13 Mar 2024, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The twelve largest chemicals production sites in Germany caused ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv Germany’s chemical industry will have to place a strong focus on recycling of products, the switch to electricity-based process heat and the use of renewable raw materials on its way to ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:21 Joey Grostern Hydrogen 91tv Methanol derived from green hydrogen could play an important role in Germany’s transition to a decarbonised economy, a paper from the German Energy Agency (dena) has found. The compound, which is ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of Germany’s steel and chemical industries, the country’s government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance has warned. These sectors ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv German chemicals company BASF has inaugurated a demonstration plant using a new electricity-based technology that could reduce CO2 emissions in certain production steps by at ...
09 Apr 2025, 13:20 Sören Amelang Fossil fuels Handelsblatt The German government is concerned about the country’s oil refineries, which are facing the most serious crisis in decades caused by the rising cost of emissions, cheap fuel imports, weak demand ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt ...
11 Oct 2022, 12:37 Edgar Meza Industry Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The energy crisis and economic slowdown in Germany could hinder the green transition in the country’s chemical industry, particularly among medium-sized companies, business daily ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:17 Sören Amelang Industry 91tv Existing estimates on how much green hydrogen Germany’s chemical industry will need to decarbonise vary widely, according to a meta-analysis by the country’s science academy acatech and DECHEMA, ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Industry EU 91tv / The Guardian / Reuters An EU discussion to restrict the use of health and climate-damaging chemicals could bring the bloc’s energy and mobility transitions to a standstill, German ...
29 May 2024, 14:07 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv The production of low emissions cement and steel is set to become cheaper than that of counterparts produced with fossil fuels before the middle of the century, according to a report by the ...
12 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024, 12:26 Sören Amelang S&P Global: Germany's gas storage operators warn demand curtailments still required ahead of winter Storage sites 84% full by mid-July but extreme cold could prompt gas shortages and empty reserves by February ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating 91tv Germany's industry could save up to 21 billion euros in energy costs annually if it generated heat more efficiently for the manufacture of products, according to a report ...
27 Jan 2025
27 Jan 2025, 13:00 91tv Team Reuters: BASF 2024 earnings miss estimate by 1 billion euros on impairments Germany's top chemical maker BASF reported a drop in annual earnings below estimates on Friday (24 January), weighed by impairments on surface ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:05 Sören Amelang Electricity Industry Hydrogen 91tv German industry demand for electricity will rise steeply during the sector’s decarbonisation even if it opts for intensive use of hydrogen, according to a report by a ...
15 Oct 2024, 14:30 Fifteen companies in Germany have been awarded support guarantees in the first round of the so-called ‘climate contracts’ scheme that is meant to put the country’s industry sector on track towards climate neutrality. Economy minister ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s economy faces a “severe crisis” should fossil gas supplies from Russia come to a complete stop, the president of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI), ...
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, ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:11 Hydrogen Industry 91tv A pilot plant for producing green hydrogen energy for low-emission production of chemicals and fuel has opened in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Fraunhofer Centre for Chemical-Biotechnological ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:22 Sören Amelang Industry 91tv The German chemical industry association VCI has teamed up with the country's engineering association VDI to develop concepts aimed at reaching greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050. The ...
28 Jan 2025, 12:58 Slowing down industry decarbonisation in Germany would result in a dangerous loss of competitiveness in emerging green markets, says Philipp Verpoort, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Instead, the ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 91tv Technologies to capture and store or use carbon dioxide from industrial processes will become "a special focus" of the next round of Germany's pioneering subsidy ...
03 Sep 2024, 14:09 Jennifer Collins Carolina Kyllmann Grid Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Reforming Germany's grids fees for industrial electricity consumers as a way to incentivise flexible power consumption and boost the use of ...
09 Oct 2019, 10:44 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv It is possible for the German chemical industry- ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:13 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 VCI- German Chemicals Industry ...
15 Jul 2024, 13:52 Jack McGovan Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Many industrial companies have submitted proposals for low emission investments to the German government's scheme to reimburse them for the extra costs associated with climate ...
03 Mar 2025
03 Mar 2025, 12:15 91tv Team DW: Social Democrats lead Hamburg state election: early results The Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens look set to be able to continue their coalition in the northern city state of Hamburg following a regional election ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:11 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Storage 91tv German industry heavyweight Siemens and chemical company Evonik have launched a joint research project that turns carbon dioxide into specialty ...
20 May 2025, 13:11 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A key plan by Germany’s new government to introduce a subsidised electricity price for industry and revive the sector could be prevented by European Union law, business daily ...
01 Jul 2024
01 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: Germany, Morocco agree alliance to support green hydrogen production and exports Germany is seeking to expand its reliance on hydrogen as a future energy source to cut greenhouse emissions for highly polluting ...
29 Aug 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Renewables Cost & Prices Electricity prices in Germany could be made more flexible and fall during particularly sunny or windy conditions according to a proposed measure to adapt grid fees to renewable power supply by ...
24 Feb 2023, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv Chemicals company BASF will cut up to 2,600 jobs worldwide due to cost pressure from the energy crisis, with the majority of positions axed in Germany. The company said it will cut ...
30 Jul 2024
30 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Reuters: Spain greenlights almost 300 renewable power projects with $18-billion investment The Spanish government has authorised the construction of almost 300 renewable power projects with a total capacity of more than ...
Chemical companies BASF, Evonik, and Clariant seek to use excess renewable power in Germany to make synthetic fuels and other chemicals, reports Ludwig Burger for Reuters. According to Germany’s chemical industry lobby VCI, so-called power-to-X technology ...
22 May 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Using public procurement contracts and quotas for climate-friendly basic materials could help drive demand for climate-friendly products like green steel or cement, the German economy ministry ...
12 Mar 2024, 14:07 With a novel subsidy system that supports energy-intensive industries in Germany switch to more climate-friendly production processes, the country counts as a pioneer in Europe by linking climate action with increased competitiveness, ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Handelsblatt Germany is stepping up its research on geothermal energy storage, a way of storing heat energy between seasons using water, business daily Handelsblatt reported. Research is currently underway in ...
13 May 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany will need more hydrogen than previously expected across all economic sectors by 2030, said the national hydrogen council in an updated assessment of future demand. The council gauged ...
27 Mar 2025, 10:12 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon removal Industry 91tv / Table Media [UPDATES article to include support for scheme in coalition talks.] The European Commission has approved a support scheme worth five billion euros to help ...
29 Sep 2022, 13:41 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 91tv Leading players in the ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:38 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Policy 91tv The German government has started its largest green hydrogen import auction yet. For the first time, one portion of the tender worth 2.5 billion euros in total will be funded jointly by ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv Thousands of scientists from a broad section of fields have come together to urge Germany's next government to prioritise climate policy. "We are very ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Industry International energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv German energy and industry representatives have expressed concern over the new tariff announcements by US president Donald Trump, ...
11 Jan 2019, 14:06 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Germany’s BASF plans to become a green pioneer of the chemicals industry, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. CEO Martin ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:24 Bennet Ribbeck Industry 91tv The electrification of industrial processes with renewable energy is the most cost-effective transformation path for the sector, the research consortium IND-E has stated in a report. The authors ...
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- ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Freight 91tv A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting ...
25 May 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv The German government’s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045 has put companies from energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, paper and cement, ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry 91tv Energy consumption in Germany’s industry dropped 9.1 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year, ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / 91tv With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:22 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv High energy prices have little influence on the transformation needs of most of the 100 companies on Germany’s HDAX stock market index compared to four other ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Heating 91tv Research institute Fraunhofer IGE is setting up a research laboratory for geothermal energy generation in western German North Rhine-Westphalia, the country’s most populous state. ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv A robust political strategy based on realistic expectations for hydrogen production is needed as demand for the gas remains low due to its high costs and other factors, researchers at the Potsdam ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:57 Jack McGovan Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt Plasma technologies could open new options for decarbonising heat supply in industrial processes, offering an alternative to the use of green hydrogen, newspaper Handelsblatt reported. Swedish ...
31 May 2023, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Transport Business & Jobs Die Welt Chemicals producer BASF is deploying a new freight vessel adapted for low water levels in the Rhine river, newspaper Die Welt reported. Shallower water in Germany’s ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:10 Edgar Meza Industry 91tv German government leaders are hosting not one but two industry summits on Tuesday (29 October) as chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition seeks to deal with the country’s economic woes. ...
28 Oct 2020, 14:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Technology Handelsblatt Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is set to increase funding to convert carbon dioxide emissions in heavy industry into useful chemical products, Barbara ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Dimethyl ether (DME) – a compound used as propellant in deodorant sprays – is a “hitherto underestimated” way to store and transport hydrogen over long distances, said researchers of the ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:38 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs EU Tagesspiegel Background / taz / 91tv German companies have complained about highly complicated reporting obligations and a lack of preparation time for the start of the EU’s first phase ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 Germany’s plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel’s future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen FAZ German energy company Uniper has postponed its target to invest eight billion euros in growth and the green transformation by 2030 also due to a lack of demand for green hydrogen, CEO Michael Lewis told ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become Germany’s next chancellor – but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
05 Jul 2024
05 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Germany to scrutinize Chinese turbine deal for offshore project-Government to look at impact on security and competition-Hamburg-based asset manager set to purchase 16 turbines Electrive: Tesla gets ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Danish electricity and gas transmission system operator Energinet has postponed the planned commissioning date for the first cross-border hydrogen pipeline into Germany to the end of 2031 ...
The German government should put in place “clear incentives” to reduce CO 2 emissions, said Utz Tillmann, director of German chemical industry association VCI, in an interview with Tagesspiegel Background. The fledgling government has delayed policy ...
30 May 2025, 15:00 Italy is facing a delay in the phase-out of coal, as the future of a major coal-fired power plant near Rome remains unclear, despite plans for its closure by the end of the year. The uncertainty is partly fuelled by industry concerns ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:14 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Steel and iron production plants dominate in a list of the 30 most polluting industrial facilities in Germany ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Grid Renewables 91tv Dividing Germany’s single power price zone into several individual regions could reduce final electricity prices for consumers across the country, said a report by ...
04 Sep 2024, 13:36 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen 91tv Germany is betting big on green hydrogen imports but the country should strengthen its own production as well because it is "uncertain" where those imports will come from in relevant ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:40 Higher energy efficiency, a "paradigm shift" in the circular economy, innovative production processes, as well as carbon capture and usage or storage could make Germany's industry CO2-neutral by 2050, but the government& ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German government plans to have a diversified import structure for green hydrogen, shows a draft strategy seen by Tagesspiegel Background. It counts on pipelines to supplier ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in its draft election campaign programme that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Policy 91tv Carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) alone will not be sufficient to enable a rapid decarbonisation of Germany's energy-intensive industry, the academic advisory board of the ...
14 Feb 2022, 13:35 Paul Gordon Industry Policy 91tv A company alliance has called for closer cooperation on the capture, storage and transport of CO2 between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In a joint letter, the signatories – among ...
30 Oct 2024
30 Oct 2024, 10:49 91tv Team IEA: Global market for key clean technologies set to triple to more than 2 trillion USD over the coming decade as energy transitions advance IEA analysis shows complex interplay between energy, industrial and trade policies as ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:41 Expert German Steel Federation Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Hydrogen Handelsblatt The German government wants to help the steel and chemical industry become ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv The break-up of the coalition government and insecure funding mean that it is unclear whether Germany’s pioneering ‘climate contract’ subsidy scheme to slash industry emissions ...
25 Nov 2019, 12:36 Energy-intensive basic industries – such as steel, chemicals and cement – have to quickly introduce and scale up key low-carbon technologies to avoid wrong investments at a time when governments aim for a climate neutral economy by 2050 ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy sector experts as well as industry representatives have warned that a shortage of constantly available electricity capacity could lead to new short-lived but ...
19 Apr 2022, 13:33 Kerstine Appunn Gas Funke Mediengruppe Sourcing more natural gas domestically by using fracking is still not an option for Germany, even in the light of an ensuing energy shortage if Russian gas supplies stopped flowing, economy and ...
31 May 2024, 12:50 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany has signed a declaration of intent with Italy and Austria to develop a green hydrogen import corridor in a bid to improve future energy security, the economy ministry ...
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 ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Carbon removal Industry International Die Welt A project that would connect Germany's Rhine-Ruhr industrial heartland to an undersea carbon storage project in the Dutch North Sea is set to be delayed by years, ...
13 Nov 2024, 12:02 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv / Tagesspiegel More than half of companies in Germany’s most important stock indices are lagging behind on their self-imposed targets for emission reductions, ...
Costs connected to the German Energiewende and high industry power prices could hurt the country as a location for business investments, Willem Huisman, president of the chemicals company Dow Germany, told the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:29 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen NDR German state-run energy company Uniper is trialling the use of a former salt mine in northern Germany for large-scale hydrogen storage, public broadcaster NDR ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:26 Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Bloomberg Germany’s Rhine River could be impassable to ships again this summer if Europe has another drought, reports William Wilkes for Bloomberg. German and Swiss scientists say that heavy ...
The chemical industry has had “a good year without limitations” in 2017 but says that further increases in energy prices continue to pose a risk for Germany’s third largest industry branch, the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) says in a press ...
The German government partially or fully waived the country’s renewable energy levy for 717 companies last year because of a special equalisation scheme to mitigate competitive disadvantages for energy intensive industries, Petra Hannen writes in PV ...
18 Dec 2014
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv taz “A dangerous thought” The minister-president of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, told the taz he was worried German tax money would be used to fund nuclear energy projects in other European ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:33 Ruby Russel Gas Zeit Online Construction of Germany's first onshore liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal has begun at Stade in the state of Lower Saxony, close to the northern port city Hamburg. Expected to be operational by 2027, ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:37 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Grid Industry dpa / Reuters / Tagesspiegel SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is aiming for a new law to ensure industry has enough renewable electricity to decarbonise over the coming decades, ...
11 Oct 2019, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv German car manufacturers Daimler and BMW, utility RWE and building materials company HeidelbergCement are among the world's most influential lobbyists against ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry FAZ / 91tv The German government is continuing its push for carbon capture and storage technologies with the draft of its planned Carbon Management Strategy, reported Frankfurter ...
24 Jan 2020, 12:12 Pressure is rising fast on industry to join the great decarbonisation race. Many energy-intensive German companies, like chemical giant BASF or steelmaker thyssenkrupp, already have detailed plans for drastic emission cuts, but lack ...
22 Jul 2024, 13:05 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Handelsblatt Industry in southwestern Germany worries it will be left behind as planning for the country's core hydrogen grid advances. According to a survey among regional chambers of industry and ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:07 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs 91tv China is increasingly pushing Germany out of the top spot in exports to ...
31 May 2024, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy minister has awarded steelmaker ArcelorMittal 1.3 billion euros to drive the decarbonisation of its production sites in the states of ...
21 Mar 2024, 13:53 Sören Amelang Jess Smee Agriculture Society Spiegel Online / 91tv Increasingly “rancid” or “muddy” tasting olive oil appears to be the first prominent example of climate change blighting what people eat in Germany, the ...
27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Brudermüller, CEO ...
24 Feb 2022, 13:07 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Die Zeit / Handelsblatt / 91tv In view of ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Contracts refunding companies for investments in low-emissions technologies could be a key tool to ensure industry starts the transition to climate-neutral production, a ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:38 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv A large part of Germany's future hydrogen demand could be supplied to the country via pipelines from neighbouring countries, according to a report by think tanks Agora Energiewende and ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:59 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany's steel-producing states and industry associations have called on the federal government to introduce measures for competitive energy prices, to ramp-up the hydrogen ...
17 Aug 2022, 15:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU 91tv French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have vowed to uphold close Franco-German cooperation to ensure European sovereignty in key industrial areas as the new U ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Der Spiegel An alliance of companies plans to build Germany’s first industrial-scale production facility for synthetic e-fuels which could allow for the climate neutral operation of combustion engine ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:22 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Sustainability issues have slid down the list of German managers’ priorities, a poll by business consultancy Horvath has revealed, reports newspaper Handelsblatt. The green transformation ...
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 ...
30 Sep 2024, 13:46 Sören Amelang Carbon removal 91tv The German government's current plan for allowing carbon capture and storage (CCS) is far too permissive and set to delay the phase-out of fossil fuels, said environmental NGOs. They ...
07 May 2015, 00:00 Superfluous emission allowances will be put into a market stability reserve from 2019 onwards, EU institutions agreed. The German government’s core demands have been included in the reform. But the chemicals industry fears for its ...
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 ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:36 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv In its highly anticipated first auction for the import of green hydrogen products, Germany has awarded a contract to receive green ammonia from Egypt. “Between 2027 and 2033, at ...
13 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Industry 91tv Industry produced 55 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in Germany in 2018, meaning local units of ...
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 ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:51 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices ...
08 Nov 2023, 14:13 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Norwegian shipping company Höegh LNG is set to convert its floating liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in Germany to import hydrogen starting 2028, the company's CEO, Erik ...
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 ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen 91tv Producing synthetic alcohol with renewable power could become a significant energy storage option for the energy transition, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) research ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
The BDI study showing that climate protection and economic growth can go hand in hand should kill off the last arguments against ambitious climate protection, according to Greenpeace. “The economic association is right to call for planning security in ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Countries like Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany should form a joint hydrogen alliance to use their market power as future importers of hydrogen derivatives, said researchers from ...
14 Oct 2014
14 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Ministry of Economy and Energy Norway approves construction of NordLink power cable with Germany Norway has granted the required licenses to grid operator Statnett to build its part of a German-Norwegian ...
Battery-powered transport is only a transitional technology and hydrogen-powered fuel cells are the “real solution” for the future of mobility, writes Aldo Belloni, CEO of German chemical company and hydrogen supplier Linde Group in a guest commentary in ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:29 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 ...
03 Mar 2015
03 Mar 2015, 00:00 Correction: Corrects spelling of Marijn Dekkers, CEO of Bayer and President of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI). Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Greetings from the Stone Age” The new Moorburg ...
10 Jan 2020, 11:52 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 VCI- German Chemicals Industry ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:38 European transmission system operators (TSOs) have recommended that Germany split its single electricity price zone into up to five bidding zones. This should maximise economic efficiency across the whole market area, ensuring security ...
21 Dec 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany has become the first member state to join an EU scheme to support domestic renewable hydrogen production through the European Hydrogen Bank. Under the "Auctions-as-a-Service” ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:41 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Danish offshore wind company Orsted and German chemical maker Covestro have signed the world's biggest purchase agreement for an offshore wind farm planned without support payments. ...
06 May 2025, 17:15 In a bumpy start to Germany’s new coalition government, conservative leader Friedrich Merz managed to secure a majority in parliament to become the next chancellor only in the second round of voting. The unprecedented failure to ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:03 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt German chemicals companies BASF, Covestro and others are eager to find more sustainable substitutes for many raw materials ...
23 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn tagesschau.de “More eco and a little less nuclear” Many German media are reporting about France’s new energy transition law, passed on Wednesday. The law says energy usage must be halved by 2050 and nuclear’s share of ...
Low water levels in the Rhine river after a prolonged drought have disrupted fuel and chemical supplies on the vital European trade route, sparking concern over potential economic impact and raising questions about how climate change will hit Europe’s ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:18 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Carbon removal Fossil fuels Technology 91tv Germany’s ...
04 Mar 2020, 11:02 The European Commission is unveiling its proposal for the EU's first ever climate law, which will form the basis of the EU's proposed Green Deal, and will provide a framework for reaching the bloc's target of becoming ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 Germany’s three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country’s energy transition. Energy industry and ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv Salt caverns could be an effective location for storing hydrogen in Germany due to their geological, physical and chemical properties, according to a report published by the Institute of Energy ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:47 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv The price of green hydrogen will be significantly ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:23 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft ...
Jürgen Hambrecht, chairman of the supervisory board of German chemical company BASF, says Germany risks failing on the Energiewende. In an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he argues that the government must work fast to solve energy, ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv High energy prices are beginning to bite into companies’ investment plans and curtail production in Germany, raising the spectre of de-industrialisation in the country ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will establish a central hub to coordinate its ...
20 Oct 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv The German government wants to strengthen the role of recycled raw materials in the country's industry in a bid to increase supply security of metals and industrial ...
The energy consumption of German industry remained unchanged in 2017. According to the statistics office Destatis, 87 percent was used “for energetic purposes such as electrcitiy and heat production.” The remaining 13 percent was used for the production ...
22 May 2020, 14:11 Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry Association Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Green stimulus 91tv / Die Welt Energy-intensive industry groups short ...
Unconventional fracking, the gas drilling by means of chemicals, is a chance not only for supply security, but also for the climate, Michael Theurer, deputy leader of the Free Democrats (FDP) parliamentary group, told Der Spiegel. Using more natural gas ...
18 Mar 2024, 13:03 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv An alliance of social and environmental NGOs has called on the German government to include concrete and binding sustainability and justice standards in its hydrogen import strategy ...
22 Jan 2024, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Gas Technology Handelsblatt / Reuters German chemical company BASF's sale of Wintershall Dea assets to UK producer Harbour Energy could be a risk for the country's security, because it ...
The German Energy Agency (dena) has gathered a group of companies from the energy, automotive, aviation, chemicals and mineral oil, mechanical and plant engineering, insurance and finance sectors to launch a global alliance for power fuels. The list of ...
Germany exported cars and car components worth 234.4 billion euros in 2017, the highest figure of any industry, Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said in a press release. Machinery and chemical products rank second and third, with 183.6 ...
08 May 2019, 13:31 German industry heavyweights including chemical maker BASF, HeidelbergCement, gas supplier Linde and steelmaker Salzgitter say they are prepared for profound emissions cuts, but still lack the necessary market signal from policymakers. ...
29 Mar 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Policy 91tv The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Germany's system of financing its renewables build-up through a surcharge on power bills does ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze has called on the country’s energy-intensive industries to present plans to reduce their carbon emissions, Handelsblatt reports. At a meeting in early July, the Social Democrat (SPD) will meet representatives of ...
A court in Lower Saxony ruled against objections by environmental organisations and decided that chemical company Dow may build a coal-fired power plant in the northern German state, reports Gernot Knödler in the tageszeitung (taz). The plaintiffs had ...
A 15 million euro research platform in Germany’s North Sea is examining the effects and possible risks of energy generation in the ocean. The Fino3 platform, located 80 kilometres from the German island of Sylt and near the DanTysk offshore wind farm, ...
German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's (KIT) spin-off company INERATEC has developed a compact power-to-liquid plant’s chemical reactor that converts hydrogen produced from solar power together with carbon dioxide into liquid fuels, writes KIT in ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck and the European Commissioner for energy Kadri Simson have called on EU member states to join the ‘H2 Global’ initiative in a bid to ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 91tv German primary energy consumption was down a “considerable” seven percent in the first six months of 2023 (compared to the same period last year), due to high energy prices and weak economic ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:35 German lawmakers have reached a preliminary agreement to raise the planned CO₂ price for the buildings and transport sectors. The starting price of the mechanism contained in the country's so-called climate package is to be ...
A new study by WWF Germany and Foundation 2° examines the effects of a “below two degrees climate path” on economic risks and opportunities for companies in the automobile and chemical industries. Businesses must include climate and energy targets in ...
28 Mar 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background, 91tv With the development of green hydrogen forming a key part of Germany’s energy transition, leading research institutions have thrown their support behind the idea of ...
01 Nov 2019, 13:29 Germany can become largely carbon-neutral by the middle of the century at tolerable cost by overhauling its entire economy, but in order to do so must specify its 2050 emissions target as soon as possible, according to a study by ...
Germany’s IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) trade union, which covers workers in the mining, chemicals and energy sectors, has welcomed the move by likely coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD to give up on 2020 climate protection targets, Detlef ...
In a “ decisive year ” 2018, the next German government must determine the course for the country’s exit from coal-fired power generation, and deal with the looming failure to reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices 91tv Germans spend a much lower share of their income on energy bills than many other EU citizens, according to the German Economic Institute (IW). German households pay ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Sören Amelang Renewables Hydrogen ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:32 Sören Amelang Gas dpa Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has rejected a suggestion by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) to allow the controversial fracking method to exploit unused natural gas deposits in the ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German government’s plan to introduce a subsidy scheme with so-called “climate contracts” for less climate-damaging industry processes will also include small and medium-sized ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv The German government coalition has unveiled a ten-point plan to strengthen the country’s economy and stimulate climate and energy efficiency investments. The announcement includes ...
Until now, there has not been a “reasonable concept for the Energiewende”, which is needed to secure Germany’s economic strength and make it more climate-friendly, Rudolf Staudigl, president and CEO of German chemical company Wacker Chemie AG, told ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:04 Jack McGovan Industry EUElections2024 EU Handelsblatt / 91tv More than 70 companies from across Europe have come together to demand an industrial deal from the European Commission and member states under fear of falling ...
Germany’s Association of energy-intensive businesses (VIK) is among the founders of a network for energy efficiency, dubbed KEEN, the association has said in a press release. Six companies from the mining, electrical engineering, food industry and energy ...
The term “fracking”, commonly understood in Germany as unconventional gas drilling by means of chemicals, has discredited almost any form of onshore welling in the country regardless of its actual environmental impact, Frank Pergande writes in Frankfurter ...
It will still take some years before the investors in the world’s largest chemical company, Germany’s BASF, can expect profits from a deal concluded with Russian Gazprom in 2015, writes Bernd Freytag in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In an asset swap, ...
Increasing the admissible maximum weight of freight trucks from 40 to 44 tonnes could save “millions of truck rides” and reduce carbon emissions in Germany’s transport sector, the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) says in a press release. ...
The energy consumption in industry was 4,016 petajoules in 2015, a decrease of 0.7 percent compared to 2014, writes Germany’s statistics agency Destatis in a press release. “As in the previous years, the main energy sources in industry were natural gas ...
25 Oct 2023, 11:00 Germany's economy ministry wants to strengthen the country as an industrial location with a new industry strategy, a key aspect of it being a so-called bridge electricity price for energy-intensive companies. Robert Habeck wants to ...
Politicians and citizens in Saxony-Anhalt have discussed the future of the region after the closure of lignite mine Profen in 2035. Local politicians and business representatives are worried about the 3,000 employees that work for coal company Mibrag and ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:51 The European Commission unveiled a series of plans to make the bloc's industry more competitive, reduce energy costs and cut red tape. Germany's industry associations called the proposals an important first step in the right ...
German steel manufacturer Thyssen-Krupp launched a research project on using steel mill gases like nitrogen, methane or hydrogen oxide as resources for chemical materials, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The project, dubbed Carbon2Chem, showed how ...
The Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag (federal parliament) has decided on a programme for an “ecological modernisation of the economy” that would overturn the current economic order in Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports ...
The German Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) has called for a comprehensive investment programme in order to meet the country’s climate targets for 2020, Jens Heitmann writes in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). The ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:56 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Business & Jobs 91tv German agriculture is going through a transformation to make the sector more sustainable ...
Representatives of consumer protection and energy-intensive industry should be part of the upcoming so-called ‘coal exit commission’ to ensure that cost arguments are taken into account, writes German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI) director-general ...
In an interview with German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, Michael Vassiliadis, head of IG BCE, the German trade union for mining, chemicals and energy industries, says the Green Party’s insistence on a coal exit in the ongoing coalition talks is ...
Germany's coalition government of Christian and Social Democrats has neglected topics important to German industry, writes Ulrich Grillo, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), in a guest commentary for Die Welt. Among other examples ...
19 Feb 2024, 09:49 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv / Handelsblatt The European Commission has approved a subsidy scheme by the German government worth 4 billion euros to help reduce emissions from industry production. Support would be given ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) is set to test the storage of large amounts of power in Germany’s largest battery, the Fraunhofer ICT says on its website. A wind turbine with a capacity of 2 megawatt will feed electricity into the ...
20 Jul 2022, 14:02 Hannah Naylor Coal Transport n-tv Low river levels across Germany, including on the Rhine, are threatening the supply of shipped materials such as coal, chemicals and gravel, reports n-tv. The drought comes at a time when demand is ...
18 Jan 2018, 00:00 German industry believes the world’s fourth largest economy can boost its status as a manufacturing powerhouse by protecting the climate. Reducing emissions by 80 percent by 2050 is good for the economy under the right policy framework ...
The G20 should boost the innovative strength of industry and accelerate technology development, so that it can “make its maximum contribution to climate protection,” writes Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and CEO of BASF, and ...
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20 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Süddeutsche Zeitung "Don't follow the path of the dreamer" In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the head of the trade union for Mining, Chemicals and Energy (IG-BCE) expresses concerns over the ...
Despite continuing subsidies for wind power, the technology is likely to prove very beneficial for regional economies in Germany in the long run, Steffen Höhne writes in a commentary for Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. In the eastern German federal state of ...
Global business leaders including Kurt Bock, CEO of German chemical giant BASF, have called on G20 governments to up their efforts on climate protection, Cordula Tutt writes in WirtschaftsWoche. Bock, who heads the B20 Energy, Climate & Resource ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Trains could play a key role in ensuring a comprehensive transport network for distributing imported green hydrogen across Germany, a report by research institute Fraunhofer ...
The German power grid was on the brink of a blackout on the 24 th of January because of an extended period of little wind and cloudy skies, the Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) warned in the Rheinische Post. Energy ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Finance International EU 91tv The European Union should go further in its proposal to counter the U.S.’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), more than 40 business organisations, companies, think tanks ...
13 Oct 2022, 13:30 Edgar Meza Digitalisation 91tv The green and digital transition in the European Union will further widen the gap between major cities and high-tech regions on one side and rural areas and regions with CO2-intensive industry ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Security 91tv Only just under one-third of German companies have an emergency plan in place in the event of an energy shortage, but their responses vary widely depending on the business ...
27 Apr 2023, 13:02 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s economy ministry is planning to present a plan for an industrial electricity price in the coming week, Tagesspiegel Background reports. Speaking in Berlin on ...
24 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv As Germany’s hydrogen (H2) economy takes shape, a double supply gap is emerging in the country’s south, a report by consultancy PWC found. While the north is well positioned, the country’s ...
The Grenfell Tower fire that killed at least 79 people in London last summer has led to scepticism of the insulation industry and made it more difficult to achieve the German energy transition goal of greater efficiency in the heating sector, Mechtild ...
05 May 2023, 13:29 Energy-intensive companies in Germany should receive billions of euros in state subsidies to lower their electricity costs if they promise to decarbonise and to stay within the country, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said. ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country’s industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
British oil company BP is disposing of oil production waste, which possibly contains elements harmful to humans, by delivering it to energy company E.ON for burning in a Gelsenkirchen coal plant, Jürgen Döschner and Jochen Taßler report for public ...
14 Jun 2019, 09:07 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv The use of synthetic fuels, also known as e-fuels, is unsuitable for road transportation in the medium to long term based on current knowledge, a report by the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv The establishment of U.S. carmaker Tesla will likely lead to the emergence of an electromobility cluster in Germany’s Berlin-Brandenburg region that could benefit from the numerous small and medium ...
Germany’s recently-formed coal-exit commission must take into account the jobs of those employed in the coal sector, said Michael Vassiliadis, president of the mining, chemical, and energy industry union IC BGE, in an interview with Tagesspiegel ...
Germany’s energy industry can reach its greenhouse gas reduction obligations for 2030 and 2050 purely by letting the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) do its work, Michael Vassiliadis, head of the mining and chemicals industry union IG BCE, said ...
The federal economy ministry has made changes to the reform of the combined heat and power (CHP) law, after last month’s agreement with the EU Commission on state aid questions. The changes include the introduction of tenders for governmental support for ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:14 Jessica Bateman Industry The Federal Environment Ministry in Germany (BMU) is funding two projects researching alternatives to fossil fuel use in the glass industry. Glass manufacturer Schott, based in Mainz, will receive around 4.5 ...
24 Feb 2022, 13:17 Edgar Meza Industry Hydrogen 91tv Stakeholders are in broad agreement on the necessary drivers and obstacles for Germany's hydrogen market ramp-up, a poll by the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:52 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt With their products and skills, Germany’s car supplier companies will be able to benefit greatly from the shift to e-mobility, despite the competition from other world markets, ...
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Organising a “just transition” to a largely decarbonised economy has to become much more of a focus of the political debate, Germany’s largest trade union umbrella group DGB said in a newly adopted decision at its annual congress this week. The DGB is the ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Business Insider Legal action brought by environmental NGOs continues to be a hurdle for Tesla’s “Gigafactory” near the German capital Berlin, reports Business Insider. The Brandenburg Nature and Biodiversity ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:29 Future nuclear fusion power plants will not be able to complement wind and solar electricity production because they will likely need to run around the clock for economic and technical reasons, a German parliamentary report concludes. ...
Europe’s most important industries should get more support for innovation to cope with structural change, Germany’s trade union for the mining, chemicals and energy industries (IG BCE) says in a press release. “We’re picturing a future fund,” for example ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Gas Business & Jobs Security 91tv A sudden stop of Russian gas supplies as of July 2022 would lead to a loss of economic output of more than 12 percent, affecting up 5.6 million jobs in the country, a ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:57 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Deutsche Welle After the closure of Germany’s last hard coal mine on 21 December, the legacy ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:10 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany’s economy will take a bigger hit from the energy crisis compared to other European countries, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), business ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050 while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today’s levels without disruptive ...
Federal Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is against establishing a commission to set a date on the phase-out of coal in Germany. Gabriel objected to the proposed commission as it would not address the situation of coal sector workers, saying it was ...
10 Nov 2023, 10:15 Germany’s ruling coalition has reached a deal on how to support industry struggling with high electricity prices in the coming five years. The package of measures, worth 12 billion euros in 2024 alone, includes lowering the electricity ...
12 Sep 2022, 13:37 Sören Amelang Transport Freight Hydrogen 91tv Germany’s national railway operator Deutsche Bahn plans to transport large amounts of green hydrogen on trains, offering an alternative to transport through non-existent ...
20 Jun 2023, 14:40 Carolina Kyllmann Freight Spiegel / 91tv Low water levels in the Rhine river as a consequence of ongoing droughts in various German regions threaten to hurt the country's economy, economists at Deutsche Bank Research ...
26 Apr 2022, 12:40 Edgar Meza Coal Tagesspiegel Long-term plans to transform Germany’s brown coal (lignite) mining regions are taking shape, with investments being prepared for the establishment of two scientific research centres that could focus on ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Business Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s leading business executives are taking climate and environmental protection increasingly serious, according to a survey presented at the COP26 climate ...
25 Aug 2022, 13:58 Hannah Naylor Transport Hydrogen 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany saw the commencement of the world’s first regular operation of hydrogen-powered trains this week, making "railway history," operator company EVB said. ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its growing conflict with the West is leading to increasing uncertainty and concern in Germany’s business sector, with 70 percent of industrial ...
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15 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “A fight for survival” Due to recent government decisions to mothball some lignite plants, utility RWE will cut 900 to 1000 jobs in the western German lignite industry, which ...
18 Jun 2021, 11:17 Julian Wettengel Industry Elections & Politics 91tv The German Green Party’s chancellor candidate, Annalena Baerbock, has refined her party’s proposal to introduce so-called Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) to ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Technology 91tv Discarded chicken eggshells can be used in electro-chemical energy storage systems, an international group of researchers has found. Maximilian Fichtner from the ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:21 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas EU Energate messenger, 91tv The 27 EU energy ministers have failed to ...
02 Jun 2016, 00:00 The latest reform of Germany’s renewable energy law is taking shape – on Tuesday the federal government and the heads of the 16 states reached an agreement on essential aspects of a reformed bill, such as the amount of onshore wind and ...
26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
25 May 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv In cooperation with German investors, Namibia has commissioned Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest green hydrogen production project. The government cabinet approved the entry into the 10 ...
Germany’s primary energy consumption rose by 0.8 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to preliminary calculations by energy market group AG Energiebilanzen. This was due to a strong economy, the group wrote in a press release. Germany ...
With a surprise last-minute veto, federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel blocked a tentative agreement on Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050, writes Markus Wacket for news agency Reuters. German mining, chemicals and energy trade union IG BCE and the ...
29 Jun 2020, 13:06 Industry Handelsblatt Politicians must urgently implement EU-wide mechanisms that help Germany’s heavy industry to continue to be successful while transitioning to greenhouse gas neutrality, says Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:44 Sören Amelang Gas Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s economy ministry has renewed its rejection of the controversial " fracking " method to produce natural gas, in response to a call by the finance ministry to allow using the ...
23 Nov 2022, 14:07 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Policy Society 91tv An alliance of environmental NGOs and an industry union have called on the German government to launch an investment initiative to the tune of 100 billion euros per year ...
A report commissioned by RWE, one of Germany's largest owners of lignite mines and coal-fired power generation, says that a mandated German coal exit by 2040 would shift power generation and related CO₂ emissions to neighbouring countries and lead to ...
07 Oct 2021, 13:57 Edgar Meza Gas Tagesspiegel Background Skyrocketing gas prices in Europe are triggering panic in the market and raising concerns in German industry, Tagesspiegel Background reports. On Wednesday, the spot market price for natural gas ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The German environment ministry (BMU) says it will open a research centre focused on reducing emmissions in energy-intensive industries in the eastern German ...
18 Jan 2022, 12:40 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv The German government will use whatever state funds necessary to support the transition of the country’s industry to climate neutrality through so-called carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:25 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Handelsblatt When presenting the European Commission’s plans for a carbon-neutral EU in 2050, energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete’s remark that certain ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:27 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Kerstine Appunn Resources & Recycling The use of regrowing biotic raw materials such as cereals and wood accounted for 16 percent, or 224 million ...
10 Jun 2020, 16:10 Germany places a large bet on hydrogen produced using renewable energy in its highly anticipated national hydrogen strategy that serves to underpin the country's ambitions to become a global leader in the technology. The strategy ...
07 Oct 2024, 09:30 We are almost exactly one year away from the next German federal elections. Or are we? The three-party coalition government led by chancellor Olaf Scholz is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal WDR The end of coal-fired power production in Germany is set to cause problems for the disposal of toxic waste – such as sewage sludge, used oil and refinery waste – which is often burned at coal plants, Jürgen ...
30 Aug 2016, 00:00 The German government and the EU Commission have reached an agreement on state-aid related aspects of the country’s new power market law and other energy policy issues, clearing the way for the “most important reform” since the market ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:30 Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt Despite the much-anticipated release of its National Hydrogen Strategy this summer, uncertainty still surrounds Germany’s green hydrogen plans, making the path forward unclear despite the government’s ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will be able to procure the volumes of hydrogen imports needed by 2030 if it quickly sets the right infrastructural, legal and entrepreneurial course, a team of researchers ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry Clean ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt The steel industry needs financial support of 13 to 35 billion euros to make the shift to climate-friendly steel production, according to an analysis conducted by think tank Agora Energiewende and ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance COP26 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A month ahead of the international climate conference COP26 in Glasgow, 220 financial institutions call on 1,600 companies to define solid targets to reduce their greenhouse ...
05 Jul 2019, 14:05 Sven Egenter Freight 91tv The companies that depend on the Rhine River – Germany’s most important shipping artery for heavy goods and raw materials – have developed an action plan with the transport ministry, following last ...
12 Mar 2021, 13:34 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Kerstine Appunn Industry Cost & Prices EU 91tv A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:06 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt Industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, the only bidder for German conglomerate Thyssen-Krupp's loss-making steel business, plans to convert the mills to produce green steel if he’s successful, reports German ...
02 Apr 2025, 10:05 They may rail against immigration and climate action on stage but behind the scenes, far-right leaders across Europe welcome labour migrants who are needed for the continent’s energy transition. To fill its rapidly widening skill gaps, ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Industry 91tv At least 100 billion euros of investments are necessary to make European steel production climate neutral by 2050, according to a study by Munich-based consultancy Roland Berger. ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:25 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Tagesspiegel Background An Eastern German city is attempting to stop an opencast lignite mine in neighbouring Poland, reports newsletter Tagesspiegel Background. The city of Zittau, located very ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry accounts for about one third of the country's total industry emissions, meaning that becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 comes with particular challenges to the ...
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 ...
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10 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv German Statistical Office Average power price has risen by one third since 2000 The average price for power for all consumer rose by one third between January 2000 and August 2014 due to higher levies and as ...
19 May 2021, 13:36 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics International RND German federal finance minister Olaf Scholz has proposed the creation of an international organisation of countries to lead the way in climate protection, Andreas Niesmann writes for ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:39 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs 91tv A large number of German companies are pursuing sustainability strategies and have ambitious climate protection goals to reduce their carbon footprint, according to ...
29 Sep 2020, 13:01 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Der Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V. Climate & CO2 Expert WBAE- Scientific Advisory Board ...
14 May 2021, 14:05 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Policy 91tv Germany's government has agreed on a "climate pact" that sketches out steps to achieve the more ambitious emission reduction targets approved by cabinet this ...
03 May 2019, 13:20 Sören Amelang Storage Hydrogen Technology A German consortium has launched a research platform to store renewable hydrogen in a salt cavern. Following a two-year research project, the partners of the HYPOS alliance plan to build the ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche / Der Spiegel / manager magazin Media reports show that rising prices for energy and especially for natural gas across Europe could start to hamper German companies’ ability to ...
07 Oct 2019, 14:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Der Spiegel Hundreds of companies may have used a loophole in Germany's Renewable Energy Act to avoid paying their share of the country's renewables support- and passed on the energy ...
17 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its “inadequate” management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
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22 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv UBA Record high CO2 measurements in Germany Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has measured the highest annual CO2 concentrations ever in 2015. In its research stations on ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:02 Sören Amelang Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The German Greens propose a large public investment programme to support the transition to a climate-friendly economy and a phase-out of combustion engine car sales by 2030 in their ...
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 ...
Synthetic fuels will be competitive with conventional liquid fuels by 2050 and replace oil as the primary ingredient for transport and heating fuels by mid-century, a new study by consultancy Prognos, research institute Fraunhofer UMSICHT and the German ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:16 Two new projects for the climate-friendly production of steel and cement illustrate the ambition of Germany’s industry to meet sustainability targets without ceding market share to foreign competitors. Economy minister, Robert Habeck, ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:49 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs International Tageszeitung (taz) As US voters go to the polls on Tuesday, leading German chemicals producer Bayer will be mainly sponsoring candidates from US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party, ...
19 Jan 2021, 12:21 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Cars 91tv Structural challenges pose a threat to the competitiveness of Germany as a business ...
29 May 2019, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Die Welt The German government has promised financial support for the construction of Germany’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, but one potential site has run into a hurdle, reports Die Welt. The ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche The option to enter long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) is a location advantage for industry in Germany, said Klaus Schäfer, chief technology officer (CTO) at chemicals company Covestro, ...
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 ...
25 Mar 2020, 14:16 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv German researchers are trying to ...
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 ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:38 Germany is betting on sustainable hydrogen to decarbonise its economy and will largely have to import the fuel in future due to unfavourable local conditions for renewable electricity production. With its hydrogen import strategy, the ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:51 Sören Amelang Cars Tagesspiegel Tesla may have to stop construction of its "Gigafactory" near Berlin following new legal action brought by environmental NGOs, reports Thorsten Metzner in the newspaper Tagesspiegel. The ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Gas Funke Mediengruppe / 91tv Germany should look into the option of using fracking technology to extract domestic natural gas in light of the energy crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:50 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's gas industry plans to establish a pipeline network measuring 5,900 kilometres to enable the large-scale use of hydrogen in the country. According to a plan seen by business daily ...
19 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Institute for Economic Research “Shutting down old coal-fired power stations could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 23 million tones and stabilise the power market” A new study by the German ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:32 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry 91tv Natural gas has become by far the most important energy source for power generation of Germany's ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs The emissions reduction targets of several major German companies would violate the Paris Climate Agreement 's goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, a ...
Large-scale installations used for storing renewable power as gas (power-to-gas) would be an interesting prospect for the east German lignite mining region of Lusatia, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Speaking at an event organised by the ...
The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, released today, shows the urgent need for ambitious climate action, according to the German government. In a press release, environment minister Svenja Schulze said the key message of the report is that ...
31 Jul 2020, 12:20 Expert GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Climate & CO2 Technology Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Climate & CO2 Gas 91tv Large amounts of methane, a major greenhouse ...
20 Sep 2019, 13:03 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy ...
04 Nov 2014
04 Nov 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Controversial power lines: Network operators want to considerably lengthen transmission routes” Germany’s four big electricity network operators want to expand new transmission lines that will ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A cooperation with Russian resource company Nornickel could stain the sustainability credentials of Europe's planned ...
14 Jul 2020, 14:15 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Industry The use of new low-emission technology across all ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / Dlf Several chip and semiconductor manufacturers have criticised high taxes and levies on electricity as a disadvantage for Germany as an industry location in ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:30 German government officials and industry associations have welcomed the EU’s proposal for a “Green Deal Industrial Plan,” intended to enhance the competitiveness of Europe's industry on the path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany must review its climate change adaptation strategy as an early heatwave this year has shown that extreme weather events happen more frequently, said German Chancellor Angela ...
14 May 2020, 14:03 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany can establish an initial grid for transporting green hydrogen made with renewables by 2030 at limited costs, according to the country's gas transmission grid operator umbrella ...
06 Jan 2025, 12:12 Germany is of central importance when it comes to the EU defining its priorities in energy and industrial policies, says Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. He argues that the country’s next ...
12 Apr 2022, 11:50 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv / Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background Plans to build import infrastructure for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Germany are quickly taking shape as more companies decide to invest, but NGOs and ...
Germany’s new minister for the environment and nuclear safety will be Svenja Schulze from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The 49-year old, from the country’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), will be “an excellent minister” who supports ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:11 As German stakeholders eagerly await the European Commission’s proposals on overhauling the EU’s energy and climate policy, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has said new EU laws could mean that the country has to once again ...
28 May 2021, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Business International Tagesschau / Wirtschaftswoche The German government has come to an agreement on the supply chain law, which aims to ensure human rights and the protection of the environment in production along ...
26 May 2021, 13:25 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Germany will need some 60 terawatt-hours of hydrogen by 2030 and domestic production can only cover a third of that demand, according to a paper by Berlin-based think tank Climate Neutrality ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:37 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal dpa / Stern Germany's mining labour union and the premier of a lignite mining state have warned against speeding up the country's coal exit under a new government. In their current ...
30 Mar 2016
30 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Reuters/SMA Solar “SMA Solar returns to profit on foreign demand” SMA Solar, Germany’s largest solar group, posted its first operating profit in three years thanks to strong foreign ...
09 Feb 2016
09 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Rheinische Post “We can’t cope with a premature lignite exit” The Paris Agreement has no consequences for Germany, because the country already has the most ambitious climate targets, according to ...
17 Jan 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices Die Welt Germany’s energy-intensive industries have called for an energy transition cost “super cap” for their businesses, Daniel Wetzel reports for newspaper Die Welt. Lobby ...
20 Dec 2019, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende 91tv The government’s recently adopted comprehensive climate package will have little effect on the Germany economy in 2020, says Deutsche Bank Research in its outlook for the ...
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 ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:40 Sven Egenter Finance Security 91tv Russia’s cuts to natural gas supplies and the wider economic fallout from the war against Ukraine will push the German economy into recession, analysts at Deutsche Bank forecast. “A likely ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:09 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen Technology 91tv Researchers in Germany have combined ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
22 Jun 2021, 13:45 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Leading experts and representatives from civil society, environmental NGOs and industry sharply criticized the planned amendment to the German federal Climate Action Law during a public ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:05 Freja Eriksen Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv Germany’s largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has set itself the target of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. “Thyssenkrupp aims to be climate ...
28 May 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv As part of Germany’s long-term strategy to make hydrogen a cornerstone of its energy transition, the federal ministries for economic affairs and energy (BMWi) and of transport and digital ...
05 Dec 2019, 13:13 Expert German Investment Funds Association Deutscher Fondsverband Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The volume of assets managed in retail funds under sustainability criteria in Germany has doubled over the past five ...
22 May 2019, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv A group of more than 1,000 companies from Germany has joined the appeal by student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) for greater climate action efforts. Under the label ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 The first block of a large coal-fired power station has just gone online in Hamburg, even as two thirds of German fossil-fuelled facilities fail to turn a profit and their operators are applying for many to be mothballed. So is the ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:22 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's Green Party is proposing a plan to make the country's energy-intensive industries like steel and cement more climate-friendly, using a comprehensive package of ...
30 Dec 2014, 00:00 After an eventful 2014 – marked by the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), a new climate action package and the first fall in CO2 emissions for two years – German energy policy is primed for action in 2015. Expert AGEB- AG ...
Germany will need the well-directed use of power-based synthetic fuels in connection with a phase-out of oil and natural gas to reach its long-term climate targets, the think tanks Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende* write in a joint analysis. ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:13 Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Germany's environment minister Svenja Schulze has proposed to speed up the large-scale use of renewable hydrogen with a quota for aeroplane fuels and tenders for production. "For me it is ...
30 Mar 2021, 13:37 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Green hydrogen technology can help reduce emissions from industry, transport and heating in ...
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 ...
12 Oct 2022, 14:48 The European energy crisis is set to push Germany into a recession in 2023, as rising energy prices put a damper on industrial production and inflation means citizens will buy less, said the economy ministry in its autumn projection for ...
15 Jan 2015, 00:00 German trade unions are vocal stakeholders in the Energiewende, wary of job losses in the conventional energy sector and campaigning for labour rights in the growing renewables sector. Their importance is amplified by their traditional ...
15 Feb 2021, 13:44 After months of internal dispute, Germany's government has agreed on a draft law for reforming corporate responsibility for sustainable supply chains. Large companies that rely on imported resources and workers in source countries, ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:39 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture Germany’s farmers will have to make greater efforts to contribute to the country’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, environment Minister Svenja Schulze has said at her ministry’s annual Agriculture ...
20 Aug 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Handelsblatt Influential German ...
18 May 2020, 14:16 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen 91tv Germany should aim to build up large capacities of hydrogen ...
28 Oct 2021, 13:37 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas 91tv / EurActiv Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz (SPD) has re-iterated that the country must build new gas-fired power plants to complement renewables and guarantee ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:20 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has passed the latest reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which specifies a timeline of tenders for renewable power installation additions until ...
16 Apr 2020, 13:04 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 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & ...
13 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung Night storage heating has comeback thanks to the Energiewende Night storage heating, ovens that take up power at night when there used to be an over-supply of cheap power and ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:40 Sören Amelang Coal Gas Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Handelsblatt / Energate The German government has adjourned a decision on the country's highly anticipated strategy on how to boost the use of hydrogen to decarbonise ...
12 Mar 2020, 13:52 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy-intensive companies from Germany are calling for an EU-wide electricity price for industry as a simple instrument to safeguard the sector's global competitiveness during ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Die Welt / Börsen-Zeitung / manager magazin Policymakers and energy companies in Germany have no intention to put the scheduled end to nuclear power production in ...
13 Sep 2021, 14:00 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv A second televised debate between the three chancellor candidates for the German federal election has again seen the Social Democrats’ (SPD) candidate Olaf Scholz come out on ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:21 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 Gas Renewables Hydrogen ...
20 Mar 2019, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ICIS / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background German chemicals producer Wacker has complained that rising energy prices caused by the progressing phase-out ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:24 Germany is starting a novel subsidy programme worth billions of euros in a bid to make its prized heavy industry climate neutral. Following a preparatory phase beginning in early June, the country plans to introduce so-called Carbon ...
02 Sep 2021, 12:00 In its pursuit of climate neutrality by 2045, Germany has set its sights on extending the energy transition to its famed heavy industry. All major parties address the topic in their programmes for the election on 26 September, ...
27 Apr 2020, 13:10 In the fight against climate change, hydrogen made with renewable electricity is increasingly seen as a silver bullet for sectors with particularly stubborn emissions, such as heavy industry and aviation. As a result, the emission-free ...
17 Jun 2021, 12:00 As the German election campaign kicks into its next gear, the chancellor candidates of the country’s major parties met face to face on Wednesday to discuss climate and energy issues at an event organised by energy industry association ...
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 ...
09 Dec 2014
09 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv EurActiv “Global comparison reveals Germany's 'Energiewende dilemma'” Germany scored average results (place 22 of 61) in the global climate protection index, compiled by the NGO ...
12 Jul 2024, 15:00 The European elections are over and, as was widely expected, centre-right conservatives finished on top, leaving everybody else in the European Parliament the duty to find common ground with the biggest group and form an alliance. ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:40 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:44 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Gas ...
01 Apr 2015, 00:00 Fracking is to be banned in all protected areas and near aquifers in Germany, a government draft law proposes. Unconventional fracking in upper rock layers is only permitted for scientific purposes or in individual cases. Environmental ...
27 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Eon and Vattenfall join forces in nuclear power lawsuit” German taxpayers may shoulder as much as 9 million euros in fees from a US lawsuit filed by Swedish energy group Vattenfall against ...
11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015, 00:00 Agora Energiewende “Without a decisive change of course the emissions trading system will fail permanently” Only the rapid introduction of a market stability reserve to increase the price of CO2 emissions can salvage the European system ...
05 Feb 2015
05 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Vattenfall / Reuters Vattenfall Annual report: Focus on renewables in Germany Swedish utility Vattenfall, who operates power stations, mines and other energy businesses across Europe, highlights in ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International WWF / Greenpeace / DUH / BNE / VCI / BDI The European Commission’s plan to make the EU CO2-neutral by 2050 has been largely appreciated by environmental NGOs as ...
12 Oct 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she does not give up the government’s goal to reduce CO₂ emissions by 40 percent by 2020, which would “play a big role” in the upcoming talks to form a new government coalition. Germany’s broad ...
30 Oct 2015
30 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv UN Climate Change Secretariat “Global response to climate change keeps door open to 2 degree C temperature limit” A report assessing the 140 climate action plans submitted to the United Nations ...
31 Mar 2017, 00:00 LEAG, the owner of one of Germany’s largest lignite-mining operations, has scrapped plans by former owner Vattenfall to expand one of its lignite mines. The company is also downsizing or putting on hold development of two other mines. ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:36 Increasing international competition in the transition to a more sustainable economy will require tight-knit cooperation among EU countries and a tough stance on defending the bloc from unlawful trade subsidies abroad, the economy ...
11 Jun 2021, 12:54 Green delegates are pushing for more ambitious climate policies in the party's election manifesto to be finalised at a party congress over the weekend, as the party seeks to stem a recent slide in the polls. Against the backdrop of ...
20 Jan 2022, 10:22 Germany's new government must take rapid policy decisions at home and actively engage at the EU level and beyond to pave the way for urgent emission cuts in energy-intensive industry. The start of the country's government ...
10 Sep 2021, 14:56 Germany could transform its economy to net zero emissions by 2045 at net zero costs, because switching to green technologies opens up new markets and opportunities for growth, consultancy McKinsey has found. In its report „Net-Zero ...
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 ...
10 Jul 2023, 13:00 Germany is bracing for summer heat and drought, as temperatures across Europe reach record levels and the rest of the world faces unparalleled extreme weather events. With the first heat warnings, dropping water levels in major rivers, ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:03 As president Vladimir Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine and the U.S. is preparing to ban all oil imports from Russia, calls are getting louder for Germany and Europe to follow Washington’s lead. European countries are paying ...
07 Nov 2014
07 Nov 2014, 00:00 Spiegel Online “Protest against climate policy: Greenpeace dumps 8 tonnes of coal in front of Gabriel’s ministry” Enivronmental group Greenpeace dumped eight tonnes of lignite coal in front of the German Economics Ministry on Thursday, ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:38 Germany will earmark billions of euros less for climate and transformation projects every year until 2027 in order to make the government budget comply with constitutionally enshrined limits on borrowing. One month after a seminal ...
19 May 2022, 12:00 Germany has reacted largely positively to EU plans for ending dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the European Commission’s RePowerEU Plan an “important initiative” that could give fresh impetus to ...
13 Apr 2022, 13:56 Germany is facing a 2-percent drop in its GDP in 2023 in case of an immediate halt to imports of Russian oil, gas and coal, leading economic institutes said in their joint forecast. This is in line with other recent forecasts, but ...
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 ...
06 Jun 2016
06 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel “80 percent renewables are not a problem” There is much more flexibility in the German power grid to cope with renewables development than currently needed, said Boris ...
18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “The Goliath in open-cast mining” The illegal protests against open-cast mining in Western Germany over the weekend are strongly reminiscent of the violent demonstrations in the country against ...
27 May 2015
27 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BEE / BWE “Germany risks missing binding EU target for renewables” If Germany sticks to current policies, it will miss its official target of 18 percent renewables in final energy consumption by ...
16 Aug 2016, 00:00 The rise of volatile wind and solar power in the share of Germany’s electricity generation means that keeping the grid stable becomes an ever more complex – and potentially costly – task. Predicting how many renewable megawatts will be ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 Germany’s first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of “green” hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating “clear and pragmatic” requirements for green ...
23 Oct 2014
23 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Energy policy: backwards roll” It is not just Germany undertaking an energy transition, writes Cerstin Gammelin in an opinion piece for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, other European ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:34 Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country’s ...
15 Jul 2015, 00:00 The European Commission has launched its proposals for an Energy Union, including reform of the emissions trading scheme, a redesign of the European power market, updated efficiency labelling and consumer empowerment. 91tv has compiled ...
30 May 2018, 00:00 Germany struggles to get its highly anticipated coal exit task force on track. The government on Wednesday postponed at the last minute the official launch of the phase-out commission for the third time. The quarrels over the commission ...
21 Aug 2018, 15:33 The projected rise in CO2 prices in Europe could see coal-fired power plants being replaced by gas plants in Germany, thereby saving millions of tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions and helping the country to achieve its energy transition ...
07 Feb 2024, 10:30 The European Commission has recommended that the bloc reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, saying the EU's Green Deal now needs to become an "industrial decarbonisation deal." Politicians from member ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:30 Germany's environment ministry has warned that climate-neutral fuels made with renewables must not become an excuse for neglecting the domestic roll-out of renewables, increasing efficiency and other efforts to cut emissions. " ...
14 Apr 2015
14 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) “Germany as a business location: Energiewende beats Industry 4.0” A majority of companies in the electrical industry is ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:30 The climate impact of construction has mostly remained an afterthought in Europe's efforts to make its buildings climate-friendly, which has largely focused on heating emissions. Yet, as homes and offices become more energy ...
04 Dec 2014
04 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Welt online "Government advisors pick apart the Energiewende" Official advisors to the German government have criticised Energiewende policies as “not concrete enough” and “not enough to achieve Germany’s ...
21 Apr 2021, 16:38 German politicians have welcomed the deal concluded by EU lawmakers on a climate law that enshrines the goal of climate-neutrality 2050 and a more ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target. However, conservatives and industry ...
06 May 2022, 14:04 The effects of the war in Ukraine will have a major impact on Germany’s most important state election this year, making next week’s vote in heavy industry heartland North-Rhine Westphalia another gauge of the public’s view of the ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Germany can reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 but enormous tasks such as the massive expansion of renewable energy and transformation of whole industries have to be initiated as quickly as possible by the country’s next ...
17 May 2018, 00:00 Germany must ensure a "just Energiewende" by making sure the project remains affordable for all and provides high quality jobs, according to the 6 million-member trade union group DGB. The unions back Germany’s climate targets ...
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 ...
23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 In Czech company EPH, Vattenfall might have found a buyer for its lignite coal mines and power stations in Lusatia. But as the companies involved refuse to comment, environmentalists warn that coal has no future in a country that wants ...
11 Dec 2020, 14:14 German politicians have welcomed the EU leaders’ decision to increase the bloc’s 2030 climate target as an important decision that puts the Union on a credible path towards climate neutrality by 2050 and means the bloc is once again one ...
15 Jan 2016
15 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Full wind speed ahead” The reason why payments for renewables have increased to 24.1 billion euros in 2015 is to be found in their success, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a Q ...
28 Jun 2022, 15:11 Civil society groups and others have largely reacted with criticism of the German presidency's role in furthering climate action within the G7 group of influential economies. With the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion ...
13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Deserted” 100 works councils of the four big German utilities held a crisis summit in Berlin on Thursday, Markus Balser writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Because the big ...
10 Oct 2022, 13:41 The German state should support households and businesses with about 90 billion euros by early 2024 to lower gas bills, said an expert commission charged by the government with drawing up a plan to relieve gas consumers affected by ...
12 Dec 2015, 00:00 Countries have agreed to a new global deal to limit global warming and address climate change impacts / “Paris will forever be connected to this historic watershed,” says Chancellor Merkel / “Climate neutrality” still in the text, just ...
31 Aug 2023, 10:00 Climate change is putting Europe’s water resources under immense pressure. Scientists expect heavy rain and dry periods to happen more often, be more severe, and last longer, leading to floods and droughts. Without swift mitigation and ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:32 Germany’s next government must act quickly, trigger large-scale investments and set the right framework to ensure the country transforms its economy to reach climate neutrality by 2045, said industry association BDI and Boston ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:14 The European Union wants to establish itself as the world leader in hydrogen technologies and will focus on ramping up electrolyser capacities in the next four years. According to the European Commission's hydrogen strategy, the ...
22 May 2019, 11:33 Volker Hille’s passion project could cut Germany’s entire CO2 output by almost one percent. He is head of corporate technology at Salzgitter Group, one of Europe’s largest steelmakers, which currently emits around eight million tonnes ...
13 Jul 2021, 13:07 The German energy ministry has increased the country’s estimated power needs in 2030-- a figure that will be crucial after the general elections in September, when a new government has to set renewable energy expansion targets based on ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Dirty deal” At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
24 Apr 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to go beyond a rational take on the Energiewende and develop “a certain passion and joy” for the country’s generational project. Speaking at an event by her conservative CDU/CSU group in the ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 The G7 has published its final communiqué after the summit in Elmau in southern Germany. 91tv presents reactions from Germany to the results of the meeting of major industrialised countries. Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:20 Faced with a “drastic backlog” of too-high emissions left by the previous government and with not enough measures in place to reach the 2030 climate targets, Germany’s new minister for the economy and climate, Robert Habeck, has ...
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 ...
24 Feb 2015, 00:00 A vote in the European Parliament on the reform of the EU's emissions trading system has prompted applause by some and disappointment from others. The 91tv has compiled some of the reactions out of Germany to the ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:26 Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives and researchers agreed at a conference ...
29 Jun 2016, 00:00 The energy industry and transport sector may escape specific greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to a new draft version of Germany's Climate Action Plan 2050. The proposal also omits an end date for power production from ...
27 Jan 2016
27 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “E-car collision in the coalition” The Social Democrats’ parliamentary group wants to push e-mobility with incentives worth billions, reports Andreas Mihm in the ...
24 Jul 2020, 10:40 The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change. Scarred by its painful experience in solar PV manufacturing, ...
23 Jan 2020, 15:45 The expansion of offshore wind power capacity in Germany has exceeded that of onshore turbines for the first time ever last year. This is both due to a particularly bad year for onshore expansion and the increasing competitiveness of ...
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08 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau Nuclear decommissioning: Environmental activists worried about security An alliance of 76 environmental groups is demanding stricter security standards and more public ...
29 Oct 2020, 17:50 The German car industry has committed to climate-neutral mobility by 2050 for the first time, but continues to reject a sole focus on electric mobility. Following a fierce quarrel within the lobby group, industry association VDA said ...
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 The EU Commission has published its strategy paper on the creation of a European Energy Union. 91tv presents a brief summary of reactions out of Germany to the proposals. Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv International Policy See the ...
23 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany’s industry should work with the government to reach the goals in the country’s newly adopted Climate Action Plan 2050 rather than criticise the plan or individual measures, energy state secretary Rainer Baake told a conference ...
27 Sep 2018, 13:57 Germany needs to have a rational and open public discussion about carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and storage (CCS) as ways to avoid releasing climate-harmful emissions from industry into the environment. A position paper by the ...
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 State-owned Swedish utility Vattenfall has agreed to sell its east German lignite operations to Czech utility EPH, the company said on Monday. While the affected regions stressed the sale would finally put an end to employees' ...
