29 Oct 2024, 13:18 Jack McGovan Energiewende 91tv Local communities should be involved in making decisions about the energy transition in order for the shift to clean energy to be successful, concluded researchers from the Research Institute ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Cost & Prices 91tv Germany could achieve climate neutrality by 2045 at a much lower cost through a combination of energy efficiency measures and a slower expansion of power generation and ...
20 Feb 2025
20 Feb 2025, 10:16 91tv Team Carbon Brief: Profile: Germany The nation with both the most renewable power and the highest emissions in Europe. Agora Energiewende: Update FAQ on Germany's Energiewende An interactive dashboard with data and FAQs on the ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany should give greater consideration to the uncertain development of economic output and population trends when planning the country鈥檚 future energy and infrastructure ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Setting up multiple local pricing zones instead of having one big market area could help bring electricity prices down in Germany and increase supply security, according to a report ...
05 Sep 2023, 14:55 Jennifer Collins Energiewende 91tv Germany is off track regarding many areas of its famed energy transition, with several indicators either "unrealistic" or at risk, consultancy firm McKinsey聽 found in its ...
05 Feb 2025
05 Feb 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Agora Energiewende: Stronger incentives needed to fast-track Europe鈥檚 heating transition With current policies, Europe may end up installing tens of millions of new fossil fuel boilers by 2040, jeopardising climate and energy ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:22 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Think tank Agora Energiewende has聽 outlined 聽a number of possible solutions that could speed up the expansion of offshore wind power in Germany. Supply bottlenecks and price increases are currently ...
17 Mar 2023, 14:25 A year after the launch of Russia's attack on Ukraine, Germany appears to be emerging from the energy crisis relatively unscathed. Russia鈥檚 war has dealt a heavy blow to Europe鈥檚 biggest economy, because it was particularly ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:30 Burning less coal and an increase in renewable electricity has helped cause a drop in greenhouse gas emissions of three percent in Germany last year, said think tank Agora Energiewende. Preliminary calculations show that real ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:46 Jack McGovan Renewables Energiewende 91tv Although there are positive signs in the expansion of renewable energies, electric cars and heat pumps, new figures made available by the Ariadne project show progress in the German ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:51 One week after the shock results for East Germany in the European elections, where populist parties made strong gains while the government coalition parties took a beating, chancellor Olaf Scholz met with state leaders from the East to ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
15 May 2024, 12:32 Jack McGovan Citizens' energy Energiewende 91tv Convincing those living in rural areas of the importance of the energy transition is a 鈥渂asic requirement鈥� for transforming the energy system successfully, according to a ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv A consistent policy mix promoting decarbonisation and climate neutrality can significantly reduce energy imports and electricity costs for Germany in the next ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:38 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv A large part of Germany's future hydrogen demand could be supplied to the country via pipelines from neighbouring countries, according to a report by think tanks Agora Energiewende and ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv A large majority of the German public continues to support the energy transition, but financial hardships as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could dampen households鈥� willingness to ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:03 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany plans to ...
05 May 2021, 12:37 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Energiewende Clean Energy ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Heating Tagesspiegel Background Municipalities should expand their mandatory planning for future climate-friendly heating to encompass general energy distribution, think tank Agora Energiewende has proposed, ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv The favourable effects of the coronavirus pandemic on many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition targets in 2020 are only temporary, consultancy McKinsey found in its bi-annual Energiewende Index ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Grid 91tv Germany will have to invest around 650 billion euros into the expansion of its electricity grids by 2045, according to a聽 report 聽by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans 叠枚肠办ler ...
22 Oct 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv / Focus Online A key high-voltage power line set to transport electricity from Germany's windy north to the industrial south has begun construction. Grid operator TenneT has laid the first ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Energiewende EU 91tv Researchers at the German National Academy of Sciences have called on German and European governments to speed up efforts to transform the energy system to help reach climate targets, ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:51 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell around ten percent last year to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and electricity generation from coal ...
16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende 91tv Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv Germany must move quickly to get its renewables expansion back on track if the country wants to avoid a "green power gap," forcing it to rely on power imports or fossil reserve ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry EU 91tv Greening Europe鈥檚 industrial base, ensuring resilient clean-tech value chains and setting up a new EU climate fund should be among the priorities of the next European ...
04 Feb 2020, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power supply is secure at the moment, but continued grid expansion delays would pose a great challenge, the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said in a press release accompanying its 8th ...
07 Feb 2020, 12:58 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Energiewende WirtschaftsWoche Germany needs to revamp its energy policy to avoid issues with supply security and ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:17 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany's performance has improved slightly in consultancy McKinsey's biannual "Energy Transition Index," with targets now deemed " ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Current plans for gas networks in European countries largely fail to account for the necessary decline in gas consumption in the coming years as states try to reach climate targets, according to a ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:33 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende 91tv The amount of packaging waste accruing in Germany has reached a new record high, the Federal ...
10 Apr 2025, 14:11 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 prospective government has agreed in its coalition treaty to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments and stick to existing climate targets. Faced with economic stagnation and the ...
24 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: EU wind industry warns Germany over large Chinese turbine deal Europe鈥檚 wind industry warned Germany that a deal for 16 Chinese offshore wind turbines risks fostering unfair competition for local suppliers ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv Germany is set to miss several key energy transition targets for the year 2020, and the country's high power supply security is at risk unless new generation capacity and grid ...
06 May 2019, 13:27 Kerstine Appunn Energiewende Der Spiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is faced with many problems, including a lack in power grid capacity, energy storage and high costs, write Frank Dohmen et al. in the cover story of Der Spiegel ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:27 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:38 European transmission system operators (TSOs) have recommended that Germany split its single electricity price zone into up to five bidding zones. This should maximise economic efficiency across the whole market area, ensuring security ...
19 Sep 2024, 11:26 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv To聽supply a sufficient number of homes聽with district heating, Germany needs to rapidly expand networks, ensure better profitability and double its annual investments in the technology,聽 a report 聽by ...
19 Sep 2022, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende 91tv The German government has to urgently step up its energy transition efforts in response to the 鈥淶eitenwende鈥� (turn of an era) brought on by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, an ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Finance RND / dpa / Handelsblatt Biomass could continue to play an important role in Germany's future energy system, economy minister Robert Habeck told dpa as reported by media house RND. He announced a ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:25 The German government has been urged to quickly devise a plan on how to regulate and manage the start of the European Union carbon emissions trading system for transport and heating fuels in 2027. Measures need to be put in place to ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:27 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Energiewende Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 approach to exiting coal-fired power generation via a phase-out plan suggested by a stakeholder commission will cost the country more than necessary, ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv Fourteen percent of German households are already putting their money into sustainable investments, while another 30 percent can imagine doing so in the future, a survey by the government-owned ...
30 Jan 2023, 15:52 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv / Table.Media / taz [CLARIFICATION: It is not just Agora Energiewende which says LNG expansion plans are oversized. The grid operators in their draft plan state that if all planned LNG capacity is ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:22 Milou Dirkx Citizens' energy Renewables 91tv The German government is under increasing time pressure to legislate energy sharing opportunities and meet EU requirements originally set for mid-2021,聽 said 聽the German ...
14 Oct 2024, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Resources & Recycling 91tv The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid in line with the growing share of renewable energy sources will require the build-up of greater national production ...
29 Jan 2019, 13:40 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Energiewende Financial Times Agreeing on a phase-out plan for German coal was hard, implementing it will be harder still, writes Tobias Buck in an article for the Financial Times. Buck uses the ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:50 Jack McGovan Policy 91tv The investments needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040 would help grow the EU economy by around two percent, think tank Agora Energiewende said in a report. It analysed the ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende YaleEnvironment360 Germany has long been a global leader in developing and deploying low-carbon technologies, but now faces mounting criticism for failing to significantly reduce its ...
27 Jul 2018, 13:55 Germany's coal mines seen from space, the talk on electric cars and Chinese-German battery production cooperation- 91tv's 2018 visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko presents his view of the Energiewende and its many big and small ...
27 Jun 2018, 16:59 Germany will likely fail on many of its self-imposed energy transition targets, says the government-appointed expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in its opinion on the federal economy ...
27 Jun 2018, 17:29 As the energy transition touches more and more aspects of everday life, public acceptance will become a key question for the project's future, economist Andreas L枚schel says. In the 91tv interview, the academic who heads the ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv Most residents of the eastern German state of Saxony are in favour of the switch to renewables, but many are still concerned about new wind turbines being built near their home ...
02 Jul 2018, 16:12 鈥� A Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the Energiewende 鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 landmark effort to mitigate climate change. Click on the link to ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Start-ups 91tv Germany should make the most of its start-ups in its efforts to reach climate targets and strengthen the country as a business location, said the German Startups Association in a paper with ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:55 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Companies in the German manufacturing and service sectors generated 107.5 billion euros in revenue from output that ...
15 May 2025, 12:15 The new German government鈥檚 coalition agreement remains too vague on climate policy to make sure emission-cutting targets are met, warned the country鈥檚 Council of Experts on Climate Change. A comprehensive climate action programme, ...
16 May 2024, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid dpa Germany's electricity grid operators expect the expansion of the country鈥檚 distribution network to require around 110 billion euros of investments over the next ten years, the Federal Network Agency ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Grid Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The German ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Nearly 60 percent of all electricity fed into the German grid in the first three months of 2024 ...
02 Aug 2022, 14:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Coal S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The decision by ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:42 Jennifer Collins Grid 91tv / Wirtschaftswoche / taz / Reuters Berlin has ditched plans to buy the German business of Dutch electricity grid operator TenneT after tough negotiations, citing stretched public finances. Opinion ...
15 Jan 2016, 00:00 We have compiled our 2014/2015 dossiers (long-reads) in a comprehensive PDF format, ready for you to download. The articles in the yearbook showcase the Energiewende鈥檚 shifts in policy and the challenges it faced in the past year. Sven ...
02 Oct 2015, 00:00 (Update with new calendar page in PDF) 鈥淎 Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the Energiewende鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 landmark energy transition. ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:44 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Hydrogen 91tv While the German energy transition made considerable progress in 2020, this could be short-lived as it was largely due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, consultancy ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany will use auctions to ensure new gas power plants are built, which the government sees as necessary to secure supply at times when renewable energy does not deliver ...
19 Apr 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Start-ups 91tv / Handelsblatt The number of new start-ups in Germany increased by 17 percent in 2023, with energy sector companies on the rise, said a report by industry data provider Startupdetector. While ...
26 Oct 2021, 13:23 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv A new survey published by the World Energy Council Germany has found that a majority of international energy experts regard the country's energy transition, the Energiewende, as a ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 鈥� marked by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years 鈥� German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:41 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Wind Energiewende 91tv German coal and natural gas use increased in the first three months of 2021, compared ...
16 Aug 2019, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Energiewende International Die Zeit The German government's energy policy often lacks an appropriate and necessary coordination with European neighbours, writes Michael Thumann in an opinion piece in Die Zeit. ...
20 Jun 2019, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Energiewende International HSBC Germany is very well-placed for the low-carbon transition, given its particularly large cleantech industry and strong policies, writes British multinational financial services company ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security 91tv Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:25 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Energiewende International German Energy Agency (dena) An international exchange of experiences ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:37 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert RWI 鈥� Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI 鈥� ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:34 Kerstine Appunn Energiewende International 91tv The European Commission has published its fourth report on the state of the Energy Union, the EU鈥檚 framework to overhaul its energy and climate policy to ensure a secure, ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende International Clean Technica The negative view of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition that includes a phase-out of nuclear power held by many US observers is unwarranted and should be ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Plans to sell the western German coal plant operator STEAG could present a significant hurdle to government plans to pull the country鈥檚 coal exit forward to 2030, unless the company puts in place ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Energiewende International World Economic Forum The global energy transition has stalled, partly because of the continued use of coal power worldwide and slower-than-necessary improvements in energy intensity, according ...
09 Jan 2019, 13:53 Municipal utility chief executive Andreas Feicht will take on the role as Germany's energy state secretary on 1 February. With his appointment, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier fills a position crucial to the progress of ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / 91tv Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE聽 told news ...
24 Jan 2025, 15:30 Germany has fully switched into election campaign mode ahead of the national vote on 23 February. Parties have presented their manifestos, with key energy transition issues including the future of industry, boosting investments, energy ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:28 S枚ren Amelang Bioenergy Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans to tighten restrictions on the use of biomass, according to a draft national strategy for the renewable power technology聽 seen by 聽energy and climate newsletter ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:38 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Gas Heating taz / Die Welt / 91tv Fossil fuels are still being used to heat three quarters of homes in Germany, with renewable ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:35 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050聽while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today鈥檚 levels without disruptive ...
27 Aug 2020, 11:49 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Edgar Meza Gas Grid 91tv The German government has kickstarted the planning for a gradual decommissioning of the country鈥檚 gas distribution network in order to organise a smooth transition to climate-neutral ...
07 May 2021, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Clean ...
19 Aug 2019, 12:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Freja Eriksen Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Clean Energy ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cities 91tv A broad alliance of German trade unions and environmental associations has launched a joint call to the federal government for a legal reform to guarantee more financial support to implement ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:23 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Grid Wind Tagesspiegel Background Onshore grid bottlenecks in northwest Germany have led to a quarter of offshore wind power generation being curtailed in the first three months of 2023, reports Tagesspiegel Background ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:43 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
15 Apr 2019, 12:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Grid Agora Energiewende With the new offshore grid fee ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Kerstine Appunn Society 91tv The government must make ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:10 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Prices for energy have decreased 4.5 percent in Germany in the year up to November ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Heating 91tv Agora Energiewende * and the聽 Climate Neutrality Foundation 聽have unveiled a聽 roadmap 聽aimed at facilitating the necessary heating transition to make the building sector ...
25 Feb 2020, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Coal Energiewende dpa / Focus Online A major eastern German lignite (brown coal) mine is resuming operations this week, six months after work was halted by an environmental lawsuit,聽 newswire dpa reports in an article ...
15 Aug 2016, 00:00 Germany's energy ministry wants to give top priority to saving energy in its move to a renewable future. It admits the long-term targets of the energy transition, or Energiewende, will be missed with current policies, and that ...
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枚ren Amelang Efficiency 91tv Germany's heat pump ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:08 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Renewable Energies Agency ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:09 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:25 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Policy ARD / Die Welt Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke is moving away from her opposition to the use of biodiesel, at least in the agricultural sector, public broadcaster ARD reports. While there are ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
10 Mar 2015, 11:02 Since the energy transition took off in 2000, millions of Germans have become energy producers, investing in solar panels on their houses and buying shares in wind parks. Citizens' engagement is one reason that support for the ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Grid Storage 91tv Electric cars, heat pumps and home storage systems can make electricity systems much more flexible in the future, saving generation costs and thus lowering overall ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has called on the German government to better anticipate possible carbon price jumps at the time of the introduction of the EU ...
17 Nov 2020, 15:38 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International Zeit Online Germany needs a ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:37 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Renewables Wind 91tv From January to September 2023, wind turbines fed almost 89.9 million megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity into ...
29 Jun 2020, 12:53 Renewables covered more than half of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power consumption in the first six months of 2020, according to a first estimate聽 by think tank Agora Energiewende*. As coal use dropped and demand was low due to the coronavirus crisis and ...
Costs stemming from differences in regulation in individual countries have the potential to distort an otherwise competitive level playing field in cross-border renewable energy auctions in Northwestern Europe, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende* ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:54 Expert Thorsten M眉ller Chairman, foundation for research on energy and environment law Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 outgoing ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Security WirtschaftsWoche Many countries see Germany as a pioneer of the energy transition and the government will make greater use of this role to push action also on an international scale, writes German ...
Better insulation for existing buildings to make them more energy efficient is the cheapest and most promising way to reach 2030 climate targets in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 building sector, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende* and the European ...
28 Jun 2018, 16:17 The German government鈥檚 Energiewende advisors say the country must put much greater emphasis on the project鈥檚 European dimension to achieve the shift to renewables and the necessary emissions reduction during the next decade. The group ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:12 Germany must rapidly step up its national climate and energy targets to bring efforts in line with new EU-wide goals, said the independent expert commission in charge of monitoring the country鈥檚 energy transition. While details still ...
26 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Cost & Prices ...
27 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- Over 900 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 60 countries take part in the first Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry, the ...
12 Jan 2017, 00:00 The German government lacks clear overview of the costs of the country鈥檚 shift to renewable energy, according to the country鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors. The auditors said the economy ministry had 鈥渘o overview of the financial ...
Think tank Agora Energiewende* will present proposals to take better account of industry needs in the German energy transition, Angela Hennersdorf and Christian Schlesiger write in WirtschaftsWoche. In its "Charter for Energiewende Industrial Policy ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:00 Ruby Russel Industry Business & Jobs 91tv A survey by consulting firm EY has found that only one in five companies considers Germany a compelling place to decarbonise production 鈥� with excessive bureaucracy the biggest ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:21 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany is lagging behind European countries such as Norway and the Netherlands when it comes to transitioning its energy market away from fossil fuels, according to an ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:28 Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs International The Hill / Bloomberg Opinion Opinion writers are invoking 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende in their arguments over US proposals for a Green New Deal (GND). 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 experience proves the Green ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv With several years of delay, construction of a key piece of grid infrastructure in Germany has started in the southern state of Bavaria. The SuedOstLink connection built by grid operator TenneT ...
17 May 2019, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende NABU / Wuppertal Institute It is possible to reduce 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 100 percent by 2050 while at the same time maintaining a high level of nature ...
10 Jan 2022, 12:20 Without the anti-nuclear movement, the energy transition in Germany would likely look different. But despite a strong focus on fighting nuclear power, the civil society movement that marked the rise of the Green Party has always had the ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv / Die Zeit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has formally adopted the country鈥檚 draft budget for 2025 and amended the 2024 budget, which had become a difficult task after a court ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt The insolvency proceedings at leading European biogas trader BMP Greengas could pose a significant risk of financial damage of 鈥渁t least 150 ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:43 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert SPD- Social Democratic ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende Finance 91tv The German government does not plan to introduce quantitative controlling standards for the energy transition. In an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by ...
13 Jul 2020, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Hydrogen Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background More than two years after quitting his job due to differences with the new government at the time, Rainer Baake, former German state ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:46 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Energiewende 91tv German industrial trade ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv German grid operator Amprion can start construction of a key power line seven months sooner than planned thanks to new regulations to speed up permitting procedures, said the economy ministry in a ...
09 Apr 2021, 09:39 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv [CLARIFICATION: Agora Energiewende said Q1 developments in the power market show greenhouse gas emissions could rise in 2021. Drops reference to 2020 target.] 聽 Unfavourable weather ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Energiewende 91tv The advanced stage of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition has led the country to understand that a broader change of economic structures is necessary to complete the ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:36 Energy-intensive basic industries 鈥� such as steel, chemicals and cement 鈥� have to quickly introduce and scale up key low-carbon technologies to avoid wrong investments at a time when governments aim for a climate neutral economy by 2050 ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:37 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut f眉r Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende Society Spiegel Online The switch from fossil ...
Buildings cause a third of German emissions, but the government continues to 鈥渟hamefully neglect鈥� this problem, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for tageszeitung. 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 really bother anyone that all climate targets are missed in this sector, ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:25 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Energiewende Wall Street Journal Germany is set to have the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 dumbest energy policy鈥� after the coal exit commission recommended to end coal-fired power generation by 2038, writes the ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:36 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin ...
06 Jun 2019, 17:11 Germany continues to be off track regarding many of its energy and climate targets according to the economy ministry鈥檚聽 latest progress report on the energy transition. In an accompanying opinion, government advisors lament that the ...
17 May 2023, 12:56 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Start-ups S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Munich-based electric car start-up Sono Motors has filed for insolvency and it is unlikely that clients will get their pre-payment for one of its PV-clad vehicles back,聽 reports ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende Government Bloomberg 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 long-time Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will leave her successor a long list of unsolved tasks once she leaves office, which will happen in 2021 the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 politicians and companies are squandering the country鈥檚 leading role in climate protection even though the energy transition can benefit the economy, according to a ten-page special report in business daily Handelsblatt by Silke Kersting and ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:44 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Energiewende Government WirtschaftsWoche / BMWi The Green Party鈥檚 energy minister in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Franz Untersteller, has lamented a 鈥渟tandstill of federal energy policy鈥� ahead of a meeting ...
Through a new online programme, house owners in the south German town of Freising can now determine if their roofs are suitable for solar panels, and how much it would cost to install them, according to an article in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. A ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market Cost & Prices Policy Zeit Online The German government might not have enough money to pass on revenues from its national carbon price to citizens as a compensation for rising climate protection costs as ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid fees on average will increase in 2017, but regional disparities and those based on the consumption volume will grow, according to a short analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Consumers in rural areas with strong renewables ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:16 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Bloomberg NEF Germany ranks fifth in Bloomberg鈥檚 2018 global renewable investment report. China remains the leader with total investments of 100.1 billion dollars, followed by the US (64.2 billion), Japan (27.2 ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is not yet perceived as a model for other countries to follow, but a successful implementation could still make it a success story and an inspiration, according to the study 鈥�Energiewende, an interim review 鈥� International ...
A recent study by Agora Energiewende * shows that Germany can achieve its climate goals in the heating sector by increasing efficiency and by rolling out millions of heat pumps to replace oil-fired heating systems, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. But it ...
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 ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:36 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 91tv Germany generated 47.3 percent less electricity from coal-fired power plants in the third quarter of 2023 ...
By the end of 2017, renewables expansion in Germany exceeded targets by a considerable margin, but the country still lags behind on several other energy transition indicators, writes Hubertus Bardt for the industry-sponsored research institute IW K枚ln in ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Energy politicians from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) are proposing to introduce a mandated share of climate-friendly gases into the German gas mix, reported Handelsblatt. Companies that ...
A large majority of Germans (82 percent) believe that the Energiewende is an important project which they personally consider the right thing, but many think that costs are too high, according to a survey by research company GfK, commissioned by natural ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv Germany has initiated one of its single most important energy transition projects with the start of construction of the SuedLink power transmission line. Construction of key sections ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:14 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Finance Elections & Politics 91tv Germany's next federal government can finance the necessary climate protection measures despite聽a聽return to the聽so-called 鈥渄ebt brake鈥�,- the ...
28 Sep 2018, 12:24 Germany still lacks an overview of the total cost of the Energiewende and the government must improve cost transparency, efficiency and coordination of the energy transition in order to keep citizens鈥� trust, the Federal Court of ...
23 Jul 2018
Our visiting cartoonist Mwelwa Musonko聽(@MwelxTax) marvels over Germans' diligence when it comes to saving energy- including at the office. Find all of Mwelwa Musonko's cartoons on the Energiewende in the article Elephants and aliens- a ...
08 Apr 2015, 00:00 Regardless of recent squabbles about new power lines and rising electricity prices, Germans remain staunch supporters of the principles behind the Energiewende. Survey after survey shows a large majority of the population is in favour ...
13 May 2019, 14:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Agora Energiewende / Agora Verkehrswende [This article was based on the German version of the proposals. Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende published an English version on 15 ...
To make their national energy transition a success, France and Germany need to closely coordinate the reduction of nuclear and coal power, French and German think tanks IDDRI and Agora Energiewende* have concluded in a joint study. 鈥淚f the two countries ...
A combination of lack of transparency and denial of legal protection means that German power grid fees cannot be sufficiently checked by consumers, consumer organisations, or even politicians, according to a legal analysis published by the Regulatory ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany has veered off its path towards reaching its 2030 climate target, as the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions increased by 33 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents (t CO2 eq) in ...
The German energy transition needs to be 鈥渋nternationalised鈥� if it is to be successful, as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende will continue to have an impact on energy markets of its electrical neighbours and beyond, writes Nick Butler of the Financial Times. The ...
The EU Commission鈥檚 鈥渨inter package鈥� on energy policy has been criticised by politicians and environmental organisations, but it does contain 鈥渟ome positive surprises,鈥� writes Verena Kern for klimaretter.info, based on an assessment by think tank Agora ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry 91tv Energy consumption in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industry dropped 9.1 percent in 2022 聽compared to the previous year, ...
Sixty-eight percent of Germans say that the future federal government should put more effort into implementing the Energiewende 鈥� with just 24 percent claiming the government should continue as before, according to a representative Forsa survey, ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:52 Wind, solar PV and other renewable sources overtook fossil fuels in German power production last year, according to preliminary data by the federal network agency (BNetzA) and think tank Agora Energiewende. Together with record-low ...
18 May 2017
In its 鈥淔uture Pact Energiewende Industrial Policy鈥�, think tank Agora Energiewende and consultancy Roland Berger have presented proposals on how to reconcile the competitiveness of the country鈥檚 industry with 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition after the federal ...
The real lesson of the German Energiewende is not that the transition to renewables is very expensive. Quite the contrary: it is affordable in highly industrialised countries, writes Tomas Unnerstall in an article in the journal Energy, Sustainability and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende successes lie in the past and it鈥檚 time to put the transition on a new footing, Jakob Schlandt聽writes in a leading article in Der Tagesspiegel. Greenhouse gas emissions have stagnated for years, and 鈥渓ittle or nothing has happened ...
A vast majority of Germans broadly support the Energiewende鈥檚 aim to decarbonise the economy but a large proportion also says that the associated burden is not shared equally, the Social Sustainability Barometer study by the Institute for Advanced ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition not only misses 2020 climate targets but fails on many other accounts too, according to the head of an expert commission tasked with monitoring the Energiewende鈥檚 progress. 鈥淓fficiency is a particular problem,鈥� economist ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal sector remains strong enough to noticeably hinder the energy transition, writes Stefan B枚脽ner of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in a research paper. He examines the coal sector in Germany amid the Energiewende with the goal of ...
16 Feb 2018, 00:00 A group of energy transition researchers will present their findings on the transformation of the German energy system at the world鈥檚 largest general scientific conference organised by the American Association for the Advancement of ...
30 Mar 2022, 15:54 Renewable energy sources are the answer to both the climate crisis and the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, said ministers at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. Experts, politicians, business leaders and ...
German energy think tank Agora Energiewende* has published the English version of a paper that examines the implications of regulation reforms such as the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) and the power market reform. These will bring 鈥渇undamental changes鈥� for ...
23 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's emissions fell stronger in 2018 than originally assumed, the country's ...
12 May 2020, 12:50 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
Robert Habeck, Schleswig-Holstein state minister for the Energiewende, calls for reducing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables surcharge, instead of increasing it as grid operators did today, writes the regional newspaper shz. Habeck proposes a government-administered ...
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鈧� emissions in Germany and ...
Environmental NGO WWF and green energy provider LichtBlick launched their 鈥�Energiewende-Dashboard鈥� 鈥� a website that shows up-to-date information on the progress of the German energy transition. In the "style of a digital car or airplane dashboard ...
German energy think tank Agora Energiewende*, together with the Institute for Applied Ecology (脰ko-Institut), has published a new analysis of the recent reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). After remaining in the single digits for years, the ...
07 Jan 2020, 16:05 A sharp drop in coal use put a break on Germany's CO2 emissions last year and pushed the country "surprisingly鈥� close to its 2020 climate target, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende in its 2019 review. But a rising CO2 ...
A range of comparatively simple measures could increase the capacity of the German power grid within the next two to four years, energy think tank Agora Energiewende * finds in a study. An ad-hoc investment programme could improve the transmission grid to ...
New German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said the energy transition is one of his ministry鈥檚 major projects, speaking as he took over the helm of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Friday. 鈥淭丑别 project Energiewende ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥渆normously expensive Energiewende鈥� green energy transformation is sputtering and the country is falling behind other European countries, writes Kalina Oroschakoff in an article for Politico.聽 Read the article in English here. For background, ...
Many people in Germany support the energy transition in principle but refuse to accept a wind turbine or other visual changes brought about by the Energiewende in their neighbourhood, Ralph Diermann writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚s this a typical ...
Think tank Agora Energiewende has launched a new publication series in English that is taking a closer look at the fundamental issues of transforming energy systems toward a low-carbon paradigm. The publications draw on the German experience, but also ...
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 ...
Energy state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 flagship Energiewende policy at the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Baake, a Green Party politician whose appointment by then economy minister Sigmar ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The first major city in Germany, Augsburg, has announced plans for ending the use of natural gas in its heating system and informed customers ...
The eastern German city of Leipzig is slated to become the 鈥渃entre of the Energiewende鈥檚 digitalisation,鈥� Wolfgang Brinkschulte writes for the public broadcaster MDR. The federal government wants the 鈥淪mart Infrastructure Hub鈥� to become a pivot for ...
Most Germans are satisfied with the goals of the Energiewende and the measures taken to achieve them- but say that cost distribution is among the project鈥檚 greatest shortcomings, two different studies by the University of Kassel have found. People ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:36 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Energiewende ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:30 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:34 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
It is in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 immediate interest to embrace the European dimension of the Energiewende, argues Rebecca Bertram in a blog post for energytransition.org. 鈥淕别谤尘补苍y needs Europe to drive its own Energiewende forward,鈥� writes Bertram, citing German power ...
The Energiewende must be steered more intelligently, and the key is a price tag for CO鈧�, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. While it might be na茂ve to bet on this instrument 鈥� because it has been neglected over the past years 鈥� ...
The support of German citizens for the country鈥檚 Energiewende [energy transition] is unwavering, a poll commissioned by the country鈥檚 Renewable Energy Agency (AEE) and conducted by pollster Kantar Emnid has shown. According to the AEE, 93 percent of ...
16 Mar 2016
16 Mar 2016, 00:00 鈥淎 Reporter鈥檚 Guide to the Energiewende鈥� offers journalists covering energy and climate policy an overview of key stories, experts/decision-makers and facts on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 landmark energy transition. Click on the attachment on the left to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has pledged to maximise focus on the extension of the country鈥檚 power grid as a priority of his work. 鈥淭丑别 Energiewende will succeed if we get ahead with the grid extension,鈥� Altmaier told ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading position in energy transition technologies and renewables is uncatchable for countries embarking on their own 鈥�Energiewende,鈥� French energy expert Gerard Magnin says in an interview on Spiegel Online. The former board member of French ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende 91tv The government鈥檚 recently adopted comprehensive climate package will have little effect on the Germany economy in 2020, says Deutsche Bank Research in its outlook for the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende 鈥� the country鈥檚 double shift to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy 鈥� yielded mixed results in the past year, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Thanks to a partial switch from coal to gas and a ...
The eastern German coal mining region of Lusatia should receive 100 million euros in public funds per year from 2019 on to facilitate the 鈥渟tructural development鈥� of the local economy that is currently centred on lignite production, think tank Agora ...
The Federal Railway Authority has granted French company Alstom permission to operate passenger service on the German rail network with its new, hydrogen fuel-cell-powered train, according to an article in tageszeitung (taz). The train, the Coradia iLint, ...
With its reaction to reports on Germany missing its own 2020 emissions reduction goals, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment ministry (BMUB) has given a prime example of political opportunism, Thorsten Knuf writes in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. In early ...
Germany is still likely to miss key Energiewende goals, including its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, even as household power prices continue to rise, according to McKinsey鈥檚 bi-annual Energiewende-Index report. At 30.8 cents per kilowatt hour (ct ...
Energy transition communication platform Renewable Energy Agency (AEE) has published the 2018 edition of its renewable status reports for the 16 German states. The reports contain information about the states鈥� different Energiewende concepts, best ...
The Social Democratic (SPD) state premier of coal-mining state Brandenburg is at the forefront of a 鈥淧R-battle鈥� over the energy transition鈥檚 costs that usually is dominated by sceptics in the right-wing nationalist AfD party, J枚rg Staude writes for ...
The German government must take precautions to secure citizens鈥� acceptance for future wind power expansion, as it is a central pillar of the country鈥檚 energy transition, writes the energy think tank Agora Energiewende* in a report. Municipalities located ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chemical industry will have to place a strong focus on recycling of products, the switch to electricity-based process heat and the use of renewable raw materials on its way to ...
Consultancy Ernst & Young (EY) is developing an Energiewende Digitalisation Barometer for the German economy ministry, which will provide an annual assessment of the progress of the digital transformation of the energy system, reports Christian ...
Germany is likely to miss its 2020 emissions reduction target by nearly 120 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent- a far greater margin than previously thought, think tank Agora Energiewende* said in a new study. The country should quickly implement an ...
21 Aug 2019, 12:01 Freja Eriksen Citizens' energy Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Work has begun on the first crowdfunded solar park in Germany with a capacity of about 1.3 megawatts, energy company BayWa r.e. and聽 online energy market place ...
Radio and podcast moderator Holger Klein interviews Holger Hanselka, president of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), about the current state of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 generational Energiewende (energy transition) project in a German online podcast for ...
Despite a somewhat successful shift to more renewable sources in the power sector, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is making little to zero progress in the transportation and heating sectors, Joachim Wille writes for Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淭丑别 gradual ...
The effect of think tank Agora Energiewende鈥檚* proposal for an ecologic tax reform on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major political parties will be limited, Hannes Koch writes in a commentary for tageszeitung (taz). Agora Energiewende suggests lowering fees on electricity ...
A gradual reduction of coal-fired power production and the parallel expansion of renewable energy sources to 65 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2030 power mix would reduce electricity costs and emissions and allow the country to reach its climate target in the ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:17 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Citizens' energy Energiewende 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background German citizens want to participate in the energy ...
09 Aug 2016, 00:00 A study identifying potential risks for the energy transition in Germany finds the project to be overall 鈥渞obust and resilient鈥�. However, falling fossil fuel prices could pose a serious threat to the decarbonisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Hydrogen International 91tv The economy ministers of Germany and the Netherlands, Peter Altmaier and Eric Wiebes, have signed a joint declaration at the sidelines of joint cabinet consultations ...
The German government will stick to its plan to introduce a Climate Protection Law in 2019 despite聽 major internal difficulties 聽harrowing the coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD). A first ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Court of Auditors has shown shortsightedness and a lack of understanding in implying that the energy transition is 鈥� too expensive 鈥� and therefore needs 鈥渓imitation鈥�, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in a commentary for Tageszeitung (taz). The ...
A majority of 61 percent of the German population think the transition to an energy system dominated by renewables is the right way to go, 30 percent are undecided and 7 percent are opposed to the idea, the 2017 edition of the bi-annual survey on 鈥渘ature ...
Due to the introduction of auctions for renewables support, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy (EEG-surcharge) will not increase from 2020, and will then decrease from 2022, according to a forecast by think tank Agora Energiewende,* reports Christian Schlesiger in ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid ARD / 91tv Germany should cut the time it takes to approve planned transmission and distribution grid expansions by half, economy minister Robert Habeck said in a report by public broadcaster ARD. 鈥淲e ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 levy to support renewables expansion, the EEG surcharge, will decrease to around 6.74 euro cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in 2018, from this year鈥檚 6.88 ct/kWh, according to calculations by think tank Agora Energiewende.* A predicted rise in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende is on track in areas such as extending renewables, employment, and securing power supply. But other goals- such as reducing power consumption and carbon emissions, and the limit on costs- seem increasingly out of reach, consultancy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende might not be an export hit but it helps other countries questioning their own energy policy, Giorgio V. M眉ller writes in Swiss newspaper Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung (NZZ). According to聽 figures from the World Energy Council, a majority of ...
German industrial giant Siemens will open a pilot project converting renewable power into ammonia in the UK next week, the Guardian reports. Normally used to increase crop yields, ammonia could be a tool to manage fluctuating renewable power generation. ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:56 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f眉r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende Society 91tv An overwhelming but slightly shrinking majority of people ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:01 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market ...
Angela Merkel鈥檚 decision to run for a fourth term as chancellor is a reason for delight for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 right-wing party Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD), writes Jens Schneider in a commentary for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung, Merkel embodies everything the AfD ...
The federal economy ministry (BMWi) has made available an English version of last year鈥檚 Fifth Energiewende Monitoring Report, together with the accompanying expert statement. Find the report in English here, the expert statement in English here and an ...
Leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) say Germany will probably miss key targets of the Energiewende, endangering the entire projects's credibility.鈥澛營n their advisory opinion on the BMWi鈥檚 fifth Energiewende Monitoring ...
The German Federal Court of Auditors鈥� criticism of how the economy ministry has managed the costs of the Energiewende holds true for the past, but not the current legislative period, economy minister Sigmar Gabriel told Frank Capellan in an interview for ...
01 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany is likely to miss several of its energy transition goals by 2020, including greenhouse gas and energy consumption reduction, writes an expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in a short ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 rising consumption of oil, gas and lignite in the first half of 2017 indicates that the country of the Energiewende will see another increase in emissions in 2017 after a rise in 2016, said Agora Energiewende * head Patrick Graichen. 鈥淭丑别 data ...
Investments in the research and development of modern technologies are key to successfully achieving 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon energy supply, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy says in a press release. For that reason, the ...
Energy think tank Agora Energiewende* has published a booklet answering 10 frequently asked questions about 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, providing a 鈥渃urrent, accurate and unbiased snapshot of the German experience鈥�. The paper is also available in a ...
Germany would close about half of its coal-fired power generation capacity by 2030 on economic grounds alone if the price of EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) allowances remained above its current level of 25 euros per tonne of CO鈧�, economist Andreas ...
24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop 鈥渁 certain passion and joy鈥� for the country鈥檚 generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:52 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv Research institutions in Austria and Germany have launched a joint project aiming to develop a solar rooftop ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:24 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Federal Environment Agency (UBA) The share of renewables in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 final energy consumption ...
17 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) "European Commission has missed the opportunity for innovation in CO2 intensive materials" The EU Commission鈥檚 proposal for carbon leakage ...
The latest figures published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) refute US president-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that solar power is particularly expensive, Bernhard P枚tter writes in leftist daily taz. According to the IRENA report ...
Despite the picture portrayed by high approval ratings in surveys, public acceptance of the German Energiewende has fallen due to electricity costs, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Germans have declared their support for the switch to renewables, but ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must massively increase climate action efforts in order to triple the current average annual greenhouse gas emissions reductions, ...
14 May 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Energiewende The rapid expansion of renewable power sources in Germany has not been matched by a parallel drop in carbon emissions and energy research experts of聽 science academy ESYS say 聽that there ...
29 May 2019, 12:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
06 Jan 2017, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende 鈥� the country鈥檚 double shift to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy 鈥� yielded mixed results in the past year, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende. Thanks to a partial switch from ...
Key IT projects necessary for the digitalisation of the German energy transition are making no headway, endangering the 鈥渁mbitious large-scale project鈥�, journalist Peter Welchering told German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. These projects included ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv Domestic production of green hydrogen should play a much bigger role in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans to scale-up the hydrogen economy, which is currently based on a more often inefficient and costly ...
Germany will have to consider installing small new gas power plants in the 2020s to ensure power supply security as the country鈥檚 coal exit progresses, Patrick Graichen, head of the think tank Agora Energiewende*, told Georg Ehring in an interview with ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:44 German businesses, researchers and civil society have welcomed that democratic and pro-EU parties continue to have a large majority after the 2024 EU elections, but warned that wins for the populist and far-right camp means that it ...
German economy minister Peter Altmaier pays lip service to the consequences of climate change for 鈥渙ur children and grandchildren,鈥� but his words are not matched by actions, writes Tagesspiegel Background Energie in its daily newsletter. Altmaier wants to ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Spiegel / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is set to substantially increase the number of permits to build planned electricity transmission lines needed for the shift to a climate-neutral ...
Apart from questions about political regulation and technological challenges, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition is a phenomenon that changes the social conditions in many regions across the country, write Tom Morton and Katja M眉ller in scientific journal Energy ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition can only become a success if the country does not neglect efficiency, the second important pillar of the Energiewende besides renewables expansion, said acting German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries at the annual kick-off ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Cities 91tv Relevant stakeholders at a parliamentary hearing on 16 October called for more financial resources and less bureaucracy for the decarbonisation of聽Germany's heating grids. The ...
The German transition to a low-carbon and nuclear-free energy supply 鈥� dubbed the 鈥�Energiewende鈥� 鈥� should be based on the use of market-based instruments and competition between companies and technologies, Hubertus Bardt, head of the research division at ...
Most of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heavily indebted municipal utilities say investments associated with the Energiewende are the cause of their woes, Franziska Holler, Benjamin Oehlschl盲gel and S枚ren Gaum write for industry magazine Public Governance. In a survey of ...
Germany will likely miss several renewables and emissions targets despite the reform of certain key regulations concerning the German electricity sector carried out by the federal government and parliament in 2016, according to a background paper by think ...
In a joint declaration, the German and French federal governments have committed to accelerate the implementation of the European energy transition. Among other pledges, the two countries will push at the European level for ambitious CO 2 emission ...
02 May 2023, 13:34 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Jessica Bateman Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background An analysis of solar power ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende is not a model for Switzerland, Christoph Eisenring writes in the Neue Z眉rcher Zeitung as the country gears up for a referendum about the Swiss government鈥檚 energy strategy 2050, which includes a nuclear phase-out. German ...
German coal plants on last Sunday contributed the lowest amount of electricity to the country鈥檚 power mix ever recorded in recent times, energy think tank Agora Energiewende* said in a press release. Power production from coal and lignite plants stood at ...
Stefan Kapferer, head of utilities lobby BDEW, told an audience at the German Energy Conference that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy sector should put an end to political wrangling and fully focus on the business challenges of the Energiewende, Dow Jones Newswire ...
The EU could significantly reduce the financing costs of developing its renewable energy potential by setting up a guarantee programme,聽according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. 鈥淥ne euro of public funding would leverage 50 euros of ...
Drones and digital technologies can be harnessed in order to increase the reliability of producing, transmitting and distributing energy, writes management consultancy PwC in its study 鈥淐larity from above鈥�. The use of drones could bring down costs for ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Renewables 91tv By mapping the areas in Germany where renewable power is likely to be distributed in the future, energy researchers hope to help transmission system operators (TSOs) plan a forward ...
US business magazine Fortune published a long article by Jeffrey Ball on the generational project German Energiewende, society鈥檚 costs for the expansion of renewables, the benefits of the transition and the possibilities for other states to follow Germany ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:44 German ministers, high-level policymakers, as well as representatives from industry, science and civil society gather at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on 9-10 April 2019 to discuss the progress of a global energy transition. ...
24 Apr 2019, 17:27 Power production from renewable sources in Germany hit a new record high on Easter Monday when renewable installations such as wind and solar PV generated 77 percent of net public electricity supply thanks to strong winds and abundant ...
28 May 2019, 13:21 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:45 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Wind power has become 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important electricity source again in the first quarter of 2023, ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:33 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation ...
01 Jul 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter Grid Digitalisation Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grid operators are working on their defenses against hacker attacks on their critical infrastructure, Christian Schaudwet writes for energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
17 Mar 2015
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv 聽 Fraunhofer IWES/Agora Energiewende "The Eclipse 2015: Preview of the Power System in 2030" Friday鈥檚 solar eclipse will provide a taste of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power system in 2030, according to a ...
The job cuts announced by E.ON are a further example of the Energiewende鈥檚 impact on employment in the industry, according to coal mining union IG BCE. 鈥淭丑别 conventional power industry does no longer earn enough money to pay its employees [鈥 That鈥檚 ...
11 Mar 2020, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv The number of German energy companies that consider the energy transition good for business has risen considerably, according to a survey by business consultancy Horvath & ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv NGOs have called on the German government to immediately start the process of phasing out fossil gas use and set an end date for 2040 to ensure a transformation in line with the Paris Agreement ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Frankfurter Rundschau The southern German states of Hesse and Bavaria are passing the buck to each other on who should provide its territory for completing much-needed grid expansion plans, ...
There is still a long way to go until the financing mechanisms of the German energy transition are transferred into a sustainable market design, writes Felix Matthes, research coordinator for energy and climate policy at 脰ko Institut, in a guest ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:18 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Gas 91tv Oil and natural gas production in Germany continues to decline sharply, shows an annual report for 2020 published by the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG). It ...
By 2050, an electricity supply based on renewable energies could be either approximately as expensive as or even cheaper than a fossil-based electricity system, if the cost of a tonne of CO鈧� is 50 euros or more, according to a scenario comparison by the ...
Lowering energy costs is one of the most important goals for Germans in the Energiewende, according to the 鈥淪tiebel Eltron Energie-Trendmonitor 2018鈥� report, seen by the 91tv. Seventy-two percent of the respondents in the representative ...
Ninety-five percent of Germans say that increased use and expansion of renewable energy is important or very important, according to a representative survey by Kantar Emnid, commissioned by Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). It also found broad support (65 ...
Until now, there has not been a 鈥渞easonable concept for the Energiewende鈥�, which is needed to secure 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economic strength and make it more climate-friendly, Rudolf Staudigl, president and CEO of German chemical company Wacker Chemie AG, told ...
Further development of the German energy transition depends on the participation of citizens, writes Joachim Wille in Frankfurter Rundschau. While there is generally big support for the Energiewende among the population, more detailed surveys showed that ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 green energy industry has for years dashed from one record to the next, but this trend is set to slow down, Thorsten Knuf writes in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淵es to green energy but, please, not too much, such is the government鈥檚 ...
Digital technology that interconnects renewable power sources with vehicles, household appliances and other devices that use electricity is becoming an increasingly important component of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende, the shift away from fossil and nuclear ...
05 May 2017, 00:00 Nicknamed the 鈥渃radle of the Energiewende鈥� by its own government, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein, embodies some of the most pressing challenges and solutions to the country鈥檚 energy turnaround. With their decision in ...
29 Jul 2016, 00:00 The surcharge that German consumers pay through their power bills to fund renewable power looks set to rise again in 2017, think tank Agora Energiewende* has predicted. If power suppliers calculate bills fairly, this won鈥檛 necessarily ...
15 Sep 2017, 00:00 The scope of the next government's ambition for the Energiewende depends on the constellation of its coalition, says Arne Jungjohann, energy policy analyst and Green Party member, although the shift to a renewables-based economy is ...
In his final speech in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament in Kiel on Thursday, Robert Habeck, former state environment minister and current Green Party co-chair, praised the positive economic impact of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition. 鈥淚t is a ...
09 Jan 2019, 11:59 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Utilities Reuters Energy group Uniper is building a gas-fired power plant in Germany, the country鈥檚 first in a decade, to serve as a 鈥渟afety cushion鈥� for grids coping with intermittent ...
07 Jan 2015, 00:00 Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany dropped in 2014 to the second-lowest level since 1990, a sign that the country鈥檚 ambitious Energiewende project is back on track, German think-tank Agora Energiewende* said on Wednesday. Kerstine ...
Germany is likely to miss several key energy transition targets- including goals on the affordability of electricity, greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy and power consumption- while costs keep rising, according to consultancy McKinsey鈥檚 bi-annual ...
17 Feb 2021, 13:23 Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition 脡nerg茅tique / Deutsch-Franz枚sisches B眉ro f眉r die Energiewende Renewables Energiewende S枚ren Amelang Industry 91tv The upcoming ...
German car industry hotspot Stuttgart plows a path forward to聽an electrified future powered by renewable wind and solar energy, writes Kyle Field in an article for Clean Technica. He explores Stuttgart鈥檚 鈥渃lash between the old world and industries that ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) are to make energy efficiency a priority for energy policy in the coming legislative period, Hubertus Heil, deputy chairman of the SPD鈥檚 parliamentary group, said during a speech on his party鈥檚 energy policy ambitions ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy-intensive industries have called for an energy transition cost 鈥渟uper cap鈥� for their businesses, Daniel Wetzel reports for newspaper Die Welt. Lobby ...
Onshore wind energy will become much cheaper in Germany over the coming years, with power costs dropping to 3 to 4.5 eurocents per kilowatt hour at top sites, according to a new study conducted by the think tank Agora Energiewende.* Find a press release ...
28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Can overhead lines electrify freight traffic? Industry giant Siemens is testing the electrification of freight transport with overhead power lines on a two-kilometre track north of Berlin, ...
The German electronics industry has called on the next German government to speed up the country鈥檚 energy transition, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by wallstreet-online.de 鈥淭丑别 Energiewende must finally regain its momentum,鈥� Michael ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:02 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell nine percent in the first half of the year as a weakening economy deflated energy use, according to聽 an analysis 聽by climate and energy ...
Wind and solar power continue to face large cost reductions, according to a meta analysis of 15 studies on energy technology investment costs by Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). 鈥淢ore good news for the Energiewende is that also for storage technologies ...
Heating systems in Germany will have to change substantially by 2030 if the country is to reach its climate targets for 2050, according to a study commissioned by energy think-tank Agora Energiewende*. While the share of natural gas used for heating will ...
16 Aug 2021, 13:41 Germany is set to widely miss its climate targets this year, according to a think tank analysis that adds pressure on the chancellor contestants to present plans for rapid emissions cuts. Six weeks before the country's general ...
South Africa could learn from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 mistakes by removing the obstacles coal power poses to integrating renewables into its electricity system early, think tank Agora Energiewende鈥檚* Markus Steigenberger says in an article for ESI Africa. Although ...
Prioritising efficiency measures that cost less or deliver more value than planned investment in supply resources and infrastructure is 鈥渁 crucial building block鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende, writes Andreas Jahn of the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) ...
A large increase of wind power generation pushed 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable share of total power use to a record 36.1 percent last year, an increase of 3.8 percentage points over 2016, according to energy think-tank Agora Energiewende*. A rising number of ...
16 Jul 2021, 15:30 The EU鈥檚 proposed new climate and energy legislation will effectively bring forward 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit date to 2030, and rising prices in the Emissions Trading System (ETS) mean coal will become unprofitable in most of Europe, said ...
Germany can reach its target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 65 percent of power consumption by 2030 from the current 36 percent at moderate costs,聽according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. Agora proposes a series of measures to ...
07 Jan 2016, 00:00 Record renewables growth in 2015 meant Germany exported more coal-generated electricity than ever before, hampering the country's efforts to protect the climate, according to energy policy think tank Agora Energiewende. The data ...
The European Union can reach its 2030 climate targets at a much lower cost than predicted by the European Commission because the recent drop in renewables鈥� costs has exceeded expectations, according to a discussion paper published by energy think tank ...
With about 100,000 new solar heaters in 2016, a total of 2.2 million solar heating systems are now installed in Germany, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) and the Association of Heating Industry (BDH) say in a joint press release. 鈥淭丑别 ...
30 Mar 2016
30 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Reuters/SMA Solar 鈥淪MA Solar returns to profit on foreign demand鈥� SMA Solar, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest solar group, posted its first operating profit in three years thanks to strong foreign ...
Social Democrat and former state secretary Brigitte Zypries is 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. Previous economy minister Sigmar Gabriel handed over his duties today. 鈥淪igmar Gabriel did a good job in tying up lose ends of ...
14 Nov 2014, 00:00 Even as critics claim wind turbines are ruining the view at Germany's tourist spots, some destinations are making green energy infrastructure a focal point for visitors. Expert German Tourism Association Deutscher Tourismusverband ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:43 Milou Dirkx Wind Cost & Prices FAZ New offshore wind farms could give an economic boost to German shipyards, but shipbuilding companies say they might not be able to finance the necessary investments without support, Frankfurter ...
17 Oct 2016, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise less than expected in 2017. Still, discussions about the cost of the country鈥檚 Energiewende project and ways to reform the renewables support dominated the public ...
Progress in modernising 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 buildings to save energy is slow partly because of a confusing array of available support, according to a study by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW). 鈥淎t present, the country boasts 3,350 support schemes to ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Mobility Cars Spiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz has invited the country鈥檚 top car executives and other experts to discuss the country鈥檚 lagging shift to clean transport, according to news media reports. The meeting ...
The energy transition offers plenty of opportunities for German businesses, but the current government coalition has done little to solve key issues for the industry, writes the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) in its 2018 ...
Over the past three years, the federal government succeeded in bringing order and legal security to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, the seminal project known as Energiewende, federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said presenting his ministry鈥檚 economic ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv German municipalities are increasingly caught between rising climate protection needs and limited resources, a report by state-owned development bank KfW found. ...
The European Energy Exchange in Leipzig on Friday auctioned a total of 4.36 million emission allowances for the German government that brought in 64.7 million euros, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The success of the auction marks a new ...
In an interview with Gitta D眉perthal, Manfred Maresch, head of the district German mining union in the lignite coal town of Alsdorf, says the union is not against the Energiewende. Instead, he says, it is concerned about the social implications of ...
Regional smart markets can help lower re-dispatch costs in the German power grid, according to a new study by think tank Agora Energiewende.* Depending on the local conditions, measures such as using more power-to-heat or actively controlling night ...
German car manufacturers are 鈥渨orld champions in restoring the past鈥�, but are not able to come up with new basic ideas for a radically changing world, writes Sebastian Matthes in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. German engineers optimised the combustion ...
Radical changes in global energy supply require a 鈥渃hange of historical dimensions鈥� in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate and energy policy, comparable to the social welfare policies of Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890, ...
The economic ministry鈥檚 proposal to counteract low energy prices by raising energy taxes in its Green Paper on energy efficiency is suitable, according to a paper by environmental NGO Green Budget Germany (F脰S). Low energy prices harm the Energiewende and ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Elections & Politics 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government after the September election must quickly introduce measures and instruments to ensure the country reaches the ...
Rising power costs stir people鈥檚 emotions because everybody uses electricity and because they suggest a malfunction of government control, writes Til Huber in a commentary for merkur.de. But costs are largely driven by the past solar boom, and recent ...
08 Aug 2017, 00:00 Since 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende shifted into gear in the early 2000s, the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors have created over a million jobs, many of them in technical branches, such as renewable energy production, power ...
03 Nov 2014, 00:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Online "Power in ...
Next year鈥檚 power price increase is not the fault of wind and solar power generation operators, writes Olaf Ridder in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. The rise is the price consumers have to pay for the delay in grid extensions, one of many ...
In the aftermath of Dieselgate, Germany should not make the same mistake with regard to the energy transition by phasing out a technology without having enough alternatives, writes Nikolaus Doll in an opinion piece for Welt Online. This would be ...
The German discussion about the energy transition is 鈥渕arked by polarisation, polemic, and misleading reasoning鈥�, writes former energy industry manager Thomas Unnerstall in a guest commentary in Handelsblatt. One side criticises 鈥渆xploding costs鈥� and 鈥渁 ...
Cities play a vital role in the implementation of the Paris climate accord, Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, writes in an opinion piece in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. By ...
German companies on average evaluate the influence of the energy transition on their competitiveness as marginally positive, according to an online survey of German businesses conducted by Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK). ...
In 2016, the German government spent only 1.6 billion euros of its 2.4-billion-euro Energy and Climate Fund on projects to save energy, according to an unreleased finance ministry report, seen by Berliner Morgenpost. 鈥淭丑别 economy ministry simply let 800 ...
23 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv World Energy Council/Roland Berger 鈥�Energiewende requires new financing models鈥� Traditional utilities can no longer shoulder the huge infrastructure investments necessary for the Energiewende, ...
