significant hurdle to government plans to pull the country鈥檚 coal exit forward to 2030, unless the company puts in place ...
02 Dec 2014
02 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淭he end of dinosaurs鈥� In the end, the large dinosaurs who had ruled the world disappeared 鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 big energy companies face a similar fate, writes Markus Balser in the ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union has given Germany and six other EU countries the green light to provide a total of 6.9 billion euros in state support to companies for 33 projects along the hydrogen ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire The far-right Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) party鈥檚 current high results in German polls can be attributed to mainstream political parties ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:30 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Former energy industry lobbyist Hildegard M眉ller will become the next head of the influential lobby group German ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel Online CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the authors's name was misspelled as "Heckling". The correct name is " ...
30 May 2023, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Solar Clean Energy Wire / Bloomberg The number of solar panel systems in Germany hit three million on Monday (29 May), with聽total solar PV installed capacity reaching聽more than 70 gigawatts (GW), according to聽 industry ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Digitalisation Der Spiegel Almost 500 of the 879 companies that operate metering points in Germany are still to install their first smart meter, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. The Federal Network ...
12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
21 Sep 2015
21 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung 鈥淲orried about the climate鈥� The very hot and dry summer of 2015 was a sign of climate change, 46 percent of Germans believe. In contrast, 40 percent told ...
10 Oct 2023, 12:24 Jennifer Collins Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Schaeffler, a major Bavaria-based automotive supplier, has said it wants to acquire Vitesco, a specialist in vehicle electrification technologies, with ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Business Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Ten percent of German companies are currently at increased risk of insolvency due to the effects of the energy crisis and supply chain problems, according to an analysis by ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire / Reuters The G7, along with Norway and Denmark, have announced a 20 billion U.S. dollar partnership to support Indonesia in moving away from fossil fuels and speeding up its energy ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs n-tv / Handelsblatt / Elektrek / The Guardian Plans announced by electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla to cut ten percent of its global workforce have led to worries over the potential impact on ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / Euractiv The EU鈥檚 efforts to bolster its own production capacities for green technologies must be strengthened to make the bloc ready for increased global competition on ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over 鈥渃limate-neutral鈥� and 鈥淐O2-compensated鈥� heating oil claims, the environmental NGO announced. DHU had ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:55 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Recent tenders for onshore wind, biomass and biomethane plants in Germany attracted fewer bidders than expected, leaving all three rounds clearly undersubscribed, ...
31 Jan 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Clean Energy Wire The implementation into national law agreed by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government of an EU emergency regulation on the accelerated buildout of renewable energy sources will greatly boost the country鈥檚 ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:52 Filling gas storages in 2023 might not be as easy as this past year in the absence of Russian pipeline gas, and Europe should focus on energy saving and finding ways to increase especially LNG supply to address the global shortage next ...
17 Jun 2022, 08:50 The German government鈥檚 G7 agenda has been thrown off course by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, but chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is determined to keep climate policy as a top priority for the summit of the seven large economies in ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cities Frankfurter Rundschau The city of Frankfurt is struggling to reduce its energy use as the growth in internet data traffic boosts power demand in Germany's most important computing centre, ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:14 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government aims to amend legislation that would allow the state to take stakes in companies severely affected by rising costs of imported fossil gas, such as Europe鈥檚 largest importer of Russian gas, Uniper. The cabinet ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:51 Bennet Ribbeck Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire Germany and the EU need a short-term strategy for enabling the necessary ramp-up of carbon dioxide removals (CDR), said the think tank German Institute for International and Security ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Clean Energy Wire Regional officials in eastern German Cottbus have given the green light for the country's largest floating solar power plant to be built on the man-made Cottbus Ostsee lake, a former open ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:16 Two new projects for the climate-friendly production of steel and cement illustrate the ambition of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industry to meet sustainability targets without ceding market share to foreign competitors. Economy minister, Robert Habeck, ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Solar Tagesspiegel Background The parliamentary groups of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and Green Party consider supporting the rebuilding of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 domestic solar industry through measures such as clauses that ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 recycling industry has called for a paradigm shift in the construction of wind turbines to ensure materials can be reused at the end of their lifecycles, business ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 volatile 2023 summer weather was marked by heat peaks, extreme rainfall and above-average sunshine 鈥� with the temperature once again being significantly above the long-term ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:31 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parties are hastening to put together proposals on how the country can reach its national and international climate targets as pressure from recent election results, ongoing climate protests and an early heat wave continues to ...
10 Jun 2020, 16:10 Germany places a large bet on hydrogen produced using renewable energy in its highly anticipated national hydrogen strategy that serves to underpin the country's ambitions to become a global leader in the technology. The strategy ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media The production of green hydrogen in Germany will not be financially viable also in the long term, according to a聽 report 聽commissioned by the European Commission. A hydrogen economy ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Energy ...
28 Mar 2023, 11:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU Clean Energy Wire The governments of Germany and the Netherlands have agreed on closer cooperation to connect their respective hydrogen pipeline networks in the future, they said in a joint statement. 鈥淲e ...
02 Jun 2021, 13:21 Voters in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt will head to the ballot box on 6 June to elect a new state government. Home to one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three main coal mining regions, the state is dealing with the transition away from lignite ...
17 Nov 2020, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire / Reuters The ...
03 Mar 2025, 13:43 Edgar Meza Wind Handelsblatt The planned installation of 16 Chinese wind turbines off the German coast should be prevented on the grounds of public safety, business daily Handelsblatt reported based on an advisory paper from the German ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government ARD / ntv / Funke Mediengruppe Only days before nuclear power production is set to end in Germany on 15 April, the government coalition party Free Democrats (FDP) has suggested to mothball ...
05 Oct 2023, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Federal Court of Auditors (Bundesrechnungshof) has criticised the German government鈥檚 for not using funds designated for climate action to their ...
22 May 2020, 14:11 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire / Die Welt Energy-intensive industry groups short ...
25 Nov 2022, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann EU Clean Energy Wire Germany should ensure there is solidarity in Europe to get through the energy crisis and be prepared for the winter 2023/24, International Energy Agency (IEA) head Fatih Birol said. 鈥淓urope needs ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background New military exclusion zones could lead to the loss of up to a third of federal land for wind power generation in Germany, Tagesspiegel Background reported. The German Wind Energy Association (BWE ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society WDR A slim majority of 51 percent of citizens in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), say the 2038 deadline to give up all coal-fired power production in the country is 鈥渢oo late鈥�, ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society dpa / Clean Energy Wire Several thousand people took to the streets across Germany on 22 October to demand solidarity and redistribution in the energy crisis, news agency dpa reported. With the ...
05 May 2021, 12:35 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Many European Union member states are rejecting calls to expand emissions trading to聽the heating and transport聽sectors in the bloc in order to more ...
02 Jul 2018, 16:12 鈥� A Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the Energiewende 鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 landmark effort to mitigate climate change. Click on the link to ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is set to substantially increase the number of permits to build planned electricity transmission lines needed for the shift to a climate-neutral ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:43 Milou Dirkx Wind Cost & Prices FAZ New offshore wind farms could give an economic boost to German shipyards, but shipbuilding companies say they might not be able to finance the necessary investments without support, Frankfurter ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Business Policy Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Solar panel manufacturer Solarwatt is set to halt production of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in its factory in Dresden, business daily Handelsblatt reported. ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating EU Clean Energy Wire A binding retrofitting quota and clear minimum standards for energy efficiency in buildings are needed in the EU to get the bloc on track towards reaching its emissions reduction targets in ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:38 Germany will earmark billions of euros less for climate and transformation projects every year until 2027 in order to make the government budget comply with constitutionally enshrined limits on borrowing. One month after a seminal ...
04 Oct 2023, 10:11 Against the backdrop of a faltering economy and heated national debates about climate policies, two of Germany's key economic regions, Bavaria and Hesse, head to the polls in the first week of October. A change of government is not ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Tagesspiegel Background The German Federal Agency for ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa Electromobility is slowly gaining ground on Germany's lakes and rivers as the proportion of electric boats used for recreation is now estimated at 2.5 percent of the total, compared to less than one ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Start-ups Clean Energy Wire Just over a third of all start-ups in Germany are part of the green economy, according to a monitoring report by the Borderstep Institute and the German Start-up Association.聽 鈥淎t 35 percent, ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Market forces will drive Sweden's fossil fuel phaseout and ultimately determine the fate of nuclear energy, said the country's energy minister Anders Ygeman in an ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:48 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Two and a half months after the general elections, Germany officially has a new government. Olaf Scholz was elected chancellor by parliament with 395 out of 707 votes, making ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Achieving 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and climate targets still requires a lot of political efforts to keep supply secure and affordable, the government-appointed expert commission ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Higher energy prices in Germany will not lead to an 鈥渋ndustrial exodus鈥� of companies seeking cheaper production locations abroad but rather strengthen efficiency and innovation ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire The sixth tender for early shutdowns of hard coal plants in Germany was undersubscribed and only one plant was successful, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. As part of its plan to end ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal EU Table.Media CO2 allowances from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) no longer used by coal power plants which were shut down as part of Germany's coal exit will be deleted to make sure they are not ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Clean Energy Wire The European Commission鈥檚 proposals for emergency measures to speed up the expansion of renewable energy would give Germany the opportunity to quickly implement a number of measures ...
21 Dec 2021, 14:21 Energy consumption in Germany has increased in 2021, as the economy recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the country weathered a cold winter. At the same time, a year of depressed wind power production let the ...
28 Feb 2023, 14:21 Edgar Meza Wind Cities S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Climate protection activist Greta Thunberg is leading the charge against Munich municipal utilities company Stadtwerke M眉nchen (SWM) and its wind farm in Norway to protect the ancestral lands ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Security Clean Energy Wire Only just under one-third of German companies have an emergency plan in place in the event of an energy shortage, but their responses vary widely depending on the business ...
08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv RWE/Bloomberg RWE posts second net loss in two years 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest power producer RWE posted its second net loss in three years, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The group鈥檚 net loss ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:26 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Technology Clean Energy Wire Germany should allow carbon storage on its territory, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said at an energy summit by business daily Handelsblatt in Berlin. Claiming ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:45 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire Wind power has become 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important electricity source again in the first quarter of 2023, ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:28 Jack McGovan Gas Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Two new power plants will be constructed in Saudi Arabia after a 1.5 billion dollar deal with the German energy corporation Siemens Energy. They will combine gas and steam turbines ...
06 Nov 2020
06 Nov 2020, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire The German government has resolved a dispute between the energy sector and security services over ownership of a 450 MHz digital radio frequency, in favour of the energy companies. Energy industry ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind energy sector requires faster approval procedures and better working conditions to attract the skilled workers needed reach expansion targets, a report commissioned by ...
01 Oct 2019, 13:46 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Freja Eriksen Wind Clean Energy Wire The targets for renewable power consumption and wind energy expansion on land set by the German government's new ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire Consumers must fully benefit from any potential early end to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy, the top-up to power prices ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Society Clean Energy Wire Meat consumption in Germany in 2023 fell to its lowest levels since records began in 1991, according to preliminary data from the Federal Information Centre for Agriculture (BZL). ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Clean Energy Wire Czechia and eastern German state Saxony have agreed to deepen their cooperation on a joint network for hydrogen and to generally intensify research and industry exchange in the budding ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:27 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Citing the growing difficulties of many municipal utilities to offer companies stable long-term energy supply contracts, the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW) ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire By mapping the areas in Germany where renewable power is likely to be distributed in the future, energy researchers hope to help transmission system operators (TSOs) plan a forward ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Wind Hydrogen Germany's energy ministry (BMWi) has proposed a set of rules to determine which concepts are eligible for areas for the construction of new renewable energy projects in the offshore sector in the North ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:36 Jessica Bateman Renewables Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The incoming German coalition government鈥檚 ambitious energy and climate goals can only be achieved with industrial transformation on a scale never before seen in Germany, ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:02 Milou Dirkx Mobility Transport Clean Energy Wire Municipalities will face no additional financial burden if they align necessary investments to maintain and expand rail networks and roads in Germany with the move to a sustainable ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Policy Clean Energy Wire The proposed energy efficiency laws in Germany might place a too heavy burden on data centres and could drive them out of the country, digital association Bitkom said in a press ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:18 High energy prices continue to keep 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new government busy, and the coalition parties are debating ways to ease the burden on struggling consumers. A possible short-term remedy could be an earlier end to the country鈥檚 renewable ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Business & Jobs Utilities Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt The insolvency proceedings at leading European biogas trader BMP Greengas could pose a significant risk of financial damage of 鈥渁t least 150 ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Society EU Clean Energy Wire Policies on migration and combating climate change are the most polarising topics for people surveyed in several European countries, a report by the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy ...
07 Dec 2021, 12:55 Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Following a "mixed technology approach" in the decarbonisation of Europe's transport sector could deliver significant CO2 emissions reduction while simultaneously ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire / ARD German transport minister Volker Wissing has announced new state support programmes to speed up the lagging development of sufficient charging infrastructure for electric cars and ...
24 Sep 2019, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:30 Following a tight election that saw the Social Democrats narrowly beat the conservatives, the smaller Greens and pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) look set to become decisive for building a new government that must set Germany on course ...
03 Feb 2021, 09:23 Germany won't reach its 2030 energy and climate targets at the current energy transition pace, a top government advisor has warned. A higher EU 2030 climate target means Germany will likely have to raise its national greenhouse gas ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:00 Products labelled as 鈥渃limate neutral鈥� deceive consumers and undermine progress in reducing emissions, argues Environmental Action Germany, an NGO specialising in fighting environmental cases in court. 鈥淭hey are totally ...
The German government and five so-called model cities in the country have agreed on a scheme to tackle air pollution caused by vehicle exhaust fumes, the German environment ministry (BMUB) says in a press release. The proposals made by the cities Bonn, ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal Clean Energy Wire Germany will likely need several lignite power units that had been brought back online from reserve during the energy crisis last year also for the coming winter, economy minister Robert Habeck ...
04 May 2023, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Transport Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire Environmental NGOs have criticised the government's decision to accelerate the planning and construction of motorway upgrades and demand that all projects ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Agriculture EU Clean Energy Wire / Dlf / taz German farmers have called on the EU to put more emphasis on food security in its "Green Deal" strategy to become climate neutral by 2050. The farmers& ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:33 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Extreme droughts and floods hit Italy, Greece and Spain more than most other countries across the globe in the past 30 years, causing many deaths and high economical losses, ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:23 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Clean Energy Wire An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies聽 have said. 鈥淭he academy project ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport dpa Around a third of subscribers to Germany's flat-rate public transport ticket (Deutschlandticket) said that they leave their car home more often since purchasing the subscription, according to a ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann International Clean Energy Wire Germany imported around 62 billion euros of Norwegian natural gas, oil and condensates in 2022 and has become the country鈥檚 number one goods importer, said the German-Norwegian chamber ...
09 Jan 2024, 14:03 Franca Quecke Gas Security Der Spiegel / Hamburger Abendblatt The alleged sabotage of an important gas pipeline currently under construction in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein might lead to damages of at least 1.6 million euros, ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The reconstruction of villages destroyed in the extreme floods in western Germany in July does not adequately provide protection from similar events ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Germany will likely far exceed the government target for installing new PV arrays this year, the country鈥檚 engineering association VDI said. Additional capacity installations are set to ...
23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc鈥檚 key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries鈥� energy policy has been exposed in ...
23 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv World Energy Council/Roland Berger 鈥淓nergiewende requires new financing models鈥� Traditional utilities can no longer shoulder the huge infrastructure investments necessary for the Energiewende, ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:38 The era of nuclear power in Germany will end on 15 April as planned, the country鈥檚 environment minister has said. Minister Steffi Lemke stressed that the phase-out would not endanger the power supply security in Germany or other ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Solar Storage Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 boom in stationary batteries linked to solar PV systems accelerated last year, doubling the total number of units to more than one million, reports solar industry association BSW. ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Renewables Tageszeitung / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydropower sector is up in arms over the federal government鈥檚 plan to stop the subsidisation of small hydroelectric power plants due to nature conservation concerns, ...
23 May 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen dpa / ARD / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas storage capacity is insufficient for the planned expansion of the use of hydrogen, according to gas storage network operator INES. Current gas storage facilities ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:30 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Clean ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany's Federal Administrative Court has ruled that cities can ban dirty diesel cars to improve local air quality. The Clean Energy Wire presents reactions to the landmark ruling from NGOs, politicians and industry associations. ...
09 Dec 2020, 11:43 The decision by EU leaders on raising the bloc's 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target has major implications for the Europe鈥檚 and 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and climate policy in 2021 and beyond, says Brick Medak, head of think tank E3G' ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is mulling a law amendment that could force offshore wind energy investors to pay a fee before building installations at sea, Klaus Stratmann ...
02 Feb 2024, 14:35 Franca Quecke Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire The German parliament has passed the 2024 federal budget after delays caused by a聽constitutional court ruling on the country's debt limit and subsequent ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire One year on from the National Hydrogen Strategy launch, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government and industries are divided over its implementation. While the government鈥檚 interim report ...
16 Feb 2018, 00:00 A group of energy transition researchers will present their findings on the transformation of the German energy system at the world鈥檚 largest general scientific conference organised by the American Association for the Advancement of ...
09 Sep 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's plans for a tax on energy companies' windfall profits generated by the current supply crisis could slow the rollout of renewables because ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Deutsche Verkehrszeitung Germany has only spent about ten percent of the 1.8 billion euros earmarked for the expansion of electric mobility charging infrastructure in its Climate and ...
25 Jul 2022, 14:02 Hannah Naylor Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Expensive energy is forcing almost one sixth of German industrial companies to throttle production, if not halt it altogether, reveals a survey by the Association of German ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Clean Energy Wire German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed a deal among EU institutions to raise the target share of renewable energy in the bloc鈥檚 overall energy consumption. 鈥淭oday's ...
26 Sep 2019, 13:56 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The German government's newly agreed climate action ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices,聽 reports 聽newswire dpa in an article ...
18 Sep 2015
18 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Osnabr眉cker Zeitung / Dow Jones Newswires E.ON CEO compares cheap renewable power to 鈥渦npaid slaves鈥� Current power market structures are not geared to taking up large amounts of renewable energy, E ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Germany must step up its climate adaptation efforts as it faces prolonged droughts, severe water loss and increasing warming, according to the latest update to the country's Adaptation ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans to have a diversified import structure for green hydrogen, shows a draft strategy seen by Tagesspiegel Background. It counts on pipelines to supplier ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:34 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Heating Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Reuters 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three-way government coalition is waging a public battle over pending climate policy decisions, only days before Sunday鈥檚 key government ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Clean Energy Wire A debate about the possibilities for treating nuclear waste in a way that greatly reduces the time that radioactive materials are considered a health hazard and thus ...
24 May 2019, 13:24 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Spiegel Online The goal of becoming a ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's coal plants provided the bulk of the country鈥檚 power consumption amid a period of cloudy short days and little wind in early January, foreshadowing the ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / Clean Energy Wire Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
20 May 2020, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Agriculture Tageszeitung (taz) Power suppliers in Germany have begun offering "bee power" contracts that charge customers one additional cent per kilowatt hour to help preserve the industrious ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Business Clean Energy Wire Climate protection played an important role for just under 60 percent of German start-ups founded last year, state-owned development bank KfW found. Ten percent of start-ups mainly offered ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:20 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Germany should respond with more and faster climate action to the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, said the German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry Clean Energy Wire Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid Clean Energy Wire German grid operator Amprion can start construction of a key power line seven months sooner than planned thanks to new regulations to speed up permitting procedures, said the economy ministry in a ...
15 Sep 2017, 00:00 The scope of the next government's ambition for the Energiewende depends on the constellation of its coalition, says Arne Jungjohann, energy policy analyst and Green Party member, although the shift to a renewables-based economy is ...
10 Oct 2017, 00:00 One week before the start of exploratory talks on forming a government coalition, aspiring German government alliance partners CDU and the Green Party agree that the country will have to phase out coal-fired power production. Yet, two ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Policy Clean Energy Wire A planned reform of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 immigration law is aimed at recruiting skilled workers from abroad to fill tens of thousands of vacant positions in energy transition-related ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire / Reuters / dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau This week a campaign addressing the 鈥渢rue鈥� environmental cost of food products by German supermarket chain Penny is set to receive ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Storage Handelsblatt The surging interest of potential operators of large-scale battery storage units that seek connections to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transmission grid could聽put聽network operators in a difficult situation, reported ...
25 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire / Die Welt Lower Saxony is going to invest one billion euros into a comprehensive climate action programme to make the northern German state the country's "No.1 ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German government will expand state support for businesses faced with rising energy prices ahead of the coming winter, economy and climate minister Robert ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables Clean Energy Wire About 54 percent of gross power production in Germany is set to come from renewables in 2024, figures published 聽by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) have shown. With an ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:06 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Higher聽energy prices have pushed inflation up in Germany. On average, retail prices were 1.7 percent higher in January compared to a year earlier, after an inflation rate of 1.5 percent ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:07 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire China is increasingly pushing Germany out of the top spot in exports to ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry Clean Energy Wire Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
08 Jan 2024, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Technology Dlf Alternatives to fossil fuel-based agricultural machinery are scarce and often fall behind their emissions-intensive counterparts in practical tests, says electric engineer Michael Sterner in ...
23 Dec 2020, 13:54 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt Hydrogen technology can become a key component of Siemens Energy鈥檚 business model, the company鈥檚 CEO, Christian Bruch, told Handelsblatt in an interview. ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:24 Germany is starting a novel subsidy programme worth billions of euros in a bid to make its prized heavy industry climate neutral. Following a preparatory phase beginning in early June, the country plans to introduce so-called Carbon ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Industry Clean Energy Wire Newly formed technology company Siemens Energy wants to phase-out any operations to do with coal-fired power production, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser said at an extraordinary ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world鈥檚 largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has exceeded its own emissions reductions goal, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by the ...
15 Sep 2017, 00:00 German voters head to the polls on 24 September to decide the make-up of the federal parliament. The next step, however 鈥� forming a government 鈥� could take weeks, if not months. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 party landscape has become more fragmented, ...
25 Oct 2022, 14:03 Kiprotich Koros Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire A successful transition to renewables will only be achieved if there is a comprehensive digitalisation of the whole energy sector, a report by research institute Fraunhofer IEE has ...
04 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire The governments of Germany's coastal northern states have insisted on federal funding for agreed climate projects, and ensuring that these do not become subject to ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Die Welt A legislative standstill in plans to build new gas-fired power plants poses a threat to the transformation of East German coal-mining regions, the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) has said ...
06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:54 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire Modernising the most energy-inefficient homes will not only help the climate, but also shield those most prone to energy poverty, according to a report by the Institute for Applied ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Zeit Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 buildings minister has promised social cushioning, sensible transition periods and technology openness on the path towards the decarbonisation of the heating sector. The law should allow ...
26 Sep 2023, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Efficiency Clean Energy Wire / ARD Construction industry representatives have welcomed the German government鈥檚 new housing聽 package 聽 that will suspend the planned tightening of energy efficiency ...
03 May 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Industry Digitalisation EU Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed chipmaker Infineon鈥檚 new semiconductor production plant as crucial for the country鈥檚 status as a green technology leader. The company ...
23 Feb 2017, 00:00 Against a backdrop of general elections later this year, a debate about a general overhaul of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 much-imitated system for renewables support is gathering pace. Many proponents of replacing the current Renewable Energy Act (EEG) ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Clean Energy Wire A new " steel strategy " for establishing low-carbon ...
09 May 2023, 12:10 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport International Clean Energy Wire German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has seen international long-distance traffic grow faster than ever ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Grid Renewables ...
01 Dec 2021, 14:02 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire Most of the money put into so-called sustainable funds in Germany is not invested in projects that differ significantly from ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:49 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Jack McGovan Resources & ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire Germany should ensure an orderly retirement of its gas distribution grid to avoid enormous costs for consumers and billions of euros of stranded assets for operators, as the pipeline network is set ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:45 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 dpa Temperatures in Lake Constance, located in the border triangle of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are rising, with harmful consequences for fish and plants living there, reports news agency dpa. ...
24 May 2024, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Finance PV Magazine Finance minister Christian Lindner has presented a draft law reform that aims to ease the access for investment funds into 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable power and energy system infrastructure, PV ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050聽while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today鈥檚 levels without disruptive ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Adapting Germany to the effects of climate change will create tens of thousands of extra jobs within 15 years, according to a report by the German environment agency (UBA). "In 2040, an ...
19 Mar 2024, 12:45 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Finance EU Clean Energy Wire / FT The EU must speed up the reform of capital market rules to help unleash private capital to ensure the resilience and technological competitiveness of the bloc, said ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:07 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ZDF German environment minister Steffi Lemke is demanding clarification from the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) following allegations of fraudulent emission reduction projects in China used by fossil fuel ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:08 For years, Germany's government heavily lobbied for the completion of an additional direct natural gas link to Russia, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, while publicly calling it a "private sector project", internal documents ...
18 Mar 2024, 12:57 S枚ren Amelang Policy Security Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media / The Guardian 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 defence ministry expects climate change to have a profound impact on security issues and has presented a plan to prepare its military for the new ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:12 Freja Eriksen Heating Tagesspiegel Background Following years of failed attempts, Germany will from January 2020 provide homeowners with tax incentives for energy efficient renovations, allowing them to deduct 20 percent of the costs ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:56 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German beverage industry has warned that the rapid rise in energy and raw material costs could push hundreds of companies with thousands of employees into ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Security Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background The European Commission has given the greenlight for a German government scheme supporting energy intensive industries grappling with the rise in prices exacerbated ...
14 Jul 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security Clean Energy Wire Europe will be faced with gas shortages until new import infrastructure, a reduction of gas consumption, as well as better coordinated cooperation between European countries are in place to ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Cities Clean Energy Wire The prospective future government coalition of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 smallest state, the City of Bremen, is betting on green hydrogen and its derivates to decarbonise local industries, such as ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:30 Leading climate experts have called on the next German government voted in after the February snap election to reintroduce the so-called 鈥榗limate cabinet鈥�. In its report on emissions developments and the direction of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:47 Freja Eriksen Nuclear phase-out Spiegel Online The committee for economics, jobs and taxes of chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has proposed that Germany participates more intensively in the European ...
20 Dec 2024, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower demand for electricity could substantially reduce 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 bill for expanding the power grid to accommodate its growing fleet of renewable power installations, business daily ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Sewage treatment plants could unlock their clean power potential by producing and using hydrogen while treating wastewater, business daily Handelsblatt reports. ...
28 May 2020, 17:30 A slowing economy and mild weather lowered Germany's energy demand significantly in the first quarter of 2020. Latest data also confirmed that renewable energy sources accounted for more than half of the electricity fed into ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:33 S枚ren Amelang Wind Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Nine European gas transmission grid operators have agreed to construct a pipeline network in the North Sea to transport hydrogen made in offshore wind farms, business daily ...
04 Oct 2024, 09:00 While Europeans expect a continuation of the Biden administration鈥檚 climate policies under a Harris presidency, they are worrying about how to save the global climate fight from a second Trump administration. EU officials and experts ...
17 May 2023, 12:59 S枚ren Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Finance Clean Energy Wire Venture capital investments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 start-ups specialising in climate protection technologies fell to the second highest level ever last year, according to ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:30 Edgar Meza Solar Wind n-tv Despite 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increased focus on renewable energy following its decoupling from Russian energy sources in the wake of the war on Ukraine, high inflation and other economic developments have thrown the wind ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:53 Edgar Meza Transport Cars S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Unhappy with the pace of climate action at the German transport ministry, the Green Party parliamentary group has drawn up a list of draft resolutions to tighten climate policy, the ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Welt am Sonntag The head of Germany's conservative ...
17 May 2023, 12:53 S枚ren Amelang Heating Policy Stuttgarter Nachrichten The leader of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) said it was the party's imperative to prevent sharp cost increases for tenants during the shift to climate-friendly heating systems ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:07 S枚ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Rheinische Post / Clean Energy Wire Chancellor Olaf Scholz and economy minister Robert Habeck want to deepen 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy ties with Canada during a three-day state visit, with a particular focus on future ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 finance ministry, led by Social Democrat (SPD) Olaf Scholz, has rejected environment minister Svenja Schulze鈥檚 (also SPD) plan to work on a national price on CO鈧� emissions in Germany, which would include sectors such as heating and transport. ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:55 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Average German household gas prices could begin to fall soon, as individual gas suppliers are already able to lower their prices, according to utility聽association (BDEW). ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency Clean Energy Wire The final energy use for heating rooms and water in Germany's 22 ...
15 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017, 00:00 鈥淎 Reporter鈥檚 Guide to Germany's Energy Transition鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 landmark effort to mitigate climate change. Click ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its 鈥渋nadequate鈥� management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:19 Expert Economic Council- CDU Wirtschaftsrat Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of Germany Business & Jobs Society Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities S枚ren Amelang Gas Nuclear ...
04 May 2023, 09:35 Germany will contribute 2 billion euros to replenish a key funding mechanism to support climate action in developing countries, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. Besides announcing the ...
20 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Clean Energy Wire For the first time, offshore wind energy in Germany is being used to stabilise the country's electricity system in case of grid fluctuations. The offshore wind farm Riffgrund 1, ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:36 Increasing international competition in the transition to a more sustainable economy will require tight-knit cooperation among EU countries and a tough stance on defending the bloc from unlawful trade subsidies abroad, the economy ...
09 Feb 2023, 15:22 The spread of corporate net zero targets is starting to make itself felt across the world 鈥� not only among businesses, but also far beyond. An increasing number of companies have started to scan- and then reduce- the climate impact of ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Die Zeit Germany is lagging behind in climate action and the country is likely to miss its sectoral targets for emission reductions this year, the country's new climate and economy "super ...
06 May 2015, 00:00 The growing share of renewables forced German wholesale electricity prices down to among the lowest in Europe last year, according to a study by grid operator TenneT. And government figures indicate that consumers are benefitting too, ...
20 Feb 2023, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann International Clean Energy Wire The economic interests of all states need to be accounted for in the fight against climate change, as moral reasons won鈥檛 be enough to motivate a successful green transition, German ...
15 Feb 2023, 13:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The expansion targets for renewable power in ...
04 Aug 2020, 14:24 Edgar Meza Gas Security Die Welt The US government's threat of sanctions against companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project has led to angry calls of defiance by government officials and business leaders in ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Cost & Prices Policy Clean Energy Wire The German government has greenlit a subsidy worth 5.5 billion euros to go towards grid fees in 2024 in a bid to cushion the impact of rising electricity prices on ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:22 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Finance Clean Energy Wire The German government last year approved 1.31 billion euros in funding for research related to the country鈥檚 energy transition, according to the federal environment ministry. As ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Renewables Solar Policy Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 green-led ministries of economics, agriculture and environment are bickering over using agricultural land for solar power,聽 reports 聽business daily Handelsblatt. ...
06 May 2022, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 designated climate action budget 鈥� the Energy and Climate Fund (KTF) 鈥� isn鈥檛 big enough to fully cover the necessary climate-friendly transformation costs, ...
22 Sep 2020, 10:30 As the coronavirus crisis drives many governments across the globe to introduce emergency plans to cushion the immediate economic effects, there are growing calls to align any mid and long-term stimulus efforts with climate targets. ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Der Spiegel Russian uranium should be made subject to sanctions since using it undermines efforts to weaken Russia鈥檚 capability for waging war on its neighbour Ukraine, the German economy and ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German economy ministry (BMWK) aims to solidify targets to double the country鈥檚 electrolysis capacity- which is needed to split water into hydrogen and oxygen- by 2030 by revising ...
10 May 2024, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security Clean Energy Wire Germany has vowed to support the reconstruction of war-torn Ukraine鈥檚 power grid, which has been greatly damaged by missile attacks over the past two years in the context of ...
06 Jul 2021, 13:01 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Edgar Meza Bioenergy Clean Energy Wire The use of renewable biomethane is on the rise, resulting in increasing ...
13 Dec 2023, 13:47 German and European politicians, scientists, businesses and civil society have overwhelmingly welcomed the key message of this year鈥檚 UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai: the agreement to "transition away" from fossil ...
05 Nov 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are increasingly hailed as an effective way for using nuclear power to curb the climate crisis without the major risks associated with ...
08 Jul 2019, 12:08 Financial markets can be a great accelerator for developments in the economy, but without a clear political roadmap for emissions reduction, they are unable to unleash their supporting abilities, Gerhard Schick, founder of the German ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Implementing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned electricity and gas price brakes is 鈥渦nmanageable鈥� in the desired timeframe, energy associations have said following a cabinet meeting on the ...
03 Nov 2020, 12:53 Energy consumption and related CO2 emissions in Germany are set to fall significantly in Germany in 2020, data by energy market research group AGEB shows. The drop in CO2 output to a large extent is caused by the coronavirus pandemic ...
29 Sep 2022, 13:41 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Clean Energy Wire Leading players in the ...
15 Dec 2022, 11:57 Germany urgently needs an overarching plan to reduce transport emissions in the new year, given that the government didn鈥檛 make any headway during its first year in office, Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Efficiency Clean Energy Wire An alliance of associations have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government to boost energy efficiency ahead of the winter, as rising prices and a looming shortage of gas affect ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities Rheinische Post The high earning posted by many energy companies in the current supply crisis, including 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 RWE, have rekindled the debate on a windfall profit tax, according to an ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Transport A broad alliance of German climate NGOs, welfare organisations, trade unions and business associations聽 has warned 聽that the cuts to the country鈥檚 railway budget puts the mobility transition and climate ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:25 Jessica Bateman Gas Security Clean Energy Wire EU tariffs on energy imports from Russia would be supported by a majority of economists, a survey has found. According to the survey by Ifo Institute and German newspaper Frankfurter ...
05 May 2020, 13:35 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Clean Energy Wire For the first time since December 2020, an onshore wind power auction was oversubscribed in Germany. Developers submitted 210 bids totalling 1,824megawatt (MW) for the tender volume of 1,492 ...
01 Mar 2024, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Freight dpa The evaluation of a pilot scheme to test catenary trucks in Germany says that the technology works to lower transport emissions, but critics warn the trial should be scrapped because a large-scale ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:33 Europe's largest car fair IAA is set to become a showdown between climate activists and an automotive industry eager to prove its green credentials when it takes place next month. The show, which has been moved from Frankfurt to ...
21 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Reuters / EnBW 鈥淕ermany's EnBW cuts dividend, sees lower profits in 2016鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 third largest utility EnBW posted a 125-million-euro net profit in 2015, but the adjusted operating result ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:04 The spread of unregulated company publicity involving 鈥渘et zero鈥� or 鈥渃limate neutral鈥� claims has become a systemic barrier to achieving climate targets, argues ClientEarth, an NGO focussing on using laws to advance environmental ...
16 Apr 2020, 13:02 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Capital Siemens might have to delay the spin-off of its subsidiary Siemens Energy due to the corona crisis,聽 reports Bernd Ziesemer in Capital magazine. Officially, ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out dpa / Clean Energy Wire About two thirds of Germans are against the country鈥檚 imminent shutdown of the remaining three nuclear power plants, a survey by opinion research institute YouGov commissioned ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Cars Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sudden cut of electric vehicle purchasing subsidies has caused carmakers to outdo each other with heavy discounts, reports Die Welt. Tesla, the U.S. electric car company, cut the ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Business Finance Clean Energy Wire Around three quarters (76 %) of businesses in Germany increased investments in sustainability measures in 2022 despite high economic uncertainty, a survey by consulting firm Deloitte ...
04 Aug 2023, 13:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities Clean Energy Wire The government of the southern German state of Bavaria seeks to take over all hydropower plants by energy company Uniper in the region, turning them into a state-owned operating company, it ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire The contentious debate about a general speed limit on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 famed Autobahn (motorway) has flared up again as the campaign for the country鈥檚 snap election on 23 February gets underway ...
24 Jan 2022, 12:51 Jessica Bateman Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Die Welt Investors plan to build an import terminal for synthetic methane made in the Middle East on Germany's North Sea coast, reports newspaper Die Welt. The company Tree Energy ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:36 German media commentators have mixed views on the coal exit path fixed by the federal government, mining states and utilities. While some call it a 鈥渉istoric鈥� deal that could make Germany a global role model, others say it turned out to ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / Clean Energy Wire The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Brandenburg has said he is open to talks about an earlier coal phase-out under certain conditions. Energy supply must be reliable ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / Clean Energy Wire Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE聽 told news ...
20 Feb 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Business Policy Handelsblatt The German finance ministry is preparing a law to support companies that invest in energy efficiency and decarbonisation through tax rebates, business daily Handelsblatt reported. Tax ...
01 Sep 2022, 13:42 Energy policy links between the UK and the European Union have remained strong since the UK officially left the bloc in January 2020, in contrast to complications in many other policy areas. A new renewable power interconnector project ...
27 Jun 2024, 14:15 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Adaptation The probability of stronger rains has increased due to the climate crisis, an analysis by the German Meteorological Service (DWD) has found, as reported by news magazine Der Spiegel. Heavy rains ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Finance Clean Energy Wire With a new action programme containing financial incentives and support measures for its famed 鈥淢ittelstand鈥� sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), Germany ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Cars Policy Clean Energy Wire The production of e-car battery cells in Europe is on track to become "the most successful industrial policy project since Airbus," German economy ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:40 New legislation passed yesterday by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal parliament is to ensure the timely completion of crucial power grid connections that transport renewable electricity throughout the country. This law will bring the energy transition ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:27 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs dpa / Die Welt Around half of all e-cars made in Germany are being produced in the eastern states, despite the region only ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Government Tagesspiegel / Clean Energy Wire An earlier phase-out of coal-fired power production in Germany by 2030 is unlikely if the country does not manage to install sufficient alternative backup capacity to ...
15 Nov 2024, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Die Welt / Deutsche Welle Restarting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 decommissioned nuclear power plants is not a viable option, former plant operator E.ON has said. The company ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:06 S枚ren Amelang Storage Clean Energy Wire Germany's energy storage sector recorded sales growth of 10 percent to 5.5 billion euros in 2019 and expects a "continuation of the positive market development", according to ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Carbon removal EU Clean Energy Wire An agreement by the majority of EU member states on a draft for an EU wide standardised and voluntary certification framework for CO2 removal and carbon farming marks an important step ...
26 Sep 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Technology Bizz Energy Europe dedicated less money to energy research and development last year, resulting in the US and China outspending the EU and its member states "for the first time", bizz energy ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:17 S枚ren Amelang Solar Clean Energy Wire The construction of new residential buildings in Germany offers a large potential for the rollout of solar energy, according to calculations by utility E.ON and think tank Energy Brainpool. "If ...
23 Nov 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy Clean Energy Wire / Reuters The gas and electricity 鈥減rice brakes鈥� that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government plans to finance with scooping up windfall profits made by power producers during the energy crisis ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Long-term company contracts for the supply of renewable energy 鈥� also called corporate green power purchase agreements (PPAs) 鈥� are already often cheaper than conventional ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:46 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Adaptation The first cranes are returning to Germany already in January 2024 from their wintering grounds further south as they migrate to north-eastern Europe to breed, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
28 Feb 2024, 13:14 The German government is aiming to introduce a 2060 target for net-negative greenhouse gas emissions, as well as intermediate targets for technical carbon sinks, as key elements of its contribution to the Paris climate targets. By the ...
12 Dec 2018, 17:52 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) to reach 2030 targets is 鈥渋nsufficient鈥� and in violation of EU law, said NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH), and filed a lawsuit ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel / WDR The construction of new gas-fired power plants that are supposed to provide backup capacity for the German electricity system amid the transition to renewable power needs ...
14 May 2021, 14:05 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany's government has agreed on a "climate pact" that sketches out steps to achieve the more ambitious emission reduction targets approved by cabinet this ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:15 Jack McGovan Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The number of voters for the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is highest in industrial areas that are most in need for decarbonisation efforts, according to a聽 new ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Adaptation Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Natural disasters worldwide caused losses of 320 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, up from an inflation-adjusted 268 billion in 2023, of which around 140 ...
22 Feb 2022, 16:45 Many German politicians, business associations, and environmental NGOs have welcomed the government's decisions to halt the contentious gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 following Russian aggression towards Ukraine. Against the backdrop ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:57 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire It is possible to achieve 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 target of covering half of heat production with renewable energies by 2030, the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) said at the presentation of its ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Germany is set to miss several key energy transition targets for the year 2020, and the country's high power supply security is at risk unless new generation capacity and grid ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The southern German states of Baden-W眉rttemberg and Bavaria have joined forces to push hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and to ensure their industrial centres will receive sufficient supplies. ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The lack of ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:04 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents from Germany place the cost of living in the top three concerns for their country, compared with 55 percent who said the same about the ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs ARD Automotive industry supplier Bosch will cut up to 1,500 jobs in its home region in southern Germany, arguing that the transition to electric vehicles would lead to a permanently lower ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire A leaked draft update to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 National Hydrogen Strategy does not yet set the right conditions for the investments needed to build up the country鈥檚 hydrogen economy according to the ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire Germans鈥� holidays have become more sustainable, but the demand for offers with an eco-label, or for CO2聽compensation is still at a low level,聽 said the ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:33 Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition is racing to put together a major climate action package by 20 September, just in time for UN Secretary-General Ant贸nio Guterres' climate summit in New York on 23 September. Mere ...
02 May 2023, 13:39 Internationally agreed targets to expand renewable energies and increase energy efficiency are needed to put the global economy back on a path towards limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5掳C, Germany's foreign minister ...
06 Sep 2023, 14:00 Europe鈥檚 carmakers have little to celebrate at this year鈥檚 IAA mobility show. Chinese firms鈥� widening lead in the global shift to electric vehicles is on open display at the biennial fair in Munich, while climate activists lambast ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Strom Report Energy costs for the average German household are 52 percent higher than a year ago, according to energy contract sales website Check24. In a press release, the company ...
01 Apr 2016
01 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Bild 鈥淧eople鈥檚 e-car鈥� The premiere of Tesla鈥檚 new e-car 鈥淢odel 3鈥� might not only decide the future of the company, but the future of e-mobility, according to mass-daily Bild. 鈥淲ith ...
24 Oct 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The electricity price for industry in Germany is within the European average, but the price in key competitive neighbouring markets such as France are 鈥渟ignificantly lower,鈥� ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:15 Germany and other EU governments have welcomed the outcome of the climate conference COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, saying it heralds the end of the fossil fuel era. EU lawmakers said the deal reached in Dubai will form the ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Freight Clean Energy Wire Catenary trucks powered by overhead lines represent an option for clean freight transport, yet setting up the required infrastructure on German motorways would be "technically possible, but very ...
23 Jul 2018
Our visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko聽(@MwelxTax) marvels over Germans' diligence when it comes to saving energy- including at the office. Find all of Mwelwa Musonko's cartoons on the Energiewende in the article Elephants and aliens- a ...
13 Oct 2015
13 Oct 2015, 00:00 Clean Energy Wire 91tv (Modifies headline to clearify sourcing) 聽 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淭he VW scandal calls Brussels into action鈥� Even after the VW emissions cheating scandal, it appears the German government is trying to ...
20 Jan 2022, 10:22 Germany's new government must take rapid policy decisions at home and actively engage at the EU level and beyond to pave the way for urgent emission cuts in energy-intensive industry. The start of the country's government ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang International Clean Energy Wire Germany aims to put pressure on China to raise its climate targets, according to the聽 government鈥檚 first strategy 聽for dealing with the east Asian country. The paper, which was adopted by ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt A vast majority of RWE shareholders have rejected a request to force management to start preparations for a spinoff of the company's brown coal activities, but major ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:36 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany's major economic sectors, including energy supply, mining, manufacturing and agriculture, emitted 205 kilograms of CO2 per 1,000 euros of gross value added in 2020, down 8.4 ...
02 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Clean ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:12 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German households' energy costs have fallen by six percent compared to last year, according to price comparison website Verivox. While using heating oil was 29 percent cheaper in ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Digitalisation Clean ...
12 Apr 2021, 14:18 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas International Tagesspiegel The U.S. government is increasing pressure on the German government to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline,聽 Hans Monath聽writes 聽in newspaper Tagesspiegel. President Joe ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:52 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The German government has agreed on a 鈥榣ightweight construction strategy鈥� set to reduce raw material consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The strategy puts forth measures to ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ ...
18 May 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables Clean Energy Wire Southern German state Bavaria aims to double power production from renewable sources to reach a share of 80 percent by 2030 as part of its government鈥檚 new energy strategy. 鈥淭he main drivers ...
24 May 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior partner in Germany's coalition government, has criticised Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), for failing to take action on ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Reuters / Handelsblatt Germany plans to set up a production and import chain for renewable hydrogen in a joint project with Western African countries, news agency Reuters聽 reports. " ...
18 Nov 2022, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first terminal for the import of green hydrogen and its derivatives will be built in the northern port city of Hamburg. Economy minister Robert Habeck said the terminal is set to start ...
19 May 2016
19 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) / Institute for Applied Ecology / European Climate Foundation (ECF) 鈥淚ndustry鈥檚 energy bills fall by a tenth鈥� German manufacturing ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency Clean Energy Wire In order to reduce emissions in the building sector, the German trade union IG BAU is calling on the federal, state and local governments to do more for the energy refurbishment of public ...
29 May 2020, 10:31 The corona pandemic has upended the transition to sustainable urban mobility around the world. While the fear of infection has put people off public transport and vehicle sharing schemes, it has boosted private cars, cycling and walking ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:11 Expert Borderstep Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Start-ups Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Digitalisation Data centres will consume 16 billion kWh of electricity in Germany this year,聽 according ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Renewables Security Clean Energy Wire Ensuring energy supply security can take priority over climate action, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate minister has said. Speaking to Deutschlandfunk (Dlf) radio, Robert ...
26 Jan 2022, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Grid Renewables Hydrogen Policy Clean Energy Wire The separate planning procedures for electricity, gas, and hydrogen infrastructure must be combined to pave the way towards a low-carbon economy, ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:08 Milou Dirkx Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany now has more than 100,000 public electric car charging points- but the energy and auto industry are squabbling over whether this figure is too high or too low. 鈥淎s of 1 July, electric ...
15 Nov 2023, 13:53 A ruling by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 highest court on the government鈥檚 budget planning has declared the current funding mechanism for tens of billions of euros in climate policies is unconstitutional. The judges ruled that chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:58 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Comparatively high salaries and a lack of similarly paid job alternatives present significant hurdles to the transition of the workforce in emission-intensive manufacturing (EIM) in ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Finance Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt The upcoming requirements on sustainability reporting for credit ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke wants to ensure that a United Nations (UN) summit in New York this week "initiates a race to catch up" on the ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany is set to produce a record 256 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from renewable sources this year, but the amount is still insufficient to put it on track to its 2030 targets, ...
German energy companies RWE and E.ON have agreed to a deal in which E.ON will buy RWE's green power subsidiary innogy and the two utilities will exchange large parts of their assets to focus their activities. The deal would drastically reshape ...
15 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy New draft version of Renewable Energy Act released The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has released a new draft of the Renewable ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:27 Kerstine Appunn Wind Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Growing uncertainties are putting off wind farm investors and have led to another public tender for new wind capacity being undersubscribed, German wind energy association BWE has ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:40 Jack McGovan International Zeit Online / Clean Energy Wire German聽chancellor Olaf Scholz called 2023 a potential turning point in the fight against climate change, reports Zeit Online. "2023 could be a defining moment," he ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cities Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Several boroughs in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin have rejected a new analysis commissioned by the senate to assess the prospects for onshore wind power installations on the city ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:18 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy Wire / dpa Germany's CO2 reduction by 2030 could more than double as a ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices WDR Steelmaker Thyssenkrupp has announced a substantial production reduction at its site in Duisburg in western Germany, a step that will also lead to job cuts for its roughly 13,000 ...
24 Jun 2022, 14:08 The German government has launched the second of a total of three escalation stages of its national gas supply security plan, which was drawn up in reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After triggering the first "early ...
05 May 2020, 15:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Policy dpa / Stern The German coalition government has promised to accelerate the country's landmark energy transition and other core legislation procedures, newswire dpa report s in ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU Clean Energy Wire The Federation ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU鈥檚 internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
17 Jan 2025, 13:12 S枚ren Amelang Transport Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The next German government must ensure that aviation can become climate-neutral within 20 years, which will require a plethora of policy initiatives, an alliance of ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:41 Edgar Meza Society Clean Energy Wire A large majority of German households have lowered indoor temperatures this winter amid soaring energy costs, according to a report by indoor climate management company Tado. With nearly 80 percent ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire / Bloomberg The G7 countries cause a large part of the world's resource consumption and the associated damage to the climate and environment and thus have to 鈥渁ccept their ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Coal Handelsblatt Germany ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:52 Expert NewClimate Institute Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate diplomacy initiative has made a promising start ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:35 Edgar Meza Transport Policy S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP), has- after long negotiations- agreed on a far-reaching ...
16 Dec 2022, 11:26 The adoption of net zero emissions targets by global technology giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft is turning into a serious problem for Taiwan鈥檚 massive chipmaking industry. Pressure to decarbonise the extremely power-hungry ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:09 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire New registrations of cars with alternative drive systems ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Finance Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire Sixty percent of the top 20 DAX companies 鈥� major German businesses trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange 鈥� have set themselves net-zero greenhouse gas emission ...
30 May 2023, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / ARD / Spiegel Ahead of talks with MPs from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ruling coalition today (30 May), economy minister Robert Habeck said that a draft heating law which would impose ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon market Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 emissions under the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) remained constant in 2022 compared to the previous year, the annual report from the German Emissions Trading ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Renewables 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ministries for the economy, the environment and construction have released a draft for translating the EU鈥檚 renewable energy directive (RED) into German law to speed up the roll-out of ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:03 Wars, climate change and competition for land increase worldwide hunger, so Germany must ensure the EU directive on a sustainable food system "becomes a sharp sword" for resilience in the coming year, Reinhild Benning, ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:47 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / Frankfurter Allgemeine Regional representatives of the eastern German coal region Lusatia renewed their ...
24 Feb 2016
24 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt 鈥�Energy transition in the basement cancelled鈥� Three quarters of the energy consumption of German households is used for heating and hot water, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Climate ...
14 Mar 2022, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy dpa / Der Spiegel The German government plans a new relief package to help consumers cope with rising energy prices. The price increases overburden many people, Green economy and climate minister ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:54 Edgar Meza Coal Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire In the face of soaring energy prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, people in Germany are increasingly in favour of nuclear power if it can reduce costs, according to a survey ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany should consider the import of direct reduced iron as a way to produce the hydrogen that is needed to generate electricity in its planned backup power plants, says a report by Norwegian ...
23 Nov 2022, 14:00 S枚ren Amelang Solar Resources & Recycling Germany must reduce its reliance on China in green technologies and should be more demanding on climate issues when dealing with the Asian country, states a foreign ministry draft paper seen ...
18 Jul 2023, 14:19 Jack McGovan Industry EU Clean Energy Wire The European Commission has selected seven decarbonisation projects in Germany as part of the latest round of funding from the EU Innovation Fund. The projects eligible for the funds disbursed ...
06 Jan 2023, 11:03 Germany and the EU must focus on reducing their dependence on raw materials that are critical for key energy transition technologies this year, says economist and government advisor Veronika Grimm. 鈥淲e are [faced] with the task of more ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Construction Clean Energy Wire Programmes supporting climate friendly construction in Germany could become severely affected by the break-up of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government, the building owner protection ...
On a visit to communities affected by new grid development, German energy minister Peter Altmaier said the transition to an energy system based largely on renewables was a project for the whole community that couldn't be implemented by going over ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:51 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell around ten percent last year to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and electricity generation from coal ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine and its growing conflict with the West is leading to increasing uncertainty and concern in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 business sector, with 70 percent of industrial ...
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Policy Clean Energy Wire The German state scooped up approximately 417 million euros of electricity companies' windfall profits during the energy crisis in the first four months the relevant ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Government Clean Energy Wire The German government has approved its climate adaptation strategy to better prepare the country for dealing with extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, heavy ...
02 May 2022, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Wind Policy dpa / Der Spiegel Germany's federal states trail far behind the government's target of designating two percent of the country's surface area to wind power, according to a聽 survey 聽by newswire dpa ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:21 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Reuters / Deutsche Welle Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser is ready for Siemens Energy- an energy business it plans to spin off by September- to be at the centre of the ...
08 Jan 2016
08 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淕reens sharpen their eco-profile鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green Party has called for a coal exit by 2036, Barbara Gillmann reports in the Handelsblatt. By that time, petrol and diesel cars should ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:32 As聽Germany strives for a renewable-driven power sector, regulators should enable a more flexible electricity demand, says Nicolas Leicht, energy market expert at Aurora Energy Research. Incentives such as locational price signals, as ...
22 Jun 2023, 14:03 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany's government cabinet has approved a draft law that would give cities and municipalities a greater say in regulating road traffic, particularly when it comes to bus lanes, ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government would pave the way for prolonging the runtime of all three of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 remaining reactors until April 2023. The German leader thus intervened to settle a dispute about the delayed end of ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Policy Clean Energy Wire The coronavirus pandemic has created new problems for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, according to management consultancy McKinsey. The pandemic had particularly slowed the ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:14 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Company climate claims Society Clean Energy Wire Products advertised as 鈥渃limate neutral鈥� mislead consumers ...
30 Jul 2019, 10:30 Markus S枚der, Bavaria鈥檚 conservative state premier, has called for climate action to be enshrined in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Basic Law, according to German daily S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. S枚der has thus embraced a long-standing demand by the Green Party, ...
22 Dec 2020, 12:27 Edgar Meza Utilities pv magazine The German government is making a 450-megahertz (MHz) radio network available to the energy sector that could be used to control PV systems and other feed-in and load management systems, Ralph Diermann ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The projected demand for green hydrogen in Europe can largely be covered by domestic production, said researchers from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Integrated Energy Systems ...
15 Jul 2021, 17:19 Updates with original proposal for reducing equity interest rates for investments in the electricity and gas grids by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:40 James Jackson Wind Clean Energy Wire The rollout of offshore wind in the German North and Baltic seas can be reconciled with environmental concerns, but the location of specific marine ecosystems must become a core part of the planning ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:46 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Handelsblatt New regional energy company in the ...
21 Feb 2023, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Clean Energy Wire In its efforts to alleviate Germany's housing shortage, the government should focus on building renovations to maximise avoided emissions and prevent an unnecessarily high consumption ...
02 Feb 2021, 14:22 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:05 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Industry Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire German industry demand for electricity will rise steeply during the sector鈥檚 decarbonisation even if it opts for intensive use of hydrogen, according to a聽 report 聽by a ...
09 Jan 2019, 13:53 Municipal utility chief executive Andreas Feicht will take on the role as Germany's energy state secretary on 1 February. With his appointment, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier fills a position crucial to the progress of ...
