28 Aug 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of people in Germany view renewable energies favourably, but many worry about costs associated with the energy transition and there are clear differences between the ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:30 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv Germany’s heat pump industry has called for reductions in electricity prices in order to achieve the country’s expansion target of installing 500,000 units a year from 2024. In a statement, the ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Airplanes in Germany will be made more environmentally friendly by supplying them with clean electricity during stops at the airport, the country’s transport minister, Volker Wissing, has said. Airplanes ...
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) research ...
12 Apr 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology 91tv German energy provider EWE has completed the first stage of a test project to see whether the safe storage of green hydrogen in underground caverns is possible. The ...
30 May 2023, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Solar 91tv / Bloomberg The number of solar panel systems in Germany hit three million on Monday (29 May), with total solar PV installed capacity reaching more than 70 gigawatts (GW), according to industry ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:49 Edgar Meza Society EU 91tv People in Germany would like to see more European cooperation in energy and climate policy, according to a survey conducted by market research institute Prolytics on behalf of the German ...
02 Aug 2024, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Carmaker Volkswagen is facing “enormous efforts” to meet its own business targets due to high costs and decreasing revenue, said the company’s CEO Oliver Blume. ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bild am Sonntag Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to ensure that combustion engine cars powered by synthetic fuels enjoy the same tax advantages ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:33 Edgar Meza Freight Hydrogen Technology 91tv In a new report examining the status of the German and European hydrogen fuel cell markets, the German government-backed National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM) says there is ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:24 Sören Amelang Transport Freight Technology 91tv The association of German engineers (VDI) and technology organisation VDE insist on the large-scale deployment of hydrogen trucks for long-range road transport to reach the EU ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Technology Handelsblatt German ship engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions is pushing for climate-neutral fuels to replace marine diesel, Christoph Schlautmann writes in business daily Handelsblatt. ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany and France have reiterated their wish to work together on the energy transition, technological sovereignty, supporting industry in the transition to climate neutrality and ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Solar Heating 91tv Nearly every third house owner in Germany (29%) plans to install a solar power system in the coming two years, a survey conducted by energy company E.ON shows. "The commitment of ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv The EU still lacks an ambitious industrial strategy to accompany the Green Deal to strengthen the bloc's industry and ensure it is able to keep up in the global race for the green ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv The German environment ministry has presented a draft circular economy strategy as "a crucial element to reach climate targets and to create new possibilities for growth, ...
15 Nov 2023, 16:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 COP28 91tv Geopolitical conflicts like those in Ukraine or the Middle East may force the climate crisis off newspapers’ front pages, but the upcoming UN COP28 talks are still crucial, ...
02 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 91tv Almost a third of Germany's residents are planning to install – or have already installed – a small plug-in solar photovoltaic (PV) unit, often known as a balcony ...
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09 Jul 2024, 11:00 Sören Amelang Carbon Brief: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit Recent warming has led to renewed debate around whether the world might pass the 1.5C Paris Agreement limit sooner previously estimated. ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:21 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt Companies in Germany continue to be ...
12 May 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Der Spiegel About half of the people in Germany would accept a carbon storage site in their region, an online survey commissioned by news magazine Der Spiegel has found. In the survey ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:36 Ruby Russel Resources & Recycling International 91tv German industry is calling for the country's international development budget to increase the country’s access to resources from developing countries. A paper by ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:22 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology Germany's largest refinery is set to add synthetic fuels to its existing mineral oil-based product portfolio, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The regional ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv Aside from forests and other natural greenhouse gas emission sinks, negative emissions technologies will be necessary to reach climate neutrality by mid-century, said the ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:35 Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing energy crisis, Germany continues to struggle with its full economic recovery – even if energy prices are losing in relevance for the country’s growth prospects. Presenting the ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv It is unclear whether and to what extent conventional fracking – a controversial gas extraction method currently banned in Germany – could make a contribution to supply security in the ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:16 Sören Amelang Wind Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv Investors have agreed to pay 784 million euros for the right to build wind farms in four locations in the North Sea in Germany’s latest offshore wind tender. The wind ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv All six eastern German states have set up a joint initiative on renewables-based hydrogen. It is intended to closely connect politics, business and science on the fuel "in order to fully ...
17 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Policy 91tv A government-sponsored "renaissance of Europe's solar industry" is needed to ensure secure access to resources and hardware components that are ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:01 Sören Amelang Heating 91tv The electrification of heating is gathering pace in Germany as sales of heat pumps increased by more than half last year. Sales rose 53 percent to 236,000 units, making heat pumps the technology ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:21 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv Wind power production in Germany could be ...
15 Feb 2023, 13:02 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt The expansion targets for renewable power in ...
01 Jun 2022, 14:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Renewable energies will be at the heart of supply security in Germany in the future, but the country will continue to need gas and must “think big” when it comes to ramping up hydrogen, ...
08 May 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv The industry-affiliated NGO German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy (Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft) has called on Germany’s government to come up with an ambitious ...
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’s ...
17 May 2023, 12:59 Sören Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Finance 91tv Venture capital investments in Germany’s start-ups specialising in climate protection technologies fell to the second highest level ever last year, according to ...
30 May 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity International 91tv France and Germany will strengthen bilateral cooperation to unlock the potential of flexibility in the electricity system, government representatives agreed on the margins of ...
25 Nov 2020, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Technology 91tv Two new large-scale research centres will be established in the German state of Saxony in order to help lead the coal mining regions deal with the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:46 The EU member states' agreement on reforming the bloc's electricity market has been hailed as a success from ministers in France and Germany, whose dispute over the role of nuclear power in European climate action has ...
03 May 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv Approval rates for the construction of new wind turbines in the vicinity of people's homes in Germany can rise significantly if local electricity prices would drop as a result, ...
20 Dec 2024, 08:44 Germany’s next government will inherit a major policy predicament: How can it finally initiate serious transport emission cuts against a backdrop of tight finances, a struggling car industry, and a crumbling transport infrastructure? ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:10 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Sören Amelang Transport Technology 91tv Germany wants to extend its landmark energy transition (Energiewende) to the skies ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A planned hydrogen "core" network in Germany has come under criticism for being larger than necessary and therefore becoming too expensive, reports Handelsblatt. ...
26 Oct 2020, 13:48 Sören Amelang Transport Technology Welt am Sonntag German researchers and companies are about to test the world's first emission-free pusher towboat on the rivers and canals between Hamburg and the capital Berlin, reports Stefan ...
02 May 2023, 13:34 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Jessica Bateman Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background An analysis of solar power ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv / Klimareporter Supplying households with green hydrogen for heating should not play a major role in Germany’s heating sector decarbonisation because of huge planning and implementation ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:15 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Carbon removal Technology Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies will be required on a large scale in a climate-neutral economy, but these only make sense in combination with direct air ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Cars Technology 91tv Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability (LBF) have developed a lightweight battery pack to reduce the overall weight of e-car batteries. ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities Der Spiegel District heating could help to decarbonise up to 20 million of Germany’s roughly 43 million households, if the government introduced the right subsidies and framework conditions, the industry ...
01 Aug 2024, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv Germany’s goal of having 15 million electric cars on roads by 2030 could be missed by up to 6 million cars without cooperation with China and improved regulations and ...
30 Aug 2024, 14:17 As Europe’s 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 ...
16 Sep 2020, 13:05 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wind Technology NDR After a two-year trial period in the town of Klixbüll in northern Germany, renewables company SkySails Power is looking to build more of its turbines powered by large kites ...
26 Jun 2024, 13:38 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Jack McGovan Gas Heating taz / Die Welt / 91tv Fossil fuels are still being used to heat three quarters of homes in Germany, with renewable ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Solar Business & Jobs MDR Swiss photovoltaics manufacturer Meyer Burger has sealed the closure of its solar module plant in eastern German state Saxony, following news that the federal government is unlikely to ...
10 Mar 2023, 13:29 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv A new solar PV strategy tabled by the ...
24 Jun 2024, 14:12 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Government ARD / Handelsblatt As Germany’s coalition government struggles to agree on the country’s tightening 2025 budget, chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended planned austerity measures that would see major ...
11 Dec 2023, 12:20 Italy aims to become an important player once again at the table of international climate negotiations, the country’s recently appointed special envoy for climate Francesco Corvaro said. The university professor and engineer said that ...
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 ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs 91tv With a new factory for building electrolysers in Berlin, Germany’s Siemens Energy and France’s Air Liquide hope to lay the groundwork for a flourishing hydrogen economy in ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:30 German government officials and industry associations have welcomed the EU’s proposal for a “Green Deal Industrial Plan,” intended to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's industry on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:58 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Business manager magazin Germany’s state-owned energy supplier Uniper will continue to have a stake in nuclear plants abroad even after the end of the technology’s ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:50 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Germany's government wants to boost the expansion of hydrogen projects by giving them "overriding public interest" status, which would streamline planning ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:40 Battery-electric trucks will hit Europe's roads in large numbers soon, but catenary systems could also play an important role in the decarbonisation of heavy-duty freight transport if governments now push the technology by building ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv The southern German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria have joined forces to push hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and to ensure their industrial centres will receive sufficient supplies. ...
24 Jun 2020, 14:20 Expert World Energy Council Germany Weltenergierat Electricity market Fossil fuels Kerstine Appunn Technology EU 91tv More and more countries and businesses have set the goal of becoming climate neutral but few of them have ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Resources & Recycling n-tv / 91tv Lithium from southeastern European country Serbia could bolster Germany's ambitions for establishing a domestic battery production industry. German ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:28 Sören Amelang Bioenergy Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans to tighten restrictions on the use of biomass, according to a draft national strategy for the renewable power technology seen by energy and climate newsletter ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:05 Warnings by the works council at carmaker Volkswagen that the company plans to make significant cuts to its production sites and workforce in Germany have led policymakers to call for the protection of jobs and local economies. ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Achieving Germany’s energy transition and climate targets still requires a lot of political efforts to keep supply secure and affordable, the government-appointed expert commission ...
11 Jun 2020, 14:15 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Technology dpa / 91tv Three Western German towns are launching a trial to run the local energy supply without coal and gas, reports the newswire dpa in an article carried by ...
10 Jun 2020, 16:10 Germany places a large bet on hydrogen produced using renewable energy in its highly anticipated national hydrogen strategy that serves to underpin the country's ambitions to become a global leader in the technology. The strategy ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Heating 91tv The city of Berlin could cover up to ten percent of its future heating demand with waste heat, according to a report by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Institute for ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Germany’s district heating networks should be planned more efficiently in the long term and operators need better financial incentives to convert the infrastructure, so that the technology can ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:23 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany should put more emphasis on international cooperation in the fight against climate change, the country's Council of Economic Experts has ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Four years after the launch of Germany’s national hydrogen strategy, the buildout of hydrogen infrastructure is behind schedule and could run into serious trouble that scares away ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt / pv magazine Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck announced there will be new government funding to rebuild the country’s solar industry, ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:23 Edgar Meza Heating Tagesspiegel Background Representatives of federal and state consumer protection ministries report an "urgent need for action" in view of recent price hikes in Germany’s district heating market, energy ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv Closer cooperation with Germany on renewable power and other energy transition technologies could help India increase its energy sovereignty, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Germany's renewable energy sector employed 387,700 people in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 15 percent and the highest level in a decade, said the economy ...
04 Apr 2023, 14:03 Edgar Meza Renewables Politics Tagesspiegel Background / epd The state of Lower Saxony is aiming to become a pioneer in geothermal energy, Tagesspiegel Background reports, citing an article by the epd news agency. "Geothermal ...
12 Mar 2020, 13:59 Sören Amelang Technology Society Die Welt Researchers in Bavaria have invented a new method to slash the carbon emissions of smaller breweries, reports Norbert Lossau in die Welt. An innovative technology developed at the University of ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:08 Jack McGovan Wind Society 91tv More than three-quarters of the German population (81%) think the use and expansion of onshore wind energy is important or very important, according to a new analysis published today by the ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:44 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest report on renewable ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The construction of hydrogen storage facilities beyond the existing caverns is crucial for the energy system of the future, especially as a basis for solar photovoltaics (PV) ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:56 Sören Amelang Mobility Kontext The German car industry association's call for a technology-neutral approach in the shift to low-emission vehicles is an excuse for inaction, according to a union representative on Daimler's ...
06 Dec 2024, 11:14 The appointment of Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister in September sparked as many concerns as it ignited hopes for advocates of more ambitious climate action. But the former environment minister, who had laid some of the ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:10 German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron held an informal meeting aimed to nurse the crucial Franco-German axis for Europe’s industrial transformation on the way to climate neutrality. In Hamburg, northern ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Technology Die Welt Leading German aircraft engine manufacturer MTU Aero Engines does not expect electric aviation with large commercial airplanes to become reality anytime soon, Gerhard Hegmann writes for ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International Die Zeit The German and French economy ministers said “substantial progress” has been made in talks about transparency and cooperation on green subsidies between the EU and the U.S during a visit ...
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Europe's ageing buildings are particularly vulnerable to the damaging effects of climate change, with homes increasingly threatened by floods or at risk of becoming unbearably hot to live in. The job of adapting the spaces where ...
04 Aug 2021, 13:55 Charlotte Nijhuis Freight 91tv Electricity-based synthetic fuels – so-called power-to-x fuels (PtX) – are a “central building block” in making maritime and air transport climate-friendly, environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Some 70 percent of respondents from several European countries see the energy transition as everyone's responsibility and believe all citizens should be actively involved, ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:18 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Carbon removal Fossil fuels Technology 91tv Germany’s ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv A new research project aimed at solving one of the major technological difficulties of the energy transition is seeking to use the energy from wind turbines' moving rotors and ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:18 The German government overall has done a good job in maintaining energy supply security in the country in the turbulent year 2022, but risks to the energy system's stability persist also in 2023, says Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the ...
18 Dec 2023, 13:35 Sören Amelang Solar Industry Zeit Online Germany’s Green economy ministry plans to protect domestic solar panel makers against low-cost competition from China. "Solar products from Germany fulfil standards that others do not. For ...
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 ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:42 Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz’ conservatives have won Germany’s snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government. But it remained ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:30 Edgar Meza Storage Hydrogen 91tv German technology company Bosch is ramping up stationary fuel cell efforts, announcing this week plans to begin full-scale production of distributed power stations based on solid oxide fuel ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:16 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv In its latest auction for onshore wind turbines, Germany failed to secure enough investment deals to ensure the rollout of the technology proceeds with sufficient speed to reach renewable ...
08 May 2024, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EUElections2024 Clean Energy ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:50 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s revamped climate neutrality target, which the Bundestag brought forward to 2045 earlier this ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:29 Sören Amelang Transport dpa / 91tv German industry groups and other car lobby organisations have said the European Parliament’s decision to back a ban of new combustion engine cars in 2035 is a blow to climate protection ...
22 Jun 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU 91tv Germany's finance minister has said the country will not back EU plans that amount to a ban on the sale of new combustion engine cars from 2035, arguing such a move would shut the door ...
18 Mar 2024, 12:57 Sören Amelang Policy Security 91tv / Table.Media / The Guardian Germany’s defence ministry expects climate change to have a profound impact on security issues and has presented a plan to prepare its military for the new ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Grid Wind Tagesspiegel Background Onshore grid bottlenecks in northwest Germany have led to a quarter of offshore wind power generation being curtailed in the first three months of 2023, reports Tagesspiegel Background ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry EU 91tv Germany’s Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has urged the European Union to refrain from further debt-financed subsidies as a response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). "The EU ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:38 Edgar Meza Business 91tv The majority of Germany’s large companies expect that the transformation to a climate neutral economy will have no negative or even positive effects on their international competitiveness, and ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:30 Ruby Russel Transport Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Projects to build green hydrogen electrolysers at refineries are being cancelled because oil companies lack guarantees that the investments will be profitable, even though the ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:24 Sören Amelang Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation can induce almost half of the emissions reduction Germany needs to reach its 2030 climate targets, according to the country's digital industry association Bitkom. A ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Countries like Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany should form a joint hydrogen alliance to use their market power as future importers of hydrogen derivatives, said researchers from ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:51 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen Transport Technology 91tv Civil airlines should be required to use at least two ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Industry federations from France and Germany are lobbying for ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Carbon market 91tv The European Union should set up a carbon central bank as part of a proper regulatory structure to effectively remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere to help reach ...
13 Jan 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Government Der Tagesspiegel The existing combustion engine vehicle fleet in Germany cannot be made climate-neutral by switching to synthetic e-fuels, new transport minister Volker Wissing has said. In an interview ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:05 Germany will see the first hydrogen flow in pipelines from next year after the country’s "core hydrogen grid" was approved. The backbone of the long-distance transmission network for hydrogen will be slightly smaller than ...
26 Sep 2019, 14:01 Sören Amelang Renewables Technology Bizz Energy Europe dedicated less money to energy research and development last year, resulting in the US and China outspending the EU and its member states "for the first time", bizz energy ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:06 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
10 May 2023, 12:23 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling Security 91tv Germany should make its landmark energy transition more crisis-resilient by increasing independence from raw materials that are needed for climate-friendly technologies ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 Germany’s next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:03 Expert VDE- Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies Verband der Elektrotechnik Informationstechnik e.V. Technology Carolina Kyllmann Solar Handelsblatt / 91tv The installation of plug-in ...
05 Feb 2024, 14:34 Franca Quecke Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt / 91tv In a resolution, the council of German state governments (Bundesrat) called for special support for solar power products manufactured in the country or the ...
02 Aug 2019, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Solar Technology 91tv New textile-based solar cells woven into truck tarps could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling systems or other onboard equipment, writes Fraunhofer Institute for ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Solar ARD / Tagesspiegel Background The head of Germany's treasury, finance minister Christian Lindner, has reiterated his opposition to more state support for Germany's domestic solar industry. In an ...
25 Mar 2020, 14:16 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv German researchers are trying to ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:40 Sören Amelang Wind Society 91tv Onshore wind power has become more popular than ever among people living in Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine, a poll has found. One in three respondents said Russia's war and ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:44 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind 91tv Grid congestion due to a lack of new onshore power line connections has let the output of Germany’s offshore wind turbine fleet ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Transport dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices, reports newswire dpa in an article ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt A ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU 91tv The Federation ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Gas 91tv The German government will hold the first round of tenders for hydrogen-ready gas fired power plants by the end of 2024 or beginning of 2025, the economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in Germany’s eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
28 May 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv As part of Germany’s long-term strategy to make hydrogen a cornerstone of its energy transition, the federal ministries for economic affairs and energy (BMWi) and of transport and digital ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:35 Germany's outgoing government made important moves to protect the country against the worsening effects of climate change. Notably, it introduced the first legally-binding climate adaptation law and presented a strategy to protect ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:52 Franca Quecke Gas Heating 91tv Berlin-based heating system installer Thermondo has stopped selling gas heating systems, shifting its focus entirely to more climate-friendly technologies, such as heat pumps and PV modules, ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:37 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert TransnetBW Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Die Welt / Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
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. Electricity ...
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 ...
03 Dec 2019, 13:51 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Technology 91tv Synthetic substitutes for conventional oil and gas will ...
18 Aug 2021, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt A large majority of German car industry suppliers have initiated the ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:24 Sören Amelang Storage Technology 91tv Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa has begun storing renewable power as heat in about 1,000 tonnes of volcanic rock in the Northern German city of Hamburg. Electricity heats the rock to ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:32 Sören Amelang Mobility Handelsblatt Germany's third largest car parts supplier ZF Friedrichshafen believes new orders for electric cars will more than make up for losses sustained by the shift away from combustion engines. " ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities 91tv / rbb Construction of one of the largest heat pumps in Europe has started in Berlin in a bid to bring the German capital closer to its goal of decarbonising its heating system. The heat ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government Süddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Carbon removal EU 91tv An agreement by the majority of EU member states on a draft for an EU wide standardised and voluntary certification framework for CO2 removal and carbon farming marks an important step ...
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14 Jun 2021, 13:03 Edgar Meza 91tv, Reuters The German and Australian governments have signed a letter of intent on sustainable hydrogen production, according to the German ministries of economic affairs and energy and education and research. ...
14 May 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology 91tv The world’s oldest carmaker Daimler has said it aims to bring the share of e-cars in its sales to 50 percent by 2030 and to achieve a “carbon-neutral passenger car fleet” by 2039. Plug ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Australia plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of energy, climate protection and emissions reduction, German economy minister Robert Habeck together with ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Security Handelsblatt Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will cooperate on an accelerated energy transition to meet their climate neutrality targets, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International ...
17 May 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Technology 91tv The new five-seater electric air taxi by aviation company Lilium from Munich has completed its first flight successfully. According to the company, the Lilium Jet’s maiden flight ...
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 May 2019, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology 91tv Heavyweight carmaker Volkswagen has announced the launch of a battery cell production facility that will be operated in partnership with another company. In the framework of the ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Freight Bayerischer Rundfunk / AFP / 91tv Germany’s transport minister Andreas Scheuer continues to pursue a ‘cash for clunkers’ scheme for old lorries. Since large lorries with alternative drive systems, ...
02 May 2019, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Technology 91tv Germany is interested in finding an agreement with neighbouring Switzerland on how the Alpine country could contribute to German and European power supply security, the German ...
26 Nov 2020, 14:03 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt / 91tv The capture and storage of CO2 has long been a controversial subject in Germany. But experts and politicians increasingly say carbon capture and storage ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:55 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Welt am Sonntag / Tagesspiegel German carmaker Volkswagen has threatened to quit the country’s ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:30 The UK government is embracing carbon removal technologies as a part of its net-zero ambition and wants to use carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to revive the industrial heartlands in the North of the country and create tens ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:50 India and a group of countries including the U.S. and Germany will not agree on a so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a key international deal that was meant to promote the South Asian nation’s climate-friendly ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches ...
25 Oct 2023, 11:00 Germany's economy ministry wants to strengthen the country as an industrial location with a new industry strategy, a key aspect of it being a so-called bridge electricity price for energy-intensive companies. Robert Habeck wants to ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:46 Jennifer Collins Nuclear phase-out 91tv / t-online Environmental NGO Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) called on German authorities to reject an application to allow the production of Russian-designed nuclear fuel rods in ...
03 Feb 2022, 12:13 Economy minister Robert Habeck and environment minister Steffi Lemke have reiterated Germany’s opposition to labelling nuclear power as a sustainable activity, but did not react to provisions on gas projects the European Commission ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Transport Technology 91tv Airport operator Fraport AG and German start-up Volocopter have announced plans to explore the use of autonomous flying taxis at Germany’s Frankfurt Airport. ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology Tagesspiegel The plan to build an artificial island in the North Sea that will serve as a hub for offshore wind turbines with a capacity of more than 100 gigawatts is making good progress, Pieter van ...
28 Oct 2020, 14:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is set to increase funding to convert carbon dioxide emissions in heavy industry into useful chemical products, Barbara ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland’s new government has updated the country’s 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 ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Technology 91tv An international research project aims to assess the potential of geothermal energy as a replacement for coal-powered heating in Germany’s western state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). ...
10 Dec 2020, 13:47 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Efficiency Heating 91tv Germany has reached a milestone in its quest for more climate-friendly heating by installing more than one million heat pumps, according to price comparison ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:06 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Cars Technology Automotive News Europe Carmakers such as Daimler, BMW or Volkswagen are increasingly morphing into tech companies in their bid to develop the digital backbone of new mobility and fend ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:34 Jessica Bateman Heating 91tv The Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE has released a study looking at how heat pumps could contribute to climate neutral urban communities. In a press ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv The German government has promised an additional 195 million euros in support to Ukraine, about half of which is designated for the protection and rebuilding the country’s energy ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 Sören Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / 91tv The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country’s coal power phase-out from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:31 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Tagesspiegel The German government and leading automakers reiterated their goal of putting at least 15 million electric vehicles on German roads by 2030 at an industry summit in Berlin on Monday (27 November). ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Hydrogen 91tv The national infrastructure for producing and using green hydrogen in Germany is beginning to take shape, as the government seeks to support market scale-up for the renewable fuel. ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:35 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The shortage of skilled labour is a drag on the global energy transition and could put UN climate targets at risk, says a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) that ...
01 Apr 2022, 12:57 Sören Amelang Transport Freight 91tv Discount supermarket chain Lidl is switching the entire battery-electric vehicle fleet of a logistics hub to fuel cells powered by green hydrogen, making it the first of its kind in ...
04 Oct 2024, 09:00 While Europeans expect a continuation of the Biden administration’s climate policies under a Harris presidency, they are worrying about how to save the global climate fight from a second Trump administration. EU officials and experts ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Technology Spiegel Online Carmakers in Germany are increasingly ramping up their activities in the Formula E racing series as a “technology laboratory” for new developments in electric ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Storage Technology 91tv The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) says power-to-x technologies are a “key element in reaching Germany’s and Europe’s energy policy goals,” but need ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:43 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Digitalisation Technology Resources & Recycling 91tv A rising number of manufacturing companies in Germany use artificial intelligence to optimise product development and production, ...
11 May 2021, 13:30 Edgar Meza Industry 91tv The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has opened a new research facility in the eastern state of Brandenburg that will focus on alternatives to fossil fuels as part of its efforts to decarbonise ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:36 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Technology manager magazin German car companies BMW and Porsche have introduced a super-fast charging station for e-cars that can provide enough energy for a ride of 100 kilometres in three ...
11 Mar 2024, 12:52 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Corrected: The renewable share in energy consumption in 2022 was 20.8 percent and ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Digitalisation Technology 91tv Energy company E.ON has installed Germany’s first smart meter in a household, the ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:31 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun to electrify rail lines in the north of the country with an innovative new electrical infrastructure that will charge battery-powered trains and ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:09 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
08 Dec 2021, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society 91tv A slight majority of respondents from Germany in a survey on the future of nuclear power in climate policy conducted by pollster YouGov in several European countries, have ...
05 May 2023, 14:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv In a bid to greatly improve ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:47 Germany’s coalition government has reached an agreement over rules for the transition to climate-friendly heating, settling a months-long debate over the details of a law that would de facto ban fossil heating systems. From next year, ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:45 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert IZES- Institute for Future Energy Systems Institut für Zukunfts Energie Systeme Citizens' energy Electricity market Expert ...
16 Dec 2022, 11:26 The adoption of net zero emissions targets by global technology giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft is turning into a serious problem for Taiwan’s massive chipmaking industry. Pressure to decarbonise the extremely power-hungry ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Czechia and eastern German state Saxony have agreed to deepen their cooperation on a joint network for hydrogen and to generally intensify research and industry exchange in the budding ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices 91tv The market for used electric vehicles (EVs) is growing fast in Germany, the country's most important motorist club, ADAC, has found. Second-hand EVs are becoming “a true ...
09 Dec 2024, 14:00 The break-up of Germany's coalition government could further undermine public acceptance of the energy transition's costs, warns Brigitte Knopf, head of the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which focuses on climate policy' ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:50 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind Tagesspiegel Background A new draft plan for offshore wind power expansion by the German government has allocated ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:33 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology Cleantech Group Ten German startups are among the 100 most innovative clean technology companies from around the globe, according to US-based ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling 91tv In order to make the economy fit for the requirements of a decarbonised energy system, Germany’s economy and climate ministry (BMWK) has proposed an update to the country’s ...
30 Jun 2022, 13:25 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Resources & Recycling 91tv ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 EUElections2024 91tv The re-election of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has largely been welcomed by Germany’s government, observers in the energy industry and by civil ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cars Efficiency EU 91tv European energy ministers have agreed on reaching a share of 40 percent renewables in the EU’s energy mix by 2030, thus increasing the previous 32-percent target and ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will establish a central hub to coordinate its ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cities 91tv Industrial and commercial zones in urban areas ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv Swiss solar module maker Meyer Burger has announced its intention to wind up panel production in Germany, citing “grave market distortion” and better investment conditions in ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Germany can remain a leading market and innovator in mobility and car production also after the shift to electric vehicles – but this will be a “herculean task” and corresponding policies ...
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 ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:37 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende Society Spiegel Online The switch from fossil ...
30 Nov 2023, 13:10 Edgar Meza Renewables EU 91tv In order to increase the market share of European manufacturers in the renewable energy sector, wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) roof systems could receive more funding if they are produced ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen Technology 91tv Researchers in Germany have combined ...
11 Aug 2020, 11:40 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:11 Hydrogen Industry 91tv A pilot plant for producing green hydrogen energy for low-emission production of chemicals and fuel has opened in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Fraunhofer Centre for Chemical-Biotechnological ...
23 Jun 2021, 13:28 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv As Germany ramps up development of hydrogen technologies, it should focus entirely on the production of green hydrogen using wind and solar energy, the German Advisory Council on the Environment ...
16 May 2019, 16:50 Chancellor Angela Merkel has put carbon capture and storage (CCS) back on the table, saying the controversial technology was crucial for Germany to reach climate neutrality by mid-century. CCS has been met with a lot of public mistrust ...
18 Sep 2019, 12:24 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Digitalisation Clean ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Solar Tagesspiegel Background The parliamentary groups of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and Green Party consider supporting the rebuilding of Germany’s domestic solar industry through measures such as clauses that ...
15 Jan 2021, 10:19 While our roads are increasingly abuzz with electric cars and scooters, low-emission trucks are conspicuous by their absence. But this is about to change as new climate targets force sharp emission cuts in heavy duty transport. The ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung On the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear desaster, a majority of media commentators in ...
11 Dec 2020, 13:05 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Agriculture 91tv Germany’s agriculture ministry has launched a 1-billion-euro ”Farmers for climate action” package, including an investment programme worth 816 million euros to boost ...
19 Jul 2024, 15:00 Every year in August, Italy and its political scene grind to an almost complete halt for the summer holidays. The debate around the country’s energy transition has almost entirely narrowed down to a single topic: whether to return to ...
14 Jul 2022, 12:22 Kerstine Appunn Jessica Bateman Carbon removal 91tv German company Novocarbo has announced it is building and implementing the country’s first network of "carbon removal parks". In a press release, the Hamburg ...
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 ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Handelsblatt The economy and climate ministry is pondering a new power market design for Germany that decouples electricity prices from gas prices in response to the current turmoil on energy markets ...
10 Feb 2023, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Politics 91tv The transformation of Germany’s energy system away from fossil fuels must quickly be reinforced by sufficient “molecule-based” power plant capacity that can back up the ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Business Industry Reuters / n-tv The German state and a number of banks have agreed to support Siemens’ financially struggling subsidiary Siemens Energy with guarantees of about 12 billion euros, news agency Reuters ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International 91tv Effective climate action in Germany and Europe will require sustained economic growth to demonstrate that a more sustainable way of living is possible without giving ...
Scientists from a group of research institutes, including the Wuppertal Institute and Fraunhofer ISI, have presented their report “Technologies for the Energy Transition” to the federal economy ministry. The report examines the status quo, expectations, ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Fossil fuels 91tv Eastern German lignite mining and power plant company Leag has received the green light for up to 1.75 billion euros in state support to compensate for the implementation of the ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Cars Deutschlandfunk Environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) remains optimistic that Germany’s government cabinet will find a common line on the ban of internal combustion engine cars in the EU, despite recent ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:44 Edgar Meza Storage Cars 91tv The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has warned against what it sees as the narrow focus of the German government and parts of the country’s industry on electric vehicles as a major ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:48 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
11 Feb 2020, 13:33 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Wind 91tv Rooftop solar and offshore wind power are the most popular technologies for Germany's future power mix, ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:00 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv The German economy ministry (BMWi) is providing 14 million euros of funding to help modernise conventional navigation facilities operated by German air navigation service provider DFS, a move that will ...
16 Feb 2018, 00:00 A group of energy transition researchers will present their findings on the transformation of the German energy system at the world’s largest general scientific conference organised by the American Association for the Advancement of ...
15 Oct 2020, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars dpa / WirtschaftsWoche The serial use of synthetic fuels in passenger vehicles could become a reality in about ten years' time, Porsche CEO Oliver Blume has said. At an industry meeting near Stuttgart, Blume ...
28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union’s two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
23 Jun 2023, 10:00 As the two largest economies in the European Union, France and Germany, for at least a decade have acted as the bloc’s key drivers of more ambitious climate action. A glaring gap in the two countries’ energy policy has been exposed in ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Storage 91tv / dpa Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:15 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Industry The use of new low-emission technology across all ...
01 Feb 2021, 13:47 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Handelsblatt The German industry is confident that the goal of achieving ...
19 Feb 2025, 13:00 As the new U.S. administration under president Donald Trump upends decades of transatlantic relations and the wider geopolitical order, Germany faces the challenging task of resetting relations with its neighbours to ensure a strong EU ...
28 Nov 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv / Table.Media Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said his government would continue to pursue its green transition plans even in the face of a budget crisis resulting ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:09 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Onshore wind power was significantly ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Resources & Recycling 91tv To succeed in the energy transition, Germany will focus on warranting secure supply chains and reliable production capacities required for renewable ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany and Italy have agreed to expand energy cooperation in order to strengthen supply security and the transition to climate neutrality, with gas and hydrogen pipelines across the Alps ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:30 Germany's environment ministry has warned that climate-neutral fuels made with renewables must not become an excuse for neglecting the domestic roll-out of renewables, increasing efficiency and other efforts to cut emissions. " ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Spiegel / Tagesspiegel German economy minister Robert Habeck has insisted that planned climate action measures must continue to be financed despite a constitutional court ruling which ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
05 Nov 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Süddeutsche Zeitung Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are increasingly hailed as an effective way for using nuclear power to curb the climate crisis without the major risks associated with ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:42 The German government’s target of sourcing 80 percent of the country’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030 is very much achievable for Germany if current positive trends persist, economy minister Robert Habeck has said at a ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:55 Sören Amelang Industry Start-ups 91tv Germany's strong position in the global market for environmental technologies is at risk, warns the country's environment agency (UBA). "Germany's international ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:45 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany could cover a sizable portion of its lithium needs in the coming decades by extracting the metal from existing geothermal wells, researchers have calculated. Lithium is a ...
An agreement reached by Japan and China to set up a common standard for e-car charging technology could topple the Combined Charging System technology pushed for by German car companies, Welt Online reports. Japanese consortium Chademo and the China ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:52 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv Research institutions in Austria and Germany have launched a joint project aiming to develop a solar rooftop ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are not yet technically mature enough to contribute to climate action, the German government has said in an answer to a ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry 91tv Energy consumption in Germany’s industry dropped 9.1 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year, ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:22 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Large-scale afforestation and ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv One in every ...
01 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Die Welt The shift to electric mobility could turn out ...
06 Sep 2022, 13:50 Germany should keep two of its three remaining nuclear power plants on standby beyond the planned phase-out date at the end of the year to help secure power system stability in the coming winter if necessary, economy and climate ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Transport Cars 91tv More than half of all newly registered trucks in Europe, the US and China will be electric by 2035, according to a new study by McKinsey & Company presented at this year’s German car show ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Germany, Denmark, the UK and the EU will provide 100 million euros for climate change mitigation projects in developing countries, economy minister Robert Habeck said at the Global NDC ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:09 Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt The European Union should make the fight against climate change one of its top priorities and turn such leadership into an economic opportunity, the head of German engineering ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:36 The German government coalition has presented a long-expected update to its National Hydrogen Strategy with the aim of speeding up the development of a market for the fuel, which it sees as essential on the path to climate neutrality by ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Heating 91tv Deep geothermal energy can make a major contribution to the decarbonisation of Germany’s heating sector, a paper published by researchers from the Fraunhofer and Helmholtz associations shows. ...
06 Apr 2022, 13:09 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany must accelerate the ramp-up of a hydrogen economy in response to Russia's aggressions to secure and diversify its energy supply, according to the hydrogen council (NWR), which ...
09 May 2019, 14:06 Sören Amelang Gas Storage Technology Forbes Germany’s share of renewable energy continues to rise but the capacity of the national grid is constrained, putting a spotlight on power-to-x technologies to store the renewable energy, ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:44 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv It is possible for the German chemical industry- ...
02 May 2017, 00:00 A German pilot project will hook up thousands of household batteries to balance out intermittent renewable power production. Grid operator Tennet and solar battery maker Sonnen said they will use blockchain technology to build a network ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:36 Sören Amelang Cars Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Greens propose a transport policy with a clear focus on electric mobility that restricts the use of hydrogen on the road to heavy-duty trucks, reports Daniel Delhaes in ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:14 The European Union wants to establish itself as the world leader in hydrogen technologies and will focus on ramping up electrolyser capacities in the next four years. According to the European Commission's hydrogen strategy, the ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Together with French manufacturer Alstom, German railway company Deutsche Bahn is going to start trial runs with the country’s first battery-powered passenger train. Test operation of the so ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:43 The new chapter of the 6th report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focuses on mitigating climate change effects. Commentators from Germany regard the report as “a clear call to society and policymakers for ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Industry 91tv Newly formed technology company Siemens Energy wants to phase-out any operations to do with coal-fired power production, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser said at an extraordinary ...
German automotive supplier Bosch will enter into partnership with United Kingdom-based Ceres Power to develop solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) technology, which could be used in cities, data centres, and factories and as a power source for electric vehicle ...
19 Jul 2019, 13:56 Freja Eriksen Storage Hydrogen Technology 91tv Hydrogen projects are one of the key themes of 20 test projects selected for funding by the German government. Germany ultimately plans to put 100 million euros per year into ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:25 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Storage Hydrogen Technology pv magazine Two power-to-gas projects in Germany promise to boost the technology, Sandra Enkhardt reports for pv magazine. Utilities Edis and Gasag want to transform ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
07 Oct 2022, 14:40 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:36 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Tagesspiegel Background / Der Spiegel German utility RWE has been awarded the contract by the Danish government to build a large-scale wind farm ...
12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
15 Apr 2020, 15:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Green stimulus 91tv The German Petroleum Industry Association (MWV) has urged the government to ramp up the use of synthetic fuels in the mobility sector during the "economic restart" that will ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv The transformation into a truly circular economy would have positive effects on climate, resource and biodiversity protection, as well as supply security in Germany- but the ...
26 May 2021, 13:27 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv The aviation sector requires a very high fleet-wide blending rate sustainable fuels in order to reverse the trend of rising CO2 emissions as the sector continues to grow, says the German ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Solar Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The economy ministry aims to speed up solar energy expansion in Germany with legislative reforms it calls “solar package I”, which are set to be unveiled before the ...
26 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv / Badische Neueste Nachrichten The south ...
With financing from its Horizon 2020 research programme, the EU is planning to allocate up to one billion euros to a research project on battery technology, reports Tagesspiegel Background. The call for tenders for electrochemical energy storage is ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Trains could play a key role in ensuring a comprehensive transport network for distributing imported green hydrogen across Germany, a report by research institute Fraunhofer ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany will support green hydrogen projects in other countries with up to 350 million euros by 2024 and has published a directive with the relevant guidelines, the economy ministry said in a ...
Investments in the research and development of modern technologies are key to successfully achieving Germany’s transition to a low-carbon energy supply, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy says in a press release. For that reason, the ...
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13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities Heating 91tv The largest river-based heat pump in Germany has started operations in the southern city of Mannheim. It will use water from the Rhine River to heat some 3,500 households, the local ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind 91tv Germany will not add ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
25 Nov 2020, 12:19 Battery-electric trucks are set to take over heavy duty road freight because they are much cheaper to run than other low-emission technologies, says green vehicle expert Auke Hoekstra, a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:15 10 years after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that prompted Germany to confirm its prior nuclear phase-out decision, the environment ministry has published further steps necessary to reduce nuclear risk, including the use of nuclear ...
11 Dec 2019, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Storage Start-ups 91tv Berlin-based energy startup Lumenion has presented the pilot of its 2.4-megawatt-hour (MWh) steel storage system in a housing project in Germany’s capital. The technology would allow ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Handelsblatt The German car industry is headed for a "tragedy" if it does not succeed in becoming a lead market for electric mobility, entrepreneur Bill Gates has told business weekly Handelsblatt. The ...
29 Jun 2022, 12:51 Kerstine Appunn Cars Cost & Prices EU 91tv EU member states have approved the end of fossil fuelled passenger cars in 2035 and found compromises on emissions trading and a “Social Climate Fund”. The fund will be used ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:13 Expert BBH- Becker Büttner Held energy law firm Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung High energy prices for gas, oil and electricity should be seen as “an advertisement for the energy transition,” economist Monika Schnitzer has said in an ...
03 May 2024, 10:42 Making buildings more sustainable hinges on being able to measure what sustainability actually means. Definitions and standards vary widely across Europe, making it hard to compare projects and assess progress. Certifications can ...
Solid state batteries could be the “ holy grail ” of EV development and Germany is well placed to pioneer the technology, according to an article by Ben Kilbey for S&P Global Platts. "Germany and Europe are much better positioned with respect to ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Renewables 91tv The buildout of Germany’s renewable power capacity is a “herculean task” that will likely take longer than planned and therefore make an early end to gas and coal-fired power ...
07 Jun 2023, 13:02 Sören 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. “This shows how ...
German auto supplier Bosch has announced a vastly improved diesel technology as it strives to draw a line under an emissions scandal that has tarnished the diesel car industry, reports the news agency Reuters. The company’s new technology could enable ...
08 Oct 2021, 11:59 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Capturing, using and storing CO2 emissions on a large scale will be necessary for Germany to reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 and the next national government should ...
24 Sep 2021, 11:20 Their goal is to create an entirely new industry, one that will become as important as today’s oil and gas giants, because the world will be in desperate need of removing carbon to mitigate climate change. Swiss company Climeworks has ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International 91tv The UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on 5-15 June are set to be marked by “tough negotiations under high pressure from the fossil fuel lobby,” NGO Germanwatch said. By all indications, ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:21 Expert Forschungszentrum Jülich Research institute for energy, climate and nuclear sciences Nuclear phase-out Technology Expert RWTH Aachen University Technology Rachel Waldholz Storage 91tv Battery storage systems have ...
16 Aug 2016, 00:00 The rise of volatile wind and solar power in the share of Germany’s electricity generation means that keeping the grid stable becomes an ever more complex – and potentially costly – task. Predicting how many renewable megawatts will be ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:17 Sören Amelang Cars International Die Welt At the Las Vegas consumer electronics show CES, technology "made in Germany" only plays a supporting role, while real progress happens elsewhere, report Stefan Beutelsbacher and Thomas ...
12 May 2022, 14:00 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Edgar Meza Renewables Wind 91tv Germany’s 16 federal states have sufficient space ...
24 Nov 2024, 15:30 Politicians and civil society from Germany have said that the agreement on future climate finance at the UN climate change conference COP29 shows that international cooperation has prevailed even in a challenging geopolitical context. ...
25 May 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv The German government’s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045 has put companies from energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, paper and cement, ...
04 Jan 2022, 08:37 German ministers have criticised EU plans to label nuclear energy as a sustainable investment, but the government coalition is split on also including fossil gas in the taxonomy. Finance minister Christian Lindner of the pro-business ...
17 Aug 2020, 13:35 91tv 91tv Cars WirtschaftsWoche Most used electric cars are proving difficult to sell in Germany because increasing subsidies and rapidly improving technology are quickly putting older models out of date and reducing the ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:35 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Freja Eriksen Efficiency Heating 91tv The German heating industry saw sales increase for the third year in a row in 2019, with nearly 175,000 ...
German car supplier Bosch has developed a technology to save cars’ petrol consumption by injecting water into combustion engines, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The “water boost” technology reduces fuel consumption by at least four percent, and ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Wind Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Germany’s recycling industry has called for a paradigm shift in the construction of wind turbines to ensure materials can be reused at the end of their lifecycles, business ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:03 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Germany might need to drastically rethink its climate policy if it wants to reach its emission reduction targets, government advisors have warned. It is “questionable whether ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Cars 91tv While a majority of Germans know that climate protection requires a different kind of mobility, most of them have serious reservations about electromobility and are largely ...
27 Feb 2019, 16:36 An expert panel advising the German government has called for a price on CO2 to spur the development of new technologies that are key for the energy transition. “Innovations are driven into the ground without a CO2 price signal,” said ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:30 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry EU 91tv Greening Europe’s industrial base, ensuring resilient clean-tech value chains and setting up a new EU climate fund should be among the priorities of the next European ...
The announcement by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that its researchers had significantly increased the efficiency of power-to-gas facilities does not automatically mean the technology’s breakthrough, writes Benjamin von Brackel in ...
A new University of Jena research project entitled “Quest for Energy” will seek to develop novel solar technology to assist the transition to a low-carbon economy, the university says in a press release. With support from the German Academic Exchange ...
29 May 2019, 12:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
26 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Carbon market Industry Policy EU 91tv The European Commission has greenlighted a German 6.5 billion euro scheme to prevent energy-intensive companies from relocating production to countries with less stringent ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt / FAZ Almost 200 submitted hydrogen project proposals showed a “high interest” and readiness to invest in the technology in Germany, the economy ministry told business daily Handelsblatt. The ...
08 Aug 2023, 13:43 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Demand for heat pumps has slumped in Germany as a fierce debate about government plans to decarbonise the heating sector unnerved many citizens. The number of subsidy applications halved in the ...
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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’s energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
16 Jan 2020, 13:14 Freja Eriksen Energiewende 91tv Only a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies can make German energy supply "climate-friendly, secure and affordable," say researchers from three of the country's ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:27 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Vattenfall Germany ...
05 Nov 2019, 14:43 The German government believes hydrogen is key not only for a successful energy transition, but also for the future of the country's famed industry. This is why Germany must beat Asian countries – in particular China and Japan – to ...
11 Sep 2023, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Most people in Germany agree with the “core aim” of the government’s controversial building energy law to replace old fossil heating systems with sustainable alternatives, ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:53 Sören Amelang Transport Industry Handelsblatt / Financial Times In contrast to a growing number of truckmakers, car parts supplier Bosch bets heavily on hydrogen fuel cell trucks, reports Martin Buchenau in Handelsblatt. The company ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv In ...
Germany can lower its CO₂ emissions by 90 percent by 2050 if current technologies are used in the most efficient way for an ambitious transformation of the country’s energy system, writes the German Energy Agency (dena) in a press release. The next ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are well positioned to play a key role in a future global hydrogen economy- but must strengthen cooperation on infrastructure projects, said ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:36 Energy-intensive basic industries – such as steel, chemicals and cement – have to quickly introduce and scale up key low-carbon technologies to avoid wrong investments at a time when governments aim for a climate neutral economy by 2050 ...
20 Dec 2019, 16:30 Preview 2020: Wind power became Germany's single most important power source in 2019 and appears well under way to fulfill its role as the central technology of the country's energy transition. Nevertheless, the wind industry ...
10 Feb 2022, 13:57 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out EU Der Tagesspiegel Germany's economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has denounced France's focus on nuclear power as "outdated." The neighbouring country was pursuing a " ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:46 Expert BDH- Federation of German Heating Industry Industry Efficiency Heating Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sales of new heating systems reached record level in Germany in 2023, with ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:58 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany should not focus exclusively on "green hydrogen" made with renewable electricity in its highly anticipated strategy for creating a ...
11 May 2020, 13:48 Expert LichtBlick Green power provider Electricity market Renewables Technology Freja Eriksen Society 91tv Almost 60 percent of Germans said the climate crisis will have larger long-term effects than the coronavirus in a ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The row between Germany’s coalition partners over key climate and energy policies such as industry support shows no sign of letting up despite a two-day retreat ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage International 91tv The governments of Poland and Germany have agreed on pooling their efforts to establish an independent battery production in Europe. At the bilateral German-Polish economy forum ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices 91tv Germany should scrap the electricity tax while phasing out subsidies for the purchase of new electric cars to support the expansion of e-mobility, said a paper by the Institute ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:31 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv In its quest for global green hydrogen leadership, Germany has launched three flagship zero-emission technology projects. Following a call for ideas, the country's research ministry said it ...
30 Mar 2022, 12:05 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv The electrification of the heating sector could be a key component in making Europe become less dependent on Russian gas, according to an internal report by S&P Global Commodity Insights. The ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany is exploring ways to expand cooperation with Australia on hydrogen and raw materials in a bid to diversify its import partners and reduce dependencies. Together with a ...
28 Nov 2018, 16:19 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind Technology International Stiftung Offshore Wind Energy Together with international partners, the German economy and energy ministry (BMWi) has initiated a project to study the removal of ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Welt am Sonntag The German government is preparing the necessary regulatory steps to make it possible to export and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in seabeds outside Germany, reports ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:27 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices Handelsblatt ...
22 Oct 2020, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Hydrogen Süddeutsche Zeitung The German car industry lobby group VDA and its biggest member, Volkswagen, are continuing their internal argument over whether combustion engines in passenger cars still have a future ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Technology Rheinische Post German polymer producer Covestro has developed a new CO2-based foam material that can be used as flooring at sports fields, Stefan Schneider writes in ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Heating 91tv Germany must step up renewables expansion and put a focus on the heating sector, where the majority of energy is still produced with fossil fuels, said Chancellor Angela Merkel at ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Heating costs in Germany increased by up to 81 percent during the winter of 2022, an analysis conducted by non-profit consultancy co2online has found. At a time when the ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 91tv The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv / n-tv A planned trip to India by Germany’s economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck aims to bring the countries closer together in efforts to develop renewable ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:13 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany's hydrogen council has said the country must urgently make up its mind whether to use hydrogen made with fossil fuels in its market ramp-up of the technology deemed key to reach ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels COP27 91tv Several German NGOs have called on the government to rule out public support for fossil fuel extraction projects in other countries and thus make good on its pledge signed at last ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:52 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt With their products and skills, Germany’s car supplier companies will be able to benefit greatly from the shift to e-mobility, despite the competition from other world markets, ...
23 Dec 2020, 13:54 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Handelsblatt Hydrogen technology can become a key component of Siemens Energy’s business model, the company’s CEO, Christian Bruch, told Handelsblatt in an interview. ...
15 Dec 2020, 13:59 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Renewables EU EU member states need to coordinate their domestic energy reforms in order to better ...
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 ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:40 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
03 Mar 2023, 12:55 By insisting on a future for new combustion engine vehicles after 2035, German finance minister Christian Lindner has upended hopes for those aiming to agree an effective ban for the technology at a vote on EU car emissions initially ...
12 May 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Technology Policy Handelsblatt German education and research minister Anja Karliczek is calling for immediate investment in research and development of technologies to remove CO2 from ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:19 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Storage Bloomberg Germany’s power storage market, including both home- and utility-scale batteries, reached a new high of more than 5 billion euros last year, Brian Parkin reports for Bloomberg. ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv Domestic production of green hydrogen should play a much bigger role in Germany’s plans to scale-up the hydrogen economy, which is currently based on a more often inefficient and costly ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Cities 91tv Relevant stakeholders at a parliamentary hearing on 16 October called for more financial resources and less bureaucracy for the decarbonisation of Germany's heating grids. The ...
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 ...
German engineering heavyweight Bosch is going to bridle at the impending driving ban for cars with diesel engines in its hometown Stuttgart, Susanne Preuss and Carsten Knop write in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner argues the path ...
