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 ...
08 Jun 2018, 00:00 The German environment ministry has called for much more ambitious EU targets to lower car emissions than those proposed by the European Commission. In a position paper seen by the 91tv, the ministry says car emissions must ...
02 Oct 2024, 16:10 Germany's fight against the devastating long-term impact of climate change has reached a new milestone, with the environment ministry (BMUV)聽presenting a draft strategy that, for the first time, sets measurable targets to increase ...
31 Aug 2023, 10:00 Climate change is putting Europe鈥檚 water resources under immense pressure. Scientists expect heavy rain and dry periods to happen more often, be more severe, and last longer, leading to floods and droughts. Without swift mitigation and ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:21 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Frankfurter ...
05 Mar 2021, 13:49 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Coal Grid 91tv Three German hard coal power plants ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:50 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Germany's government wants to boost the expansion of hydrogen projects by giving them "overriding public interest" status, which would streamline planning ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv One in two German utilities are finding it difficult to attract new employees, and four out of five companies in the sector expect the problem to worsen in the near future and slow ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:12 Jessica Bateman Gas Policy 91tv It is possible to ensure the efficient use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional solution in Germany over the coming winter and beyond without losing sight of the climate ...
16 Jul 2021, 12:44 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Cars EU 91tv To achieve its target of having 3.5 million e-car charging stations, the EU will have to increase the rate of expansion thirtyfold at the very least, the industry-sponsored ...
14 Mar 2022, 13:44 Paul Gordon Fossil fuels Society 91tv A majority of Germans is in favour of stopping oil and gas imports from Russia even if an embargo would lead to supply problems in the country. In a survey by public broadcaster ZDF, 55 ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv Germany cannot realistically reach climate neutrality by 2045 without using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, several research academies have said in a ...
13 Jul 2020, 14:04 Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German-based construction group Hochtief is enjoying a coal boom in Australia despite growing criticism of mining in its home country, write Jonas Jansen and Christoph Hein in the ...
19 May 2023, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv / Financial Times 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 chancellor Olaf Scholz must push for an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, as the issue has not featured prominently enough ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:59 Hannah Naylor Climate & CO2 Electricity Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Lower economic growth and favourable weather have reduced 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy consumption by 3.5 percent in the first six months of the year, compared to ...
05 Feb 2021, 13:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International 91tv / Handelsblatt German energy company RWE is suing the Netherlands for compensation payments in relation to the ...
16 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online 鈥淕rid Agency: About 350,000 households had their power cut off鈥� The number of power cut-offs in Germany rose by two percent to a new record in 2014, reports Spiegel Online. According ...
31 Mar 2015
31 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv 聽 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) 鈥淭rend reversal: Emissions decrease to lowest level since 2010鈥� German greenhouse gas emissions have decreased in 2014 for the first time in three years, ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Cars EU 91tv Germany's alliance of centre-right conservative parties CDU/CSU is aiming to reverse the ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035, which the EU decided on last year, according to a ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 five biggest power ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International Tagesspiegel The gradual phase-out of coal power in Germany over the next two decades does not at all guarantee a parallel drop in European greenhouse gas emissions, as the so-called waterbed effect ...
07 Dec 2018, 19:29 Germany's conservative Christian Democrats elected general secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel at the helm of the party. The election of Merkel's close ally and former premier in the ...
07 Oct 2021, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry In its efforts to slash CO2 emissions in steel production, thyssenkrupp Steel has announced what it describes as a milestone on its path to climate-neutral steel 鈥� its new bluemint Steel brand, produced with less ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:55 Carolina Kyllmann Finance 91tv Additional political efforts are needed to close the public "financing gap" for measures needed to meet Germany's 2030 climate targets, according to a Green Budget Germany (F脰S) ...
The EU Commission plans to ask EU member states to grant it the mandate to negotiate the legal operating conditions of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russia, reports Daniel Br枚ssler for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. According to a draft, seen by ...
15 Feb 2022, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables dpa / Volksstimme The five eastern German states want to become trailblazers in the country鈥檚 energy transition plans and greatly expand their capacity and infrastructure for renewable power production and ...
German environmental organisations call on the European Commission to continue the official infringement procedure against Germany regarding high nitrogen dioxide (NOx) levels resulting from road traffic. In a letter ahead of a meeting with affected ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:51 Ruby Russel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv A sluggish economy saw primary energy consumption in Germany fall to a historic low in 2023, according to preliminary figures from energy data service AG ...
01 Dec 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv To efficiently advance the energy transition and alleviate energy poverty, Germany's government should provide close to 17 billion euros over the next two years in targeted ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy Bonner General-Anzeiger The head of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has said his company is "shouldering the biggest burden ...
12 Apr 2024, 14:08 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Carbon market EU 91tv The German government should use its national experiences to support EU neighbours in ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 91tv Electricity prices in Germany are unlikely to go down in the near future, despite repeated claims that a complete switch to renewable power is going to make ...
13 May 2020, 13:36 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Hydrogen International 91tv German chancellor Angela Merkel has said EU member states will have to re-negotiate their contributions to greenhouse gas emission ...
24 Oct 2023, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv The electricity price for industry in Germany is within the European average, but the price in key competitive neighbouring markets such as France are 鈥渟ignificantly lower,鈥� ...
29 Jun 2022, 12:51 Kerstine Appunn Cars Cost & Prices EU 91tv EU member states have approved the end of fossil fuelled passenger cars in 2035 and found compromises on emissions trading and a 鈥淪ocial Climate Fund鈥�. The fund will be used ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Augsburger Allgemeine / Rheinische Post 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy minister Robert Habeck wants to extend the country鈥檚 energy 鈥榩rice brakes鈥� until the end of March 2024 as an 鈥渋nsurance against rising prices鈥� ...
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 ...
16 Jan 2015
16 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Business Green "Germany breezes past 1GW offshore wind milestone" Germany's renewables industry is celebrating another milestone this week, as an industry-backed report confirmed ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv A meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ministers from her cabinet and leaders of the country鈥檚 transport commission tasked with ...
08 Oct 2021, 12:00 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
The European Commission has given up plans to tighten the European emissions reduction goal for 2030 ahead of the UN climate conference COP24 in Katowice as member states did not voice sufficient support for the ambitious target to reduce CO 2 levels by ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Politics Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung / 91tv / dpa The vice president of the parliamentary group of the Social Democrats (SPD), part of Germany's ruling coalition, has spoken out against ...
27 Aug 2019, 16:42 Addressing climate change and the pros and cons of renewable power have dominated German public debate for almost two decades, but the role of the finance sector in emissions reduction has taken a back seat. Many countries have already ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
18 Jul 2023, 14:19 Jack McGovan Industry EU 91tv The European Commission has selected seven decarbonisation projects in Germany as part of the latest round of funding from the EU Innovation Fund. The projects eligible for the funds disbursed ...
Germany is following a 鈥減roactive strategy in developing comprehensive environmental policies鈥� but should make greater efforts to improve air quality for the sake of its citizens鈥� health and quality of life, the European Commission said in a country ...
20 Nov 2020, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind International 91tv The plans by the European Commission to significantly ramp up renewable energy generation at sea have been mostly welcomed by German policymakers ...
09 Mar 2022, 12:55 S枚ren Amelang Industry International EU Handelsblatt The German government must urgently take position on the future design of the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and should support the proposal for an unbureaucratic ...
06 Jun 2019, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cities 91tv A citizen initiative in Hamburg has succeeded in pushing for the end of coal heating by 2030 in the northern port city. 鈥淭he use of coal in district heating has to be avoided as quickly ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Electricity market Energiewende Security 91tv Germany will have to build new gas-fired power plants and introduce additional measures to avoid electricity supply shortages during peak demand periods as the ...
The nuclear repository commission has decided upon a report advising the parliament on how to proceed in the finding of a final repository for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear waste. The commission, made up from parliamentarians, scientists and NGOs concluded its two ...
16 Sep 2020, 12:58 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Society EU Der Spiegel A large majority of Germans harbours little hope that the EU can reach its target of becoming the globe's first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Only 17 percent of ...
16 Nov 2023, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Hydrogen 91tv The expansion of green hydrogen production efforts Germany is slowing down, says a聽 report 聽commissioned by utility E.ON. 鈥淭he hydrogen generation capacity planned by 2030 has risen from 8.1 ...
29 Nov 2024, 13:45 The collapsed coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz achieved a few important breakthroughs for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition that should not be sacrificed for point-scoring in election campaigns, says Wolfram Axthelm from the Renewable ...
06 Aug 2021, 14:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 upcoming national election is the first in which climate and energy policy have truly taken centre stage. In the agriculture sector, droughts and new policies aimed at bringing out the sector鈥檚 potential for eco-system ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:22 Edgar Meza Coal Finance Reuters / Der Spiegel After acquiring a stake in RWE, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest energy company, activist fund Enkraft is pushing for the company to divest its brown coal division, Reuters reports. In a letter to the ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / FAZ / Tagesspiegel 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government is facing several challenges linked to its plans to nationalise Europe鈥檚 largest buyer of Russian gas, Uniper. The company operates ...
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 ...
The 鈥渂ig four鈥� utilities in Germany- RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall Germany, and EnBW- have all disappeared from a list of the country鈥檚 100 largest companies compiled by the German Monopolies Commission, the competition watchdog says in its annual report. The ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Elections & Politics Passauer Neue Presse / M眉nchner Merkur The leadership of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative opposition party Christian Democrats (CDU) plans to adopt a position paper that calls for the rolling ...
09 Mar 2020, 13:29 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Electricity market ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:34 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 BWE- German Wind Energy ...
19 May 2016
19 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) / Institute for Applied Ecology / European Climate Foundation (ECF) 鈥淚ndustry鈥檚 energy bills fall by a tenth鈥� German manufacturing ...
24 Feb 2020, 13:42 Rachel Waldholz Coal Transport Zeit Online The state-owned German railway Deutsche Bahn has tried to distinguish its service in recent years as a climate-friendly form of transit, highlighting its reliance on renewable power. But a 2007 ...
13 May 2019, 14:14 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv Two weeks before the European Parliament elections, German voters have said that climate and environment protection are the biggest challenges for the future of the European Union,聽 a ...
The European Commission has cleared the sale of Vattenfall鈥檚 German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH. 鈥淭he Commission found the deal would not adversely affect competition in the relevant markets,鈥� it said in a press release. 鈥淟ignite will ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv The transformation into a truly circular economy would have positive effects on climate, resource and biodiversity protection, as well as supply security in Germany- but the ...
07 Oct 2020, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society 91tv / Tagesspiegel Activists of the environmental action group Extinction Rebellion (XR) occupied the headquarters of Germany's lignite mining industry association, DEBRIV, in Berlin in ...
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest concerns regarding the European Commission鈥檚 energy policy proposals are potential impact on its own transition to renewables power, as well as power market reform. Kerstine Appunn International Renewable Energy Act | ...
12 May 2020, 13:09 Edgar Meza Coal Solar Plans by聽Swiss technology company and solar panel manufacturer聽Meyer Burger to supply panels for a 10 gigawatt (GW) floating solar plant on a lake to be left behind by the future closure of the Hambach coal mine is ...
09 Jan 2019, 13:53 Municipal utility chief executive Andreas Feicht will take on the role as Germany's energy state secretary on 1 February. With his appointment, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier fills a position crucial to the progress of ...
27 Sep 2021, 15:30 Germany is set to vote for a new government on 26 September. After 16 years at the helm of Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel will make room for a successor who will shape the country's energy and climate ...
The European Commission has set a deadline for Germany and other countries to show how they intend to comply with the EU鈥檚 air quality standards or face court action, reports Florian Eder for Politico. In a letter seen by Politico, Commissioner for the ...
07 Aug 2020, 15:05 Coal Cost & Prices Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The British green energy transition has proven cheaper and more effective than 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 because of factors including its use of market mechanisms and its embrace of nuclear power, ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Policy EU Table.Media The consequences of Germany's current budget struggles will have implications on the European Union, but the extent of the impact will depend on decisions taken by the ruling coalition ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Industry EU 91tv / The Guardian / Reuters An EU discussion to restrict the use of health and climate-damaging chemicals could bring the bloc鈥檚 energy and mobility transitions to a standstill, German ...
07 Apr 2021, 08:47 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ruling conservatives and the Greens are about to kick off the 2021 national election race in earnest by naming their respective leading candidates to take over the helm of Europe鈥檚 biggest economy in autumn. While the country ...
07 Jan 2022, 11:56 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv Nuclear power is not a sustainable energy generation technology and ...
The German government is preparing the launch of a commission tasked with finding measures to make buildings more energy efficient and bring down carbon emissions in the heating sector, Susanne Ehlerding writes in the energy policy newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
20 Aug 2015
20 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung "Incapable of acting" The market value of RWE, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest power producer, is shrinking so fast it is reminiscent of a company on the way to bankruptcy, writes ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany should not push for more ambitious EU car fleet emission limits. 鈥淚 think the [European] Commission鈥檚 proposal forms a reasonable basis鈥� for the upcoming negotiations, Merkel said at an event hosted by the ...
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 ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:39 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy 91tv Parts of the ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:19 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics ARD / WDR 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state will be governed by a coalition of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Green Party for the next five years, the leading politicians in North ...
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 ...
29 Sep 2021, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Agriculture 91tv Organically produced milk derived from pasture-fed cows is more environmentally friendly than milk ...
11 Feb 2020, 14:18 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut f眉r Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilit盲t Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv German ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:42 Edgar Meza Cars Society 91tv A majority of Germans oppose the EU鈥檚 planned 2035 ban of combustion engine cars, according to a survey by research institute forsa for UNITI, the German association of small and medium-sized ...
20 Apr 2016
20 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv BMUB / Deutsche Welle 鈥淕ermany asks Belgium to hit the switch on disputed Tihange and Doel nuclear reactors鈥� Environment minister Barbara Hendricks submitted an ...
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 ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken out against linking the operating permit for the controversial Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to efforts to de-escalate the Ukraine ...
The European Emissions Trading System (ETS) amendment proposal passed in the European Parliament only partly recognises the threat to the competitiveness of the continent鈥檚 industry, writes Hendrik Kafsack in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
28 Jul 2020, 12:21 Edgar Meza Coal Finance 91tv Environmental groups and campaigners have welcomed Deutsche Bank鈥檚 move to end its global business activities in coal mining by 2025 at the latest, and while some see a positive signal heralding ...
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 ...
30 May 2023, 13:19 Jessica Bateman Solar 91tv / Bloomberg The number of solar panel systems in Germany hit three million on Monday (29 May), with聽total solar PV installed capacity reaching聽more than 70 gigawatts (GW), according to聽 industry ...
25 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Greenpeace Energy 鈥淧ower-to-gas reduces costs for Energiewende by billions and enables 100-percent renewable power supply鈥� By using technology to store excess wind and solar power as ...
27 Aug 2015
27 Aug 2015, 00:00 Clarifies that the whole article in the Frankfurter Rundschau is written by J枚rg Staude. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Ministry of Finance / F脰S Government subsidies seen rising Subsidies and tax concessions will increase to 22 ...
28 Sep 2018, 15:37 Germany's solar power industry used to be a leader of the renewable technology's global expansion but a series of political blunders has killed off solar power companies and passed the torch on to China, solar power researcher ...
10 Aug 2021, 12:56 Kerstine Appunn Coal Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv The world is heating up, but the German government is clinging to its coal phase-out date in 2038, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in a聽 commentary for S眉ddeutsche ...
Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel calls on the European Commission to publish a legislative catalogue regarding the 鈥渃entral challenges鈥� of the EU鈥檚 energy policy this autumn, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In a letter ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:13 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars dpa / Focus Online Germany needs 10 million electric cars on the road by 2030 to reach its climate targets, according to transport minister Andreas Scheuer. He聽 told newswire dpa in an article ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:58 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Euractiv / Tagesspiegel Background A commitment to making Europe "the world鈥檚 first climate-neutral continent" will be "at the heart" of President-elect Ursula ...
The European Commission attests Germany 鈥渟erious deficits鈥� in certain areas of the energy transition, writes Gerwin Klinger for energate messenger. In the 2018 country report on Germany, the Commission says that Germany is on track to meet its Europe2020 ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv New constructions and renovations in Germany are failing to sufficiently account for the growing effects of climate change, increasingly putting them at risk of overheating during summer ...
24 Apr 2024, 14:15 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy ministry sees "signs of a slight economic upturn" in the country as energy-intensive industries have expanded their production since the beginning of ...
25 Feb 2020, 13:47 Rachel Waldholz Coal Energiewende dpa / Focus Online A major eastern German lignite (brown coal) mine is resuming operations this week, six months after work was halted by an environmental lawsuit,聽 newswire dpa reports in an article ...
03 Mar 2022, 12:55 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Security 91tv The German government is releasing oil reserves from the country鈥檚 Petroleum Stockholding Association (EBV) in an effort to calm the oil market. The move follows a decision on Wednesday ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices EU 91tv The planned EU emissions trading system for transport and buildings (ETS 2) must be designed in a way that guarantees a socially acceptable burden-sharing, an analysis ...
06 May 2021, 13:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Finance 91tv The German Environment Agency (UBA)聽 is calling for more detailed environmental and climate protection ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv About a fifth (22%) of people in Germany know their personal "carbon footprint", with younger people more likely to engage with the topic than older ones, shows an ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating 91tv To reach its climate targets, Germany's building sector must phase out the use of fossil fuel boilers and introduce minimum efficiency standards for existing buildings, a聽 ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:30 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heat pump industry has called for reductions in electricity prices in order to achieve the country鈥檚 expansion target of installing 500,000 units a year from 2024. In a statement, the ...
25 Feb 2015, 00:00 The EU Commission has published its strategy paper on the creation of a European Energy Union. 91tv presents a brief summary of reactions out of Germany to the proposals. Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv International Policy See the ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:45 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv German gas consumption decreased yet again in 2023, while the country's role as a European gas hub diminished further following the halt of Russian pipeline gas supply in 2022. Gas use was ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:35 Rachel Waldholz 91tv 91tv Freight taz The EU鈥檚 first-ever emission standards for trucks and buses, announced this week, are not enough for real climate protection, writes Bernhard P枚tter in a commentary for the daily ...
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 ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt / 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy minister Robert Habeck and the European Commissioner for energy Kadri Simson have called on EU member states to join the 鈥楬2 Global鈥� initiative in a bid to ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Reuters Novel nuclear power plant designs do not resolve the technology鈥檚 fundamental challenge of hazardous nuclear waste, a report commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Office for ...
08 Oct 2020, 14:21 S枚ren Amelang Coal Policy dpa / Zeit Online The controversial resettlement of five villages in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Western Germany to expand an opencast mine is set to continue, reports news agency dpa in an聽 article ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:20 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business Handelsblatt German industrial giant Siemens regards industrial companies' responsibility to become more environmentally friendly as a defining task of the future and ...
The European Commission will decide whether to sue Germany for failing to comply with EU air quality standards some time in the coming weeks, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Handelsblatt. The Commission initially said it would decide by ...
22 Mar 2016
22 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt 鈥淭o inflate or to die鈥� Nordex, the small Danish wind turbine manufacturer, has confirmed the takeover of the wind branch of the Spanish group Acconia. The cartel ...
21 Aug 2019, 16:00 Moment of truth for German climate policy: Right in time for the UN Climate Action Summit, chancellor Angela Merkel's government is due to present a raft of measures to drastically cut emissions. The eagerly awaited announcements ...
27 Jun 2022, 19:30 The leaders鈥� meeting at Schloss Elmau in the German Alps is set to be a 鈥渉istoric鈥� G7 summit, says political analyst John Kirton. Never before has a summit of the G7 summit faced such a simultaneously unfolding and severe set of ...
The German environment ministry has called for much more ambitious EU targets to lower car emissions than those proposed by the EU Commission. In a position paper seen by the 91tv, the ministry says car emissions must be halved between 2021 ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:20 Germany's coalition government collapsed聽in November 2024 due to internal disputes over budget and economic policy. The country now gears up for snap elections in early 2025, against the backdrop of a flagging economy, the war in ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:53 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Der Spiegel A lack of grid capacity has led ...
28 Aug 2019, 14:02 Edgar Meza Coal Government 91tv Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 cabinet on Wednesday adopted a draft law submitted by Germany's economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier aimed at strengthening coal regions following the ...
The EU Commission is not planning to introduce e-car sales quotas, said a Commission spokesperson in reaction to reports by German daily Handelsblatt, writes news agency Reuters. Read the article in English here. Find background material on the carmakers ...
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. ...
29 Jul 2021, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas 91tv / taz Following years of protests in the western German Rhenish lignite mining region, activist group Ende Gel盲nde is set to target plans for an import terminal for LNG (liquefied natural gas) ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:38 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv Eurelectric corrects figures: Power demand in the EU decreased by 5.1% in the first half of 2023, compared to 2022, and was 4.8% lower in the first half of 2024, compared to 2022. 聽 Electricity ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:52 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Utilities Tagesspiegel / Die Welt German energy company RWE has shut down its first lignite unit as part of the country's coal phase-out, ...
Transmission grid operator TenneT and the European Commission are聽 proposing 聽1,300 megawatts of power trading capacity between Germany and Denmark, but consumer groups warn this will increase electricity costs for German households, Jacob Schlandt writes ...
09 Feb 2021, 13:34 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Europe鈥檚 CO2 price for the energy and industry sector (EU ETS) has reached a record 38 euros per tonne. In Germany this has caused electricity production from ...
10 Oct 2023, 12:38 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 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Society ...
19 Feb 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling Volksstimme / SWR The government of Saxony-Anhalt plans to explore the extraction of 鈥渂attery-grade鈥� lithium in the eastern German state, the newspaper Volksstimme reported. Deposits ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:17 S枚ren Amelang Policy 91tv Contradictory tax incentives are a major hurdle for making the German economy more climate-friendly, according to an聽 analysis 聽by Green Budget Germany (F脰S) commissioned by the Bertelsmann ...
07 Mar 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Welt Online The EU Commission has criticised the German government for not making sufficient progress on setting up a countrywide network of service stations offering charging ...
25 Feb 2021, 13:14 Expert F脰S- Green Budget Germany Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Society 91tv If ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities 91tv / rbb Construction of one of the largest heat pumps in Europe has started in Berlin in a bid to bring the German capital closer to its goal of decarbonising its heating system. The heat ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices 91tv Germany should scrap the electricity tax while phasing out subsidies for the purchase of new electric cars to support the expansion of e-mobility, said a paper by the Institute ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:56 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Business & Jobs 91tv German agriculture is going through a transformation to make the sector more sustainable ...
03 Mar 2022, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Renewables International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the government emphasised plans to speed up renewables expansion as a ...
02 Jun 2022, 13:27 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Warm weather and energy saving measures in the context of rising prices ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:24 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities Handelsblatt The coronavirus crisis is accelerating investments in sustainability rather than pushing aside climate change as a ...
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tageszeitung "Wind turbines that can float" The Dresden-based Gicon group is producing a prototype for a floating wind turbine (see picture above), Bernward Janzig from the taz reports. ...
03 Feb 2022, 13:46 Jessica Bateman Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Background The new German government has not yet agreed on a joint position for the EU鈥檚 car emissions reduction plans, business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. The ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:06 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Der Spiegel A draft report commissioned by the German government shows that the country鈥檚 current and planned climate policies are not enough to reach the official target of net-zero ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The announcement of a new microchip factory of U.S. semiconductor producer Wolfspeed with an investment by German automotive industry supplier ZF has been welcome by ...
22 Dec 2022, 13:07 Edgar Meza Society Government S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German Green Party co-leader Ricarda Lang has welcomed criticism from climate activists about the government coalition's climate policies in its first year in office, saying their ...
19 Oct 2020, 12:59 Kerstine Appunn Efficiency Heating EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Europe needs a new way of using resources and should bring together design and sustainability, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen writes in an op-ed ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:41 The opening of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea gives Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel an opportunity to show her climate policy credentials and welcome the German-Norwegian project as a milestone for the energy ...
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 ...
A coal exit in Cottbus, the largest city of one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most important coal producing regions, is inevitable, writes Nick Reimer in Zeit Online. The municipal utility鈥檚 lignite power plant will be taken off the grid and replaced by a new gas-fired ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang International 91tv Public climate financing from Germany for poorer countries reached a new record level last year, already surpassing the 6-billion euro target set for 2025, the government has said. A total ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv 73 percent of participants in a German online survey said they are dissatisfied with the progress of the country's landmark energy transition. Most (77%) see too much ...
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 EU Commission missed its opportunity to introduce more ambitious climate targets with its proposal package for a low-carbon economy, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. 鈥淭he EU Commission pretends [鈥 that 鈥楶aris鈥� never ...
The EU commission plans to sue Germany because pollution levels in many cities exceed EU limits, according to news agency dpa. The commission told the German government it plans to take the issue of elevated nitrogen oxide levels- which are caused in ...
28 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 91tv A majority of companies in the energy efficiency industry are not satisfied with the work of the federal government, according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:48 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:24 Students in Germany and around the world are expected to walk out of school Friday for what is being billed as a 鈥済lobal strike鈥� to demand action on climate change. Organisers hope it will be the largest demonstration yet in the series ...
31 Jul 2017, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks has been at the helm of Germany's climate protection efforts for the past four years. During her tenure, the country has contributed substantially to brokering the Paris Agreement and put ...
15 Jul 2015
15 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淎 fight for survival鈥� Due to recent government decisions to mothball some lignite plants, utility RWE will cut 900 to 1000 jobs in the western German lignite industry, which ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Wind 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn and utility RWE extend their renewable energy contract with an additional 190 gigawatt hours (GWh) of offshore wind power annually, the railway ...
27 Oct 2015
27 Oct 2015, 00:00 CORRECTION- Vattenfall's underlying operating profit was 3,388 million SEK in the third quarter of 2015, not 3,388 billion. Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Vattenfall 3rd quarter results / Two 500 MW lignite units will be ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:33 Edgar Meza Industry EU 91tv The European Commission's plans to replace emission rights trading with a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which aims to create a level playing field for EU producers subject to EU ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Rachel Waldholz Utilities 91tv / Handelsblatt Finnish state-owned utility Fortum has officially completed its purchase of a majority stake in German utility company Uniper, the company ...
26 Oct 2023, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv The EU still lacks an ambitious industrial strategy to accompany the Green Deal to strengthen the bloc's industry and ensure it is able to keep up in the global race for the green ...
Current plans for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA could threaten central instruments of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 the energy transition, Greenpeace says in a press release. According to a聽 leaked EU Commission draft, ...
04 Feb 2020, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Handelsblatt The carbon border adjustment mechanism envisioned by the European Commission as part of its landmark Green Deal package is problematic and could lead to trade disputes with ...
07 Dec 2018, 10:05 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Low water levels on the Rhine and other rivers following the extremely dry summer continue to have a strong impact on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal power supply, according to an argus report. 鈥淭he ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Society Government 91tv Public opinion on climate action in Germany is highly polarised, with a large part of society (56%) wishing for more climate action and around a quarter (24%) denying human-caused ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Tagesspiegel The European Union has set itself 鈥渁 damn ambitious鈥� greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 and must therefore quickly negotiate and implement the relevant legislation, said German ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Cars Efficiency EU 91tv European energy ministers have agreed on reaching a share of 40 percent renewables in the EU鈥檚 energy mix by 2030, thus increasing the previous 32-percent target and ...
09 Jul 2021, 16:32 UPDATE: Adds background information on climate policy and coal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv CO2 emissions in Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
The government of Luxembourg has written a complaint letter to the European Commission, lamenting the plan of neighbour country Germany to implement hardware retrofits of diesel cars in only a few selected regions for a few car owners, website Spiegel ...
The European Commission wants to exert stricter control over how car manufacturers determine the emissions of their cars, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. EU Commissioners suspect that carmakers have found a loophole in the Commission鈥檚 targets ...
26 Jul 2021, 11:54 One of the first project financed interconnectors in Europe is due to be built between Germany and the UK by 2023-24. The opening up of the interconnector market to private investment has been promoted by both the UK and German ...
03 Jun 2019, 14:01 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out Renewables Clean ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Handelsblatt Proposed changes to EU state aid regulations are causing concern among Germany's most energy-intensive companies that are currently benefiting from rebates that shield them from paying the ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:38 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Julian Wettengel Agriculture 91tv A more vegetarian or vegan diet could halve Germans鈥� diets鈥� greenhouse gas emissions, shows a report ...
14 Aug 2020, 14:27 Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Major German energy companies are making 鈥渞apid progress鈥� with their green energy transition thanks to renewables becoming clear profit-makers that are attractive to investors,聽 Jakob Schlandt writes in ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cars 91tv The German Monopolies Commission has warned that the breakthrough of electric cars and the expansion of onshore wind power in the country both suffer from a lack of competition that brings ...
19 Nov 2020, 13:53 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Mobility Der Spiegel State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn will sharply cut back its use of coal power by increasing the share of renewable electricity,聽 reports 聽Gerald Traufetter in ...
07 Jul 2022, 14:21 Germany's ruling parties have dropped the target of 鈥渘ear 100 percent renewables鈥� in the power grid by 2035 but agreed on more favourable conditions for solar PV and strict wind power expansion targets for laggard states in their ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 S枚ren Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report 聽commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
18 Mar 2019, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government Tageszeitung / Frankfurter Rundschau 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Svenja Schulze is confident that the ministries relevant to the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions record will eventually ...
21 Dec 2020, 12:54 S枚ren Amelang Cars 91tv Raising the EU climate target will lead to job losses in the German car industry, the world's largest industry supplier Bosch and rival Schaeffler have warned. "In order to achieve the ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv The costs and other burdens of climate action must be spread in a fair and balanced way across society to ensure social cohesion and avoid individual hardship, the German ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:48 The results of the UN climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) add pressure to Germany's ongoing negotiations to form a new government coalition that needs to agree on ambitious steps to cut emissions. As the coalition negotiations ...
Europe鈥檚 carmakers can manage the shift to offer clean, competitive and interconnected transport solutions to stay ahead in the global race, EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic writes in an op-ed for business weekly Wirtschaftswoche. However, the ongoing ...
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 ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:57 Expert RAG German Coal RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG Coal Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Deutsche Welle After the closure of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 last hard coal mine on 21 December, the legacy ...
02 Mar 2023, 14:21 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Storage 91tv The number of household solar power ...
12 Jun 2020, 13:31 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal Electricity market Tagesspiegel Background Energy markets have largely recovered from the聽 upheaval caused by the coronavirus, and most experts expect few lasting consequences except that coal ...
27 Nov 2020, 14:22 Charlotte Nijhuis Cars EU Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against excessively strict exhaust regulations for the European car industry, Handelsblatt writes. Europe shouldn鈥檛 say it won鈥檛 ban the ...
11 Mar 2024, 12:52 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Corrected: The renewable share in energy consumption in 2022 was 20.8 percent and ...
16 Mar 2021, 12:00 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly nine percent in 2020- the largest annual fall since 1990- as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed down the use of fossil fuels and added to the effects of the shift to renewable ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government ARD / ntv / Funke Mediengruppe Only days before nuclear power production is set to end in Germany on 15 April, the government coalition party Free Democrats (FDP) has suggested to mothball ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv Europe and Germany should ensure that certain elements of the supply chain of industries critical for the move to climate neutrality happen on their home turf to make the ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage EU 91tv A conference on battery cell production in Europe launched under the aegis of Germany's EU Council Presidency aims to get European battery production off the ground. "We want ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:22 A slight reduction of German greenhouse gas emissions last year is not enough to put the country on track to reaching its 2030 climate target. The country would have to triple the annual reduction from 2 percent in 2022 to 6 percent ...
The last German hard coal mine will close in December 2018. Cristina Belda Font, writing for Equal Times, takes a closer look at the 50-year transformation that coal mining and energy industry has seen in the Ruhr region. Some mines are already used to ...
01 Mar 2022, 14:31 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has initiated the first steps of a wide-ranging renewables reform that should make the country鈥檚 power supply almost 100 percent renewable by 2035. In a draft paper seen by 91tv, the economy and climate ...
20 Feb 2015
20 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv World Energy Council 鈥淕erman energy transition is currently not an export hit鈥� Many international energy experts doubt that Germany's energy transition works as a blueprint for other countries ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the 鈥� SoutH2 Corridor 鈥� project. 鈥淭he ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv German state subsidies are set to increase to 67 billion euros in 2024 from 38 billion euros in 2021, mainly driven by efforts to green the economy and the energy ...
Despite public denials, the European Commission is considering implementing an e-car quota to be achieved by automakers by 2030, writes Arthur Nelson for Climate Home. 鈥淚t is looking increasingly likely that [the Commission] will come forward with a ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A new report commissioned by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Bertelsmann Stiftung and carried out by the Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (F脰S) economic think tank, criticises the ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Heating EU Contexte 脡nergie Several European energy experts warn that the German government coalition row over a planned law to phase out fossil fuel-powered boilers could have repercussions for similar ongoing ...
17 Dec 2018, 13:20 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung / Welt am Sonntag Miners will present the last piece of hard coal mined in Germany to the country鈥檚 president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in ...
17 Sep 2021, 11:37 Three candidates vie to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor in the most unpredictable federal election in decades that will determine the next steps Europe's largest economy takes on the path to climate neutrality. A recent ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Planned German state support will make a heat pump cheaper than a new gas boiler, even in comparatively energy-inefficient buildings, said environmental NGO WWF Germany. Consultancy firm ...
The German coal-mining state Brandenburg will present fellow EU regions a variety of different projects aimed at steering the regional economy away from fossil power generation. As part of the Europe-wide 鈥�coal platform鈥�, Brandenburg will show possible ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next chancellor 鈥� but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
Even with the EU Commission鈥檚 new energy package, Europe鈥檚 energy policy remains unfinished as member states continue to fend for themselves, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in an opinion piece for S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The problem is that each country has its ...
15 Sep 2015
15 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Economy Ministry/Reuters German economy min: No nuclear stress test results yet Germany's energy minister Sigmar Gabriel rejected media reports about provisioning shortfalls for ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:50 Germany will safely get through this winter even if Russia cuts of energy supplies, the country's economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has said. In order to prevent future supply shocks and reduce dependence on Russia, the ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 91tv / DW A large majority of German voters say that they do not feel well-informed about plans by the federal government to move to climate-friendly heating, shows a survey ...
The natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 from Russia to Germany bolster's the role of Russian supplier Gazprom, thereby harming competition and supply security in the region, according to the European Commission. Tom Weing盲rtner writes in Energie & ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:15 Many economists and climate researchers view raising the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels faster than currently planned as essential to reaching new, higher climate targets in both sectors. The debate about a ...
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 ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country鈥檚 political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:49 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The new Berlin state government consisting of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Left Party has presented its coalition agreement on Monday. The threey-party ...
German representatives used the first meeting by the German-Belgian nuclear commission 鈥渢o convey the worries of the German population [about Belgian nuclear power stations Tihange 2 and Doel 3] and remind them of the request by environment minister ...
12 Sep 2019, 14:03 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Freja Eriksen Efficiency Die Welt / 91tv Four industry associations and the German Energy Agency ...
28 May 2020, 12:34 German industry and energy sector associations have welcomed the coronavirus recovery proposal presented by the European Commission. Lobby group BDI said the funds should focus on sustainability not only in regard to climate and ...
The European Commission鈥檚 decision to start infringement proceedings against a number of European countries for failing to cooperate in emissions cheating investigations is 鈥渓ong overdue,鈥� writes J枚rg M眉nchenberg in a commentary for Deutschlandfunk.聽 ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:56 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 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Policy dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau Climate policy experts from two of the three parties in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coalition government have voiced concerns over the government鈥檚 planned reform of the country鈥檚 Climate ...
The heads of the work councils of the utility vehicle branches of German carmakers Daimler and VW have criticised the EU鈥檚 plans for CO 2 emissions reduction for heavy-good vehicles as 鈥渆xcessive and existence-threatening鈥� for their sectors, news agency ...
08 Mar 2022, 13:35 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 BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
The embattled Hambach Forest could turn out to become a symbol for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 acclerated coal exit as much as the nuclear disaster in Fukushima became a symbol for the country鈥檚 accelerated nuclear exit, J眉rgen Flauger writes in a commentary for ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over 鈥渃limate-neutral鈥� and 鈥淐O2-compensated鈥� heating oil claims, the environmental NGO announced. DHU had ...
17 Jan 2020, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society Rheinische Post / WDR The villages around Germany's open-cast lignite mines in federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) that are slated for demolition to make room for expanding the mines see ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks has asked the EU Commission for more time to implement binding legislation for ensuring better air quality in inner cities, Zeit Online reports. At a meeting in Brussels, Hendricks said Germany would ...
Investors should get rid of coal company shares, such as those of German utility RWE, as these are risky at times of planned coal-exits around the world, writes Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management, Norway's largest private asset ...
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 ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:34 Kerstine Appunn Energiewende International 91tv The European Commission has published its fourth report on the state of the Energy Union, the EU鈥檚 framework to overhaul its energy and climate policy to ensure a secure, ...
07 Dec 2017, 00:00 A coal exit is inevitable to reach 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate targets, but the shift must not come at the expense of workers, according to SPD head Martin Schulz. In an address to a party convention in which delegates voted for holding coalition ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Der Spiegel A proposed subsidised electricity price for heavy industry would not be effective for the economy as a whole, according to a report by the German Institute for ...
28 Jan 2025, 12:58 Slowing down industry decarbonisation in Germany would result in a dangerous loss of competitiveness in emerging green markets, says Philipp Verpoort, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Instead, the ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:19 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert Institute for Applied Ecology 脰ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Transport ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 planned financial support for reserve power plants has been met with scepticism by the European Commission, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by Handelsblatt. The Commission has doubts about the necessity of this 鈥渋mportant part of ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze will argue for limiting CO 2 car emission cuts to 30 percent by 2030 at today鈥檚 decisive meeting with her EU counterparts, despite believing the proposal by the EU commission falls far short of what鈥檚 necessary ...
To mark the end of hard coal mining in Germany, players from rival football clubs Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 and other clubs in the western German Ruhr coal mining area will team up for a friendly match against the Polish national team in 2018, ...
16 May 2022, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Rheinische Post / ARD / 91tv The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have won the elections in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia by a wide margin, meaning ...
14 Nov 2021, 12:40 A Glasgow Climate Pact, including the notion that climate action needs to be accelerated within this decade to keep global temperature from rising more than 1.5掳C as well as a historic reference to the phase-out of climate damaging ...
09 Jun 2022, 13:29 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / 91tv German industry groups and other car lobby organisations have said the European Parliament鈥檚 decision to back a ban of new combustion engine cars in 2035 is a blow to climate protection ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:23 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Cities MDR The eastern German city of Leipzig wants to end the use of coal for heat and power production by 2023 and replace coal plants with gas turbines until a ...
02 Feb 2016
02 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淭he government, the e-car and the subsidy trap鈥� Chancellor Angela Merkel would be well advised not to adopt a buyer鈥檚 premium for electric cars after her meeting with industry ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv Two-thirds of the people in Europe (66%) support stricter government measures to change people鈥檚 individual behaviour to tackle climate change, according to the second part of the European ...
The European Commission is aiming to reform emissions trading but faces strong opposition from German industry and power companies, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. The cost of emission allowances have remained low for years and that鈥檚 something ...
The International Energy Agency鈥檚 (IEA) report Coal 2017 shows that the world will continue to be 鈥渁ddicted鈥� to coal for its energy supply for the coming years- 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 contribution to climate protection should be researching and testing new carbon ...
Germany needs to recover millions of euros in illegal aid from certain large electricity users exempted from grid charges in Germany in 2012-2013 after the European Commission declared past regulation was against EU State aid rules. 鈥淔ully exempting ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power was a "historic mistake," Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told business daily Handelsblatt. ...
The European Commission has endorsed German exemptions from the renewables levy (EEG surcharge) for all existing self-suppliers of electricity (i.e. those that entered into operation before August 2014), as well as for new self-suppliers using renewable ...
09 Dec 2020, 15:17 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Society International 91tv Around 77 percent of Germans say the EU should raise its 2030 climate target. In a聽 survey 聽commissioned by the country's utility association BDEW, only ...
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 ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv German grid operator Amprion can start construction of a key power line seven months sooner than planned thanks to new regulations to speed up permitting procedures, said the economy ministry in a ...
28 Apr 2022, 11:30 Germany has reduced its dependence on Russian crude oil from 35 to 12 percent and will take steps to replace the remaining deliveries to the Russian-operated Schwedt refinery within the next days, said the economy and climate minister. ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:11 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen 91tv Algeria, Tunisia and Spain could be the best and most cost-effective countries from which Germany can import green hydrogen if pipelines are ready for transport, according to an analysis by ...
20 Dec 2024, 08:44 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government will inherit a major policy predicament: How can it finally initiate serious transport emission cuts against a backdrop of tight finances, a struggling car industry, and a crumbling transport infrastructure? ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv German drugstore chain DM is no longer allowed to advertise several of its own brand products as 鈥榗limate neutral鈥� or 鈥榚nvironmentally neutral鈥�, a court ruled on 26 July. In a ...
Germany has accused Italian carmaker Fiat of using illegal software for its emissions treatment systems, according to a Reuters report. A transport ministry letter to the European Commission, seen by Reuters, said that tests by German authorities could ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:15 The two most influential members of the EU, Germany and France, agree on the urgent need to jointly decarbonise Europe鈥檚 energy system and put supply security on a safer footing after the tumultuous energy crisis year 2022. Russia鈥檚 war ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Tagesspiegel Background The European energy crisis, which has been dominated by skyrocketing prices for gas and oil so far, 聽could soon spill over to the electricity market, energy policy newsletter ...
27 Apr 2023, 12:44 Julian Wettengel International Table.Media German chancellor Olaf Scholz will have an opportunity to improve his 鈥� and the country鈥檚 鈥� international credibility on climate when the government invites ministers from several dozen ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Policy EU 91tv Solar PV companies and several German states have agreed on a 10-point action plan to protect and strengthen the country鈥檚 solar power industry in order to ensure the planned large ...
12 Oct 2020, 13:43 If the European Union doesn't include stricter rules for climate friendly farming in its main subsidy scheme (CAP), the farming sector will not achieve any emission reductions in the next ten years, a new report finds. Expert ...
The members of the German government disagree over the country鈥檚 position on future EU car emission limits, according to media reports. The ministries of economic affairs and transport both reject the environment ministry鈥檚 call for more ambitious targets ...
21 Jun 2018
21 Jun 2018, 16:13 An internal brawl in the German government's conservative camp over immigration has a paralysing effect on the country's energy and climate policymaking. After 100 days in office, the government coalition officially has to ...
10 Jul 2020, 12:41 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism ...
14 Jul 2022, 12:52 Jessica Bateman Gas Security RND Germany's public is yet to experience the full impact of rising gas prices as bills could 鈥渢riple鈥� from 2023, Klaus M眉ller, the president of the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), has warned in ...
26 Feb 2021, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables EU 91tv A largely CO2-free German and European power supply by 2050 with renewable energy as ...
18 Jun 2019, 13:52 S枚ren Amelang Coal Society 91tv Anti-coal activists and the student protest movement Fridays for Future are planning a series of demonstrations in Western Germany in the coming days. On Friday 21 June, Fridays For Future ...
Germany and France jointly defend priority grid access for electricity generated from renewable sources, reports Politico. The European Commission, meanwhile, is considering removing priority dispatch ahead of power coming from fossil fuels. In a so ...
In two separate interviews, the CEO of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has vowed to continue contending for the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, which a court ordered to halt on 5 October. In an interview with the Rheinische Post, ...
Germany can still reach its 2020 emissions reduction targets if it shuts down or throttles coal plants with a capacity of at least 5 gigawatt (GW), the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) says in a press release. The UBA says that 鈥渋n the short run鈥�, coal ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Gas Bloomberg / 91tv Germany has reached its target to fill gas storages to 95 percent two weeks ahead of the 1 November deadline, the economy ministry (BMWK) announced. 鈥淭he well-filled storage facilities ...
EU Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has welcomed political efforts in Germany to decarbonise road transport, reports bizz energy. In an interview with the magazine, Sefcovic left open whether he would support the initiative by the council of the ...
22 Jan 2019, 13:14 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Germany must 鈥渇inally鈥� do something to ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:53 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Clean ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:46 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Handelsblatt New regional energy company in the ...
22 Dec 2021, 12:42 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Energiewende Handelsblatt The new German government must quickly fill its ambitious energy transition plans with action, according to Markus Krebber, ...
The city of Berlin has decided to exit coal power generation by 2030 to protect the climate. The state coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), the Left Party, and the Greens has passed a corresponding law, according to a news report by press agency dpa ...
10 Feb 2023, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Politics 91tv The transformation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy system away from fossil fuels must quickly be reinforced by sufficient 鈥渕olecule-based鈥� power plant capacity that can back up the ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Welt Online / WirtschaftsWoche / 91tv Citing high energy costs, too much bureaucracy and a lack of skilled workers, the heads of industry associations have warned of a bleak future for Germany if ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:35 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Bild Zeitung German transport minister Andreas Scheuer ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:35 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Edgar Meza Cars Reuters The EU Commission has charged German automakers ...
Chinese solar panels will no longer be subject to trade controls such as minimum prices in the European Union, the European Commission announced in its official journal. The trade restrictions, introduced in 2013 to shield the European Union鈥檚 solar power ...
29 Mar 2019, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Policy 91tv The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Germany's system of financing its renewables build-up through a surcharge on power bills does ...
13 Apr 2022, 13:56 Germany is facing a 2-percent drop in its GDP in 2023 in case of an immediate halt to imports of Russian oil, gas and coal, leading economic institutes said in their joint forecast. This is in line with other recent forecasts, but ...
Natural gas will become the most-used fossil fuel in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 electricity supply within two decades, RWE boss Rolf Schmitz said at an energy industry conference held by business newspaper Handelsblatt in Berlin. Natural gas plants will be the only ...
07 Nov 2023, 12:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Electricity Security 91tv Germany saw a slight drop in ...
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� ...
09 Sep 2020, 14:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Julian Wettengel Industry EU 91tv / Handelsblatt / EurActiv The expected call by the EU Commission for an increased 2030 emissions reduction target has been welcomed by German environment minister Svenja ...
14 Dec 2021, 13:07 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband ...
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 ...
The construction of the聽 natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 聽from Russia to Germany 鈥� scheduled to start this year 鈥� could be put back by months or years. The delay could be caused by plans by the EU Commission to negotiate a separate regulatory framework ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:42 Expert F脰S- Green Budget Germany Forum 脰kologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft Energiewende Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Cost & Prices 91tv As lignite (brown coal) power plants in Germany increasingly make losses ...
German reinsurance group Hannover Re will no longer invest in companies that earn 25 percent or more of their revenue from mining or burning coal, according to a Reuters report. In May, Allianz said it would immediately stop insuring single coal-fired ...
Just 20,000 people in Germany are still employed in the once-mighty coal sector but their influence on energy policy is far greater than their number would suggest, Felix Heilmann writes for Climate Home. Coal workers are well-organised and good at ...
In a 鈥� decisive year 鈥� 2018, the next German government must determine the course for the country鈥檚 exit from coal-fired power generation, and deal with the looming failure to reach its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in ...
21 Feb 2020, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Hydrogen Elections & Politics Hamburger Abendblatt The mayor of Hamburg, Peter Tschentscher, has proposed shutting down the city's coal plant Moorburg "many years" earlier than the current end ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / 91tv Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE聽 told news ...
01 Mar 2016
01 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv IHS 鈥淎s European solar installations slow, China, US and Japan lead global installed PV capacity in 2016鈥� The United States and Japan will surpass 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 installed solar PV capacity this year, ...
06 Dec 2019, 15:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv The German government will meet with state representatives in January to discuss how to expand renewable energy installations at a pace that will raise the share of renewables in ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau A German entrepreneur is offering a supplement for cow fodder that could reduce the animals鈥� methane emissions by up to almost 40 percent. The Switzerland-based company Mootral, which ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out International Die Welt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power means that it must replace the energy source with climate-harmful coal and gas, the executive director of state-owned French ...
German utility RWE鈥檚 CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said that the company鈥檚 property rights need to be ensured in the debate about possible early shutdowns of its coal-fired power plants, writes Focus Online. At an RWE shareholder meeting, Schmitz also warned of ...
22 Sep 2015
22 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 鈥淭he VW scandal鈥� It is a mystery why VW decided to take the risk of manipulating emission results with rather limited benefits, writes Holger Appel in FAZ. Why ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:21 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Reuters / Deutsche Welle Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser is ready for Siemens Energy- an energy business it plans to spin off by September- to be at the centre of the ...
The agreement that economy minister Sigmar Gabriel reached with the EU Commission on state-aid related aspects of the country鈥檚 new power market law and other energy policies 鈥渕akes regulations permanent that will keep Germany from reaching its 2020 ...
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 ...
15 May 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of citizens in the German state of Bavaria would accept wind turbines in their vicinity under certain circumstances, a survey commissioned by the Initiative Climate ...
Auto manufacturers may be inflating their vehicles鈥� officially-declared CO 2 emissions to lower the ambition of passengers cars鈥� and vans鈥� pollution reduction targets, according to an internal European Commission paper. The document, published by ...
24 Jan 2019, 12:07 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Following the leak of a working paper from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 sustainable mobility commission, the debate about speed limits on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Autobahn system continues unabated ...
A strong global carbon price of 40-80 US dollars per tonne of CO鈧� by 2020 and 50-100 US dollars by 2030 could be key to reaching climate goals and keeping the global temperature rise below two degrees, according to a new report by the High-Level ...
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] ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:38 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund f眉r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Heinrich B枚ll Foundation Green policy think tank Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Society ...
The German government will likely arrive empty-handed at an EU Commission meeting on 30 January where several states are supposed to show how and by when they intend to achieve compliance with European Union air quality directives, writes Nikolaus Doll in ...
The European Commission approved 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 70 million euro scheme to encourage public transport operators to replace conventional diesel buses with electric or plug-in hybrids running on renewable electricity under state aid rules, the Commission writes ...
27 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017, 00:00 As expected, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 future energy and climate policy has emerged as the main stumbling block in Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. Talks got ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt / pv magazine 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy minister Robert Habeck announced there will be new government funding to rebuild the country鈥檚 solar industry, ...
02 Mar 2022, 13:31 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Renewables Security 91tv Ensuring energy supply security can take priority over climate action, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate minister has said. Speaking to Deutschlandfunk (Dlf) radio, Robert ...
10 May 2021, 14:32 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Renewables Utilities Die Welt Germany's largest electricity producer RWE has set its sights on becoming the leading provider of renewable energy in numerous industrialised countries. In an ...
Germany will initiate a domestic battery cell production in the framework of the federal government鈥檚 upcoming industrial strategy, said economy minister Peter Altmaier at a press conference after a meeting with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission ...
The EU is committed to reaching a target of at least 27 percent renewable energy of its overall energy consumption by 2030, the member states鈥� energy ministers agreed in Brussels. This formed part of a package of agreements on the Renewable Energy ...
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 ...
14 Jan 2022, 13:36 S枚ren Amelang Industry Hydrogen Reuters / Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German steelmaker Salzgitter wants to shift its entire steel production from blast furnaces to low-emission technologies by the middle of the next ...
The ruling by a German court to stop the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest has prompted energy company RWE to consider reducing coal extraction at its nearby lignite mine by up to one third, Claus Hecking and Stefan Schultz write on Spiegel Online. ...
A resident from the German coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) demands 80 billion euros for a piece of land that energy company RWE needs for lignite mining, arguing that the sum equals the revenues the company intends to make with the local ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:06 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Society Handelsblatt / WirtschaftsWoche / Focus Online The row over German industrial heavyweight Siemens's involvement in the controversial Adani coal mine project in ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv A new area development plan for the expansion of offshore wind energy is a key step in helping Germany come closer to its target of installing at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, the economy and ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:22 Julian Wettengel Coal Society 91tv The European Union 鈥渨ill not leave the people of Lusatia behind鈥�, as structural economic change brought on by the transition to a low-carbon world is a 鈥淓uropean challenge鈥�, said European ...
Europe鈥檚 largest insurer Allianz has stopped selling policies to coal companies in an effort to fight climate change, report Oliver Ralph and Olaf Storbeck in the Financial Times. The company said it would immediately pull its coverage from single coal ...
15 Mar 2023, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang Renewables Society 91tv The German government can count on very broad popular support for its plans to accelerate the rollout of renewable energies, a survey has revealed. 鈥淭he population is ready for a ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International 91tv The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
03 Jun 2019, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Cost & Prices Frankfurter Rundschau High prices for domestic coal-fired power production turned Germany into a net importer of electricity at the end of April after years of being an export champion, Frank ...
In an interview with German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, Michael Vassiliadis, head of IG BCE, the German trade union for mining, chemicals and energy industries, says the Green Party鈥檚 insistence on a coal exit in the ongoing coalition talks is ...
The Economy Minister of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Andreas Pinkwart, has called for compensation payments from the federal budget if Germany accelerates its coal exit, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. 鈥淭he ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind power sector employed about five times more people than the country鈥檚 coal industry in 2016, the website strom-report.de reports. About 160,000 people worked in onshore and offshore wind power in that year, compared to roughly 31,000 in the ...
Coal will continue to be an important component of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power supply for at least another three decades, Saxony鈥檚 state premier Michael Kretschmer told news agency Reuters. As an industrialised country, Germany 鈥渃annot afford to do without this ...
Fears of a surge in support for the right-wing populist party AfD must not influence the speed of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit, Berlin鈥檚 Green energy senator Ramona Pop says in a reply to Brandenburg鈥檚 state premier Dietmar Woidke, published in the Tagesspiegel. ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 state secretary in the economy ministry (BMWi), Rainer Baake, finds the EU Commission鈥檚 proposals on support for renewable energy sources 鈥渋nadequate,鈥� the ministry says in a press release. In the run-up to a meeting by the Council of Ministers ...
04 Apr 2016
04 Apr 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel Sandbag 鈥淭op 10 European polluters still dominated by German lignite鈥� 鈥淔our out of five of the biggest polluters in Europe are still German lignite plants,鈥� reports UK-based sandbag. The not-for-profit ...
For a successful energy transition, Germany needs a well-ordered coal exit and accelerated wind power expansion, Vattenfall鈥檚 Senior Executive Vice President Tuomo Hatakka told the Funke Mediengruppe. The next federal government must organise the phase ...
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 ...
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 ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:37 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv Germany must electrify its railway network eight times as fast as it does today to achieve its target for the sector, said the Pro-Rail Alliance, a lobby group consisting of non-profit ...
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Europe's ageing buildings are particularly vulnerable to the damaging effects of climate change, with homes increasingly threatened by floods or at risk of becoming unbearably hot to live in. The job of adapting the spaces where ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany announced an additional 84 million euros to support Pakistan as part of both countries鈥� climate partnership at an international conference, in the wake of ...
08 Mar 2016
08 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RWE/Bloomberg RWE posts second net loss in two years 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest power producer RWE posted its second net loss in three years, reports Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The group鈥檚 net loss ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:43 Primary energy use in Germany decreased almost two percent in the first half of 2019 due to a large drop in coal consumption, according to first estimates. This is likely to result in a further substantial fall in the country鈥檚 CO2 ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:05 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background The German government is examining how it can support the domestic offshore wind sector, which is suffering from a slowdown in activity, Steven Hanke writes in Tagesspiegel Background, citing a ...
07 Apr 2021, 12:54 Expert Thorsten M眉ller Chairman, foundation for research on energy and environment law Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 outgoing ...
29 Sep 2016, 00:00 One year after the Dieselgate scandal hit the industry, German carmakers VW and Daimler unveiled their first models developed exclusively for an electric motor at the Paris Car Show on Thursday. Many industry experts say the move is key ...
The two major German insurance companies Allianz and Munich Re have until now often been viewed as 鈥渂eing in the camp of climate activists鈥�, but a study by NGO Unfriend Coal now suggests both companies are quite active in insuring Poland鈥檚 coal industry, ...
26 Feb 2020, 13:55 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S枚ren Amelang Electricity market Gas Hydrogen Frankfurter ...
10 Nov 2023, 13:19 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Industry 91tv Energy consumption in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 industry dropped 9.1 percent in 2022 聽compared to the previous year, ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:29 Edgar Meza Storage International dpa / Handelsblatt A European battery cell production initiative is well under way with more than 20 companies involved in two projects, German economy minister Peter Altmaier told reporters in Paris on ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Rheinische Post Heating energy consumption in buildings of the German government has been increasing in recent years, rising from 111 kilowatt hours (kWh) per square metre in 2015 to ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Industry 91tv The states of eastern Germany are benefitting from the transition towards a climate neutral economy and are well-positioned to emerge as a strong industrial hub thanks to their ...
05 Feb 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Handelsblatt The parliamentary group leader of the German Greens, Anton Hofreiter, has criticised French President Emmanuel Macron's policy approach of environmental protection measures ...
The decision of 48 poorer countries to terminate coal-fired power production has sparked calls for Germany to envisage a speedy coal exit as well, the Rheinische Post newspaper reports. The announcement of the Climate Vulnerable Forum鈥檚 countries at the ...
19 Mar 2019, 13:53 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Storage GreenTech Media Researchers in Germany are exploring possibilities to turn the country鈥檚 coal plants into ...
In Art & Coal, a major exhibition in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Ruhr region, artists explore the 900-year-old culture of coal mining as the country鈥檚 last two mines prepare to close, writes Sunaina Kumar in an article for the online art magazine and blog website ...
09 Apr 2024, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung / Tagesspiegel / 91tv The first major city in Germany, Augsburg, has announced plans for ending the use of natural gas in its heating system and informed customers ...
18 Feb 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE has a dominant position among the country鈥檚 electricity suppliers, the country's competition authority said in its report on last year鈥檚 power market. An ...
A research group, funded by German carmakers to design a study to show that modern diesel cars are clean, conducted an experiment in the US which exposed monkeys to diesel fumes- a 鈥渘ew dimension in the global emissions scandal鈥�, writes the New York Times ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany can be 鈥渇airly optimistic鈥� regarding its gas supply in winter 2023/2024, said energy industry association BDEW, one year after Russia ended its pipeline supply to the country on 31 August. ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:39 Aniket Narawad Policy Society 91tv Climate activists in Germany have accused the government of watering down a key law to ensure emissions reductions during the global climate strike organised by the Fridays for Future ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas EU S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The announcement by Spain, Portugal and France to pull the plug on the MidCat gas pipeline project across the Pyrenees comes as a 鈥渄isappointment鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, which had hoped to ...
Germany would have to discontinue coal-fired power production even without committing itself to climate protection goals, Oliver Krischer, vice-chairman of the Green Party鈥檚 parliamentary group, said during a speech on his party鈥檚 energy policy ambitions ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Germany needs gas-fired ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 2020 climate protection target is likely to fail due to the country鈥檚 鈥� addiction to coal 鈥�, according to an analysis by British climate NGO Sandbag. Sandbag argues that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 vast electricity exports allowed for a reduction of its coal ...
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 ...
A referendum in Hamburg, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 second largest city, seeks to ban the use of coal power for heating and electricity generation by 2030, Sven-Michael Veit writes for the Tageszeitung (taz). 鈥淲e in Hamburg have to take the coal exit in our own hands,鈥� ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The German environment ministry (BMU) says it will open a research centre focused on reducing emmissions in energy-intensive industries in the eastern German ...
08 Jan 2020, 12:30 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Decarbonising 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy while safeguarding the country鈥檚 prosperity will require "massive" investments by the state, for example in infrastructure, write economists at the ...
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26 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue Ministers and energy experts meet at international energy conference in Berlin Under the slogan 鈥渢owards a global Energiewende鈥� the first Energy Transition ...
11 Apr 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out dpa / 91tv About two thirds of Germans are against the country鈥檚 imminent shutdown of the remaining three nuclear power plants, a survey by opinion research institute YouGov commissioned ...
The Federal Association for Brown Coal (DEBRIV) says a legal opinion stating that a coal exit would be constitutional is superficial and draws the wrong conclusions. Law firm BeckerB眉ttnerHeld (BBH) and think tank Agora Energiewende* said on Monday that ...
In its report 鈥淎 stress test for coal in Europe under the Paris Agreement," the Berlin-based climate research institute Climate Analytics says the EU will have to end CO鈧� emissions from all coal plants by 2030 in order to meet its commitments under ...
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to expand his campaign to phase out coal-fired power production from his home turf in the US to Europe, the Guardian reports. The billionaire and UN special envoy on climate change announced he will spend 50 ...
The federal economy ministry has made changes to the reform of the combined heat and power (CHP) law, after last month鈥檚 agreement with the EU Commission on state aid questions. The changes include the introduction of tenders for governmental support for ...
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23 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Carl Morris 91tv 91tv Die Welt 鈥淭he German government knew the cheating technology鈥� The German ministry for transport has known for a long time that car manufacturers are using technologies that interfere ...
11 Dec 2019, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine / Stuttgarter Nachrichten The German car industry sees itself threatened by stricter CO2 limits planned by the European Commission, Volkmar Denner, head of German car part supplier Bosch, has ...
31 Mar 2023, 11:35 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 gas pipeline network has to be adapted to a new reality over the coming decade, as gas consumption is expected to decline by at least 20 percent by 2032, with liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
13 Mar 2020, 14:12 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities S枚ren Amelang Renewables Utilities 91tv / dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Germany's largest coal power and renewables operator RWE plans to step up its ...
A court in Lower Saxony ruled against objections by environmental organisations and decided that chemical company Dow may build a coal-fired power plant in the northern German state, reports Gernot Kn枚dler in the tageszeitung (taz). The plaintiffs had ...
16 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany ratifies Doha without joint EU move / 鈥淚f the talks continue this way, we will reach our negotiation targets鈥� 鈥� German negotiator / UK and Canada march ahead on coal exit, NGOs criticise Germany / 鈥淢ove away from fossils if you ...
30 Mar 2023, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU 91tv German economy minister Robert Habeck has welcomed a deal among EU institutions to raise the target share of renewable energy in the bloc鈥檚 overall energy consumption. 鈥淭oday's ...
04 Mar 2019, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The use of nuclear power in Germany will come to an end by the end of 2022 as planned, operators of the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants have told the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit will be a major energy and climate policy topic in the coalition talks and the next government should work towards a coal consensus 鈥� similar to the one found on the exit from nuclear power, J眉rgen Flauger writes in an opinion piece in ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs International 91tv The economy ministers from France and Germany will use their planned visit to the U.S. on Tuesday (7 February) to advocate for 鈥渏oint green lead markets鈥� for climate ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:30 Industrialised countries are taking pains to convince developing nations at the 13th Petersberg Climate Dialogue that they will live up to their emission reduction and climate finance commitments despite the fallout from the Russian war ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has published the English version of its position paper Coal-fired power generation and climate protection until 2030, a discussion contribution for achieving climate targets in Germany, first published in ...
Germany imported less hard coal last year and imports are set to drop again in 2017, the German Coal Importers Association said, according to a report by Dow Jones Newswires. Imports fell by 4 percent to 55.2 million tons in 2016, and will dip again this ...
A new company from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 biggest lignite mining region, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has developed a procedure that turns the brown coal traditionally used as a fossil fuel into a high-output fertiliser for plants, Brigitte Koch writes in the ...
Helmar Rendez, head of Lusatian energy company Leag, is opposed to phasing out lignite-fired power production to protect the climate, Jens Tartler writes in Der Tagesspiegel. 鈥淲e need to let go of the illusion that Lusatia can save the world鈥檚 climate ...
Many parties avoided clear messages on a lignite phase-out in their election programmes, but 鈥�coal does not have reliable friends in any of the parties, anymore鈥�, writes Klaus Stratmann in an article for Handelsblatt. Party programmes lack 鈥渃oherent ...
25 Nov 2020, 14:24 S枚ren Amelang Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation can induce almost half of the emissions reduction Germany needs to reach its 2030 climate targets, according to the country's digital industry association Bitkom. A ...
23 Jun 2020, 14:00 Helping European Union member states find a compromise on a coronavirus recovery package in July will be a first test for the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, says Sophie Pornschlegel, senior policy analyst at ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry EU 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has urged the European Union to refrain from further debt-financed subsidies as a response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). "The EU ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The European Union should set up a joint transport infrastructure and storage facilities for CO2, said the German Green Party in its draft programme for the EU elections on 6-9 June ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / n-tv online Halting coal mining at the embattled Hambach Forest would cost operator RWE 聽more than a billion euros, the company said in an article by news agency dpa carried by website n-tv online. ...
Germany will have to gradually lower its coal-fired power production to meet its climate targets, the federal government writes in response to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party. But it adds that a coal phase-out cannot commence until regions have ...
Almost all coal plants in the EU will make losses by 2030, according to a Carbon Tracker analysis, Jess Shankleman and Rachel Morison report for Bloomberg. Because battery storage will increasingly provide power at times of peak demand, and because the EU ...
17 Jun 2022, 08:50 The German government鈥檚 G7 agenda has been thrown off course by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, but chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is determined to keep climate policy as a top priority for the summit of the seven large economies in ...
Germany's Monopolies Commission, which advises the government on competition policies, is calling for a shift from renewables support to a price on CO2 emissions to finance the country's energy transition. In a new report on the electricity and ...
Germany can take the most climate-damaging coal power stations off the grid by 2020 while also accelerating its nuclear exit without putting supply security at risk, according to an analysis by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In a detailed 鈥渟hutdown ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Wind Society 91tv Onshore wind power has become more popular than ever among people living in Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine,聽 a poll 聽has found. One in three respondents said Russia's war and ...
18 Nov 2020, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Green stimulus 91tv Corona stimulus packages in G20 countries are set to delay climate action,聽according to a report published by Climate Transparency, an international partnership ...
09 Jul 2019, 12:45 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International tageszeitung (taz) / 91tv The German members of the Green group in the European Parliament (EP) said they would only support German defence minister Ursula von der ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid Rheinische Post German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has called for faster progress on updating the country鈥檚 energy grids as this was essential to a coal-free energy system. In an interview with the ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:36 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv High natural gas and hard coal prices and expensive allowances in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) have significantly pushed up the power price over recent months, ...
After years of rising hard coal import volumes due to the closing of domestic mines, Germany seems to decrease its reliance on the fossil fuel, Andreas Macho writes in business weekly WirtschaftsWoche. While Germany continues to be Europe's biggest ...
Deutsche Bank will no longer grant new financing for thermal coal mining or new coal-fired power plants, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest bank said in a press release. The bank will also 鈥渞educe its existing exposure to the thermal coal mining sector,鈥� it said. Deutsche ...
E.ON should have never begun building the long-delayed hard coal power plant in Datteln, because the energy transition was already in full swing at the start of construction in 2007 and coal 鈥渁 phase-out model鈥�, writes J眉rgen Flauger in an opinion piece ...
Several communities, local governments and regional parliaments in the small German state of Saarland oppose plans by hard coal mining foundation RAG-Stiftung to progressively reduce pumping mine water and let groundwater levels rise, Bernd Freytag ...
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 ...
18 Jan 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cities 91tv A broad alliance of German trade unions and environmental associations has launched a joint call to the federal government for a legal reform to guarantee more financial support to implement ...
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The subsidies for natural gas introduced with the new combined heat and power regulation (CHP) put pressure on German hard coal-fired power generation in 2016, according to German Coal Importer Association (VDKi), reports Dow Jones Newswires. Consumption ...
20 Jan 2022, 12:09 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background A legal opinion commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has concluded that the German government鈥檚 Fuel Emissions Trading Act (BEHG) does not ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Efficiency Government Die Welt German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has opted to pay expensive fines for failing to meet emissions targets rather than invest in climate action, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 The German coalition talks on climate and energy policy stumble over a dispute over the reduction of coal fired power production. Just days before exploratory talks are scheduled to finish, the Green Party and its negotiating partners ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:41 Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition 脡nerg茅tique / Deutsch-Franz枚sisches B眉ro f眉r die Energiewende Renewables Energiewende 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International ...
The European Commission pressures Germany to make progress on expanding its power transmission grid and the important north-south SuedLink and SuedOstLink power lines, Michael Bauchm眉ller and Thomas Kirchner write in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The 700 ...
12 Aug 2020, 13:52 Storage Tagesspiegel Online A large electric battery unit in the German town of Schwarze Pumpe, in the state of Brandenburg, will soon help stabilise the grid as renewable energy sources make up a larger portion of power supply, Ralf ...
