28 Jun 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Business & Jobs 91tv Almost six out of ten German companies (59%) say they do not see themselves affected by the negative consequences of climate change today or in the future, shows the ...
09 Apr 2015
09 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv German Centre for Energy Resources Freiberg (DER) Germans deeply split about coal Germans are deeply split about the mining and use of coal, a study from the German Centre for Energy Resources ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:35 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The shortage of skilled labour is a drag on the global energy transition and could put UN climate targets at risk, says a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) that ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:48 Jennifer Collins Fossil fuels Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany covered just 6 percent of its natural gas and 2 percent of oil demand with domestic supplies in 2023 as production continues to sink, according to an ...
26 May 2015
26 May 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Berliner Morgenpost “Climate debate splits government” The discussion about how Germany can achieve its climate goals has raised tensions within the government, reports the Berliner Morgenpost. Armin Laschet, ...
30 Dec 2015
30 Dec 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Government puts pressure on municipal utilities” Germany’s municipal utilities have criticised the federal government’s plans for digitalising the Energiewende and its ...
10 Dec 2015, 00:00 [Updates new draft release] Shorter draft with less brackets and clarity on long-term target / EU fights for differentiation and sees red lines on ratcheting up ambition crossed / Saudi Arabia as the symbol for "self-destruction ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:17 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Politics Rheinische Post / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung At least two German federal states are considering legal action against carmakers for compensation because the dieselgate scandal has ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Czechia and eastern German state Saxony have agreed to deepen their cooperation on a joint network for hydrogen and to generally intensify research and industry exchange in the budding ...
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 ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Several southern German states have called on the federal government to design state support rules for electrolysers in a way that includes their regions, reported ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:38 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Focus Online Despite a reduction in road traffic, nitrogen oxide ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:51 Jennifer Collins Grid Solar Handelsblatt Germany's energy industry has urged for a standardisation of renewables' grid connections in order to speed up the process. Industry association BDEW said that grid operators had " ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa The final shutdown of seven lignite and eight smaller hard coal power plant units with a combined capacity of 4.4 gigawatts (GW) over the Easter holidays does not threaten Germany's energy supply security, ...
Germany is in fourth place in the European Union energy efficiency ranking ODYSSEE-MURE, behind the UK, Ireland and Spain. The ranking scores EU countries on different energy efficiency criteria, such as energy efficiency level, energy efficiency progress ...
Two citizen action groups have collected almost 50,000 signatures on a petition calling for amendments to the rules on wind turbine construction in Germany’s northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, Dow Jones Newswires reports. The signatories want the rules ...
19 Jan 2015
19 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Utopian targets” The development of renewable energies is fast-paced in Germany but that is no reason for euphoria, writes Jürgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. Germany will miss its ...
28 Aug 2015
28 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche Report paints favourable outlook for Energiewende After the business-owned Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) recently warned that the transition to renewable power ...
Germany’s parliament has approved legslation to authorise a search for a permanent nuclear waste storage site, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The search will be conducted across the country and is meant to find a solution by 2031, the ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:40 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Power production with renewable energy ...
The German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) is taking legal action against the controversial natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, which is supposed to connect Germany with Russia via the Baltic Sea. The NGO says the offshore pipeline will ...
The EU commission plans to sue Germany because pollution levels in many cities exceed EU limits, according to news agency dpa. The commission told the German government it plans to take the issue of elevated nitrogen oxide levels- which are caused in ...
23 May 2016
23 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt / Süddeutsche Zeitung “Energiewende gets more expensive” The energy and economy ministry believes a rise in the renewable surcharge for next year is “likely,” according ...
07 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany has launched official talks to phase out coal power in a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have remained stubbornly high despite the country’s shift to renewable power. The 91tv collects reactions from ...
06 Apr 2022, 13:07 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Gas Industry 91tv German industry association BDI said it supports the European ...
24 Jan 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Last year was the sunniest and among the warmest years in Germany, according to the National Meteorological Service (DWD). With an average annual temperature of 10.5 degrees Celsius, 2022 ...
A Düsseldorf court has dismissed a suit by lobby group Environmental Action Germany (DUH) seeking a ban of certain Volkswagen diesel cars from the city’s roads, Anneli Palmen reports for Reuters. DUH argued that Volkswagen diesel cars with emissions test ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:50 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Business & Jobs Handelsblatt German cities are keen to replace their current busses with electric ones, but there aren’t enough German models available, Dieter Fockenbrock reports for ...
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” ...
The Baden Wuerttemberg Green-Christian Democrats (CDU) state government has lodged a federal appeal against a city court ruling that found inner-city driving restrictions to cut air pollution permissible, Stuttgarter Nachrichten reports. The Stuttgart ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon market 91tv Germany’s emissions under the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) remained constant in 2022 compared to the previous year, the annual report from the German Emissions Trading ...
06 Dec 2016, 00:00 According to Germany’s constitutional court, the government’s 2011 decision to speed up the nuclear power phase-out was in line with constitutional requirements. Nuclear power plant operators argued the move amounted to expropriation ...
03 Apr 2024, 13:30 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Society 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche A private energy transition for individual households could be both ecologically and economically worthwhile, according to a report by the consulting subsidiary ...
30 Nov 2017, 00:00 During its G20 presidency this year, Germany made the issue of climate change and energy transition a central topic- and its G20 presidency successor Argentina is ready to carry it forward to the 2018 summit in Buenos Aires, according ...
Since 2010, the German government has donated around 7 million euros to NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH), which recently gained international attention over its lawsuits against German municipal administrations which opened the door to diesel ...
The “arrogance” of German utility innogy in late 2017 has given way to a “ newfound modesty ” at the beginning of 2018, Helmut Bünder writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The company’s announcement of a cost-cutting action across ...
11 Nov 2015
11 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Reuters “E.ON sticks to spin-off plans after record net loss” E.ON says it is sticking to its plans to spin off its conventional power operations, after posting a record net loss in the first nine months of 2015 on the ...
29 Oct 2019, 08:40 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how Germany's energy transition is transforming the commercial landscape. To showcase these big changes in the world’s fourth largest economy, this new series ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Leading members of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) have called for a reversal of the country’s nuclear phase ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv Representatives of the Nama people in Namibia are preparing an appeal to the German government to consider its colonial past in its plans to make the southern African country a ...
The German Council of Economic Experts has suggested that instead of “national energy transitions and action programmes”, a global CO 2 price would be the better system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In its 2018/19 annual report, the council says ...
28 Sep 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Policy dpa A large part of the country’s revenue from the increasing national carbon price on fuel for transport and heating could be passed on to the country’s citizens from 2025, said finance minister Christian Lindner. ...
18 Nov 2015
18 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) Balance Sheet of Energiewende Germany has published an assessment of its national climate protection efforts. The government says Germany is making “good ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:41 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv One in two German utilities are finding it difficult to attract new employees, and four out of five companies in the sector expect the problem to worsen in the near future and slow ...
24 Apr 2024, 14:15 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy ministry sees "signs of a slight economic upturn" in the country as energy-intensive industries have expanded their production since the beginning of ...
Back in 2016, the German Federal Ministry of Transport (BMVI) pushed for a legal provision blocking environmental organisations from taking legal action against the model approval and sale of diesel cars with high emissions, according to a letter obtained ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 The German government has conceded that the country is on course to widely miss its 2020 climate target. The economic boom, the pressure of immigration, and high emissions in transport mean that the energy transition pioneer is headed ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A planned hydrogen "core" network in Germany has come under criticism for being larger than necessary and therefore becoming too expensive, reports Handelsblatt. ...
The court case in car industry hub Stuttgart on diesel engines’ nitrogen oxide emissions pits the Baden-Wuerttemberg state’s Greens-led transport ministry against the NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH). This is a case of “Green versus Green”, writes ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Construction 91tv Germany must set a good example worldwide when it comes to construction with timber, agriculture minister Cem Özdemir said during the " Charter for Wood 2 ...
Buyers of Tesla Model S must pay back government support they received to purchase the car, the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) has announced in a press release. BAFA estimates that its action applies to approximately 800 people. ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Technology 91tv German researchers said they have reached an important milestone in the development of a scalable and energy-efficient direct air capture (DAC) technology to remove CO2 from the ...
07 Jul 2021, 11:50 With a revamped sustainable finance strategy that introduces a new green bond standard and support for smaller companies, the EU hopes to provide the financial market guidelines needed to achieve the bloc's ambitious climate ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world’s largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
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 ...
04 Mar 2024, 13:33 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating 91tv People in Germany needed to use much less energy to heat their homes between September 2023 and February 2024 due to an exceptionally warm autumn and winter, and also benefited from a ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv Extreme rainfall in Germany between 2002 and 2021 has generated damages on residential buildings worth over 12.6 billion euros, figures by insurer association GDV show. ...
NGO Environmental Action Germany is launching a campaign to supplement what it says is inadequate air pollution testing by the government. A new web portal will allow citizens to report locations with high traffic pollution. DUH will then use a network of ...
01 Oct 2020, 13:25 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Coal Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / 91tv Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner has rejected a coal phase out by 2030 if the country lacks affordable energy, newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported. ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International 91tv The UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on 5-15 June are set to be marked by “tough negotiations under high pressure from the fossil fuel lobby,” NGO Germanwatch said. By all indications, ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:47 China’s prime minister has branded allegations from Europe of Chinese overcapacities in key technologies such as solar panels as unfounded. The “theory” of unfair competition would not hold and China was merely using its national ...
The government has put the finishing touches on draft legislation to support Germany’s booming car-sharing market, business daily Handelsblatt has learned. “The goal is to make it possible for the states to set up special parking places and free parking ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:39 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas International Security France and Germany have struck a compromise allowing Berlin to remain the lead negotiator with Russia on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline to Europe, reports news agency ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv A new protection strategy for moorlands adopted by Germany’s government aims to better ...
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 ...
01 Mar 2016
01 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv IHS “As European solar installations slow, China, US and Japan lead global installed PV capacity in 2016” The United States and Japan will surpass Germany’s installed solar PV capacity this year, ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:29 Jennifer Collins International 91tv / Die Zeit Germany is planning to end export guarantees for oil and coal projects and will bolster support for green technology exports in an effort to align the country’s foreign trade ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:55 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung More than 300 ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv The EU still lacks an ambitious industrial strategy to accompany the Green Deal to strengthen the bloc's industry and ensure it is able to keep up in the global race for the green ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:10 German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron held an informal meeting aimed to nurse the crucial Franco-German axis for Europe’s industrial transformation on the way to climate neutrality. In Hamburg, northern ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Adaptation 91tv / dpa, Die Zeit / Table.Media The German government’s upcoming ‘Water Strategy’ aims to improve ...
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 After more than a decade of rising electricity prices, German utilities are passing on some of their savings from lower wholesale prices and a cut in the renewable energy surcharge. But with a number of government decisions on the next ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv Europe and Germany should ensure that certain elements of the supply chain of industries critical for the move to climate neutrality happen on their home turf to make the ...
05 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany has crossed a symbolic milestone in its energy transition by briefly covering around 100 percent of electricity use with renewables for the first time ever on 1 January. In the whole of last year, the world’s fourth largest ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Energy politicians from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) are proposing to introduce a mandated share of climate-friendly gases into the German gas mix, reported Handelsblatt. Companies that ...
Maria Krautzberger, head of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), says Germany should introduce a road charge linked to mileage for all vehicles, to cut emissions from the transport sector. “There has been no emissions reduction whatsoever from the ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany should introduce a "balanced catalogue of measures" to secure its supply of necessary raw materials as the world shifts through a dual transformation of ...
31 Oct 2014, 00:00 The German government plans a complete overhaul of energy sector legislation. But one key question is as yet unanswered: Do fossil power plants need subsidies if Germany is to avoid power shortages? A green paper on energy market reform ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:04 Following intense criticism of the German government's planned minimum distance rules for wind power by industry and environmental groups, economy minister Peter Altmaier says the government has not made a final decision on what ...
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 ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:55 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Renewables Finance Bavarian Economy and Energy Ministry Since according to a new report Germany has been overtaken by France as the G20’s most attractive target country for investment in ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs EU 91tv The renewable energy sector offers promising opportunities for economically disadvantaged rural regions in the European Union that could not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:32 Edgar Meza Carbon removal Technology 91tv NGO Germanwatch, which promotes sustainable development and climate protection, is warning against the country’s CO2 management policy opening the door to “a permanent extension of ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:16 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv The past decade has seen a sharp drop in prices for clean ...
10 May 2024, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Representatives of Germany’s energy industry have voiced doubts whether the government’s planned Power Plant Strategy, which is supposed to pave the way for the use of new ...
21 Mar 2024, 14:07 Sören Amelang Grid Cost & Prices Die Zeit / Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is considering to stabilise electricity prices with a new instrument designed to reign in rising grid fees. "I want us to protect private ...
A court in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen has ordered the first driving ban for older diesel cars on an Autobahn, the German highway famous for its long sections without speed limits. The court ruled that the city of Essen in federal state North ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:57 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Government Der Spiegel The plans to comprehensively modernise and expand Germany’s national railway company Deutsche Bahn could take ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Transport Hydrogen Heating Policy Handelsblatt The German government wants to use hydrogen for decarbonising road transport and heating, in addition to industry, according to a highly anticipated revamp of the national ...
30 May 2023, 13:36 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Cars Tagesschau New cars registered in the first four months of 2023 are on average emitting significantly more CO2 than those registered in 2022, writes public broadcaster ARD. Data from Germany’s ...
18 Oct 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Grid Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's coalition government is considering steps to enable the use of more green electricity that is currently curtailed due to grid bottlenecks, ...
03 Dec 2015
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Energy Transition/Fraunhofer ISE “Wind power #1 electricity source in November” Stormy weather pushed Germany’s wind power production to a new record in November, covering a full quarter of domestic demand. It ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:56 Sören Amelang Heating Policy dpa Germany's Green Party parliamentary group wants to support the country’s struggling economy with a 30 billion euro investment programme that focuses on energy-efficient building modernisations. An ...
28 Feb 2024, 12:30 Jennifer Collins Wind Business & Jobs Die Welt The management board of Siemens Energy faced down displeased shareholders looking for answers to spiralling losses from wind turbine subsidiary Siemens Gamesa at the group's annual ...
06 Jan 2017, 00:00 Germany’s Energiewende – the country’s double shift to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy – yielded mixed results in the past year, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende. Thanks to a partial switch from ...
26 Mar 2024
26 Mar 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The growing volumes of cheap green technologies coming out of China are leading to worries that solar panels, electric cars, batteries and other products sold below their production price ...
The federal environment ministry’s statement that software updates are insufficient to improve air quality in German cities makes the August ‘ diesel summit ’ a failure, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Action plans ...
Peter Altmaier’s track record as Germany’s economy and energy minister lacks actions, particularly in energy policy, Antje Höning and Birgit Marschall write in the Rheinische Post. “The energy transition resembles a construction site, and the planned coal ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv The reform of an energy consumption label for passenger cars underestimates the projected CO2 price of transport fuels like diesel and petrol, consumer protection ...
01 Aug 2018, 17:31 With a national “diesel summit” in early August 2017, the German government tried to curb the fallout of the country’s emissions fraud scandal and avoid being sued by the European Commission over excessive air pollution. One year on, ...
26 Oct 2018, 08:41 Members of Germany's coal exit commission have unanimously adopted the first major policy recommendations for the country's lignite mining regions affected by a future coal power phase-out. At an on-site meeting in the Rhenish ...
04 Oct 2018, 14:16 The financial sector in Germany needs better regulation to fully incorporate sustainability criteria in its business practices, says Kristina Jeromin, head of sustainability at the German stock exchange Deutsche Börse and managing ...
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 ...
The growth of renewables, while slowed, continues throughout Europe and is putting pressure on the price of electricity, Frank-Thomas Wenzel writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. What could happen is a stronger reduction of overcapacity, such as the large ...
Almost every other German plans to spend money on increasing the energy efficiency of their home, Rheinische Post reports. In a survey conducted by Environmental Action Germany (DUH) and heating engineering company Vaillant, 48 percent said they planned ...
Consumer protection association Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has filed lawsuits against regulatory authorities in ten cities in order to withdraw roadworthiness of VW vehicles affected by the carmaker’s emissions fraud scandal, the association has ...
The western German city of Frankfurt must introduce a ban on older diesel vehicles as part of a plan to improve air quality, the Federal Administrative Court ruled, reports news agency Reuters. The country’s financial centre must from February 2019 ban ...
15 Oct 2018, 17:33 The ruling Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) – the sister party to Angela Merkel’s CDU and the partner in her national grand coalition government – were dealt a historic blow in the Bavarian state elections, ...
02 Aug 2023, 14:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv [Update adds link to report] Germany has generated a record 3.89 billion euros from the sale of allowances under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:08 Jack McGovan Wind Society 91tv More than three-quarters of the German population (81%) think the use and expansion of onshore wind energy is important or very important, according to a new analysis published today by the ...
24 Jan 2017, 00:00 Germany's economy and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel will not run for Chancellor in this year's federal election. Gabriel plans to step down from his current role to head the foreign office instead, various news outlets ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Grid The German Green Party has called for an adjusted grid expansion plan in Germany that accounts for a drastically reduced coal power capacity as well as the foreseeable progress in ...
The concentration of harmful nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) emissions are above the legal limit in 116 cities and municipalities in Germany, NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says in a press release. The NGO’s analysis included 41 cities that so far had not ...
22 Jun 2023, 13:58 Carolina Kyllmann Technology 91tv Timber is set to displace other emission-intensive building materials like cement and steel as Germany looks to decarbonise its construction sector, according to a government strategy. ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society 91tv / Handelsblatt German homeowners remain underinsured against extreme weather events like floods, which are ever more likely as a result of climate change. Two years after devastating ...
11 Jun 2015
11 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv DPA / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau “Coal levy threatened” The levy on emissions from old coal-fired power stations is on the brink of failure, insiders have told German press agency DPA. ...
The software updates offered by VW for diesel cars affected by emissions manipulation are completely inadequate to reduce the vehicles’ pollution levels to below legal limits, according to Environmental Action Germany (DUH). “We don’t need ‘Mickey-Mouse ...
Germany’s Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) has published recommendations to protect bats when constructing and operating wind parks in forests. Identifying which bat species live in the area is important for tailor-made preventive action, ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv The German government has pledged to support the multinational steel manufacturing corporation ArcelorMittal with a total of 1.3 billion euros to help reduce carbon emissions from steel production ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Many data centre operators, local authorities and energy suppliers are putting projects to use waste heat from data centres on hold as they struggle to find suitable customers, a survey by the ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a report commissioned by utility E.ON. “The hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
08 Nov 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv Temperatures in both the North Sea and the Baltic Sea rose by more than one degree Celsius during summer 2022, which is above the long-term average maintained since 1997, Germany’s ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has approved 1.3 billion euros of German state aid to help multinational steelmaker ArcelorMittal make its operations in the country more climate-friendly. The ...
02 Jun 2016
02 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Failure desired” Germany, the homeland of the energy transition, treats renewables like a relative who annoys everyone with permanent demands, writes Michael ...
06 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany has launched official talks on phasing out coal in power generation. The aim is to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have remained stubbornly high despite the country’s ongoing shift to renewable power. The government on ...
21 Apr 2023, 13:21 Sören Amelang Adaptation Policy 91tv Cities and municipalities must act urgently to better protect children against UV radiation, which is increasing as a result of climate change, Germany’s environment ministry and the ...
06 Mar 2023, 12:14 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv The consequences of climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros by 2050, found a report by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), the Institute ...
12 Jan 2021, 13:48 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Freight 91tv The German transport ministry ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Storage 91tv / dpa Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report ...
04 Sep 2019, 10:53 This year's Frankfurt Motor Show steals the limelight for unusual reasons. Thousands of people will flock to the bi-annual industry fair – but many of them not to admire horsepower-proud vehicles, but instead to call for their ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Hydrogen WirtschaftsWoche " Utilities could buy their way out of nuclear responsibilities for 49 billion euros” WirtschaftsWoche reports on a study from the German Nuclear Power Commission proposing two ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:38 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv Energy consumption in Germany is expected to decline 2.7 percent this year as savings triggered by high prices and relatively warm weather more than compensated for a growing economy and ...
15 Dec 2015
15 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Climate of disillusion” German environment minister Barbara Hendricks did not manage to carry the enthusiasm from the Paris Summit to Berlin, writes Cerstin Gammelin in ...
21 Apr 2021, 12:37 Germany’s conservatives have chosen Armin Laschet as their leading candidate for the national election in September, signalling continuity with the era of Chancellor Angela Merkel and ending a days-long power struggle with top rival ...
19 May 2015, 00:00 UPDATE: Angela Merkel weighs into the dispute about the proposed climate levy on old fossil-fuelled power stations and summons ministers to the chancellery on Wednesday. The climate levy could be reduced and special rules applied to ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Finance Policy Deutschlandfunk / Tagesspiegel / 91tv Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner has announced that price subsidies for electricity and gas introduced during the ...
21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung / Greenpeace Energy “Flawed subsidies” Britain is planning a different kind of energy transition, writes Björn Finke in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. While they want to shut down all ...
A fight over immigration policy between Germany’s two conservative sister parties paralyses the work of conservative ministers in charge of energy transition policies, Nikolaus Doll, Michael Fabricius and Daniel Wetzel write in Die Welt. Energy and ...
17 May 2023, 12:59 Sören Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Finance 91tv Venture capital investments in Germany’s start-ups specialising in climate protection technologies fell to the second highest level ever last year, according to ...
Germany’s indignation over the US Senate’s planned expansion of economic sanctions on Russia illustrates “the whole extent of irritation in the current transatlantic relationship”, Richard Herzinger writes in Die Welt. Leading German officials find ...
Germany needs an end date for coal-fired power production and for internal combustion engines in cars to make progress in emissions reduction and ensure that its industries do not fall behind others in developing technologies of the future, Michael Nelles ...
07 Jun 2016
07 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung Crucial German power grid extension delayed The construction and completion of important power lines in Germany will be delayed by at least three ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Policy Security 91tv Germany’s government will present the long-awaited National Security Strategy on Wednesday (14 June), with critical raw materials as one focus, said chancellor Olaf Scholz at the East ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:52 Expert Borderstep Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Start-ups Business & Jobs Expert German Startups Association Bundesverband Deutsche Startups Start-ups Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Start-ups Clean ...
07 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germany must urgently step up its CO2 reduction efforts immediately after the upcoming elections if it wants to prevent a spectacular miss of its 2020 climate targets, according to think tank Agora Energiewende. Instead of reducing ...
22 May 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel International G20 & G7 91tv Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) ...
29 Jan 2019, 15:02 Following a sharp drop in new onshore wind power installations in Germany in 2018, the industry warns that mounting resistance against new turbines endangers a sufficient supply of renewable energy demanded by industry and national ...
19 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany’s energy minister Sigmar Gabriel wants to establish a round table on the future of coal in the country of the Energiewende this year. He said only factual discussions, rather than emotional debates, could provide the long-term ...
15 Feb 2024, 13:30 Ruby Russel Transport Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Projects to build green hydrogen electrolysers at refineries are being cancelled because oil companies lack guarantees that the investments will be profitable, even though the ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:10 Sören Amelang Carbon market Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s coalition government is committed to returning revenues from the country’s rising national CO2 price for heating and transport to citizens, reports energy and climate ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Germany's renewable energy sector employed 387,700 people in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 15 percent and the highest level in a decade, said the economy ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Carbon market Industry Policy EU 91tv The European Commission has greenlighted a German 6.5 billion euro scheme to prevent energy-intensive companies from relocating production to countries with less stringent ...
11 Mar 2024, 12:52 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Corrected: The renewable share in energy consumption in 2022 was 20.8 percent and ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv The future of the energy system in economic powerhouse state Texas will be a key feature during an upcoming trip of German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to the United ...
05 Aug 2022, 11:34 With natural gas deliveries from Russia dwindling, the German government is preparing for a winter without sufficient supplies of the fossil fuel it relies on heavily for heating homes. As well as increasing the import of liquified gas ...
22 Feb 2024, 13:52 Franca Quecke Gas Heating 91tv Berlin-based heating system installer Thermondo has stopped selling gas heating systems, shifting its focus entirely to more climate-friendly technologies, such as heat pumps and PV modules, ...
10 May 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s energy system will need ‘green’ gas to become climate neutral, but government must set the right framework conditions to ensure the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy, said several gas ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Carbon removal 91tv Carbon farming is an essential tool for reaching Germany’s net zero targets and should therefore ...
31 May 2021, 11:05 Many of Germany’s early renewable energy pioneers were experimenters with onshore wind technology. Inspired by the example of neighbouring Denmark, which had already proven the effectiveness of wind technology in the early 1990s, a ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:58 Sören Amelang Renewables International G20 & G7 91tv The German government and NGOs have welcomed the first G7 commitment to concrete targets for the rollout of renewables, but environmentalists also warned that the ...
The political debate on imposing a ban on diesel engines in German cities continues unabated after the state government in Baden-Württemberg was forced by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure to withdraw a clean air plan, Josef ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:36 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's major economic sectors, including energy supply, mining, manufacturing and agriculture, emitted 205 kilograms of CO2 per 1,000 euros of gross value added in 2020, down 8.4 ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany announced an additional 84 million euros to support Pakistan as part of both countries’ climate partnership at an international conference, in the wake of ...
Chinese solar panels will no longer be subject to trade controls such as minimum prices in the European Union, the European Commission announced in its official journal. The trade restrictions, introduced in 2013 to shield the European Union’s solar power ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Growing demand for minerals needed in renewable power installations, electric vehicles and other green technologies could trigger a lasting price increase for ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Cars EU 91tv A ruling by the EU’s top court that Germany failed to clean up the air in several cities for years is a “slap in the face” for the government, said NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH). The ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Coal 91tv The planned coal phase-out in eastern Germany could threaten water supply in and around the country’s capital, as significantly less groundwater will be pumped into the river Spree ...
22 Dec 2016, 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 ...
10 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Renewable Energy Prospects: Germany A new IRENA report “Renewable Energy Prospects Germany” examines the country’s energy transition in the last ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society 91tv German rail company Deutsche Bahn has signed a partnership agreement with the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship to transport teams and fans across the country in a climate ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Energy industry association BDEW has presented a proposal for a new electricity market design in Germany, with a new capacity mechanism at the heart of the plan. “The current ...
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 ...
German authorities will look into accusations by Environmental Action Germany (DUH) that carmaker BMW had used an illegal ‘defeat device’ to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in one of its diesel models. “The Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) ...
08 Nov 2017, 00:00 Talks in Bonn as technical as expected but also “unexcited, friendly and positive”, says German negotiator / Developing countries call for voluntary reporting / US should remain part of COPs / German taxpayers are financing the climate ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:08 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in renewable energy expansion, news agency dpa reports in an article published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung ...
27 Sep 2022, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 BR Scientists in Germany have declared the Southern Schneeferner in Bavaria can no longer be classed as a glacier due to rapid ice loss over the summer, when much of Europe was hit by recurring heat ...
20 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer ISE “Exported power more expensive than imported power” Germany makes billions of euros from exporting power every year, researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE found. The country made 1.7 ...
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 The German government finally buried plans for a levy on old coal-fired power plants. Instead, Chancellor Angela Merkel, energy minister Sigmar Gabriel and leading politicians from the ruling coalition adopted a union proposal to pay ...
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 ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:19 Sören Amelang Coal Society 91tv A broad coalition of climate activist groups have said they will stage a protest at an opencast lignite mine in East Germany and call for a rapid end to coal this Sunday (25 June). “It is ...
20 Mar 2015
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt / Die Welt “Federal government disappoints power station operators” Operators of fossil-fuelled power stations should only receive very limited funds for keeping power ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:40 James Jackson Wind 91tv The rollout of offshore wind in the German North and Baltic seas can be reconciled with environmental concerns, but the location of specific marine ecosystems must become a core part of the planning ...
19 May 2023, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv / Financial Times Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz must push for an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, as the issue has not featured prominently enough ...
Consumer association myRight has filed the first lawsuit in Germany aiming to force carmaker Volkswagen to repurchase vehicles affected by the emissions scandal, writes Andreas Cremer for Reuters. VW pledged to compensate owners of its cars in the US but ...
If the allegations over a cartel formed by Germany’s five largest carmakers “are just to the slightest extent true, it’s the end of the car industry as we know it”, Markus Fasse writes in a commentary for Handelsblatt Online. Billions in fines, civil ...
09 May 2023, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv European governments must ensure that no one is left behind during the move towards a climate-neutral future, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech in the European Parliament, ...
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 ...
24 Oct 2014, 00:00 The framework for energy policy until 2030 failed to meet all Germany’s ambitions but government says the agreement is in line with the energy transition. Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:05 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv A large-scale transition to using wood for building construction in "timber cities" could avoid more than 100 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the century, ...
18 Jan 2024, 13:29 Sören Amelang Cars Die Welt / 91tv Germany’s sudden cut of electric vehicle purchasing subsidies has caused carmakers to outdo each other with heavy discounts, reports Die Welt. Tesla, the U.S. electric car company, cut the ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:36 The German government coalition has presented a long-expected update to its National Hydrogen Strategy with the aim of speeding up the development of a market for the fuel, which it sees as essential on the path to climate neutrality by ...
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, ...
22 May 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Society Welt German universities are attracting foreign students with energy transition subjects, the number of which has grown steadily year on year, newspaper Welt reports. Public and private universities in the ...
28 Aug 2018, 13:59 The expansion of a lignite mine that threatens a nearby forest has become a first touchstone of the German coal exit commission’s robustness. But despite fears that the row over the embattled Hambach Forest could gravely impede the ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Germany and the U.S. are jointly pushing for a fundamental reform of the World Bank with an increased focus on the climate crisis, and agreed that it should be finalised at the ...
German utility RWE and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have rejected a court settlement offer that would have allowed the company to continue producing lignite in its largest open pit mine on the proviso that it refrained from carrying out clearing ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:32 Expert GTAI- Germany Trade & Invest Economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany Business & Jobs International Edgar Meza Wind Hydrogen dpa / Handelsblatt Germany and the UK aim to cooperate on the expansion of ...
15 Aug 2016, 00:00 Germany's energy ministry wants to give top priority to saving energy in its move to a renewable future. It admits the long-term targets of the energy transition, or Energiewende, will be missed with current policies, and that ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv The transformation into a truly circular economy would have positive effects on climate, resource and biodiversity protection, as well as supply security in Germany- but the ...
30 Aug 2022, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The summer of 2022 in Germany was the sunniest, the sixth driest and among the four warmest on record, Germany's National Meteorological Service (DWD) said. “In these times of ...
10 Jul 2023, 12:10 James Jackson Adaptation Efficiency Heating Around one in eight German households already use air-condition units, according to a survey by price comparison website Verivox. “Eighty seven percent of respondents get by without an air ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:07 Franca Quecke Grid 91tv The planned high-voltage power line SuedWestLink, which is intended to transport renewable energy from the windy north of the country to industrial centres in the south, will have a direct branch to ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 91tv / DW A large majority of German voters say that they do not feel well-informed about plans by the federal government to move to climate-friendly heating, shows a survey ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Germany must act quickly to secure its place as a key location for industries in an increasingly climate-friendly global economy, said economy minister Robert Habeck. “Almost all major ...
08 Aug 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Funke Mediengruppe Global warming could make Germany a breeding ground for mosquitos and ticks transmitting tropical diseases such as dengue fever, the president of Germany's national disease ...
06 Jun 2019, 13:54 Germany certainly does not need to return to nuclear energy and should push through with its energy transition instead, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Following isolated calls to extend the lifetime of the country’s ...
22 Mar 2021, 12:17 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv ...
05 Jul 2023, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Table.Media Germany’s coalition government has agreed a higher national CO2 price for transport and heating fuels for 2024, news site Table.Media reports citing coalition sources. The ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:25 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Policy ARD / Die Welt Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke is moving away from her opposition to the use of biodiesel, at least in the agricultural sector, public broadcaster ARD reports. While there are ...
30 May 2023, 13:22 Jessica Bateman Heating dpa A lack of skilled workers could hinder Germany reaching its target of climate neutrality in the buildings sector by 2045, writes press agency dpa. The construction sector needs an additional 150,000-200,000 ...
02 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 3 at the UN climate conference: Today's official theme is resilience, with divestment and renewables featuring in others of the many side events / Germany insists on strong monitoring mechanism in agreement / ambitious pace for ...
15 Oct 2014, 00:00 Consumers can expect a reduction in the surcharge they pay on energy bills next year but analysts say it will rise again in 2016 as green power production continues to expand. 91tv 91tv Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Cost ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:45 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv German gas consumption decreased yet again in 2023, while the country's role as a European gas hub diminished further following the halt of Russian pipeline gas supply in 2022. Gas use was ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv Many German cities have improved their cycling infrastructure in recent years, but the majority of cyclists in the country continue to consider road traffic to be unsafe for them, according ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:35 Edgar Meza Transport Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s governing coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP), has- after long negotiations- agreed on a far-reaching ...
Impending driving bans for diesel cars in several German cities could spell the end for the technology in the country, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. Driving bans in Stuttgart and Munich have been substantiated in the past weeks and pending ...
25 May 2023, 13:28 Sören Amelang Policy Tagesspiegel Background The German government could revive the neglected idea of returning revenue from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to the population to help lower income households, ...
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 ...
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 ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:03 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany plans to ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs 91tv With a new factory for building electrolysers in Berlin, Germany’s Siemens Energy and France’s Air Liquide hope to lay the groundwork for a flourishing hydrogen economy in ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:12 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating 91tv New homes constructed in Germany will be eligible for tax credits without the need for tighter efficiency standards. “This is our offer to the construction and real estate industry ...
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 ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:14 Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Business & Jobs Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt The insolvency proceedings at leading European biogas trader BMP Greengas could pose a significant risk of financial damage of “at least 150 ...
About 100 members of coal miner labour union IG BCE held a demonstration in front of the private home of anti-coal mining acitivist Antje Grothus, who also is a member of Germany’s coal exit commission, newspaper Die Welt reports. Grothus, who heads a ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Asset managers active in the area of sustainability see investments in liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Germany as risky, said a report by the Science Platform for Climate Protection (WPKS). Germany ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Solar Storage 91tv Germany’s boom in stationary batteries linked to solar PV systems accelerated last year, doubling the total number of units to more than one million, reports solar industry association BSW. ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv A new analysis shows that domestic green hydrogen is “more competitive than expected” compared to imports of the snythic gas made with renewable power sources, which are the focus of the ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv Improving circular economy principles for the use of steel, cement and plastics could help Germany’s energy-intensive industries reduce their greenhouse gas ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Bloomberg The G7 countries cause a large part of the world's resource consumption and the associated damage to the climate and environment and thus have to “accept their ...
05 Sep 2023, 14:55 Jennifer Collins Energiewende 91tv Germany is off track regarding many areas of its famed energy transition, with several indicators either "unrealistic" or at risk, consultancy firm McKinsey found in its ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:21 Hannah Naylor Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s foreign minister has reassured small island states that suffer the most from climate change that Germany will deliver on its climate financing promises and indicated support in ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:44 Sören Amelang Industry Business & Jobs Technology 91tv A 10 billion euro investment in semiconductor chip production in eastern Germany will secure the country’s emission reduction efforts, according to the government. ...
16 Jan 2023, 14:08 The Green Party's leadership has faced broad criticism from the climate movement for agreeing to the demolition of the village of Lützerath to expand a neighbouring mine as part of a larger deal to exit coal in western Germany by ...
08 May 2023, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Recent examples of investment decisions on climate-friendly technologies in Germany and Europe show that the continent is on the right track to respond to the U.S. Inflation ...
The regional court (Landgericht) in Hanover has ruled against awarding damages to German utility E.ON. The energy giant had sued the federal government, as well as several states, over the abrupt decision to temporarily shut down two nuclear power plants ...
06 Sep 2019, 13:34 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The expansion of onshore wind power in ...
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 ...
Volkswagen has chosen Herbert Diess as its new CEO, ousting predecessor Matthias Müller. “Müller’s replacement with VW brand chief Diess follows slow progress in reorganizing the group’s car brands, a key pillar of “Strategy 2025” to transform Germany’s ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 Agreement text expected Saturday morning / Germany, EU reiterate push for ambitious deal/ Leaders get on the phone/ Scientists fear weak deal Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate ...
Hearings begin in Washington this week in the “heated court case” of Swedish utility Vattenfall suing Germany for almost 4.7 billion euros at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), write Michael Bauchmüller and Claus ...
03 May 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Industry Digitalisation EU 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed chipmaker Infineon’s new semiconductor production plant as crucial for the country’s status as a green technology leader. The company ...
Electric cars are going to spread in Germany sooner or later, and the country’s infrastructure must be made ready for this boom soon, Hans Riebsamen writes in an opinion piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Especially the larger urban areas that ...
04 May 2015
04 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bild/Lichtblick “Tesla and Lichtblick plan energy revolution” Hamburg-based renewable electricity provider Lichtblick is cooperating with Tesla to integrate the e-car company’s new “Powerwall Home ...
08 Jan 2024, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 91tv / electrive / Auto Motor und Sport Germany's transition to battery-electric cars slowed in 2023, data on new registrations by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) show. ...
Germany is a world leader on energy efficiency, according to IEA executive director Fatih Birol. Speaking at the presentation of the IEA’s Energy Efficiency report 2017 in Berlin, Birol said that “every German citizen had 580 dollars more to spend on ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bild am Sonntag Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to ensure that combustion engine cars powered by synthetic fuels enjoy the same tax advantages ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:19 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Policy Handelsblatt The premiers of Germany’s 16 federal states have urged the EU to enable electricity price subsidies in support of industry, reports business daily Handelsblatt. In a joint ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Technology International 91tv Europe is heavily reliant on China in realising its green ambitions and must be prepared to pay more for the shift to climate neutrality if it wants to increase independence, ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Online The German coalition government is considering a scrapping scheme for old boilers to try and overcome the dispute over how to move the transition to sustainable heating forward, reports ...
02 Nov 2022, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv / Reuters [CORRECTION: Corrects wrong date for run-off election in Brazil. It took place on 30 October 2022.] Germany is willing to quickly unfreeze funds to help curb ...
Two years after the diesel emissions fraud scandal broke in September 2015, German carmakers fail to come up with available e-car models at the Frankfurt Car Show (IAA) and instead present “ more diesel-SUVs than ever before,” NGO Environmental Action ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:53 Sören Amelang Wind Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s wind industry has accused the operator of the country’s motorways of sabotaging the roll-out of wind turbines, which are key to reaching climate targets. The government-owned ...
The Free Voters, new coalition partners in Bavaria, Germany’s southern economic powerhouse state, reject important grid expansion plans that are meant to improve the distribution of electricity from renewable power sources across the country, Claudia ...
09 May 2022, 14:02 Expert UFZ- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung- UFZ Climate & CO2 Renewables Society Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture Die Welt Eastern Germany is grappling with the ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Electricity market Grid Storage 91tv Electric cars, heat pumps and home storage systems can make electricity systems much more flexible in the future, saving generation costs and thus lowering overall ...
05 Oct 2015
05 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/WAZ “Minister Gabriel does not want to ‘shave’ utilities” German energy minister Sigmar Gabriel surprised stockmarkets with conciliatory remarks about the country’s troubled ...
Environmental Action Germany (DUH) is pushing for driving bans in polluted cities of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany’s most populous state, for all diesel cars that do not meet the Euro 6 emissions standard, the environmental NGO says in a press ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany should ensure an orderly retirement of its gas distribution grid to avoid enormous costs for consumers and billions of euros of stranded assets for operators, as the pipeline network is set ...
14 Sep 2015
14 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “EU casts doubt over lignite compromise” The European Commission has doubts about whether the German government’s plan to put some old lignite power plants in a so-called capacity reserve is ...
Germany’s public utilities will be at the forefront of implementing the decentralised energy supply required by the Energiewende, Katherina Reiche, director of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU), said in an interview with Welt kompakt. Reiche ...
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Germany still needs electricity from coal while shifting to a green economy, Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, reassuring utilities that a quick phase-out of the fossil fuel was not his plan. Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv Governments across the globe must use the 2020s to establish methods to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide removals – CDR) to ensure that Paris Climate Agreement targets can ...
The Berlin administrative court has ordered Germany’s capital to introduce driving bans for diesel vehicles on parts of eight roads suffering from exceedingly high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) pollution, reports the public broadcaster rbb24 in two ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 91tv / ZDF German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said he has “great respect” for climate protesters but sees the village Lützerath — which is due to be demolished and replaced ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:38 Edgar Meza Business 91tv The majority of Germany’s large companies expect that the transformation to a climate neutral economy will have no negative or even positive effects on their international competitiveness, and ...
Germany’s coalition government has reached an agreement to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from diesel cars in German cities. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer and environment minister Svenja Schulze called the deal “a very large step” to improve ...
04 Jul 2017, 00:00 At the Hamburg summit, the G20 leaders must go beyond mere lip services and present concrete proposals on how they will implement the Paris Climate Agreement, Christoph Bals, policy director of environmental NGO Germanwatch, tells Clean ...
12 Feb 2019, 18:04 Against the backdrop of escalating tensions over the Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, Germany and the US aim to boost industry cooperation on liquefied natural gas (LNG). German economy minister Peter Altmaier invited US ...
17 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bloomberg “Why Germany’s nuclear power exit is causing havoc for utilities” Financing the nuclear phase-out is the biggest challenge yet for Germany’s large utilities, which explains this week’s ...
21 Dec 2022, 12:53 Germany’s efforts to replace Russian gas this year are perceived internationally as lacking coherence with its climate ambitions and the government must show that these efforts do not impede the country’s emissions reduction plans, says ...
25 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germans have handed Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term in the country’s federal election. Most likely, Merkel will have to start talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Green Party to form a so-called "Jamaica coalition, ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Die Tageszeitung The planned modernisation of Germany’s military announced in chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “Zeitenwende” (turning of the times) speech following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could face substantial ...
Environmental Action German (DUH) says its recent tests suggested that German carmaker BMW used defeat devices like those at the heart of the so called Dieselgate scandal to throttle nitrogen oxide (NO x) emissions on the test stand, despite having ...
13 Dec 2023, 13:22 Sören Amelang Cars dpa The average price of newly registered electric cars, excluding optional extras and subsidies, rose by more than 4,000 euros to 52,700 euros in Germany this year, slowing the transition to climate-friendly mobility ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Rheinische Post Prices for electricity and natural gas in Germany are likely to stay elevated for the foreseeable future, the head of the country’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. “The times ...
22 Jul 2019, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Society 91tv Construction of more than 2,000 onshore wind turbines in Germany-- with a combined capacity of nearly 10 gigawatts (GW)-- is on hold due to bureaucratic hurdles and delays in ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:33 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 91tv The mean temperature of the years 2022 to 2028 could be about 0.5 to 1.0 degrees too warm in Germany, the country’s Metrological Service (DWD) has warned. In its new decadal climate ...
10 Jul 2023, 13:46 James Jackson Transport 91tv To meet the EU’s goal of shifting millions of passengers to rail in order to reduce transport emissions, the continent’s high-speed track network should be expanded from 11,000 kilometers today ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv / ARD The quick rise in natural gas prices impacts Germany, but the economy ministry at this point does not aim to use government action to protect ...
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 ...
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 ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:15 The election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States is raising hopes that the US can be a partner again in international efforts to combat climate change. The US backed away from many climate commitments during the ...
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 [Updated 11 April with results from fourth round of solar PV auctions] Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have driven the expansion of renewable energy in Germany, but in 2014 the government decided to gradually replace them with an auction system. ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:52 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland ...
12 Sep 2023, 13:59 Expert RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv ...
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 ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:59 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Nuclear phase-out International dpa / Focus Online The decision to shut down Fessenheim, the oldest nuclear reactor in France, by mid-2020 that French President Emanuel Macron announced in a ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany will use auctions to ensure new gas power plants are built, which the government sees as necessary to secure supply at times when renewable energy does not deliver ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:06 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv An additional investment of over 128 billion euros compared to earlier plans is needed to make Germany’s electricity grid fit for a climate neutral future, according to a first ...
22 Jun 2020, 12:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Cars Der Spiegel Local electricity monopolies have so far prevented ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:31 Jennifer Collins Mobility dpa / ARD The number of rail journeys in Germany has increased since the introduction of a new nationwide 'Germany ticket' in May, according to a report by news agency dpa published by broadcaster ...
13 Jan 2015
13 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt/Süddeutsche Zeitung “’Elon’ und ‘Felix’ cost consumers millions”/ “Stormy times on the power market” Heavy winds from two low pressure systems created an enormous oversupply of wind power ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:25 Edgar Meza Finance Handelsblatt Sustainable investment is much more than a fashionable trend, and while the hype surrounding it will lead to disappointment, it’s nevertheless the right path, Michael Maisch writes in an opinion piece in ...
05 Jul 2017, 00:00 The pressure on Germany to take global leadership on climate action has been constantly mounting since US President Donald Trump decided to take the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. Ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg ...
13 Feb 2019, 13:39 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Transport Technology 91tv Airport operator Fraport AG and German start-up Volocopter have announced plans to explore the use of autonomous flying taxis at Germany’s Frankfurt Airport. ...
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 ...
03 Jun 2020, 13:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar pv magazine The coronavirus crisis ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Renewables 91tv By mapping the areas in Germany where renewable power is likely to be distributed in the future, energy researchers hope to help transmission system operators (TSOs) plan a forward ...
16 Sep 2016, 00:00 To decarbonise Germany’s economy, small amounts of renewable electricity will have to replace large amounts of fossil fuel. The policies to make this Energiewende happen must be decided now, the economy ministry says in a new discussion ...
21 Nov 2022, 13:57 Sören Amelang International COP27 91tv The UN climate conference COP27 in Egypt did not deliver what is needed to mitigate the rise in global temperatures, the German government has said. “The steps adopted to reduce ...
02 Feb 2015, 00:00 Germany’s population has great sympathy for the transition to a low-carbon economy and the nuclear phase-out, also known as the Energiewende. Nevertheless, some of the key projects, such as new infrastructure, face resistance and are ...
26 Jan 2019, 16:45 Energy transition home country Germany eyes a phase-out of coal power by 2038 at the very latest, as the country tries to get back on track to create a climate-friendly economy. In its highly anticipated phase-out proposal, the country ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:10 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Company climate claims 91tv / Der Spiegel German asset management company DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, is facing fresh ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation EU Handelsblatt / Euractiv / 91tv A severe winter drought in France is causing worries that the country’s energy production could be impacted throughout the year, compounding an already tense ...
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 ...
26 May 2021, 10:29 The EU's bid for climate neutrality puts a big question mark over the future of generating electricity by incinerating waste. The fiercely disputed process emits CO2 and toxins, although its proponents point out that it prevents ...
Green Party and parliamentary group leaders Cem Özdemir and Anton Hofreiter call on Chancellor Angela Merkel to act on pollution in German cities, reports news agency dpa. The pair ask Merkel in a letter to support the introduction of “blue badges” that ...
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Encouraged by federal legislation such as the Renewable Energy Act, the governments of many German states have worked hard to make the Energiewende a success, as well as a business opportunity for their citizens. Others have been slower ...
08 May 2015
08 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Risk, endurance and determination” Steve Westly of the Westly Group, which has invested in numerous clean-tech firms including Tesla, says he would buy shares in the new E.ON “every ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Germany’s district heating networks should be planned more efficiently in the long term and operators need better financial incentives to convert the infrastructure, so that the technology can ...
01 Dec 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv To efficiently advance the energy transition and alleviate energy poverty, Germany's government should provide close to 17 billion euros over the next two years in targeted ...
27 Apr 2022, 11:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Die Welt German finance minister Christian Lindner, head of the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), has warned against accelerating the energy transition – a move driven by his Green Party ...
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' ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv German government officials have welcomed the EU proposal to certify carbon removals, but called for better clarification of the details. “In order to reach the 1.5-degree target, CO2 ...
27 Jan 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Australia plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of energy, climate protection and emissions reduction, German economy minister Robert Habeck together with ...
A Greenpeace-commissioned study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology posits that Germany can still meet its 2020 emissions reduction target, provided that several brown-coal-fired power plants are ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are well positioned to play a key role in a future global hydrogen economy- but must strengthen cooperation on infrastructure projects, said ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:25 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating dpa Half of those living in Germany don’t want to use less energy to heat their homes than they did last year, with most arguing that they've already made all of the cuts they can, reports ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Berliner Morgenpost In 2022, 5.5 million people in Germany felt they were financially unable to keep their home adequately warm, according to figures by statistical office ...
25 Apr 2016
25 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv PV-magazine “EEG reform: state chamber wants exemptions for citizens’ energy” Germany’s second parliamentary chamber, which represents the 16 states, has passed a resolution ...
22 Jan 2016
22 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW “Taxes and fees reach a new record high” The power price remained steady at the beginning of 2016 compared to a year ago, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
07 Mar 2017
07 Mar 2017, 00:00 Regardless of who will win in Germany's next federal elections, increasing energy effciency in sector coupling and mastering digitalisation will be core aspects for ensuring a successful continuation of the energy transition, says ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany expects cooperation with Indonesia to expand and intensify in the coming years, particularly in the areas of renewable energy and raw materials, the ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Gas Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung The German environment minister has urged to stop gas extraction plans near the north-western island of Borkum, newspaper Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung reports. Dutch company ...
07 Jun 2023, 13:02 Sören Amelang Government 91tv The German government spent around 1.5 billion euros on energy transition research in 2022, an increase of 13 percent compared to the previous year, said the economy ministry. “This shows how ...
07 Dec 2018, 09:13 With her decision not to seek re-election as party chair and chancellor, Angela Merkel has kicked off what is a novelty for her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU): an organised internal election campaign for the party’s ...
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 A leaked document outlines plans to transfer some provisions German utilities have put aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal to a state-managed fund. The 91tv spoke to two policy analysts about the ...
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 ...
17 Nov 2022, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv The “Climate and Psyche” taskforce of the German Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Association (DGPPN) has called for better political support for mental health care through the climate crisis. In ...
The looming driving bans on polluting diesel cars in Germany’s inner cities are “a nightmare for hundreds of thousands of diesel owners as well as for politicians,” but a ruling by Germany’s administrative court due today (22 February) could force city ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport dpa Around a third of subscribers to Germany's flat-rate public transport ticket (Deutschlandticket) said that they leave their car home more often since purchasing the subscription, according to a ...
23 Feb 2023, 13:44 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling EU 91tv Circular economy principles have not yet made an impact in the EU building sector due to the relatively recent concept still being applied in a fragmented and incomplete ...
19 May 2015
19 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Bloomberg / Handelsblatt “Germany, France Seek Curb on Fossil Fuel Pollution This Century“ To control the risks of climate change, Germany and France want to almost completely forego the use of ...
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 ...
Several lawsuits regarding high nitrogen oxide emission levels – filed by the non-profit environmental and consumer protection association Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) in the recent past – start to have consequences for cities and carmakers, writes Stefan ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Spiegel / 91tv The climate activists occupying the western German village of Lützerath, which is slated for demolition to make way for a nearby lignite mine, are set to be evicted by “massive” police ...
26 May 2023, 13:35 Sören Amelang Electricity market Gas Grid Utilities Handelsblatt German energy companies have called for the introduction of a new incentive mechanism to trigger the construction of new gas power plants, which the country plans to use ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 International 91tv German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under particular pressure to underline Germany's climate policy credibility when ministers from 40 countries meet at the 13th ...
06 Jul 2017, 00:00 With the US pulling out of the Paris Agreement, China and Germany are making a very public display of leadership on climate protection and transition to green energy. The export heavyweights are eager to keep the global economy on track ...
21 Mar 2017, 00:00 Over 1,000 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 90 countries take part in the third Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry. The following ...
27 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany's Federal Administrative Court has ruled that cities can ban dirty diesel cars to improve local air quality. The 91tv presents reactions to the landmark ruling from NGOs, politicians and industry associations. ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Higher energy prices in Germany will not lead to an “industrial exodus” of companies seeking cheaper production locations abroad but rather strengthen efficiency and innovation ...
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 ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International Tagesspiegel / 91tv Germany plans to intensify its international cooperation on the energy transition with Norway and Portugal, with government ministers visiting both countries this ...
27 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany’s future energy and climate policy has proven the expected difficult issue in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Zeit Online / 91tv Geothermal energy is a key tool for reaching climate neutrality and could cover 40 percent of Germany's heating needs, the head of the country's geothermal association ...
05 Oct 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Several lignite power plants in Germany will be allowed to return to the market this winter to help secure supply and save gas during the heating period, said the economy ministry in a press ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz travelled to Nigeria in a bid to secure new energy and economic partnerships, and help diversify Germany's energy ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv One in every ...
28 Feb 2023, 14:21 Edgar Meza Wind Cities Süddeutsche Zeitung Climate protection activist Greta Thunberg is leading the charge against Munich municipal utilities company Stadtwerke München (SWM) and its wind farm in Norway to protect the ancestral lands ...
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 ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:39 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Germany must purchase more than eleven million emission allocations totalling several million euros after overshooting its EU greenhouse gas emissions targets in the sectors ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:45 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert IZES- Institute for Future Energy Systems Institut für Zukunfts Energie Systeme Citizens' energy Electricity market Expert ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv There’s a large imbalance between current investment and the potential for cheap hydrogen production in individual European regions, according to a new report. Regions with high potential to ...
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 Feb 2023, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
01 Aug 2023, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has set important framework conditions for planned German state support to build and operate about 24 gigawatts (GW) hydrogen power plants and fossil gas units ...
10 Oct 2023, 12:24 Jennifer Collins Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Schaeffler, a major Bavaria-based automotive supplier, has said it wants to acquire Vitesco, a specialist in vehicle electrification technologies, with ...
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. ...
19 May 2017, 00:00 The dominance of citizens’ energy projects among the successful bids in Germany’s first onshore wind power auctions comes as a big surprise for industry observers. Not only did citizen cooperatives account for the bulk of accepted ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:48 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz wants promote energy cooperation and secure critical raw materials for the energy transition from South America. The politician is visiting Argentina, Chile ...
17 May 2021, 09:59 Germany’s target of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 has a very important sub-goal: The expansion of renewable energy capacity to provide green power for transport, heating and making hydrogen. But running such an integrated ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Sewage treatment plants could unlock their clean power potential by producing and using hydrogen while treating wastewater, business daily Handelsblatt reports. ...
13 Jan 2016, 00:00 A think tank proposal on how Germany should exit coal has pushed the debate on the Energiewende's future into full swing, exposing deep fault lines. The environment ministry and Greens backed the plan for a phase-out of coal power ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Transport EU ntv Germany’s government coalition disagrees about the EU Commission’s proposal to tighten vehicle emission limits with the so-called Euro 7 regulation. Green environment minister Steffi Lemke urged for 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, ...
20 Jan 2022, 11:54 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Global climate policies must be shaped towards different countries’ strengths and weaknesses if they are to be successful, a leading German economist has said. In an opinion piece for Der ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:47 Edgar Meza Renewables 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) has called for a revision of long-term renewable power scenarios detailed in an analysis by the economy ministry (BMWK). The ...
12 Aug 2015
12 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv E.ON Conventional power business causes E.ON loss in profits / debt reduced Half way into its “transformative year,” Germany’s largest utility E.ON has reported a reduced operating profit and ...
22 Sep 2022, 14:00 Jessica Bateman Agriculture International The German economic cooperation ministry (BMZ) has announced plans for a climate and development partnership with the Côte d’Ivoire. This will involve restoring five million hectares of tropical ...
07 Jan 2015, 00:00 Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany dropped in 2014 to the second-lowest level since 1990, a sign that the country’s ambitious Energiewende project is back on track, German think-tank Agora Energiewende* said on Wednesday. Kerstine ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Several environmental NGOs call on the German government to align the more rapid buildout of renewable energy with protecting and expanding ‘ green infrastructure ’ such as natural wetlands ...
The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has published a Green Paper on energy efficiency and today starts the consultation process to find solutions for the long term reduction of energy consumption in Germany. The ministry wants to discuss ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:28 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Governments around the world should factor into their planning more catastrophic trajectories ...
02 Jan 2023, 13:03 Sören Amelang International 91tv Following the inauguration of Brazil’s new president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on 1 January, Germany has released 35 million euros for the country’s Amazon Fund, which is dedicated to ...
06 Feb 2015
06 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv DIW studies “Electricity Grids and Climate Targets: New Approaches to Grid Planning” The latest assumptions that will be used in the government's grid development plan take new climate ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Edgar Meza Agriculture Government 91tv / Welt Reducing the environmental impact of food is one of the key priorities of the German government's upcoming nutritional strategy, presented by the ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:02 Milou Dirkx Mobility Transport 91tv Municipalities will face no additional financial burden if they align necessary investments to maintain and expand rail networks and roads in Germany with the move to a sustainable ...
25 Jul 2022, 13:26 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices 91tv The German government will have to invest almost half a trillion euros to reach its 2045 climate neutral target, according to an analysis by consultancy Prognos for public development ...
09 May 2023, 12:10 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport International 91tv German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has seen international long-distance traffic grow faster than ever ...
02 Nov 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv Primary energy consumption is likely to hit a record low this year as Germany’s economy remains weak, according to a forecast by energy data service AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Energy ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Renewables International 91tv Associations from the German and Ukrainian renewable energy industry have agreed to work together more closely to speed up the energy transition in both countries. The ...
02 Jul 2015
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Zeit "Energiewende: Coalition agrees to put coal plants on reserve" Many German media reported the government decision to place 2.7 gigawatts-worth of coal-fired plants into a reserve for use when ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Freight 91tv Catenary trucks powered by overhead lines represent an option for clean freight transport, yet setting up the required infrastructure on German motorways would be "technically possible, but very ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling 91tv In order to make the economy fit for the requirements of a decarbonised energy system, Germany’s economy and climate ministry (BMWK) has proposed an update to the country’s ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:19 The use of gas from all sources will become more important as Germany seeks to decarbonise its economy and phase out nuclear power, the new head of Germany's largest energy industry lobby group, BDEW, has said. The Energiewende& ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel International 91tv / Reuters The G7, along with Norway and Denmark, have announced a 20 billion U.S. dollar partnership to support Indonesia in moving away from fossil fuels and speeding up its energy ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Mobility Transport 91tv / ARD The number of passengers using inner city public transport increased by 10 percent in Germany in the first six months of 2023 compared to the same period of the previous year, ...
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 ...
15 Jun 2016
15 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Buyer’s premium for e-cars still cannot be applied for“ Customers still cannot apply for a buyer’s premium for new e-cars after the ...
09 Nov 2022, 13:55 Kiprotich Koros Renewables COP27 91tv Kenya and Germany have signed a roadmap for a climate and development partnership that will see the East African country increase its share of renewables in the power system to 100 ...
14 Mar 2018, 00:00 The 2017 September election results have led to unprecedented difficulties in forming a new government in Germany. After the longest government building process in modern Germany, Angela Merkel was re-elected as chancellor of a renewed ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv Climate change is increasingly becoming a danger for churches, historic buildings, parks and other cultural heritage sites, the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) has said ...
NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it’s sceptical of government efforts to prevent driving bans on diesel cars in inner cities, as well as a lawsuit by the European Union over excessive air pollution. With a crucial verdict by Germany’s Federal ...
28 Apr 2020, 10:59 The coronavirus crisis has put a spotlight on deteriorating transatlantic relations as both continents focus on the well-being of their own populations and U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push his America First strategy. Over ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:00 Carolina Kyllmann Gas International COP27 91tv The German government has signed two memoranda of understanding with Egypt to strengthen partnerships on liquefied natural gas (LGN) and green hydrogen. The cooperation, which ...
03 Jan 2022, 14:09 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv The weather in Germany last year may have been average overall, but severe rainfall in July led to the worst flooding in decades, with “catastrophic consequences”, according to Germany’s ...
The first day-ahead auction on the EPEX SPOT power exchange after the split of the common power price zone between Austria and Germany, which becomes effective today (1 October), saw higher prices for Austria than Germany, writes the Austrian Energy ...
30 Mar 2015
30 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Energy transition causes controversy between chancellor and state premiers” An alliance of three state premiers have informed Chancellor Angela Merkel about their concerns ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:09 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s economy minister and vice chancellor Robert Habeck has questioned the country’s commitment to a largely balanced budget, given the massive financial requirements for ...
30 Oct 2014
30 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel "Vattenfall wants to sell lignite operations" The Tagesspiegel reports that Swedish government-owned utility Vattenfall is looking to sell its German lignite mining and ...
07 Oct 2022, 13:32 The state election in Lower Saxony on 9 October is the first major vote in the country since the energy crisis fueled by Russia's war has started to take a toll on the German economy. The ballot in the state that hosts most of ...
