Germany’s government has fallen behind in the transformation of the energy industry triggered by the energy transition, and must now speed up its policy making processes to support the sector in reaching emissions reduction goals, the managing director of ...
Peruvian farmer Saúl Lliuya is suing German utility RWE in the District Court of Essen, saying the company’s carbon emissions drive climate change and threaten his home town Huaraz, writes Gero Rueter for Deutsche Welle. Lliuya says global warming is ...
The share of renewable energies in German gross power consumption was 32 percent in the first quarter of 2017, a slight increase compared to the same period in 2016, German utility association BDEW said in a press release. Power generation by wind, solar ...
German utility RWE saw a 13 percent earnings drop in the first nine months of the year, reflecting tough conditions in conventional power generation in Germany, reports Guy Chazan for the Financial Times. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:57 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices RWI The ...
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Analysts have welcomed a new planning framework for the German grid that works on the basis of less lignite being burned in Germany, saying grid development must serve the country’s climate targets. Expert DIW- German Institute for ...
04 Oct 2022, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung / ZDF The German states are calling for greater financial support by the federal government in the energy crisis, urging a quick introduction of a national gas price brake to ...
11 May 2022, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
17 Jun 2021, 13:03 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv Germany railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) is aiming to become climate neutral a decade earlier than its previous 2050 target. Announcing its new 2040 target, the company said it would already be ...
26 Jun 2019, 12:45 Renewable energy sources delivered a fresh record in Germany in the first half of 2019 with a share of 44 percent in electricity consumption as stormy weather boosted wind power production on land and at sea, utility association BDEW ...
The federal government and Germany’s four nuclear power station operators have agreed on contract details for last year’s agreement on financing the nuclear clean-up, report Helmut Bünder and Manfred Schäfers for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The ...
05 Jun 2015
05 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Carbon Tracker Initiative "Coal: caught in the EU utility death spiral" New coal-fired power plants fail to generate positive cash-flows even under the most optimistic ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The lack of ...
25 Feb 2016
25 Feb 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Fraunhofer ISE “Germany’s electricity export surplus brings record revenue of over two billion euros” Net electricity exports earned Germany a record 2.07 billion euros last year, according to think tank Fraunhofer ISE. ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:41 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Wind Energiewende 91tv German coal and natural gas use increased in the first three months of 2021, compared ...
15 Mar 2023, 09:45 Germany’s renewable industry association BEE has criticised key elements of the EU proposal to reform the design of the bloc’s electricity market. The lobby group said strict rules about the shape of future subsidies for new low-carbon ...
German utility EnBW is to equip the country’s most frequented motorway (Autobahn) service stations with charging stations for e-cars, Bernd Freytag and Susanne Preuß write in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The company wants to have set up 1,000 stations ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas energate messenger / taz The energy group Uniper no longer believes in the construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in northern German Wilhelmshaven, reports ...
A new online platform by German utility association BDEW and business consultancy PwC aims to share experiences with alternative mobility and integrated city concepts, BDEW said in a press release. The website eco-mobility.org introduces the latest ...
German energy companies are calling for a re-evaluation of how Germany finances green energy to cope with the problem of rising costs, write Dana Heide, Franz Hubik and Jürgen Flauger for Handelsblatt Global Edition. “We need a fundamental reform of ...
21 May 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital ...
The buying appetite of installation operators participating in Germany’s EUA (EU allowances) auctions last year increased, even though their share of the total successful bidders remained steady compared to 2016, reports Mike Szabo for the Carbon Pulse, ...
Municipal utility WSW in the western German city of Wuppertal says that it has launched the world’s first green power trading platform based on blockchain technology. Clients can buy electricity from local renewable power producers and determine their own ...
29 Sep 2022, 17:37 The German government has agreed on a relief package worth up to 200 billion euros to fight soaring energy prices. “Prices must go down – that’s our conviction, and the government will do anything to achieve that,” said chancellor Olaf ...
11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online/AFP/Süddeutsche Zeitung “Utilities increase nuclear provisions” The utilities have increased their provisions for the nuclear exit in the last year, according to a report by press agency AFP ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
Vattenfall’s lignite business results ahead of the sale of its coal mining and production facilities in eastern Germany offer some insight into why the Swedish utility is selling. They also raise the question of why Czech investor EPH is interested in the ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid 91tv The Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg will be taken offline completely in July 2021, after Germany's four grid operators ...
16 Dec 2015
16 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv VDMA / BWE Costs for wind power reduced Power from wind turbines in 2016/2017 will be 12 percent cheaper than in 2012/2013, according to a study commissioned by the German Engineering Federation ...
The Swedish government approved the sale of Vattenfall’s German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH, writes Bloomberg. “The divestment is strategically correct and the best financial alternative,” Swedish enterprise minister Mikael Damberg said. ...
The projected state fund for financing the storage of Germany’s nuclear waste may seem like a gift to the utilities suffering from the Energiewende’s consequences – but it is not, writes Andreas Mihm in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “ ...
German utility RWE may build a gas power plant to replace power generation currently provided by nuclear power station Gundremmingen in Bavaria, writes Michael Gassmann in Welt. One of the two remaining reactors at Gundremmingen is scheduled for shutdown ...
German utility Uniper’s operating earnings in the first quarter 2017 fell by 41 percent compared to the same period 2016, due primarily to last year’s lucrative deal with Russian Gazprom, the company announced in a press release. This was less than what ...
21 Sep 2022, 13:02 Gas importer Uniper will be put under control of the German state after the company has accrued crushing losses over the past months due to skyrocketing gas prices resulting from Russia’s war on Ukraine. The German government provides ...
Volkswagen has launched a cooperation with utility E.ON, Gazprom, Total and other companies to increase Germany’s fleet of vehicles powered by natural gas tenfold to one million by 2025, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Its short-term availability ...
17 Dec 2020, 13:51 German energy consumption was at a “historic low” in 2020, largely due to the effects of the Covid19 pandemic, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) based on preliminary data. The researchers also said energy ...
The German Institute for Urbanistics (Difu) has launched an online tool to help German municipalities calculate the economic impacts of refurbishing buildings to modern energy efficiency standards. The “value creation calculator” processes data on the ...
20 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer ISE “Exported power more expensive than imported power” Germany makes billions of euros from exporting power every year, researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE found. The country made 1.7 ...
09 Sep 2022, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Major natural gas importer VNG will seek financial support from the German government to cushion the considerable losses it is making due to high gas market prices. “Due to ...
Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) would be wise to “massively advocate” for shifting the financial foundation of the country’s energy transition from national subsidies to a better functioning European Emissions Trading System ...
02 Oct 2015
02 Oct 2015, 00:00 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Support for nuclear plant operators” The home region of battered utilities RWE and E.ON has suggested the companies should receive state aid if their provisions for nuclear decommissioning prove too small ...
German utility RWE’s green subsidiary innogy reported a 7 percent fall in EBITDA in the first nine months of 2016 compared to the same period last year. The decline in profits comes one month after the company’s stock market debut in October. “The ...
Spinning off its fossil operations into Uniper is costing German utility E.ON dear, reports Jürgen Flauger in business daily Handelsblatt. Because Uniper’s market capitalisation is much lower than the figure on E.ON’s books, the company had to post a net ...
More than a dozen villages are to be demolished and thousands of families relocated to make way for the expansion of Garzweiler opencast lignite mine, Stefanie Glinski reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Located in the German federal state of ...
Electric cars are going to spread in Germany sooner or later, and the country’s infrastructure must be made ready for this boom soon, Hans Riebsamen writes in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Especially the larger urban areas that ...
02 Sep 2021, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Grid EU 91tv / Reuters The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that Germany's network regulator, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), must act more independently when applying the ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:30 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Corporate decision makers in Germany have voted hydrogen technologies as the most important field of action for energy ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Implementing Germany’s planned electricity and gas price brakes is “unmanageable” in the desired timeframe, energy associations have said following a cabinet meeting on the ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:33 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology Cleantech Group Ten German startups are among the 100 most innovative clean technology companies from around the globe, according to US-based ...
06 Nov 2020
06 Nov 2020, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv The German government has resolved a dispute between the energy sector and security services over ownership of a 450 MHz digital radio frequency, in favour of the energy companies. Energy industry ...
Utility EnBW starts a field test to find out how a large number of electric cars in a concentrated area affect grid stability, Susanne Preuß and Thiemo Heeg write in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “What happens if everyone plugs in their car when ...
01 Sep 2021, 13:34 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Grid Renewables 91tv Citing the ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:25 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Renewables Handelsblatt / Wuppertal Institut As members of the coal exit commission debate a concrete timetable for ...
innogy’s stock market debut on 7 October could turn into Germany’s largest initial public offering (IPO) since 2000, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. innogy- RWE’s renewable spin-off- wants to attract investors interested in a stable and reliable ...
German carmakers BMW, Daimler, Audi and Porsche – usually “best enemies” – joined forces a year ago to develop e-car charging infrastructure, Max Hälger and Stefan Mayr write for Süddeutsche Zeitung. The brands teamed up to “to share the burden of initial ...
Utility Vattenfall wants to sell its Hamburg coal power plant Moorburg, according to a report by daily tageszeitung. Vattenfall CEO Magnus Hall did not rule out a sale within five years, as the company did not need Moorburg in the long term. A Vattenfall ...
Large utilities operating nuclear power plants are trying to exchange as few fuel rods as possible this year to circumvent the fuel rod tax that runs out at the end of 2016, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “To save money, the energy ...
Interest in concluding green power contracts is waning in Germany, Ralf Geißler writes on the website of public broadcaster MDR. Power contracts with a ’green tariff‘ that finances renewable power sources were most popular in the wake of the 2011 ...
Citizens, politicians, and the industry all agree that Germany’s energy transition must continue- but a clear plan on exactly how does not exist, writes Joachim Wille in Frankfurter Rundschau. “How central or decentral should the Energiewende be designed? ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:27 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The ...
Even the Uniper prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO) says that conventional power generation “faces the risk of disappearing completely from the market” in the long-term, writes Chris Bryant in a comment for Bloomberg. “It's not every ...
16 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Study: Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) “Environmentally harmful subsidies amount to over 52 billion euros” Even as Germany focuses much effort and funding on climate protection measures, it ...
Regulatory hurdles hamper flexible energy storage systems from contributing to their full potential to the success of Germany’s energy transition, Stefan Kapferer, head of utilities lobby BDEW, said in a press release. “It’s time energy storages received ...
German utility E.ON and Danish e-mobility provider CLEVER have agreed to jointly build a network of ultra-fast e-car charging stations along major European motorways, according to an E.ON press release. “The joint ambition of the partners is to now ...
The stock market launch of innogy could make RWE’s green subsidiary Germany’s most valuable utility, writes Antje Höning in Rheinische Post. If the stock price of 36 euros- determined by auction- remains unchanged, innogy will be worth around 20 billion ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:17 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 ...
02 Jan 2019, 13:12 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Electricity ...
24 Jun 2015
24 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Energy minister speech at utilities congress Government considers alternative to climate levy The proposal to charge old coal-fired power stations a “climate levy” to force them reduce CO2 ...
Some 350,000 households in Germany are unable to pay the power bills, Craig Morris writes in Energytransistion.de. The figure is available in data provided by Germany’s Federal Network Agency. Such statistics, however, remain largely unavailable in ...
27 Apr 2016
27 Apr 2016, 00:00 (CORRECTION- In first paragraph on e-car premium: Government and industry will invest 600 million euros each, not 600,000 million euros; government will invest an additional 400 million euros in charging stations, not 400,000 million ...
With a new sub-brand, Mercedes-Benz is planning its own line of electric vehicles, write Elisabeth Behrmann and Christoph Rauwald for Bloomberg Technology. The German carmaker will challenge BMW and Tesla Motors Inc. with two sport utility vehicles and ...
German utility EnBW’s CEO, Frank Mastiaux, said a coal exit decided by Germany’s next government would “not be an existential problem" for the company. In an interview with Greenpeace Magazin, Mastiaux said his company had “already included” a ...
German utility EnBW’s planned windpark in the North Sea reckons with rising electricity prices and cheaper technology for wind parks, but it is not clear whether these assumptions will hold true, according to an article by Angela Hennersdorf in German ...
12 May 2016
12 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for Energy and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Germany aims to give energy efficiency new push The German government has launched a new offensive to increase energy efficiency. ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian ...
German nuclear utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW can hope for the repayment of about 6 billion euros after the Federal Constitutional Court declared the nuclear fuel tax law invalid and incompatible with basic law, reports Reuters. The federal government did ...
28 May 2015
28 May 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Eurostat/ZEW German households pay second highest power price in EU Household electricity prices in Germany are among the highest in the EU. According to the EU’s statistics office Eurostat, German households on ...
With a share price increase of 36 percent, RWE’s shares come in second place of the top stocks in Germany’s benchmark DAX index this year. This is despite the utility’s struggle after Germany’s decision to phase-out nuclear power and the rise of ...
02 Jun 2022, 13:27 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Warm weather and energy saving measures in the context of rising prices ...
The head of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) has warned government against giving up gas. Ahead of an energy industry conference organised by the Handelsblatt newspaper in Berlin Tuesday, Katherina Reiche said that for climate protection, ...
The country needs a “sustainable and binding” CO₂ price in all sectors, including transport and heating, to correct mistakes in Germany’s energy tax and levy system, CEO of utility E.ON Johannes Teyssen told Die Welt in an interview. “With this, many ...
07 Dec 2018, 10:05 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Low water levels on the Rhine and other rivers following the extremely dry summer continue to have a strong impact on Germany’s coal power supply, according to an argus report. “The ...
30 May 2022, 14:04 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Coal 91tv A landmark climate lawsuit by a Peruvian farmer and mountain guide against ...
German coal-fired power plant Jänschwalde “probably has no economic future post-2021” because of new European Union limits on emissions for power plants, according to a report by US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). ...
The fate of utilities RWE and E.ON is still unclear after each split their business, writes Helmut Bünder in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. How they will fare in the future depends in part on German energy policy decisions and market ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
The German government continues to assume that a planned security standby of lignite plants will result in costs of about 230 million euros over seven years, it said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Green party. The security standby is also ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
Getting the energy transition on track has been a difficult task with many setbacks, but conditions for “a second wave of Energiewende are pretty favourable,” Martin Brough writes in a new issue of Deutsche Bank Research’s magazine Konzept under the title ...
Renewables produced 38 percent of the electricity used in Germany between January and September 2018, an increase of three percentage points over a year earlier, according to utility association BDEW. In January, April and May, renewables' share even ...
The switch from set feed-in tariffs to an auction-based system for renewables support next year puts small wind park operators at a disadvantage compared to large utilities, writes Jens Tartler in Der Tagesspiegel. Cost efficiency would become more ...
24 Feb 2015
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “EU wants to break Moscow’s energy power” A draft of the EU Commission’s concept for a European Energy Union (due to be published tomorrow) includes new rules for ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt The operators of Germany’s six remaining nuclear power stations, utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW, have rejected calls to keep the plants in operation beyond their scheduled ...
Germans are less and less keen about electric cars, Bild Zeitung reports. According to a survey by mobile.de, 15.7 percent of people said they were interested in buying an e-car, compared to 16 percent in the 2015 survey, Bild writes. In the countryside, ...
The Dieselgate scandal at VW seems to have triggered a rethinking among German carmakers to place low-emission vehicles higher on their agenda, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Rundschau. The government instead appears to be ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:28 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv A large majority of Germans opposes a general ban of combustion engine ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:42 Kerstine Appunn Business & Jobs 91tv Up to two thirds of the gross value added by investments in local energy infrastructure and production remain in the German state where the investment takes place, an analysis by ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:31 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices RP Online, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government’s approval of a 200 billion euro relief package to help business and citizens pay skyrocketing energy prices has been largely received ...
21 Jan 2015, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks looks forward to the UN climate summit and the role of Germany's climate action programme, hails the global contribution made by German renewable technology and doubts the economic sense of ...
The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from ...
21 Jan 2015
21 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires “Gabriel undermines electricity industry’s confidence in the Energiewende” Writing for Dow Jones Newswires, Christian Grimm says energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has “broken his ...
Germany’s biggest power producers continue to lose market share, says a new monitoring report published by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the Federal Cartel Office (BKartA). "Market concentration among conventional electricity suppliers was ...
09 Mar 2016
09 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Government approves Paris climate deal The German cabinet of government ministers has approved the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 195 countries successfully negotiated in ...
03 Dec 2015
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Energy Transition/Fraunhofer ISE “Wind power #1 electricity source in November” Stormy weather pushed Germany’s wind power production to a new record in November, covering a full quarter of domestic demand. It ...
15 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bild “Dobrindt plans doping tests for cars” In response to the VW emissions scandal, Germany’s transport minister Alexander Dobrindt plans to introduce spot checks for car emissions. “There will be ...
German energy company innogy has teamed up with technology company Kiwigrid to develop a new platform for organising a decentralised power supply system, innogy said in a press release. “Centralised power plants are a thing of the past,” innogy writes, ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Heating 91tv The ...
German utility Uniper is set to put its new coal plant Datteln 4 into operation despite a dire outlook for the industry in the country, Craig Morris writes on energytransition.org. “With a billion euros already sunk in the plant, Uniper’s decision to ...
“In the next twelve to eighteen months, important conditions for a breakthrough in electric mobility will be created," innogy head Peter Terium told news agency dpa ahead of the Handelsblatt energy conference in Berlin. Innogy, a spin off from RWE, ...
German carmakers already advertise electric vehicles that can be almost fully charged within minutes, but they keep quiet about the fact the necessary charging stations don't exist yet, writes Lukas Bay in a commentary for Handelsblatt. "But the ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:19 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Storage Bloomberg Germany’s power storage market, including both home- and utility-scale batteries, reached a new high of more than 5 billion euros last year, Brian Parkin reports for Bloomberg. ...
Electricity prices in Germany are going up, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Of 832 public utilities and local power companies, 244 have announced price hikes of 3 percent on average since the beginning of the year — an increase that matched that ...
21 Nov 2014
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Zeit Online "Is Sigmar Gabriel secretly burying the Energiewende?" A “progress report” from the Economics Ministry on the Energiewende shows evidence of a political struggle over the ...
Utilities like E.ON once thought that they could meticulously plan the decommissioning and dismantling of their nuclear power plants- but the reality is proving this approach wrong, writes Bernward Janzing in the taz. E.ON found “unexpected contamination” ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:56 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Industry 91tv ...
The cost for the clean-up and storage of Germany’s nuclear waste and other radioactive material is hard to predict, controversial and will be much higher than current official calculations suggets, writes Joel Stonington in an article for Yale Environment ...
27 Jan 2021, 13:29 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The ...
Influential municipal shareholders are threatening to pull out of Germany's largest electricity provider, RWE, unless the company's prospects brighten, reports Jürgen Flauger in German business daily Handelsblatt Global Edition. Guntram Pehlke, ...
Even though international wholesale prices for natural gas prices fell in 2016, suppliers did not fully pass this decline on to consumers, according to a study by consultancy EnergyComment, commissioned by the Green parliamentary group in the German ...
25 Jan 2021, 12:35 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Tagesspiegel Background German energy company EnBW has said that planned legislation to support the expansion of e ...
One quarter of ailing energy utility RWE is in the hands of towns and councils which are dependent on its dividend, an article in Capital says. The shares of RWE have lost 80 percent of their value since 2010 and the dividend has been cut, making these ...
German electric utilities company EnBW has asked the authorities for permission to shut down and dismantle its two remaining nuclear power stations, M. Bauchmüller and V. Bernau write in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Jörg Michels, head of EnBW’s nuclear power ...
German utility RWE has contested a court’s evidence order from November 2017 which says that a consultant shall assess whether greenhouse gas emissions caused by the country’s largest coal user have contributed to the melting of a glacier in Peru, which ...
The approval of the sale of Vattenfall’s German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH showed that Germany and Sweden were not willing to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, says Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience ...
01 Dec 2015
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv RWE / Handelsblatt Utility RWE follows E.ON example, to split in two One of Germany’s largest utilities RWE will split in two, the company announced on Tuesday. Renewables, grids and retail activities in Germany ...
03 Apr 2020, 13:50 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Grid Storage 91tv A German data centre will for the first time be able to help ensure grid stability, says energy company RWE. Data centres ...
14 Jan 2021, 13:41 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Handelsblatt Energy company Vattenfall would like to expand its involvement in wind energy in Germany, Jürgen Flauger writes in the ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:04 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
A decision by Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to cap grid operators’ profits has led to a “revolt” in the industry, Michael Gassmann writes for Die Welt. Over 1,000 companies, including many municipal utilities, have filed a complaint against ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:37 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation is key for the success of Germany’s energy transition, but progress remains slow, says the report by consultancy EY commissioned by the economy and ...
German transmission grid operators say fears about an overstraining of the grid due to an increased use of e-cars and heat pumps are unfounded, Dow Jones Newswires Germany reports. Utility associations in southern Germany recently warned that the nuclear ...
The power grid in southern German states Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg is not ready to cope with a large increase of electric vehicles, news agency dpa says in an article carried by website General-Anzeiger online. Industry experts estimate that the ...
Germany could import liquefied natural gas (LNG) via its neighbouring countries, but this depends on the wholesale market prices of both LNG and pipeline gas, said Stefan Kapferer, head of utilities association BDEW, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Elections & ...
08 Feb 2016
08 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel “Government could use mercury limits to take coal plants offline” The government “has a plan B up its sleeve" in case there is no political agreement on a coal exit, reports ...
Despite a surge in clean energy production, German utility RWE will continue to rely on coal and gas plants for the foreseeable future, Handelsblatt online reports. RWE CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said conventional power plants were irreplaceable as long as ...
02 Jul 2020, 13:03 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 Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
German energy company Uniper is the first utility to put forward ideas for an eventual phase-out of coal-fired power generation following the launch of the coal-exit commission last month, Klaus Stratmann reports in Handelsblatt. Uniper CEO Klaus Schäfer ...
15 Oct 2015
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Bloomberg “Germany considers emissions levy as CO2 reduction target wobbles” Germany may have to introduce a tax on emissions in order to meet its target of cutting CO2 emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:55 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Die Welt Activists’ elevation of the Hambach Forest, which energy company RWE wants to cut down to expand ...
25 Jan 2016
25 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Support for wind power in windless locations” Current proposals for the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) from Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:36 Edgar Meza Gas Cost & Prices Der Spiegel Dutch economic affairs minister, Stef Blok, has expressed concern about Germany’s large appetite for natural gas sourced from the Netherlands’ northern Groningen province, where its continued ...
27 Sep 2021, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Electricity Gas dpa / Zeit / Wirtschaftswoche ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:10 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Electricity ...
17 Jun 2020, 15:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Heating 91tv Germany is seeking to make progress on greenhouse gas reduction in the building sector with a new long-term renovation strategy. The strategy is meant to help with implementation of ...
German energy start-up Conjoule is set to receive about 3.5 million euros from controversial Japanese nuclear plant operator Tepco, Jana Kugoth writes in Welt Online. The operator of the notorious Fukushima nuclear plant, which was severely damaged by an ...
German utility RWE and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have rejected a court settlement offer that would have allowed the company to continue producing lignite in its largest open pit mine on the proviso that it refrained from carrying out clearing ...
23 Jun 2022, 13:05 Edgar Meza Policy EU Euronews, 91tv The European Parliament’s approval on 23 June of a draft law overhauling the bloc’s emissions trading system (EU ETS) has been met with widespread criticism from industry and ...
The switch to renewable energies will make oil and gas “increasingly less important trump cards” in geopolitical conflicts and lessen energy’s significance “as one of the strategic causes of geopolitical conflicts,” writes German utility E.ON’s CEO ...
As Germany’s coal commission prepares to convene for the first time on Tuesday, environmental groups are criticising the government’s slow action on combatting climate change, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in the taz. Organised by environmental groups like ...
Phasing out German lignite in the Lusatia region by 2030 can be financed by future owner EPH in a way that avoids a taxpayer-funded lignite bailout, according to a new report by Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). According to ...
French multinational utility Engie reviews its investments in one of the world’s most modern coal-fired power plants in the northern German town of Wilhelmshaven, Gerd Abeldt writes in Nordwest-Zeitung. “Today, nobody would build a coal plant anymore,” ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations ...
A particularly dark and windless January has led to natural gas and coal plants becoming Germany’s sole warrantor of a secure power supply, Jürgen Flauger writes in Handelsblatt. But “coal and gas plants are increasingly being pushed out of the market,” ...
31 Mar 2022, 14:00 Sören Amelang Coal Security 91tv Utility RWE continues to implement the country's official coal exit timetable by switching off a unit of one of Europe's most polluting power stations, but will ensure the facility ...
German utility E.ON’ chief operating officer for grids and renewable energies, Leonhard Birnbaum, demands a change to the country’s onshore wind power auctions to ensure that professional wind power project developers cannot benefit from advantages given ...
21 May 2019, 13:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv Germany ...
24 Jun 2022, 14:08 The German government has launched the second of a total of three escalation stages of its national gas supply security plan, which was drawn up in reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After triggering the first "early ...
Daimler, BMW, and Toyota are leading a group of 13 companies pledging to invest more than 10 billion dollars in the next five years to push hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles with infrastructure-building and technology advancements, writes Danny King on autoblog ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:40 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv One year on from the National Hydrogen Strategy launch, Germany’s government and industries are divided over its implementation. While the government’s interim report ...
Peter Terium and Johannes Teyssen, former CEOs of Germany’s traditional utilities RWE and E.ON respectively, face each other in a new green energy rivalry after both companies split in two last year, writes Helmut Bünder in a portrait of both men in ...
28 Apr 2021, 13:20 Charlotte Nijhuis Gas 91tv Domestic production of natural gas in Germany fell by almost 16 percent in 2020 year-on-year, show data presented by the federal association of natural gas, petroleum and geo-energy (BVEG). ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall, which operates many conventional power plants in Germany and is selling its German lignite operations to Czech investor EPH, has published its half-year 2016 figures. It says that challenging market conditions forced it to make ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:25 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv The use of energy in Germany has become increasingly efficient since the 1990s, but not at the ...
German utility EnBW denied allegations by Germany's Wind Energy Association (BWE) that its zero-support offshore wind bid was “risk-oriented” and only possible because EnBW was largely state-owned, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. The allegations ...
06 Nov 2019, 14:38 Industry experts, researchers and lobbyists give the German government mediocre mid-term marks for its climate and energy efforts- while Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has presented a largely positive self-evaluation. In what ...
Essen district court has rejected a lawsuit brought by Peruvian farmer Saúl Lliuya’s against German utility RWE, for contributing to environmental damage in his hometown of Huarez, news agency Reuters reports. Lliuya demanded 17,000 euros in compensation ...
Nuclear plant operators removed the last hurdle to an agreement with the government over who will pay for storage and clean-up of nuclear waste after power plants are shut down in 2020, writes Manfred Schäfers in FAZ.net. Operators agreed to revoke most ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:42 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Finance Handelsblatt A new report by Swiss asset management firm Globalance Invest has examined the climatic impact of the 40 companies listed on the DAX, Germany’s leading stock market index, and measured ...
By conceding to both government and nuclear plant operators' positions, Germany’s constitutional court has made a pragmatic judgement in one of the country’s most ideological disputes of the past decades, writes Jürgen Flauger for Handelsblatt. But ...
Sweden and Germany should set a precedent with Vattenfall’s lignite assets in the eastern German region of Lusatia and transfer the operations into a state-owned foundation with the clear goal of a socially acceptable and environmentally responsible ...
The German Parliament has decided there will be no regulatory obligation for average households to install smart meters for their electricity consumption, writes the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). However, from next year on, large consumers with 10 ...
Over 60 companies have criticised government plans to substantially limit the possibilities for wind power expansion in Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Hilmar Riemenschneider writes for Kölner Stadtanzeiger. In a letter to ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:02 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The ...
28 Jun 2024, 16:00 French citizens are awaiting the upcoming snap election brought about by the dissolution of parliament following president Emmanuel Macron’s loss to the far-right in this June’s EU elections. The vote could have a profound impact on the ...
At first, the government of the German state of Baden-Württemberg bristled at French energy company EDF ’s decision to postpone the decommissioning of the Fessenheim nuclear plant until at least 2019 – but it has now emerged that there could be “a ...
Strong demand for heavy sports utility vehicles (SUVs) means German carmarker Daimler has failed to reduce average emissions from its vehicle fleet for the first time since 2007, Handelsblatt Online reports. For the second year in a row, emissions stood ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:20 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Berlin has expanded its ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:18 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Heating 91tv Climate targets in the ...
Power prices for German households increase on average by 4.4 percent this spring, price comparison website Verivox told 91tv. According to Verivox, 70 regional power suppliers will increase their prices, resulting in additional costs of ...
German utility E.ON ’s fossil-fuel subsidiary Uniper plans layoffs and wage cuts due to challenges caused by the country’s transition to low-carbon energy generation, Rheinische Post reports. During collective negotiations with trade unions Verdi and IG ...
A majority of the German population generally supports the Energiewende, but there are different “acceptance groups” to be made out, according to a report on a survey conducted in 2015 by the Universities of Stuttgart and Münster in cooperation with ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France’s ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June’s European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
Germany should specify its mid-century climate ambitions soon, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel. “From my point of view, this must be decided at the start of the next legislative period,” she said at a conference by local utility association VKU. ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with an additional 190 gigawatt hours (GWh) of offshore wind power annually, the railway ...
A deal to split German renewables company innogy and exchange large parts of their assets will help both E.ON and RWE better contribute to the success of energy transition, the companies said at a joint press conference. “With this realignment, we are ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Hydrogen Clean ...
After years of rising hard coal import volumes due to the closing of domestic mines, Germany seems to decrease its reliance on the fossil fuel, Andreas Macho writes in business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. While Germany continues to be Europe's biggest ...
The new governing coalition of conservative CDU and economic liberal FDP in Germany's most populous federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) seems intent on curbing wind power expansion but is hit by resistance from the job-creating industry, Guido ...
Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann intends to turn the German car manufacturer into a pure e-car brand by 2030, Michael Freitag reports on Manager Magazin’s website. Neumann has been working on the transformation since before deliberations by Opel’s US-owner GM ...
The start of evictions of anti-coal activists in the Hambach Forest “has already done enormous damage to the image of [energy company] RWE”, which could turn into a veritable “disaster” once the company starts cutting trees in October, Jürgen Flauger, ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Electricity market Renewables Clean ...
A referendum in Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city, seeks to ban the use of coal power for heating and electricity generation by 2030, Sven-Michael Veit writes for the Tageszeitung (taz). “We in Hamburg have to take the coal exit in our own hands,” ...
When RWE and E.ON both split their their fossil fuel-based and their new energy technology businesses into separate companties, it was evidence that the German Energiewende “has dealt a huge jolt to the business model of what were once two of Europe’s ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:21 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Finance Handelsblatt The parties likely to form Germany’s next coalition government- the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) – disagree over whether ...
21 Jul 2022, 14:03 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security 91tv Gas has started to flow through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany following a 10-day closure for annual maintenance work. The lower utilisation at around 40 percent of ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Solar Wind 91tv Solar power projects again secured the entire volume of capacity available in the fourth joint auction for new solar and onshore wind, as no onshore bids were submitted, the German Federal ...
RWE AG’s second-quarter loss narrowed by 22 percent after an improved performance in the German utility’s power plant business and cost cuts, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The Essen-based company reduced its adjusted net loss to 259 million euros ...
German utility E.ON and its fossil fuel spin-off Uniper will write-off several billion euros after Uniper’s IPO planned for September, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt, citing company sources. This was because of unrealistically high projections for ...
With 967.5 million euro, German utility EnBW has achieved a 24.2 percent lower operating result in the first six months of 2016 than in the same period in 2015. The company expects results for the whole year to be five to 10 percent lower than last year. ...
Most people in Germany doubt that the country’s energy transition can be pursued according to plans and without greater difficulties, according to a representative survey that utility RWE presented at a debate meeting in Berlin. A majority of 69 percent ...
01 Jun 2016
01 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government “Federal and state governments agree on key points of the Renewable Energy Act reform” State premiers and the federal government have agreed on ...
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 The protests against government proposals for a carbon emissions levy for older power plants are gaining momentum in Germany’s coal mining regions. Unions warn the plans put tens of thousands of jobs at risk because they will make ...
Despite looming debt and the heavy financial burden from the nuclear clean-up, the CEO of electricity utility RWE, Peter Terium, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that the company is on solid financial ground. “We have many billions of euros ...
Leading energy companies from Germany plan to take advantage of their know-how acquired through the Energiewende and take their business to the global stage, Jürgen Flauger and Franz Hubik write in Handelsblatt. Utility EnBW, which used to be heavily ...
The government’s decision to finance the country’s nuclear waste management with a public fund could poison the national debate for years to come, Thorsten Knuf writes in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. Nuclear plant operators agreed to pay ...
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has suggested lowering the equity interest rate for operators of power grids and gas networks as of 2018/19, it said on Wednesday. The lower rates mirror current low interest rates on financial markets, BNetzA president ...
The energy industry hovers between shock and sensation since it has become clear that several companies are ready to build offshore wind power plants without any support payments, Frank-Thomas Wenzel writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. The German Engineering ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:32 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / Tagesschau The hard coal power station Moorburg in Hamburg was closed down for good on 7 July, reported public broadcaster Tagesschau ...
27 Oct 2021, 13:36 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Citizens' energy Renewables 91tv Citizen groups planning renewable energy projects in Germany should receive free advice and funding to enable their successful participation in the ...
Tenants in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will be able to benefit from solar PV panels installed on the rooftop of the buildings they live in. The state government has introduced a support programme for self-consumption power ...
09 Sep 2015
09 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Summer, sun and sorrows” There has never been more green energy in Germany’s grid than in the first half of this year, state secretary Uwe Beckmeyer from the Ministry for ...
Germany’s federal government and the country’s municipalities want to use the so-called diesel summit to set up a programme worth over one billion euros to improve air quality in German cities and prevent looming driving bans for polluting cars, Zeit ...
The average German household (consumption of 3,500 kilowatt hours/year) will have to pay 23 euros more (10 percent) in 2017 for grid fees with their electricity bill, according to an analysis by renewable energy provider LichtBlick. “The grid fees for ...
17 Apr 2019, 09:50 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
To counter ambitious plans from rivals VW and Daimler unveiled at the Paris Car Show last week, BMW is stepping up its electric mobility plans, reports Elisabeth Behrmann for Bloomberg. BMW will offer the first battery-powered model of its Mini brand from ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:50 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Cost & Prices Tagesschau / 91tv The modern coal plant Moorbug owned by Swedish energy company Vattenfall had turned into a liability ...
Despite the picture portrayed by high approval ratings in surveys, public acceptance of the German Energiewende has fallen due to electricity costs, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Germans have declared their support for the switch to renewables, but ...
German utility RWE and its subsidiary innogy have determined the price range for shares of innogy SE in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) to range from 32 euros to 36 euros. Innogy would be valued between 17.8 billion and 20 billion euros and RWE will ...
The federal cabinet approved reform drafts for the energy and electricity tax laws to adapt regulation on national tax exemptions to EU state aid law, the finance ministry writes in a press release. The draft would extend tax exemptions for natural ...
08 Oct 2021, 12:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
German Sonnen will supply the largest home power storage project in the Unites States with solar PV and battery systems, reports Christian Roselund for pv magazine. Each of the 2,900 homes in a new residential area in Prescott Valley, Arizona will receive ...
Despite US president Donald Trump’s negative view of wind power, German energy companies are confident their investments in renewables in the US are not going to suffer from Trump’s policies, Jürgen Flauger and Franz Hubik write in the Handelsblatt. “We ...
Bavaria's government wants to keep the nuclear plant Isar 2 running as long as possible, arguing that lagging grid development could leave the state short of power without it, Michael Bauchmüller writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung. The maximum amount of ...
The fact that E.ON sticks to the majority Uniper sale in September despite the fossil spin-off’s lousy results is a bet on the future of the Energiewende, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Renewable power’s share will remain stuck in low single digits and ...
29 Mar 2016
29 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel Handelsblatt “Vattenfall delays coal sale” Vattenfall has postponed the sale of its German lignite operations, insiders told Handelsblatt’s Jürgen Flauger. The Swedish utility initially planned to make a ...
30 Apr 2020, 13:50 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas WirtschaftsWoche The fall in natural ...
22 Jan 2021, 14:13 Sören Amelang Coal Hydrogen 91tv Germany's most prominent hard coal power plant to be decommissioned as part of the country's coal exit is set to become a production site for renewable hydrogen. Oil major Shell, ...
30 Jul 2020, 13:30 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Coal Handelsblatt Hard coal power station operator Steag is suing to get better compensation for the shutdown of its plants under Germany’s coal exit plan, writes Jürgen Flauger ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Wind Handelsblatt The regions singled out by the government to slow wind power expansion because of lacking grid capacities do not match the areas where a curtailment is needed most, according to grid operators, ...
Contrary to expert opinion, Germany’s economy minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to retrieve nuclear waste from the former salt mine Asse II, located in the minister’s constituency of Wolfenbüttel, Daniel Wetzel writes in Die Welt. An expert commission found ...
The German federal parliament (Bundestag) has voted by a large majority to transfer liabilities for storing nuclear waste to the state, the Bundestag has stated in a press release. The legislative proposal introduced by the government stipulates that ...
German utility E.ON’s first-quarter adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of just over 1 billion euros was around 34 percent below the previous-year figure, in line with the company’s expectations, the company has said in a press release. This was ...
01 Mar 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Finance Handelsblatt The operators of Germany’s coal plants should receive some compensation for closing facilities in line with the exit plan proposed by the country’s coal commission, but demands must be ...
05 Mar 2019, 15:32 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Start-ups Business & Jobs 91tv Berlin e-car charging startup ubitricity has raised 20 million euros from new partner Honda and existing shareholders including French utility EdF ...
25 Apr 2016
25 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv PV-magazine “EEG reform: state chamber wants exemptions for citizens’ energy” Germany’s second parliamentary chamber, which represents the 16 states, has passed a resolution ...
20 Feb 2019, 11:13 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Storage Europe needs to pool its strengths with “a genuine European industrial policy” to remain a manufacturing powerhouse in the transition to a low-carbon economy, according to France and Germany ...
22 Jun 2017
Germany’s chancellery chief Peter Altmaier has stressed the need to maintain caps on new offshore wind development in order to incentivize companies to lower the cost of the technology. Limits to the amount of new capacity in the tenders were necessary ...
27 Aug 2021, 13:32 Edgar Meza Coal 91tv / Der Spiegel A German court has ruled against the country’s newest coal plant, finding that building permission for the facility was granted illegally. The ruling removes one of two legal foundations ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:52 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert STEAG Electricity generator ...
RWE subsidiary innogy SE is bolstering its position in energy storage and photovoltaics by signing a contract to take over German solar and battery specialist BELECTRIC Solar & Battery Holding GmbH. The takeover “instantly makes innogy an ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:52 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv German energy consumption has decreased three percent in the first three months of 2019, ...
16 Apr 2021, 13:48 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Hydrogen 91tv German utility company Uniper has dropped plans for an import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the German port of Wilhelmshaven and now plans to build a ...
27 Apr 2015, 00:00 The environment ministry has rebuffed utilities’ criticism of the planned levy for coal-fired power plants and maintains the sector shoulder its share of cutting CO2 emissions. Government and researchers stress the need for efficiency ...
19 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv taz “The blind spot has to go“ It is good and important that the future of coal power in Germany is finally being discussed, Patrick Graichen, head of the Berlin based think-tank Agora Energiewende ...
Many pro-Energiewende politicians are complaining bitterly about plans to rein in renewables expansion through the reform of Renewable Energy Act, but in reality, the government is still going ahead with plans for a 45 percent renewables share in 2025, up ...
20 May 2020, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Agriculture Tageszeitung (taz) Power suppliers in Germany have begun offering "bee power" contracts that charge customers one additional cent per kilowatt hour to help preserve the industrious ...
08 Oct 2019, 13:59 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Clean Energy ...
08 Jul 2022, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Both the federal parliament (Bundestag) and the council of state governments (Bundesrat) have passed this year’s first major batch of energy ...
10 Nov 2020, 13:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Wind 91tv Rules about bird protection will have to be standardised in all 16 states if Germany is to reach its wind power expansion targets, a group of energy industry associations have argued. ...
A court in Germany has agreed to hear Peruvian farmer and mountain guide Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s case against RWE, over the German utility’s contribution to climate change, NGO Germanwatch said in a press release. “It is the first time a court has ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Germany needs gas-fired ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:57 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Germany should use hydrogen ...
Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city’s single largest source of CO 2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the ...
12 Jun 2015
12 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Simply carry on” G7 politicians want to rid the world of fossil fuels but German industry will demand support for the decarbonisation, Karl-Heinz Büschemann writes in the ...
08 Jan 2020, 12:28 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Rheinische Post Energy company Uniper may offer to either shut down all its coal plants or switch them to gas and, in turn, bring the new Datteln 4 hard coal unit online, ...
07 Jan 2019, 09:30 The impending phase-out plan for coal power in Germany will have a profound impact on the country's entire energy policy, says Antje von Broock of environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). The NGO is a member ...
13 Oct 2015
13 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv (Modifies headline to clearify sourcing) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “The VW scandal calls Brussels into action” Even after the VW emissions cheating scandal, it appears the German government is trying to ...
Germany's Monopolies Commission, which advises the government on competition policies, is calling for a shift from renewables support to a price on CO2 emissions to finance the country's energy transition. In a new report on the electricity and ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The federal government has largely rejected calls by German states to make changes to the planned coal exit law, reports Nora Zaremba in energy and climate policy ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:21 Sören Amelang Coal Policy dpa / Zeit Online The controversial resettlement of five villages in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Western Germany to expand an opencast mine is set to continue, reports news agency dpa in an article ...
20 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche “Gabriel’s energy concept will cost Germany dearly” Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has called his energy concept a “historic pact for new prosperity” but what he didn’t say was ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:34 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Climate & CO2 91tv German energy company RWE's opencast ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches ...
Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has proposed quickly retiring five gigawatts of lignite power generation capacity with a view to the country’s ongoing talks about a coal phase-out, sources told the Rheinische Post. In addition, he suggested ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices Welt Online Industrial giant Siemens wants to get rid of its nuclear energy legacy and shift responsibility for about 10,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste onto the German state, ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:29 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background German energy utility RWE is struggling to make the transition to climate-neutrality, according to a report published by EnergyComment and commissioned ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:46 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU 91tv The German chemical industry says the European Commission’s proposals to fight the energy price crisis in Europe may be sufficient to fight energy poverty but are not likely to help ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Solar Wind Tagesspiegel Background / pv magazine The coronavirus crisis is spilling over into the solar and wind energy industry, which is already facing a slump in Germany, write Christian Schaudwet and Steven Hanke in ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:58 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Hydrogen Handelsblatt Renewables energy company Siemens Gamesa is to start production of green hydrogen in addition to wind power, CEO Andreas Nauen said in an interview ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs ...
German power customers will pay more than 35 billion euros in taxes, fees, and surcharges with their electricity bills in 2017, the utilities lobby German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) writes in a press release. “This is more than ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:59 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Cost & Prices 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The German government has ...
11 Feb 2021, 13:32 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Tagesspiegel / dpa The German federal government and ...
15 Feb 2019, 13:51 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Storage Business & Jobs 91tv Oil and gas giant Shell is buying German home battery storage company Sonnen, turning the pioneer into a wholly owned subsidiary once regulatory ...
15 Oct 2021, 12:32 Germany’s renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:47 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Climate & CO2 Zeit Online / Der Spiegel / 91tv Environmental activists occupied part of the ...
25 Feb 2020, 14:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ...
10 Dec 2014
10 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/dpa “Economy minister Gabriel has still hopes for gas pipeline South Stream” “It would be better for Europe if the project still had a chance,” Germany’s Minister for ...
13 May 2015
13 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv ARD tagesschau.de “The German energy transformation is impressive” Ernest Moniz, the United States Secretary of Energy, has praised Germany’s development of renewables but said the US were not ...
10 Oct 2016
The total cost of the German energy transition in the electricity sector until 2025 will amount to more than 520 billion euros, according to a study commissioned by industry lobby group Initiative New Social Market Economy (INSM). The largest part of the ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
02 Jun 2021, 12:10 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Clean Energy ...
The German government is concerned that short-term coal plant closures might lead to expensive compensation claims by operators, reports Klaus Stratmann in business daily Handelsblatt in a double-page article. A utility source said “we will see each other ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:45 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Rundschau It will be much tougher for the European Union to reach climate targets without climate “poster child” UK after Brexit, ...
04 Mar 2016, 00:00 Hydrogen Die Welt “North Rhine-Westphalia cities agree to forego RWE dividend” Despite their own financial difficulties, cities in North Rhine-Westphalia that own stakes in utility RWE have accepted that there will be no dividend this ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:09 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv The number of permits issued for onshore wind turbines in Germany has dropped by more than 70 percent within three years, says German utility association BDEW. "Whereas three years ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 91tv The European Union “will not leave the people of Lusatia behind”, as structural economic change brought on by the transition to a low-carbon world is a “European challenge”, said European ...
10 Aug 2020, 13:25 Coal Society n-tv Climate activists demanding an end to coal power occupied two German coal-fired powered stations over the weekend, news website n-tv reports. Around 20 members of Direkte Aktion Berlin, which campaigns for an end to ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:35 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Fossil fuels Tagesspiegel Background The amendment for the tightening of air pollution limits for Germany's fossil power plants that is discussed in parliament on Wednesday draws sharp criticism from ...
10 Feb 2016
10 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Internal market analysis: EU member states’ nuclear provisions more than 100 billion euros short” An EU analysis has revealed that the member states are not well prepared for the ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:23 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Dutch transmission grid operator TenneT recorded a more than 21 percent increase in offshore wind energy transmission from the North Sea to ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:17 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Cars Handelsblatt German carmaker Volkswagen is in favour of support for electric cars, which can provide the "initial ignition" needed to encourage the transition to electric ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Bonner General-Anzeiger The head of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has said his company is "shouldering the biggest burden ...
12 May 2022, 13:38 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 ...
The federal cabinet’s approval of a bill for supporting tenant electricity models in Germany will “make tenants directly participate at energy transition”, economy minister Brigitte Zypries said in a press release by the Federal Ministry for Economic ...
Germany’s energy transition will face a critical phase after the next legislative period in 2021, according to the national utility association BDEW. “The real challenges lie between 2021 and 2030, when the nuclear exit has been completed and excess ...
21 May 2021, 10:32 Germany has increased the emissions reduction targets in its transport sector. Following changes introduced by parliament, the sector has to reach a share of 32 percent renewables by 2030. The use of biofuels made from palm oil will be ...
21 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv AG Energiebilanzen German CO2 emissions rise in 2015 Germany’s CO2 emissions have increased slightly in 2015, according to preliminary calculations by energy market research group AG ...
15 Dec 2020, 14:17 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Hydrogen Clean ...
05 Sep 2022, 13:10 With its third energy cost relief package since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the German government hopes to alleviate concerns over skyrocketing prices for heating and electricity in the coming winter. The large package worth ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:46 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Energiewende 91tv German industrial trade ...
29 Jun 2022, 13:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sören Amelang Cars 91tv / Reuters Germany will ...
12 Aug 2021, 13:25 Expert Energy Brainpool Energy consultancy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal ...
Household electricity prices reached an all-time high at an average of 29.16 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) in February 2017, compared to 28.8 ct/kWh in 2016, writes utility association BDEW in its current power price analysis. This was down to record ...
28 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Wholesale electricity ...
27 Nov 2019, 14:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Rheinische Post The German government must fast-track legislation for the country's coal power phase-out, Armin Laschet, state premier of Germany's most populous ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:15 Rachel Waldholz Storage Business & Jobs Financial Times Residential battery storage is poised to become a major industry, reports Patrick McGee in the Financial Times. That trend has been highlighted by major recent investments from ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv ...
14 Sep 2015
14 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “EU casts doubt over lignite compromise” The European Commission has doubts about whether the German government’s plan to put some old lignite power plants in a so-called capacity reserve is ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BVG- German Geothermal Association Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables 91tv Germany needs a masterplan for deep geothermal energy in order to reap the technology' ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:43 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv The Aloys Wobben Foundation (AWS), the sole shareholder of wind turbine company Enercon, and German utility EWE AG have launched the 50-50 joint venture Alterric to develop and operate onshore wind ...
30 Jul 2015
30 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv German Wind Energy Association (BWE) / German Engineering Association (VDMA) “Breather for the German wind industry” Onshore wind power development in Germany decreased by 34 percent ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:46 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Power ...
06 Nov 2020, 14:24 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Ten days before the plan to fix Germany’s "climate gap" is set for cabinet approval, it is still unclear how much the power sector will contribute toward the carbon emissions target of a 40 percent cut by 2020. Expert BMWi- ...
The German federal government has said that the country’s security standby of lignite power plants with a total capacity of 2.7 gigawatts has not yet been used, but operators are paid a total of 234 million euros in 2017 and 2018 to keep them at the ready ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:53 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Storage 91tv German education and research minister Anja Karliczek has urged the country’s business community to get on with large-scale domestic battery cell production. Batteries are a ...
20 May 2016
20 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Institute for Renewable Energy (IWR) “Wind power overtakes nuclear energy for first time in Germany” Germany’s wind turbines will generate more electricity this year than nuclear ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:43 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv Energy supplier EnBW has given the green light to build Germany’s largest solar park in ...
13 Jun 2024, 13:30 This year's G7 leaders' summit in Italy, to be held in a secluded luxury resort in the Puglia region on 13-15 June, has been largely sidelined in the country's public discourse as the focus is firmly on the campaign for ...
15 Oct 2019, 12:24 Expert FÖS- Green Budget Germany Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:39 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Wind Cost & Prices ...
29 May 2015
29 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv AG Energiebilanzen “Demand for energy in heating increased- less coal and more power from renewables” The use of hard coal and lignite fell in the first quarter of 2015 compared to last year, ...
24 Apr 2015, 00:00 [Updates explanation of climate contribution] The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has signalled it might make changes to its climate levy to ease concerns over potential job losses, media report on Friday as supporters ...
03 Sep 2015
03 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit / Spiegel Online / Reuters Utilities must remain liable for nuclear clean-up costs Energy companies are to remain liable for the cost of decommissioning nuclear power plants and storing ...
16 Sep 2019, 14:08 Edgar Meza Cars Deutsche Welle / Der Tagesspiegel Tens of thousands of protesters descended on the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt on Saturday demanding more ambitious climate action and an overhaul of transport policy, ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:34 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Wind Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German energy company Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) is running trials of a floating wind turbine ...
16 Oct 2019, 12:49 Germany’s government coalition is moving ahead to implement its climate action plan to put the country back on track to reach 2030 targets. The cabinet has adopted several legislative drafts to mould the decisions into Germany’s tax ...
17 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Emissions data 2015 – 6 million tonnes more CO2 2015 has seen a slight increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) reports. According ...
16 Feb 2021, 14:03 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, ...
German luxury and utility vehicle producer Daimler is weighing its options as it searches for the best possible engine for its heavy-duty vehicles in the future, testing potential solutions like electric engines, hydrogen, synthetic and natural gas, ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:57 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Cars 91tv Germany’s parliament ...
25 Apr 2019, 13:06 Kerstine Appunn Gas Renewables Hydrogen 91tv A group of utilities, researchers and the state energy agency of Hesse want to establish a green hydrogen project in the industrial and business hub of the Rhine-Main area near ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:23 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas Heating 91tv Germany should immediately increase its national carbon price and better support renewables to initiate the phase-out of fossil gas in buildings heating, said think ...
18 Feb 2016
18 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) "Gabriel: Europe needs more industry” Europe’s aim to increase the share of manufacturing in gross domestic product (GDP) to 20 percent ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage Business Wire Bavarian energy storage group Sonnen is building a virtual power plant from private storage systems as part of a joint project with US energy supplier Rocky Mountain Power and the Wasatch ...
13 Aug 2019, 13:37 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:28 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Industry 91tv Germany's largest energy company RWE, together with oil company BP, chemicals producer Evonik and gas ...
07 Apr 2016
07 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Bundestag Federal government rejects national CO₂ price floor The federal government continues to have reservations over a national price floor for carbon allowances, according to ...
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 The German government finally buried plans for a levy on old coal-fired power plants. Instead, Chancellor Angela Merkel, energy minister Sigmar Gabriel and leading politicians from the ruling coalition adopted a union proposal to pay ...
03 Sep 2020, 13:41 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Cars 91tv A growing number of ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and its Social Democrat (SPD) partners have agreed to keep their promise to speed up the expansion of renewable power installations, ending months of wrangling, reports Thorsten Severin for Reuters. ...
28 May 2021, 12:49 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Solar 91tv The German Association ...
28 Nov 2022, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv In a bid to shield households and businesses from the drastic increase in energy prices, Germany’s government has approved a draft law to cap the price of electricity and gas ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:50 Coal Die Zeit / Süddeutsche Zeitung More than one thousand climate protesters, including activists from the Fridays for Future movement, Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion, occupied the site of a planned opencast coal mine in western ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
09 Dec 2015
09 Dec 2015, 00:00 Spiegel Online “How the Germans are negotiating a climate miracle” The Paris climate summit could result in a global commitment to decarbonisation, writes Axel Bojanowski for Spiegel, but there is still resistance from the oil producing ...
26 Feb 2016
26 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche “The 54 billion-euro bill” On balance, it doesn’t matter how much the decommissioning of atomic power plants and the storage of nuclear waste will cost – it’s already clear that ...
Fossil power plants are disappearing from the market too quickly when they are still needed to supply the country with power on days with little sun or wind, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. “At the moment, the bad economic framework conditions lead to ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:02 Rachel Waldholz Wind International Welt Online Munich’s plans for 100 percent renewable power have run into opposition from a remote quarter: Norwegians. The city cannot produce enough wind and solar power within its own borders, and ...
04 Jul 2019, 12:41 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Clean Energy ...
02 Jul 2019, 14:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar 91tv For the first time, solar energy topped the list of sources for Germany’s net public electricity ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:48 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Green energy provider Naturstrom has said it will provide households directly with power ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:43 Primary energy use in Germany decreased almost two percent in the first half of 2019 due to a large drop in coal consumption, according to first estimates. This is likely to result in a further substantial fall in the country’s CO2 ...
11 Feb 2019, 14:05 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The German coal commission’s agreement to gradually phase out coal power has left investors and ...
22 Sep 2015
22 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “The VW scandal” It is a mystery why VW decided to take the risk of manipulating emission results with rather limited benefits, writes Holger Appel in FAZ. Why ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:47 Germany’s coalition government has reached an agreement over rules for the transition to climate-friendly heating, settling a months-long debate over the details of a law that would de facto ban fossil heating systems. From next year, ...
11 Jun 2019, 13:27 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices dpa / Welt ...
Because of comparably low winds in 2016, renewable power generation rose only slightly by 4.1 terawatt hours (TWh) compared to 2015, accounting for a share of 30 percent, according to preliminary figures by the German Association of Energy and Water ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:28 Bioenergy Berliner Zeitung A German startup reportedly is on the verge of industrialising a process that can increase biogas energy yields by 40 percent – and even turn leaves into fuel, the Berliner Zeitung reports. LXP, based in ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Coal Handelsblatt Germany ...
03 Jun 2019, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:27 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Washington Post If Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is really serious about her promise to make the country climate-neutral by 2050, her first step would be to reverse the end of nuclear power by 2022, ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:49 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Gas International Handelsblatt Tumbling prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) due to the coronavirus pandemic are worsening conditions for planned gas import terminals in Germany, Klaus Stratmann ...
18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:12 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
23 Feb 2017, 00:00 Against a backdrop of general elections later this year, a debate about a general overhaul of Germany’s much-imitated system for renewables support is gathering pace. Many proponents of replacing the current Renewable Energy Act (EEG) ...
09 Nov 2016, 00:00 Disagreements over the future of coal in Germany have blocked adoption of a long-awaited government roadmap for making the country almost greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. In a surprise move capping several days of uncertainty about the ...
The decision by parties negotiating Germany’s next government to weaken the country’s 2020 climate protection goals was an “appropriate” move that took “courage”, Johannes Teyssen, CEO of utility E.ON, said at an energy industry conference held by ...
01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung Interview with Chancellor on Climate Summit In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said that preparing for the climate summit in Paris ...
16 Mar 2016
16 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Verdi lets go of pro-coal attitude” Trade union Verdi is open to more climate action and a coal exit before 2050, board member Andreas Scheidt told the Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
16 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020, 15:06 91tv The German government’s proposed Building Energy Act is lightweight and should be scrapped in favour of laws that enshrine climate neutrality in all new construction and renovation projects, an environmental group has ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Cars Der Spiegel Local electricity monopolies have so far prevented ...
17 Nov 2020, 13:48 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv / Reuters The ...
11 Dec 2019, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Storage Start-ups 91tv Berlin-based energy startup Lumenion has presented the pilot of its 2.4-megawatt-hour (MWh) steel storage system in a housing project in Germany’s capital. The technology would allow ...
13 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE RWE operating result down by 11 percent / increased earnings from renewables Germany’s second biggest energy utility RWE reported a reduced operating result and EBITDA for the first six months ...
Energy experts of Germany’s grand coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have rebuffed the Green Party’s plans for an accelerated coal exit. “We cannot phase out both nuclear and coal-fired power production within 15 or 20 years,” ...
04 Apr 2019, 13:34 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv A new project in northern Germany aims at establishing "the world’s first" power ...
02 Apr 2019, 14:08 Rachel Waldholz Wind Society Hakai Magazine Two German towns in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein present a case study in how to build local support for the energy transition- or how to lose it, writes Paul Hockenos in a feature ...
29 Dec 2015
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Spiegel Online “Hendricks criticises massive rise in electricity exports” Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks is concerned about the country’s CO2 emissions, writes Stefan Schultz at Spiegel Online ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Heating 91tv Germany must step up renewables expansion and put a focus on the heating sector, where the majority of energy is still produced with fossil fuels, said Chancellor Angela Merkel at ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv The share of ...
08 Nov 2019, 14:04 Sören Amelang Solar Cars 91tv / Die Welt Bavarian energy storage company Sonnen, which was taken over by oil company Shell earlier this year, is entering the e-mobility market. The company said it will launch a ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Sören Amelang Coal Grid 91tv Three German hard coal power plants ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry Frankfurter ...
The Energiewende, Germany’s energy transition, will stay at the top of the agenda for the next government after September’s federal elections, Peter Altmaier, head of the Federal Chancellery, said at utility association BDEW’s Smart Renewables event. An ...
31 Oct 2014, 00:00 The German government plans a complete overhaul of energy sector legislation. But one key question is as yet unanswered: Do fossil power plants need subsidies if Germany is to avoid power shortages? A green paper on energy market reform ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:21 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Coal Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German coal industry is looking to hydrogen production as an alternative in light of the ...
21 Dec 2021, 14:21 Energy consumption in Germany has increased in 2021, as the economy recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the country weathered a cold winter. At the same time, a year of depressed wind power production let the ...
16 Oct 2014
16 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Öko-Institut Research on the Energiewende – inter-active map goes online A new online-platform brings together the output of 33 research projects funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research ...
06 Feb 2019, 14:10 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices An ambitious and ...
02 Oct 2020, 14:23 Expert Ministry of Economic Affairs, State Development and Energy, State of Bavaria Staatsministerium für Wirtschaftm Landesentwicklung und Energie Bayern Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities ...
02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
03 Dec 2014, 00:00 The government approved what it claims to be the largest climate action package in the country’s history. Most observers applauded the commitment to emissions reduction goals by 2020. But environmentalists criticised the lack of a ...
22 Dec 2022, 12:40 Germany has taken important steps to secure its energy supply and help households and businesses cope with the energy crisis, but it is important to continue along this path consistently in the coming year, according to the country' ...
29 Sep 2015
29 Sep 2015, 00:00 Carl Morris 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Carmakers must not end up like RWE and E.ON” In an interview with business daily Handelsblatt, transport expert Anton Hofreiter- one of the Green party’s parliamentary leaders- argues ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:41 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden ...
27 Mar 2019, 11:14 91tv is stepping up its coverage of how business is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we have launched a series on start-ups that ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
25 Oct 2019, 15:22 The share of renewable energy in Germany's gross power consumption reached a record of almost 43 percent in the first nine months of 2019. But a near halt in the country's onshore wind power expansion overshadows the ...
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:07 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background While the government’s financial pledges for mining regions have paved the way for an agreement on structural support, ...
08 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Digitalisation Clean ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Policy 91tv Getting the energy transition in Germany’s heating sector off the ground will be difficult since most investments have to be made by private citizens rather ...
29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Steel before a great exodus” The EU’s plans for a reform of the emissions trading system might lead to a mass exodus of steel companies from Europe, reports Carsten Dierig in Die Welt. ...
29 Feb 2016
29 Feb 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Rheinische Post “Union demands lignite fund” Mining union IG BCE argues Germany will need lignite power production until 2047 and should create a fund to finance the technology after it stops earning money in about 15 ...
16 Jul 2015
16 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit “Don’t get distracted” The carbon divestment movement and the G7 commitment to decarbonisation indicate that climate policy is getting serious and irreversible, writes Andreas Kuhlmann, ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy ...
16 Feb 2016
16 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv E-World Essen State economy minister warns against decreed coal exit Garrelt Duin, economy minister for Germany’s largest federal state- North-Rhine-Westphalia- warned against a ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:26 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Sören Amelang Digitalisation 91tv Artificial intelligence (AI) has started to arrive in some areas ...
14 Aug 2019, 11:58 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv The number of public ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world’s largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
05 Mar 2020, 14:35 Rachel Waldholz Coal Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany’s largest coal state, North Rhine-Westphalia, says it cannot accept the federal government’s proposed coal exit law without major amendments, arguing that ...
27 Nov 2018, 14:00 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The exceptionally dry weather that has gripped Germany over ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Electricity market ...
21 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters / EnBW “Germany's EnBW cuts dividend, sees lower profits in 2016” Germany’s third largest utility EnBW posted a 125-million-euro net profit in 2015, but the adjusted operating result ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:02 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The government of the western German coal state and industrial ...
18 Nov 2015
18 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Balance Sheet of Energiewende Germany has published an assessment of its national climate protection efforts. The government says Germany is making “good ...
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Chemicals industry and energy minister sign joint statement on energy and climate policy. Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BMWi- ...
16 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Grid Agency: About 350,000 households had their power cut off” The number of power cut-offs in Germany rose by two percent to a new record in 2014, reports Spiegel Online. According ...
08 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATE- adds quote from WWF's Günther in paragraph 5, more external content)- The nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, in the wake of a tsunami five years ago on 11 March, was a key turning point in German energy policy. Chancellor ...
21 Jul 2020, 13:41 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert ZEW- Centre for European Economic Research Zentrum für ...
05 Nov 2015
05 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Power market reforms are mainly “emergency repairs” German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel says the reforms passed in cabinet yesterday train the power market for the ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars rbb24 US carmaker Tesla’s planned gigafactory near Berlin continues to cause worries about the production site's water consumption, public broadcaster rbb24 reports. The local water supplier in the ...
The first day-ahead auction on the EPEX SPOT power exchange after the split of the common power price zone between Austria and Germany, which becomes effective today (1 October), saw higher prices for Austria than Germany, writes the Austrian Energy ...
12 Oct 2021, 13:09 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:08 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal 91tv The controversial resettlement of five ...
29 May 2019, 12:13 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Grid Cars Tagesspiegel Background / BDEW ...
01 Jul 2021, 12:38 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Electricity Industry 91tv As ...
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hamburger Abendblatt “Hamburg puts focus on development of green energies” The city-state of Hamburg is profiting from Germany's Energiewende in the form of investment and new jobs, the ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:36 German media commentators have mixed views on the coal exit path fixed by the federal government, mining states and utilities. While some call it a “historic” deal that could make Germany a global role model, others say it turned out to ...
20 May 2019, 13:30 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cities 91tv A group of 30 ...
09 Nov 2020, 13:14 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Kerstine Appunn Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany should not solely ...
16 May 2019, 14:26 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv The business climate index of ...
Energy state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of Germany’s flagship Energiewende policy at the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Baake, a Green Party politician whose appointment by then economy minister Sigmar ...
08 May 2019, 13:16 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Gas Wind Business & Jobs Reuters German engineering conglomerate Siemens is spinning off its gas and power business, which has dragged on the firm’s performance as the rise of ...
03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Ruby Russell Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy State secretary Baake: power market 2.0 guarantees supply security Germany’s economy and energy ministry is proposing a reform of the power market based on an energy ...
26 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Expert TenneT Grid operator ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:39 The German government, its coal mining states and several major utilities have agreed on a roadmap for shutting down the country's lignite-fired power plants and on compensation payments for operators. Many analysts and ...
22 May 2020, 14:07 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Transport Cars Handelsblatt Managers of BP, Exxon-Mobil, Shell and Total are opposing the push for electric mobility by Germany’s major car manufacturers, writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. While VW, BMW and Daimler ...
06 Feb 2024, 09:42 Germany is set to hold auctions to support the construction of new gas-fired power plants in the short term, which would then be converted to run on hydrogen in the mid-to-late 2030s, the ruling coalition said. The plants are considered ...
21 Oct 2019, 13:07 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Freja Eriksen ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Handelsblatt The planned exit from coal-fired power generation in Germany may require large-scale construction of gas-fired power plants, but the necessary investments in the technology still remain wanting, ...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Business Green "Germany breezes past 1GW offshore wind milestone" Germany's renewables industry is celebrating another milestone this week, as an industry-backed report confirmed ...
12 Feb 2016
12 Feb 2016, 00:00 91tv 91tv Energytransition.de “Gas makes a (small) comeback in Germany” There are signs that gas turbines have become profitable again in Germany, even though they continue to produce very little power, Craig Morris reports ...
07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Federal Motor Transport Authority Number of e-cars on German roads rises to 25,502 The number of pure electric vehicles on German roads rose to 25,502 at the beginning of the year, an increase of 35 percent compared to ...
08 Sep 2020, 14:21 Coal Hamburger Abendblatt The possibility that energy company Vattenfall could close down its newest and largest coal-fired power station in Germany has sparked a debate about whether that would negatively affect local electricity ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:57 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy Renewables 91tv Germany’s renewable energy production capacity is to a ...
The market power of Germany’s four large electricity suppliers has decreased significantly over the past years, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) and the Federal Cartel Office’s Monitoring Report 2016 on the developments in the German ...
12 Jan 2016
12 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Head lobbyist of the energy sector goes to RWE” Hildegard Müller, who was chairwoman at the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) for seven years, will become member of ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband ...
12 Nov 2014
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Reactions to energy minister's warning against quick exit from coal power Frankfurter Rundschau “Too much coal” Everything points to a show-down between energy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment ...
23 Dec 2015
23 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv 'Frohe Weihnachten' from the 91tv newsroom Our best wishes for a joyous holiday season. We will publish our next News Digest on 28 December and take another short break from ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:48 In a vote that has been hailed as "historic", Germany's parliament has adopted a law that will ensure the phase-out of coal power by no later than 2038. The decision follows two years of intense debate about the country& ...
17 Mar 2020, 14:16 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Cost & Prices 91tv Utility EnBW has started ...
11 Jan 2016
11 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Agora Energiewende “How the exit from coal power generation by 2040 can be managed” Germany can exit coal by 2040 without significant effects on power prices or supply security, and the government ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:37 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:45 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Cars Handelsblatt The SUV (sport utility vehicle) boom cheered on by German carmakers BMW, Daimler and VW is about to turn into a heavy liability for the industry as EU fines for excessive emissions loom ...
25 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015, 00:00 Spiegel Online/Urgewald “German banks still put billions into brown coal” A study by environmental NGO Urgewald shows that German banks continue to finance climate-damaging brown coal, reports Spiegel Online. Deutsche Bank alone has ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:23 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Rheinische Post / 91tv A group of villagers living in towns threatened by coal mine expansion in western Germany plan ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:22 Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Coal Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Hard coal power station operator Steag’s petition to the German Federal Constitutional Court to improve compensation for plant ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:21 Edgar Meza Coal Finance 91tv Environmental groups and campaigners have welcomed Deutsche Bank’s move to end its global business activities in coal mining by 2025 at the latest, and while some see a positive signal heralding ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:09 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:41 The opening of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea gives Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel an opportunity to show her climate policy credentials and welcome the German-Norwegian project as a milestone for the energy ...
17 Oct 2016, 00:00 Germany’s consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise less than expected in 2017. Still, discussions about the cost of the country’s Energiewende project and ways to reform the renewables support dominated the public ...
20 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Freja Eriksen Coal Tagesspiegel Background Critics of Germany's roadmap for phasing out lignite-fired power plants have ...
The share of renewables in German electricity generation grew from 29 percent in 2016 to a record 33 percent this year, according to preliminary calculations by the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). “The gap between coal and renewables in ...
15 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy New draft version of Renewable Energy Act released The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has released a new draft of the Renewable ...
12 Aug 2015
12 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv E.ON Conventional power business causes E.ON loss in profits / debt reduced Half way into its “transformative year,” Germany’s largest utility E.ON has reported a reduced operating profit and ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:23 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Policy Die Welt / 91tv Due to the rising number of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in Germany, the governing Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the Left Party have called for limiting the ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and ...
19 Jun 2019, 11:58 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Transport Business & Jobs 91tv Siemens plans to cut 2,700 jobs at its gas and power business over the course of several years in addition to the 10,400 it is already ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv / Spiegel Online CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the authors's name was misspelled as "Heckling". The correct name is " ...
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 Germany will not impose an additional climate levy on old and dirty power plants. In late-night negotiations, the ruling government coalition buried a levy proposal, choosing instead to mothball and later decommission some lignite power ...
02 Nov 2018, 14:40 Germany’s CO2 emissions are on course for their largest drop since the 2009 recession this year after remaining virtually unchanged for four consecutive years, according to first estimates by energy market research group AG ...
24 Jun 2016, 00:00 Germany’s first roadmap for decarbonisation by the middle of the century has been delayed amid industry fears that tough climate targets would endanger the country’s economic competitiveness and growth. The Environment Ministry in ...
