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 ...
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 ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government will make good on a key coalition agreement promise this week and present an ¡°immediate climate action programme¡± with measures in all economic ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Start-ups Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A start-up from Munich has developed a programme that could help e-car producers to massively improve their assessment of the residual value of used car batteries, ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport International Clean Energy Wire The governments of India and Germany have agreed on close cooperation to promote a climate-friendly transition in the energy and transport sectors. On a visit to India, German ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels International Security Clean Energy Wire / S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / ZDF The events leading up to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ commitment to building the controversial Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipeline to Russia could be ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:32 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry Clean Energy Wire Natural gas has become by far the most important energy source for power generation of Germany's ...
05 May 2022, 13:32 Germany is rapidly pushing several infrastructure projects for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to wean itself off Russian natural gas. Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck visited the kick-off ceremony for the ...
30 Jun 2022, 13:24 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Gas Security Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ...
Germany climbed one rank and is in fourth place on business consultancy Ernst & Young¡¯s (EY) Renewable energy country attractiveness index (recai), trailing China, India and the United States. EY ranks 40 countries on their attractiveness for ...
25 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022, 13:38 Jessica Bateman Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new German government¡¯s ambitious climate and construction goals could be held back by a shortage of skilled workers, newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reports. ...
12 May 2020, 13:16 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Wind Clean Energy Wire ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Energiewende International Handelsblatt Despite EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic announcing this month that the European energy union has become reality, unifying Europe¡¯s big energy markets is more an ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal The state premier of Germany's most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Armin Laschet, has called for a "week of decisions" regarding the country's planned coal phase-out, ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:03 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire An ...
Few voters believe Germany's political parties show enough commitment to energy efficiency, according to a Kantar Emnid survey commissioned by German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF). 57 percent of respondents said the Green Party ...
Germany is the world's number one market for investing in smart energy, a new industry survey by law firm Pinsent Masons finds. ¡°The opportunities for deploying energy infrastructure in greenfield sites, the level of existing technological innovation ...
12 Jul 2021, 12:20 Germany's upcoming general election adds fuel to the debate about whether combustion engines have a future in the birth country of the automobile and whether a general speed limit should be introduced on its famed autobahns. Given ...
19 Feb 2020, 18:30 To further its landmark energy transition, the Energiewende, Germany must concentrate on hydrogen technology to support the rollout of renewables, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In an in-depth review of Germany' ...
06 Mar 2020, 10:27 Germany's massive policy push to reach 2030 climate targets is insufficient, two studies commissioned by the government have found. Despite the agreement on a coal phase-out, the introduction of a CO2 price and a host of other ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas International Clean Energy Wire An alliance of civil society organisations including Fridays for Future, Germanwatch and Misereor? has called on the government ?to abandon plans to support natural gas ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany's environment ministry? has proposed a federal climate adaptation law that sets a framework for action at the national and state level. The draft bill is ¡°intended to ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ government cabinet today approved an amendment to the Nuclear Energy Act which provides for financial compensation to nuclear power plant operators due to the country¡¯s phase ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:35 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:11 Following the publication of the coalition treaty, the Green Party has named its future ministers who will be in charge of the foreign office, the ¡°super ministry" for economy and climate, the environment department, and the food ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
17 Jan 2022, 12:13 Jessica Bateman Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new agriculture minister Cem ?zdemir has used his maiden speech in parliament to outline an ambitious climate protection plan, Tagesspiegel Background reports. As well as ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:32 Edgar Meza Agriculture Bioenergy Clean Energy Wire The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) are increasingly relying on certified sustainable palm oil in its procurement of food as part of an effort to counter new rainforest destruction by ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S?ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:04 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy S?ren Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Clean ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Solar pv magazine The coronavirus crisis ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & ...
18 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition ?nerg¨¦tique / ...
05 Nov 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Gas COP26 Clean Energy Wire The role of gas has emerged as a key issue that keeps the German government from signing on to a COP26 pledge to end foreign fossil fuel funding by 2022. The pledge's text lacks a clear ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:29 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel Background German energy utility RWE is struggling to make the transition to climate-neutrality, according to a report published by EnergyComment and commissioned ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The German economy looks set to remain on a low-growth track in the coming months even though challenging factors such as price inflation and supply chain problems appear to ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:29 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Rose-Anne Clermont Cars Clean Energy Wire The number of new registrations of electric, hybrid, liquid gas and ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Focus Online The head of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer, says the EIB will turn into a "climate bank" and expand the share of climate-related activities in its portfolio to 50 ...
17 May 2021, 12:30 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry ...
13 Nov 2019, 12:01 Freja Eriksen Gas Finance Der Tagesspiegel / Euractiv Former secretary-general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has called on the German government to back the? proposal to ban ?all fossil fuels projects, including natural gas, from ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy ...
05 Oct 2020, 13:57 S?ren Amelang Mobility Cars Elections & Politics S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung / Guardian One year before Germany's general election, the country's Green Party is calling for a radical rethink of transport policy by putting a ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:51 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology S?ren Amelang Transport Clean Energy Wire Customized flight routes for individual planes could significantly lower the aviation sector& ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid dpa / Handelsblatt Expansion of the German power grid is ...
27 Oct 2020, 13:47 Coal Hamburger Abendblatt Hamburg¡¯s Wedel coal-fired district heating plant is lowering its coal combustion, which will lead to lower CO2 emissions in the years until its planned shutdown in 2025, Jens Meyer-Wellmann writes in the ...
12 Dec 2014
12 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Data-Project: Fraunhofer-ISI / ?ko-Institut / Enerdata et al. "Research for more climate protection through buildings" Around 60 percent of the EU¡¯s total energy consumption comes from ...
20 Mar 2020, 15:00 The economic crisis caused by the new coronavirus will sharply slow economic activity and the associated greenhouse gas emissions in Germany. The extremely wide range of current economic forecasts is making detailed predictions for CO2 ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire / n-tv / NZZ The stock price of Swiss solar panel manufacturer Meyer Burger has plunged after the company? announced ?it would not follow through on plans to open a new ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:24 Edgar Meza Finance EU Handelsblatt The European Central Bank's (ECB) test of the resilience of lenders to the financial and economic consequences of global warming have turned out to be far more benign than widely expected, ...
03 Feb 2022, 12:32 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Jessica Bateman Transport Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ national railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced it is investing a record €13 ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Transport Clean Energy Wire The draft climate action programme currently debated among German ministries is not enough to reach greenhouse gas reduction targets in the transport sector for 2030, and additional steps are to be ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Society Berliner Zeitung / Clean Energy Wire Activists calling for a halt of a highway project have occupied the Green Party's headquarters in Berlin, arguing that the environmentalist party is complicit ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Handelsblatt The German economy ministry will delay the release of a report on the impacts of the country¡¯s coal phase-out on energy security, power prices, and the climate targets, business daily ...
28 Oct 2021, 14:08 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany's tourism regions urgently need to adapt as they are impacted by climate change in a multitude of ways that will damage many businesses, said a report ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Manager magazine The German government has created a one billion euro fund to support the car industry's shift to low-emission mobility. A "future fund" earmarked for this purpose ...
23 Sep 2019, 10:34 After receiving more than 43,500 signatures on a petition in August, the Berlin House of Representatives will have to deliberate on a climate emergency status for the German capital. Forty German municipalities have already declared ...
27 Mar 2023, 13:44 S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cities Clean Energy Wire A referendum in Berlin on making the German capital climate neutral by 2030 failed to garner sufficient support. Only around 442,000 people voted in favour of the initiative, ...
05 Feb 2021, 14:02 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Society Clean Energy Wire The majority of people living near the central German coal mining region are in favour of the country's coal phase-out and as well as accompanying structural changes to local job ...
20 Jun 2023, 14:40 Carolina Kyllmann Freight Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire Low water levels in the Rhine river as a consequence of ongoing droughts in various German regions threaten to hurt the country's economy, economists at Deutsche Bank Research ...
16 Jul 2024, 12:24 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems that serve as natural marine carbon sinks, such as mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes, can be a significant measure for ...
22 Oct 2020, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Tagesspiegel Background The price crash on international oil markets caused by the coronavirus pandemic is having a heavy impact on Germany's domestic oil industry, with companies cancelling ...
18 Nov 2019, 12:34 Tesla's announcement to build a "gigafactory" for e-car production in Germany is likely to speed up the slow shift to electric mobility in the country, politicians and mobility experts have said. Media called the ...
14 Apr 2021, 15:06 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cities dpa / Tagesspiegel The city of Berlin's government has approved a draft law that would significantly step up the German capital's climate protection ambitions, according to a dpa report ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:51 S?ren Amelang Business & Jobs Heating Policy Clean Energy Wire [Updates with cabinet agreement] The German government has earmarked almost 60 billion euros to boost the country¡¯s emission reduction efforts next year. The designated ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:03 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Table ...
While the current government coalition has largely shielded the coal industry, any coalition involving The Greens would at least start the process of phasing out coal as a power source, according to an election overview by energy news provider S&P ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:02 S?ren Amelang Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Greens propose a large public investment programme to support the transition to a climate-friendly economy and a phase-out of combustion engine car sales by 2030 in their ...
12 Oct 2023, 12:11 Jack McGovan Renewables Wind dpa / Stuttgarter Zeitung Germany has added 50 percent more new wind power capacity in the first nine months of 2023 than in the same time period last year, reports news agency dpa in an article published by ...
14 Feb 2020, 13:22 S?ren Amelang Coal Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany must exit coal much quicker than planned to comply with the Paris Climate Agreement, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). "A coal ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:11 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Freja Eriksen Heating Clean Energy Wire Consumption of oil and natural gas for heating Germany's residential buildings rose by 1.1 and 1.5 ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:37 Germany's governing parties are heading into the final talks over what finance minister Olaf Scholz has said must be a "big and convincing step for climate action." But CO? pricing and a proposed major framework climate ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:32 The German government has agreed to install a ¡°climate cabinet¡± to coordinate emissions reduction efforts across various ministries to reach the country's 2030 climate targets. Environment minister Svenja Schulze said the climate ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:39 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S?ren Amelang Coal Utilities Clean Energy Wire German power company EnBW has committed to becoming climate-neutral within 15 years. "The ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Renewable energies will be at the heart of supply security in Germany in the future, but the country will continue to need gas and must ¡°think big¡± when it comes to ramping up hydrogen, ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Renewables Clean Energy Wire Renewables have increased their power output in Germany to 49 percent in the first half of 2022, according to first estimates published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:17 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire A ...
04 Nov 2020, 14:03 S?ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire Pure electric cars' share of new car registrations in Germany reached 8.4 percent in October as a record number of car buyers opted for alternative propulsion systems.?The number of new purely ...
19 Sep 2022, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Grid Clean Energy Wire German power transmission grid operator Amprion has said that it does not expect blackouts this winter despite ¡°an extremely tense supply situation¡± caused by the current energy crisis. Even the ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:16 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Finance EU Clean ...
The turnover of enterprises with 20 or more persons employed in the energy, water, and waste management industries amounted to 510.1 billion euros in 2016, a decrease of 9.8 percent compared with 2015, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said in a ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 S?ren Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German government wants to help the steel and chemical industry become ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel International Clean Energy Wire The G7 group of influential economies have set up an international climate club to support the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, with a focus on pushing the climate-friendly ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The economic outlook for the second half of 2022 is worsening due to reduced gas deliveries, further increase in energy prices, continuing supply bottlenecks ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:48 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt Green energy provider Naturstrom has said it will provide households directly with power ...
29 Jul 2022, 11:42 Edgar Meza Cars Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ three-month petrol and diesel discount that has been in effect since 1 June has been largely passed on to consumers, but it is ecologically counterproductive and also ...
06 Aug 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Policy Clean Energy Wire The German finance ministry (BMF) is pondering a review of the federal budget based on sustainability criteria in order to prepare the issuing of a green state bond, a ministry source ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert DBV- German Farmers¡® Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Clean Energy Wire German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited representatives of the country's agricultural sector to a ...
19 Jan 2021, 12:18 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert bne- Association of Energy ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:17 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Companies in Germany generated 78.9 billion euros in turnover with goods, construction and services ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Society Clean Energy Wire German chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised the actions of climate activists targeting artworks and blocking traffic by gluing themselves to streets. ¡°There are other ways in which people can ...
06 May 2024, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Clean Energy Wire Mild temperatures in the winter of 2023/2024 have brought down heating demand in Germany to its lowest level since 2011, price comparison website Check24? has found. ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Technology Clean Energy Wire Discarded chicken eggshells can be used in electro-chemical energy storage systems, an international group of researchers has found. Maximilian Fichtner from the ...
10 Sep 2021, 10:11 Once touted as the ¡°climate chancellor¡±, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ outgoing head of government Angela Merkel¡¯s climate leadership over her 16 years in office is now seen by many as middling. International observers commend her steadfast leadership in ...
04 May 2021, 12:10 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Cars Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The expansion of electric mobility in Germany could lead to lower household electricity prices, said Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Efficiency Clean Energy Wire German primary energy consumption was down a ¡°considerable¡± seven percent in the first six months of 2023 (compared to the same period last year), due to high energy prices and weak economic ...
25 Nov 2022, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung Croatia could become an important gas supplier for the southern German state of Bavaria by providing liquefied natural gas (LNG) and also hydrogen to the economic powerhouse state, the ...
15 Oct 2018, 17:33 The ruling Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) ¨C the sister party to Angela Merkel¡¯s CDU and the partner in her national grand coalition government ¨C were dealt a historic blow in the Bavarian state elections, ...
16 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv ?Bild am Sonntag ¡°Getting the green light?¡± ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ transition to a low-carbon economy is not very environmentally friendly and doesn¡¯t make economic sense, argues Olaf Wilke in a seven-sentence ...
04 Nov 2019, 14:13 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire The beginning of serial production of Volkswagen's e-car flagship model ID.3 in a factory in Zwickau marks a "system change" for Germany's ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Energiewende ¨C the decarbonisation of the country's economy and shift away from nuclear and fossil fuels to a renewables-based energy system ¨C has led to ¡°an explosion of renewable energy technologies being installed,¡± but has also had ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:22 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen Technology Germany's largest refinery is set to add synthetic fuels to its existing mineral oil-based product portfolio, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The regional ...
16 Nov 2020, 14:15 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 International Der Spiegel Germany's state environment ministers back the European Parliament's call for raising the bloc's 2030 emission target to a 60 percent ...
07 Apr 2021, 08:47 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ruling conservatives and the Greens are about to kick off the 2021 national election race in earnest by naming their respective leading candidates to take over the helm of Europe¡¯s biggest economy in autumn. While the country ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:09 Finding sources of funding for climate action and ensuring a fair distribution of benefits and costs among different groups in society look set to become the main challenges for negotiators of a new German government coalition. While ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:06 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Society Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche / Focus Online The row over German industrial heavyweight Siemens's involvement in the controversial Adani coal mine project in ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel Industry EU Clean Energy Wire / Handelsblatt / EurActiv The expected call by the EU Commission for an increased 2030 emissions reduction target has been welcomed by German environment minister Svenja ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:48 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Society EU Clean Energy Wire / Spiegel The European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has reduced the emission of hazardous air pollutants like sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides, ...
21 Aug 2020, 14:29 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Heating Society ntv German restaurant and bar owners fear customers may avoid indoor dining due to the pandemic as warm weather turns to cold and call for a return of climate-damaging outdoor heaters, ...
20 Dec 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung A new concept for supporting Europe¡¯s green energy industry in light of the U.S. government¡¯s subsidy programme ¡°Inflation Reduction Act¡± (IRA) has been presented jointly by ...
10 Aug 2021, 12:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Federal Network Agency ...
21 Apr 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Solar International Clean Energy Wire Germany has joined an international alliance of 75 countries to further the expansion of solar energy generation, the ministries for energy and development announced after a cabinet ...
"Many election manifesto pledges concerning the German energy transition project appear to be based on wishful thinking and contain little information about the measures required or the expected costs," writes Deutsche Bank Research in a paper ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Heating Cities Clean Energy Wire The European ...
08 Jun 2020, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire The? price drop on electricity markets ?due to the coronavirus pandemic has led to calls for extending Germany's renewable energy support for wind turbines that are poised to fall out ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Transport Clean Energy Wire There is a rush for electric buses as many German municipalities and cities are decarbonising their public transport systems, the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) said in a ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Transport Dlf / Clean Energy Wire The German government will present a ¡°modern public transport ticket¡± after the population has ¡°embraced¡± the 9-euro ticket the country introduced as part of a relief package in the ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Augsburger Allgemeine The end of nuclear power production in Germany in 2022 will not compromise the electricity supply of southern economic powerhouse state Bavaria, the state's ...
24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop ¡°a certain passion and joy¡± for the country¡¯s generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
07 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cars t-online / Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / dpa / Clean Energy Wire Labour unions and political parties in ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Augsburger Allgemeine / Rheinische Post ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy minister Robert Habeck wants to extend the country¡¯s energy ¡®price brakes¡¯ until the end of March 2024 as an ¡°insurance against rising prices¡± ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Four years after the launch of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ national hydrogen strategy, the buildout of hydrogen infrastructure is behind schedule and could run into serious trouble that scares away ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Wind International Clean Energy Wire The plans by the European Commission to significantly ramp up renewable energy generation at sea have been mostly welcomed by German policymakers ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:39 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire A large number of German companies are?pursuing sustainability strategies and have ambitious climate protection goals to reduce their carbon footprint, according to ...
The draft of a coalition treaty agreed by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ negotiating parties suggests that Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) have found common ground on energy and climate policy, mirroring several aspects ...
05 Nov 2020, 14:17 Expert DBV- German Farmers¡® Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Clean Energy Wire German farmers have understood the need for making agriculture more sustainable and integrate food production in ...
02 Oct 2019, 10:07 Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [UPDATE adds media report on climate action cost estimate of 150 billion euros by 2030] The German ...
07 Aug 2020, 14:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Die Welt / WirtschaftsWoche / Tagesspiegel Three Republican senators have threatened the US will impose "crushing legal and economic sanctions" on the port of Sassnitz on the German Baltic Sea ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:21 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German coal industry is looking to hydrogen production as an alternative in light of the ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:26 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Julian Wettengel Utilities Clean Energy Wire The long-term stabilisation trend of German utilities' financial situation continues, writes ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Electricity Renewables Clean Energy Wire ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: The fate of coal-fired power production in Germany has been sealed with the agreement of a government-appointed commission to phase-out the fossil fuel no later than 2038. But the proposal so far has not been translated ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
15 Aug 2022, 14:13 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport dpa / ARD Germany's economy and transport ministries are working on a regulation to give trains transporting coal, mineral oil and gas priority over passenger trains, as the country is tackling the ...
02 Jul 2021, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Der Spiegel The German conservative CDU/CSU alliance has stabilised its position as the country's most popular party again, relegating the Green Party firmly to the second place, according ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:31 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Grid EU Clean Energy Wire NordLink, the world's longest subsea electrical interconnector linking Norway and Germany, has begun operation exchanging wind ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Germany's government together with researchers, water industry representatives and local authorities is working on a national water strategy aimed at coping with recurring ...
18 May 2020, 14:16 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy S?ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany should aim to build up large capacities of hydrogen ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:23 Jessica Bateman Wind Handelsblatt German wind power expansion is declining despite government efforts to increase capacity, according to figures from the Fachagentur Windenergie an Land (FA Wind) as seen by business daily Handelsblatt. ...
16 Apr 2021, 13:48 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire German utility company Uniper has dropped plans for an import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the German port of Wilhelmshaven and now plans to build a ...
Germany spent a record 26.3 billion euros on supporting renewable energy development in 2017, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing data released by the country¡¯s four power transmission grid operators (TSO) on Renewable ...
Almost a quarter of German households are ¡°actively participating¡± in the Energiewende by using technologies such as solar PV systems, battery storages, e-cars, or heat pumps, according to the ¡°Energy Transition Barometer 2018¡± published by state-owned ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:37 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Julian Wettengel Cars ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:30 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:37 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Industry dpa / Reuters / Tagesspiegel SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is aiming for a new law to ensure industry has enough renewable electricity to decarbonise over the coming decades, ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire / RBB / NDR A court in Germany has imposed a nearly two-year sentence for a road block climate protest by the activist group Last Generation (Letzte Generation). The local ...
Energy-intensive companies in Germany need competitive power prices to survive in the global market, Angela Hennersdorf writes for WirtschaftsWoche Online. Energy costs were among the main cost factors for companies such as metal provider Aurubis, ...
08 Jul 2022, 12:31 Hannah Naylor Finance International Clean Energy Wire The economy ministry (BMWK) is channelling an additional 126 million euros into the International Climate Initiative (IKI) in order to support decarbonisation efforts in emerging and ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cars Clean Energy Wire A quarter more electric cars were registered in Germany in the first half of 2022 than in the same period last year, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). That brought the ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:50 Freja Eriksen Start-ups Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire German start-up Ecoligo has created a crowd investment structure to encourage the expansion of solar power in developing countries, writes business daily Handelsblatt. The two ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Energiewende successes lie in the past and it¡¯s time to put the transition on a new footing, Jakob Schlandt?writes in a leading article in Der Tagesspiegel. Greenhouse gas emissions have stagnated for years, and ¡°little or nothing has happened ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:38 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut f¨¹r Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire German financial aid in the fields of environment and energy is "rising ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann International Clean Energy Wire The German government must take advantage of its EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to bolster the bloc's climate action ambitions and vouch for a 2030 emissions ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Business International Allianz / Germanwatch Germany has ceded its position as the G20¡¯s most attractive market for renewable energy investments to its neighbour France, the Climate ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:03 As president Vladimir Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine and the U.S. is preparing to ban all oil imports from Russia, calls are getting louder for Germany and Europe to follow Washington¡¯s lead. European countries are paying ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post / WDR The villages around Germany's open-cast lignite mines in federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) that are slated for demolition to make room for expanding the mines see ...
14 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021, 13:03 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire, Reuters The German and Australian governments have signed a letter of intent on sustainable hydrogen production, according to the German ministries of economic affairs and energy and education and research. ...
21 Dec 2022, 10:51 The uptake of net zero targets among India¡¯s industrial giants is unlikely to translate into rapid emissions reductions given a lack of adequate policies, funding and regulatory oversight. On the contrary, the country's steelmakers ...
11 May 2020, 13:46 Freja Eriksen Electricity market Grid Tagesspiegel Background Germany's single power price zone could come under threat as the coronavirus has practically slowed power grid expansion to a standstill, reports Steven Hanke in the ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International Clean Energy Wire / n-tv A planned trip to India by ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck aims to bring the countries closer together in efforts to develop renewable ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:34 German officials have reiterated that public support for new gas projects in other countries should be possible, as long as these are in line with overall climate commitments. The comments by the government come amid sharp criticism by ...
28 Jan 2019, 11:36 The agreement by Germany's coal exit commission to end the fossil power source's use by 2038 the latest is welcomed by the country's climate activists and energy industry representatives alike. They praise the final ...
Even with the EU Commission¡¯s new energy package, Europe¡¯s energy policy remains unfinished as member states continue to fend for themselves, writes Michael Bauchm¨¹ller in an opinion piece for S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The problem is that each country has its ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity prices in Germany will be significantly higher in the next few years than they were during the 2019-2020 period due to the country¡¯s energy mix and their continued dependence on gas ...
07 May 2020, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Clean Energy Wire The coronavirus crisis has added a new "feelgood factor" to private cars at the expense of public transport in Germany, according to a? survey ?conducted by the ...
06 Jul 2017, 00:00 With the US pulling out of the Paris Agreement, China and Germany are making a very public display of leadership on climate protection and transition to green energy. The export heavyweights are eager to keep the global economy on track ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire The new head of the German central bank (Bundesbank), Joachim Nagel, has said combating climate change is a key task for the bank. ¡°Climate change requires a restructuring of our economy,¡± ...
28 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Federation of German Industries ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ largest utility E.ON has struck a partnership with Google to expand its renewable energy business. E.ON will introduce Google¡¯s solar platform Sunroof in Germany, the company said in a press release. The platform uses data from Google Earth to ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany has to speed up the development of its infrastructure for hydrogen use, as the country faces several energy-related crises at once, ?gas transmission grid operators said during the ...
18 Nov 2020, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis Clean Energy Wire 91tv Green stimulus Clean Energy Wire Corona stimulus packages in G20 countries are set to delay climate action,?according to a report published by Climate Transparency, an international partnership ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:26 Edgar Meza Gas Security WirtschaftsWoche As energy prices in Germany continue to rise, the chairman of the German Bundestag¡¯s climate committee, Klaus Ernst, is pushing for the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to begin ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:26 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S?ren Amelang Cars Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The shift to electric mobility will cost fewer jobs at carmakers than many experts and unions assume, a study commissioned by Volkswagen and ...
25 May 2022, 13:36 S?ren Amelang Wind Security RND / Clean Energy Wire Germany wants to increase international cooperation on making the Baltic Sea an important location for offshore wind generation. The country plans to use its one-year presidency of the ...
06 May 2020, 13:29 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Grid Renewables Clean Energy Wire Germany's electricity supply can remain secure until 2050 as renewable energy installations and decentralised units such as storages will be able to contribute ...
02 Sep 2021, 14:03 Edgar Meza Cars Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The Monopolies Commission, an independent expert committee that advises the German government and legislature on competition issues, is urging the government to ensure fair competition in the ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:17 Julian Wettengel International COP27 Clean Energy Wire The German government aims to continue efforts to regain the trust of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, while at the same time strengthening ...
22 Feb 2022, 12:24 Edgar Meza Agriculture Clean Energy Wire Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have for the first time determined how much of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ forests have been lost due to heat, drought and pest infestation using satellite-based ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The next German government must massively increase climate action efforts in order to triple the current average annual greenhouse gas emissions reductions, ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:10 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Clean Energy Wire The lack of interest in Germany' ...
26 Nov 2019, 12:58 S?ren Amelang Coal Clean Energy Wire Europe's mining regions call for EU support for "clean coal" technologies to ease their transition, but climate activists warned the coal exit must not be delayed by promoting " ...
20 Oct 2020, 12:34 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Wind Handelsblatt German electricity transmission grid operator 50Hertz wants to see a more aggressive expansion of wind power in the Baltic Sea than currently ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany's four ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:54 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Labour unions are necessary for organising the collective ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:52 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Digitalisation Heating Handelsblatt ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ shift away from Russian gas, coupled with government plans to phase out fossil fuel heating systems, has led to a massive heat pump boom that is forcing the ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:44 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Technology Clean Energy Wire It is possible for the German chemical industry- ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:54 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The spread of heat pumps and electric vehicles could lead to local power cuts in parts of Germany where the grid is not yet prepared for an increase in ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:41 S?ren Amelang Renewables Wind Klimareporter Rapidly rising costs could jeopardise the construction of already planned wind turbines with a total capacity of several gigawatts, news outlet klimareporter? reports. Up to 4 gigawatts (GW) ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Industry EU Clean Energy Wire The European Commission's plans to replace emission rights trading with a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which aims to create a level playing field for EU producers subject to EU ...
07 Sep 2021, 13:59 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ forests need to be adapted to global warming in order to remain intact and contribute to balancing ...
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 The EU Commission has published its strategy paper on the creation of a European Energy Union. 91tv presents a brief summary of reactions out of Germany to the proposals. Sven Egenter Clean Energy Wire 91tv International Policy See the ...
23 Mar 2020, 14:06 Expert ifeu- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Freight Clean Energy Wire A 3,200-kilometre network of overhead power lines (catenary) for hybrid trucks would cut ...
30 Nov 2023, 15:00 [CORRECTION: Earlier version of the article misstated the number of members in the climate club. The club's website says 36 countries are members.] On the first day of the UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai, Germany and ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Germany can reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 but enormous tasks such as the massive expansion of renewable energy and transformation of whole industries have to be initiated as quickly as possible by the country¡¯s next ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Policy Clean Energy Wire Germany is failing to take advantage of the huge potential of the ¡°rigorous electrification¡± of transport and heating to cut emissions, consultancy McKinsey says in its latest ...
25 Oct 2019, 15:22 The share of renewable energy in Germany's gross power consumption reached a record of almost 43 percent in the first nine months of 2019. But a near halt in the country's onshore wind power expansion overshadows the ...
12 Dec 2019, 16:06 The European Union¡¯s new executive has presented its highly anticipated Green Deal to tackle climate change. The policy package? commits the EU to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The Clean Energy Wire presents reactions to the ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:13 A new German government has started its work shortly before Christmas, kicking off its four-year term with a key promise to make the country ready for its ambitious bid to become climate neutral before the middle of the century. At a ...
10 Mar 2020, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany's highly anticipated strategy to pave the way for a hydrogen economy must focus on green hydrogen made with renewables and be "truly ambitious," says German ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:55 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Hydrogen Frankfurter ...
27 Sep 2021, 09:30 Germany is heading towards a three-party federal government with a significant climate action focus as the Social Democrats scored a thin victory in the federal elections following an unexpected comeback, and the long-ruling ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:20 Paul Gordon Solar Clean Energy Wire The war in Ukraine and the associated energy crisis are pushing homeowners in record numbers to install solar power systems and batteries, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) has said. ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:52 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry ...
25 Mar 2022, 15:02 Germany is making considerable progress in weaning itself off fossil fuel imports from Russia and could become virtually independent of the country¡¯s coal and oil by the end of this year, said economy and climate minister Robert Habeck ...
23 Nov 2021, 14:23 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The new German government should enable ...
22 Jun 2021, 13:48 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government aims to spend some 5.2 billion euros next year in climate protection investments as part of an emergency climate pact that is expected to be approved by ...
27 Feb 2015
27 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv LichtBlick / WWF ¡°³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô citizens against coal¡± A survey by green energy supplier LichtBlick and environmental organisation WWF, coinciding with the launch of a new coal-fired power station in ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:33 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire Rooftop solar and offshore wind power are the most popular technologies for Germany's future power mix, ...
05 May 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Solar Wind Clean Energy Wire Renewable energy sources accounted for 50 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 2022 ¨C around nine percentage points more than in the same period last year, ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:00 The eviction of coal protesters in the Hambach Forest in 2018 was illegal, a court ruling in German state North Rhine-Westphalia found. The forest threatened by a nearby lignite mine had become a symbolic battleground in the context of ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:25 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire In 2019, Germany experienced its third-warmest year since the beginning of regular ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:35 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Freja Eriksen Efficiency Heating Clean Energy Wire The German heating industry saw sales increase for the third year in a row in 2019, with nearly 175,000 ...
28 Sep 2020, 14:12 S?ren Amelang Finance Clean Energy Wire The German government is urging Europe's financial sector to see the shift to a more sustainable economy as a major business opportunity. "Transforming the economy towards greater ...
22 Mar 2022, 12:13 Jessica Bateman Cars Handelsblatt German carmakers are warning a nickel shortage caused by the war in Ukraine could endanger the transition to electric mobility, Handelsblatt reports. Many manufacturers source nickel, which is used in ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire Climate change is increasingly becoming a danger for churches, historic buildings, parks and other cultural heritage sites, the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) has said ...
Germany invested 14.6 billion US dollars in clean energy in 2017, a decrease of 26 percent compared to the previous year, and the lowest since 2004, says Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) in its 2017 report on global investment in renewable energies. ...
25 Jun 2019, 13:42 S?ren Amelang Cars Policy BR / Tagesspiegel Background A high-profile meeting between Chancellor Angela Merkel and car industry representatives has yielded few tangible results, according to media reports. The ¡¯car summit¡® lasted more ...
Fairer distribution of the costs of the Germany's energy transition could save consumers and the retail sector up to 5.2 billion euros, according to a joint paper from the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and the Association of ...
27 Jun 2024, 14:07 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society More than two thirds of Germans say they would ¡°rather not¡± or ¡°definitely not¡± make financial sacrifices and lower their personal standard of living for the benefit of the climate, according to a ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:14 Expert DBV- German Farmers¡® Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture Clean Energy Wire / Tageszeitung (taz) Up to 10,000 farmers and 700 tractors are expected to be present at protests against German ...
17 Nov 2020, 13:53 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨¹r Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Handelsblatt A new project launched by Germany's development cooperation ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas Clean Energy Wire The planned infrastructure for direct imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coastlines are ¡°massively oversized¡± and state involvement means that taxpayer money is used for what could ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:10 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f¨¹r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology S?ren Amelang Transport Technology Clean Energy Wire Germany wants to extend its landmark energy transition (Energiewende) to the skies ...
14 Apr 2022, 12:41 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut f¨¹r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit?t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Clean Energy Wire The EU should review its planned ...
21 Jun 2016
21 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) Climate Action Plan 2050 delayed The Climate Action Plan 2050 that is to describe a pathway and policy measures for Germany to cut its ...
23 Apr 2020, 13:51 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
Partly due to weak winds last year, earnings at RWE renewables spin-off innogy fell 7 percent to 4.2 billion euros in 2016, the company's first fiscal year as an independent company, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. Revenues dropped four ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:40 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Gas Utilities Heating Clean Energy Wire Most ...
03 Apr 2020, 13:47 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire The introduction of Germany's ...
05 Apr 2019, 11:37 The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives has criticised a key proposal for reaching Germany's 2030 climate targets, signalling major negotiations are still needed before the highly anticipated Climate Action Law ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:43 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating Society Clean Energy Wire The German government has agreed to review applications by home builders under a controversial funding programme set up by the previous administration. Its aim is to pacify ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:40 S?ren Amelang Gas NDR ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ controversial new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Baltic Sea island of R¨¹gen is ready to start commercial operations ¨C but the project lacks demand, reports regional public broadcaster NDR. ...
03 Feb 2022, 13:46 Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background The new German government has not yet agreed on a joint position for the EU¡¯s car emissions reduction plans, business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. The ...
German utility E.ON¡¯s fossil energy unit Uniper has launched an online platform showing gas storage facility fill levels. "With this new tool, on the one hand we are taking another step towards digitisation and on the other hand, closing the gap ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:51 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Solar Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ latest auction for large ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:48 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
18 May 2021, 13:29 Correction: This article was updated to reflect that the named German companies whose supply chains have been implicated in the " Uyghur Forced Labour and Global Solar Supply Chains ¡± report are not solar photovoltaic module ...
14 Nov 2021, 12:40 A Glasgow Climate Pact, including the notion that climate action needs to be accelerated within this decade to keep global temperature from rising more than 1.5¡ãC as well as a historic reference to the phase-out of climate damaging ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel CO? emissions in Germany and ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:25 Kerstine Appunn Heating Clean Energy Wire Heat pumps are the best option for Germany to reach its climate targets in the buildings sector, researchers from the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal ...
German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) head Stefan Kapferer warns that calls from the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) for recurring compensation payments to farmers if power transmission lines are built on their premises would make ...
01 Oct 2019, 10:00 Europe's largest CO2 emitter RWE has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040. The announcement underlines the deep transformation underway at the German operator of lignite mines and power plants, which is now betting on ...
13 Apr 2023, 12:59 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government dpa / Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire Ahead of a major protest in Berlin announced by the climate activist group Last ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said that current amendment plans for the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) do not yet include ¡°special auctions¡± for onshore wind and solar PV, which were agreed in the grand coalition treaty, reports ...
25 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany is hosting this year¡¯s international climate summit (COP23) in Bonn. The conference will be about establishing the trust in mutually agreed rules on climate protection, says Carsten Rolle, head of the energy and climate policy ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
15 Jun 2022, 12:20 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany should be able to import green hydrogen from Australia at competitive prices, a feasibility study has revealed. German industry association BDI and the National Academy of Science and ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:10 Expert B¨¹rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims Clean Energy Wire / Der Spiegel German asset management company DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, is facing fresh ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:44 Jessica Bateman Transport Clean Energy Wire ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ €9?nationwide public transport ticket improved low-income households¡¯ social participation and boosted their overall quality of life, a report has found. Researchers from the ...
06 May 2020, 13:42 Freja Eriksen Clean Energy Wire 91tv Heating Clean Energy Wire Demand for solar heating systems in Germany has risen markedly in the first three months of 2020 as subsidies for sustainable heating increased at the beginning of the year ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Finance EU Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire The German government has joined environmentalists in condemning the European Parliament¡¯s decision to support the inclusion of nuclear and gas power plants in the list of ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:14 Expert DBV- German Farmers¡® Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire Several German agriculture and environment associations have? called ?on the parties ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:51 S?ren Amelang Policy International Clean Energy Wire The EU Commission has warned EU countries including Germany that draft national plans for the coming decade are insufficient to achieve the bloc¡¯s 2030 energy and climate targets. ...
21 Sep 2020, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire Billions of euros in German taxpayers' money are still flowing into stock transactions that contribute to a global warming trajectory far above that agreed on in the Paris Climate ...
Europe and Germany should ¡°share in America¡¯s abundance¡± and cooperate with the US in energy policy by buying natural gas from America, the US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, writes together with US deputy secretary of energy Dan Brouillette in a ...
The whole of the transport sector must switch to renewable energy by 2035 at the latest to reach the Paris Climate Agreement 1.5C target, Greenpeace¡¯s transport expert Daniel Moser told news agency dpa. Moser also warns that Germany would ¡°lose its ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Grid Clean Energy Wire New regional projections for future electricity consumption and production show that ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ electricity distribution grid operators will face massive challenges in the coming years of the ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Welt Online EU competition watchdogs' green light for the deal to merge parts of German utility E.ON¡¯s business with that of fellow utility RWE has led to energy industry fears of a ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The Green Party and the Christian Democrats (CDU) in the state of Baden-W¨¹rttemberg have decided to enter coalition negotiations with the goal to make the southern German ...
11 Jan 2021, 12:51 Germany is going into a major election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country¡¯s 16 states and the federal parliamentary elections in autumn. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of ...
Enterprises in German industry (excluding construction) invested 1.6 billion euros in measures to use renewable energies in 2014- an increase of 14 percent compared to 2013, according to Germany's statistics agency Destatis. A total of 7.9 billion ...
05 Mar 2020, 15:08 S?ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire German carmakers VW, BMW and Daimler are set to overtake Chinese rivals to become global market leaders for electric cars from 2021, according to business consultancy McKinsey. The German trio will ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B¨¹ndnis 90/ ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:47 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coalition government has reached an agreement over rules for the transition to climate-friendly heating, settling a months-long debate over the details of a law that would de facto ban fossil heating systems. From next year, ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Freja Eriksen Utilities German fossil utility Uniper cited rising costs for carbon allowances as a main reason for declining ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:32 Edgar Meza Utilities Clean Energy Wire German energy and telecommunications group EWE has said it plans to become climate-neutral by 2035. In order to achieve its target, the company is exiting coal-fired power generation and investing ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S?ren Amelang Coal Grid Clean Energy Wire Three German hard coal power plants ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wire More than 500 German cities will see protests for more ambitious climate action on Friday, 29 November, the activist movement Fridays for Future Germany has announced. The ...
20 Sep 2019, 13:03 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f¨¹r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Business & Jobs Efficiency Clean Energy Wire The European market for energy efficiency solutions is set to grow rapidly, reaching a volume of around 50 billion euros by 2025, according to a ...
04 Feb 2021, 13:12 CORRECTION: The headline of an earlier version of this article stated that the number of jobs in Germany's entire renewables sector has halved since 2011. However, this decrease only affected production and installation and not ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant ¡°safety buffer¡± of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
27 Oct 2021, 13:33 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Transport Clean Energy Wire Germany's new government must agree on a wide variety of policy instruments to achieve the 2030 climate target in the transport sector, a? report ?by consultancy ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire The expansion of onshore wind power in Germany has reached the lowest level in 20 years, figures by the German Wind Power Association (BWE) confirm. With only 243 turbines and a ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Fossil fuels Clean Energy Wire Eastern German lignite mining and power plant company Leag has received the green light for up to 1.75 billion euros in state support to compensate for the implementation of the ...
Fuel cell electric vehicles could make a significant contribution to reducing CO 2 emissions in the transport sector, according to a study by oil company Shell and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. ¡°In 2050, 113 million fuel ...
Devising a plan for ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ coal exit through a commission is a tough job with many ?pitfalls for policymakers, Cecile Boutelet reports for Le Monde. Coal region Lusatia in eastern Germany is one example of a place ¡°where the contradictory narratives of ...
26 Oct 2021, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire The German economy could suffer climate change-related damage totalling 730 billion euros in the next 50 years if countermeasures are not taken early enough, a new ...
A small circle of representatives from CDU, CSU, FDP and the Green Party will meet this afternoon (2 November) to try and find common ground on climate and energy in the ongoing exploratory talks ahead of official negotiations to build the next government ...
A report commissioned by RWE, one of Germany's largest owners of lignite mines and coal-fired power generation, says that a mandated German coal exit by 2040 would shift power generation and related CO? emissions to neighbouring countries and lead to ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Clean Energy Wire / Frankfurter Allgemeine The first ship designed to convert liquefied natural gas (LNG) back ?to gaseous state has? arrived ?in Germany, Deutsche ReGas, ?the company developing the country's ...
04 Apr 2022, 14:01 S?ren Amelang Cars Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A group of Volkswagen shareholders pushes Europe's largest carmaker to reveal its emissions regulation lobbying, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Seven institutional ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:52 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S?ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Industry Clean Energy Wire The German industry plans to stick to existing ...
07 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Cars Spiegel, Handelsblatt The German government is aiming to see 15 million electric cars on the roads by 2030, but current sales are making this target increasingly difficult to reach, transport transition think tank Agora ...
18 Jun 2021, 11:17 Julian Wettengel Industry Elections & Politics Clean Energy Wire The German Green Party¡¯s chancellor candidate, Annalena Baerbock, has refined her party¡¯s proposal to introduce so-called Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) to ...
24 Jan 2020, 14:08 Expert YouGov Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Society Clean Energy Wire Despite a slump in the expansion of onshore wind power in Germany, most people in the country remain fundamentally in favour of the renewable energy ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:47 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The German industry is confident that the goal of achieving ...
Free Democratic Party (FDP) head Christian Lindner sees ¡°high hurdles in energy policy¡± for a possible government coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU), Free Democrats and the Green Party after the German general elections, he told FOCUS Magazin in an ...
16 Jan 2020, 14:28 Expert IAB- Institute for Employment Research Institut f¨¹r Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Business & Jobs Clean Energy Wire Germany's climate package will create more jobs than a business-as ...
07 Feb 2020, 13:02 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire E-mobility in Germany, including the charging infrastructure, is growing faster every year and ¡°is gradually leaving its niche role behind¡±, writes ...
20 Jul 2022, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Clean Energy Wire In a bid to adapt cities and other urban areas to climate change effects such as extreme heat, ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ buildings and construction ministry (BMWSB) has launched a programme to fund measures ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:38 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Gas Heating taz / Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire Fossil fuels are still being used to heat three quarters of homes in Germany, with renewable ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean Energy Wire Businesses' necessary adaptation to climate change and potentially disruptive policy decisions in the move to a climate-friendly low-carbon economy are the biggest risks global warming ...
The German and Indian utilities Uniper and India Power Corporation Limited have agreed to set up a 50:50 service company joint venture, India Uniper Power Services, to offer services including the operation and maintenance of power stations. The venture ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Society Der Spiegel / Augsburger Allgemeinen An activist from the German climate activist group Last Generation (Letzte Generation) has been sentenced to eight months in prison without parole for taking part in a street ...
10 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Renewable Energy Prospects: Germany A new IRENA report ¡°¸é±ð²Ô±ð·É²¹²ú±ô±ð Energy Prospects Germany¡± examines the country¡¯s energy transition in the last ...
22 Jun 2023, 14:00 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire In an effort to make ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ solar expansion more socially acceptable and sustainable, the Association of Energy Market Innovators (bne) has presented a? legislative proposal ?detailing ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:41 With a new sustainable finance strategy, Germany's government hopes to better align financial policies with climate targets and to ensure the country moves from a cautious to a more proactive role in the budding green finance ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:30 The small western German village of L¨¹tzerath has become the latest battle ground for climate activists, as it is being demolished to expand a neighbouring lignite mine. Given ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ aims to quit coal ¡®ideally¡¯ by 2030 and to reach ...
17 Sep 2020, 13:13 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Industry Clean Energy Wire HeidelbergCement, one of the world's largest cement makers, has stepped up its climate ambitions. The German company? said ?it would reduce CO2?emissions per tonne by ...
German utilities E.ON, Uniper, RWE and innogy are affected by the competition in the renewable power market and the costs of the country¡¯s nuclear phase-out, but hope for better conditions after the general elections in autumn, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel ...
11 Oct 2022, 12:47 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Die Welt Media reactions to the German expert commission's 90 billion euros gas price relief proposal has been largely negative, with many ...
29 Jan 2020, 14:32 The German government has officially approved the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet adopted a law detailing plant shutdowns and compensation payments for coal companies, confirming a ...
21 Aug 2019, 17:10 Angela Merkel's grand coalition government may survive yet another election debacle in the upcoming East German state votes ¨C despite ongoing leadership problems, says political scientist Gero Neugebauer. The Social Democratic ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:13 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:41 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel A majority of Germans want to see more government regulation when it comes to climate protection, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 people conducted by the Kantar ...
06 Jan 2021, 11:52 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel ...
The future of the German energy transition may be in question with the recent reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), but California could take some lessons from the Energiewende, writes Kate Meis for California business-to-business media company ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:18 ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ highest court has ruled that the compensation clauses in the country¡¯s nuclear exit law are unconstitutional. The decision forces the government to make changes to the law yet again, after the original legislation had to be ...
06 Aug 2019, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Utilities Elections & Politics Recharge ...
09 Sep 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Major natural gas importer VNG will seek financial support from the German government to cushion the considerable losses it is making due to high gas market prices. ¡°Due to ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:28 Bioenergy Berliner Zeitung A German startup reportedly is on the verge of industrialising a process that can increase biogas energy yields by 40 percent ¨C and even turn leaves into fuel, the Berliner Zeitung reports. LXP, based in ...
16 Apr 2020, 13:04 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & ...
18 Sep 2020, 13:20 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Solar dpa Solar parks built without relying on financial support are becoming increasingly common in Germany, reports Claus Haffert for newswire dpa. Consultancy Energy Brainpool estimates ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:18 Rachel Waldholz Cars Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire The number of electric cars on German roads increased significantly last year, while major markets like the U.S. and China recorded slower growth. That's according to? a survey by the ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:09 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
23 Oct 2015
23 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung ¡°An energy concept that electrifies no one¡± Bavaria will have to import 40-50 percent of its consumed electricity in 2025, Daniela Kuhr writes in the S¨¹ddeutsche Zeitung. The ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:17 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Rachel Waldholz Grid Renewables reNews / Handelsblatt The German grid operator 50Hertz reported delivering a record 60 terawatt hours of renewable electricity ...
25 May 2016
25 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Reuters Campaigners urge Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad Environmental groups urged G7 nations led by Japan and Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad, reports ...
23 Feb 2022, 10:15 Germany has put the contentious Nord Stream 2 pipeline project on hold in reaction to Russian aggression against Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered the economy ministry to halt the certification process for the already completed ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:07 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Policy Reuters ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert F?S- Green Budget Germany Forum ?kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire As lignite (brown coal) power plants in Germany increasingly make losses ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum f¨¹r Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel Following two extremely hot and ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:14 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire This month was the sunniest and third-driest April in Germany since records began ...
08 Sep 2020, 13:58 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport EU Clean Energy Wire The European Union has to " ...
24 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just days away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:27 Freja Eriksen Grid Clean Energy Wire The first grid development plan (NEP) based on Germany's target of 65 percent renewables in gross power consumption and planned coal exit has been approved by the German Federal Network Agency ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:52 Kerstine Appunn Electricity Clean Energy Wire German households can expect an overall increase in their energy costs despite reductions in the renewables levy on power prices, comparison website Verivox says. Due to the new CO2 charges ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt A new gas pipeline that would connect the Iberian peninsula with northern Europe through the Pyrenees is causing a stir in France, Spain and Germany amid the energy crisis, business daily ...
17 Jul 2021, 10:30 Catastrophic floods have killed more than 130 people in Germany in one of the worst natural disasters in the country's post-war history. The torrential rains have been widely linked to climate change, swinging the issue into focus ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / Clean Energy Wire Electricity prices in Germany are unlikely to go down in the near future, despite repeated claims that a complete switch to renewable power is going to make ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:05 Rachel Waldholz Hydrogen Heating Welt Online New federal subsidies are expected to boost the sale of low-emissions heating systems in Germany, news website Welt Online reports. According to the article, the Federation of the German ...
25 Sep 2020, 14:04 With numerous protests across Germany, the Fridays for Future youth movement has taken aim at pushing climate action to the very top of the political agenda in the run-up to the country's general elections next year. The activists ...
12 Apr 2019, 13:40 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Cost & Prices Energy Watch Group / LUT University A global energy system fully based on ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:23 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Transport ...
04 Feb 2021, 09:57 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Clean Energy Wire German carmakers doubled their global production of battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles last year, according to car industry association VDA. "In 2020, more than ...
German utilities are a long way off using the full potential of digitalisation in the energy sector, especially in the areas of generation and distribution, according to management consultancy Oliver Wyman's Utility Digitalisation Index. On a scale ...
31 May 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Hydrogen dw.com ¡°Lobby battle over Energiewende¡± There is a lot of pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers to hammer out a compromise at tonight¡¯s ...
Germany will likely miss several of its key energy transition goals, according to leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) to monitor the progress of the country¡®s energy transition. Among the three elements of the government& ...
Revenues in the energy, water and waste management industry fell by 15.9 billion euros (or 2.6 percent) in 2014, the second decline in a row, reports Germany's statistics agency Destatis. The turnover of businesses with 20 employees or more amounted ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert German Offshore Wind Energy Foundation Stiftung Offshore-Windenergie Renewables Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind Clean Energy Wire / dpa / Focus Online Germany's northern states and federal government want to nearly triple the ...
29 Oct 2019, 14:10 S?ren Amelang Transport Policy Die Welt Germany's plan to introduce a climate levy on airline tickets to finance a decrease in train fares violates an EU-US aviation treaty, according to US airlines. "The cross-subsidization ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:46 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Clean Energy Wire Power ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:06 S?ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Clean Energy Wire / Zeit Online ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ ongoing hunt for a final repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste could last until the 2070s, a report has warned. However, the country¡¯s environment ...
24 Mar 2016
24 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel Clean Energy Wire 91tv Spiegel Online ¡°E-car subsidies ¨C Sch?uble dampens hopes of a buyer¡¯s premium¡° There is increasing scepticism within the federal government concerning subsidies for e-cars. Vice ...
European Union Commission Vice-President Maro? ?ef?ovi? hopes to be able to present the planned package with proposals to change the EU¡¯s energy and climate regulations before the end of the year. The comprehensive energy union package would include ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Clean Energy Wire The output of Europe's solar power panels is influenced by particulate matter in the atmosphere that can partly block sunlight from reaching the earth's surface, researchers from the ...
07 Jan 2019, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Fossil fuels Renewables CORRECTION: Research institute Fraunhofer ISE calculates the share of renewables based on net power generation, which excludes self-production by industrial companies or ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:32 S?ren Amelang Mobility Handelsblatt Germany's third largest car parts supplier ZF Friedrichshafen believes new orders for electric cars will more than make up for losses sustained by the shift away from combustion engines. " ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:54 S?ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire Raising the EU climate target will lead to job losses in the German car industry, the world's largest industry supplier Bosch and rival Schaeffler have warned. "In order to achieve the ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:16 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International AFP Germany's finance ministry (BMF) has said Germany does not plan to increase its contribution to ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:20 Leading members of Germany's Green Party have called on climate activists to cooperate in the country's general elections next year. They warn that more radical climate platforms competing in elections could harm the fight ...
09 Sep 2022, 14:06 Edgar Meza Transport Technology Clean Energy Wire Synthetic jet fuel, known as e-kerosene, made from green hydrogen and sustainable CO2 could make the aviation industry fossil-free by 2050, according to a report by the German Energy ...
Energy efficiency businesses say the Greens are the most competent among German political parties when it comes to their field, according to a survey by the German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF). Social Democrats and Christian ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:44 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire The expansion of renewable power generation in Germany's urban areas has ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Clean Energy Wire 91tv Wind Clean Energy Wire / Tagesspiegel The energy output of most wind turbines around the world could be increased by changing their direction of rotation from clockwise to anti-clockwise, a study ...
18 May 2021, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Cars Clean Energy Wire The number of electric cars is growing dynamically, mainly driven by members of younger, high-income ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:39 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Transport Clean Energy Wire The German transport ministry (BMVI) will ...
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
07 May 2020, 13:51 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:06 Edgar Meza Clean Energy Wire 91tv Gas International Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire [UPDATE adds date for Merkel visit] German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Washington, D.C. to settle the transatlantic dispute between the U.S ...
22 Sep 2015
22 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ¡°The VW scandal¡± It is a mystery why VW decided to take the risk of manipulating emission results with rather limited benefits, writes Holger Appel in FAZ. Why ...
While generous subsidies have made Germany a clean power leader, helping to increase the country¡¯s share of power generation from renewable sources from 3.6 percent in 1990 to 30 percent last year, the country continues to face challenges in implementing ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:18 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Policy Handelsblatt A price on CO2 emissions would be a far superior solution to the government¡¯s ¡°command economy¡± approach to advance the energy transition in the transport sector, because ...
14 Dec 2021, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Finance Government Clean Energy Wire / FAZ / taz / Rheinische Post / Tagesspiegel ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ new government cabinet has passed a supplementary budget to boost the country¡¯s climate and transformation fund with debt ...
17 Nov 2014, 00:00 Following heated debate over a possible exit from coal-fired power, Sigmar Gabriel has reaffirmed his commitment to reducing carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2020. Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Germany's Minister for ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities Clean Energy Wire The European Commission has approved ...
³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Green Party is calling for power, heat and transport to be integrated as part of its? ¡°green future plan¡± published on Monday. ¡°For the successful energy transition, we will not only switch our electricity supply to 100-percent renewable, but ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Hamburger Abendblatt The energy crisis in ...
10 Dec 2020, 13:53 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Cars Industry Reuters Rapidly rising sales of electric cars translates into good business opportunities for Europe's largest copper producer Aurubis,? reports ?newswire Reuters. "With every ...
23 Jun 2021, 13:25 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Deutsche Welle, Zeit Online, Handelsblatt Chancellor Angela Merkel has said both the private sector and the state have a duty to invest ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Gas Freight Clean Energy Wire A maritime energy transition in line with the Paris Climate Agreement is only possible with the help of liquefied natural gas (LNG), says the Maritime LNG Platform in a press release. LNG ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:15 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International S?ren Amelang Efficiency Clean Energy Wire Germany's heat pump ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:12 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Die Zeit, Handelsblatt, taz Climate protection has been high on the agenda in the run-up to ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ 26 September federal election, but one issue has been conspicuously absent from the debate: the ...
Geothermal energy is hailed by many?as a great hope for the energy transition, but despite its seemingly endless potential for clean heat, the technology has barely got off the ground in Germany, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by ...
An ¡°ideological war¡± in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy policy puts thousands of jobs and the country¡¯s energy supply security at stake, the mining union IG BCE says in a press release. Speaking at a rally held near the Niederau?em coal-fired power plant in the western ...
30 Nov 2020, 15:22 Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Security Focus Online / Reuters The completion of the controversial natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 between Russia and Germany is facing ever more hurdles. After the United States government threatened to impose ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Clean Energy Wire / Klimareporter Supplying households with green hydrogen for heating should not play a major role in ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ heating sector decarbonisation because of huge planning and implementation ...
15 Nov 2021, 12:10 The UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow has heralded in the end of the fossil fuel era, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze shortly after the conference. However, not everyone saw the two-week meeting?in a similarly positive ...
02 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Expert ZVSHK- German Sanitation, Heating and Air Conditioning Association Business & Jobs Heating Rachel Waldholz Heating Clean Energy Wire About one in ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:13 S?ren Amelang Hydrogen Clean Energy Wire Germany's hydrogen council has said the country must urgently make up its mind whether to use hydrogen made with fossil fuels in its market ramp-up of the technology deemed key to reach ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:48 Kerstine Appunn Gas Efficiency Security Clean Energy Wire Germany can save enough energy to make itself almost independent from Russian gas within five years, but not entirely,? a paper ?by think tank Agora Energiewende, consultancy ...
20 May 2020, 13:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:18 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire The German federal government and state governments have reached an agreement about the protection of moorlands. Environment minister Svenja Schulze and agriculture minister Julia ...
15 Dec 2021, 12:09 S?ren Amelang Coal Clean Energy Wire A large hard coal power station and two small-scale combined heat and power plants in Germany are set to stop selling electricity by May 2023 as part of the country's coal exit. In the fourth ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:45 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Clean Energy Wire The share of ...
13 Aug 2020, 12:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Utilities Clean Energy Wire/Focus Online/Rheinische Post Utility RWE¡¯s production from lignite coal fell sharply over the first half of 2020, even before the effects ...
The planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is currently the ¡°most controversial and difficult question of EU energy security¡±, said Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), at the German energy ...
04 Sep 2019, 13:06 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f¨¹r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Efficiency Heating ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:13 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Clean Energy Wire Solar parks can have a positive effect on plant and animal life ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Renewables Wind Tagesspiegel Background A new draft plan for offshore wind power expansion by the German government has allocated ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Zeit Online / dpa / n-tv / Clean Energy Wire The car industry should remain exempt from plans by the European Commission to increase the European 2030 emissions reduction target, Germany's ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International Clean Energy Wire The production of green hydrogen and prevention of pandemics are prime examples for promising research cooperation in the EU, German education minister Anja Karliczek said on ...
28 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Efficiency Clean Energy Wire A majority of companies in the energy efficiency industry are not satisfied with the work of the federal government, according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices Clean Energy Wire Energy consumption in Germany in the first three months of 2023 was almost seven percent below that of the same period last year due to high prices and a shrunk gross domestic ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making ¡°rapid progress¡± with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors,? Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
02 Sep 2022, 12:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt The grid ¡°stress test¡° conducted by Germany's power transmission grid operators suggests that letting two of the remaining three nuclear plants in the country run longer than planned ...
29 May 2020, 13:11 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Clean Energy Wire This year¡¯s spring in Germany was ¡°extremely sunny, quite warm and much too dry¡±, ...
09 Nov 2020, 13:19 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport S?ren Amelang Cars Der Spiegel Germany must speed up its charging infrastructure rollout tenfold to avoid a failure in its shift to electric mobility, which is rapidly ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:13 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Gas International Clean Energy Wire The environmental group Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it is suing to stop the controversial Nord ...
Renewable energy offers the potential of energy independence and security in times of rising geopolitical tensions like the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, according to a story by Anmar Frangoul for CNBC. ?"The idea is for the Germans to say ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:13 Expert BBH- Becker B¨¹ttner Held energy law firm Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:44 Edgar Meza Storage Cars Clean Energy Wire The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has warned against what it sees as the narrow focus of the German government and parts of the country¡¯s industry? on electric vehicles as a major ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Clean Energy Wire One in four cars produced in Europe in 2025 will be fully electric, a? study ?by the Chemnitz Automotive Institute (CATI) has predicted. The researchers say factories across Europe will churn out ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:33 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S?ren Amelang Coal Industry Clean Energy Wire Germany's Fridays for Future student climate protest movement has increased the pressure on engineering conglomerate Siemens for its involvement in ...
24 May 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Clean Energy Wire The energy efficiency gains of one- or two-family homes in Germany have begun to flatten out in recent years, making clear that more efforts are needed to achieve further progress in ...
06 Aug 2021, 13:21 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesschau The regional list of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ Green Party will be excluded from the ballot in the state of Saarland during the national election, the federal election committee announced on 5 ...
14 Jun 2022, 08:55 Russia¡¯s war against Ukraine will throw the agenda of the upcoming?G7 summit off course, but it will not derail the climate focus host country Germany has set, political analyst Ella Kokotsis told Clean Energy Wire. As a leading ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:17 S?ren Amelang Cars Clean Energy Wire Car industry firms that focus on electric engines are looking to employ far more people in Germany than those that rely on combustion engine technology, according to a report published by the ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The parliamentary groups of German government coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD are calling for forest owners to be financially rewarded for their?contribution to ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:22 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universit?t zu K?ln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Expert KfW Bank KfW- government ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background The German government supports plans for a first domestic LNG import terminal, but the volatile global market is complicating existing endeavours, writes Christian Schaudwet in Tagesspiegel ...
28 Jan 2016
28 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Die Welt ¡°Government wants to kill the engine¡± Onshore wind power is the backbone of ³Ò±ð°ù³¾²¹²Ô²â¡¯²õ energy transition, but government reform plans for the Renewable Energy Act risk slowing down its ...
08 May 2015
08 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Handelsblatt ¡°Risk, endurance and determination¡± Steve Westly?of the Westly Group, which has invested in numerous clean-tech firms including Tesla, says he?would buy shares in the new E.ON ¡°every ...
24 Jan 2022, 12:32 Jessica Bateman Clean Energy Wire 91tv Coal dpa Only a fraction of the promised financial aid for coal regions has been distributed, triggering worries that a just transition is being put at risk, reports newswire dpa in an article ...
12 Nov 2014
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter ? Reactions to energy minister's warning against quick exit from coal power Frankfurter Rundschau ¡°Too much coal¡± Everything points to a show-down between energy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment ...
23 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany is hosting this year¡¯s international climate summit (COP23) in Bonn while in Berlin ongoing coalition talks will shape the future of national climate actions. Annalena Baerbock, climate spokesperson of the Greens, which are ...
German battery maker sonnen GmbH aims to push the country¡¯s traditional energy giants out of the market with flat-rate contracts for electricity provided by a network of battery storage and green power facilities, Franz Hubik writes for Handelsblatt. ¡°The ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:21 German utility and lignite mine operator RWE has agreed to refrain from clearing the embattled Hambach Forest in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) until autumn 2020, said state premier Armin Laschet in a parliamentary ...
18 Feb 2016
18 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Clean Energy Wire 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) "Gabriel: Europe needs more industry¡± Europe¡¯s aim to increase the share of manufacturing in gross domestic product (GDP) to 20 percent ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:05 S?ren Amelang Cars Business & Jobs Reuters / Clean Energy Wire Tesla received a conditional permit for its first European "gigafactory" near Berlin, while rival Volkswagen approved construction of a brand new e-car plant ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:29 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W¨¹rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Wind Handelsblatt / Clean Energy Wire German energy ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:37 S?ren Amelang Clean Energy Wire 91tv Mobility Digitalisation Clean Energy Wire The coronavirus pandemic has boosted digitalisation because it forced many people to do without business trips, work remotely and shop online, which offers ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:58 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv / Tagesspiegel Background A commitment to making Europe "the world¡¯s first climate-neutral continent" will be "at the heart" of President-elect Ursula ...
15 Aug 2019, 10:58 In a bid to regain its damaged reputation as a future mobility leader, BMW will replace its CEO on Friday, when Harald Kr¨¹ger will hand over the company's steering wheel to Oliver Zipse. But industry experts are uncertain whether ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:24 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Resources & Recycling Clean Energy Wire German solar power and recycling companies have released a joint proposal for ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 The UNFCCC conference in Bonn needs to see more states make ambitious climate mitigation pledges, Sabine Nallinger, Managing Director of the Foundation 2¡ã- German Businesses for Climate Protection, tells 91tv. The outcome could spur the ...
03 Mar 2023, 12:55 By insisting on a future for new combustion engine vehicles after 2035, German finance minister Christian Lindner has upended hopes for those aiming to agree an effective ban for the technology at a vote on EU car emissions initially ...
26 May 2023, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Grid Utilities Handelsblatt German energy companies have called for the introduction of a new incentive mechanism to trigger the construction of new gas power plants, which the country plans to use ...
30 Aug 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Clean Energy Wire A major lignite (brown coal) mine in eastern Germany will have to halt regular operation on 1 September after a court ruled the mine's owners failed to prove its environmental safety. The ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:38 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f¨¹r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Spiegel Online / ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:24 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Freja Eriksen Agriculture Clean Energy Wire / Der Tagesspiegel Both climate action and adaptation to climate change must be given "higher priority" ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Die Welt / Clean Energy Wire Plans by the Czech government to build a new nuclear plant close the border with German state Bavaria is causing a dilemma for the governing conservative CSU, which ...
