29 Apr 2016
29 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv VW / Handelsblatt 鈥淲e plan to make electric cars one of Volkswagen鈥檚 new hallmarks鈥� German carmaker Volkswagen wants to be at the forefront of big changes in the auto industry, in ...
A clear majority of voters in Switzerland have opted for a new energy law that aims to promote renewable energy, bans construction of new nuclear plants and fosters greater energy efficiency, Urs Geiser writes on swissinfo.ch. About 58 percent of Swiss ...
22 Jun 2022, 13:09 Edgar Meza Storage Cars Resources & Recycling 91tv Researchers and environmentalists from Germany and several African nations are calling for clear rules and improved controls to better regulate the export of used e-car ...
02 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Clean ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Business Insider Legal action brought by environmental NGOs continues to be a hurdle for Tesla鈥檚 鈥淕igafactory鈥� near the German capital Berlin, reports Business Insider. The Brandenburg Nature and Biodiversity ...
11 Nov 2019, 12:58 Expert Enercon GmbH Wind turbine manufacturer Wind Business & Jobs Technology Freja Eriksen Wind Business & Jobs dpa German wind turbine maker Enercon has announced it will cut up to 3,000 jobs, saying the federal government& ...
The German federal parliament has adopted a new power market law. The reform includes the continuation of an energy-only-market with additional capacity reserves. The new rules will also include retiring 13 percent of lignite power station capacity into a ...
Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) are launching an official complaint against Germany with the European Commission because of the 鈥渋nadequate implementation鈥� of the energy efficiency directive (EED). The environment ...
05 Apr 2019, 12:46 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Security WirtschaftsWoche Many countries see Germany as a pioneer of the energy transition and the government will make greater use of this role to push action also on an international scale, writes German ...
14 Oct 2020, 14:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Germany will try to retain most of its wind power capacity that will lose its guaranteed remuneration after dropping out of the 20-year feed-in tariff support scheme ...
17 Mar 2021, 13:04 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Electricity market 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The planned tightening of the EU climate target for 2030 would significantly increase CO2 prices in European emissions trading and thereby largely ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:04 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 91tv Technologies to capture and store or use carbon dioxide from industrial processes will become "a special focus" of the next round of Germany's pioneering subsidy ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:53 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Government Dow Jones Newswire The decision to extend the work of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission shows that we have reached a point where crucial questions must be answered by the ...
05 May 2020, 15:07 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VKU- German Association of Local ...
03 Nov 2022, 13:34 German officials have reiterated that public support for new gas projects in other countries should be possible, as long as these are in line with overall climate commitments. The comments by the government come amid sharp criticism by ...
16 Dec 2015
16 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv VDMA / BWE Costs for wind power reduced Power from wind turbines in 2016/2017 will be 12 percent cheaper than in 2012/2013, according to a study commissioned by the German Engineering Federation ...
The federal economy ministry (BMWi) plans to phase out support for heating systems that run entirely on fossil fuels by 2020, as part of its new 鈥淓nergy efficiency and heat from renewable energies鈥� strategy. Industry opposition to the plans is inevitable, ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
Six major German energy industry associations have called on the country鈥檚 next government to implement a storage strategy and make storage facilities 鈥渢he fourth pillar鈥� of the energy system, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine. The letter, co-signed ...
13 May 2022, 12:18 S枚ren Amelang Gas Die Zeit Environmental NGOs warn that leaving the unused Nord Stream 2 pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea could cause environmental damages, but legal uncertainties mean it鈥檚 unclear what will happen to the 11 ...
17 Feb 2022, 12:03 Edgar Meza Cars Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economic and climate ministry is looking to take action against the export of electric cars subsidised with up to 9,000 euros shortly after the required holding period of six ...
16 Apr 2020, 12:55 Expert 100% erneuerbar Stiftung Foundation for the promotion of decentralised, renewable energy Electricity market Renewables Energiewende Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development ...
22 Feb 2021, 12:28 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv A large majority of Germans opposes a general ban of combustion engine ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' ...
07 Nov 2019, 14:26 Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives and researchers agreed at a conference ...
18 Nov 2019, 13:29 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Deutschlandfunk Germany's opposition Green Party has dared too little in their decisions at the party's ...
The natural resources Germany can use sustainably in 2018 have been consumed entirely as of 2 May, public broadcaster ARD reports, citing calculations by climate action organisation Global Footprint. The fact that the date was reached about one week later ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:39 Jennifer Collins Policy International 91tv / FAZ / ARD Germany's economy and climate minister Robet Habeck and Indian renewable energy minister Pralhad Joshi聽are set to unveil a green hydrogen roadmap during a聽meeting ...
30 Nov 2015, 00:00 Day 1 at the UN climate conference: Paris must deliver an ambitious, comprehensive, fair and binding agreement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the climate conference in Paris / Germany's Environment Minister called for ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:13 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has found that high-income households emit more greenhouse gases than poorer citizens due primarily to their travel habits. ...
20 Aug 2024, 12:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Business & Jobs Technology Reuters / 91tv Nationalism and resentment endanger investments in key future technologies,聽Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the ceremony for the start ...
18 Oct 2019, 11:38 France and Germany have backed the goals put forward by the incoming EU commission in a joint declaration, calling for a rapid adoption for the proposed European Green Deal. German chancellor Angela Merkel stressed in a speech to ...
Large-scale renewable power production and the development of storage technology, both with power-to-x systems and batteries, can provide viable economic prospects for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal mining regions as the fossil fuel is gradually phased out, a study ...
04 Jan 2016
04 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv E.ON Separation of E.ON and Uniper operations completed Effective 1 January 2016 E.ON has completed separation of operations from its planned spin-off Uniper. E.ON will focus on renewables, energy ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:51 Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices 91tv Rising energy costs have led to a drop in approval ratings for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit in eastern German mining regions, according to the Central Germany Monitor ...
28 Sep 2015
28 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv AFP 鈥淢ore companies are making their peace with the energy transition鈥� An increasing number of companies in Germany are supporting the country鈥檚 move to replace conventional energy sources with ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Transport dpa / 91tv Germany's railway service reliability took a severe hit in June 2024 due to the effects of extreme weather events, reported news agency dpa. Ageing and ...
The decision taken by the newly-elected government of Ontario to cancel a German-owned wind energy project鈥檚 contract is unsettling to foreign investors, The Globe and Mail newspaper reported Berlin鈥檚 ambassador to Canada, Sabine Sparwasser, as saying. ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Transport European Commission / Reuters The EU institutions have provisionally agreed to reduce CO鈧� emissions from new trucks and buses by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2019, writes the European ...
22 Jul 2015
22 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv energytransition.de 鈥溾��5 megatrends鈥� for a global energy transition鈥� There are five global 鈥榤egatrends鈥� pointing to a world-wide energy transition, according to an overview by renewable power ...
The Lower Rhine Chamber of Industry and Commerce has warned against planned legislation to standardise electricity grid fees across the country, the聽Rheinische Post reports. The organisation, which represents business interests in the region appealed to ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:44 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The current difficulties caused by the ...
16 May 2019, 14:26 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv The business climate index of ...
According to Thorsten Deppner, an expert on environmental law, the German state would not necessarily have to pay huge sums in compensation for shutting down coal-fired electricity plants, despite a precedent set by a recent constitutional court ruling on ...
26 Sep 2019, 14:01 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Technology Bizz Energy Europe dedicated less money to energy research and development last year, resulting in the US and China outspending the EU and its member states "for the first time", bizz energy ...
The compromise restricting hydraulic fracturing in Germany is a big success for the technique鈥檚 critics, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in an opinion piece in die tageszeitung. 鈥淎 complete ban of all kinds of fracturing, as the opponents demand, was politically ...
The federal German government is currently not planning a combustion engine ban similar to British plans. 鈥淎 ban of diesel or petrol cars is currently not on the agenda of the federal government. It鈥檚 about making possible a low-emission mobility,鈥� a ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:19 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Operators of innovative renewables systems that guarantee continuous energy supply day and night, ...
The manipulation of exhaust emissions values by German carmakers has cost the German state in excess of ten billion euros in lost tax revenue, the NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says in a press release. 鈥淢any carmakers have misled their customers ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices 91tv The German government says the jury is still out on the question whether the operators of coal plants are eligible for compensation payments once their facilities are taken off ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country鈥檚 overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
15 Nov 2019, 13:44 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Claudia Kemfert German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Electricity market Energiewende Business ...
The European Commission has approved the funding scheme for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plan to grant public support to landlords planning to install solar panels on the roof of apartment buildings, the Federal Ministry for the Economy & Energy (BMWi) says in a press ...
17 Feb 2020, 14:11 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Der Spiegel / 91tv The unresolved question of future ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft f眉r Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International S枚ren Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will establish a central hub to coordinate its ...
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)鈥檚 revelation that newly registered passenger cars consume significantly more fuel than advertised highlights the need for better testing, environmental organisation NABU says in a press release. ...
27 Aug 2024
27 Aug 2024, 09:00 91tv Team Financial Times: Spanish environmentalist poised to take charge of EU鈥檚 green agenda Teresa Ribera likely to become next commissioner for climate and environmen t, reports the FT. Bloomberg: Chinese EV maker Xpeng is looking ...
To compensate for loss of revenue after Brexit, EU Budget Commissioner G眉nther Oettinger proposes that member states could transfer part of their tax revenues to the EU, including revenues from taxes on CO鈧� emission rights, he told German weekly Der ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:20 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency S枚ren Amelang Coal Finance International 91tv German government-owned business and development bank KfW stops financing all coal ...
Negotiators from the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council have agreed to aim for a net-zero emissions economy 鈥渁s early as possible鈥�, with a carbon budget and national strategies for 2050, Euractiv reports. The Parliament ...
07 Jun 2019, 12:57 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ ...
The refunds that nuclear utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW can expect after 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 constitutional court ruled the nuclear fuel tax law unconstitutional should be used to lower electricity prices, according to the Consumer Organisation Baden-Wuerttemberg, ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal G20 & G7 91tv The Group of Seven (G7) large industrial democracies can be a key forum for 鈥減ioneering new cooperation鈥� on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), wrote researchers from Germany and ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:21 German utility and lignite mine operator RWE has agreed to refrain from clearing the embattled Hambach Forest in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) until autumn 2020, said state premier Armin Laschet in a parliamentary ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Policy 91tv Getting the energy transition in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating sector off the ground will be difficult since most investments have to be made by private citizens rather ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 After weeks of intensive negotiations, Germany's would-be government partners have agreed on a coalition draft treaty. The 91tv presents first reactions to texts on transport, climate and energy. [UPDATE adds VDA, VDMA ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs dpa / Zeit Online German chancellor Olaf Scholz has unveiled plans to hold an industry summit later this month in a bid to address the ongoing woes in the country鈥檚 manufacturing sector. ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:04 Jack McGovan Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv Many German companies introduced energy efficiency measures and some shifted towards renewable power sources due to higher energy prices in the aftermath of ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:43 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' energy Business & Jobs Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:11 Rachel Waldholz Transport Der Spiegel The steep drop in air travel caused by the coronavirus outbreak is reducing carbon emissions in the short-term, but the economic hit could undermine the aviation industry鈥檚 commitment to longer term ...
There will be no nationwide grid fee alignment in Germany according to a proposal by the economy ministry approved by the government cabinet, contrary to聽 earlier press reports. However, the proposal for a grid fee reform will gradually abolish payments ...
Almost a quarter of German households are 鈥渁ctively participating鈥� in the Energiewende by using technologies such as solar PV systems, battery storages, e-cars, or heat pumps, according to the 鈥淓nergy Transition Barometer 2018鈥� published by state-owned ...
The state government of Brandenburg plans to increasingly regulate what it sees as excessive wind power expansion to ensure the continued acceptance by the population, writes Benjamin Lassiwe in Lausitzer Rundschau. State premier Dietmar Woidke said he ...
04 Oct 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Energiewende Hydrogen International 91tv The economy ministers of Germany and the Netherlands, Peter Altmaier and Eric Wiebes, have signed a joint declaration at the sidelines of joint cabinet consultations ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Elections & Politics 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit should follow the Coal Exit Commission's final report as closely as possible, according to the commission鈥檚 co-chair ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:12 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel Background / ZDF The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has said that it is fully focused on investigating fraudulent emissions reduction projects in China, which oil companies ...
Europe鈥檚 first ever cross-border solar tender sees five Danish solar developers snapping up 50 megawatts in a German tender for construction of five solar projects in Denmark, reports Ian Clover in pv magazine. Winning bids of EUR 5.38 cents/kWh were ...
29 Jul 2024
29 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel Reuters: Trump effect in clean tech sector deepens angst in Europe's boardrooms European companies focused on clean energy are abandoning expansion plans, bracing for lower sales or see funding of U.S projects in ...
鈥淐onsiderable legal concerns鈥� could stand in the way of German farmers鈥� demand for recurring compensation payments if power lines are built on their land, according to a law firm report commissioned by energy industry association the German Association of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power labelling regulation allows electricity suppliers to declare a higher than real share of renewables in their customers鈥� power mix, which amounts to 鈥済reenwashing by law,鈥� writes J枚rg Staude for klimaretter.info, based on data from green ...
The cabinet decision on a new law to regulate the financing of nuclear decommissioning and waste storage will be postponed until the end of August, writes WirtschaftsWoche. According to the unsourced report, utility RWE said it would not be able to ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:52 Filling gas storages in 2023 might not be as easy as this past year in the absence of Russian pipeline gas, and Europe should focus on energy saving and finding ways to increase especially LNG supply to address the global shortage next ...
06 Sep 2023, 14:00 Europe鈥檚 carmakers have little to celebrate at this year鈥檚 IAA mobility show. Chinese firms鈥� widening lead in the global shift to electric vehicles is on open display at the biennial fair in Munich, while climate activists lambast ...
German energy company RWE has rejected calls for a moratorium on forest clearing as part of lignite mining during its negotiations with the country鈥檚 coal exit commission, and said it would continue mining operations at the controversial Hambach mine, the ...
10 Mar 2021, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Cars Industry dpa Tesla sticks to its timetable and wants to open its "gigafactory" in Gr眉nheide, near Berlin, in the summer despite recent delays, industry sources told German newswire dpa. The start of ...
20 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv A new masterplan developed by three Fraunhofer research institutes outlines how a successful hydrogen industry can be developed in eastern Germany. The transition from fossil fuels to sustainably ...
31 Mar 2022, 14:00 S枚ren Amelang Coal Security 91tv Utility RWE continues to implement the country's official coal exit timetable by switching off a unit of one of Europe's most polluting power stations, but will ensure the facility ...
A legal opinion for the federal parliament says carmakers鈥� failure to disclose the use of 'defeat devices'- which reduce an engine鈥檚 performance during emissions testing- represent 鈥渁 continuous and severe violation of the law鈥�. The opinion from ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the country's transport ministry (BMVI) have sealed a contract ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Onshore wind power auctions held in November in Germany have led to a new record in submitted bids, the country鈥檚 Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. Bidders submitted ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:54 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv Labour unions are necessary for organising the collective ...
09 Dec 2020, 11:43 The decision by EU leaders on raising the bloc's 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target has major implications for the Europe鈥檚 and 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy and climate policy in 2021 and beyond, says Brick Medak, head of think tank E3G' ...
Baden W眉rttemberg鈥檚 Green environment minister Franz Untersteller has suggested partly replacing the renewable surcharge with taxpayers鈥� money. The high costs of early solar development shortly after the year 2000 should be financed separately by a fund, ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 91tv Almost 70 percent of Germans say that the climate crisis means a "fundamental rethink is needed in the area of mobility," shows a survey by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 leading technical ...
02 Sep 2019, 13:08 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices dpa Economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said he aims to lower German electricity prices in the country's climate cabinet, where聽 key decisions 聽on German climate action legislation ...
Negotiations between the four nuclear operators and the German government are at full speed, reports Antje H枚ning in Rheinische Post. Insiders told the author the government wanted a cabinet decision in August so the financing of the nuclear exit is put ...
17 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024, 11:00 Julian Wettengel EU Council greenlights 鈧�2.3 billion energy transition support for Germany The EU approved 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 amended recovery and resilience plan, which now includes an additional 鈧�2.3 billion to contribute to accelerating ...
15 Jun 2020, 14:43 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars 91tv Newly registered cars in Germany with high CO2 emissions will be charged an increased tax by 2021 in order to "align the ...
18 Sep 2017, 00:00 With Germans about to cast their votes in the federal election, Chancellor Angela Merkel is virtually certain to retain power. But the make-up of the next coalition will be key to how the new government tackles a host of energy and ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv Austria鈥檚 new government coalition of designated conservative chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the Green Party could serve as a role model for Germany, say several commentaries in ...
12 May 2022, 14:00 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Edgar Meza Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 16 federal states have sufficient space ...
11 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024, 10:23 91tv Team WBGU: German govt advisors call for international water strategy with regional platforms In a climatically and geopolitically heated world, the challenges surrounding water are becoming substantially more acute, said the ...
28 Aug 2024
28 Aug 2024, 09:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: The secret behind 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 record renewables buildout As most countries struggle to install clean energy fast enough, Germany tackled the industry鈥檚 toughest problem: slow permitting, writes Bloomberg. Bloomberg: ...
07 Feb 2020, 13:02 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen 91tv E-mobility in Germany, including the charging infrastructure, is growing faster every year and 鈥渋s gradually leaving its niche role behind鈥�, writes ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Society EU 91tv / Spiegel The European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has reduced the emission of hazardous air pollutants like sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides, ...
24 May 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Policy AFP / Tagesspiegel Installing plug-in solar run 鈥榖alcony power plants鈥� in German households should be simplified through a reduction of regulatory hurdles, the country's economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
The federal finance ministry鈥檚 plan to tax solar power produced for self-consumption has failed due to opposition from the federal economy ministry, writes Manfred Sch盲fers for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing government sources. The finance ...
05 Nov 2014
05 Nov 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt Steel industry says its concerns over energy policy go unheard Various voices from the steel industry raise concerns about the Energiewende in an article in Die Welt. Industry representatives are ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) wants to 鈥渕ake a pact with the states鈥� and present a law to accelerate the building of new power lines, he told Funke Mediengruppe ahead of today鈥檚 Grid Summit with the states鈥� energy ministers in Berlin. ...
The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) together with auto club ADAC will file a class action lawsuit against Volkswagen for 鈥渋ntentionally and immorally causing harm to and betraying customers with software manipulation鈥� to obfuscate its ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars Hydrogen Reuters German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a radical shift in mobility to ensure the country reaches its 2030 climate targets, reports news agency Reuters. 鈥淲e can only achieve this ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:43 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Government ZDF / 91tv Germany's coalition government is set to reopen budget negotiations after advisors to the finance ministry cast doubts on a draft agreement on a budget for 2025 ...
20 May 2020, 13:55 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
24 May 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency 91tv The energy efficiency gains of one- or two-family homes in Germany have begun to flatten out in recent years, making clear that more efforts are needed to achieve further progress in ...
21 Apr 2015
21 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淎 grand coalition against CO2 targets鈥� German carmakers VW, BMW and Mercedes, as well as metalworkers union IG Metall, are lobbying against the EU Commission鈥檚 plan ...
17 Nov 2017, 00:00 The Bonn climate summit of 2017, a short way from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest coal mining district, is almost over. But the COP will reconvene next year, 1,050 kilometres away from Bonn in Katowice, another traditional coal mining area located in ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The planned expansion of district heating in Germany will require 43.5 billion euros in investment by 2030 to help the country reach its climate targets, said a report by analysis ...
Schleswig-Holstein鈥檚 state energy minister Robert Habeck wants to prohibit further oil test drillings off the coast of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 northernmost state, writes Sven-Michael Veit in tageszeitung (taz). Detonations, drillings and other invasions of the national ...
15 Dec 2015, 00:00 The widely celebrated Paris Agreement has intensified the debate about how Germany can achieve its endangered climate targets. Most commentators and climate activists argued the results of the climate summit vindicated demands that ...
23 Apr 2021, 12:53 S枚ren Amelang Transport Industry Handelsblatt / Financial Times In contrast to a growing number of truckmakers, car parts supplier Bosch bets heavily on hydrogen fuel cell trucks,聽 reports 聽Martin Buchenau in Handelsblatt. The company ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background / Deutsche Welle Authorities in Germany, Sweden and Denmark are investigating a sudden drop of pressure in the two offshore Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines ...
Germany has capped the expansion of offshore wind power to 3.1 gigawatts (GW) between 2021 and 2025 because the high-voltage power lines needed to carry green energy from the windy north to the industrial south will not be ready, report Andreas Rinke and ...
The new bill on the responsibility for the disposal of nuclear waste, passed by the German Bundestag on Thursday, is a 鈥渟tep of historic proportions鈥� for the federal government, writes lawyer and expert in energy law Olaf D盲uper in a guest commentary in ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background After years of dependence on imports from Asia, the time is right to push for a renaissance of the solar industry in Europe, industry representatives Christian M眉ller ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv This year's Petersberg Climate Dialogue will create space for ministers from about 40 countries to have "difficult discussions" on international climate ...
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks would consider rewarding owners of cars with combustion engines if they decide to dispense with their vehicles, the minister said in an interview with Welt Online. A so-called scrapping premium would 鈥渘ot come ...
26 Nov 2019, 12:58 S枚ren Amelang Coal 91tv Europe's mining regions call for EU support for "clean coal" technologies to ease their transition, but climate activists warned the coal exit must not be delayed by promoting " ...
The federal government cabinet has today decided on the draft budget for 2017 鈥� which now has to be approved by parliament. The economy and energy department will be allocated 7.4 billion euros, 3 billion of which will be used in research, development and ...
18 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024, 14:10 91tv Team Bloomberg: EU鈥檚 green shift under threat as the hit to consumers gets real Pushback on transport and heating policies is building Looming real-world impact fuels backlash as deadlines near Transport & Environment: T ...
01 Dec 2022, 12:20 One year after taking over 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 鈥渢raffic light鈥� coalition looks back at some turbulent first twelve months in office that were overshadowed by Russia鈥檚 attack on Ukraine and the subsequent ...
23 Oct 2015
23 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淎n energy concept that electrifies no one鈥� Bavaria will have to import 40-50 percent of its consumed electricity in 2025, Daniela Kuhr writes in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The ...
24 Apr 2020, 13:49 Freja Eriksen Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The coronavirus crisis is set to have a significant impact on income from the German renewables' levy as power demand falls, consultancy enplify writes in an聽 ...
22 Apr 2020, 15:01 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert ...
14 Jul 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Finance Handelsblatt The strategic shift of US investment management firm BlackRock to align its financial operations with sustainability criteria starts having an impact on ...
28 Sep 2020, 14:12 S枚ren Amelang Finance 91tv The German government is urging Europe's financial sector to see the shift to a more sustainable economy as a major business opportunity. "Transforming the economy towards greater ...
04 Mar 2015
04 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) 鈥淣o capacity payments to coal- and gas-fired power plants鈥� Additional payments to operators of coal- and gas-fired power plants are currently not ...
12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
17 Mar 2023, 14:25 A year after the launch of Russia's attack on Ukraine, Germany appears to be emerging from the energy crisis relatively unscathed. Russia鈥檚 war has dealt a heavy blow to Europe鈥檚 biggest economy, because it was particularly ...
27 Jun 2018, 16:59 Germany will likely fail on many of its self-imposed energy transition targets, says the government-appointed expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in its opinion on the federal economy ...
German car suppliers which are largely still 鈥渇irmly rooted in traditional car manufacturing鈥� must quickly adapt to the electrification of transport and be willing to cooperate with competitors, or they will 鈥渇all by the wayside鈥�, according to an analysis ...
18 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ursula von der Leyen: "We'll stay the course on the EU Green Deal and the goals we set for 2030 and 2050" " We will now focus on implementation & investment" and "put forward a Clean ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Heating Construction 91tv The shortage of skilled labour is the decisive hurdle that keeps Germany from modernising enough buildings towards more energy-efficiency to reach climate targets, said ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:32 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:44 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv / taz The switch to electric vehicles is not yet possible for all income groups equally in Germany, according to a report by clean mobility NGO International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).聽聽 ...
The German government was much too soft on carmakers at the diesel summit in Berlin, writes Petra Pinzler in an opinion piece for Zeit Online. 鈥淚n Germany, laws are valid for some, summits are held for others,鈥� writes Pinzler. Even at the summit, ...
17 Nov 2015
17 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淐an E.ON survive alone?鈥� Writing for WitschaftsWoche, Christof Sch眉rmann says there are doubts over whether the new E.ON, which will split from its fossil-fuel business in a few weeks, will be ...
04 Nov 2024
04 Nov 2024, 13:17 91tv Team Bloomberg: 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 shaky coalition heads for a 鈧�75 billion budget reckoning Top judges to scrutinize levy on high earners and businesses. The ruling could bring the fragile coalition to the brink of collapse. S&P Global: ...
15 Mar 2018, 00:00 Germany's new environment minister Svenja Schulze is a new face in Chancellor Angela Merkel's fourth cabinet. But the Social Democrat inherits a range of well-known challenges- from coal emissions to air pollution by diesel ...
18 Jun 2018, 14:58 Social justice should be a guiding principle of modern climate policy, German environment minister Svenja Schulze said at the opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. Samantha Smith of the International Trade Union ...
11 Jun 2021, 12:54 Green delegates are pushing for more ambitious climate policies in the party's election manifesto to be finalised at a party congress over the weekend, as the party seeks to stem a recent slide in the polls. Against the backdrop of ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:46 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Adaptation The first cranes are returning to Germany already in January 2024 from their wintering grounds further south as they migrate to north-eastern Europe to breed, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
29 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
The German economy ministry plans to reimburse tenants for using power generated by photovoltaic arrays and district heating plants installed in the buildings they live in, Gerald Traufetter writes on Spiegel Online. According to a draft by the ministry, ...
22 Dec 2020, 12:28 Edgar Meza Wind Spiegel Online / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green Party is ready to accept exceptions to nature conservation in order to accelerate the expansion of wind farms, Valerie H枚hne writes in Spiegel Online, citing a Green ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:28 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and integration of renewable power sources ...
German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt has suggested communes should ban the use of diesel cars when nitrogen oxide levels are high, report Michail Hengstenberg and Gerald Traufetter in Spiegel Online. In a reply to a question by the Green party, ...
08 Feb 2017
There was 鈥渟trong competition鈥� in the first solar tender following this year鈥檚 changes in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Renewable Energy Law, according to the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA). Winning bids for arrays with a capacity of more than 750 kilowatts averaged 6.58 cents ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 91tv / Die Zeit Germany has experienced its third warmest winter season since records began, according to the country's meteorological service,聽DWD. An average temperature of 4.1 ...
21 Aug 2020, 13:59 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Gas Der Spiegel Methane leaks in municipal gas pipe systems produce an estimated 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents annually in Germany, according to Der Spiegel, which cites a new study by an ...
Investing in German solar power plants can yield returns up to more than four percent, Hermann Klughardt, director of green energy fund voigt & collegen, said in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche. While governments in Spain and Italy cut feed-in ...
06 Sep 2024
06 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Copernicus: Summer 2024 鈥� Hottest on record globally and for Europe During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:33 Europe's largest car fair IAA is set to become a showdown between climate activists and an automotive industry eager to prove its green credentials when it takes place next month. The show, which has been moved from Frankfurt to ...
The Swedish government has given the green light for construction of the controversial natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 that connects Germany with Russia via the Baltic Sea, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Focus Online. While Sweden has ...
Against resistance from the German government, the EU Commission continues to seek participation in negotiations over Nord Stream 2, the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, Daniel Br枚ssler and Alexander M眉hlauer report for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The EU ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:17 Jennifer Collins Construction 91tv Germany's state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has opened a second sustainable station made of locally sourced and processed wood. In operation one year after construction ...
German carmakers might have been late to embark on the electrification of passenger cars, but, according to a recent study by patent law office Gr眉necker, 鈥渁re very well positioned when it comes to e-transporters and e-trucks,鈥� Thomas Fromm writes for the ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Renewables Transport 91tv [CORRECTION: DB says it seeks 500 gigawatt hours (GWh) of green electricity, not 500 GW.] 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Heating Tagesspiegel Background Municipalities should expand their mandatory planning for future climate-friendly heating to encompass general energy distribution, think tank Agora Energiewende has proposed, ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:01 Freja Eriksen Cars Focus Online / RND Twenty-one percent of Germans would opt for an electric model when buying a new car after the German government has announced it will double the existing buyer's premium for electric vehicles ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:25 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices Policy 91tv There is a gap of 41 billion euro in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 public sector budgets over the next five years for investments and funding programmes dedicated to greening the economy, the country ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The draft of a main motion by the new Social Democratic Party (SPD) leadership duo does not include key climate policy campaign demands of聽 the recently elected party ...
While the German and Californian transport transitions face common challenges, German lawmakers could derive valuable best practices from the US state鈥檚 鈥渕ore advanced stage鈥�, according to a report by the Ahead project, a joint initiative of the Potsdam ...
29 Nov 2019, 14:00 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Renewables Hydrogen ...
German car manufacturers are 鈥渨orld champions in restoring the past鈥�, but are not able to come up with new basic ideas for a radically changing world, writes Sebastian Matthes in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. German engineers optimised the combustion ...
26 Oct 2018, 10:47 As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal government parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU camp and the Social Democrats (SPD), suffer from voter flight due to the coalition鈥檚 constant quarrels, the Green Party emerges as one of the big ...
05 Nov 2020, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Focus Online Contrary to many countries and major cities around the world, Germany has not yet announced plans to phase out combustion engines in passenger cars, the news website Focus Online writes. ...
06 Mar 2020, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Germany's banks say the country should push for EU-wide rules on sustainable finance, instead of creating its own "counterproductive" framework. In reaction to the first interim ...
21 Nov 2019, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Businesses' necessary adaptation to climate change and potentially disruptive policy decisions in the move to a climate-friendly low-carbon economy are the biggest risks global warming ...
24 Jan 2022, 13:33 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas EU 91tv Utilities have welcomed the German government's pro-natural gas stance in its feedback to the European Commission鈥檚 sustainable finance taxonomy plans, but ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Utilities 91tv Hambach Forest in western Germany could be saved following the German coal exit commission鈥檚 agreement, but only at great cost, RWE head Rolf Martin Schmitz said ...
25 May 2020, 12:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Policy 91tv The expansion of onshore wind power capacity in Germany in 2022 again remained below the level required for reaching the country鈥檚 renewable power targets, a shortcoming that ...
The coal mining industry in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern region Lusatia refuses to accept that it faces a similar destiny as the country鈥檚 nuclear industry, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. Those employed in the industry feel that 鈥渂rown coal, which has formed ...
19 Oct 2016, 00:00 The German government decided on a pact to free nuclear power plant operators of responsibility for storing radioactive waste, and transfer it into the hands of the state. Utilities welcomed the decision made on Wednesday, while critics ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ARD / Handelsblatt / Zeit Online German media commentators described Ursula von der Leyen, candidate for the European Commission presidency and German defence minister, as ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv The majority of employees in German companies are satisfied with the speed with which their employer is promoting sustainability efforts and say it is increasingly gearing its business ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:58 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv A working group made up of government officials and industry representatives focusing on climate-neutral aviation is calling for clear commitment by political leaders and industry to the market ...
28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union鈥檚 two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:24 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Gas International 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas industry has said additional natural gas import infrastructure such as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is essential for keeping competition in Europe ...
03 Apr 2019, 12:25 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Energiewende International German Energy Agency (dena) An international exchange of experiences ...
07 Oct 2024
07 Oct 2024, 10:53 91tv Team Bruegel: Europe鈥檚 2040 climate target: four critical risks and how to manage them Achieving target will require massive expansion of renewable electricity generation, drastic reductions in fossil-fuel use, energy efficiency ...
In spring this year, Switzerland decided to pursue an energy transition strategy, but the country will take its time phasing out nuclear power, writes the news agency dpa in an article carried by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Switzerland is already able ...
The German Energy agency (dena) says it regrets that the government failed to reach a compromise on the GEG, a bill that would have modernised energy efficiency standards for German buildings. In a press release, dena head Andreas Kuhlmann called the ...
German customers are being misled by inaccurate labelling of the origin of their electricity, the energy provider LichtBlick writes in a press release. Suppliers are obliged by law to indicate an averaged share of green electricity in their tariffs, even ...
15 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy New draft version of Renewable Energy Act released The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has released a new draft of the Renewable ...
15 Aug 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv Leading members of the German government have renewed calls for perseverance and willingness to make sacrifices to beat the energy crisis, with the upcoming heating season set to drive up ...
03 Jun 2021, 12:12 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ...
12 Mar 2019, 14:01 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Grid International Tagesspiegel In order to achieve the best possible climate action in ...
Operators of pumped hydro power plants warn a planned law will increase operating costs to the point where the stations will have to be closed, reports Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government cabinet will vote on Wednesday to ...
05 Nov 2024, 12:48 Ruby Russel Business & Jobs International 91tv The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is likely to promote German exports rather than harming them, the German Economic Institute (IW) has found. The economists, however, ...
Energy experts of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 grand coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have rebuffed the Green Party鈥檚 plans for an accelerated coal exit. 鈥淲e cannot phase out both nuclear and coal-fired power production within 15 or 20 years,鈥� ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
The federal economy ministry has proposed merging existing energy legislation in the heating and building sector into one 鈥淏uilding Energy Law鈥�, writes Reinhart B眉nger in Der Tagesspiegel. One of the main goals is to change the way energy efficiency in ...
28 Aug 2024, 14:06 Jack McGovan Storage Hydrogen MDR / 91tv The German government is co-funding a hydrogen storage project in the Saale region, with economy minister Robert Habeck having handed over the funding notice of 61 million euros on ...
26 Mar 2020, 14:07 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society RTL / n-tv A new poll finds support for Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative coalition has risen sharply as the coronavirus pandemic has hit Germany, while concern over the urgency of climate action has ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:19 Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine Catastrophic flooding following heavy and long-lasting rainfall in southern Germany over the first weekend in June has led to calls for ...
23 Sep 2021, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen 91tv One year on from the National Hydrogen Strategy launch, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government and industries are divided over its implementation. While the government鈥檚 interim report ...
08 Jul 2019, 13:26 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Augsburger Allgemeine / FAZ / General Anzeiger Commentators are debating the effect of increasing existing taxes on petrol, diesel, heating oil and natural gas as proposed by federal ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:11 Ruby Russel Freight 91tv Battery-electric trucks are the best option to reduce emissions from road freight transport, and market forces are working in their favour, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic ...
Unchanged investments in local utility sector With 4.88 billion euros, the investments of the municipal utility sector into its power plant fleet remained largely unchanged in 2015, compared to 5.1 billion euros in 2014. 鈥淭he caution in 2015 was due to ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:47 Sven Egenter Coal Elections & Politics S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned exit from coal-fired power generation by 2038 is 鈥渢oo late from a climate policy perspective鈥�, said Markus S枚der, the Bavarian state premier and leader of ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:57 Germany will continue to aim to provide 6 billion euros annually in funds to developing countries for climate mitigation and adaptation by 2025, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said. The government would do so despite a recent ...
The head of the German Council of Economic Experts (Wirtschaftsweise), Christoph M. Schmidt, says the country must replace its 鈥渆conomically inefficient鈥� support programmes for renewable energy sources with a uniform price on greenhouse gas emissions. In ...
Swedish power company Vattenfall reported a fourth-quarter and full-year net loss on the back of low electricity prices and write-downs, press agency dpa reports. For the full year 2016, Vattenfall said its net loss was聽2.7 billion euros, including the ...
01 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty have kicked off in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
Germany can lower its CO鈧� emissions by 90 percent by 2050 if current technologies are used in the most efficient way for an ambitious transformation of the country鈥檚 energy system, writes the German Energy Agency (dena) in a press release. The next ...
The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) initiated several additional legal proceedings on emissions limits in German cities, bringing the total number of affected cities to 45, the organisation writes in a press release. 鈥淒iesel driving bans in more ...
09 Jun 2015
09 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淎 new world economy鈥� 鈥淲hoever thought international climate policy was a temporary phenomenon, like a heavy thunderstorm with dark clouds, should quickly rethink,鈥� ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Heating 91tv More and more households are turning to air conditioning to stay cool in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 increasingly hot summers. The share of households using air conditioning has grown to 19 percent ...
01 Jun 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices WDR A new controversial fuel price rebate took effect in Germany on 1 June as part of a government package aimed at cushioning the financial impact of the Ukraine war on citizens. Through ...
The former border between West and East Germany could become a problem for the country鈥檚 much-needed power transmission highways SuedLink and SuedOstLink, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government of the eastern German ...
08 Jul 2024
08 Jul 2024, 11:00 S枚ren Amelang Reuters: France faces coalition puzzle after left-wing surge Left-wing bloc comes first but no majority in parliament Macron's centrists second, far-right RN in third place Unexpected outcome leaves France in limbo ...
11 Sep 2024
11 Sep 2024, 11:18 Julian Wettengel EU Commission: State of the Energy Union Report 2024 shows EU progress The EU has managed to withstand critical risks to its security of energy supply, regain control over the energy market and prices, and accelerate ...
04 Jul 2024
04 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann France 24: EU slaps Chinese electric cars with tariffs of up to 38% The European Union on Thursday slapped extra provisional duties of up to 38 percent on Chinese electric car imports because of "unfair" ...
29 May 2024, 14:07 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv The production of low emissions cement and steel is set to become cheaper than that of counterparts produced with fossil fuels before the middle of the century, according to a report by the ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:12 Edgar Meza Heating Construction 91tv The climate-friendly conversion of Germany's building sector should include socially-just financing models, as housing, heating and retrofitting costs increasingly place a burden on ...
Opposition to the planned Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is growing as Denmark drafts a new law that would allow the government to prevent the construction on the country鈥檚 continental shelf, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
The approval processes for coal plants and mine expansions will not be halted while the upcoming multi-stakeholder commission on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit 鈥� the so-called coal commission 鈥� discusses the country鈥檚 phase-out-path, indicates the economy ministry ...
08 Apr 2016
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Berliner Zeitung 鈥淭he federal government is shifting into reverse gear concerning Energiewende鈥� The federal government鈥檚 plans to reform the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) will lead to ...
Blockchain technology is one of the few digital developments in recent years in which Germany has an advantage, and it could be a decisive tool for pushing the energy transition鈥檚 digitalisation, energy management researcher Jens Str眉ker writes in a guest ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity 91tv German companies and public authorities should use a mix of renewables, battery storage, fuel cells and microgrids in the event of a power cut, the Federal Office of Civil Protection and ...
11 Dec 2017, 00:00 A round of fresh 鈥榞reen鈥� finance pledges by companies and investors marks the kickoff on 12 December in Paris of a climate finance summit initiated by French President Emmanuel Macron. However, NGOs say that the developments so far have ...
The first truly fundamental reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was long overdue, writes Andreas Mihm in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The law聽has long fulfilled its purpose of making green power competitive and聽has become too ...
The transport ministry has instructed a commission to determine ethical principles for driverless cars, according to a report in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Transport minister Alexander Dobrindt told mass daily Bild two of the fundamental ideas guiding the work ...
07 Feb 2024, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Company climate claims 91tv Three quarters of Germans are in favour of a binding climate label for food, according to a聽 survey 聽by health insurance provider AOK. Seventy-six percent agreed with ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Heating Cities 91tv District heating already supplies more than a third of houses in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three largest cities of Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, according to utility E.ON. In Munich and Hamburg, the share ...
09 Jul 2024
09 Jul 2024, 11:00 S枚ren Amelang Carbon Brief: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit Recent warming has led to renewed debate around whether the world might pass the 1.5C Paris Agreement limit sooner previously estimated. ...
04 Jan 2024, 12:03 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Table ...
The diesel summit agreement from 2 August to upgrade software in five million vehicles, set up a mobility fund, and offer buyer鈥檚 bonuses can be described as 鈥淢ickey Mouse policies鈥� that may cut harmful emissions by five percent at best, Jens Thurau ...
18 Dec 2020, 14:11 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Electricity Grid 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The separate planning procedures ...
29 Oct 2018, 16:39 The elections in the German state of Hesse have set in motion a major shift in the country's political landscape. Germany's national government coalition parties took the second pounding at regional elections in a row, ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Solar 91tv The technical potential of solar PV installations on agricultural land (also known as agri PV) in Germany largely exceeds the potential of other so far unconventional PV technologies ...
03 Sep 2024, 12:29 Jennifer Collins Transport 91tv A heavily subsidised public transport ticket introduced for three months in Germany in 2022 led to a significant increase in train delays and only marginally reduced traffic on the roads, ...
16 May 2024, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv Technological measures to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere face significant economic and institutional hurdles in Germany said a research team led by the Helmholtz Centre for ...
09 Jan 2019, 12:18 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Tageszeitung German police are preparing a new round of evictions from tree houses built in protest against lignite mining in Hambach forest,聽 reports Anett Selle in the ...
22 Nov 2019, 12:02 Expert IASS- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Think tank on sustainable development Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Some German states have said they will make use ...
15 Nov 2024, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Die Welt / Deutsche Welle Restarting 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 decommissioned nuclear power plants is not a viable option, former plant operator E.ON has said. The company ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:37 Jennifer Collins Grid Cost & Prices 91tv German electricity consumers in areas with lots of wind and solar power could see lower grid fees from next year, according to newly published pricings aimed at more evenly ...
The new law for finding a permanent nuclear repository in Germany aims 鈥� to offer proof that an enlightened society can find a place for the waste that nobody wants to have,鈥� Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in a commentary for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. But for this ...
The emissions fraud scandal engulfing 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest car manufacturer Volkswagen is not the only case 聽in which companies manipulated their diesel engines to fulfil exhaust regulations, Martin Gropp writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Also ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society dpa / ZfK Optimism that Germany can achieve its national energy transition targets is moderately growing in Germany, a survey by consultancy EY has found. The share of respondents saying that the ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv Fourteen percent of German households are already putting their money into sustainable investments, while another 30 percent can imagine doing so in the future, a survey by the government-owned ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Four years after the launch of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national hydrogen strategy, the buildout of hydrogen infrastructure is behind schedule and could run into serious trouble that scares away ...
05 Dec 2015, 00:00 UPDATE (adds NGO statement on climate finance pledge) Agreement on a draft agreement 鈥� with lots of options / Climate funding pledges reach $94 billion / Climate risk insurance can help dealing with loss and damages / Climate blind ...
28 Mar 2024, 13:34 Edgar Meza Agriculture 91tv A global transition to healthy, more sustainable diets could considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help limit global warming to the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5掳C, researchers at the ...
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Major utility E.ON has abandoned plans to spin off its nuclear power plants when it splits in two next year. The operation and decommissioning of the company鈥檚 German nuclear activities will not be transferred to the new spin-off Uniper ...
21 May 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital ...
Germany is likely to miss several of its energy transition goals by 2020, including greenhouse gas reduction and transport sector goals, writes an expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German Energiewende in a short interim ...
13 Dec 2018, 14:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid WirtschaftsWoche / Economy & Energy Ministry German economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said the government will raise the compensation payments for land owners who provide their property for the ...
02 Feb 2021, 14:05 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Renewables Solar pv magazine / 91tv New photovoltaic capacity in ...
The acting German government is planning a quick reform of the power market even before the new government coalition is formed, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The reason is concerns that the EU might force German transmission ...
22 Oct 2015
22 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) 鈥淭he energy transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany, the UK and France鈥� The experience of Germany, the UK and France shows that the transition to a ...
18 Dec 2019, 14:05 Germany has seen a second year of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as coal use fell by more than 20 percent and energy production from renewables increased, preliminary calculations by energy research group AG ...
15 Dec 2016, 00:00 An expert commission tasked with monitoring the progress of the German energy transition warned the country will probably miss its 2020 emission targets and other crucial Energiewende goals, threatening the entire project鈥檚 credibility. ...
G20 countries should develop and share renewable energy innovation in water use, food and agriculture to ensure food security, according to policy recommendations by the G20 think tank network T20 Task Force Towards Ending Hunger and Sustainable ...
Banning older diesel cars from inner cities will only worsen the air pollution problem and carbon emissions in the long run and should therefore be avoided as much as possible, Gerd Landsberg, head of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:47 In light of several fossil fuel phase-out pledges at the COP26 climate summit, researchers and activists have pointed out that Germany's planned coal exit date is far from ambitious enough and called on the next government ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv Reports that one billion euros of funding to improve 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 railways will instead be spent on building more roads have alarmed rail transport associations and NGOs in ...
29 May 2020, 13:01 The German government is set to make the large-scale use of offshore wind power to produce emission-free hydrogen a cornerstone of its long-anticipated national hydrogen strategy, reports Tagesspiegel Background. With additional ...
Despite 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 recent reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), the country鈥檚 wind power sector remains hopeful that new revisions to the law could soon follow Bundestag elections next year, Die Welt reports. Indeed, next year鈥檚 elections are the key ...
The tenant electricity draft law by the German economy ministry (BMWi) is 鈥渁n overdue step towards more equality鈥� among the country鈥檚 power consumers, Bernward Janzing writes in a commentary for taz. It allowed tenants not to pay the entire renewable ...
06 Aug 2015
06 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa 鈥淕reen state ministers criticise Gabriel鈥檚 Renewable Energy Act (EEG) reform plans鈥� Environment and energy ministers from nine German states have warned Federal Minister for Energy and Economic ...
31 May 2024, 12:52 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Policy 91tv An alliance of environmental NGOs, a motorist club, trade unions and various labour unions and associations has called on Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner to slash ...
26 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germans have handed Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term in the country鈥檚 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, ...
Under a new agreement, Russia's Gazprom will have greater access to the German OPAL connection pipeline in eastern Germany, removing a key hurdle to Gazprom鈥檚 plan to double Nord Stream capacity in Nord Stream 2, writes EurActiv. 鈥淭he latest ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:14 The European Union wants to establish itself as the world leader in hydrogen technologies and will focus on ramping up electrolyser capacities in the next four years. According to the European Commission's hydrogen strategy, the ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU 91tv Please note: This article has been updated to clarify that support for the target so far has been voiced only by the foreign ministry, while the government cabinet has yet to agree ...
German consumer groups have filed the country鈥檚 first class action lawsuit against VW over the emissions cheating scandal, reports newswire AFP in an article carried by the Business Times. "Volkswagen will remember this day as the moment the kid ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant 鈥渟afety buffer鈥� of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
23 Aug 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Cars 91tv / Reuters Germany needs biofuels and synthetic fuels made from renewable electricity (e-fuels) to ensure that the country's existing fleet of combustion engine vehicles can help reach climate ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv German industry's dependence on ...
German energy company RWE will breach the law if it continues to press ahead with the clearing of the Hambach Forest in western Germany to expand its nearby lignite mine, environmental NGO Greenpeace says in a press release. According to a legal opinion ...
08 Dec 2014
08 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel 鈥淧ower monster eats the Chancellor鈥� Frank Dohmen und Gerald Trautfetter in Der Spiegel say the government is under pressure to draft and pass a law on the power market design by summer ...
12 Jun 2024, 13:15 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy S枚ren Amelang Transport Freight 91tv Decarbonising the freight transport sector will require a shift from planes and trucks to ...
Baden-W眉rttemberg鈥檚 Green state premier Winfried Kretschmann has defended the diesel technology as 鈥渢he best combustion engine there is鈥�, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. 鈥淐lean diesel engines exist鈥� and 鈥渨e鈥檙e going to need them for a long time to ...
29 Apr 2015
29 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淩esidual Risk鈥� There are worrying parallels between the current E.ON split into two separate companies and the finance industry鈥檚 spinning off of risky assets into bad banks in ...
The conflict over coal-mining expansion in the Hambach Forest, where police have started evicting anti-coal activists, is becoming an issue that could threaten the stability of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit commission, news website Spiegel Online writes. Commission ...
The German government should come to realise that the planned gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea 鈥渨ill not be implemented鈥� and 鈥渟ave Europe further disputes on this matter鈥�, Green politician Reinhard B眉tikofer writes in a ...
30 Oct 2024
30 Oct 2024, 10:49 91tv Team IEA: Global market for key clean technologies set to triple to more than 2 trillion USD over the coming decade as energy transitions advance IEA analysis shows complex interplay between energy, industrial and trade policies as ...
A concerted lobbying effort by German carmakers was crucial in watering down new EU car fleet emission targets for the period after 2021, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淚t seems a call from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chief car lobbyist, [car industry association VDA head] ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:16 The expansion and maintenance of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 rail and road network should be financed by a special fund outside of the regular budget, according to the government鈥檚 council of economic advisors. Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear fund is meant to cover the costs accruing from the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out for generations to come. If 鈥� and only if- the fund is managed well, taxpayers will not have to top it up, Helmut B眉nder and Brigitte Koch write in ...
The reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was postponed for the third week in a row on Wednesday. The changes proposed to 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables law, which enabled the rapid growth of solar, wind and biogas generated power, are subject to disagreements ...
24 Jun 2024, 14:12 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Government ARD / Handelsblatt As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government struggles to agree on the country鈥檚 tightening 2025 budget, chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended planned austerity measures that would see major ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Solar Cities pv magazine / 91tv The city of Berlin has adopted a plan to vastly expand the deployment of solar panels across the city鈥檚 rooftops, with the goal of supplying some 25 percent of the city鈥檚 ...
The German Federal Constitutional Court's聽 decision to declare the country鈥檚 nuclear fuel tax law invalid has outraged many Green politicians, but could turn out to be beneficial for some of their fellow party members, Daniel Wetzel writes in the ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:51 S枚ren Amelang Cars Tagesspiegel Tesla may have to stop construction of its "Gigafactory" near Berlin following new legal action brought by environmental NGOs, reports Thorsten Metzner in the newspaper Tagesspiegel. The ...
Considerations within 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 governing conservative party CDU to transfer 152 containers with radioactive fuel elements from a research reactor to the US could deal a blow to the聽 country鈥檚 search for a final repository for its nuclear waste, Michael ...
02 Sep 2024
02 Sep 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Thunderstorm Warnings Across Europe While Heat Builds in Germany Summer heat across Europe is giving way to extreme weather events from violent storms and flooding to wildfires. Climate change is increasing the ...
22 May 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Using public procurement contracts and quotas for climate-friendly basic materials could help drive demand for climate-friendly products like green steel or cement, the German economy ministry ...
30 Jan 2019, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation is key for the success of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, but progress remains slow, says the report by consultancy EY commissioned by the economy and ...
07 Oct 2024, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Gas dpa Two additional floating import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) are due to go into operation before the winter in Germany, state-owned operating company Deutsche Energy Terminal (DET) told news agency ...
07 Oct 2024, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Storage 91tv / electrive State funding cuts for battery research projects mean that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is exiting a key future technology, while other regions of the world increase their research and ...
06 Mar 2020, 13:57 Freja Eriksen Heating Die Welt The housing group Vonovia, which acts as Germany's largest landlord, has called on the state to support energy efficient renovations in rented homes, writes Die Welt. Although the group's rental ...
To incentivise the uptake of electric vehicles, the German federal government is considering offering tax breaks to employees who use an electric company car for private purposes, the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung reports. According to the draft amendment to the ...
05 Jul 2022, 12:40 Possible state support for energy company Uniper 鈥� Europe鈥檚 largest buyer of Russian fossil gas 鈥� is justified because an insolvency would trigger a domino effect and shake up the entire German gas industry, says energy analyst Andreas ...
04 Sep 2020, 14:03 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv The share of new electric vehicle registrations in Germany reached a new record in August. The number of new purely electric vehicles (BEV) rose 220 percent from last year, to 16,076 vehicles. Their ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating Handelsblatt Many gas grid operators in Germany have not decided yet whether to use the possibility to increase their fees now in order to protect their dwindling customers from a massive price hike in the ...
20 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024, 09:15 91tv Team Bloomberg: Tesla could help far right secure win in German state vote Tesla鈥檚 first factory in Europe was supposed to revitalize the region near Berlin with thousands of jobs and millions in extra tax revenue. It succeeded on ...
15 May 2024, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Transport FAZ The European Union is set to fail its target to have 1.2 percent of all aviation fuels available at EU airports comprised of synthetic fuels like e-kerosene by 2030, because global production lags behind, ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:06 Expert Renewable Energies Agency Agentur f眉r Erneuerbare Energien Citizens' energy Renewables Technology Sven Egenter Solar Society 91tv An overwhelming majority of people in Germany continue to support the expansion ...
The EU Commission today found this year鈥檚 Renewable Energy Act (EEG) reform to be in line with EU state aid rules. 鈥淭he amendments to the German EEG law we approved today make sure that one of the largest renewable support schemes in the EU will be based ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Germany needs more targeted training for traditional craftsmen and other existing skilled workers to give them the expertise they need to work in the solar and wind power industry, ...
03 May 2024, 10:42 Making buildings more sustainable hinges on being able to measure what sustainability actually means. Definitions and standards vary widely across Europe, making it hard to compare projects and assess progress. Certifications can ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor calls on world to walk the talk, fails to deliver strong statement on German coal / Representatives from science, climate and environmental NGOs, and vulnerable small island states appealed to Merkel to meet the ...
Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) concentration in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 air is a 鈥渟ignificant burden鈥� on human health, and statistically led to about 6,000 premature deaths from cardiovascular diseases in 2014, down from about 8,000 in 2010, writes the Federal Environment ...
27 Nov 2018, 15:07 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Government Germany will ultimately need a price on greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors that does not overburden citizens with lower incomes in order to complete its ...
06 Mar 2015
06 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters 鈥淕ermany says using tax money for nuclear power 鈥榦ut of question鈥欌�� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, said that he would not agree 鈥渂y any means that ...
14 Oct 2019, 13:28 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Finance EurActiv / ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:37 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Politics Der Spiegel / 91tv German magazine Der Spiegel has run a cover story on the climate crisis and the proposal by German economic and ...
11 Nov 2020, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Cars Spiegel Online European Union member states, backed by the German government, want to ensure that diesel cars are allowed to emit 43 percent more nitrogen oxides (NOx) when tested on the road as opposed to in the ...
02 Dec 2022, 11:59 Markets are usually good at establishing standards and compliance themselves to facilitate business, but climate neutral products and emission reductions appear to be an exception to this rule, says Georgios Agrafitiotis, auditor for ...
25 Mar 2015
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Institute for Applied Ecology / Friends of the Earth Germany Exit from lignite possible by 2030 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 national and regional climate goals imply that lignite mining will have to stop much ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:54 Julian Wettengel Coal Bloomberg 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has allocated less money for closing coal-fired power plants than the utilities that own them expected, reports Bloomberg. A government official told the news outlet that Chancellor ...
26 Feb 2024, 13:27 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation 91tv Extreme weather events, rising sea levels and higher temperatures are straining the delicate ecosystem of the Wadden Sea, researchers have warned. 鈥�Climate change is having profound effects on ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Government 91tv A ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv German chemicals company BASF has inaugurated a demonstration plant using a new electricity-based technology that could reduce CO2 emissions in certain production steps by at ...
31 Jan 2020, 14:06 S枚ren Amelang Cost & Prices 91tv Higher聽energy prices have pushed inflation up in Germany. On average, retail prices were 1.7 percent higher in January compared to a year earlier, after an inflation rate of 1.5 percent ...
09 Mar 2021, 09:00 A regional vote in the south-western German state of Baden-W眉rttemberg on 14 March kicks off a busy election year in Germany that will conclude with the general elections in September and the selection of a new chancellor. While the ...
05 May 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas use by private households, industry and power stations in Germany fell 23 percent in the second half of 2022, compared to the same period in the previous year, according to a report by ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt The EU鈥檚 planned battery regulation that is aimed at ensuring clean production conditions for batteries in Europe continues to irk German companies, who complain that the ...
06 Apr 2020, 12:33 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Danish electricity and gas transmission system operator Energinet has postponed the planned commissioning date for the first cross-border hydrogen pipeline into Germany to the end of 2031 ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:50 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Transport 91tv German households that are impacted by traffic are more likely to support specific measures that ...
08 Jan 2015
08 Jan 2015, 00:00 Proving Energiewende critics wrong or only a minor step in the right direction? Recent data indicated that Germany has started substituting power from hard coal with renewable electricity while lower power consumption has contributed to ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:05 Germany will see the first hydrogen flow in pipelines from next year after the country鈥檚 "core hydrogen grid" was approved. The backbone of the long-distance transmission network for hydrogen will be slightly smaller than ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:38 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 91tv The next stage of the search for a final repository for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear waste is launched today with a series of public information events in major German cities, the Federal Office ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sustainability aspects are gaining in importance at a very quick pace and are poised to bring about "fundamental change" to the way financial market actors operate, ...
19 Jul 2021, 13:35 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv Germany should refurbish its ...
German utility E.ON鈥� chief operating officer for grids and renewable energies, Leonhard Birnbaum, demands a change to the country鈥檚 onshore wind power auctions to ensure that professional wind power project developers cannot benefit from advantages given ...
The state parliament of Berlin will decide on an act today that would enshrine into law the year 2030 as the city鈥檚 coal exit date- but new emissions limits in 2018 could lead to an earlier phase-out, writes Claudius Pr枚sser in tageszeitung (taz). By the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 鈥渢echnology-neutral鈥� joint auctions for wind and solar power projects are the result of 鈥渁 political bargaining process鈥� instead of sound economic strategy, Angelika Nikionok-Ehrlich writes for Energie & Management. 鈥淓ven the Federal ...
Driving bans on diesel vehicles will take effect on selected roads in Hamburg after Whitsunday, the city鈥檚 environment senator, Jens Kerstan, told the newspaper Die Welt. 鈥淭he road signs have been ordered, and once everything is settled legally, the rule ...
21 May 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The expansion of onshore wind power capacities is turning into a highly controversial issue for the regional elections in the three eastern German states Thuringia, ...
17 Apr 2020, 13:45 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Julian Wettengel Green stimulus Clean Energy ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:15 S枚ren Amelang Coal Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt A vast majority of RWE shareholders have rejected a request to force management to start preparations for a spinoff of the company's brown coal activities, but major ...
03 Mar 2020, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang Energiewende Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt German ministries continue to be divided over plans for a hydrogen economy, delaying publication of the country's highly anticipated strategy to lower emissions in high ...
27 Oct 2021, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Citizens' energy Renewables 91tv Citizen groups planning renewable energy projects in Germany should receive free advice and funding to enable their successful participation in the ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:27 With competing ideas for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial recovery, chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 three-party coalition is showing clear signs of disunity. Ahead of the crucial round of talks for agreeing next year鈥檚 budget, coalition party ...
鈥淪yria, Nicaragua, and now the United States鈥� 鈥� these are the countries that do not take part in the Paris Agreement, Bernhard P枚tter writes in a commentary for the left-wing newspaper Tageszeitung (taz). These cases might be different but they share a ...
15 May 2024, 12:33 Jack McGovan Transport EUElections2024 EU 91tv Rail travel should be the focus of legislative and investment decisions in the aftermath of the 2024 EU elections, an alliance of rail industry and NGOs said in an open letter ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:32 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / Tagesschau The hard coal power station Moorburg in Hamburg was closed down for good on 7 July, reported public broadcaster Tagesschau ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:45 Jennifer Collins Mobility Tagesspiegel Background Germany is set to open the way for bidirectional charging of electric vehicles, which聽enables car owners to both withdraw power from the grid and to supply it back when the car is idle, ...
05 Mar 2021, 14:14 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind EU Handelsblatt In a blow to Germany's ambitious wind power ...
The German government鈥檚 recently decided concept to avoid diesel driving bans in German inner cities is based on outdated data, reports Martin Gropp for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The grand coalition decided to introduce special measures in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
16 May 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann EU Table.Media Members of parliament from France and Germany have called for intensifying efforts to create a more coherent energy policy together with Poland, Table.Media reported. The three major EU member states ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
German energy minister Peter Altmaier is 鈥済oing all out鈥� with his new 鈥淧ower Grid Action Plan鈥� to make the country鈥檚 grid fit for the growing volume of renewable energy sources 鈥� and rightfully so, because grid expansion has become the decisive bottleneck ...
01 Aug 2019, 12:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:01 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat f眉r nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government and industry should enter into a "hydrogen pact" to make the gas ...
29 Aug 2024
29 Aug 2024, 09:00 91tv Team IISD: Countries are underdelivering on fossil-to-clean energy finance pledge Germany, Italy, Switzerland and U.S. among countries not fully implementing pledges, the International Institute for Sustainable Development finds. ...
25 Oct 2019, 14:17 Expert Prognos Consultancy Energiewende Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv A ...
12 Dec 2018, 12:05 Negotiations on the 鈥渕arkets article鈥� (Article 6) of the Paris Agreement are a bit on the side lines of the talks at COP24. While representatives of many countries and regions, e.g. the one of Canadian British Columbia don鈥檛 tire to ...
03 Apr 2019, 13:13 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world鈥檚 fourth largest economy, we' ...
14 Oct 2024, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Resources & Recycling 91tv The expansion of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity grid in line with the growing share of renewable energy sources will require the build-up of greater national production ...
The federal state of Saxony wants to change the law in order to exclude itself from the search for a final nuclear waste repository in Germany, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Saxony wants to exclude granite from the rock varieties ...
09 Aug 2024
09 Aug 2024, 10:16 Julian Wettengel Copernicus Climate Change Service: July 2024 was the second-warmest July globally in the data record July 2024 was the second-warmest July globally, at 0.68掳C above the 1991-2020 average. It saw the two hottest days in ...
Volkswagen denies it breached European legislation by installing defeat devices in its vehicles that deliver lower pollutant emissions on a test stand than in regular traffic, write Claus Hulverscheidt, Klaus Ott and Katja Riedel in the S眉ddeutsche ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:38 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars WirtschaftsWoche The German government will invest ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:44 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Germany's railway service Deutsche Bahn has聽 inked an order 聽worth one billion euros for new ICE high speed ...
09 Nov 2015
09 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 鈥淕rid fees push up power price鈥� An internal analysis by the federal grid agency reveals that the systemic costs of the Energiewende will push up grid fees, reports ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating 91tv Sales of heating systems in Germany have dropped significantly in the first half of 2024, with uncertainty among customers meaning that manufacturers were selling 43 percent fewer systems than ...
28 Jul 2017, 00:00 On 2 August, the CEOs of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 major car manufacturers will meet with federal and state government representatives to discuss ways to reduce pollution from diesel cars. Recent cartel allegations shed a new light on the meeting鈥檚 ...
10 Nov 2020, 13:56 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Wind 91tv Rules about bird protection will have to be standardised in all 16 states if Germany is to reach its wind power expansion targets, a group of energy industry associations have argued. ...
02 Nov 2020, 14:03 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Green ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:29 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewable power sources covered around 57 percent of Germany's gross ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The projected demand for green hydrogen in Europe can largely be covered by domestic production, said researchers from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Integrated Energy Systems ...
22 Mar 2022, 15:21 U.S. e-car company Tesla has inaugurated its first European production hub with the gigafactory near 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin. Opened only two and a half years after Tesla鈥檚 bombshell announcement for the location in the birth country ...
Germany is seeking to limit China鈥檚 investment in sensitive firms, following revelations that state-owned China Southern Power Grid purchased a substantial share of a 1,650-kilometre natural gas distribution network and a 420-kilometre high- and medium ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of 鈥済reen鈥� hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating 鈥渃lear and pragmatic鈥� requirements for green ...
22 Oct 2019, 14:13 Edgar Meza Renewables Wind Business & Jobs Reuters / 91tv German-Spanish wind energy company Siemens Gamesa has agreed to buy major assets from insolvent German wind turbine manufacturer Senvion for 200 million euros, ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, campaigning for her party ahead of the regional elections in the federal state of Hesse, said her government aims to amend existing legislation to prevent diesel driving bans in cities where nitrogen oxide limits are only ...
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations about a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen FAZ / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 finance minister Christian Lindner, a Free Democrat (FDP), has proposed several tax exemptions for combustion engine cars that run exclusively on renewables-based ...
The joint effort of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal mining states against enshrining a definitive date for ending coal-fired power production may help curb support for the right-wing populist party Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD), writes Jens Tartler in Tagesspiegel. ...
28 Nov 2014
28 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RBB Info Interview with Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks With the Climate Action Programme, due to be passed by cabinet next week, Germany is on track to reach its greenhouse gas reduction ...
06 Aug 2024
06 Aug 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Georg Zachmann: Share of heat-pumps in new buildings in Germany doubles from <30% in 2019 to >60% in the first month of 2024 Gas-boilers dropped from >50% in 2015 to 5% in the first month of 2024, says Bruegel ...
28 Jan 2021, 13:25 Onshore wind power- the cornerstone of Germany's decarbonisation plans- 聽has suffered from chronically low additional installations in the past years. The industry seems to have achieved a turnaround in 2020, connecting almost 50 ...
The energy transition in Germany does not achieve most of its goals, and its progress has slowed down over the last few years, a study conducted by the consultancy Prognos and commissioned by the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) has found. Improvements ...
05 Sep 2024
05 Sep 2024, 11:01 91tv Team Le Monde: France's Macron appoints Michel Barnier, former European commissioner, as prime minister The appointment of the EU's former Brexit negotiator, a member of the right-wing Les R茅publicains party, comes after ...
11 Dec 2014
11 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Study: Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) 鈥淗ow the world sees the Energiewende鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende 鈥� the shift from conventional and nuclear energy to a renewable power supply 鈥� is the focus of ...
14 Jan 2019, 13:33 Expert Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy, State of North Rhine-Westphalia Ministerium f眉r Wirtschaft, Innovation, Digitalisierung und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Clean ...
30 Sep 2024
30 Sep 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: VW鈥檚 second pofit warning exposes a carmaker in decline German manufacturer expects to sell fewer vehicles this year. Bungled EV shift and China slump are among VW鈥檚 many challenges. European Environment Agency: ...
25 Sep 2019, 14:04 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv / New York Times New dieselgate troubles complicate the profound overhaul needed at German carmakers for the ...
German energy providers have insufficient IT security against cyber attacks which could lead to large power blackouts, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports. Many providers lacked 鈥渃ontingency plans鈥� for attacks by hackers and did not have a ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:22 S枚ren Amelang Adaptation Renewables Changing weather patterns will boost the role of hydropower in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, Bavarian industry associations聽 have said. 鈥淒ue to increasingly rainy winter months, [we] expect an increase ...
Power storage devices need a clearer legal definition in German law to create a better investment environment for the industry, BSW Solar says in a press release. 鈥淢any disputes and uncertainties stem from the fact that storages sometimes count as ...
German transport subsidies worth billions of euros are harmful to the environment, a serious obstacle to the transition to a renewable mobility future, and should be abolished, according to the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Subsidies for diesel ...
German utility EnBW reports a 1.8 billion euros net loss after already fully incorporating in the 2016 financial statements an expected payment of 4.7 billion euros into the country鈥檚 nuclear clean-up fund. 鈥淒ue to the law of reorganising responsibility ...
27 Jun 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Achieving 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition and climate targets still requires a lot of political efforts to keep supply secure and affordable, the government-appointed expert commission ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:49 Edgar Meza Society EU 91tv People in Germany would like to see more European cooperation in energy and climate policy, according to a survey conducted by market research institute Prolytics on behalf of the German ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior partner in Germany's coalition government, has criticised Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), for failing to take action on ...
22 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024, 10:35 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: Germany's Deutsche Bahn must cut off DB Cargo aid after EU probe, say sources Germany's state-owned Deutsche Bahn will no longer be able to financially support its loss-making freight operator DB ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv The German government should use revenues from carbon pricing to lower or abolish several components of the electricity price, rather than make good on its plan to ...
Bavaria's government wants to keep the nuclear plant Isar 2 running as long as possible, arguing that lagging grid development could leave the state short of power without it, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The maximum amount of ...
23 Jan 2019, 17:36 Developed countries have the responsibility to establish 鈥渢echnologies from which others can benefit鈥�, such as forms of renewable energy production, after they emitted a lot of CO鈧� during the industrialisation, German Chancellor Angela ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany will get through winter with its gas supply and the likelihood of a severe shortage has decreased further due to savings efforts, said the country鈥檚 gas storage operator association INES. ...
31 Aug 2020, 13:17 Cost & Prices 91tv Electricity payments provided as part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 basic unemployment benefit will leave recipient households out of pocket by up to 197 euros next year, price comparison website Verivox said in a ...
25 Nov 2020, 13:46 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Technology 91tv Two new large-scale research centres will be established in the German state of Saxony in order to help lead the coal mining regions deal with the transition away from the fossil fuel, ...
10 Sep 2015
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv FAZ/Handelsblatt "Werner M眉ller wants to save RWE" RWE鈥檚 municipal shareholders plan to put former German economy minister聽 Werner M眉ller 聽in charge of the stricken utility鈥檚 supervisory ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy International 91tv / Bloomberg / Tagesspiegel Background German chancellor Olaf Scholz is strengthening ties with the Central Asian region, signing accords for energy and ...
03 Jun 2016
03 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Recharge 鈥淭housands protest in Berlin to save Energiewende鈥� Several thousand protesters mobilised by the renewables sector demonstrated against current government plans to reform ...
14 Aug 2015
14 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) 33 successful bids in second PV auction round 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second-ever photovoltaic tendering round has resulted in 33 successful bids ...
12 Aug 2024
12 Aug 2024, 12:05 91tv Team Euronews: 鈥業 feel like there is no help鈥�: Year-round energy poverty for millions of Europeans as heatwaves hit A significant proportion of European homes are very difficult to keep cool in summer due to the way they are ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:43 S枚ren Amelang Edgar Meza Gas Grid 91tv The German government has kickstarted the planning for a gradual decommissioning of the country鈥檚 gas distribution network in order to organise a smooth transition to climate-neutral ...
29 Dec 2015, 00:00 2016 is set to be another eventful year in German energy policy. The Paris climate summit underlined the need to reduce emissions even further, which will ultimately involve painful decisions about the future of coal. A series of ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The twelve largest chemicals production sites in Germany caused ...
27 Nov 2018, 12:01 Germany risks showing up empty-handed at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland in December as the country鈥檚 coal exit commission has decided to extend its work beyond the original end-of-2018 deadline. The task force has set ...
25 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Euractiv: Italy to present hydrogen corridor plan in autumn, may involve Switzerland The so-called SouthH2 Corridor would connect North Africa, Italy, Austria and Germany, allowing renewable hydrogen produced in the ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:48 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Freja Eriksen Solar 91tv / Handelsblatt Green energy provider Naturstrom has said it will provide households directly with power ...
22 Oct 2018, 16:34 Eating and producing less meat is one way to curb emissions from the agriculture sector, but giving up sausages and schnitzel is a tough sell in Germany 鈥� not just for consumers but also for farmers and the government. There are a lot ...
E.ON is positioned to overcome its current crisis and record loss following the company鈥檚 split from its conventional energy business into the subsidiary Uniper, the German utility鈥檚 CEO Johannes Teyssen told Handelsblatt Online in an interview. ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:10 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Business & Jobs Utilities Der Spiegel If the asset swap of energy companies and utilities RWE and E.ON goes ahead as planned, the resulting company would have 鈥渦nprecedented market power鈥�, Ines ...
13 Sep 2024, 13:01 Jack McGovan Technology Society 91tv A total of 12.9 million households in Germany- almost one in three- use at least one energy transition technology like solar panels, a heat pump, or an electric car, according to a聽 ...
02 Oct 2020, 14:16 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 91tv Costs are mounting for the German government鈥檚 legal defence in a six-billion-euro lawsuit initiated by ...
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty are underway in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
Providers of carsharing services in Germany have called for new legislation that would grant them their own parking sites in crowded inner cities, Max H盲gler writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Companies operated by carmakers like Car2go (Daimler), DriveNow ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Society 91tv Meat consumption in Germany in 2023 fell to its lowest levels since records began in 1991, according to preliminary data from the Federal Information Centre for Agriculture (BZL). ...
19 Sep 2018, 15:20 The German government has launched a new advisory panel to reduce transport emissions in line with national climate targets. The task force will broaden the focus of an earlier panel concentrated on electric cars, to discuss the entire ...
03 Feb 2020, 13:44 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Gas ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal ARD / Der Spiegel The German Green Party has finalised its manifesto for the 2024 EU elections, including a promise for rules to allow capturing and storing carbon emissions (CCS) from ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Zeit Online / dpa / n-tv / 91tv The car industry should remain exempt from plans by the European Commission to increase the European 2030 emissions reduction target, Germany's ...
21 Jun 2024, 14:14 On the night of the European elections, French president Emmanuel Macron did not wait until the official results were called to announce the dissolution of the country鈥檚 parliament and, consequently, to call new elections already by the ...
Companies in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industrial powerhouse North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have called for the postponement of the grid fee reform, which the government plans to pass this week, the regional newspaper Rheinische Post reports. Some local branches of the ...
The German government has used a 鈥渃unning trick鈥� by making the state-owned business development bank KfW acquire a stake in grid operator 50Hertz that had been eyed by Chinese power company SGCC, Andreas Mihm writes in an opinion piece in the Frankfurter ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:19 S枚ren Amelang Agriculture Tagesspiegel / Focus Online / T-Online Following weeks of disruptive street blockades, German farmers have threatened to ramp up protests against the planned cuts to agricultural diesel subsidies. The president ...
