11 Mar 2025, 13:47 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv More than two-thirds of municipal utilities in a survey by the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) consider the country's target to reach climate neutrality by 2045 ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities Correctiv / Wirtschaftswoche Many of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 large local utilities continue to bet on fossil gas for heating and stall the transition to more climate-friendly ways to heat homes, found business weekly ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:55 Conservative CDU member Katherina Reiche looks set to become 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new economy and energy minister in a government led by Friedrich Merz as chancellor. Reiche looks back at ten years in the energy industry, where she assumed leading ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Utilities 91tv Germany should restart its transition away from fossil fuel-based energy with a larger focus on cost-efficiency, said local utility association VKU. Among the proposals for the country鈥檚 ...
28 Apr 2025
28 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Euronews: Spain, Portugal and parts of France hit by massive power outage A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric ...
13 Jun 2024, 12:55 S枚ren Amelang Utilities n-tv Bavaria wants to take over numerous hydropower plants in the southern German state, if necessary by forcing a sale from operator Uniper, state premier Markus S枚der has said. He added the state would exercise ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:09 S枚ren Amelang Technology Heating NDR The northern German city of Flensburg has commissioned one of the world鈥檚 largest seawater heat pumps to supply climate-neutral heat through its district heating system, reports regional public ...
07 May 2025, 13:03 S枚ren Amelang Elections & Politics 91tv The election of Friedrich Merz as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new chancellor in an unprecedented second parliamentary vote was greeted with relief by the country鈥檚 energy, industry, and ...
18 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024, 11:15 91tv Team Bertelsmann Stiftung: Climate neutrality: The OECD and EU countries best equipped to lead the way The analysis compares the effectiveness of national policies in climate protection, energy transition and circular economy ...
16 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025, 11:50 91tv Team DW: Euro emerges as safe haven amid Trump tariff turmoil聽 Anticipating European recovery amid US uncertainty, foreign investors shift capital from dollars into European stocks and bonds. EnergyTransition.org: New German ...
24 Apr 2024, 12:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv / Handelsblatt Difficulties with connecting new customers to the grid in the eastern German town of Oranienburg near Berlin have highlighted the challenges associated with the required expansion ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Utilities dpa / n-tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's energy industry has warned that the country might struggle to find investors to build new hydrogen-ready gas power plants, following the end of a ...
04 Aug 2023, 13:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv The government of the southern German state of Bavaria seeks to take over all hydropower plants by energy company Uniper in the region, turning them into a state-owned operating company, it ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 91tv The transition to climate-friendly heating is slowly gathering pace in Germany with the country's first major city announcing a 2035 phase-out date for its gas grid. MVV, the local ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt The insolvency proceedings at leading European biogas trader BMP Greengas could pose a significant risk of financial damage of 鈥渁t least 150 ...
02 Apr 2025
02 Apr 2025, 11:06 91tv Team IEA: Promising new technologies face market uncertainty in pivotal moment for global energy innovation New IEA report highlights recent progress and emerging risks across the energy innovation landscape worldwide, with ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:26 Carolina Kyllmann Utilities 91tv Municipal utilities are at the forefront of implementing the energy transition and should 鈥渋nvest in the green future of their business,鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the annual ...
17 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025, 13:00 91tv Team FT: Green energy stocks fall back to levels last seen 5 years ago聽 Uncertainty over political support for clean transition depresses market. Reuters: Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in landmark climate ...
12 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025, 10:57 91tv Team Reuters: RWE, TotalEnergies agree long-term green hydrogen supply deal聽 Germany's top utility agrees to supply French oil major with around 30,000 t of green hydrogen a year from 2030, in one of the sector's biggest ...
26 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Reuters: Vattenfall to build Germany's largest offshore wind farm Swedish power utility Vattenfall said it has made a final investment decision for two wind farm projects in the German North Sea, Nordlicht 1 and 2, the ...
22 May 2025, 12:58 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Policy 91tv The German government must quickly provide clarity on how it plans to cut emissions in the heating sector and create reliable framework conditions, a host of energy industry ...
12 May 2025, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Die Zeit Most people in Germany say they do not think that the country is going to meet is national climate target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, a聽 survey 聽commissioned by ...
01 Nov 2024
01 Nov 2024, 11:32 91tv Team European Commission: EU gas storages 95% full ahead of 1 November, surpassing the 90% target The current gas storage level EU-wide is over 95 percent, according to the latest figures released by Gas Infrastructure Europe. ...
04 Mar 2025, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next coalition government should push to decarbonise the country鈥檚 heating systems, said a wide alliance of sector associations in a joint appeal. The ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Storage Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany can store enough hydrogen in salt caverns alone to meet more than the maximum expected national and European demand needs, the economy ministry (BMWK ...
16 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024, 10:45 91tv Team The Guardian: Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month. DeSmog: ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Utilities 91tv German energy company Uniper plans to operate salt caverns as large-scale hydrogen storage within around six years. 鈥淭he initially envisaged storage capacity will be 250 to 600 GWh, ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:20 Jennifer Collins Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany's federal government may have to pick up a one billion euro tab to dismantle a nuclear power plant that shut down in 1989 as the operating ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Handelsblatt / 91tv The fast pace of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 solar PV expansion is causing concerns among energy companies about the buildout鈥檚 effect on the grid, business daily Handelsblatt聽 writes. 鈥淚f ...
02 Nov 2022, 13:27 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 91tv Citing the growing difficulties of many municipal utilities to offer companies stable long-term energy supply contracts, the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW) ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to have major repercussions for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy sector, leading to growing concerns about increasing prices and limited liquidity. The German Association ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Utilities Handelsblatt Some local utilities in Germany are seeking state support due to the high power and gas prices, thereby following leading gas importer Uniper鈥檚 request for a bail-out, reports ...
04 Feb 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Utilities WirtschaftsWoche The plans by large and small utilities to decarbonise their businesses are not enough for Germany to reach its climate targets, writes WirtschaftsWoche about a report published by consultancy ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv A shortfall of skilled labour is threatening 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a sustainable industry, engineers鈥� association group VDI director Adrian Willig has warned. The number of ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE has a dominant position among the country鈥檚 electricity suppliers, the country's competition authority said in its report on last year鈥檚 power market. An ...
06 Jan 2022, 13:41 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Kerstine Appunn Utilities Reuters / dpa German energy company Uniper has secured credit facilities worth up to 10 billion euros, including up to 2 billion euros with German state-owned KfW bank, in a ...
25 Apr 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Setting up multiple local pricing zones instead of having one big market area could help bring electricity prices down in Germany and increase supply security, according to a report ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:05 The cheapest way to make the most of a growing renewable electricity supply is to ensure demand follows power generation, and not the other way around 鈥� which is still the case today. Dynamic electricity tariffs, which reward households ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:53 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Clean ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv ...
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 ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating Handelsblatt Many gas grid operators in Germany have not decided yet whether to use the possibility to increase their fees now in order to protect their dwindling customers from a massive price hike in the ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel鈥檚 future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
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 Universit盲t zu K枚ln Electricity market Business & ...
21 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024, 11:01 Carolina Kyllmann Politico: Germany ties itself to Taiwan on chips. It comes with risks. A new microchips plant by world leader TSMC is a boon for Dresden, but Berlin wants to avoid alienating its major trade partner Beijing. Bloomberg: ...
13 Jun 2024, 12:57 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv The EU鈥檚 preliminary tariffs on electric cars made in China are 鈥渢he wrong instrument鈥� and will slow the transition to clean mobility, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 car industry and the country鈥檚 utilities have warned. ...
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 ...
04 Dec 2024
04 Dec 2024, 11:44 91tv Team Argus: Germany's 2030 coal phase-out ambitions called into question Earlier phase-out target is being reassessed owing to likelihood of further delays to power plant security act, which is meant to secure back-up capacity ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:57 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 International 91tv / ZDF A landmark court hearing initiated by a Peruvian farmer and ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:07 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Almost three years after the peak of Europe鈥檚 energy crisis in 2022, many people in Germany are ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Utilities Zeit Online Germany's electricity grids are not yet equipped for the projected increase of power consumers such as electric cars and heat pumps, the CEO of the local utility of southern German city ...
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 ...
17 Mar 2025, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The German energy transition requires a 鈥渞estart鈥� as the country is on the verge of establishing a climate neutral energy system and renewables already account for about ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The first major city in Germany, Augsburg, has announced plans for ending the use of natural gas in its heating system and informed customers ...
07 Jan 2025, 14:01 Jennifer Collins Heating dpa / 91tv More than a third of Germany's municipalities are working on municipal heat planning to help phase out fossil fuel systems, with 13 percent already finished with their plans, reports ...
02 May 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Renewable energy capacity has increased rapidly in Germany in the past year, but the expansion must be accelerated further for the country to meet its target of sourcing ...
08 Dec 2020, 13:32 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv German energy and telecommunications group EWE has said it plans to become climate-neutral by 2035. In order to achieve its target, the company is exiting coal-fired power generation and investing ...
20 Nov 2023, 14:48 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen NDR One of Europe鈥檚 first plants to produce green hydrogen on a large scale in northern Germany has been scrapped due to high construction costs, reports public broadcaster NDR. The investors 鈥� a consortium that ...
22 Dec 2020, 12:27 Edgar Meza Utilities pv magazine The German government is making a 450-megahertz (MHz) radio network available to the energy sector that could be used to control PV systems and other feed-in and load management systems, Ralph Diermann ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:26 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv The long-term stabilisation trend of German utilities' financial situation continues, writes ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making 鈥渞apid progress鈥� with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors,聽 Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv / dpa / Zeit Online Over half of all pure battery-electric vehicles (BEV) newly registered in Germany between January and August were sport utility vehicles (SUVs), according to the Federal ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:37 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Utilities Handelsblatt The German government has requested permission to support ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv Undecided political issues are by far the greatest ...
13 Aug 2020, 12:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Utilities 91tv/Focus Online/Rheinische Post Utility RWE鈥檚 production from lignite coal fell sharply over the first half of 2020, even before the effects ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Cars Utilities 91tv / Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry wants to give up on the government target of installing one million charging points for electric cars in the country by 2030, but faces headwind from ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt Finnish state-owned utility Fortum has officially completed its purchase of a majority stake in German utility company Uniper, the company ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv More people in Germany say they want the government to invest CO2 price revenues in renewable energy sources and to lower grid fees, than compensating citizens through an ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:45 Freja Eriksen Utilities 91tv / taz Eight European financial institutions have criticised the Finnish state-owned utility Fortum for聽endorsing the opening of the German coal-fired Datteln 4 power plant, set to be the last ...
14 Aug 2024
14 Aug 2024, 10:30 Julian Wettengel The Guardian: Germany has issued arrest warrant for diver over Nord Stream explosions, says report Investigators said to believe Ukrainian man was one of team that planted explosives on pipelines in September 2022. ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel / 91tv The decommissioning of local gas grids in German cities should be flagged ten years in advance to allow households to prepare accordingly and avoid the purchase ...
30 Aug 2024, 13:09 Joey Grostern Solar Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has announced that bids for ground-mounted solar PV from July have been successful, according to an agency press release. 鈥淭he ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:22 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:30 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy sector experts as well as industry representatives have warned that a shortage of constantly available electricity capacity could lead to new short-lived but ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities dpa / Focus Online The share price of German energy company RWE has reached the highest level in seven years, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by website Focus Online. RWE's share price ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:46 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Handelsblatt New regional energy company in the ...
19 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024, 09:33 91tv Team Electric-Vehicles.com: Nio in talks to buy Audi鈥檚 factory in Belgium Move is part of its strategy to establish local production in Europe and avoid European Commission tariffs on imported Chinese EVs. Euractiv: Europe's ...
30 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities dpa / Die Welt The involvement of German state Baden-Wurttemberg in the utility EnBW appears ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Danish electricity and gas transmission system operator Energinet has postponed the planned commissioning date for the first cross-border hydrogen pipeline into Germany to the end of 2031 ...
13 Sep 2023, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Jack McGovan Solar Cities 91tv Rooftop solar panels in small and mid-sized German towns technically could generate enough electricity for the 41 million ...
01 Oct 2019, 10:00 Europe's largest CO2 emitter RWE has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040. The announcement underlines the deep transformation underway at the German operator of lignite mines and power plants, which is now betting on ...
09 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Freja Eriksen Utilities German fossil utility Uniper cited rising costs for carbon allowances as a main reason for declining ...
26 Apr 2019, 13:03 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Kerstine Appunn Utilities WirtschaftsWoche Utility Steag, which operates one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest coal plant fleets could find a new partial owner in waste company Remondis, ...
02 Feb 2021, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities A group of local utilities in Germany will double ...
22 Aug 2024, 12:32 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating Rheinische Post Reaching Germany's district heating goals was put in jeopardy following planned cuts to the country's 2025 budget, local utilities association VKU warned, as reported by ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Utilities Reuters / 91tv RWE, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest power producer, reported a 20 percent increase in core profits in the first half of 2019, boosted by a stronger than expected performance at its energy ...
28 Mar 2019, 13:23 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / 91tv German utility EnBW will invest billions of euros in its power grids and other ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:38 S枚ren Amelang Gas Utilities 91tv Germany will take a 30 percent stake in Europe鈥檚 largest Russian gas importer Uniper to save it from bankruptcy due to skyrocketing prices. 鈥淯niper is a company that has got into big trouble ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:49 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Utilities Handelsblatt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and energy ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / Handelsblatt The European Commission announced Tuesday that it will not raise antitrust objections to a major part of the deal between German utilities RWE and E.ON, Reuters reports. The approval ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Electricity market Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's plan to secure the supply of electricity at all times through hydrogen-ready gas power plants could not materialise ...
14 Feb 2019, 13:52 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Handelsblatt A deal by German power companies RWE and E.ON to reshape German energy markets could face resistance from regulators, J眉rgen Flauger, Till Hoppe and Jeremy Gray report for business daily ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv A ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:20 S枚ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE expects to spend heavily in the US green energy market as it maps out its future in global renewables after its pending asset swap with peer E.ON, Tom K盲ckenhoff, David French, and Vera ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Heating Cities 91tv The European ...
12 Dec 2018, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Utilities ARD The roll-out of renewable energies has increased profits at 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 fifth-largest utility MVV Energie, according to a report by public broadcaster ARD. Operative profits at the ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Utilities Reuters German utility RWE will win unconditional EU antitrust approval to buy the renewables businesses of E.ON and Innogy in a deal that will reshape the German energy market, according to an unsourced Reuters ...
07 Feb 2019, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Utilities Bloomberg The push to scrap the use of coal as a power generation fuel by Germany and other European countries could make Finnish energy company Fortum think twice before launching a bid ...
18 Jan 2019, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Utilities 91tv German utility RWE wants to invest about 1.5 billion euros net per year in renewables after a complex transaction that will combine the green energy activities of E.ON and Innogy under the roof ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:23 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE has ...
23 Mar 2020, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Expert VZBV- ...
20 Dec 2018, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Utilities The ...
19 Oct 2022, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv A broad alliance of German regional and municipal energy suppliers has jointly called for a protective shield against soaring energy prices and requested a special ...
20 Jan 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Security Welt am Sonntag / 91tv A new law planned for the better integration of solar energy sources into 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity system bears the risk that foreign powers gain control over relevant ...
06 Dec 2024, 09:25 Ensuring the timely construction of new hydrogen-ready gas power plants must be a top priority in energy policy for Germany's next government, says the head of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Lobby ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a聽 report 聽commissioned by utility E.ON. 鈥淭he hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
30 Mar 2020, 14:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities Clean Energy ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Government 91tv The German government has approved its climate adaptation strategy to better prepare the country for dealing with extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, heavy ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:08 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Energy company E.ON has said it is 鈥渙pen to discussions鈥� about a possible runtime extension of its ...
08 Aug 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Renewables Utilities 91tv German utility E.ON has reaffirmed largely stable operating earnings of around 3 billion euros for 2019, thanks in ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:07 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE will spend about 5 billion euros 鈥� 30 percent more than originally planned 颅鈥� on ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Finance Utilities dpa / Focus Online US investment bank Goldman Sachs says German utilities RWE and E.ON remain good investments, despite the coal exit, newswire dpa reports in an article carried by Focus Online. In an ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:05 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 competition watchdog has warned power company RWE not to abuse its dominant position in the country鈥檚 electricity market. "RWE is indispensable for meeting the ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:09 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security 91tv The far-reaching measures taken in Germany and across ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Cost & Prices Die Welt / dpa / ARD The head of Europe鈥檚 largest energy network operator E.ON has suggested that Germany could ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities 91tv The European Commission has approved ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 In a deal that could drastically re-shape Germany's power sector, RWE and E.ON have agreed to split RWE subsidiary innogy and focus each on different parts of the business. E.ON will largely be in charge of distribution grids while ...
13 Sep 2024, 12:06 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv Planned hydrogen storage projects remain significantly behind forecasted demand, an issue which could affect 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 attempts to move towards a renewable energy system, found a report ...
10 Apr 2025, 14:11 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 prospective government has agreed in its coalition treaty to continue the country鈥檚 landmark energy transition without major adjustments and stick to existing climate targets. Faced with economic stagnation and the ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:29 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen NDR German state-run energy company Uniper is trialling the use of a former salt mine in northern Germany for large-scale hydrogen storage, public broadcaster NDR聽 ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters EU regulators will take a hard look at part ...
21 Jun 2022, 12:22 Edgar Meza Coal Utilities ARD, Rheinische Post RWE, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy company, has halted early retirement of employees in reaction to the government鈥檚 decision to increase the use of coal-fired power while gas supplies are low, ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Utilities ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:12 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:16 S枚ren 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 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 latest offshore wind tender. The wind ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:38 European transmission system operators (TSOs) have recommended that Germany split its single electricity price zone into up to five bidding zones. This should maximise economic efficiency across the whole market area, ensuring security ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables 91tv The increasing use of new rooftop installations is quickening the expansion of solar PV in Germany, meaning the technology鈥檚 efficient integration into the energy system becomes ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:47 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 parliament has passed a government reform package designed to speed up the rollout of wind power, as well as industry decarbonisation, by removing red tape. The amendment to ...
21 Aug 2019, 11:59 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S枚ren Amelang Cars Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility EnBW plans to order up to 14,000 electric cars for its employees, ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:00 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Industry representatives have largely welcomed Germany's plans to ramp up the hydrogen market, but called for amendments to a draft law to broaden ...
19 Apr 2022, 12:23 Edgar Meza Coal Utilities WirtschaftsWoche Enkraft, a major shareholder of German energy company RWE, is calling for the utility to quickly spin off its brown coal activities, financial weekly WirtschaftsWoche reports. Fellow ...
02 Oct 2020, 14:16 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 91tv Costs are mounting for the German government鈥檚 legal defence in a six-billion-euro lawsuit initiated by ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt A vast majority of RWE shareholders have rejected a request to force management to start preparations for a spinoff of the company's brown coal activities, but major ...
28 Nov 2023, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv Grid operators in Germany will be ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Cars Utilities 91tv The German government's subsidy programmes for the rollout of public e-car charging infrastructure are so ineffective that they should be rebuilt from scratch, the country's ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
28 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Welt Online EU competition watchdogs' green light for the deal to merge parts of German utility E.ON鈥檚 business with that of fellow utility RWE has led to energy industry fears of a ...
11 Mar 2020, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv The number of German energy companies that consider the energy transition good for business has risen considerably, according to a survey by business consultancy Horvath & ...
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 In Czech company EPH, Vattenfall might have found a buyer for its lignite coal mines and power stations in Lusatia. But as the companies involved refuse to comment, environmentalists warn that coal has no future in a country that wants ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:50 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Clean ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Germany needs more targeted training for traditional craftsmen and other existing skilled workers to give them the expertise they need to work in the solar and wind power industry, ...
24 Apr 2025, 17:08 Poland is driving European efforts to end the reliance on Russian fossil fuel imports and has announced an 鈥渆conomic nationalism鈥� policy in response to US tariffs, which could have an impact on energy and climate policy. In the meantime ...
09 May 2019, 14:08 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Utilities Rechargenews / Reuters German utility EnBW plans to spend 12 billion euros by 2025 in generation and infrastructure, with renewable expansion being a strategic priority, reports Bernd Radowitz for ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:49 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv / ARD The latest round of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating transition support scheme was launched on 27 August and now allows all building owners to apply for subsidies to decarbonise their ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:39 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters German utility E.ON forecast largely stable operating earnings of around three billion euros for 2019 thanks to rising renewables and network profits,聽 reports ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 local utilities ...
15 Feb 2019, 11:44 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Utilities 91tv German utility EnBW and renewable power plant operator ...
Local energy suppliers say that alliances in the industry and with new outside players are needed to secure their economic success in the future, according to a study conducted by the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and commissioned by the German ...
09 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Utilities Heating Table.Media / mdr 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 district heating companies are planning to launch a price comparison platform, following controversies over sharp and intransparent cost increases. Around 150 ...
German utility E.ON has successfully completed the voluntary public takeover offer to innogy minority shareholders, E.ON has announced in a press release. Including RWE鈥檚 76.8 percent stake in innogy, E.ON will hold 86.2 percent of the company鈥檚 shares ...
03 May 2019, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv Climate activists called for a swift end to coal-fired power generation at power plant operator RWE鈥檚 annual general meeting. Members of the Fridays for Future student protest movement ...
Employees of German utility Uniper fear that the company could be split up after its potential acquisition by Finnish energy group Fortum, affecting many jobs, write Michael Bauchm眉ller and Benedikt M眉ller in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Should Fortum become a ...
13 Sep 2024, 15:00 The fate of France鈥檚 green transition remains on hold despite President Emmanuel Macron finally appointing a new prime minister in Michel Barnier. The decision to name a new prime minister had been a long time coming, following the ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The planned expansion of district heating in Germany will require 43.5 billion euros in investment by 2030 to help the country reach its climate targets, said a report by analysis ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:26 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv / Die Welt 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hard coal power plant operators criticise the ...
17 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel EU Council greenlights 鈧�2.3 billion energy transition support for Germany The EU approved 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 amended recovery and resilience plan, which now includes an additional 鈧�2.3 billion to contribute to accelerating ...
A coal exit in Cottbus, the largest city of one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important coal producing regions, is inevitable, writes Nick Reimer in Zeit Online. The municipal utility鈥檚 lignite power plant will be taken off the grid and replaced by a new gas-fired ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:27 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Utilities S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German coal plant and lignite mine operator RWE has seen its share price increase by almost 40 percent since ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:34 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Electricity from large ground-mounted solar PV systems combined with batteries has become cheaper than that generated from fossil power sources in Germany, researchers from ...
Contrary to 鈥渆xpectations by many,鈥� there is still no deterioration of the financing situation for municipal utilities, according to a study by consultancy PwC. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) on average increased ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:30 Kerstine Appunn Coal Utilities Rheinische Post / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Utility company Steag, which operates 5.5 gigawatt of hard coal power plants in North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland and abroad, and is owned by several western German ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Utilities 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility RWE announced this week that it was cancelling plans to build a new ...
German utilities' financial situation is stabilising after years of difficult transformation, writes consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). 鈥淭he restructuring introduced because of [the energy transition] shows positive effects. The projected ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv German municipalities fail to adequately deal with the question of retiring no-longer-needed local gas grids due to the energy transition, because they face high financial and regulatory hurdles, ...
German utilities 鈥渉ave fallen far behind their competitors in Europe and the US,鈥� according to Johannes Teyssen, CEO of German utility E.ON. The companies鈥� meagre performance over the last decade has meant investments in research and development are lower ...
The deal to split innogy between E.ON and RWE so each can focus on a different area of the electricity market value chain could herald the end of the traditional model in which utilities offer everything from power production to supply, Chris Bryant ...
07 Jan 2021, 13:57 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Business & Jobs Utilities Handelsblatt European ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:39 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv German power company EnBW has committed to becoming climate-neutral within 15 years. "The ...
Bloomberg highlights some of the ways the individual big German utilities could find the money needed to free themselves of the responsibility for storing nuclear waste. It comes after last week鈥檚 federal cabinet decision that sees nuclear power plant ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 public utilities will be at the forefront of implementing the decentralised energy supply required by the Energiewende, Katherina Reiche, director of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU), said in an interview with Welt kompakt. Reiche ...
German utility E.ON might sell its remaining share in fossil spin-off Uniper to Finnish utility Fortum for 3.8 billion euros, the company said in a statement. The announcement was greeted by dismay by Uniper, which could be broken up by Fortum, according ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities EU 91tv An alliance of smaller energy companies in Germany is organising opposition to the asset-swap deal of industry heavyweights RWE and E.ON, arguing it would turn "competitors into ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Heating Tagesspiegel Background Municipalities should expand their mandatory planning for future climate-friendly heating to encompass general energy distribution, think tank Agora Energiewende has proposed, ...
The 鈥渂ig four鈥� utilities in Germany- RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall Germany, and EnBW- have all disappeared from a list of the country鈥檚 100 largest companies compiled by the German Monopolies Commission, the competition watchdog says in its annual report. The ...
10 May 2021, 14:32 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Renewables Utilities Die Welt Germany's largest electricity producer RWE has set its sights on becoming the leading provider of renewable energy in numerous industrialised countries. In an ...
01 Oct 2019, 13:53 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:49 Edgar Meza Renewables Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The new CEO of Germany's largest energy company RWE, Markus Krebber, expressed hope that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government will quickly clear hurdles currently ...
11 Jul 2024, 13:51 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Wind EU 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for a rapid expansion of offshore wind energy at the end of the decade could clash with similar plans of its neighbours around the North Sea, the country鈥檚 section of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shift from fossil and nuclear power generation to an energy system based on renewables and energy efficiency offers big opportunities for the country鈥檚 roughly 900 municipal utilities (or Stadtwerke), writes J眉rgen Flauger in the business daily ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv One in two German utilities are finding it difficult to attract new employees, and four out of five companies in the sector expect the problem to worsen in the near future and slow ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Heating Cities 91tv District heating already supplies more than a third of houses in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three largest cities of Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, according to utility E.ON. In Munich and Hamburg, the share ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:27 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Utilities International Uniper The German energy company Uniper has called plans by the French government to end coal-fired power production by 2021 鈥渋nadequate鈥� and urged Paris to ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major utilities and hundreds of municipal utilities have missed the advance of renewables, writes Franz Hubik in Handelsblatt. Many firms now say they want to change course but do not have the necessary financial resources for a turnaround. ...
27 Apr 2016, 00:00 A government appointed commission has unanimously suggested that Germany's four large utilities should pay a large share of their provisions made for storing nuclear waste into a state administered fund. While the idea of a fund is ...
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Major utility E.ON has abandoned plans to spin off its nuclear power plants when it splits in two next year. The operation and decommissioning of the company鈥檚 German nuclear activities will not be transferred to the new spin-off Uniper ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:14 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government aims to amend legislation that would allow the state to take stakes in companies severely affected by rising costs of imported fossil gas, such as Europe鈥檚 largest importer of Russian gas, Uniper. The cabinet ...
14 May 2021, 14:16 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters German energy company Uniper has agreed to consider an earlier than planned shutdown of its controversial coal-fired power plant Datteln 4, Reuters reports. "Should future ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
German utilities are a long way off using the full potential of digitalisation in the energy sector, especially in the areas of generation and distribution, according to management consultancy Oliver Wyman's Utility Digitalisation Index. On a scale ...
German utilities that are focusing on conventional power generation, i.e. RWE and Uniper, are exposed to 鈥� decarbonisation risks,鈥� rating agency Moody鈥檚 has said. The country is likely to accelerate coal plant closures and implement other low-carbon ...
10 Dec 2015, 12:00 The question is no longer whether 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future will be nuclear-free 鈥� or even when, since the government is committed to completing the phase-out by 2022. But the logistics of pulling the plug on what was until recently one of the ...
The industrialised world has created the problem of climate change and now must work to solve it, Johannes Teyssen, CEO of electric utility E.ON, writes in a guest commentary in the Handelsblatt. Mitigating global warming would not only improve the lives ...
21 Jun 2019, 13:30 S枚ren Amelang Solar Utilities ntv Two thirds of all people who own a PV array generate enough electricity to become self-sufficient if they have access to storage, according to German utility E.ON. 鈥�66 percent of our clients with a ...
19 Oct 2016, 00:00 The German government decided on a pact to free nuclear power plant operators of responsibility for storing radioactive waste, and transfer it into the hands of the state. Utilities welcomed the decision made on Wednesday, while critics ...
Municipal utility NEW from western Germany will join the growing ranks of e-car manufacturers, Florian Rinke writes in the Rheinische Post. The small utility has invested about 2.5 million euros in the company Share2Drive from Aachen, which has developed ...
05 Apr 2022, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating 91tv A local utility in southern Germany city Mannheim is building one of Europe鈥檚 largest heat pumps in a trial project attempting to use energy from the Rhine River for heating. The ...
Most of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heavily indebted municipal utilities say investments associated with the Energiewende are the cause of their woes, Franziska Holler, Benjamin Oehlschl盲gel and S枚ren Gaum write for industry magazine Public Governance. In a survey of ...
The Energiewende and digitalisation will increase mergers and acquisitions in the utility sector because they break down boundaries between markets and put traditional business models in doubt, consultancy PwC said in a press release. The consultancy is ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The merger of German energy company E.ON with parts of utility RWE will not make it too dominant on the country鈥檚 energy market, E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen ...
On the sidelines of its surprising and far-reaching deal with competitor E.ON, German utility RWE is mulling another major transaction- the purchase of utility EnBW's coal and gas plants, J眉rgen Flauger writes for Handelsblatt. RWE CEO Rolf Martin ...
German utility RWE has reorganised its power generation business by spinning off its lignite and nuclear power operations into a separate company, the company says in a press release. The move was intended to 鈥渕ake our electricity generation companies ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Heating Focus Online The eastern German city of Cottbus in coal mining region Lusatia plans to use an artificial lake in a former open pit mine for the installation of a large heat pump that could cover up to 40 ...
06 Aug 2019, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Utilities Elections & Politics Recharge ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:21 S枚ren Amelang Start-ups Utilities Wirtschaftswoche Shell鈥檚 acquisition of home battery start-up Sonnen and its plans to become the world鈥檚 largest power company worry German utilities, Konrad Fischer and Angela Hennersdorf report for ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:44 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Focus Online E.ON objects to a study arguing the German utility and many other large companies fall short of their net-zero carbon promises, news website Focus Online reported. The ...
Microsoft has announced it will partner with German utility E.ON to develop a smart home platform to manage everything in a house that runs on electricity, report J眉rgen Flauger and Christof Kerkmann in Handelsblatt Global Edition. The partnership will ...
The 鈥渁rrogance鈥� of German utility innogy in late 2017 has given way to a 鈥� newfound modesty 鈥� at the beginning of 2018, Helmut B眉nder writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The company鈥檚 announcement of a cost-cutting action across ...
04 Feb 2021, 13:29 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv Many Germans remain deeply sceptical about electric cars. Thirty-nine ...
09 May 2022, 14:15 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Heating 91tv A large-scale switch to heat pumps, solar energy, and better demand-side management in the heating sector ...
10 Jan 2017
The rapid and ubiquitous advance of digitalisation threatens municipal utilities鈥� traditional business models purely based on power, gas and water supply, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a feature article in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎mazon, but also Google, ...
22 Apr 2021, 12:58 Germany's utilities say the delay to the EU decision on whether natural gas projects count as a sustainable investment imperils the country's supply security and climate targets. They argue that the exclusion of gas from the ...
Finnish power utility Fortum will launch an 8 billion takeover offer for German energy company E.ON鈥檚 fossil spin-off Uniper after Fortum has secured the agreement of its biggest shareholder and former parent company, writes Richard Milne in an article ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
E.ON鈥檚 interest in competitor RWE鈥檚 renewables spin-off innogy is also triggered by innogy鈥檚 4,000-odd existing contracts with municipalities, which grant the latter company the right to operate local grids, or give it a stake in local utilities, writes ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:12 Edgar Meza Gas EU 91tv German policymakers and utilities have welcomed a European Commission聽 proposal asking EU聽member states聽to聽adopt聽voluntary measures to reduce聽gas聽consumption amid fears of Russia cutting off ...
30 Nov 2020, 15:24 Charlotte Nijhuis Utilities Digitalisation Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung New electricity providers that focus on green electricity and make extensive use of digitalisation are entering the German market despite the already stiff ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
The deal on innogy between utilities Eon and RWE is another sign of how weak the two former energy giants have become, after they failed to act in time on the shift towards a low-carbon energy supply, Jakob Schlandt writes in a commentary for daily ...
22 Feb 2022, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv The current price hikes on electricity and gas markets creates a real danger of market manipulation, the German Monopolies Commission 鈥� a permanent expert committee advising ...
31 Mar 2022, 13:47 Kerstine Appunn Heating In a聽 12-point plan 聽for a heat transition in Germany, utility Vattenfall has proposed to expand city heating networks and convert them to climate-neutral fuels. To achieve this, Vattenfall is calling for a rapid ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 two biggest utilities E.ON and RWE, together with smaller energy providers EnBW and Vattenfall, paid over 24 billion euros in June to 鈥渇inally rid themselves of the consequences of the government-induced nuclear exit鈥�, Thomas Klemm writes in ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Reuters / 91tv German energy company RWE rejected an analysis by financial think tank Carbon Tracker saying the German power firm would ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity industry is at the cusp of a tide of transactions and new models of cooperation, a study by consulting agency PwC has found. Due to 鈥渄windling profits and rising cost pressure鈥�, market conditions for both larger private and smaller ...
An asset swap deal between German utilities E.ON and RWE took a step forward after energy corporation innogy reached agreements with the two companies "for a fair integration process," Reuters reports. innogy will no longer be an independently ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:53 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities manager magazin / Handelsblatt Stocks of German wind and solar park operators had a successful start to 2021 as ...
Decentralised renewable energy sources increase the importance of local distribution grids for making 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition work, a new study on municipal utilities by consulting agency Ernst & Young (EY) says. Distribution grid operators become ...
German energy company E.ON published its 5.2-billion-euro takeover offer for a minority stake in innogy, part of a plan to break up the RWE renewables carve-out, reports news agency Reuters. E.ON said its offer for the 23.2 percent in innogy not owned by ...
30 Sep 2019, 13:41 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The last two of a group of eight lignite power plant units are entering 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 security standby, reports news agency dpa. RWE鈥檚 unit C at ...
19 May 2020, 14:23 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression 鈥渉ot autumn鈥� describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy鈥檚 ...
German utility Uniper incurred a net loss of 538 million euros in 2017, down from a loss of 3.2 billion euros in the year before, the company said in a press release. The fossil spin-off of utility E.ON, which was partly sold to Finnish company Fortum, ...
The German energy transition needs to be 鈥渋nternationalised鈥� if it is to be successful, as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende will continue to have an impact on energy markets of its electrical neighbours and beyond, writes Nick Butler of the Financial Times. The ...
Renewable energy generation in Germany is being disadvantaged by the practice of leading utilities RWE, E.ON and Vattenfall of selling electricity well into the future, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) reports. By ...
19 Aug 2022, 12:51 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Business & Jobs WirtschaftsWoche The 鈥渢errifying鈥� loss of twelve billion euros that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest gas importer Uniper posted in the first six months of 2022 must be a ...
Cooperation and the bundling of resources can help local German utilities cope with聽 challenges brought on by the energy transition, writes J眉rgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. Local utilities in Cologne, D眉sseldorf and Duisburg have initiated cooperation ...
The tough times 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 utilities have gone through as a result of the energy transition are coming to an end, with investor confidence in takeovers and rising power prices pushing stocks up, Susanne Schier writes for Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he Fukushima ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:42 Ruby Russel Heating 91tv Industry groups have criticised recommendations by Germany's Monopolies Commission to keep the consumer cost of district heating in check 鈥� claiming the proposed measures would actually ...
27 Jun 2017
Germany's economy ministry (BMWi) has signed a contract with the country's nuclear plant operators that regulates the funding of nuclear waste disposal, the BMWi has said in a press release. The BMWi and the four utilities E.ON, EnBW, RWE and ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Deutsche Verkehrszeitung Germany has only spent about ten percent of the 1.8 billion euros earmarked for the expansion of electric mobility charging infrastructure in its Climate and ...
The misery of fossil utilities means lignite mines and power plants no longer ensure regional prosperity, writes Jeffrey Michel in a blog post for energytransition.de. The situation in eastern German lignite mining region Lusatia is particularly dramatic ...
18 Oct 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's coalition government is considering steps to enable the use of more green electricity that is currently curtailed due to grid bottlenecks, ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Cost & Prices 91tv The latest ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Coal Reuters / pv magazine The French utility Engie will sell four coal-fired power plants in Germany and the Netherlands as part of the utility鈥檚 strategy to focus on its renewable energy business, Catherine Rollett ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:38 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Digitalisation 91tv Germany's utility companies have warned that the country's slow digitalisation is imperilling its landmark energy transition. "Without digital ...
Utility EnBW says it has achieved a 鈥渇inancial turnaround鈥� by "increasing its operating result for the first time since 2010". CEO Frank Mastiaux called the 2017 result a 鈥渕ilestone in our company鈥檚 transformation.鈥� Read the press release in ...
Employees of German utility Uniper have agreed on an austerity deal and forgo fringe benefits of five percent of their standard wages in order to avoid enforced redundancies until 2022, Rheinische Post reports. The conventional energy subsidiary of German ...
Should the next German government decide on a speedy exit from coal-fired power generation, no company would be affected as much as German utility RWE, Europe鈥檚 largest CO鈧� emitter, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. RWE is in a better financial ...
Six years before Germany's last nuclear plant is due to go offline, the utilities鈥� lawsuits over the legality and costs of the phase-out procedure pose a final but major obstacle for the nuclear exit, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung ...
20 Oct 2022, 13:44 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
Unchanged investments in local utility sector With 4.88 billion euros, the investments of the municipal utility sector into its power plant fleet remained largely unchanged in 2015, compared to 5.1 billion euros in 2014. 鈥淭he caution in 2015 was due to ...
The electric utility of Frankfurt an der Oder, a city located on the German-Polish border and not to be confused with Germany's banking capital Frankfurt am Main, has joined its Cottbus counterpart and decided to replace its coal-fired cogeneration ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
24 Nov 2023, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 network of charging points for electric cars is growing rapidly, according to utility association BDEW. 鈥淎s of 1 October, 113,112 public charging points with a total of 5.2 gigawatts (GW) ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:36 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk 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 ...
Two months after the surprise departure of CEO Peter Terium, renewable utility innogy is in crisis, and neither the management nor majority owner RWE have a plan to get out of the mess created by a profit drop, writes Angela Hennersdorf in the business ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:10 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Der Spiegel If the asset swap of energy companies and utilities RWE and E.ON goes ahead as planned, the resulting company would have 鈥渦nprecedented market power鈥�, Ines ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen Heating 91tv More than 200 climate and energy organisations have warned German municipalities against falling prey to gas industry lobbying for including hydrogen in their obligatory local plans for ...
Natural gas is at its lowest price since 2010 at an average of 1,236 euros per 20,000 kilowatt hours (kWh), comparison portal CHECK24 reports. This was because of competition and the offers of alternative suppliers to the traditional utilities, writes ...
Major German utilities E.ON and RWE, both highly indebted and struggling to adapt to the new energy environment, could see a positive turnaround, according to an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Future growth could be spurred by rising ...
31 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Coal Electricity market Utilities 91tv / Reuters RWE AG, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest utilities, has raised its earnings expectations for 2019 due to a stronger than anticipated performance in its energy trading ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Technology International 91tv Europe is heavily reliant on China in realising its green ambitions and must be prepared to pay more for the shift to climate neutrality if it wants to increase independence, ...
The changes brought about in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply structure by the Energiewende pose a great threat to the country鈥檚 municipal utilities, Thomas Brucker writes in a study for the SPD-associated Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES). Regional energy ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:12 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Utilities 91tv / dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's largest coal power and renewables operator RWE plans to step up its ...
Talks between the federal government and the big four utilities E.ON, RWE EnBW and Vattenfall on nuclear waste storage are not as close to conclusion as a report by B枚rsen-Zeitung suggested, writes Reuters. The stock market newspaper had reported that the ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Policy 91tv / Zeit / n-tv A law requiring German municipalities, states and the country as a whole to adapt to the effects of climate change has now come into force (1 July). For the first time, ...
The German Federal Constitutional Court's聽 decision to declare the country鈥檚 nuclear fuel tax law invalid has outraged many Green politicians, but could turn out to be beneficial for some of their fellow party members, Daniel Wetzel writes in the ...
28 Apr 2016
28 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淎 bird in the hand鈥� The proposed fund for nuclear storage costs is in breach of some fundamental principles, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an op ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:29 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Utilities Digitalisation WirtschaftsWoche Energy company E.ON is teaming up with software company SAP to digitalise its power grid ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:53 Ruby Russel Renewables EU 91tv German industry associations have welcomed a decision by EU energy ministers to extend temporary measures 聽to reduce dependence on Russian gas and protect EU energy consumers from price spikes ...
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 ...
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 ...
13 Aug 2020, 13:48 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has set out to accelerate planning procedures for infrastructure projects linked to the energy transition with a focus on speeding up onshore wind power expansion in particular. Utilities welcomed the streamlining ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:15 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Technology Table.Media / 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany is leading among EU countries when it comes to the production of climate technologies like wind power, solar energy, heat pumps, batteries ...
Uniper and innogy, the subsidiaries of German utilities E.ON and RWE respectively, will be included in the MDAX, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second most important stock index, the two companies said in separate press releases. The utilities鈥� spin-offs will enter the index ...
Katherina Reiche, managing director of the municipal utility association VKU wants the government to establish better conditions for local utilities and keep an eye on the cost efficiency of the energy transition and security of supply in Germany, she ...
30 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Cars 91tv / n-tv Large petrol station companies will need to offer at least one fast charging point for electric vehicles from 2028, according to a draft law agreed by Germany's government ...
05 Dec 2014
05 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau "We need a fund" J枚rg Sommer, chairman of the German Environment Foundation, says more money is needed to treat nuclear waste in Germany. In an ...
Fossil-fuel utility RWE has called for compensation if Germany opts for a quick coal exit. 鈥淚f there is a desire, socially, that a coal exit should come very quickly we have to be compensated for it,鈥� company CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz told an industry ...
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 A leaked document outlines plans to transfer some provisions German utilities have put aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal to a state-managed fund. The 91tv spoke to two policy analysts about the ...
28 Mar 2019, 09:15 S枚ren Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology 91tv One in four startups in Germany contributes to environmental and climate protection, according to a report by the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and ...
06 Jun 2019, 13:54 Germany certainly does not need to return to nuclear energy and should push through with its energy transition instead, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Following isolated calls to extend the lifetime of the country鈥檚 ...
04 Sep 2020, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn Solar pv magazine A growing number of regional utility companies are showing interest in buying electricity generated from solar PV installations that are more than 20 years old and will cease to receive feed-in payments ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Utilities Rheinische Post The high earning posted by many energy companies in the current supply crisis, including 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 RWE, have rekindled the debate on a windfall profit tax, according to an ...
Low water levels following a prolonged drought in Germany and very modest wind conditions have put a strain on the business of energy company EnBW, which pursues a rigorous strategy of replacing nuclear and fossil power generation capacity with renewables ...
The German Energiewende has a 鈥渕ixed, but very troubling鈥� record, Christine Sturm says in a long article on the Energiewende for Issues in Science and Technology, an online magazine from The University of Texas at Dallas. 鈥淥n the plus side is continued ...
11 Mar 2021, 14:31 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Storage 91tv Germans ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv The German government has proposed the right steps to accelerate the rollout of photovoltaic (PV) systems, local utilities association VKU said ahead of a parliamentary discussion about ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:27 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Wind 91tv Leading global wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has won an order to build a 29 megawatt (MW) wind power plant at a steel ...
German utility E.ON could finish this year with another record loss, company sources told German business newspaper Handelsblatt. The sources attributed the potential loss to rising costs of the country鈥檚 nuclear exit, spinning off its conventional energy ...
26 Mar 2024
26 Mar 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The growing volumes of cheap green technologies coming out of China are leading to worries that solar panels, electric cars, batteries and other products sold below their production price ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Solar Utilities 91tv Germany must urgently and massively step up the rollout of solar power in order to become more independent from Russian energy imports and reach its climate targets, the country ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband ...
12 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Reuters 鈥淕别谤尘补苍y says firms set aside enough nuclear decommissioning funds鈥� According to the government, stress tests show that nuclear power plant operators have set aside enough funds to pay for decommissioning ...
05 Mar 2025, 17:07 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 likely next government coalition parties have proposed an overhaul of state debt rules to make hundreds of billions of euros available for defence and infrastructure investments. The agreement, which faces a big hurdle in the ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling Volksstimme / SWR The government of Saxony-Anhalt plans to explore the extraction of 鈥渂attery-grade鈥� lithium in the eastern German state, the newspaper Volksstimme reported. Deposits ...
Last year鈥檚 agreement on financing the nuclear clean-up between the German state and nuclear power providers does not seem to have brought permanent peace as utilities refuse to drop the lawsuits against the nuclear fuel tax, write J眉rgen Flauger and ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Renewables Hydrogen ...
13 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE aims to become carbon neutral by 2040 and plans the requisite聽renewables investments ...
French utility Engie is considering buying German utility RWE鈥檚 renewables spin-off innogy, writes Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The deliberations were preliminary and may not lead to an offer, writes Bloomberg. Read the Bloomberg ...
German energy company Uniper faces a loss of 550 million euros and fails to get out of the red after the first three quarters of 2018, the company says in a press release. The company owned by Finnish energy provider Fortum says that the 鈥� increased CO 2 ...
The negotiations between the federal government and 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear power plant operating utilities about the clean-up costs are coming to a close, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The utilities 鈥渨ould only be responsible for ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Utilities dpa / Tagesspiegel / Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung German energy industry heavyweight RWE has called for a roundtable of stakeholders to make progress on ending the current slump of onshore wind power ...
19 Jun 2019, 12:00 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities 91tv German energy companies RWE and innogy are jointly looking into large-scale production of green hydrogen and ...
Fossil utility Uniper has promised to raise its dividend by 25 percent every year until 2020 in its battle to remain independent, reports Tobias Buck in the Financial Times. The E.ON spin-off needs to win over shareholders to fend off a聽 hostile takeover ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 policymakers have not kept pace with the energy industry鈥檚 rapid transformation caused by the Energiewende, and must catch up urgently, according to the utility association BDEW. The utilities also say that Germany needs a ...
20 Apr 2021, 13:00 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG ...
22 May 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Utilities E.ON / Tagesspiegel Background E.ON's distribution grids in Germany will be able to support a complete switch to electric ...
The Association of Local Utilities (VKU) said the support for combined heat and power plants in the grid fee agreement was a 鈥渟trong signal for the value of decentral generation鈥� and created planning security. 鈥淢耻苍颈肠颈辫补濒 utilities can now work intensively ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:27 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Vattenfall Germany ...
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 ...
18 Sep 2020, 13:20 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Renewables Solar dpa Solar parks built without relying on financial support are becoming increasingly common in Germany, reports Claus Haffert for newswire dpa. Consultancy Energy Brainpool estimates ...
Utilities and the German government continue to argue about the storage of nuclear waste, five months after a government-appointed commission proposed that the country鈥檚 four nuclear power station operators should pay more than 20 billion euros into a ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:40 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Gas Utilities Heating 91tv Most ...
13 Oct 2014
13 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel 鈥淓nergy transition: Gabriel to put more pressure on utilities鈥� German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel plans to put more pressure on utilities by taking 10 gigawatts of coal-fired power ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Die Zeit 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy industry representatives don鈥檛 expect threatening bottlenecks in energy supply during the coming winter, newspaper Die Zeit reports. 鈥淭he next winter is similarly challenging as the last ...
20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Sigmar Gabriel has made strong statements against capacity markets, with the utilities once again insisting they are needed to ensure investment in the power sector. The state secretary for energy said that with current overcapacity, ...
German utility Uniper鈥檚 CEO Klaus Sch盲fer does not see 鈥渢he advantages of a big consolidation in the market鈥� for his company, he said in a telephone conference when presenting first half year results, writes Helmut B眉nder for Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
German utility EnBW is expanding into the North American market for offshore wind, forming a joint venture with Trident Winds to develop a project off the coast of Central California, the German company said on Monday. EnBW North America and Seattle-based ...
09 Jan 2019, 13:53 Municipal utility chief executive Andreas Feicht will take on the role as Germany's energy state secretary on 1 February. With his appointment, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier fills a position crucial to the progress of ...
German energy company E.ON has hired Goldman Sachs to explore options for the sale of the group's remaining stake in its legacy fossil fuel business Uniper, Reuters quotes company sources. E.ON is currently Uniper鈥檚 largest shareholder, with a 46.65 ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:50 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, ...
Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall posted a pretax profit in 2017 despite sluggish electricity demand, helped in part by new wind power capacity, writes news agency Reuters. Vattenfall started operation of two new wind parks in 2017, one of them the ...
German energy utility RWE might be considering a partial takeover of its rival Uniper, J眉rgen Flauger reports for the Handelsblatt. RWE refused to comment but Flauger points out it has previously been interested in buying gas and coal-fired power plants. ...
German utility RWE would be 鈥渕erely a sort of 鈥榖ad bank鈥� of the energy business鈥� without the 75 percent share in its renewable spin-off innogy, and RWE's problems are self-inflicted, writes Andreas Becker in an opinion piece for Deutsche Welle. 鈥淭he ...
German utility Steag is currently in the process of selling stakes in power grids, district heating, wind parks and bio energy in several countries to help the company through its current crisis, writes J眉rgen Flauger in an article for the Handelsblatt. ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:15 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
15 Sep 2021, 13:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:22 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Tageszeitung (taz) A company in Germany that enriches uranium ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:42 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:49 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Edgar Meza Coal Utilities 91tv Government auctions aimed at shutting down Germany ...
German conventional energy utility RWE鈥檚 CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz says his company plans to buy new power stations as he expects electricity to become scarcer and prices to rise over the coming years, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). RWE has a ...
German national railway company Deutsche Bahn will have to indirectly contribute around 350 million euros to the聽 state-administered fund to finance interim and final storage of nuclear waste 聽in 2017, report J眉rgen Flauger and Dieter Flockenbrock for ...
German utility RWE is considering selling its majority stake in Hungary's second biggest power plant and related lignite mines, as the German utility reviews its struggling generation assets across Europe, report Tom K盲ckenhoff and Krisztina Than for ...
Siemens AG is preparing for a surge in German demand for utility-scale storage, as rapid development of renewables forces utilities to invest in batteries to help manage to new patterns of power generation and consumption, writes Brian Parkin for ...
If and when the RWE-E.ON deal is approved by cartel authorities and the companies, the restructuring of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy sector will be far from complete,聽writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece for Berliner Zeitung. 鈥淚t鈥檚 only a matter of time before ...
Germany energy company E.ON has said it has reached the first 鈥渕ajor decisions鈥� in the planned integration of former rival company innogy into its own company structures. In a press release, the company said it would continue to run by the name E.ON in ...
Germany could become the number one incubator for cleantech startups, Marius Buchmann writes on his energy business blog, enerquire. He cites three factors: Large German utilities have changed strategy over the past two years and are now investing heavily ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:40 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert B眉rgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
German utility EnBW has increased its profits by one third in the first quarter 2018 compared to the same period last year, the company said in a press release. EnBW made 687 million euros in profits between January and March, with all business segments ...
German utility E.ON said retail profits fell by more than a third in the first nine months, according to a Reuters report. E.ON, currently in the process of selling its remaining stake in fossil spin-off Uniper to Finland鈥檚 Fortum, said it is hammering ...
Blockchain will revolutionise 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy market, potentially rendering major utilities redundant, Kathrin Witsch and Christine Coester write in a commentary for Handelsblatt Global. The digital ledger technology, which allows users to exchange money ...
10 Aug 2015
10 Aug 2015, 00:00 Germany's second-largest utility announces it is consolidating its operations under one roof and shaking up its management structure. Spinning off the conventional power business was kept as an option but not planned, CEO Peter ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Finance Handelsblatt The end of coal-fired power production comes with profound implications for German energy companies who have banked on the fossil fuel so far, but analysts say buying ...
German utility innogy plans to expand the country鈥檚 e-car charging infrastructure by enabling private companies to provide their own charging stations to the public with a new digital platform called eMarketplace, the group says in a press release. 鈥淣ot ...
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 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first smart meter in a household, the ...
05 May 2020, 15:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
A wave of mergers and acquisitions in the energy market does not bode well for the future of German utility E.ON as an independent company, J眉rgen Flauger writes in Handelsblatt. 鈥淓.ON has been low priced for some time now,鈥� Flauger writes, explaining ...
German utility E.ON is selling off its shares in its fossil power spin-off Uniper to Finnish plant operator Fortum, the company said in a press release. E.ON said it accepted Fortum鈥檚 offer to buy its 46.65-percent stake in Uniper for 22 euros per share, ...
Digitalisation is the 鈥渒ey driver鈥� of a successful energy transition as it is needed to manage a decentral power supply, Heiko von Tschischwitz, founder of renewable power provider LichtBlick, told Handelsblatt. The times of 鈥渟imple supply鈥� were over and ...
06 Oct 2022, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Policy Reuters ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin has halved its emissions from power and heat supplied by utility Vattenfall since 1990. Vattenfall thereby reaches its emissions reduction target three years earlier than agreed in the climate action agreement of 2009 with the ...
Southern German utility EnBW has introduced a one-for-all charging card for e-cars that will enable its customers to use a network of 8,000 charging stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, regardless of the operator of the station. E-car drivers ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Utilities 91tv / pv magazine Utility EnBW plans to build 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest solar power farm a nd intends to run the installation without claiming any support payments in a ...
11 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters 鈥淓.ON paves way for spin-off following record loss鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest utility, E.ON, booked its largest ever annual loss, as a result of its ailing power plants, Reuters reports. The ...
German utilities RWE, E.ON, and EnBW should use the nuclear fuel tax refunds to prepare their companies for the future, writes J眉rgen Flauger in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he one-off effect comes at exactly the right moment and could help ...
Siemens will cut about 6,900 jobs, or about 2 percent of its global workforce, mainly at its power and gas division hit by rapid renewables growth, report Georgina Prodhan and Christoph Steitz for Reuters. 鈥淭he power generation industry is experiencing ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Reuters The state-run fund created to pay for the intermediate and final storage of 聽nuclear power station waste 聽in Germany has so far coped well throughout the ...
The financial consequences of the German nuclear exit are 鈥渄ramatic鈥� for German utility EnBW, writes Bernd Freytag in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淏ecause of the low-interest聽phase, EnBW must set aside additional reserves for ...
18 Mar 2022, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Utilities 91tv Energy company聽 RWE plans to build an ammonia terminal 聽at the site of the planned import harbour for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the northern German city of Brunsb眉ttel to ...
09 Jan 2019, 11:59 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Grid Utilities Reuters Energy group Uniper is building a gas-fired power plant in Germany, the country鈥檚 first in a decade, to serve as a 鈥渟afety cushion鈥� for grids coping with intermittent ...
Consumer organisations, social associations and local utilities cooperate to counteract energy poverty, writes Lukas Zdrzalek in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The electricity suppliers help finance so-called energy saving consultants, provided by the associations, ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:38 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv Eurelectric corrects figures: Power demand in the EU decreased by 5.1% in the first half of 2023, compared to 2022, and was 4.8% lower in the first half of 2024, compared to 2022. 聽 Electricity ...
14 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE 鈥淧oll 鈥� Lignite is essential stabiliser for energy supply鈥� Two thirds of Germans believe electricity prices have a large influence on the competitiveness of German industry, according to a ...
Peter Terium, CEO of German utility innogy, has left the RWE renewables spin-off days after the company said it will make less profit than anticipated this year and next, which had resulted in a considerable drop in share prices in the second week of ...
German utility E.ON has discussed a potential collaboration with renewable energy company innogy 鈥� the subsidiary of RWE AG, reports Bloomberg, citing 鈥渢wo people familiar with the matter鈥�. At the same time, European utilities outside Germany are showing ...
Almost all coal plants in the EU will make losses by 2030, according to a Carbon Tracker analysis, Jess Shankleman and Rachel Morison report for Bloomberg. Because battery storage will increasingly provide power at times of peak demand, and because the EU ...
The landmark deal between German utilities E.ON and RWE remains on track for completion next year according to RWE, reports Tobias Buck in the Financial Times. Both groups reported quarterly results that were broadly in line with market expectations and ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv Current market prices 鈥渕ake a mockery鈥� of compensation claims by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest utility RWE under the country鈥檚 coal phase-out plan, according to think-tank Institute for Energy ...
08 Nov 2021, 14:02 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business ...
The government must push ahead with the roll-out of a reliable charging infrastructure for e-cars and increase support for e-mobility research and development, according to German utility association BDEW. In a 鈥渞oadmap to eco-mobility鈥�, the utilities ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany is currently heavily dependent on imports of raw materials key for energy transition technologies, but the government is only in the early stages of ...
22 May 2025, 10:46 Carbon capture is set to play a key role in decarbonising the cement and concrete industry, says Jan Theulen, Group Lead Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) at Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest cement ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche / ...
06 Dec 2016, 00:00 According to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 constitutional court, the government鈥檚 2011 decision to speed up the nuclear power phase-out was in line with constitutional requirements. Nuclear power plant operators argued the move amounted to expropriation ...
German utility innogy has lost about a quarter million customers over the last year, and its earnings slightly declined to about 1.2 billion euros in the first quarter of 2018 as the asset swap deal between utilities E.ON and RWE looms, the news agency ...
Despite unfavourable wind conditions, the commissioning of new offshore and onshore wind farms increased sales and earnings from renewables at German utility E.ON in the first half of 2018, reports Bernd Radowitz in Recharge. Sales in the renewables ...
German energy utility RWE earned profits of 2.2 billion euros in the first nine months of 2017, the company announced. After record losses of 5.7 billion euros in the full year 2016, the company profited from higher prices in energy trade, and from a ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:22 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities Reuters Municipal shareholders in RWE have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest power producer to drive a hard bargain in ...
German energy company E.ON has established a new unit to develop and expand Europe鈥檚 e-vehicle charging infrastructure, the utility announced in a press release. "We firmly believe in the future of e-mobility and the related potential for growth,鈥� ...
A majority of Uniper鈥檚 shareholders has rejected a takeover offer from Finnish utility Fortum, the German fossil fuel utility said in a press release today. Aside from the 46.65 percent share that major shareholder E.ON sold to Fortum, offers from the ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities 91tv Hambach Forest in western Germany could be saved following the German coal exit commission鈥檚 agreement, but only at great cost, RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz said ...
German utility E.ON uses a smart grid with solar and wind energy, as well as a large battery, to supply a Swedish village exclusively with renewable electricity. 鈥淚n order to support the balancing of the local energy system, customers are engaged to ...
The planned deal between German utility heavyweights RWE and E.ON to split up RWE鈥檚 spin-off innogy between them has attracted the attention of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 cartel office, the Bundeskartellamt, Handelsblatt reports based on information provided by news ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:45 S枚ren 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 ...
After two years of construction and trial phases, German utility EnBW鈥檚 subsidiary TransnetBW is beginning operation of its central control room, dpa reports in an article carried by Welt Online. The grid operator intends to manage the Baden-Wuerttemberg ...
Energy utility RWE has transferred two of its lignite-fired power station units in North-Rhine Westphalia into the so called emergency standby reserve. Four of eight coal station units have thus far been committed to the reserve, where they will remain ...
24 Oct 2019, 12:19 Expert Economic Council- CDU Wirtschaftsrat Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of Germany Business & Jobs Society Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities S枚ren Amelang Gas Nuclear ...
After the sudden departure of CEO Peter Terium, German utility innogy is 鈥渞eviewing discretionary spending across all segments鈥�, the company says in a press release. The spin-off of energy company RWE says it 鈥渞eiterates its financial discipline targets鈥�, ...
E.ON needs the money of a potential Uniper sale for investments in wind and solar energy, and to compete with energy start-ups and the likes of Google, write J眉rgen Flauger und Franz Hubik in an article in Handelsblatt. The company is accountable to its ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 fourth largest utility EnBW plans to pull out of fossil power generation by 2025, according to an internal strategy paper, reports J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. Conventional power generation does not feature in the company鈥檚 medium-term plan ...
German utility E.ON has entered into a partnership with greenXmoney to set up an online platform that allows making investments in German solar and wind power facilities 鈥渆asily, securely and independently of any particular bank鈥�, the company announced in ...
The heads of the work councils of the utility vehicle branches of German carmakers Daimler and VW have criticised the EU鈥檚 plans for CO 2 emissions reduction for heavy-good vehicles as 鈥渆xcessive and existence-threatening鈥� for their sectors, news agency ...
German utility innogy will assist the country鈥檚 telecommunication heavyweight Telekom in expanding its broadband internet access, Ina Karabasz and J眉rgen Flauger write in Handelsblatt Global Edition. Initially reluctant to rely on partners to develop high ...
German municipal utilities that have invested in fossil fuels over the past years 鈥� for example by modernising old coal-fired power plants 鈥� now find themselves under financial pressure in part due to the Energiewende, writes Bastian Brandau for ...
11 May 2015, 00:00 Large utilities are being forced to take radical steps to reshape their business models to fit the new energy landscape. But experts say it remains to be seen if they can innovate their way out of the crisis. Expert BDEW-German ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:55 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Utility Uniper says there could be further delays to the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, or possibly even a failure ...
The German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) and the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) have called for an increased focus on energy transition in heating to enable Germany to reach its emissions reduction targets. 鈥淯nlike in the power market, the share ...
In an open letter published in the WirtschaftsWoche, Gunhild Grieve, head of investor relations at German utility RWE, refutes the advice that investors should get rid of 鈥渢oxic coal stocks鈥�. The suggestion had been made by Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of ...
Municipal shareholders have stressed the importance of utility RWE 鈥檚 dividend payouts to the communal coffers at the company鈥檚 annual general meeting, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. CEO Martin Schmitz鈥檚 speech was repeatedly interrupted by ...
German utility RWE could turn out as 鈥� one of the winners of the expected grand coalition鈥� between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), Maximilian V枚lkl writes in the business magazine Der Aktion盲r. Researchers like Manuel ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 big four utilities want greater security and clarity on costs they will incur from the nuclear phase-out, and are proposing detailed contracts with the government, writes Angela Hennersdorf in Wirtschaftswoche. The contracts would establish how ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:18 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine ...
German utility EnBW acquired a 37.5 percent stake in each of three offshore wind projects in Taiwan with a potential total volume of approximately 2,000 megawatt, marking the first such investment outside Europe in the group鈥檚 renewables expansion, ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:08 Milou Dirkx Mobility Cars 91tv Germany now has more than 100,000 public electric car charging points- but the energy and auto industry are squabbling over whether this figure is too high or too low. 鈥淎s of 1 July, electric ...
13 Jan 2022, 14:01 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Utilities Handelsblatt / 91tv The wave of short-notice contract cancellations ...
06 Dec 2024, 11:14 The appointment of Michel Barnier as France鈥檚 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 ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International 91tv / Handelsblatt German energy company RWE is suing the Netherlands for compensation payments in relation to the ...
German energy companies RWE and E.ON have agreed to a deal in which E.ON will buy RWE's green power subsidiary innogy and the two utilities will exchange large parts of their assets to focus their activities. The deal would drastically reshape ...
26 Oct 2015
26 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy 鈥淕abriel: Brown coal agreement is important contribution to reaching climate targets鈥� Coal power plant operators will gradually transfer 2.7 ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas EU 91tv Utilities have welcomed the German government's pro-natural gas stance in its feedback to the European Commission鈥檚 sustainable finance taxonomy plans, but ...
German utility RWE has regained a great deal of its former assertiveness since the successful stock market launch of its green subsidiary innogy in early October, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. 鈥淩WE already is a healthy company,鈥� RWE鈥檚 new CEO ...
Municipal shareholders of German utility RWE are under pressure after the energy company announced it wouldn鈥檛 pay a dividend for a second consecutive year, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. The city of Essen, seat of RWE鈥檚 company headquarters and ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest power producer RWE won鈥檛 pay a dividend for a second consecutive year after writing off billions because of sliding electricity prices, report Lars Paulsson and Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The Essen-based utility booked impairments of 4 ...
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 After more than a decade of rising electricity prices, German utilities are passing on some of their savings from lower wholesale prices and a cut in the renewable energy surcharge. But with a number of government decisions on the next ...
The nuclear waste pact the federal cabinet approved yesterday might be good news for the plant operators, but it sent out the 鈥渇atal signal鈥� that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 big four utilities were too large to fail, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in an opinion piece in ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:33 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 ...
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Germany still needs electricity from coal while shifting to a green economy, Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, reassuring utilities that a quick phase-out of the fossil fuel was not his plan. Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for ...
German utility company E.ON has launched a new onshore wind park in the United States (Texas) with an installed capacity of 200 megawatts. The 112 turbines at Colbeck鈥檚 Corner can produce electricity for 64,000 households, the company said in a press ...
Swedish state owned utility Vattenfall鈥檚 sale of its German lignite coal operations is facing a new delay, writes J眉rgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. The necessary approval by the European Commission was pending and will probably not be ready before ...
German utility RWE and French counterpart Engie are studying a possible share swap that could create a Franco-German giant in power grids, renewables and energy services with a market value of about 50 billion euros, report Arno Schuetze, Geert De Clercq ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
23 Mar 2015
23 Mar 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Wall Street Journal 鈥湷冶鸢静共圆忖�檚 Nuclear Costs Trigger Fears鈥� German taxpayers may end up footing the bill for decommissioning the country鈥檚 nuclear power plants and storing radioactive waste, according to a study ...
The future power market will be dominated by decentralised energy generation and storage technologies, and new business ideas to control those installations and run them profitably will become increasingly important, says a study compiled by management ...
German utility innogy aims to bolster its position in photovoltaics and energy storage with the acquisition of the German solar and battery specialist BELECTRIC Solar & Battery GmbH. The transaction, announced in August 2016, has been completed, ...
The federal cabinet today decided on draft legislation for a nuclear clean-up pact that would rid utilities of the responsibility for storing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 radioactive waste. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four nuclear power station operators, RWE, E.ON, EnBW and Vattenfall, are ...
German utility E.ON aims to transform the global offshore wind generation market with high-altitude wind power generation technology, the company announced in a press release. New technology is harvesting wind by using a sail comparable to kite surfing in ...
26 May 2023, 13:35 S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Grid Utilities Handelsblatt German energy companies have called for the introduction of a new incentive mechanism to trigger the construction of new gas power plants, which the country plans to use ...
Utilities should expand their product range beyond power, gas, water and heat to sell innovative services or even electric appliances, according to an online survey for the study 鈥淭he future of energy: What consumers really want鈥� by consultancy AXXCON. ...
German utility RWE has forecast EBITDA profits of between 4.1 and 4.4 billion euros in 2016 for its new renewable subsidiary innogy (currently 鈥楻WE International SE鈥�). The figure is lower than the 4.5 billion euro figure it recorded in 2015, according to ...
The cabinet decision on a new law to regulate the financing of nuclear decommissioning and waste storage will be postponed until the end of August, writes WirtschaftsWoche. According to the unsourced report, utility RWE said it would not be able to ...
The German government and the country鈥檚 nuclear plant operators will sign a long-awaited contract about the funding for the final storage of nuclear waste today, Andreas Mihm writes in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The contract formally ensures that ...
E.ON spin-off Uniper made a net loss of 3.2 billion euros last year due to big writedowns on generation and gas-storage assets, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. But Uniper said it had 鈥済ood momentum for 2017鈥� having delivered a 鈥渟olid鈥� ...
French President Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 call for a European price of 25-30 euro per tonne of CO鈧� has received mixed reactions in Germany, reports Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. German utilities argue that the proposed scheme would put the ...
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 ...
The recent boost in value of utility RWE鈥檚 聽shares comes as a blessing for many cities and municipalities in RWE鈥檚 home state of North Rhine-Westphalia, J眉rgen Flauger writes in the Handelsblatt. The increase in value of almost 70 percent since the ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided to improve investment conditions for new electricity grid infrastructure by raising the equity interest rates for new ...
As more and more electricity suppliers are established and comparison websites recommend changing contracts to save money, traditional utilities need to find new ways to compete in the market, writes Michael Ashelm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. More ...
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 ...
While it could be years before the possible 鈥渟urprising reorganisation鈥� of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy market can be fully assessed, innogy is 鈥渃learly鈥� the deal鈥檚 loser, J眉rgen Flauger writes in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. 鈥淭he company will be broken up, ...
If the extensive deal between E.ON and RWE goes through, 鈥渙ld rivals" will "become partners under the pressure of the energy transition鈥� and create 鈥渁 new order in the German energy industry鈥� by organising a clear 鈥渄ivision of labour鈥�, Helmut ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Bloomberg 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has allocated less money for closing coal-fired power plants than the utilities that own them expected, reports Bloomberg. A government official told the news outlet that Chancellor ...
18 Dec 2023, 13:32 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv Germany has generated more than half of the electricity it used this year with renewable energy for the first time, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall expects 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin to boast about 250,000 electric cars by the end of the next decade, compared to 1,700 currently registered in the city, Jens Tartler writes in the Tagesspiegel. Vattenfall鈥檚 Thomas Sch盲fer says ...
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22 Oct 2014, 00:00 Stuttgarter Zeitung "EnBW offers stakes in wind parks" German utility Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg (EnBW) is asking citizens to participate in the financing of 聽wind parks after offering stakes in wind farms to local communities ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:21 Jack McGovan Efficiency Policy 91tv A legal framework for energy efficiency has been passed into law by the German parliament for the first time. The Energy Efficiency Act aims for a reduction in annual energy consumption ...
German utility RWE confirmed its 2017 forecast after posting a seven percent increase in earnings in the second half of 2017, and announced it would pay a special dividend of 1 euro a share after having received the nuclear fuel tax refund, writes Guy ...
German energy company EnBW increased its operating result (adjusted EBITDA) by 6.4 percent to 1.14 billion euros in the first half of 2018, compared to the same period last year, the company said in a press release. Net profit attributable to the ...
The dwindling profitability of coal power plants brings financial difficulties for many municipalities in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populated region, the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Guido M. Hartmann writes in Welt am Sonntag. Municipal utilities from ...
02 Nov 2023, 13:52 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Policy Table.Media / 91tv The budget earmarked to finance Germany's cap on electricity and gas prices during the energy crisis is far from being used in its entirety, according to figures ...
Six years after Germany resumed plans for a quick nuclear exit, there is a still question over whether funds put aside by nuclear plant operators for a final nuclear waste repository will be sufficient, Bernd Freytag writes in an opinion piece for ...
