26 Mar 2025, 13:43 Bennet Ribbeck Society 91tv Human rights organisation Amnesty International and other NGOs have criticised official charges against members of the German Last Generation climate movement because of 鈥渟uspicion of forming a ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Society Spiegel / 91tv The 鈥�Last Generation鈥� (Letzte Generation) climate activist group has said it is dropping its name and will change its tactics by focusing on social issues related to climate change. ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv / 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 ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Society 91tv Austria鈥檚 branch of the 鈥�Last Generation鈥� (Letzte Generation) climate action group has announced its dissolution, arguing its direct action protests cannot be successful. In an open聽 letter ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:15 Ruby Russel Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy Wite / ARD Climate activist group Last Generation, whose members are famous for gluing themselves to roads to halt traffic, have announced that they will no longer use this ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:18 Jessica Bateman Society Focus Online German climate activists from the Last Generation ('Letzte Generation') group are turning their attention to the 鈥渟uper-rich鈥� with a number of actions on the North Sea island of Sylt. ...
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 ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society The climate protest group Last Generation (Letzte Generation) has announced that in the coming weeks its protest activities will target 鈥渢he rich鈥� and 鈥渟ymbols of modern wealth鈥� in order to ...
08 Jan 2025, 10:08 Jennifer Collins Electricity Renewables 91tv The share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation in Germany in 2024 reached a record high of 62.7 percent, with solar power smashing government expansion ...
30 Oct 2024, 11:41 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal consumption continued its downward trend in 2024, helping to reduce the country鈥檚 climate-damaging CO2 emissions, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) based ...
13 Apr 2023, 12:59 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government dpa / Der Spiegel / 91tv Ahead of a major protest in Berlin announced by the climate activist group Last ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) predicts the country will need lower reserve power plant capacity, and projects a reduced demand for grid management measures in winter ...
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 ...
14 Aug 2023, 13:00 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Society Watson / Rheinische Post 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Fridays for Future youth climate movement has renounced the more radical tactics (such ...
06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift towards the cooling ...
23 May 2023, 13:44 Carolina Kyllmann Politics Society Tagesspiegel / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz labelled the protest actions from climate activist group Last Generation, who glue themselves to artwork or roads, as 鈥渃ompletely nutty ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society ZDF / 91tv Several German cities are considering, or are already brokering, deals with climate activists from the group Last Generation to end their disruptive protests in ...
25 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025, 11:25 91tv Team The Guardian: German parliament sits for first time with AfD as main opposition 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with the far-right Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) the strongest opposition faction, ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv Unfavourable weather conditions led to a decrease of renewable energy generation in Germany at the start of the year, outweighing a growth in renewable capacity, figures released by energy ...
26 May 2023, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Society dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The UN has highlighted the importance of climate activists and their right to hold demonstrations following a crackdown on a street-blocking group in Germany. "Climate ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germans' support for the climate movement has halved following the rise of highly controversial street blockades by more radical activists, shows a survey by More in ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's parliament is set to pass a package of energy laws after the minority government of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens found agreements with the ...
15 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024, 10:00 Julian Wettengel Wallstreet Journal: The story of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general; President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried ...
05 Dec 2022, 09:35 With motorway and airport blockades as well as attacks on artworks, climate activists have caused a stir in Germany. The actions have provoked mainly negative reactions from politicians, the media and the general public, following ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:42 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Coal Renewables 91tv Electricity generation from coal dropped to a record low in Germany in the spring, while renewables produced more electricity than ever during the same period. Lignite feed-in ...
09 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 ...
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025, 11:50 91tv Team Science Direct: CO2-tax on emission-intensive agricultural goods could cut German agricultural emissions by 22.5% The CO2-tax could generate over 8.2 billion euros in annual revenue, analysis finds. Bloomberg: Europe threatens ...
12 Nov 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Electricity Society S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Environmental groups from Germany and Austria have come out in opposition to two proposed hydropower projects in the Alps, emphasising their negative impacts on biodiversity, ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics Die Welt German climate activist group 鈥�Last Generation,鈥� known for its controversial forms of protest, such as road blockages and attacks on artworks, is considering the establishment of a ...
12 May 2025, 13:44 S枚ren Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche from chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats ...
14 Feb 2025, 13:20 Bennet Ribbeck Society Elections & Politics 91tv A climate strike in Berlin by the youth movement Fridays for Future (FfF) ahead of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 snap election at the end of next week ended up attracting far fewer ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:50 The criminalisation of climate protesters is intensifying all over Europe, with multiple countries considering harsh new laws. While human rights activists express concern at the crackdown, experts are divided over the impact on the ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.5 billion euros in 2024, up around 100 million euros from the previous year, said the country's Federal Environment ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France鈥檚 ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June鈥檚 European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables Germany's lignite power production fell to the lowest level since 1963 last year, while hard coal power ...
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 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar ZfK / Montel Cloudy weather conditions expected for the Easter weekend have alleviated fears by grid operators in Germany that a high supply of solar power during a period of low consumption could lead to ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities Correctiv / Wirtschaftswoche Many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 large local utilities continue to bet on fossil gas for heating and stall the transition to more climate-friendly ways to heat homes, found business weekly ...
02 Aug 2023, 14:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv [Update adds link to report] Germany has generated a record 3.89 billion euros from the sale of allowances under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ...
11 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024, 11:24 91tv Team Guardian: The collapse of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government will delight Trump 鈥� and his European friends The German dream of centrist, stable government has been dashed by geopolitical forces and the cult of balanced budgets, writes Paul ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has cautioned that new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power, as a means to mitigate global warming, must not slow the rollout of ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:39 Aniket Narawad Policy Society 91tv Climate activists in Germany have accused the government of watering down a key law to ensure emissions reductions during the global climate strike organised by the Fridays for Future ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv A debate about the possibilities for treating nuclear waste in a way that greatly reduces the time that radioactive materials are considered a health hazard and thus ...
02 Nov 2021, 12:57 Jessica Bateman Renewables pv magazine Germany has registered a new October record for solar PV power output last month, PV Magazine reports based on data by Fraunhofer ISE. Solar generation reached 3.6 terawatt hours (TWh), a fifty ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables RBB East German energy company LEAG plans to put a major lignite plant in partial reserve from May to September due to the projected high output of renewable power installations in that period, public ...
13 Jun 2024, 12:55 S枚ren Amelang Utilities n-tv Bavaria wants to take over numerous hydropower plants in the southern German state, if necessary by forcing a sale from operator Uniper, state premier Markus S枚der has said. He added the state would exercise ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:16 Bennet Ribbeck Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Progress of German energy transition continues to be mostly stagnating, 聽a report by research centre Prognos carried out on behalf of the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) said ...
30 Sep 2024
30 Sep 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: VW鈥檚 second pofit warning exposes a carmaker in decline German manufacturer expects to sell fewer vehicles this year. Bungled EV shift and China slump are among VW鈥檚 many challenges. European Environment Agency: ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv / dpa / Handelsbatt Offshore wind farms in the German North Sea generated around eight percent more wind power last year compared to 2023, transmission system operator TenneT said. At 20.8 ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country鈥檚 energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
15 Oct 2024, 12:50 Jack McGovan Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Sales of cars from German manufacturers VW, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Mercedes in the EU, USA and China are 2.1 percent lower in 2024 so far than the same time period last year, despite ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:55 Jack McGovan Renewables Wind 91tv Germany has started a multi-year campaign to measure wind speeds around 280 kilometres off the German Noth Sea coast to prepare the expansion of wind farms in the area. The government is ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
24 Apr 2025, 17:08 Poland is driving European efforts to end the reliance on Russian fossil fuel imports and has announced an 鈥渆conomic nationalism鈥� policy in response to US tariffs, which could have an impact on energy and climate policy. In the meantime ...
01 Nov 2022, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised the actions of climate activists targeting artworks and blocking traffic by gluing themselves to streets. 鈥淭here are other ways in which people can ...
31 Jan 2025, 14:00 Poland鈥檚 energy transition is lagging and set to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel and nuclear energy for baseload capacity. A far-right party is pushing against new renewable investment with a referendum on a pending new wind farm ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland鈥檚 new government has updated the country鈥檚 energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:18 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid Solar 91tv German transmission grid operators (TSO) are preparing for the partial solar eclipse on Thursday, 10 June but are confident that ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:51 Ruby Russel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv A sluggish economy saw primary energy consumption in Germany fall to a historic low in 2023, according to preliminary figures from energy data service AG ...
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枚ren Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:56 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewables covered more than half of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity consumption so far this year, according to calculations by utility association BDEW and the Centre for Solar Energy and ...
08 Aug 2024, 14:06 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Zeit Online 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ongoing hunt for a final repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste could last until the 2070s, a report has warned. However, the country鈥檚 environment ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:42 Ruby Russel Heating 91tv Industry groups have criticised recommendations by Germany's Monopolies Commission to keep the consumer cost of district heating in check 鈥� claiming the proposed measures would actually ...
18 Dec 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv Germany has generated more than half of the electricity it used this year with renewable energy for the first time, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Solar 91tv The expansion of photovoltaic (PV) systems in Germany continues to grow as more companies and private households opt for solar energy. By April 2024, the number of PV systems reached 3.4 million, ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Solar Storage 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 boom in stationary batteries linked to solar PV systems accelerated last year, doubling the total number of units to more than one million, reports solar industry association BSW. ...
Hard coal power station operator Steag, under pressure from strong wind energy production, is looking for a new investor after returning to profitability last year. Company CEO Joachim Rumstadt said at the annual press conference the company was looking ...
02 May 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv / dpa German government representatives welcomed聽 the agreement 聽by the Group of Seven (G7) major economies to end coal power generation by 2035, and said EU emissions trading means that there is ...
23 Aug 2024, 12:39 Jack McGovan Solar n-tv Germany saw a record level of solar power output in July despite sunshine levels being lower than the previous year, broadcaster n-tv reported. At 10.1 terawatt hours (TWh), solar power accounted for around 43 ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Focus Online Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same ...
10 Jan 2023, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv A jury of linguists and journalists has picked the expression 鈥榗limate terrorists鈥� (Klimaterroristen) as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥榥on-word鈥� (Unwort) of the year 2022, the initiative ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / 91tv The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country鈥檚 coal power phase-out聽from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv / Focus Renewable energy supplied a record of 69.2 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 public net electricity generation in July 2023, according to data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE. Due ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:27 Jack McGovan Electricity Storage Table.Media / PV Magazine The long-awaited electricity storage strategy by Germany's economy ministry (BMWK), due to be published today (19 December), is unlikely to meet the expectations of the ...
15 Mar 2022, 10:46 More drastic forms of climate protest such as recent hunger strikes and motorway blockades risk widening the divisions within the German youth climate movement, says social movements researcher Dieter Rucht from the Berlin Social ...
02 Jun 2025, 13:11 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation 91tv / Zeit Heavy rainfall and flooding caused insured damages worth 2.6 billion euros in Germany last year, around one billion euros more than the long-term average, industry association GDV聽 said. ...
25 Feb 2020, 14:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ...
10 May 2024, 15:00 Poland saw a change in power last autumn when a pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk took over after eight years of rule by the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS). Since then, however, the ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE has a dominant position among the country鈥檚 electricity suppliers, the country's competition authority said in its report on last year鈥檚 power market. An ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:47 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs International 91tv The expansion of renewable energies, in particular geothermal, as well as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shortage of skilled workers needed to implement its landmark energy transition will be ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
18 Jan 2021, 13:52 Expert Coal Importer Association Verein der Kohleimporteure Fossil fuels Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv Last year's sharp drop in Germany's hard coal imports is set to continue ...
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枚ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Hydrogen Frankfurter ...
20 Dec 2024, 10:13 Large-scale solar PV developers have not been able to overcome Nigeria鈥檚 reputation as a risky place to do business, a problem which can be seen across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite tremendous solar potential, very little of it has been ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:38 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out International S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischer Rundfunk Local politicians from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 border region in Bavaria have expressed concerns about the security of nuclear power stations planned in the ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:36 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / Spiegel Online German energy company RWE is ready to close down its coal-fired power stations earlier than prescribed by the country鈥檚 coal exit law, CEO Markus Krebber told聽 Spiegel Online. RWE ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv The German education and research ministry (BMBF), through a new support programme for nuclear fusion research, aims to lay the groundwork for building the country鈥檚 first ...
18 Dec 2024, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Primary energy consumption in Germany dropped to a new low in 2024 amid聽warmer weather, a continued weakness of the country鈥檚 economy, and ongoing efficiency gains, the Federation of ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:03 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear phase-out will not affect the country鈥檚 reactors used for research purposes, which can continue to operate after the country鈥檚 three remaining nuclear power stations ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
30 May 2025, 15:00 Italy is facing a delay in the phase-out of coal, as the future of a major coal-fired power plant near Rome remains unclear, despite plans for its closure by the end of the year. The uncertainty is partly fuelled by industry concerns ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv Rail passengers and freight customers are set to be hit by higher prices as a result of a German government railway funding proposal aimed at ensuring a federal budget in line with the ...
07 Jun 2023, 13:02 S枚ren Amelang Government 91tv The German government spent around 1.5 billion euros on energy transition research in 2022, an increase of 13 percent compared to the previous year, said the economy ministry. 鈥淭his shows how ...
28 Oct 2020, 10:44 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar 91tv Germany has already surpassed last year鈥檚 ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices dpa / n-tv / 91tv Falling wholesale power prices have torn a hole in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 financing of renewable energy sources, whose operators receive state support if revenues from ...
09 Jul 2021, 16:32 UPDATE: Adds background information on climate policy and coal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv CO2 emissions in Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
16 Jan 2023, 14:08 The Green Party's leadership has faced broad criticism from the climate movement for agreeing to the demolition of the village of L眉tzerath to expand a neighbouring mine as part of a larger deal to exit coal in western Germany by ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Der Spiegel A lack of grid capacity has led ...
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 ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Nuclear phase-out 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear and coal phase-out both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when ...
25 Jan 2017
Due to a huge switch from coal to gas power generation, EU power emissions fell 4.5 percent last year, according to an analysis by energy think tanks Sandbag and Agora Energiewende*. 鈥淵ear-on-year, coal generation across Europe fell by 12 percent, whilst ...
19 May 2022, 12:07 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark have agreed to expand offshore wind power generation capacity in the North Sea tenfold to at least 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2050. The countries are also set to ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Germany's electricity market design needs a fundamental overhaul more urgently than ever before to make the economic value of supply security visible, the country's energy ...
24 May 2024, 15:00 The curtain is coming down on five years of EU energy and environment legislative drama. Since the 2019 鈥済reen wave鈥� that helped put the spotlight on sustainable policy, dozens of laws have passed through the complex process of EU ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:18 Edgar Meza Grid Storage Handelsblatt Sales of large-scale battery storage units are booming in Germany but their role in facilitating and advancing the energy transition appears to have been impeded by their increasing use for profit, ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv The year 2023 was the windiest in Germany in more than 15 years, providing excellent conditions for wind electricity generation, said Germany's National Meteorological ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:41 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden ...
01 Apr 2025
01 Apr 2025, 11:22 91tv Team Politico: EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress. Eurelectric: Solar breaks historical record in ...
20 Dec 2018, 16:33 On 21. December 2018 the mining of hard coal officially comes to an end in Germany. The closing of the last mine in the Ruhr region marks the end of 200 years of mining the fossil fuel that made 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrialisation possible. The ...
01 Oct 2024, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Wind Hydrogen 91tv Building 鈥渆nergy islands鈥� in the North Sea to produce green hydrogen using 20 gigawatts of offshore wind power can save Germany billions of euros, according to a report by the Fraunhofer ...
03 May 2022, 12:30 Edgar Meza Efficiency 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Viessmann Group, has said it plans to invest 1 billion euros in the next three years to expand its heat pump and green climate product portfolio and broaden its manufacturing footprint ...
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 ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:07 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Heating Clean Energy ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 five biggest power ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling International dpa / Die Welt Germany looks set to vote against lifting the current ban on mining the seabed in international waters at a conference on the future of deep sea mining, news ...
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, ...
18 Aug 2022, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas n-tv Power production with natural gas increased in Germany in May and July despite political pledges to minimise the fossil fuel鈥檚 use amid the supply crunch caused by Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine, news ...
01 Mar 2024, 14:06 At the height of its popularity just a few years ago, the climate protest movement Fridays for Future brought over a million people to the streets in Germany and across the world. Yet the movement now fights against losing relevance in ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv The vast potential of geothermal energy generation for heating has so far been under-utilised in Germany, but a new exploration process launched by the economy and climate ministry ...
Renewable energy sources produced about 34 percent of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 net power generation for public electricity supply in 2016, according to first projections by solar energy research institute Fraunhofer ISE. 鈥淭he share of renewables therefore remained ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv The number of construction permits issued for new onshore wind turbines in the first three months of 2022 fell 14 percent compared to the same period last year, wind energy industry association ...
Germany is headed for record solar power generation next week as forecasters predicted intense sunshine, reports Rachel Morison for Bloomberg. 鈥淥utput from photovoltaic panels in Germany could reach as high as 28,318 megawatts on May 7, according to ...
13 May 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has called for a wider reform of the system of fees that finance the country鈥檚 electricity grid and is considering an option where ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Spiegel / 91tv The climate activists occupying the western German village of L眉tzerath, which is slated for demolition to make way for a nearby lignite mine, are set to be evicted by 鈥渕assive鈥� police ...
25 Sep 2024, 13:28 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind Technology Society Heise online / mdr Work has begun on the construction of the world鈥檚 highest wind turbine in the eastern German lignite region Lusatia,聽 reports 聽technology website heise online. The ...
Germany will likely phase out power production from coal within the next 30 years, according to state secretary Rainer Baake. 鈥淲hen I look at the stakeholders鈥� positions, it seems to suggest that the last [coal] power station will likely go offline ...
24 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024, 11:31 Julian Wettengel IRENA: Record growth drives cost advantage of renewable power Eighty-one percent of renewable additions in 2023 were cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, offering countries a compelling business and investment case to ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:22 Edgar Meza Coal Utilities ARD, Rheinische Post RWE, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy company, has halted early retirement of employees in reaction to the government鈥檚 decision to increase the use of coal-fired power while gas supplies are low, ...
The net output of renewable energy sources in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power mix has reached a new record share in the first half of 2018, the website Energy Charts run by research institute Fraunhofer ISE says. With a net generation of 113 terawatt hours (TWh) between ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry 91tv Industry produced 55 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in Germany in 2018, meaning local units of ...
06 May 2024, 12:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The number of electric vehicles (EVs) exported from Germany rose sharply in 2023, meaning that EVs accounted for about one quarter of all car exports that year, the country鈥檚 ...
09 Apr 2025
09 Apr 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: German power prices to stay high as link to gas seen stronger Electricity prices in Germany will remain elevated as their link to natural gas is poised to strengthen over the coming years, analysts say. DPA: Trump ...
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 " ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out BR Southern German state Bavaria will retire its last major coal plant this week because the plant in Zolling near Munich was used less and less, also after the country completed its nuclear ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:19 Freja Eriksen Coal Solar 91tv Solar power could 鈥渇ully substitute鈥� coal-fired power generation in European coal regions in transition, according to a study by the European Commission鈥檚 Joint Research Centre. Researchers ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating 91tv Research institute Fraunhofer IGE is setting up a research laboratory for geothermal energy generation in western German North Rhine-Westphalia, the country鈥檚 most populous state. ...
22 May 2025, 13:02 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv Germany's renewable power expansion, the finalised phase out of nuclear, and the ongoing decommissioning of coal and gas power plants have had a positive effect on the country's ...
Germany and France jointly defend priority grid access for electricity generated from renewable sources, reports Politico. The European Commission, meanwhile, is considering removing priority dispatch ahead of power coming from fossil fuels. In a so ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Coal Climate & CO2 91tv Power generation from coal was down 19 percent in Europe, and 22 percent in Germany, in the first six months 2019, according to analysis by climate change think tank Sandbag. 鈥�2019 ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:45 Renewable energy sources delivered a fresh record in Germany in the first half of 2019 with a share of 44 percent in electricity consumption as stormy weather boosted wind power production on land and at sea, utility association BDEW ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
02 May 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Renewable energy capacity has increased rapidly in Germany in the past year, but the expansion must be accelerated further for the country to meet its target of sourcing ...
24 May 2022, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Carbon market EU Handelsblatt The European Commission鈥檚 plans to use the sale of CO2 permits as a source of additional income is a risk to the EU鈥檚 entire climate architecture and emission reduction targets, utility RWE ...
29 Mar 2022, 12:06 Edgar Meza Coal Der Spiegel A state court in North Rhine-Westphalia has ruled in favour of German utility RWE in a land dispute linked to the expansion of its Garzweiler lignite opencast mine located in the western German hamlet of ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv The volume and costs of measures required to manage the stability of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grid decreased in 2024, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. These so-called re ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Renewables Cost & Prices Electricity prices in Germany could be made more flexible and fall during particularly sunny or windy conditions according to a proposed measure to adapt grid fees to renewable power supply by ...
With a record amount of 5.57 terawatt hours (TWh), 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar power plants in May almost generated as much electricity as all of the country鈥檚 nuclear power plants combined (5.65 TWh), the German Solar Industry Association (BSW Solar) said in a press ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:18 Germany needs to implement a host of measures to achieve a climate neutral electricity system effectively, climate policy research institute Ariadne said. More flexibility and efficiency should be the focus of power market reforms, as ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:21 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy consumption in 2022 went down by 4.7 percent compared to last year, hitting its lowest level since the country鈥檚 reunification, according to preliminary data by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Twenty-seven youth organisations from the fields of climate, social affairs, trade unions, development, religion, civil protection, environment and sport have ...
16 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 S枚ren Amelang World Economic Forum:聽 These are the biggest risks we face now and in the next 10 years "Extreme weather events" rank second in the short term of two years and first in the long term of 10 years. Bloomberg: ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt A vast majority of RWE shareholders have rejected a request to force management to start preparations for a spinoff of the company's brown coal activities, but major ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Algeria are discussing closer bilateral cooperation in the rollout of renewables and green hydrogen during a visit by economy minister Robert Habeck to the north African ...
18 Jul 2019, 17:05 A fuel switch from coal to gas cut emissions from German fossil fuel power plants by a third in June 2019 as compared to the same month the year before. Lower gas prices and higher costs for CO2 allowances are part of the explanation. ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
Germany imported less hard coal last year and imports are set to drop again in 2017, the German Coal Importers Association said, according to a report by Dow Jones Newswires. Imports fell by 4 percent to 55.2 million tons in 2016, and will dip again this ...
22 May 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel International G20 & G7 91tv Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) ...
09 May 2025
09 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Montel: German zone split plan 鈥渉alf-baked鈥�, may lead to extreme prices聽 Large impact of weather on green output expected in the smaller of five proposed areas. Reuters: Germany's energy transition hits reverse so far in ...
07 Dec 2018, 10:05 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Low water levels on the Rhine and other rivers following the extremely dry summer continue to have a strong impact on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal power supply, according to an argus report. 鈥淭he ...
04 May 2020, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar 91tv / pv magazine Solar ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:37 Germany is unlikely to face the kind of massive power outage which hit Spain and Portugal on 28 April, as the country鈥檚 system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
German energy company EnBW increased its operating result (adjusted EBITDA) by 6.4 percent to 1.14 billion euros in the first half of 2018, compared to the same period last year, the company said in a press release. Net profit attributable to the ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
05 May 2025
05 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Bloomberg: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 red tape creates a Berlin-sized hole in energy shift Military airspace restrictions are holding up wind-power projects, highlighting the challenges for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and defence plans. Montel: Critics ...
09 Jul 2018, 15:15 Natural gas is needed to complement renewable energies today and will increasingly be replaced by 鈥榞reen gases鈥�, enabling the continued use of existing infrastructure, says Timm Kehler, head of the gas industry initiative Zukunft ERDGAS ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Wind 91tv Germany must pay more attention to social and environmental impacts in its ambitious rollout of offshore wind energy, environmental NGOs and unions have said. 鈥淭he protection of nature, species and ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists that she expects talks to discuss the possibilities for a new government coalition to last several weeks before actual negotiations begin, news agency Reuters reports. The lengthy talks were down to the ...
20 Jan 2022, 13:27 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs 91tv Record levels of investment were made by German energy companies in 2021, said the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Investments totalling 20.5 billion euros ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind 91tv Offshore wind power capacity in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 territorial waters grew steadily in 2018, but the wind power industry says it will have to speed up to meet energy transition ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:50 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German Council of Economic Experts is calling for the country鈥檚 last nuclear power plants to remain in use until the current energy crisis is definitely over. The ...
31 Mar 2025
31 Mar 2025, 13:48 91tv Team DLR: Harvesting the sun, protecting the vines 鈥� innovation for sustainable agriculture聽 Agrivoltaic pilot project in Spain combines photovoltaics with sustainable, organic viticulture and improves water and energy efficiency. ...
18 Aug 2020, 14:13 Renewables Hydrogen Energate Messenger The roll-out of electric cars and the production of synthetic hydrogen-based fuels will push up Germany's demand for electricity in the years to come, resulting in a need to speed up the ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling Volksstimme / SWR The government of Saxony-Anhalt plans to explore the extraction of 鈥渂attery-grade鈥� lithium in the eastern German state, the newspaper Volksstimme reported. Deposits ...
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 ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables 91tv Renewable energy sources are set to contribute about 38 percent to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gross power consumption in 2018, a two-point increase over the previous year and a new ...
05 Nov 2024, 13:24 Government members and political observers have warned that Germany must avoid a high-stakes gamble among government coalition parties at critical time for the country and Europe. As disunity in the three-party coalition becomes more ...
19 May 2025, 17:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Policy 91tv [UPDATE adds quotes by minister Reiche, Commissioner Ribera] The new German government should largely adopt the previous government's plans for building new gas power ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation Renewables Changing weather patterns will boost the role of hydropower in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, Bavarian industry associations聽 have said. 鈥淒ue to increasingly rainy winter months, [we] expect an increase ...
24 May 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity 91tv German companies and public authorities should use a mix of renewables, battery storage, fuel cells and microgrids in the event of a power cut, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and ...
The decarbonisation of supposed green pioneers like California and Germany is too slow to meet Paris climate targets, Eduardo Porter writes in the New York Times. Despite a substantial increase in German renewable capacity, generation barely rose last ...
19 Jan 2021, 13:14 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv German hard coal companies RAG Sales and RAG Mining Solutions have announced the end of their business ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:51 Edgar Meza Renewables Tageszeitung / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydropower sector is up in arms over the federal government鈥檚 plan to stop the subsidisation of small hydroelectric power plants due to nature conservation concerns, ...
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 ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 The first block of a large coal-fired power station has just gone online in Hamburg, even as two thirds of German fossil-fuelled facilities fail to turn a profit and their operators are applying for many to be mothballed. So is the ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis Nuclear phase-out Renewables Focus Online The shutdown of the last nuclear power plant in Schleswig-Holstein will boost wind power in the northern German state, its environment minister Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens) ...
08 Oct 2019, 14:01 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Grid 91tv The German power grid ...
10 Jan 2024, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) are doubling down on their efforts to achieve a reform of the country鈥檚 constitutionally enshrined limit on new government lending, the ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:05 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) 鈥� the second strongest polling party ahead of Germany's snap elections on 23 February 鈥� is the only major party to outright reject the scientific consensus behind human-induced climate ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Water levels at Lake Constance are nearing a historic low point following a lack of rain and reduced snow meltwater coming from the Alps, reported public broadcaster ARD. While low water ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers鈥� Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv A new protection strategy for moorlands adopted by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government aims to better ...
22 Aug 2022, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out dpa / Zeit Online Extending the runtime of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three remaining nuclear power plants will do very little to help the country weather the looming gas supply crisis, economy and climate minister ...
03 Apr 2017
German utilities RWE and EnBW are not well prepared for the transition to a low-carbon future when compared their European peers, according to an analysis by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Austrian Verbund, Spanish Iberdrola and Finnish Fortum are ...
16 Aug 2022, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Hannah Naylor Gas 91tv Germany consumed 14.7 ...
Over half of the power consumed within transmission grid operator 50Hertz鈥檚 control area last year (53.4 percent) was generated from renewables, the company says in a press release presenting its 2017 balance sheet. 鈥淲e are proud that with this record ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:29 Julian Wettengel Finance COP29 Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Upcoming negotiations on a new goal for financial support from richer countries to developing economies to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be 鈥渧ery ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The demand for solar power panels in Germany has ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:24 Joey Grostern Gas dpa / 91tv State-owned liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals on the North Sea at Wilhelmshaven and Brunsb眉ttel handled the majority of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 imported LNG last year, and operated at 65 percent capacity, ...
12 May 2020, 13:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Wind In聽an effort聽to reduce ...
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 ...
30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe鈥檚 most intense heatwave in recent years finally comes to an end, following at least 35 days of well-above average temperatures, life in Italy has slowed into the summer break. In mid-August, the entire country grinds to a halt ...
Wind energy fed from offshore North Sea facilities to the mainland by German grid operator TenneT more than doubled to 5.18 terawatt hours (TWh) in the first half of 2016 鈥� compared to 2.26 TWh in the same period last year, TenneT says in a press release. ...
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025, 12:20 91tv Team UN: Countries reach historic deal to cut shipping emissions聽 Under new system, ships exceeding emissions limits need to acquire remedial units to offset excess pollution. BBC: Race to keep furnaces burning at British Steel ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Coal TAG24 / 91tv A lignite (brown coal) power station in the eastern German town of Chemnitz is going to be shut down by 2023, instead of the last unit running until 2029, the management of plant operator ...
06 May 2025
06 May 2025, 12:00 91tv Team DW: Why is Germany's Friedrich Merz, so unpopular? Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has hit a snag in his attempt to form Germany's new government. His personal popularity is low.聽Most Germans don't trust ...
05 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany has crossed a symbolic milestone in its energy transition by briefly covering around 100 percent of electricity use with renewables for the first time ever on 1 January. In the whole of last year, the world鈥檚 fourth largest ...
02 Feb 2021, 14:05 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar pv magazine / 91tv New photovoltaic capacity in ...
16 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024, 10:08 Julian Wettengel Eurostat: EU economy greenhouse gas emissions:-4.0% in Q1 2024 In the first quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 894 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 4.0 percent ...
The parties currently in talks to form 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government have agreed to speed up the roll-out of renewable energies and start the phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Contrary to a draft leaked earlier this week, the blueprint agreement ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government ARD / ntv / Funke Mediengruppe Only days before nuclear power production is set to end in Germany on 15 April, the government coalition party Free Democrats (FDP) has suggested to mothball ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt The operators of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 six remaining nuclear power stations, utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW, have rejected calls to keep the plants in operation beyond their scheduled ...
30 May 2025, 12:41 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Current planning for electricity grid development in Europe and Germany may underestimate infrastructure and flexibility needs as it uses simplified weather assumptions and idealised prosumer ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Society Government 91tv Public opinion on climate action in Germany is highly polarised, with a large part of society (56%) wishing for more climate action and around a quarter (24%) denying human-caused ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:21 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Coal Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German coal industry is looking to hydrogen production as an alternative in light of the ...
19 Apr 2021, 14:00 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling 91tv A new study commissioned by the German Environment Agency (UBA) examines how ...
03 Apr 2025
03 Apr 2025, 10:35 91tv Team Reuters: Deutsche Bank-owned asset manager DWS fined 鈧�25 million for greenwashing German prosecutors have fined asset manager DWS 25 million euros after a lengthy probe found the firm guilty of greenwashing, or making ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:24 Jennifer Collins Agriculture EU 91tv The newly passed EU law to restore nature has been met critically by the farming industry. The lobby group German Farmers鈥� Association (DBV) criticised it for being a "backward ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:56 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv Nuclear power is not a sustainable energy generation technology and ...
The reliability of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power supply remained high in 2016, according to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur). The total number of interruptions to supply last year was slightly lower, at 177,751, than in 2015. However, there was a ...
15 Jul 2019, 13:17 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Freja Eriksen Renewables Wind 91tv Wind energy carried from the North Sea by transmission grid operator (TSO) TenneT rose by 16 percent in the first half of ...
An increase in extreme weather events like storms, floods and snow pushed up the average electricity blackout time in Germany last year. The average interruption per power consumer rose to 15.14 minutes from 12.80 minutes in 2017, according to the Federal ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv The use of energy in Germany has become increasingly efficient since the 1990s, but not at the ...
E.ON spin-off Uniper made a net loss of 3.2 billion euros last year due to big writedowns on generation and gas-storage assets, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. But Uniper said it had 鈥済ood momentum for 2017鈥� having delivered a 鈥渟olid鈥� ...
07 Oct 2024
07 Oct 2024, 10:53 91tv Team Bruegel: Europe鈥檚 2040 climate target: four critical risks and how to manage them Achieving target will require massive expansion of renewable electricity generation, drastic reductions in fossil-fuel use, energy efficiency ...
07 May 2025, 11:40 91tv Team Climate & CO2 Bloomberg: Orsted cancels major UK offshore wind farm as costs jump The move is a significant blow to UK plans to boost the clean energy source in the coming years, and also a setback for the offshore wind ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:24 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Technology 91tv VW has said it will sell combustion engines until the early 2040s, toning down media reports that it will ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices EU 91tv The planned EU emissions trading system for transport and buildings (ETS 2) must be designed in a way that guarantees a socially acceptable burden-sharing, an analysis ...
02 Jul 2020, 12:57 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
While generous subsidies have made Germany a clean power leader, helping to increase the country鈥檚 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 ...
Germany can reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target with a delay of three years by taking 9 gigawatts (GW) of lignite-fired power plant capacity offline by 2023 without endangering power supply security, according to a study by Aurora Energy ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is testing emission-free delivery on Berlin鈥檚 Spree river with a solar-powered ship. The pilot project in the capital is an addition to the company鈥檚 ...
The German biogas industry is fighting for survival even though it is indispensable, writes Kathrin Witsch in the business daily Handelsblatt. The technology was once seen as a saviour of the energy transition because it can generate electricity ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:19 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Transport Society 91tv A growing majority of German travelers say they are taking climate change and sustainability into account when planning vacations, according to a YouGov survey. 60 percent of German ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:21 Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling 91tv / ntv The majority of rare earth imports into Germany in 2024 came from China, according to data by the country's statistical offce (Destatis). Rare earth ...
17 Feb 2025
17 Feb 2025, 12:30 91tv Team Jacques Delors Centre: One month into Trump: Europe鈥檚 hour New U.S. president means dangers for rest of the world by demolishing rules-based international system, disdain for environment. Building defensive and dissuasive ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany should consider the import of direct reduced iron as a way to produce the hydrogen that is needed to generate electricity in its planned backup power plants, says a report by Norwegian ...
At 7.77 terawatt hours (TWh) in the first half of 2017, North Sea offshore wind power transferred by system operator (TSO) TenneT exceeded that of the same period last year (5.18 TWh) by 50 percent, TenneT said in a press release. 鈥淭he flow of energy from ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:08 Edgar Meza Gas Security Zeit Online As the German government follows through with its plan to shut down its last remaining nuclear power plants for good, the country鈥檚 energy sector is calling for the construction of new hydrogen-ready ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:38 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv Eurelectric corrects figures: Power demand in the EU decreased by 5.1% in the first half of 2023, compared to 2022, and was 4.8% lower in the first half of 2024, compared to 2022. 聽 Electricity ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen 91tv Producing synthetic alcohol with renewable power could become a significant energy storage option for the energy transition, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)聽research ...
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 B枚ckler ...
20 Apr 2021, 13:00 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 LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG ...
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 ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The collecting of German energy companies鈥� windfall profits will end on 30 June. "In view of the secure electricity supply, falling ...
In 2016, renewable energy sources were the most important power source in the southern German state of Bavaria for the first time ever, the Bavarian State Ministry for the Economy & Energy says in a press release. With a total of 35 terawatt hours and ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation EU Handelsblatt / Euractiv / 91tv A severe winter drought in France is causing worries that the country鈥檚 energy production could be impacted throughout the year, compounding an already tense ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / 91tv The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:29 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Climate & CO2 91tv / 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 Jan 2025, 13:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Policy Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung Grid operators and energy industry representatives in Germany are calling on political leaders to approve immediate measures to better control small solar installations following the ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv / Reuters Environmental NGOs from Germany are among the lobby groups making last-minute efforts to influence European Union lawmakers, who are scheduled to vote on key elements of the bloc鈥檚 future ...
13 Aug 2020, 12:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Utilities 91tv/Focus Online/Rheinische Post Utility RWE鈥檚 production from lignite coal fell sharply over the first half of 2020, even before the effects ...
02 May 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Government International T&E: How to defuse the EU鈥檚 carbon tax time bomb The decision to create a Europe-wide carbon price was right but creates significant political risk. The good news is it can still be fixed. Carbon ...
03 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany's primary energy consumption is likely to remain broadly unchanged this year, according to estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). While data for the first nine months of the year indicate a ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 91tv 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 ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / 91tv German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Above average rainfall since October 2023 has increased hydropower production in Germany in early 2024 to levels not seen since 2018, said the energy industry association BDEW. Hydroelectric ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Carbon Pulse German companies are among the top buyers of discredited, decade-old offsets in the voluntary carbon market, reports Carbon Pulse. Nearly 2.6 million Emissions Reduction ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / pv magazine Spaces alongside German highways could be utilised better to build solar energy systems, with around 250,000 potential sites identified聽 in a report 聽by the Federal Highway Research ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:11 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Business & Jobs dpa / Der Spiegel German economy and climate protection minister Robert Habeck said hydrogen would soon establish itself as a key component of the energy transition, according to a dpa report ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:17 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Bloomberg Oil major Shell plans to transform itself into 鈥渢he largest electricity power company in the world鈥� by the early 2030s, and the recent purchase of German battery ...
10 Feb 2025
10 Feb 2025, 13:25 91tv Team Reuters: Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system, severing Soviet-era ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables 91tv Freezing gas infrastructure and subsequent supply outages happening in Texas during a recent winter storm are 鈥渆xtremely unlikely鈥� in Germany, gas grid operators said. 鈥淭he transmission ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:17 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Cars Handelsblatt German carmaker Volkswagen is in favour of support for electric cars, which can provide the "initial ignition" needed to encourage the transition to electric ...
German utility innogy has lost about a quarter million customers over the last year, and its earnings slightly declined to about 1.2 billion euros in the first quarter of 2018 as the asset swap deal between utilities E.ON and RWE looms, the news agency ...
06 Apr 2020, 13:58 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 Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen ...
New problems at its Datteln 4 hard-coal power plant have caused a hefty impairment charge at German fossil power generator Uniper. First quarter adjusted EBIT was 350 million euros, down from 514 million euros in the same period a year earlier, the ...
23 May 2025, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out 91tv / FT Economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche has confirmed media reports that her government agreed with France to largely drop its resistance to supporting new nuclear power ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:32 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Tagesspiegel / dpa The German federal government and ...
07 Apr 2025
07 Apr 2025, 13:36 91tv Team International Energy Agency (IEA)-聽 Our latest review of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy policies is out now聽 Report explores how making Germany's electricity system more efficient & resilient can support the energy transition, ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:49 Julian Wettengel International COP29 91tv As the UN climate change conference COP29 gets underway, Germany is continuing its push to include countries beyond the rich industrialised economies among those to contribute ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:07 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE will spend about 5 billion euros 鈥� 30 percent more than originally planned 颅鈥� on ...
07 Dec 2018, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars WirtschaftsWoche Tesla CEO Elon Musk was highly influential in shifting the strategy of German carmakers away from the combustion engine, in particular Volkswagen鈥檚 announcement this week ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Bloomberg The G7 countries cause a large part of the world's resource consumption and the associated damage to the climate and environment and thus have to 鈥渁ccept their ...
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 Large parts of northern Italy were devastated by the country鈥檚 fourth floods within a year, triggered by intense rainfall on 19 and 20 October. Parts of Sicily, in the south, were also severely impacted. The floods came as Italy鈥檚 ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:29 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewable power sources covered around 57 percent of Germany's gross ...
15 Apr 2020, 15:27 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Solar pv magazine / 91tv Solar power production has reached a new record share in Germany, with solar PV contributing 23 ...
93 percent of Germans say further expansion of renewables is important or very important, according to a study by TNS Emnid, commissioned by the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). The approval rate for renewables facilities in their own neighbourhood fell ...
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 ...
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 ...
German utility Uniper鈥檚 operating earnings in the first quarter 2017 fell by 41 percent compared to the same period 2016, due primarily to last year鈥檚 lucrative deal with Russian Gazprom, the company announced in a press release. This was less than what ...
27 May 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Energy consumption in Germany has seen a 鈥渟urprisingly strong鈥� increase in the first three months of 2025, an analysis by AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) has found. Consumption ...
21 Jul 2022, 11:49 Hannah Naylor Gas Heating Two-thirds of Germans are willing to use an extra blanket or jumper to reduce their heating usage next winter, reveals a study conducted by polling firm forsa on behalf of the German Federal Environmental ...
The surplus on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 green energy account started to grow again in October, and at 3.4 billion euros it far exceeds last year鈥檚 October surplus of 1.9 billion euros, reports Sandra Enkhardt for pv magazine. At the same time, German wind and solar ...
Should the next German government decide on a speedy exit from coal-fired power generation, no company would be affected as much as German utility RWE, Europe鈥檚 largest CO鈧� emitter, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. RWE is in a better financial ...
The German power grid was on the brink of a blackout on the 24 th of January because of an extended period of little wind and cloudy skies, the Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) warned in the Rheinische Post. Energy ...
22 May 2019, 16:37 Ahead of the European Elections from the 23rd 鈥� 26th of May, organisers of the German Fridays for Futures see the election as a last chance to put climate at the top of the European Parliament鈥檚 agenda. 鈥淭his election will have a ...
05 Dec 2024
05 Dec 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Corporate Europe Observatory: How frontline communities are impacted by the EU鈥檚 green extractivism Europe鈥檚 scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, report says. ...
13 May 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Security 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche, has emphasised the value in working with European partners to ensure energy supply for the continent. 鈥淐ooperation with European ...
07 Jan 2019, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 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 ...
22 Jun 2022, 14:29 Edgar Meza Gas Security Die Welt, Bloomberg The German government looks set to move its national gas emergency plan to "alarm" level, Die Welt and Bloomberg report. Germany has been at the 鈥渆arly warning鈥� stage since March 30 ...
01 Nov 2024, 16:30 As the world heads to the international climate summit COP29, the European Union is in a tricky position. The Brussels machine is still getting back up and running after the June elections, with the European Commission chiefs yet to be ...
German utility RWE has overhauled its decision-making process, after the group underestimated the transition to green energy and lost much of the 10 billion euros it invested in conventional power generation in the second half of the last decade, the ...
23 May 2025
23 May 2025, 11:00 91tv Team Financial Times: Merz backs Nord Stream ban to prevent US and Russia restarting gas link German chancellor is worried about reigniting domestic row over Russian gas imports. Reuters: German Q1 GDP upgraded as orders rush to ...
The current German renewable energy surcharge will not be enough to put the Energiewende on a sound financial basis, due to growing demand for electricity in transport and heating (sector coupling), economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said at the annual ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:41 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
The German gas industry believes gas is being 鈥渄iscriminated against鈥� in Energiewende policies. In heating, renewable gas was being treated as a fossil fuel, and CO 2-savings by gas-powered cars were not counted as decarbonisation measures, said Timm ...
26 Nov 2024, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Businesses in Germany invested 85 billion euros in measures to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, a 12 percent increase over the previous year, shows a survey ...
23 Aug 2021, 13:36 Edgar Meza Electricity Renewables 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and increasing share of decentralised generation capacity are having no negative effects on the quality of its power supply,聽 according to 聽the Federal ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security Reuters To counteract future gas supply shortages, the government cabinet has decided on new regulations for the provision of backup power stations and to minimise the use of natural gas in power generation, ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country鈥檚 overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
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 ...
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 91tv Power ...
23 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025, 12:28 91tv Team Ember: Record 47% of the European Union鈥檚 electricity now comes from solar and other renewables聽 Another year of coal and gas decline cut EU power sector emissions to below half their 2007 peak and reduced reliance on imported ...
30 Mar 2022, 14:07 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Die Welt Climate activists from student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) have said they will resist the planned ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:12 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Utilities 91tv / dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's largest coal power and renewables operator RWE plans to step up its ...
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 ...
12 May 2015
12 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt 鈥淓nergiewende show on the high seas鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Sigmar Gabriel invited his G7 counterparts to visit a new offshore wind converter platform in the North ...
02 May 2022, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Wind Policy dpa / Der Spiegel Germany's federal states trail far behind the government's target of designating two percent of the country's surface area to wind power, according to a聽 survey 聽by newswire dpa ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 12:00 As the European Union鈥檚 focus shifts away from climate action and towards increasing security and competitiveness, the question whether it will set a 90 percent emissions reduction target for 2040 has become central. Dave Keating *** ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:25 Jack McGovan Solar 91tv / PV Magazine There are too few installations of solar panels on the roofs of apartment buildings across Germany, making rental homes an underutilised source for renewable energy generation, ...
14 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Economist: Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany? 聽 Bombshell fiscal package鈥攃urrently under negotiation鈥攔epresents more than just the start of deficit spending on defence. It is the beginning of a new European growth ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Cars 91tv / Handelsblatt Registrations of new plug-in electric cars in Germany fell by more than a quarter in 2024 compared to the previous year, while the average CO2 emissions of newly registered ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:55 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Renewables 91tv The volume of new renewable energy projects backed by a purchase power agreement (PPA) in Germany trails that of other European countries, according to a report by energy ...
12 Aug 2019, 12:27 S枚ren Amelang Coal 91tv Germany's coal phase-out and the continued rollout of renewables will only have "very little" impact on electricity prices, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear fund is meant to cover the costs accruing from the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out for generations to come. If 鈥� and only if- the fund is managed well, taxpayers will not have to top it up, Helmut B眉nder and Brigitte Koch write in ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday (15 April) after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 three remaining reactors. Operators said the switch-off happened ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 research ministry, which is led by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), wants to accelerate research into nuclear fusion with a new funding programme. 鈥淭he energy ...
04 Apr 2019, 15:12 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions fell 4.5 percent in 2018 as warm weather and higher prices dampened the use of climate-damaging fossil fuels. The government called the largest drop since the 2009 recession the 鈥渇irst notable ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv A group of experts largely rejected calls for tougher penalties for climate activists who stage acts of civil disobedience like motorway blockades or artwork attacks.聽 In response to a motion ...
17 Apr 2025, 15:00 The return of nuclear energy in Italy is slowly but steadily shifting from possibility to concrete political project. The transition to renewables, meanwhile, has entered a paradoxical phase: installation numbers are solid yet local ...
The German energy system would become more complex, unfair and expensive if the government were to introduce support models for tenant electricity, as costs avoided by tenants would have to be paid by other consumers, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:11 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen 91tv Algeria, Tunisia and Spain could be the best and most cost-effective countries from which Germany can import green hydrogen if pipelines are ready for transport, according to an analysis by ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:46 A position paper in which German finance minister Christian Lindner calls for fundamental economic policy changes has sparked outcry from coalition government partners, further destabilising an already weakened alliance. The paper was ...
06 Sep 2021, 14:04 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Industry dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / RND German industry federation BDI has warned ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Coal Society 91tv A broad coalition of climate activist groups have said they will stage a protest at an opencast lignite mine in East Germany and call for a rapid end to coal this Sunday (25 June). 鈥淚t is ...
23 Jan 2019, 18:16 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 detailed coal exit path and the end-date to coal-fired power generation remain unknown only days before a highly anticipated phase-out proposal is due to be published. A leaked draft of the final report of the country鈥檚 coal ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Heating Handelsblatt Plans by the German economy and climate protection ministry (BMWK) to de-facto ban the installation of new oil and gas heating systems from 2024 are generating great uncertainty among homeowners, business ...
16 May 2025, 13:12 Jennifer Collins Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv More than half of business leaders in eastern Germany rate the region's economic potential as "high" or "very high", with renewable energy seen ...
German energy company Uniper is the first utility to put forward ideas for an eventual phase-out of coal-fired power generation following the launch of the coal-exit commission last month, Klaus Stratmann reports in Handelsblatt. Uniper CEO Klaus Sch盲fer ...
Major German utility EnBW confirmed its forecast for the year 2016 of an operating profit (adjusted EBITDA) five to ten percent below last year鈥檚 result [2.1 billion euros], the company said in a press release. After the first nine months of the year, the ...
15 Mar 2023, 09:45 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable industry association BEE has criticised key elements of the EU proposal to reform the design of the bloc鈥檚 electricity market. The lobby group said strict rules about the shape of future subsidies for new low-carbon ...
17 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025, 13:00 91tv Team FT: Green energy stocks fall back to levels last seen 5 years ago聽 Uncertainty over political support for clean transition depresses market. Reuters: Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in landmark climate ...
01 Feb 2022, 13:27 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Constitutional Court has declined to accept eleven constitutional complaints directed against existing state climate action laws and the lack of CO2 reduction paths ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:50 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid dpa / Die Welt Around 2,200 people in the states of ...
E.ON鈥檚 spin-off Uniper, slated for a stock market listing soon, has posted its first half-year financial results, reporting a 3.9 billion euro loss. The hit is a result of value adjustments and provisions for impending losses of 3.8 billion euros that E ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Business 91tv Climate protection played an important role for just under 60 percent of German start-ups founded last year, state-owned development bank KfW found. Ten percent of start-ups mainly offered ...
With 967.5 million euro, German utility EnBW has achieved a 24.2 percent lower operating result in the first six months of 2016 than in the same period in 2015. The company expects results for the whole year to be five to 10 percent lower than last year. ...
04 Jul 2022, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Heating 91tv The German heating sector must be reformed from its core and made more efficient to weather the energy supply challenges ahead, the state-funded Federal Environmental Foundation ...
German utility E.ON 鈥檚 fossil-fuel subsidiary Uniper plans layoffs and wage cuts due to challenges caused by the country鈥檚 transition to low-carbon energy generation, Rheinische Post reports. During collective negotiations with trade unions Verdi and IG ...
Many companies in Germany have understood that a more sustainable way of making business will dominate the economy of the future, Green politician Julia Verlinden writes in a guest commentarty in the Frankfurter Rundschau. But some of the country鈥檚 ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv New large scale batteries and hydrogen electrolysers could see their grid connection fee lowered in areas where there is surplus electricity, according to proposals made by ...
15 Sep 2021, 17:52 In the run up to the German federal election, a group of young people have entered a third week of a hunger strike to call for more climate action- with one of the protesters being temporarily admitted to hospital. The group, which ...
13 Sep 2021, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv A second televised debate between the three chancellor candidates for the German federal election has again seen the Social Democrats鈥� (SPD) candidate Olaf Scholz come out on ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv / Table.Media The production of green hydrogen in Germany will not be financially viable also in the long term, according to a聽 report 聽commissioned by the European Commission. A hydrogen economy ...
The speedy start of the coal exit is more important than finding a final end date, writes the Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU), an expert advisory panel to the government focussing on environmental protection, in a statement. 鈥淔or the climate, ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Zeit Online / 91tv The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Brandenburg has said he is open to talks about an earlier coal phase-out under certain conditions. Energy supply must be reliable ...
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 ...
30 May 2025, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government 91tv The new German coalition government has agreed which measures and policies to tackle as priorities in the coming months, including an act to unlock hundreds of billions of ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices 91tv Germany is set to reform its electricity market design as it moves to decarbonise its power sector. In a paper outlining fields of action, the economy ministry ...
Germany will inevitably scrap coal-fired power production even though the move has not yet been officially announced, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. Coal-fired generating units with an installed capacity of 4,772 megawatts 鈥� the equivalent of ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Digitalisation Der Spiegel Almost 500 of the 879 companies that operate metering points in Germany are still to install their first smart meter, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. The Federal Network ...
11 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Politico: Friedrich Merz鈥檚 cabinet: Who will lead 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 key ministries? Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives and their Social Democratic Party (SPD) counterparts have struck a coalition deal, but party ...
06 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany has launched official talks on phasing out coal in power generation. The aim is to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have remained stubbornly high despite the country鈥檚 ongoing shift to renewable power. The government on ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:27 Kerstine Appunn Wind Cost & Prices 91tv Growing uncertainties are putting off wind farm investors and have led to another public tender for new wind capacity being undersubscribed, German wind energy association BWE has ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:52 Several days of little sunshine and wind have pushed down renewable electricity production in Germany in early November, causing an increase of fossil fuel use and high power prices. However, energy analysts said such conditions are ...
05 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Wind Hydrogen Technology A European hydrogen test project has successfully linked a wind turbine with two electrolysers, which could make it possible to generate off-grid green hydrogen at sea and drive down production ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind Tagesspiegel Background A new draft plan for offshore wind power expansion by the German government has allocated ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Consumption of natural gas by Germany's private households and industry customers increased in 2019, while domestic production of the fossil fuel continued to decline, the national ...
Grid operator Tennet, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four major electricity network companies, has warned that a toll on power transmission from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 windy north to industrial centres in the south could create substantial obstacles for the country鈥檚 planned ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:07 Edgar Meza Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Federal funds required to support the expansion of renewable energy in Germany could drop in 2025, according to an analysis by the Institute of Energy Economics at the University ...
20 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024, 12:00 91tv Team Ember: EU generated record 30% of electricity from wind and solar in first half of 2024, surpassing fossil fuels for first time Ember's 2024 review shows highlights of energy transition's development. The Guardian: & ...
04 Mar 2020, 13:46 Rachel Waldholz Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Austria鈥檚 new government has set ambitious climate targets that will require massive new investments in renewable energy 鈥� and it is looking to Germany, and ...
24 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025, 12:30 91tv Team IEA: Growth in global energy demand surged in 2024 to almost twice its recent average IEA鈥檚 Global Energy Review is the first global assessment of 2024 trends across the energy sector. Based on the most recent data, it covers ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:40 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Society Der Spiegel German consumer advocates are calling for a fair distribution of the energy transition's costs after the next government announced more ambitious climate plans. "If ...
06 Mar 2025
06 Mar 2025, 11:29 91tv Team Reuters: Germany's nuclear lobby says up to six reactors could restart Germany's nuclear engineering lobby said up to half a dozen nuclear power stations could, in theory, be reopened despite closing in 2023 as a ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:50 S枚ren Amelang Cars Electrive The average price of newly registered electric cars rose by around 4,000 euros to 56,669 euros in Germany this year, slowing the transition to climate-friendly mobility, according to the Center of Automotive ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:32 S枚ren Amelang Society Government 91tv / Der Tagesspiegel Climate activists' repeated blockages of motorways in Berlin and other German cities have sparked a debate among government parties about the legitimacy of these ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:39 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv German power company EnBW has committed to becoming climate-neutral within 15 years. "The ...
18 Sep 2018, 18:50 The country鈥檚 coal exit commission said there were no predetermined decisions regarding a date for the end to coal-fired power generation. Following irritation about reports of a supposed compromise on a 2038 end date, economy minister ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv Limited capacity and environmental risks mean that carbon storage in the German North Sea should only be used for residual emissions that remain unavoidable, said ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
A growing population and the economic boom pushed up 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 total energy use by almost one percent last year, but the country鈥檚 CO 2 emissions likely stagnated due to the rising share of renewables and an increase in gas use, according to energy market ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Reuters Novel nuclear power plant designs do not resolve the technology鈥檚 fundamental challenge of hazardous nuclear waste, a report commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Office for ...
27 Apr 2020, 14:13 Expert bne- Association of Energy Market Innovators Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft Electricity market Grid Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables ...
01 Oct 2015
01 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW)/Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) 鈥淲ind power generation 2015 already exceeds last year鈥檚 level鈥� Thanks to strong winds and the addition ...
14 Apr 2025, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / ARD Railway and road infrastructure are priority areas for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major investment package for infrastructure and climate neutrality, the country鈥檚 chancellor-in ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance EU 91tv The European emissions trading system (EU ETS) and national carbon pricing brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros from the sale of carbon dioxide pollution rights in 2022, the Federal ...
28 May 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Homeowners in Germany installed more gas boilers than climate-friendly heat pumps when replacing their heating systems in 2024, though the gap is closing, found a report by the government ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The Green Party is calling for major investments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 infrastructure, energy system, industry and administration to use decarbonisation and the energy transition as an ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Grid Der Spiegel Bureaucratic hurdles and citizens鈥� initiatives ...
26 May 2021, 10:29 The EU's bid for climate neutrality puts a big question mark over the future of generating electricity by incinerating waste. The fiercely disputed process emits CO2 and toxins, although its proponents point out that it prevents ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Electricity market ...
30 Oct 2020, 10:18 91tv 91tv Grid 91tv Some 110 billion euros will need to be invested in expanding and updating 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity network by 2050 in order to meet the demands of the energy transition, according to a study ...
22 Jul 2019, 13:54 Freja Eriksen Coal Renewables Cost & Prices Reuters Coal importers鈥� group VDKi expects Germany to import 10 percent less hard coal this year than in 2018. VDKi聽 forecasts hard coal imports of between 39 million and 43 million tonnes ...
26 Oct 2018, 08:41 Members of Germany's coal exit commission have unanimously adopted the first major policy recommendations for the country's lignite mining regions affected by a future coal power phase-out. At an on-site meeting in the Rhenish ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:30 Edgar Meza Gas Spiegel Online Germany's natural gas reserves are noticeably low in the frigid month of February mainly as a result of Russian gas giant Gazprom鈥檚 throttled deliveries via Ukraine, Stefan Schultz writes in Der ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:25 Edgar Meza Grid Cost & Prices 91tv The expansion of European electricity grid infrastructure and measures to increase demand flexibility could lead to a significant reduction in power prices, according to a report by ...
11 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Clock ticks for German fiscal bonanza but Merz ally optimistic A senior ally of Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday (11 March) was optimistic about securing support for a massive increase ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Representatives of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewable power industry have criticised the government鈥檚 planned legislation package for expanding the capacity of solar, wind and other renewable energy ...
11 May 2017, 00:00 Once the flagship of German solar energy, PV panel manufacturer SolarWorld has filed for insolvency, in what founder Frank Asbeck called a 鈥渂itter step for the German solar industry鈥�. The company blamed plummeting prices caused by ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Leading members of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) have called for a reversal of the country鈥檚 nuclear phase ...
07 Apr 2025, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv Following a rapid rise in household solar panel installations, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 total number of PV arrays has passed the five million 鈥渕ilestone,鈥� according to industry association BSW-Solar. ...
22 Nov 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Business 91tv Companies in Germany invested about 55 billion euros in climate action measures in 2021 but still have to double their financial efforts to get on track towards the country鈥檚 2045 greenhouse ...
16 May 2025, 13:20 Expert BMUKN- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesminister f眉r Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Policy Government ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:20 Jack McGovan Storage Resources & Recycling 91tv Deep bodies of water in northern Germany have been found to contain large amounts of lithium that could be used to help produce batteries for the energy transition, ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:03 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Solar Storage 91tv The number of solar power storage devices ...
02 Apr 2025, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Europe could reduce its spending on security and defence by cutting its reliance on fossil fuels 鈥� thereby starving Russia of funds from oil exports which are critical ...
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 ...
The German cabinet has paved the way for projects located in other EU countries to take part in national renewable energy auctions, the Federal Ministry for the Economy and Energy (BMWi) has said in a press release. Five percent of annual bidding capacity ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Society 91tv Europeans aged over 30 show a better grasp of the causes and consequences of climate change than younger generations- but awareness of solutions is lacking across age groups, found a聽 survey by ...
21 Feb 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Tagesspiegel Background / ARD A draft law that would require all newly installed heating systems in Germany to run on 65 percent renewable energy from 2024 is making 鈥済ood progress鈥� after many delays, energy ...
04 Mar 2025
04 Mar 2025, 11:39 91tv Team Euractiv: Von der Leyen proposes more relaxed CO2 target compliance for new cars European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced she will propose a more relaxed three-year timeframe for the automotive industry ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:13 Jennifer Collins Business & Jobs Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung French energy company TotalEnergies says it plans to stay on its expansion course in Germany, welcoming the CDU/CSU and SDP coalition deal that will continue ...
11 Feb 2025
11 Feb 2025, 11:00 91tv Team PIK: Research institute compiles 85,000 individual studies about climate policy, offering "wealth of evidence" Over a quarter of studies reviewed from 2020 or later; Potsdam Institute for Cliamte Impact Research ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE will win unconditional EU antitrust approval to buy the renewables businesses of E.ON and Innogy in a deal that will reshape the German energy market, according to an unsourced Reuters ...
04 May 2020, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Germany made important progress in expanding the power grid in 2019, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) says in its聽 annual report. Of 7,700 kilometres of planned grid expansion, 1,300 km have been ...
22 Jun 2022, 14:10 Edgar Meza Nuclear phase-out Security M眉nchner Merkur / Handelsblatt Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected calls to extend nuclear power generation in Germany. Speaking to newspaper M眉nchner Merkur, Scholz said it was simply not possible. ...
Managing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power grids is becoming increasingly expensive, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. There has been a 鈥渕assive increase鈥� in so-called 鈥渞e-dispatch鈥� measures, where power plants are started or shut down to keep the grid stable, ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression 鈥渉ot autumn鈥� describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy鈥檚 ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's grid agency BNetzA is set to adapt grid fees for industrial electricity consumers in a bid to incentivise flexible power consumption. In an impulse paper ...
05 Mar 2025, 17:07 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 likely next government coalition parties have proposed an overhaul of state debt rules to make hundreds of billions of euros available for defence and infrastructure investments. The agreement, which faces a big hurdle in the ...
Germany should optimise the use of existing grid connections in the North Sea to connect as much offshore wind power capacity to the grid as possible, operator Tennet says in a press release. 鈥淲e can see a clear potential to optimise the use of existing ...
05 Jan 2022, 13:47 Edgar Meza Carbon market Cost & Prices 91tv The German government raked in a record 12.5 billion euros from European and national emissions trading programmes in 2021, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reported. ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:16 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Cities 91tv Many of Germany's biggest cities are squandering vast renewable energy ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv Accelerating the transition to largely domestically produced sustainable energy such as wind and solar electricity is the only way to really ensure energy security in Europe, said the European ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel鈥檚 future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 11:48 91tv Team Bloomberg: Porsche has nowhere to hide as Trump unleashes next tariff wave While Mercedes and BMW have some flexibility due to factories in the US, Porsche has no plants in North America. Bloomberg: German minister says Trump ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza Solar Cities pv magazine The German capital is a step closer in making solar PV systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine. In a special meeting, the ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:30 Edgar Meza Adaptation Society 91tv Germany's major aid organisations are urging the future government to increase civil protections in light of " the disasters resulting from rapidly increasing global warming and ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany must avoid building too many new gas power plants in the country鈥檚 efforts to secure electricity supply at times of little wind or sunshine, said renewables association BEE during an online ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The biggest bottleneck in skilled labour supply affecting Germany's energy transition is in electrical construction, according to a report by the German Economic Institute鈥檚 (IW) ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Freight 91tv A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major utility RWE intends to pay its 6.8 billion euro-contribution to a state-administered fund for financing the storage of nuclear waste without delay, raising questions about its actual financial status, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in ...
11 Sep 2024
11 Sep 2024, 11:18 Julian Wettengel EU Commission: State of the Energy Union Report 2024 shows EU progress The EU has managed to withstand critical risks to its security of energy supply, regain control over the energy market and prices, and accelerate ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has unveiled a new aviation strategy that sets the path for emission-free flying. The goal is the development of highly efficient aircraft that use climate ...
14 Aug 2020, 13:56 Renewables Industry industrie.de Engineering and technology firm Bosch is expanding its use of renewable electricity, with the goal of reaching climate neutrality at its 400 worldwide locations by the end of the year. According to聽 ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Germany must urgently address a whole range of difficult choices to get the country鈥檚 energy transition on track for 2050 targets by triggering rapid investments in low ...
29 Apr 2025
29 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Bloomberg: Spain slowly returning to normal after crippling blackout Spain and Portugal were returning to some semblance of normality early on 29 April, with many questions remaining about what caused one of Europe鈥檚 worst ...
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 ...
05 May 2022, 13:48 Edgar Meza Solar Wind 91tv Renewable energy sources accounted for 50 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first quarter of 2022 鈥� around nine percentage points more than in the same period last year, ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv The proportion of advertised jobs related to the energy transition rose from 1.8 to 3.8 percent between 2019 and 2024 in Germany despite multiple economic crises during that ...
In the first half of the year gas power plants produced 18 percent more electricity than in the same period last year, according to an internal report by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), Manuel Berkel writes in Bizz Energy. ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Business 91tv Sustainability in Germany is now firmly mainstreamed in the business sector, according to a survey by state investment and development bank KfW. Over half (53%) of German businesses consider ...
08 Aug 2024
08 Aug 2024, 15:22 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Unpacking 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hydrogen import strategy: 3 considerations for Global South partners Expectation that lower production costs can partially offset high conversion losses & transport costs may not ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:44 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Efficiency Capital Economist and government advisor Andreas Loechel has said the German government鈥檚 plan to provide guarantees and sureties for companies hit by high energy prices offers the wrong ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next coalition government should push to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating systems, said a wide alliance of sector associations in a joint appeal. The ...
03 Nov 2021, 14:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populated state and home to some of the largest still operating lignite mines and coal power stations could phase-out the fossil fuel as early as 2030, ...
16 May 2019, 14:02 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables 91tv A new law that is aimed at ...
21 Oct 2024, 14:18 Jennifer Collins Solar 91tv Solar energy expansion in major German cities is picking up speed, according to a report by renewable electricity provider LichtBlick, which looks at growth in installed roof-mounted solar ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 offshore wind energy industry expects a further drop in costs for new projects contracted by bidding processes, representatives of the industry said at a press conference of the German Wind Energy Association (BWE). 鈥淢ore practical experience ...
13 Dec 2022, 13:46 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas International 91tv An alliance of civil society organisations including Fridays for Future, Germanwatch and Misereor聽 has called on the government 聽to abandon plans to support natural gas ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:11 Charlotte Nijhuis Solar Cities Der Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin aims to take another step towards climate neutrality with a law to expand the number of solar panels on roofs, Tanja A. Buntrock writes in Der Tagesspiegel. The ...
29 Nov 2024, 11:00 Military and energy security are key priorities for Poland as it prepares to assume the EU鈥檚 rotating presidency in January 2025. The country plans to achieve these targets by pushing for nuclear energy, sanctions on Russia, and EU ...
12 May 2020, 13:09 Edgar Meza Coal Solar Plans by聽Swiss technology company and solar panel manufacturer聽Meyer Burger to supply panels for a 10 gigawatt (GW) floating solar plant on a lake to be left behind by the future closure of the Hambach coal mine is ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:53 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Storage GreenTech Media Researchers in Germany are exploring possibilities to turn the country鈥檚 coal plants into ...
01 Jul 2021, 12:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Electricity Industry 91tv As ...
15 Nov 2024, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Die Welt / Deutsche Welle Restarting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 decommissioned nuclear power plants is not a viable option, former plant operator E.ON has said. The company ...
01 Aug 2023, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has set important framework conditions for planned German state support to build and operate about 24 gigawatts (GW) hydrogen power plants and fossil gas units ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:16 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Solar Storage 91tv The number of battery storage systems linked ...
30 Sep 2024, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Carbon removal 91tv The German government's current plan for allowing carbon capture and storage (CCS) is far too permissive and set to delay the phase-out of fossil fuels, said environmental NGOs. They ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Growing demand for minerals needed in renewable power installations, electric vehicles and other green technologies could trigger a lasting price increase for ...
12 Feb 2019, 12:56 S枚ren Amelang Bioenergy 91tv Germany is unlikely to reach its target of covering 65 percent of its electricity consumption with renewables by 2030 unless it stabilises bioenergy production, German bioenergy associations say ...
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 ...
10 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025, 10:21 91tv Team Copernicus Climate Change Service: 2024 鈥� a second record-breaking year, following the exceptional 2023 Multiple global records were broken, for greenhouse gas levels, and for both air temperature and sea surface temperature, ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv The聽 Wadden Sea, the world鈥檚 largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the southern North Sea, is changing at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv The switch from coal-fired power generation and oil-fired heating to natural gas increases the greenhouse effect of energy supply by around 40 percent due to methane emissions, ...
01 Aug 2022, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Security dpa / Zeit Online The first retired hard coal ...
08 Oct 2024
08 Oct 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Reuters: EU backing for China EV tariffs shows Berlin's waning influence Germany was one of only five EU members to reject tariffs after months of pressure from its carmakers, which rely on China for almost a third of ...
03 Mar 2022, 12:42 Edgar Meza Gas Heating 91tv German households can help reduce gas consumption by up to 75 percent, according to non-profit consulting company co2online, which campaigns for the reduction of CO2 emissions. By reducing their ...
18 Jul 2022, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 push for energy independence triggered by the Ukraine war could boost the country鈥檚 emission reduction efforts in the medium term, as well as economic growth and ...
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 ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:23 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Reuters The German state secretary Jochen Flasbarth has said the government regretted the U.S. withdrawal from international partnerships to support major global polluters鈥� socially ...
