07 Dec 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The German Greens and one of the country's largest environmental organisations have reached a compromise on reconciling wind power expansion with bird protection,聽 ...
24 Nov 2021, 11:32 S枚ren Amelang Elections & Politics Germany's prospective new government has agreed on a coalition treaty. The Social Democrats (SPD),聽 Green Party, and pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) said they will present the agreement at a ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:09 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang International Clean Energy Wire Public climate financing from Germany for poorer countries reached a new record level last year, already surpassing the 6-billion euro target set for 2025, the government has said. A total ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:54 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Expert PIK- The ...
20 Apr 2021, 13:04 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire Almost half of all new cars registered in Germany earlier this year were equipped with alternative fuel engines. The share of newly registered battery electric, hybrid, fuel cell, gas and hydrogen ...
13 Feb 2023, 13:45 The 鈥渘et zero鈥� climate plans of 24 of the world鈥檚 largest companies add up to emissions reductions of only 36 percent, according to a聽 report 聽by the NewClimate institute and non-profit Carbon Market Watch. The strategies of the self ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:56 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Industry Clean Energy Wire ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:34 On its planned path to climate-neutrality by the middle of the century, Germany could achieve complete decarbonisation of its power sector already by 2040 鈥� and EU climate targets might even compel the country to greatly speed up the ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt A large majority of German car industry suppliers have initiated the ...
17 Aug 2022, 14:53 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Resources & Recycling S眉ddeutsche Zeitung As solar panels, thermal insulation and heat pumps are increasingly becoming a standard in the tens of thousands of new houses that are built each year in the ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Cars Hydrogen Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bild am Sonntag 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to ensure that combustion engine cars powered by synthetic fuels enjoy the same tax advantages ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Clean Energy Wire Data centres could provide excess heat to Frankfurt鈥檚 district heating network, energy provider Mainova and data centre operator Interxion announced after signing a memorandum of understanding ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany will support green hydrogen projects in other countries with up to 350 million euros by 2024 and has published a directive with the relevant guidelines, the economy ministry said in a ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:31 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics ZEIT online The German Left Party (Die Linke) puts climate protection at the heart of its federal election campaign, Katharina ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Handelsblatt German transport minister Volker Wissing has been accused of breaking the country's Climate Protection Act in an expert report, newspaper聽Handelsblatt reports. According to the report ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:32 Three men compete to take the lead of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany's largest party, and to possibly follow in the footsteps of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leaves office after 16 years in September amid a global ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:10 Edgar Meza Renewables EU Clean Energy Wire In order to increase the market share of European manufacturers in the renewable energy sector, wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) roof systems could receive more funding if they are produced ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:44 Jessica Bateman Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Spiegel Online The German city of T眉bingen has announced SUV drivers will soon need to pay six times the current parking fees. According to an article in聽 Spiegel Online, local Green mayor ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Society Clean Energy Wire / Berliner Morgenpost In 2022, 5.5 million people in Germany felt they were financially unable to keep their home adequately warm, according to figures by statistical office ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Clean Energy Wire The proposal for a " historic consensus " in German society on the need for climate action and the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 by economy ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Coal dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. 鈥淲e are very ...
18 May 2022, 12:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ARD / Clean Energy Wire / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany grapples with the connections of some of its senior party members with Russian fossil fuel companies. ...
23 Jul 2020, 12:30 The EU's and Germany's plans to push the use of green hydrogen to decarbonise the economy are likely to trigger a competitive race with China that will be crucial for a global breakthrough of the technology, says Kobad ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Bild am Sonntag Germany's new agriculture minister Cem 脰zdemir from the Green Party wants people to 鈥渧alue their food as much as their cars鈥�, he told Bild am Sonntag in an interview at the end of last ...
10 Jun 2021, 13:56 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The future of the wind power sector is looking increasingly rosy according to the latest聽 WindEnergy trend:index (WEtix), published by global wind energy event ...
07 Sep 2020, 13:55 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 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Volker Wissing has triggered a fresh debate over the government decision to switch off the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants ...
13 Jan 2021, 11:41 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:15 10 years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that prompted Germany to confirm its prior nuclear phase-out decision, the environment ministry has published further steps necessary to reduce nuclear risk, including the use of nuclear ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:03 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany's Constitutional Court ruling that the government鈥檚 climate policies are insufficient will have a major impact on the country's election campaign and beyond, media ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security WirtschaftsWoche Russia is defying threats from the U.S. over the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, making plans to finish the German-Russian project despite American pressure on companies working ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Clean Energy Wire The surcharge on German power customers' bills to support the expansion of renewable energy sources will fall from currently 6.75 to 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities WirtschaftsWoche The plans by large and small utilities to decarbonise their businesses are not enough for Germany to reach its climate targets, writes WirtschaftsWoche about a report published by consultancy ...
12 Aug 2021, 13:22 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
14 Apr 2021, 15:02 S枚ren Amelang Policy Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Germany's pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) plans to enter the election campaign with a pledge to extend emissions trading as the main tool for fighting climate ...
11 Jan 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Technology Clean Energy Wire The German government cabinet has adopted draft legislation to accelerate the sluggish introduction of smart meters in the country. Economy minister Robert Habeck called it an important step ...
11 May 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Policy Security Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire Economy minister Robert Habeck has warned against over-reliance on China and called for the broadening of supply chains while reassessing 鈥渢he opportunities and risks of our ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:58 S枚ren Amelang Renewables International G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire The German government and NGOs have welcomed the first G7 commitment to concrete targets for the rollout of renewables, but environmentalists also warned that the ...
05 Jul 2022, 12:40 Possible state support for energy company Uniper 鈥� 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 largest buyer of Russian fossil gas 鈥� is justified because an insolvency would trigger a domino effect and shake up the entire German gas industry, says energy analyst Andreas ...
20 Dec 2021, 13:57 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung New German environment minister Steffi Lemke plans to focus on reconciling climate protection and nature conservation during the impending massive rollout of windpower. Speaking ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Finance International EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union should go further in its proposal to counter the U.S.鈥檚 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), more than 40 business organisations, companies, think tanks ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:46 Jack McGovan Renewables Energiewende Clean Energy Wire Although there are positive signs in the expansion of renewable energies, electric cars and heat pumps, new figures made available by the Ariadne project show progress in the German ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:44 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Energiewende Government WirtschaftsWoche / BMWi The Green Party鈥檚 energy minister in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Franz Untersteller, has lamented a 鈥渟tandstill of federal energy policy鈥� ahead of a meeting ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire The German economy ministry (BMWi) will join the environment ministry (BMU) in managing the government's international power-to-X hub to facilitate the production of ...
08 Feb 2021, 13:27 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics ZEIT online / Tagesspiegel The German Social Democrats (SPD) want to put ...
25 Oct 2024, 13:02 Jennifer Collins Adaptation Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Table.Media Damage caused by natural hazards like flooding cost German insurers 5.6 billion euros in 2023, up from four billion euros the previous year, after the country ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:32 S枚ren Amelang Society Government Clean Energy Wire / Der Tagesspiegel Climate activists' repeated blockages of motorways in Berlin and other German cities have sparked a debate among government parties about the legitimacy of these ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The steel industry needs a clear and reliable framework for its decarbonisation, said Heinz J枚rg Fuhrmann, CEO of the Salzgitter Group, at the presentation of the company鈥檚 ...
22 Jan 2019, 12:46 The top brass from energy companies, regulators, ministries and political parties gather in Berlin to discuss the challenges of the energy transition at the Handelsblatt energy conference, the traditional annual kick-off for the sector. ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Grid Clean Energy Wire Transforming 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system to achieve climate neutrality is key to securing industry competitiveness in the southern state Bavaria, but delays in expanding the national power grid is are ...
28 Jan 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel The new German government鈥檚 supplementary budget that includes the rededication of about 60 billion euros of credit authorisations from the country鈥檚 ...
10 Jun 2021, 13:49 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Hydrogen Heating Clean Energy Wire German industry has called on the government to include transport and heating in the hydrogen economy ramp-up. "Policymakers must not leave out the ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Der Spiegel The leaders of the Left Party have called for a socially fair and climate-friendly coronavirus recovery as the centrepiece of the German ...
05 Nov 2021, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Transport Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / dpa Germany should kickstart the transition to a sustainable transport system with a range of drastic policies, the country's environment agency (UBA) ...
22 May 2020, 14:07 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 Expert Greenpeace Germany ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:44 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire Renewable energy made up approximately 42 percent of the electricity consumed in Germany in 2021, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:16 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar Cities Clean Energy Wire Many of Germany's biggest cities are squandering vast renewable energy ...
16 May 2023, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Heating Zeit Online 鈥淗ydrogen-ready鈥� gas boilers are nothing but window dressing because they delay effective climate action, are unlikely to be ever powered by renewable gas, and could end up being very expensive ...
Among the motivations for Germany's聽 reform of its renewable energy support system have been complaints from neighbouring countries, and the EU Commission鈥檚 rules on state aid to the energy sector, writes Dave Keating for Deutsche Welle. But D枚rte ...
02 May 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Grid Security Germany has raised its power plant backup reserve to ensure a stable winter electricity supply due to grid extensions not keeping pace with the country's renewables rollout. "The delays in grid ...
20 May 2022, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Gas Business & Jobs Der Spiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 car industry rejects government plans to give gas suppliers the right to hike prices immediately in case of supply shortfalls. The proposal is "one-sided" as " ...
24 Feb 2022, 13:17 Edgar Meza Industry Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Stakeholders are in broad agreement on the necessary drivers and obstacles for Germany's hydrogen market ramp-up, a poll by the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) ...
25 Nov 2020, 15:04 Germany's phase-out plan for hard coal plants can largely be carried out as planned by inviting operators to submit compensation claims in tender procedures, the European Commission has decided. The German government welcomed the ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire / Reuters Germany will have to buy 22 million emissions allocations after failing its 2020 climate targets under the EU's effort sharing scheme, ...
24 Feb 2022, 12:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch ...
01 Apr 2022, 12:57 S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire Discount supermarket chain Lidl is switching the entire battery-electric vehicle fleet of a logistics hub to fuel cells powered by green hydrogen, making it the first of its kind in ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cars Efficiency EU Clean Energy Wire European energy ministers have agreed on reaching a share of 40 percent renewables in the EU鈥檚 energy mix by 2030, thus increasing the previous 32-percent target and ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:22 James Jackson Transport Travel Talk Lufthansa, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest airline, wants to increase the number of domestic flights to compete with rail travel and video conferencing services, the company鈥檚 sales manager, Frank Naeve, told ...
07 Oct 2024, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Gas dpa Two additional floating import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) are due to go into operation before the winter in Germany, state-owned operating company Deutsche Energy Terminal (DET) told news agency ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire For the comprehensive electrification of sectors like heating and road transport, Germany must massively expand renewables and update its energy infrastructure with investments of 900 ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:53 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Clean ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Business Industry Reuters / n-tv The German state and a number of banks have agreed to support Siemens鈥� financially struggling subsidiary Siemens Energy with guarantees of about 12 billion euros, news agency Reuters ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:56 The three candidates for future leadership of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 鈥� party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have all called for rigorous efforts to protect the climate at a debate organised by the party鈥檚 ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:49 S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight A combination of road and rail transport is the freight rail segment with greatest growth potential in Germany and the EU, according to a聽 report 聽by German industry association BDI. "This is why it ...
The EU Commission鈥檚 new energy package is likely to meet resistance from some member states and energy industry players, writes Thorsten Knuf in Frankfurter Rundschau. EU energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete called the聽package a 鈥渦nique opportunity to ...
30 Nov 2020, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Welt Markus S枚der, Bavaria's state premier and head of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU, has said that climate policy will ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Clean Energy Wire The favourable effects of the coronavirus pandemic on many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition targets in 2020 are only temporary, consultancy McKinsey found in its bi-annual Energiewende Index ...
10 Oct 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Increasing heatwaves and droughts in recent years have led to regional water scarcity and associated conflicts in Germany and the situation is set to intensify as climate change ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Die Welt Concerns about climate and the environment have climbed significantly on the agenda of German companies over the last year, a survey conducted by consultancy EY and the聽 Wuppertal ...
16 Aug 2021, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 revised climate targets mean the country's coal power phase-out will need to be completed by 2030, eight years earlier than currently planned, newspaper ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:10 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire Many German shipping companies are reluctant to implement emissions reduction ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:48 The first auction for the decommissioning of hard coal plants in Germany has been hailed as a success both by coal plant operators and climate activists, as it ensures that plants with a capacity of almost 5 gigawatts will be off the ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire No single energy company can currently claim any dominance over Germany's electricity market, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the federal antitrust ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Only internal combustion engines or hydrogen fuel cells allow Germany and Europe to produce cars 鈥渁lmost self-sufficiently鈥�, as battery-driven vehicles are heavily dependent ...
12 May 2020, 13:19 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire Coal's share in Germany's net public power production fell to around 16 ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background The German state acted as a 鈥渄e facto speculator鈥� by supplying state funds and instructing Trading Hub Europe (THE) earlier this year to buy gas to fill the country鈥檚 storages quickly, ...
27 Oct 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future energy and climate policy has proven the expected difficult issue in Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media ...
19 Feb 2021, 14:06 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire Volkswagen sold more electric cars across the globe than Tesla at the end of last year for the first time ever, according to an聽 analysis ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:59 Hannah Naylor Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / n-tv The newly announced VAT reduction on natural gas in Germany, to come into effect from October to help consumers facing high gas prices, has elicited a lot of criticism from ...
21 Jun 2023, 09:00 The governments of China and Germany have agreed to introduce a 鈥淐limate and Transformation Dialogue鈥� to speed up their transition towards a more climate friendly economy. Fighting climate change remained a main concern for the two ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is working on a proposal to subsidise offshore electricity for industry customers through an auction scheme in order to shield companies against ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:10 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Welt / Tagesspiegel Background A legal opinion by the energy law firm Rosin ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:06 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:00 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt The Social Democratic Party (SPD) ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry Clean Energy Wire Energy consumption in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industry dropped 9.1 percent in 2022 聽compared to the previous year, ...
07 Aug 2020, 14:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind International Tageszeitung (taz) German energy traders are buying more electricity produced with renewable energy installations in Norway, aiming to fulfilling green energy requirements in Germany, a practice that ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Clean Energy Wire The German government will meet with state representatives in January to discuss how to expand renewable energy installations at a pace that will raise the share of renewables in ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:52 Expert Coal Importer Association Verein der Kohleimporteure Fossil fuels Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Clean Energy Wire Last year's sharp drop in Germany's hard coal imports is set to continue ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
02 Jun 2020, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government's coronavirus recovery programme will likely mobilise funds of about 80 billion to 100 billion euros, Kerstin Schwenn reports in newspaper ...
02 Nov 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Clean Energy Wire / Reuters [CORRECTION: Corrects wrong date for run-off election in Brazil. It took place on 30 October 2022.] Germany is willing to quickly unfreeze funds to help curb ...
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15 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淐limate of disillusion鈥� German environment minister Barbara Hendricks did not manage to carry the enthusiasm from the Paris Summit to Berlin, writes Cerstin Gammelin in ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:37 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Heating Tagesspiegel Background Due to a rapid rise in the number of reduced power tariffs reserved for heat pumps, their operating costs in Germany are currently up to a third lower than gas heating, ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:57 Armin Laschet has been elected the new leader of Germany's largest party, the Christian Democrats (CDU), clearing a major hurdle on what could be his way to becoming next German Chancellor. The premier of Germany's largest ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire The increasing use of new rooftop installations is quickening the expansion of solar PV in Germany, meaning the technology鈥檚 efficient integration into the energy system becomes ...
09 May 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics NDR The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have achieved a clear victory in the state elections of northern German Schleswig-Holstein and relegated chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 Social Democrats ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:10 Jessica Bateman Heating Table.Media / Clean Energy Wire The German government has reached a compromise on the shift to climate-friendly heating by effectively postponing a ban on the installation of new fossil fuel heating systems, ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:55 The German Green Party unveiled Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor, touted as the party's first ever serious contender to lead the government in Europe's largest economy. In her nomination speech as the only ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:07 S枚ren Amelang Coal dpa / Welt / Bild 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy minister Robert Habeck has called for pulling forward the country鈥檚 coal exit to 2030 from 2038 in the east of the country, following an agreement in the west. "The generation ...
In a document named Energy Agenda 2030, the Economic Council of German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU has issued a 鈥渓ist of demands鈥� for designated economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. A 鈥渞eadjustment鈥� of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and climate ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The summer of 2022 in Germany was the sunniest, the sixth driest and among the four warmest on record, Germany's National Meteorological Service (DWD)聽 said. 鈥淚n these times of ...
25 Jan 2019, 13:51 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 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv ...
16 May 2022, 13:11 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum f眉r Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Julian Wettengel Agriculture Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland Germany's ...
10 Mar 2021, 13:48 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Current emissions reduction efforts around the world are insufficient to limit ...
14 Mar 2022, 13:44 Paul Gordon Fossil fuels Society Clean Energy Wire A majority of Germans is in favour of stopping oil and gas imports from Russia even if an embargo would lead to supply problems in the country. In a survey by public broadcaster ZDF, 55 ...
21 Dec 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Freight Clean Energy Wire Despite increasingly ambitious climate targets, truck traffic in Germany reached a record level last year, according to pro-rail group Allianz pro Schiene. The market ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire About two thirds of 444 German small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) surveyed by the Trier University say they aim to reduce their CO2 emissions by 2030, while a ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:03 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 IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The sale of German heat pump manufacturer Viessmann to U.S. air conditioner maker Carrier Global has sparked fears amongst German trade unionists and politicians over the ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:53 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Kerstine Appunn Mobility Cars Clean Energy Wire / tagesschau.de The first IAA mobility motor show held in Munich which closed on Sunday was deemed a success by industry ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire The number of cars on German roads has reached a record high of 49.1 million at the start of 2024, according to a new report from the government鈥檚 statistical office Destatis. From January ...
13 Sep 2021, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire A second televised debate between the three chancellor candidates for the German federal election has again seen the Social Democrats鈥� (SPD) candidate Olaf Scholz come out on ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:54 Edgar Meza Wind dpa / Zeit Online / IWR A row over wind power expansion and wildlife protection in western German state North Rhine-Westphalia has led the state鈥檚 renewable energy association LEE to organize a demonstration against ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:20 Freja Eriksen Renewables Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire The German city of Hamburg and Japanese prefecture of Fukushima want to strengthen their cooperation within the development and use of renewable energies. Hamburg hopes ...
30 Sep 2020, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Shell plans to make Germany a test case in its global ambition to become a net-zero emission company. The British-Dutch oil major, one of the world's largest companies by revenues ...
29 Sep 2020, 13:07 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Industry taz / ARD Industrial giant Siemens has listed its power plant division on the stock exchange, leading to scrutiny and criticism of its activities in the fossil fuel sector, writes Kai ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:14 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Clean Energy Wire Steel and iron production plants dominate in a聽 list of the 30 most polluting industrial facilities 聽in Germany ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:34 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Industry Clean Energy Wire Germany's hydrogen strategy is a "quantum leap" that will lift the energy transition and climate protection to a "new qualitative level," according to the ...
29 May 2019, 15:11 Julian Wettengel Coal International Clean Energy Wire [Update adds reaction by non-profit environmental law organisation ClientEarth.] Environmental NGOs Climate Action Network Europe (CAN) and Sandbag criticised some EU member states ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:11 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / Der Spiegel German economy and climate protection minister Robert Habeck said hydrogen would soon establish itself as a key component of the energy transition, according to a dpa report ...
11 May 2023, 11:58 A regional election in the northern German city-state of Bremen is set to shed light on how much the weeks of wrangling over key climate policy in the federal government coalition have left their mark on public approval. Issues like ...
05 Aug 2021, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire On the path to making industry climate neutral, corporate decision-makers in Germany call for allowing the use of 鈥渂lue鈥� hydrogen made from natural gas where the CO2 is captured and stored 鈥� ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
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02 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Greenpeace 鈥淕reenpeace excluded from Vattenfall bidding process鈥� Citigroup has excluded Greenpeace from the sale process of Swedish utility Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite operations. The bank said the ...
27 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire The economic impact of the coronavirus crisis is pouring cold water on ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:08 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 Elections & ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire For a 鈥渇air and adequate鈥� German contribution to efforts to reach the international climate target of keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5掳C, the country may emit no more ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire A first attempt to reduce excess emissions in Germany's buildings sector by launching an additional home energy refurbishment support programme is likely to be insufficient, ...
05 Oct 2020, 10:45 Stepping up the 2030 EU climate target to an emission reduction of at least 55 percent as proposed by the European Commission would very likely require the bloc to phase out coal almost entirely by that date, according to experts. The ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:11 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Industry G20 & G7 Clean Energy Wire Germany should use its G7 presidency to push for more ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Almost six out of ten German companies (59%) say they do not see themselves affected by the negative consequences of climate change today or in the future, shows the ...
12 Jan 2018, 00:00 The parties currently in talks to form 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the ...
22 Jun 2021, 13:45 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Leading experts and representatives from civil society, environmental NGOs and industry sharply criticized the planned amendment to the German federal Climate Action Law during a public ...
11 Mar 2015, 00:00 E.ON posts record loss for 2014 and RWE鈥檚 outlook is bleak, fuelling debate over their future. Clean Energy Wire 91tv Utilities Electricity market Germany's largest utility, E.ON, posted a loss of 3.16 billion聽euros for 2014- ...
30 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities dpa / Die Welt The involvement of German state Baden-Wurttemberg in the utility EnBW appears ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:49 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Security Clean Energy Wire 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 entire energy system from availability to consumption is potentially vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events, according to the European Environment ...
11 Aug 2020, 12:22 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The German Social Democrats (SPD) will make the ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Security Clean Energy Wire The German government has promised an additional 195 million euros in support to Ukraine, about half of which is designated for the protection and rebuilding the country鈥檚 energy ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:36 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Three quarters of German buildings are ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Bavaria is making up lost ground in the rollout of wind power following the recent easing of strict distance rules, and also aims to become a European solar power leader, its ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Reuters / ARD Minimum distances for wind power turbines from residential areas could be suspended by Germany's federal government in a bid to accelerate the technology鈥檚 sluggish expansion, public broadcaster ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire In its quest for global green hydrogen leadership, Germany has launched three flagship zero-emission technology projects. Following a call for ideas, the country's research ministry said it ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:42 Jennifer Collins Company climate claims Handelsblatt The vast majority of consumers avoid companies linked to greenwashing, a survey seen by business daily Handelsblatt has found. Some 72 percent of respondents in the survey聽conducted ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:21 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Agriculture Clean Energy Wire German agriculture minister Julia Kl枚ckner has plans for large-scale reforestation projects to improve the "grave state" of German forests, she announced at a ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:37 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Heating Clean Energy Wire German energy companies Uniper and Siemens Energy have proposed a project to set up a renewable power-based energy plant at the site of ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Hydrogen Elections & Politics Hamburger Abendblatt The mayor of Hamburg, Peter Tschentscher, has proposed shutting down the city's coal plant Moorburg "many years" earlier than the current end ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:09 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 Cars International ...
03 May 2021, 12:57 Edgar Meza Renewables Clean Energy Wire The European Commission聽 has approved 聽the prolongation and modification of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚聽 Renewable Energy Act (EEG) designed to support the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources. ...
28 Sep 2023, 14:17 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire The Paris Climate Agreement鈥檚 goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Clean Energy Wire Challenges such as high energy prices, lowered competitiveness, skilled worker shortages or the high need for investment threaten to push industry investments away from Germany, but the ...
06 Oct 2021, 13:58 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel German election winner the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the pro-business FDP have decided to enter joint talks to sound out a common base to form the ...
20 Nov 2023, 14:48 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen NDR One of 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 first plants to produce green hydrogen on a large scale in northern Germany has been scrapped due to high construction costs, reports public broadcaster NDR. The investors 鈥� a consortium that ...
27 Jul 2020, 09:50 Europe's economy is well placed to benefit from the fledgling global hydrogen economy and should decisively follow through with its hydrogen strategies, says Veronika Grimm, a member of Germany's council of economic experts, ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:12 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Utilities Clean Energy Wire / dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's largest coal power and renewables operator RWE plans to step up its ...
11 Mar 2020, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities Clean Energy Wire The number of German energy companies that consider the energy transition good for business has risen considerably, according to a survey by business consultancy Horvath & ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Clean Energy Wire / Dlf Russian natural gas supplier Gazprom halted flows almost entirely through Nord Stream on Monday morning (11 July) as about ten days of planned maintenance work began, with the German ...
12 Oct 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 Climate & CO2 Industry Frankfurter ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's states are demanding substantial support payments from the federal government to fund the expansion of public transport systems in a bid to reduce the ...
10 Dec 2021, 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 Transport Cars Clean Energy Wire The ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid Clean Energy Wire The Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg will be taken offline completely in July 2021, after Germany's four grid operators ...
22 May 2019, 16:37 Ahead of the European Elections from the 23rd 鈥� 26th of May, organisers of the German Fridays for Futures see the election as a last chance to put climate at the top of the European Parliament鈥檚 agenda. 鈥淭his election will have a ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire The German government is examining additional options for supporting the country's car industry amid the twin challenges of a COVID-19 related drop in sales and the ...
04 Oct 2024, 13:29 Joey Grostern Cars International Clean Energy Wire / Euronews The European Commission will proceed with its proposals to impose additional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles following a key vote among member states on 4 October, said ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country鈥檚 south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country鈥檚 ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ARD / Tagesspiegel The increasing pressure on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas supply system could lead the government to tighten its grip on gas distribution and enforce savings by law, economy and climate minister Robert ...
01 Apr 2020, 15:12 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar pv magazine The combined capacity of Germany's solar pv installations rose to almost 50 gigawatts (GW) in February, further approaching the controversial government cap of 52 gigawatts,聽 reports ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire In order to make the economy fit for the requirements of a decarbonised energy system, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate ministry (BMWK) has聽 proposed an update to the country鈥檚 ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany's federal states need to band together and devise a coherent strategy to ensure that the expansion of renewable energy sources can proceed in line with the ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:03 S枚ren Amelang International Clean Energy Wire Following the inauguration of Brazil鈥檚 new president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on 1 January, Germany has released 35 million euros for the country鈥檚 Amazon Fund, which is dedicated to ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Up to two thirds of the gross value added by investments in local energy infrastructure and production remain in the German state where the investment takes place, an聽 analysis 聽by ...
09 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
27 Oct 2021, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Elections & Politics WDR / Clean Energy Wire / Die Zeit Conservative CDU politician Hendrik W眉st has been voted in as new state premier of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / Clean Energy Wire A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
15 Mar 2021, 13:33 "Super election year" 2021 in Germany has been kicked off with a resounding defeat of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU in two state elections that saw the party incur historic losses. For the rivalling Green ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Heating dpa / BR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The draft legislation to introduce a de-facto ban on new gas and oil heating systems in Germany starting in 2024 has sparked a dispute within the government coalition ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire With the aim to scale hydrogen technology and ensure its integration in the energy market, a new project partnership in northern Germany will invest 1.3 million euros to create a 鈥淐lean ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:52 Edgar Meza Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Despite plans by a major solar energy company from Switzerland to revive solar pv manufacturing in Germany, there is no chance that a large-scale industry will return under current ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire / ARD The latest round of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating transition support scheme was launched on 27 August and now allows all building owners to apply for subsidies to decarbonise their ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Die Welt The importance of Russian gas for Germany is set to grow further amid the latter country's energy transition, economy minister Peter Altmaier said at a German-Russian industry ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Der Spiegel / Tagesspiegel Background The first mandatory share offers in a new wind power farm for neighbouring residents have been introduced in Germany, news website Der Spiegel reports. ...
04 May 2021, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Security Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire German politicians have said that Ukraine could have 鈥渁 key role鈥� in 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 future supply with hydrogen,聽 reports business daily Handelsblatt. Germany and Europe had ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:35 Jessica Bateman Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Reuters The German government is considering taking a minority stake in the Baden-W眉rttemberg transmission grid operator TransnetBW via state-owned development bank KfW, according to ...
22 Jul 2021, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Politics Clean Energy Wire 鈥淢y political life has been characterised by the work against climate change,鈥� German chancellor Angela Merkel said at her traditional summer press conference in Berlin. Merkel, who after 16 ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany is spending billions on becoming climate neutral by 2045 but has no idea whether this money is well spent, according to the country鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry Clean Energy Wire Industry produced 55 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in Germany in 2018, meaning local units of ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Tageszeitung (taz) The introduction of a uniform system for recycling the vast volumes of construction waste is not making headway even after 15 years of negotiations between Germany's 16 states, Heike ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:04 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire The amount of electricity produced with renewable energy sources in Germany within one year could theoretically power ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:25 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Policy ARD / Die Welt Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke is moving away from her opposition to the use of biodiesel, at least in the agricultural sector, public broadcaster ARD reports. While there are ...
07 Dec 2020, 14:00 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Handelsblatt German grid operator Amprion plans to invest around 24 billion euros in the electricity network over the next ten years, 9 billion more than previously planned,聽J眉rgen Flauger聽 ...
16 Feb 2022, 13:35 S枚ren Amelang Cars EU Handelsblatt / Reuters / Spiegel The German government has settled its dispute over future CO2 rules for cars and will not call for more stringent EU fleet emission limits than currently proposed by the European ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire In a televised debate following on that of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three chancellor candidates, the four smaller parties in the country鈥檚 parliament have traded blows over the course of ...
06 Oct 2020, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann International Security Clean Energy Wire German defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has said the country's military needs to better adapt to the challenges posed by climate change and improve its equipment ...
08 Dec 2020, 08:03 The European Union and Germany will continue to deal with the general question of energy sovereignty and strategic autonomy even with a new US administration led by Joe Biden, says Kirsten Westphal, senior associate at the German ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency Clean Energy Wire "Practically all" of Germany's three-million non-residential building stock will have ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:06 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire An additional investment of over 128 billion euros compared to earlier plans is needed to make 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid fit for a climate neutral future, according to a first ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Zeit The possible earlier coal phase-out in eastern Germany continues to lead to clashes between the federal government and state governments in the east, with views differing on how a coal exit in ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International Die Zeit The German and French economy ministers said 鈥渟ubstantial progress鈥� has been made in talks about transparency and cooperation on green subsidies between the EU and the U.S during a visit ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Transport Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Germany has to reform its transport sector taxes to help reach climate targets, but also to ensure sufficient revenue in a climate-friendly mobility future, says a report ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry Rheinische Post The German government is working on an action plan to support the country's steel industry in becoming more competitive and climate friendly,聽 writes Antje H枚ning in the Rheinische ...
20 Sep 2021, 13:21 Jessica Bateman Clean Energy Wire 91tv Policy Elections & Politics Whoever forms the next federal government in Germany will need to make unpopular decisions if they are to meet the emissions cuts dictated by the country's ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:00 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire Germany's metalworker's union IG Metall staged a protest against the switch of Daimler's Berlin plant manager to rival Tesla, the California-based electric car ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:45 Freja Eriksen Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / MDR Th眉ringen [UPDATE note: In a surprise result, Thuringia鈥檚 parliament on 5 February 2020 elected Thomas Kemmerich from the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP) as ...
14 Apr 2021, 14:56 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas International Clean Energy Wire NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH)聽has聽 filed a lawsuit 聽against the continued construction of the Baltic Sea gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.聽The non-profit ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:50 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 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire ...
17 May 2018, 00:00 Germany must ensure a "just Energiewende" by making sure the project remains affordable for all and provides high quality jobs, according to the 6 million-member trade union group DGB. The unions back 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate targets ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:03 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Society dpa / WirtschaftsWoche / Clean Energy Wire The COVID-19 pandemic is leading German companies to rethink the need for business trips and promote video conferencing instead, according to a report by ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Heating Politics Clean Energy Wire In a setback for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government, the country鈥檚 constitutional court has stalled the rapid parliamentary adoption of the coalition鈥檚 controversial heating law. The court ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:34 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S枚ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Wall Street Journal The German car industry has criticised California's decision to ban ...
25 Nov 2020, 12:19 Battery-electric trucks are set to take over heavy duty road freight because they are much cheaper to run than other low-emission technologies, says green vehicle expert Auke Hoekstra, a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology Clean Energy Wire A new research project aimed at solving one of the major technological difficulties of the energy transition is seeking to use the energy from wind turbines' moving rotors and ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Clean Energy Wire / Welt Online / Handelsblatt German housing companies have invested over 340 billion euros in energy modernisation since 2010 but household energy consumption is stagnating regardless, the ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Coal Renewables Clean Energy Wire Electricity generation from coal dropped to a record low in Germany in the spring, while renewables produced more electricity than ever during the same period. Lignite feed-in ...
09 Mar 2021, 09:00 A regional vote in the south-western German state of Baden-W眉rttemberg on 14 March kicks off a busy election year in Germany that will conclude with the general elections in September and the selection of a new chancellor. While the ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:19 Edgar Meza Transport Clean Energy Wire The Deutschlandticket, a subscription public transportation ticket, likely contributed to a six percent year-on-year increase in the number of passengers using local bus and train services in ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Clean Energy Wire Industry federations from France and Germany are lobbying for ...
20 Aug 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Influential German ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:05 Environmentalists have denounced the car industry's continued reliance on climate-damaging vehicles as Europe's largest auto show IAA opens its doors to the public in Munich. Carmakers are presenting their visions for climate ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:28 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire / pv magazine Germany's latest renewable auctions have ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal dpa / rbb / Spiegel Online Social Democrat (SPD) chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz has said Germany should stick to its existing timetable for exiting coal no later than 2038. "We have made ...
15 Mar 2023, 09:45 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable industry association BEE has criticised key elements of the EU proposal to reform the design of the bloc鈥檚 electricity market. The lobby group said strict rules about the shape of future subsidies for new low-carbon ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background / Clean Energy Wire High prices and possibly also pleas by the government are driving down gas consumption in Germany, reports Jakob Schlandt in energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
18 Dec 2020, 12:15 In the upcoming election year, the 20-year-old climate activist for Fridays for Future (FfF) Jakob Blasel will run for German parliament on a Green Party ticket. Blasel told Clean Energy Wire his decision was based on the need to close ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:06 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Clean Energy Wire A tightening of the EU's 2030 climate target would come ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices dpa / n-tv / Clean Energy Wire Falling wholesale power prices have torn a hole in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 financing of renewable energy sources, whose operators receive state support if revenues from ...
26 Jan 2021, 13:28 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire About 650,000 people could lose their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021 and 2020, but the building sector could absorb almost a quarter of these workers with new jobs, ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics EU Clean Energy Wire / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Friedrich Merz, a prominent politician of the governing conservative CDU/CSU who stands a chance to become a minister in Germany's next government ...
11 Nov 2019, 12:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Freja Eriksen Wind Business & Jobs dpa German wind turbine maker Enercon has announced it will cut up to 3,000 jobs, saying the federal government& ...
11 Jan 2019, 10:27 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Security The global energy transition and the shift to renewables from fossil fuels is likely to reduce energy-related conflicts, says a report published by the Global Commission on the ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Nuclear phase-out AFP / n-tv / Clean Energy Wire Germany has agreed to repatriate several tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste from the French reprocessing plant La Hague, news agency AFP ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Carbon removal Technology Clean Energy Wire German researchers said they have reached an important milestone in the development of a scalable and energy-efficient direct air capture (DAC) technology to remove CO2 from the ...
24 Jan 2017, 00:00 Germany's economy and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel will not run for Chancellor in this year's federal election. Gabriel plans to step down from his current role to head the foreign office instead, various news outlets ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Clean Energy Wire Heat pumps are starting to play a significant role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heat supply and were installed as the primary heating system in more than half of all new buildings in 2021, the national energy ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Heating Clean Energy Wire Germany will have to employ different technologies and solutions to get the heating sector to climate neutrality, as the country鈥檚 regions have vastly varying conditions to start with, ...
08 Sep 2020, 13:53 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 Gas Security ARD / ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Coal Gas Hydrogen Policy Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt / Energate The German government has adjourned a decision on the country's highly anticipated strategy on how to boost the use of hydrogen to decarbonise ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Germany's government has removed the last hurdles to finalising the country's much-anticipated coal exit law, clearing the way for a passage of the bill in parliament at the end of the week. The draft agreement grants ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:50 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal MDR / Clean Energy Wire The German coal exit law should be finalised quickly and get parliamentary approval before the summer break ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:22 Edgar Meza Heating Clean Energy Wire The Association of German Engineers (VDI) calls for legal, regulatory and economic framework conditions to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy sources in the heating sector. These could ...
23 Mar 2020, 14:01 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut f眉r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit盲t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Freja Eriksen Renewables Policy Clean Energy Wire Up to 100 projects in the field ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas Nuclear phase-out Finance EU Clean Energy Wire More than 100 NGOs from across Europe have called on Germany's aspiring chancellor Olaf Scholz to do everything in his power as current finance minister and ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Finance Handelsblatt The parties likely to form 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next coalition government- 聽the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) 鈥� disagree over whether ...
03 May 2016
03 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv BDEW 鈥淓nergiewende continues to be major topic for population鈥� 93 percent of Germans believe the Energiewende is important or very important, according to a survey by ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power supply is secure at the moment, but continued grid expansion delays would pose a great challenge, the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said in a press release accompanying its 8th ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:35 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The shortage of skilled labour is a drag on the global energy transition and could put UN climate targets at risk, says a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) that ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Handelsblatt The economy and climate ministry is pondering a new power market design for Germany that decouples electricity prices from gas prices in response to the current turmoil on energy markets ...
30 Apr 2020, 13:50 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas WirtschaftsWoche The fall in natural ...
18 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
27 Sep 2024, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire High temperatures pose an increasing health risk in Germany as climate change progresses and younger children are more likely to suffer, said a report by German health insurance ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Clean Energy Wire / Die Zeit / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany is introducing a nationwide monthly 49-euro public transport ticket which will allow users to use any regional buses or trains across the country, ...
Just 20,000 people in Germany are still employed in the once-mighty coal sector but their influence on energy policy is far greater than their number would suggest, Felix Heilmann writes for Climate Home. Coal workers are well-organised and good at ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:14 Edgar Meza Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Case studies on climate adaptation from around the world do not yet demonstrate truly sustainable strategies, yet sustainable climate adaptation is key for measures to be successful in the long ...
22 Aug 2022, 11:45 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire Waste heat from data centres can be an important contributor to save gas during 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 struggle to prevent shortages if it is utilised to heat buildings, said industry efficiency ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:03 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Efficiency Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire Four industry associations and the German Energy Agency ...
10 Sep 2020, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Energy market experts have debated the future design of offshore wind power auctions in Germany in a聽 parliamentary hearing. Many have railed 聽against the government's idea ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:20 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business Handelsblatt German industrial giant Siemens regards industrial companies' responsibility to become more environmentally friendly as a defining task of the future and ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:43 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Tagesspiegel / Focus Online / T-Online Following weeks of disruptive street blockades, German farmers have threatened to ramp up protests against the planned cuts to agricultural diesel subsidies. The president ...
04 Jan 2021, 14:26 The transformation of the German and European economies will become more tangible in 2021, as new technologies, policies and business models begin to have an effect, Karsten L枚ffler, head of sustainable finance at the Frankfurt School ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:58 Hannah Naylor Transport Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire / Der Spiegel Germany saw the commencement of the world鈥檚 first regular operation of hydrogen-powered trains this week, making "railway history," operator company EVB said. ...
20 Oct 2021, 10:40 From large car manufacturers to globally operating logistics companies 鈥� the number of businesses pursuing net-zero targets and wanting to reduce their carbon footprint is growing. As many of the companies cannot or do not want to ...
13 Nov 2017, 00:00 Higher energy demand triggered by economic growth and colder weather is likely to push up 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions again this year, energy market group AG Energiebilanzen forecast on Friday. A new rise would put 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2020 ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:27 Milou Dirkx Cars Clean Energy Wire One in five German company fleet cars in 2023 were electric, around half of which are pure battery-electric vehicles (BEV) and the other half plug-in hybrids, a survey done by state-owned development ...
Germany would close about half of its coal-fired power generation capacity by 2030 on economic grounds alone if the price of EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) allowances remained above its current level of 25 euros per tonne of CO鈧�, economist Andreas ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:32 Business & Jobs International Tagesspiegel Background Germany has faced multiple setbacks over the last month in two separate cases over its energy transition plans before an international arbitration court, Christian Schaudwet ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Politics Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background More than two years after quitting his job due to differences with the new government at the time, Rainer Baake, former German state ...
25 Mar 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Passauer Neue Presse / Clean Energy Wire The nuclear plant Gundremmingen in Bavaria will go offline until the end of March or early April due to a malfunctioning fuel element that needs replacing, the ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Coal Grid Nuclear phase-out Renewables Germany will not experience an electricity shortage as a result of an exit from coal and nuclear power generation if it rolls out renewables as planned, even if the country鈥檚 power ...
19 May 2021, 13:34 Edgar Meza International dpa John Kerry, the U.S. presidential envoy for climate, called for greater global efforts in the fight against climate change during his visit to Berlin on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reports. Global ...
03 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany's primary energy consumption is likely to remain broadly unchanged this year, according to estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). While data for the first nine months of the year indicate a ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire German raw material company Aurubis has ended cooperation with Norwegian mining firm Nussir ASA on the world鈥檚 first carbon neutral copper mine after resistance ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:28 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Governments around the world should factor into their planning more catastrophic trajectories ...
Smart distribution grids are a pre-requisite for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon energy system, according to a press release from Westnetz, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest distribution system operator. While 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition has been ...
04 Oct 2022, 15:05 Germany's western coal mining and heavy industry state North Rhine-Westphalia aims to complete the phase-out of coal-fired power production no later than 2030, eight years earlier than agreed in German coal exit law. However, two ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance EU Clean Energy Wire The European emissions trading system (EU ETS) and national carbon pricing brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros from the sale of carbon dioxide pollution rights in 2022, the Federal ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency Heating RND Although the building sector is considered a key part of Germany's energy transition, the share of renewable energies used for heating and cooling buildings has stagnated at a low level for ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Bonner General-Anzeiger The head of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has said his company is "shouldering the biggest burden ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:11 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 Solar pv magazine The ...
18 Mar 2016, 00:00 Renewable energy sources already play a key role in keeping Germany's carbon emissions in check, the country's environment minster told an international conference on Friday in Berlin. However, completing the energy transition ...
20 Aug 2020, 14:54 Greta Thunberg and fellow activists have met German Chancellor Angela Merkel to exchange views on the fight against climate change. The campaigners said the 90 minute meeting's atmosphere was friendly, but also added that " we ...
Germany is poor in natural resources and in 2017 had to import about 70 percent of its energy consumption from abroad, the World Energy Council Germany says in its weekly info briefing. Russia is the most important source country for German raw material ...
16 Apr 2021, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's rail operator Deutsche Bahn and the country's aviation industry have agreed on a plan to shuttle around 20 percent of domestic flight ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Focus Online The expansion of onshore wind power in Germany has moderately picked up again in the first quarter of 2020, figures compiled by industry expert group Fachagentur Windenergie ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament has passed a government reform package designed to speed up the rollout of wind power, as well as industry decarbonisation, by removing red tape. The amendment to ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:21 Jack McGovan Efficiency Policy Clean Energy Wire A legal framework for energy efficiency has been passed into law by the German parliament for the first time. The Energy Efficiency Act aims for a reduction in annual energy consumption ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:44 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out Finance Clean Energy Wire / Reuters An overwhelming majority of Germans see no place for nuclear power in sustainable investments, according to ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:22 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 SWR The state government of Baden-W眉rttemberg has passed a new version of its Climate Protection Act in an effort to further reduce greenhouse gases with ambitious new goals, but critics say the legislation ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / Clean Energy Wire The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Grid EU Clean Energy Wire / Reuters The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that Germany's network regulator, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), must act more independently when applying the ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas Funke Mediengruppe / Clean Energy Wire Germany should look into the option of using fracking technology to extract domestic natural gas in light of the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia鈥檚 war against ...
29 Apr 2016
29 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv VW / Handelsblatt 鈥淲e plan to make electric cars one of Volkswagen鈥檚 new hallmarks鈥� German carmaker Volkswagen wants to be at the forefront of big changes in the auto industry, in ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Clean Energy Wire Nearly 60 percent of all electricity fed into the German grid in the first three months of 2024 ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Die Welt Germany's residential heating sector saw a massive shift towards low-carbon technologies in 2020, spurring hopes ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:05 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Clean Energy Wire Germany's ...
17 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Fossil fuels Security Handelsblatt / Deutsche Welle U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced one billion dollars in funding to support energy projects in Eastern and Central Europe as part of an effort to reduce ...
17 May 2022, 12:49 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire Climate protests organised by the Fridays for Future movement directly helped the Green Party in German elections between 2019 and 2021 鈥� in part due to the influence of children on ...
05 Dec 2019, 12:47 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German auto industry association VDA has warned against the new European Commission's push for ...
19 Feb 2021, 13:59 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Sea levels on the German coast have risen by around 15 to 20 centimeters in the last hundred years,聽 according to Sea Level Monitor data 聽from the research ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future coalition government is planning the implementation of a 鈥渃oal foundation鈥� to ensure an earlier coal phase-out. 鈥淭he establishment of a foundation or company that organises the ...
17 Feb 2021, 13:23 Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition 脡nerg茅tique / Deutsch-Franz枚sisches B眉ro f眉r die Energiewende Renewables Energiewende S枚ren Amelang Industry Clean Energy Wire The upcoming ...
11 Jan 2024, 13:47 Franca Quecke Carbon removal S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Industry and environmental associations have joined forces to come out in favour of the controversial technology to store and capture CO2 for sectors where emissions cannot be avoided, ...
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung has published a long article on electricity and heating prosumers (producers and consumers), written by Anna Steiner. There are currently about 1.6 million prosumers in Germany, among them households with solar ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Gas Business & Jobs Security Clean Energy Wire A sudden stop of Russian gas supplies as of July 2022 would lead to a loss of economic output of more than 12 percent, affecting up 5.6 million jobs in the country, a ...
01 Jul 2021, 13:26 Expert DBV- German Farmers鈥� Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:47 Edgar Meza Renewables Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) has called for a revision of long-term renewable power scenarios detailed in an analysis by the economy ministry (BMWK). The ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:39 Kerstine Appunn Jessica Bateman Grid Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has published the transmission grid operators鈥� draft scenario framework for network development for the years ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:22 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's Green Party is proposing a plan to make the country's energy-intensive industries like steel and cement more climate-friendly, using a comprehensive package of ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics WDR The Green Party is hoping to make huge gains in the upcoming municipal elections on 13 September in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany's most populous federal state, Tobias Zacher ...
A new study by WWF Germany and Foundation 2掳 examines the effects of a 鈥渂elow two degrees climate path鈥� on economic risks and opportunities for companies in the automobile and chemical industries. Businesses must include climate and energy targets in ...
09 Jul 2018, 15:15 Natural gas is needed to complement renewable energies today and will increasingly be replaced by 鈥榞reen gases鈥�, enabling the continued use of existing infrastructure, says Timm Kehler, head of the gas industry initiative Zukunft ERDGAS ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:20 Expert BVMW- German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses Bundesverband mittelst盲ndische Wirtschaft Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Germany's sea ports are not ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Transport Clean Energy Wire A new "competence centre" for climate action in the aviation sector has been launched at Germany's most important airport in Frankfurt am Main to facilitate progress in ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities EU Clean Energy Wire An alliance of smaller energy companies in Germany is organising opposition to the asset-swap deal of industry heavyweights RWE and E.ON, arguing it would turn "competitors into ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Clean Energy Wire The roll-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure has made good progress in 2022, with the number of public charging points growing 35 percent to more than 80,500, energy industry ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The emissions reduction targets of several major German companies would violate the Paris Climate Agreement 's goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, a聽 ...
25 Feb 2020, 14:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ...
10 Nov 2020, 14:09 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Electricity market Grid Clean Energy Wire German and Belgian transmission system operators Amprion and Elia Group have completed the first direct current ...
25 May 2020, 14:58 Experts have criticised the German government's draft coal exit law for deviating from the compromise found by the coal commission in early 2019. At a parliamentary committee hearing, representatives from industry, research ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:01 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire / Focus Online The relatively high costs of renewable electricity in Germany prevent innovative projects green hydrogen in the country, according to hydrogen start-up ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:09 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security Clean Energy Wire The far-reaching measures taken in Germany and across ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:39 The German government, its coal mining states and several major utilities have agreed on a roadmap for shutting down the country's lignite-fired power plants and on compensation payments for operators. Many analysts and ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Adaptation Clean Energy Wire The聽 Wadden Sea, the world鈥檚 largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the southern North Sea, is changing at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:40 Higher energy efficiency, a "paradigm shift" in the circular economy, innovative production processes, as well as carbon capture and usage or storage could make Germany's industry CO2-neutral by 2050, but the government& ...
24 Apr 2020, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Storage Cost & Prices S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Reinsurer Munich Re has said it will be the first to offer insurance of the long-term performance of large-scale storage facilities, writes S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The possibility ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Storage Resources & Recycling Tagesspiegel Background Several new industry initiatives aimed at improving battery lifetime in e-cars and other applications show the growing awareness in ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International Clean Energy Wire The economy ministers from France and Germany will use their planned visit to the U.S. on Tuesday (7 February) to advocate for 鈥渏oint green lead markets鈥� for climate ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Finance International Clean Energy Wire / Deutsche Welle The G7鈥檚 strong economies have launched a scheme to quickly provide financial support to countries most vulnerable to climate risks in case of a disaster 鈥� the ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:12 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
15 Nov 2019, 13:44 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Claudia Kemfert German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Electricity market Energiewende Business ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Transport Clean Energy Wire Rail passengers and freight customers are set to be hit by higher prices as a result of a German government railway funding proposal aimed at ensuring a federal budget in line with the ...
18 Nov 2020, 13:38 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 BUND- Friends of the Earth ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Bild / Der Spiegel The dispute over delaying the completion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear phase-out drags on within the country鈥檚 coalition government. A meeting between chancellor Olaf Scholz from ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics The only state premier from the Green Party in Germany, Winfried Kretschmann from Baden-Wurttemberg, says the state's conservative CDU party has largely adopted his own party's stance ...
India has entered into a pact with Deutsche Gesellschaft f眉r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)- the German government's international development agency- to help integrate renewable energy into its grid,聽The Economic Times reports. India鈥檚 Union ...
07 Oct 2014
07 Oct 2014, 00:00 Sven Egenter Die Welt "Germans worry about their jobs because of energy transition" Nearly two thirds of Germans are in favour of the energy transition and only ten percent are completely against it, writes Stefan von Borstel ...
06 Nov 2015
06 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fraunhofer ISE 鈥淲hat does the Energiewende cost?鈥� The costs of a climate-friendly transformation of the German energy system from now until 2050- when the country wants to emit 80 percent less ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Industry Clean Energy Wire The German chemical industry association VCI has teamed up with the country's engineering association VDI to develop concepts aimed at reaching greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050. The ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:08 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
18 Jun 2020, 15:16 Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament is preparing to pass regulation about the minimum distance of wind turbines and support payments for solar power, resolving two major points of contention that have nagged ...
31 Mar 2020, 13:06 Freja Eriksen Wind Clean Energy Wire The Bundesrat, Germany's council of state governments,聽 wants to increase 聽planning security for wind power project developers. It has proposed changes to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) which ...
German economy minister Peter Altmaier pays lip service to the consequences of climate change for 鈥渙ur children and grandchildren,鈥� but his words are not matched by actions, writes Tagesspiegel Background Energie in its daily newsletter. Altmaier wants to ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:55 Edgar Meza Efficiency Die Welt Climate-neutrality in the residential building sector cannot be achieved with ever-more efficiency and insulation requirements, especially if real estate prices are to remain affordable, says the Federal ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany has initiated one of its single most important energy transition projects with the start of construction of the SuedLink power transmission line. Construction of key sections ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cars Tagesspiegel / The Driven U.S. e-car company Tesla has criticised that slow approval processes for German industry and infrastructure projects stand in the way of urgent climate action efforts, as the carmaker ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany's should not jeopardise its national climate goals by committing to green hydrogen on a long-term technology path today, as it is still out in the open how innovations and ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Construction of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 and also 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 first network of hydrogen pipelines are set to start this week in the country鈥檚 east, the federal economy ministry and its counterpart in the ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background After years of dependence on imports from Asia, the time is right to push for a renaissance of the solar industry in Europe, industry representatives Christian M眉ller ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire Renewable power generation looks set to cover more than 46 percent of Germany's power consumption in 2020, preliminary figures published by energy industry association BDEW and the ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Germany's leading wind turbine producer Enercon says the first major crisis in the company& ...
12 May 2021, 13:48 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Heating Clean Energy Wire 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 current climate protection measures do not go far enough to reach its existing CO2 reduction targets in the building sector by 2050, but there is nevertheless great ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:27 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:25 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Tagesspiegel Background An Eastern German city is attempting to stop an opencast lignite mine in neighbouring Poland, reports newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. The city of Zittau, located聽very ...
14 Jun 2022, 12:11 Kerstine Appunn Industry Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German government has set up a new 鈥淭ransformation Alliance鈥� between the chancellery, several ministries and representatives from businesses and trade unions, research ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Transport Society Clean Energy Wire A growing majority of German travelers say they are taking climate change and sustainability into account when planning vacations, according to a YouGov survey. 60 percent of German ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang Industry Start-ups Clean Energy Wire Germany's strong position in the global market for environmental technologies is at risk, warns the country's environment agency (UBA). "Germany's international ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Solar Wind Tagesspiegel Background / pv magazine The coronavirus crisis is spilling over into the solar and wind energy industry, which is already facing a slump in Germany, write Christian Schaudwet and Steven Hanke in ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Die Welt / B枚rsen-Zeitung / manager magazin Policymakers and energy companies in Germany have no intention to put the scheduled end to nuclear power production in ...
05 Jun 2020, 13:07 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Green stimulus Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The heads of state of Germany, Austria and Switzerland have warned against neglecting climate protection during the pandemic and urged an economic restart with ...
06 May 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / SWR The聽 Green Party 聽and聽the聽conservative聽 Christian Democratic Union 聽(CDU) have concluded a new聽 coalition agreement 聽in the southern German state of Baden ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:30 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K枚ln Business & Jobs Julian ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Clean Energy Wire German government officials have welcomed the EU proposal to certify carbon removals, but called for better clarification of the details. 鈥淚n order to reach the 1.5-degree target, CO2 ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Clean Energy Wire Germany's government plans to use the country's EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to advocate a common European maritime economy strategy aimed at strengthening the ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb24 / Clean Energy Wire Tesla's planned e-car factory near Berlin continues to draw criticism from local residents who take issue with the fact that work already began despite pending licenses, ...
22 Mar 2021, 12:43 S枚ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire German environmental organisations have called on the country's carmakers to stop selling new vehicles with combustion engines in Europe by 2030 at the latest. Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:20 Hannah Naylor Wind ZDF Bavarian state premier Markus S枚der has announced plans to build 鈥渙ver 1,000 new wind turbines鈥� in Germany's largest state, which has been accused of putting the brakes on the expansion of windpower. Bavaria ...
Energy market group AG Energiebilanzen has published a comprehensive paper with data on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy use in 2017. The paper gives more detail to the group鈥檚 report from 21 December 2017 that a strong economy had pushed up 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 primary energy ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire Consumers in Germany can expect to pay about 20 percent more for their appartment's gas heating bill 2021 than for the year before, and prices could climb by 67 percent ...
16 Nov 2020, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars dpa / Handelsblatt German economy minister Peter Altmaier has joined a growing chorus of calls for extending subsidies to boost the rollout of electric cars. "I want hundreds of thousands ...
21 Oct 2014
21 Oct 2014, 00:00 Der Tagesspiegel "Greenpeace enters roof of Willy-Brandt-House" Activists from environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace have protested against the climate policy of German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel at ...
29 Jul 2020, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt / TASS The Russian government is urging the country's leading energy companies to quickly expand their hydrogen production capacities and is considering using the controversial offshore ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:19 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire / ARD A raid on the offices of Deutsche Bank鈥檚 asset management subsidiary DWS over alleged greenwashing activities has shaken ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:59 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel Online Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has reelected Manuela Schwesig as premier of the northeastern coastal state, which is aiming for climate neutrality by 2040. A member ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:43 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 Transport Clean ...
07 Jul 2021, 12:27 Edgar Meza Heating Clean Energy Wire A newly formed cross-industry alliance is calling for a significantly faster decarbonisation of the building sector through renewable heating technologies and a correspondingly more ambitious energy ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:12 Jessica Bateman Gas Policy Clean Energy Wire It is possible to ensure the efficient use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional solution in Germany over the coming winter and beyond without losing sight of the climate ...
21 Jul 2022, 11:49 Hannah Naylor Gas Heating Two-thirds of Germans are willing to use an extra blanket or jumper to reduce their heating usage next winter, reveals a study conducted by polling firm forsa on behalf of the German Federal Environmental ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:49 Government help for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 green start-ups is vital to overcome the economic crisis while also fighting climate change, a new survey of the lively sector showed. Current policies do not do enough to honour the "double dividend ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:31 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire Climate activists have criticised new stock index rules introduced by Germany's stock exchange operator Deutsche B枚rse for not ...
24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Heating ARD Conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet, who is currently most likely to succeed Angela Merkel following Germany's general elections in September, said landlords are likely ...
25 Mar 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire Insurance providers in Germany are slowly beginning to put greater emphasis on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) but still struggle to fully appreciate the concept's importance, ...
14 Sep 2020, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics WDR The conservative CDU has emerged as the strongest party in municipal elections in Germany's most populous federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), public broadcaster WDR聽 reports. ...
30 Mar 2020, 14:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities Clean Energy ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:27 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Politics dpa, ZEIT Online Climate protection plans need a stronger focus on social equality, Reiner Hoffman, head of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB), has said. The EU Green Deal, a ...
22 Oct 2021, 13:11 Charlotte Nijhuis Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire More ambitious climate protection can strengthen the German economy and create jobs, according to an analysis by the Society for Economic Structural Research (GWS) commissioned by ...
07 May 2020, 09:31 Slumping power demand due to the coronavirus crisis combined with April鈥檚 strong wind and solar power production have revealed that Germany's fossil and renewable electricity generation, as well as electricity demand, need to ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Clean Energy Wire The measures outlined in the German government's climate package last year will likely not be sufficient to meet the country's 2030 climate targets, a聽 study ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Oldenburger Onlinezeitung / Die Welt / RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland The suggestion by Saxony's state premier Michael Kretschmer that Germany should keep the door open for future uses of ...
25 Nov 2021, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas International dpa The European Commission is planning measures against methane emissions from the oil and gas industry in the EU, according to a draft law proposal seen by聽 German news agency ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire, Tagesschau, Focus Online The German cabinet has passed a climate emergency programme allocating an additional 8.1 billion euros for climate protection measures over the next five ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:50 Germany will safely get through this winter even if Russia cuts of energy supplies, the country's economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said. In order to prevent future supply shocks and reduce dependence on Russia, the ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:18 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Handelsblatt None of the German ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security Die Welt Coal mining states in eastern Germany have warned that the energy crisis makes an early phase-out of the fossil fuel too risky for the country鈥檚 energy supply. 鈥淟ignite is needed now and for the ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:56 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Prices at electric car charging points in Germany are not ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The German government has launched a 900-million-euro auction scheme for green hydrogen imports. The idea of the so-called H2 Global mechanism is to procure the fuel on the world market and ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:25 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 Wind Hamburger ...
14 Jan 2020, 10:06 Germany's shift to electric mobility looks set to get underway in earnest in 2020, and the country's mighty carmakers look ahead with trepidation to what promises to be a tremendous effort for the industry. Against the ...
12 Jul 2021, 13:18 S枚ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire German carmakers look set to overtake Chinese companies in the production of e-cars next year, according to an analysis by conducted McKinsey. "In terms of production, ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Clean Energy Wire Forest experts have called for immediate improvements in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 forest fire protection as incidents cost the country over 600 million euros in 2022 in damages to health ...
19 Aug 2020, 14:03 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal WirtschaftsWoche The energy firm RWE is auctioning off a mammoth coal digger known as a bucket wheel excavator,聽 WirtschaftsWoche writes. ...
17 Nov 2022, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire The 鈥淐limate and Psyche鈥� taskforce of the German Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Association (DGPPN) has called for better political support for mental health care through the climate crisis. In ...
25 Jan 2021, 10:48 Germany is facing a packed election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country鈥檚 16 states and federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of parties ...
20 May 2020, 13:44 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 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 ...
27 May 2019, 13:46 Rose-Anne Clermont Grid Renewables n-tv Federal economy minister Peter Altmaier of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) met with the heads of departments of all 16 German federal states in Hanover on 24 May to discuss how to better ...
15 Apr 2020, 15:27 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Solar pv magazine / Clean Energy Wire Solar power production has reached a new record share in Germany, with solar PV contributing 23 ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:14 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 Gas Security Handelsblatt ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:40 Edgar Meza Hydrogen dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 push for greater hydrogen use is gaining momentum. Some 50 representatives from business, science and government have come together to promote 25 projects in northern Germany that ...
11 Oct 2021, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Die Welt 贰耻谤辞辫别鈥檚 bid to become the world鈥檚 first climate neutral continent can only succeed if nuclear energy gets a role in the region鈥檚 decarbonisation plans, French economy and finance minister ...
05 Jan 2022, 13:44 Kerstine Appunn Cars Handelsblatt German carmaker Porsche wants to continue selling cars with combustion engines and invests in the production of synthetic fuels to lower their emissions. In a first step, the company is investing 20 ...
13 Sep 2019, 13:21 Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Rundschau / Clean Energy Wire Europe's largest auto show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main is turning into a聽 "PR fiasco" 聽for the German car industry due to climate protests and now a dispute with ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:49 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 Julian Wettengel ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:22 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 Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv ...
10 Jun 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Olaf Scholz should focus on climate change mitigation during his visit to Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria this week, NGO Germanwatch has said. ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The climate activists occupying the western German village of L眉tzerath, which is slated for demolition to make way for a nearby lignite mine, are set to be evicted by 鈥渕assive鈥� police ...
26 Aug 2021, 10:15 International partners can be assured that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government coalition after the September election will not veer far off course of the country鈥檚 current climate and energy policy, says government advisor and director of two ...
The parties currently in talks to form 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the blueprint agreement ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:37 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany must electrify its railway network eight times as fast as it does today to achieve its target for the sector, said the Pro-Rail Alliance, a lobby group consisting of non-profit ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Resources & Recycling Rheinische Post / Clean Energy Wire Agriculture ministers in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 states have called to make the use of wood in new housing projects easier in a bid to increase the sector鈥檚 ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Die Zeit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry representatives don鈥檛 expect threatening bottlenecks in energy supply during the coming winter, newspaper Die Zeit reports. 鈥淭he next winter is similarly challenging as the last ...
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16 Jun 2020, 15:06 Clean Energy Wire The German government鈥檚 proposed Building Energy Act is lightweight and should be scrapped in favour of laws that enshrine climate neutrality in all new construction and renovation projects,聽an environmental group has ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:21 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Companies in Germany continue to be ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Consumption of natural gas by Germany's private households and industry customers increased in 2019, while domestic production of the fossil fuel continued to decline, the national ...
16 May 2022, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Renewables Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal and state governments will meet on 2 June to forge a 鈥減act to speed up planning, permitting and implementation鈥� for infrastructure projects, many of which are central ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewables Government Clean Energy Wire The new German government's plan to more than double power production from renewable sources by 2030 presents a 鈥済igantic task鈥� for the country, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire German car manufacturers Daimler and BMW, utility RWE and building materials company HeidelbergCement are among the world's most influential lobbyists against ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:13 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire The average duration of ...
15 Jun 2022, 13:00 Gas flows from Russia to Germany through the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be drastically reduced for an unspecified period, state-owned Russian gas provider Gazprom has announced. The company said that German engineering company ...
