13 Feb 2020, 13:26 S枚ren Amelang International 91tv The EU must commit to new climate targets this spring in order to increase the chances of success at this year's crucial climate conference COP26, an alliance of German environmental ...
German utility Uniper is set to put its new coal plant Datteln 4 into operation despite a dire outlook for the industry in the country, Craig Morris writes on energytransition.org. 鈥淲ith a billion euros already sunk in the plant, Uniper鈥檚 decision to ...
29 Sep 2020, 13:07 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Industry taz / ARD Industrial giant Siemens has listed its power plant division on the stock exchange, leading to scrutiny and criticism of its activities in the fossil fuel sector, writes Kai ...
Utilities and the German government continue to argue about the storage of nuclear waste, five months after a government-appointed commission proposed that the country鈥檚 four nuclear power station operators should pay more than 20 billion euros into a ...
29 Oct 2019, 17:41 Germany is headed for second consecutive year of substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as a sharp drop in coal consumption is driving a decline of the country鈥檚 overall energy use in 2019. If this trend continues, the ...
German industry fears the next government coalition could make 鈥渞otten compromises鈥� on energy and climate policy, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. While the Greens are adamant on climate protection and shutting down coal plants, its potential ...
22 Jul 2020, 13:48 After four days of negotiations, the EU member states have agreed on an unprecedented funding package to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and secure the bloc's budget until 2027. The 27 governments greenlighted a ...
13 Jan 2021, 13:35 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Fossil fuels Tagesspiegel Background The amendment for the tightening of air pollution limits for Germany's fossil power plants that is discussed in parliament on Wednesday draws sharp criticism from ...
02 Nov 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv Primary energy consumption is likely to hit a record low this year as 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy remains weak, according to a forecast by energy data service AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Energy ...
Five people from the east German coal mining region of Lusatia who work in lignite power stations or coal mines have expressed concerns about the energy transition and government plans to shut down lignite plants in the near future. The S眉ddeutsche ...
The growing importance of wind and solar power generation in Germany leads to the shutdown of another coal plant, J眉rgen Flauger writes in Handelsblatt. Energy provider STEAG will close the hard coal-fired power plant at its founding location in L眉nen in ...
Leading experts commissioned by the German economy ministry (BMWi) say Germany will probably miss key targets of the Energiewende, endangering the entire projects's credibility.鈥澛營n their advisory opinion on the BMWi鈥檚 fifth Energiewende Monitoring ...
13 Aug 2020, 12:33 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Utilities 91tv/Focus Online/Rheinische Post Utility RWE鈥檚 production from lignite coal fell sharply over the first half of 2020, even before the effects ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / Handelsblatt The European Commission announced Tuesday that it will not raise antitrust objections to a major part of the deal between German utilities RWE and E.ON, Reuters reports. The approval ...
12 Mar 2019, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Aachener Nachrichten A court in the western German city of Cologne has started to hear a case by NGO Friends of the Earth (BUND) against the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, news agency dpa ...
06 Jan 2023, 13:13 S枚ren Amelang Transport dpa / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung An increasing number of cruise ships have switched their propellant from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to diesel fuel because of high LNG prices,聽 reports 聽newswire dpa in an article ...
31 Jul 2019, 13:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Rheinische Post The federal government is 鈥渇rightening鈥� the population with the debate about climate action measures such as higher prices for fossil car fuels and domestic ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:45 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung In the runup to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, eight leading environmental organisations have called on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government ...
01 Oct 2020, 16:41 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 EU ...
01 Nov 2017, 00:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel could use her appearance at the COP to advance coalition talks on climate, says Ann-Kathrin Schneider, specialist for international climate policy at Friends of the Earth Germany. Meanwhile, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 NGOs want ...
27 Jun 2017
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 environment minister Barbara Hendricks has shunned calls for making a clear commitment to initialising the country鈥檚 exit from coal-fired power production. At a press conference by government members of her Social Democratic Party (SPD), ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel calls climate change "a question of survival", but blocks a coal exit in Germany, according to Greenpeace. "Climate protection without coal exit is like trying to extinguish a fire with petrol,"聺 said ...
Saxony鈥檚 parting State Premier, Stanislaw Tillich, has said that over six billion euros in compensation payments were necessary if Germany wanted to phase out lignite-fired power production over the next few years. According to the conservative politician ...
Amid a growing anti-coal movement, thousands of masked protesters in聽hooded white jumpsuits have blocked 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal infrastructure, Paul Hockenos reports for聽The Nation. Find the article in English here. Get background on the question when will ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:16 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Benjamin Wehrmann Finance International AFP Germany's finance ministry (BMF) has said Germany does not plan to increase its contribution to ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:15 Jessica Bateman Nuclear phase-out 91tv The shutdown of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 last remaining nuclear power plants will not cause supply shortages, according to calculations by the department of energy, transport and environment at the ...
09 Aug 2016, 00:00 A study identifying potential risks for the energy transition in Germany finds the project to be overall 鈥渞obust and resilient鈥�. However, falling fossil fuel prices could pose a serious threat to the decarbonisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv A broad alliance of more than 40 civil society associations and organisations聽 has called on the German government to step-up climate measures as the country is projected to miss its ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 quest for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a substitute for halted Russian pipeline supplies entails significant risks regarding climate change mitigation, as the country鈥檚 demand could ...
Germany must not enter a coal exit at the expense of power supply security and industrial competitiveness, according to Andreas Pinkwart, economy minister for the west German coal mining state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), and member of the pro ...
24 Apr 2019, 13:41 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Rachel Waldholz Gas Security Reuters Manfred Weber, a leading candidate to become the next president of the European Commission, told ...
23 Aug 2019, 13:23 S枚ren Amelang Electricity Climate & CO2 91tv Droughts caused by climate change pose a growing risk to the power supply in Germany and around the globe, according to a report by WWF Germany. 90 percent of global ...
28 May 2020, 17:30 A slowing economy and mild weather lowered Germany's energy demand significantly in the first quarter of 2020. Latest data also confirmed that renewable energy sources accounted for more than half of the electricity fed into ...
10 Oct 2017, 00:00 One week before the start of exploratory talks on forming a government coalition, aspiring German government alliance partners CDU and the Green Party agree that the country will have to phase out coal-fired power production. Yet, two ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Energy consumption in Germany in the first three months of 2023 was almost seven percent below that of the same period last year due to high prices and a shrunk gross domestic ...
24 Oct 2023, 11:58 Julian Wettengel Renewables EU Spiegel / 91tv German government coalition member and pro-business party FDP (Free Democratic Party) has criticised a proposal agreed by EU member state governments last week to make so-called ...
18 Mar 2022, 16:15 The EU's taxonomy has been widely perceived as a product of regulators eager to steer financial markets to a more environmentally-friendly and socially just future- a major misconception that is typical for the neglect given to ...
In an article with many photographs, Elian Hadj-Hamdi for Deutsche Welle takes a look at the impact of coal mining on people and nature in coal mining regions in western Germany. Read the article in English here. For background, read the 91tv factsheet ...
24 Feb 2021, 12:37 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Heating 91tv German energy companies Uniper and Siemens Energy have proposed a project to set up a renewable power-based energy plant at the site of ...
12 Nov 2019, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest steelmaker thyssenkrupp has launched a series of tests into the use of hydrogen in a working blast furnace aimed at reducing CO2 emissions ...
12 Dec 2019, 13:36 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Rose-Anne Clermont Transport Cars 91tv The National Platform Future of ...
Germany will inevitably scrap coal-fired power production even though the move has not yet been officially announced, Klaus Stratmann writes in Handelsblatt. Coal-fired generating units with an installed capacity of 4,772 megawatts 鈥� the equivalent of ...
A new report published by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy examines the use and costs of government subsidies in German industry, including controversial areas such as coal production, nuclear waste disposal or industry rebates on energy taxes. ...
23 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany may have to resort to an unusual measure to comply with the EU's 2020 climate targets in sectors not covered by the union's emissions trading scheme (ETS). Achieving the non-ETS goal looks increasingly unfeasible, a ...
A worldwide coal exit will be difficult as coal remains the easiest and often cheapest source of base power and many jobs still depend on the fossil fuel, writes Eduardo Porter in a column in New York Times. In Germany, 鈥渙nly about 63,000 jobs are ...
23 Mar 2022, 12:35 Paul Gordon Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Climate activist group Fridays for Future (FfF) will stage its next global climate strike on Friday (25 March), calling not only for more action to prevent global warming but also ...
An end to coal-fired power generation in Germany by 2030 is impossible, according to Armin Laschet, the state premier of coal mining state North Rhine-Westphalia, and a member of Angela Merkel鈥檚 Conservatives (CDU). Wind and solar power will not be able ...
Old coal-fired power plants can be made more flexible at reasonable expense, allowing countries with a high share of coal-based electricity to make a smooth transition to a climate-friendly energy system, according to a new study by think tank Agora ...
13 Jan 2020, 13:54 Expert German Trade Union Association Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Bundesvorstand Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv Labour unions are necessary for organising the collective ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:50 Rachel Waldholz Finance Utilities dpa / Focus Online US investment bank Goldman Sachs says German utilities RWE and E.ON remain good investments, despite the coal exit, newswire dpa reports in an article carried by Focus Online. In an ...
The economy minister of German federal state Brandenburg has called a speedy phase-out of coal-fired power production 鈥渦topian鈥�, M盲rkische Allgemeine reports. SPD-politician Albrecht Gerber said while restructuring the energy system in the long-term was a ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
Germany's ambitious greenhouse gas reduction plans are facing a major obstacle: an apparent addiction to coal, reports Irene Banos Ruiz for Deutsche Welle. Mining company RWE is planning the expansion of some of Europe's biggest coal mines, ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:28 Edgar Meza Utilities 91tv The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to have major repercussions for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy sector, leading to growing concerns about increasing prices and limited liquidity. The German Association ...
09 Jan 2020, 13:33 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs S枚ren Amelang Coal Industry 91tv Germany's Fridays for Future student climate protest movement has increased the pressure on engineering conglomerate Siemens for its involvement in ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal exit is 鈥渁lready happening, step-by-step鈥�, but the country still needs coal power plants, Helmar Rendez, head of Lusatian energy company Leag, told M盲rkische Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview. 鈥淎nyone calling for the immediate shutdown of ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Tagesspiegel Background / Bloomberg The first gas flows into the German grid from the new floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven are expected on 22 December, newspaper ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal phase-out will likely increase power prices in the wholesale market, according to a newly published report by petrochemical market information provider ICIS. ICIS鈥� energy analytics team used a model to simulate the impact of four coal phase ...
09 Apr 2020, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv / dpa / Focus Online The expansion of onshore wind power in Germany has moderately picked up again in the first quarter of 2020, figures compiled by industry expert group Fachagentur Windenergie ...
09 Nov 2021, 18:30 After a week of political announcements, ministers this week join their negotiators to hash out the nitty-gritty of the Paris Agreement rulebook and eyes are on a possible solution for carbon markets under Article 6. 91tv tracks the ...
22 Sep 2022, 13:52 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The German industry plans to stick to existing ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 radioactive waste will probably stay in castor casks above ground near (former) nuclear power stations for a century, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. A final underground repository is unlikely to be filled before the year 2117, Wetzel says. ...
17 Jun 2015
17 Jun 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv European Commission 鈥淓U on track to meeting 20 percent renewable energy target鈥� The EU expects member states are on track to meet their target of a 20 percent share of renewables in gross final ...
06 Aug 2020, 14:15 Finance International 91tv Economists at Sparkasse, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest public bank, have criticised a planned carbon border tax, saying that a study of potential effects on the European economy鈥檚 openness and fiscal ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
03 Jul 2019, 14:56 The nomination of Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission has come as a surprise for many political observers in Germany and across Europe. Little is known about the incumbent German defence minister's climate ...
Germany will be able to fulfil its Paris Climate Agreement obligations as well as the EU鈥檚 2030 climate targets with a continued use of coal-fired power production, trade union IG BCE鈥檚 head Michael Vassiliadis said in an interview with Dresdner Neueste ...
The German government could introduce a speedy coal exit without having to pay compensation to power plant operators, think tank Agora Energiewende* writes聽in a press release. Law firm BeckerB眉ttnerHeld (BBH) analysed last year鈥檚 nuclear phase-out ...
19 Jul 2019, 14:04 Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the introduction of price on CO2 emissions as part of a package to reach the country鈥檚 2030 climate targets. In her annual mid-year press conference, Merkel said experts had made a convincing case for ...
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)鈥檚 revelation that newly registered passenger cars consume significantly more fuel than advertised highlights the need for better testing, environmental organisation NABU says in a press release. ...
EU Member States must together reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 for the transport, buildings, agriculture, waste, land-use and forestry sectors, according to a proposal by the European Commission. The Effort ...
21 Mar 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Wind 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 wind energy sector requires faster approval procedures and better working conditions to attract the skilled workers needed reach expansion targets, a report commissioned by ...
14 Feb 2019, 14:15 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Tagesspiegel Background The European Commission has approved German government plans to impose diesel bans only in cities that significantly exceeded pollution limits, Markus Grabitz, Stefan ...
The coal mining industry in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 eastern region Lusatia refuses to accept that it faces a similar destiny as the country鈥檚 nuclear industry, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. Those employed in the industry feel that 鈥渂rown coal, which has formed ...
14 May 2019, 16:28 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Chancellor Angela Merkel said that her new climate cabinet will debate how Germany could reach climate neutrality by mid-century. Should the ministers find a 鈥渟ound鈥� way to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, ...
03 Aug 2022, 13:37 Russia is ready to use 鈥減retexts and invented reasons鈥� to obstruct Europe鈥檚 energy supply, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said as his government prepares for a possible full halt to natural gas trading with the country鈥檚 most ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 91tv German primary energy consumption was down a 鈥渃onsiderable鈥� seven percent in the first six months of 2023 (compared to the same period last year), due to high energy prices and weak economic ...
05 May 2020, 13:50 Freja Eriksen Grid 91tv Germany has slightly raised its winter power capacity reserve, designed to keep the grid stable in critical situations, to 6,600 megawatts (MW) in 2020-2021 from around 5,100 MW in 2019-2020, the ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 91tv A 鈥渞adical simplification鈥� in the registration, installation and commissioning of plug-in solar units is needed in Germany to involve more homeowners and tenants to ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:07 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's climate policy and action are "insufficient" to meet its national and international climate targets,聽 according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project. ...
16 Mar 2020, 14:19 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 carbon emissions have fallen sharply in 2019 for the third year in a row, bringing the country closer to climate targets it had already written off. But progress in emissions reduction is heavily tilted towards the energy and ...
29 Feb 2016
29 Feb 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Rheinische Post 鈥淯nion demands lignite fund鈥� Mining union IG BCE argues Germany will need lignite power production until 2047 and should create a fund to finance the technology after it stops earning money in about 15 ...
08 Sep 2022, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Government Security 91tv In an unusually emotional response to criticism over the government鈥檚 handling of the energy crisis, German chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised conservative CDU leader Friedrich ...
04 Oct 2021, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The German Environment Agency (UBA) has called to raise the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emission ...
23 Nov 2022, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy 91tv / Reuters The gas and electricity 鈥減rice brakes鈥� that 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government plans to finance with scooping up windfall profits made by power producers during the energy crisis ...
22 Nov 2022, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Homeowners with gas heaters in Germany on average will be paying about 1,000 euros more for heating energy this year, even after state measures to reduce bills have been ...
11 Apr 2022, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Agriculture 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 state governments have agreed not to use fallow land and special eco areas for regular food production and instead preserve them for biodiversity and climate action. Large farm ...
On the occasion of World Health Day on 7 April, medical doctors and climate protection proponents called for a coal exit in Germany by 2030. "We are firmly opposed to an economy that causes and tolerates illness," reads a declaration issued by ...
For the first time ever, renewable energy sources in Germany have generated more power in the first half of 2018 than all coal plants taken together, making wind, solar, and other green energy sources the largest power source in the country, preliminary ...
06 Jun 2019, 13:54 Germany certainly does not need to return to nuclear energy and should push through with its energy transition instead, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze. Following isolated calls to extend the lifetime of the country鈥檚 ...
24 Nov 2023, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Die Welt / Stern / NDR / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Governments in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 federal states are concerned that the recent ruling by the country鈥檚 highest court declaring parts of the federal government鈥檚 budget ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:05 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv More than half of German companies say that the energy transition has negative effects on their competitiveness, shows the energy transition barometer survey by the German Chamber ...
10 Aug 2021, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Zeit Online / 91tv Following parliamentary elections in June, parties in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt have agreed on a new government coalition,聽 Zeit online reports. ...
20 Sep 2021, 13:21 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Policy Elections & Politics Whoever forms the next federal government in Germany will need to make unpopular decisions if they are to meet the emissions cuts dictated by the country's ...
21 Dec 2021, 13:04 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Cost & Prices 91tv Germans spend a much lower share of their income on energy bills than many other EU citizens, according to the German Economic Institute (IW). German households pay ...
25 Jan 2017
Due to a huge switch from coal to gas power generation, EU power emissions fell 4.5 percent last year, according to an analysis by energy think tanks Sandbag and Agora Energiewende*. 鈥淵ear-on-year, coal generation across Europe fell by 12 percent, whilst ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Green Party has rejected an offer tabled by its aspiring coalition partners to reduce the country鈥檚 coal power capacity by up to 5 gigawatt (GW), news agency Reuters reports. Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:37 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars Reuters / Transport & Environment Due to German and Austrian resistance to more ambitious car emission limits, the European Union has failed to reach a compromise over how sharply to curb ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv Renewable ...
21 Apr 2021, 16:38 German politicians have welcomed the deal concluded by EU lawmakers on a climate law that enshrines the goal of climate-neutrality 2050 and a more ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target. However, conservatives and industry ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters EU regulators will take a hard look at part ...
At the next UN climate conference in Poland, the German government can credibly call on the international community to put more effort into climate protection only if it successfully manages its own coal exit, write Ottmar Edenhofer and Hans Joachim ...
20 Jan 2016, 00:00 Germany needs a pathway for exiting coal by 2050 at the very latest, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks. She welcomed Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel's announcement of a round table on the thorny issue, and said a ...
As global CO 2 emissions are predicted to reach a historic high in 2018, 鈥渢here is a growing and worrying disconnect between climate targets and what is happening in the real energy markets,鈥� said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency. ...
28 Nov 2014
28 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv RBB Info Interview with Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks With the Climate Action Programme, due to be passed by cabinet next week, Germany is on track to reach its greenhouse gas reduction ...
18 Mar 2022, 14:48 The new German three-party coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz had started its term at the end of last year with optimism to launch a vigorous climate action programme after two difficult years in a pandemic. But the 鈥渢raffic light ...
19 Feb 2019, 13:15 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Transport European Commission / Reuters The EU institutions have provisionally agreed to reduce CO鈧� emissions from new trucks and buses by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 2019, writes the European ...
21 Sep 2020, 14:00 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars S枚ren Amelang Cars Cost & Prices Welt am Sonntag Diesel must become more expensive to allow a faster transformation of the car industry to comply with more ambitious climate targets proposed by ...
05 Aug 2020, 14:32 Business & Jobs International Tagesspiegel Background Germany has faced multiple setbacks over the last month in two separate cases over its energy transition plans before an international arbitration court, Christian Schaudwet ...
07 Jul 2022, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government 91tv German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ruled out an extension of the runtime of the country鈥檚 three remaining nuclear plants as a way to stabilise the energy system amid an ...
30 Jul 2019, 13:47 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Electricity market Renewables Clean ...
An association of large companies including Deutsche Bahn, Telekom and Aida Cruises is calling for a timely start to the 鈥渄ialogue about a coal consensus鈥�, writes Silke Kersting in Handelsblatt. In a declaration by the Foundation 2掳 鈥� seen by Handelsblatt ...
A coal phase-out for Germany is implied in the federal government鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050, environment minister Barbara Hendricks told Susanne G枚tze and Susanne Schwarz in an interview for klimaretter.info. 鈥淚f you read the Climate Action Plan ...
North Rhine-Westphalia鈥檚 (NRW) Green environment minister Johannes Remmel聽has angered the party's SPD coalition partners, as well as the CDU, with a call to聽 close 10 local coal-fired power plants, Guido M. Hartmann writes on Welt Online. Just days ...
In an interview with Gitta D眉perthal, Manfred Maresch, head of the district German mining union in the lignite coal town of Alsdorf, says the union is not against the Energiewende. Instead, he says, it is concerned about the social implications of ...
The joint effort of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal mining states against enshrining a definitive date for ending coal-fired power production may help curb support for the right-wing populist party Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD), writes Jens Tartler in Tagesspiegel. ...
For the first time, union leaders from Germany's mining unions met with representatives from the annual 鈥渃limate camp鈥� and local environmentalists in the Rhenish lignite coal mining region, reports Leonie Sontheimer in taz. While all agreed that ...
21 Mar 2017, 00:00 Over 1,000 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 90 countries take part in the third Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry. The following ...
04 Jan 2023, 13:39 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Volker Wissing has triggered a fresh debate over the government decision to switch off the country鈥檚 remaining nuclear plants ...
In contrast to Germany, coal use and emissions have fallen quickly in the UK, following the introduction of a carbon floor price, writes Craig Morris in a blog on聽 energytransition.org.聽鈥淟ike Germany, the UK has made too little progress outside the power ...
An 鈥渋deological war鈥� in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy policy puts thousands of jobs and the country鈥檚 energy supply security at stake, the mining union IG BCE says in a press release. Speaking at a rally held near the Niederau脽em coal-fired power plant in the western ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance EU 91tv The European emissions trading system (EU ETS) and national carbon pricing brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros from the sale of carbon dioxide pollution rights in 2022, the Federal ...
30 Aug 2016, 00:00 The German government and the EU Commission have reached an agreement on state-aid related aspects of the country鈥檚 new power market law and other energy policy issues, clearing the way for the 鈥渕ost important reform鈥� since the market ...
German utility EnBW鈥檚 CEO,聽 Frank Mastiaux, said a coal exit decided by聽 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next government 聽would 鈥渘ot be an existential problem" for the company. In an interview with Greenpeace Magazin, Mastiaux said his company had 鈥渁lready included鈥澛� a ...
Although a new study has found that natural gas could replace coal as an electricity source without endangering the power supply, there are much cheaper ways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, Kathrin Witsch writes in a commentary in the Handelsblatt. ...
28 Aug 2019, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables dpa / Focus Online Solar power systems and wind turbines in Germany fed 39.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity into the public grid from June to August, a 10 percent increase compared to the same ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Social Democrats (SPD) seem to 鈥渁void every impression they regard coal as a phase-out model鈥�, J枚rg Staude writes in socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland. While the party stated in its election programme that it wanted to strengthen regional ...
31 May 2023, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Transport Business & Jobs Die Welt Chemicals producer BASF is deploying a new freight vessel adapted for low water levels in the Rhine river, newspaper Die Welt聽 reported. Shallower water in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:52 Wind, solar PV and other renewable sources overtook fossil fuels in German power production last year, according to preliminary data by the federal network agency (BNetzA) and think tank Agora Energiewende. Together with record-low ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:37 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Energy-related CO2 emissions in Germany are estimated to be ...
10 Jan 2019, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Policy 91tv Getting the energy transition in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 heating sector off the ground will be difficult since most investments have to be made by private citizens rather ...
30 Apr 2020, 12:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' ...
Eastern German states Saxony and Brandenburg demand at least 1.2 billion euros in federal funds to finance the economic transformation of their shared coal-mining region Lusatia, Jens Blankennagel writes in Berliner Zeitung. 鈥� The end of coal mining there ...
Many banks and large investors 鈥� even those who have publicly committed themselves to divest from CO 2 intensive businesses and are members of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) 鈥� are still supporting new coal plants around the ...
26 Mar 2019, 13:10 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv Energy company EnBW鈥檚 CEO Frank Mastiaux said Germany will build a ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze has backed away from her call for more ambitious new EU targets for passenger car CO鈧� emissions reduction to enable a joint German government position, said a ministry spokesperson at a press conference. After a ...
13 Jan 2016, 00:00 A think tank proposal on how Germany should exit coal has pushed the debate on the Energiewende's future into full swing, exposing deep fault lines. The environment ministry and Greens backed the plan for a phase-out of coal power ...
21 Jun 2023, 09:00 The governments of China and Germany have agreed to introduce a 鈥淐limate and Transformation Dialogue鈥� to speed up their transition towards a more climate friendly economy. Fighting climate change remained a main concern for the two ...
07 Dec 2018, 09:13 With her decision not to seek re-election as party chair and chancellor, Angela Merkel has kicked off what is a novelty for her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU): an organised internal election campaign for the party鈥檚 ...
02 Jul 2015, 00:00 The German government finally buried plans for a levy on old coal-fired power plants. Instead, Chancellor Angela Merkel, energy minister Sigmar Gabriel and leading politicians from the ruling coalition adopted a union proposal to pay ...
28 Apr 2020, 10:59 The coronavirus crisis has put a spotlight on deteriorating transatlantic relations as both continents focus on the well-being of their own populations and U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push his America First strategy. Over ...
Germany suffered more premature deaths linked to coal plant pollution than any other EU member state, according to a new study, reports Euractiv. Some 3,630 people in Germany died from coal-related illnesses in 2013, according to the report by the Health ...
Police in the western German city of Aachen are worried that the planned anti-coal protests in the Rhineland mining region next week could turn violent, Reiner Burger reports for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Dirk Weinspach, chief of Aachen鈥檚 police, ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Society 91tv Three in four houseowners in Germany wish ...
21 Dec 2022, 12:59 Expert Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Bundesanstalt f眉r Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Climate & CO2 Resources & Recycling Policy Edgar Meza Resources & Recycling Die Zeit / dpa The Federal ...
27 Apr 2022, 11:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Die Welt German finance minister Christian Lindner, head of the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), has warned against accelerating the energy transition 鈥� a move driven by his Green Party ...
12 Mar 2024, 14:07 With a novel subsidy system that supports energy-intensive industries in Germany switch to more climate-friendly production processes, the country counts as a pioneer in Europe by linking climate action with increased competitiveness, ...
The federal cabinet today decided on reform drafts for two energy policy projects: The law regulating state support for combined heat and power (CHP) plants will be changed to include tenders for CHP facilities with a capacity of 1-50 megawatts, according ...
Berlin will end coal-fired energy generation by 2030, the city's government, the Senat, said in a press release. The city will stop using lignite by the end of 2017. A corresponding draft law will now be introduced in the city鈥檚 parliament. Berlin ...
The large brown coal-fired power stations in Lusatia should not be shut down but used as flexible providers for an affordable power supply, Jan Selmons quoted Professor Hans Joachim Krautz, chair of power plant technology at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, as ...
25 Feb 2022, 13:12 Kerstine Appunn Finance International Security ARD / RND / POLITICO The European Union on Thursday announced wide-ranging economic sanctions against Russia in response to president Vladimir Putin鈥檚 military attack on Ukraine- but didn鈥檛 ...
26 Nov 2021, 13:11 Following the publication of the coalition treaty, the Green Party has named its future ministers who will be in charge of the foreign office, the 鈥渟uper ministry" for economy and climate, the environment department, and the food ...
17 Dec 2020, 10:36 If Germany doesn鈥檛 help existing and promote new renewable energy installations, it risks a 鈥済reen power gap鈥� in 2030, Simone Peter, President of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) says. With the EU tightening its climate ...
Germany must draw up a plan to exit from coal-fired power generation next year if it is to fulfill its climate targets, according to Uniper CEO Klaus Sch盲fer, reports Andreas Lochner for Montel. 鈥淔rom my point of view it is no longer a matter of whether ...
The highly anticipated task force on phasing out coal power 鈥� which will also tackle the phase-out of lignite mining 鈥� should follow the example of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 hard coal exit, Chancellor Angela Merkel told parliament. The last German hard coal mine closed ...
Major German power companies have protected themselves against the sharp increase in ETS carbon emission prices, report Vera Eckert and Nina Chestney for Reuters newswire. RWE has said that its CO 2 position is financially hedged until the end of 2022. ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Utilities dpa / Tagesspiegel / Neue Osnabr眉cker Zeitung German energy industry heavyweight RWE has called for a roundtable of stakeholders to make progress on ending the current slump of onshore wind power ...
The country鈥檚 lignite phase out needs another 20 years to avoid a 鈥渉arsh structural break鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal regions 鈥� like it happened at the time of German reunification, Saxony鈥檚 state premier Michael Kretschmer told Leipziger Volkszeitung in an ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Resources & Recycling Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung In order to secure stable access to critical raw materials, Germany could financially support companies competing on global markets for ...
New environment minister Svenja Schulze might be a 鈥渟troke of luck鈥� for 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 climate policy, because she could narrow the gap between the political camps regarding the country鈥檚 coal exit, writes Kurt Stukenberg, co-chief editor of Greenpeace ...
Germany is far from phasing out coal use for its energy supply 鈥� despite its political commitment to a low-carbon economy, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) writes in a report on 鈥淭he role of coal in Europe鈥檚 power mix鈥�. The country鈥檚 dependence on ...
02 Feb 2023, 10:20 Deadly summer heatwaves, floods, and snow-free ski slopes in winter are a wake-up call: Europe must urgently adapt to climate change, in addition to reducing emissions. Temperatures in the region have increased at more than twice the ...
23 May 2019, 12:22 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 Coal Climate & CO2 ...
12 Nov 2014
12 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 聽 Reactions to energy minister's warning against quick exit from coal power Frankfurter Rundschau 鈥淭oo much coal鈥� Everything points to a show-down between energy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment ...
07 Apr 2022, 12:55 Kerstine Appunn Solar Resources & Recycling pv magazine Both installers and customers of photovoltaic installations and battery storage systems are facing delays due to supply bottlenecks of some key components, pv-magazine has ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:55 Julian Wettengel Renewables Government 91tv The new German government's plan to more than double power production from renewable sources by 2030 presents a 鈥済igantic task鈥� for the country, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...
02 Jun 2021, 13:21 Voters in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt will head to the ballot box on 6 June to elect a new state government. Home to one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 three main coal mining regions, the state is dealing with the transition away from lignite ...
19 May 2022, 12:04 Julian Wettengel EU Security 91tv European Union countries must support each other during the current energy crisis exacerbated by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a government statement ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:09 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Bloomberg While Germany is phasing out hard coal mining by the end of 2018, the country will continue to rely on imports for power production for some time, write William Wilkes, ...
16 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv 聽Bild am Sonntag 鈥淕etting the green light?鈥� 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition to a low-carbon economy is not very environmentally friendly and doesn鈥檛 make economic sense, argues Olaf Wilke in a seven-sentence ...
15 Mar 2024, 13:21 Germany is largely on track to reaching its national target to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030, but is set to fail its EU goal for sectors such as transport, buildings and agriculture, according to ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Utilities dpa / Focus Online The share price of German energy company RWE has reached the highest level in seven years, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by website Focus Online. RWE's share price ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / Table.Media Several formerly leading politicians from Germany's Die Linke (The Left) party have split off with the aim to found a new political party in the coming ...
Germany can take coal plants with a combined capacity of seven gigawatts off grid- and might even improve the security of the power supply by doing so, according to an unofficial document by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy & energy ministry (BMWi) and the Federal ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:52 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv German energy consumption has decreased three percent in the first three months of 2019, ...
18 Oct 2019, 14:25 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv "Practically all" of Germany's three-million non-residential building stock will have ...
While the current government coalition has largely shielded the coal industry, any coalition involving The Greens would at least start the process of phasing out coal as a power source, according to an election overview by energy news provider S&P ...
A cross-party alliance of eastern German state premiers has warned the federal government that a quick coal exit would have grave consequences for the region鈥檚 economy, public broadcaster MDR reports on its website. In a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel ...
02 Nov 2021, 12:57 Taking her final bow on the world stage after 26 years of climate policy involvement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the opening of COP26 in Glasgow that progress in emission reductions has been insufficient to achieve the ...
The outgoing grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD made the mistake of not putting a general cap on coal-fired power production when it mothballed several old an inefficient lignite plants in 2016 in order to save CO鈧� emissions, Jochen Flasbarth, Social ...
05 Dec 2019, 12:47 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The German auto industry association VDA has warned against the new European Commission's push for ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:22 S枚ren Amelang Climate & CO2 dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's Green Party is proposing a plan to make the country's energy-intensive industries like steel and cement more climate-friendly, using a comprehensive package of ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:54 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels International 91tv Germany and Poland have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen their cooperation on oil supply security and to protect refineries in both countries, the German ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:54 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Heating 91tv Modernising the most energy-inefficient homes will not only help the climate, but also shield those most prone to energy poverty, according to a report by the Institute for Applied ...
German lignite plants make up seven out of 10 of Europe鈥檚 biggest polluters, according to an analysis of European ETS data by climate NGO Sandbag. 鈥淭hat is because lignite power plants, especially in Germany, continue to run nearly 24 hours a day x 7 days ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv A new start in German-African relations is needed to diversify raw material providers and reduce dependencies, a report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) ...
05 May 2022, 13:58 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 91tv Even with significantly higher CO2 prices on transport and heating fuels, Germany will not reach targets set in the country鈥檚 Climate Action Law, shows a report commissioned by the German ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Germany will have to employ different technologies and solutions to get the heating sector to climate neutrality, as the country鈥檚 regions have vastly varying conditions to start with, ...
03 Jan 2024, 13:37 Maximising the use and potential of the existing building stock are key levers to respond to Germany's housing shortage and drive forth the decarbonisation of the buildings sector, say Sibyl Steuwer and Lisa Graaf from think tank ...
Car and transport experts have discussed the European Commission鈥檚 proposal to tighten vehicle emission rules in the EU in a committee in the German parliament, giving very different assessments of the approach that is aimed reducing the CO 2 output of ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Cities Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel / RBB Berlin鈥檚 Senate has adopted a five-billion-euro climate protection fund to flow into mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, power supply and the economy. The ...
15 Sep 2021, 13:05 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 Hydrogen German utilities have said that the ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:32 Expert Left Party Die Linke Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background [UPDATE adds draft programme key content] The German Left Party (Die Linke) looks set to out ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government has fallen behind in the transformation of the energy industry triggered by the energy transition, and must now speed up its policy making processes to support the sector in reaching emissions reduction goals, the managing director of ...
The German village of Immerath, located in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) not far from the venue of the ongoing UN climate conference COP23 in Bonn, is about to disappear in order to make way for the expansion of an open pit coal mine, ...
20 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淢etal vs coal鈥� Unions are deeply split on the issue of the proposed coal levy, according to an article by Michael Bauchm眉ller in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Germany's聽 IG ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine The first ship designed to convert liquefied natural gas (LNG) back 聽to gaseous state has聽 arrived 聽in Germany, Deutsche ReGas, 聽the company developing the country's ...
21 Jan 2016
21 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / Greenpeace Energy 鈥淔lawed subsidies鈥� Britain is planning a different kind of energy transition, writes Bj枚rn Finke in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. While they want to shut down all ...
24 Sep 2020, 09:24 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian ...
17 Jan 2022, 12:13 Jessica Bateman Agriculture Tagesspiegel Background 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new agriculture minister Cem 脰zdemir has used his maiden speech in parliament to outline an ambitious climate protection plan, Tagesspiegel Background reports. As well as ...
15 Jul 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The European Commission has given the greenlight for a German government scheme supporting energy intensive industries grappling with the rise in prices exacerbated ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Cars 91tv The influential lobby group Federation of German Industries (BDI) has said that a 鈥渂lockade mentality鈥� by environmental NGOs has prevented a compromise within Germany ...
21 May 2019, 13:30 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv Germany ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:41 S枚ren Amelang Cars Utilities 91tv The German government's subsidy programmes for the rollout of public e-car charging infrastructure are so ineffective that they should be rebuilt from scratch, the country's ...
02 Oct 2020, 14:23 Expert Ministry of Economic Affairs, State Development and Energy, State of Bavaria Staatsministerium f眉r Wirtschaftm Landesentwicklung und Energie Bayern Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities ...
13 Mar 2019, 14:07 S枚ren Amelang Cars International S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The EU Commission has 鈥渂rusquely鈥� rebuffed a German call for a reappraisal of existing nitrogen oxide limits in what amounts to a 鈥渟lap in the face鈥� for transport minister Andreas ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Heating ARD A large new power-to-heat facility, running on wind energy has come into operation in the northern German city of Hamburg which is technically capable of providing about 27,000 households with low ...
17 Oct 2019, 13:31 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
16 Jan 2020, 13:09 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt f眉r Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium f眉r ...
07 Jan 2020, 16:05 A sharp drop in coal use put a break on Germany's CO2 emissions last year and pushed the country "surprisingly鈥� close to its 2020 climate target, writes energy think tank Agora Energiewende in its 2019 review. But a rising CO2 ...
10 Mar 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv / Reuters 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 special envoy for international climate action Jennifer Morgan welcomed the climate and energy diplomacy priorities adopted by the EU Council ...
05 Nov 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Gas COP26 91tv The role of gas has emerged as a key issue that keeps the German government from signing on to a COP26 pledge to end foreign fossil fuel funding by 2022. The pledge's text lacks a clear ...
06 May 2025, 13:00 Germans cast their vote in the country's federal election on 23 February. Conservative CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz is set to become the next chancellor and will now lead the formal coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats ...
Conventional power plants that run on coal, gas, and nuclear energy are a fundamental part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, Lars Kulik, board member at utility RWE鈥檚 lignite branch, writes in a guest article for financial market newspaper B枚rsen-Zeitung. ...
The head of German mining trade union IG BCE, Michael Vassiliadis, opposes a quick phase-out of coal-fired power production, Handelsblatt reports based on an interview by news agency dpa. A speedy decommissioning of lignite power plants would be 鈥渁bsurd,鈥� ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:26 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv The long-term stabilisation trend of German utilities' financial situation continues, writes ...
21 Feb 2023, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv In its efforts to alleviate Germany's housing shortage, the government should focus on building renovations to maximise avoided emissions and prevent an unnecessarily high consumption ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:42 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt f眉r die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Expert BGE- Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal Bundesgesellschaft f眉r Endlagerung ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Security Der Tagesspiegel A new resource strategy that includes stronger state involvement could be forthcoming in Germany after a report commissioned by the economy and climate ministry (BMWK ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:41 Expert AGEB- AG Energiebilanzen e.V. Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende Utilities Julian Wettengel Wind Energiewende 91tv German coal and natural gas use increased in the first three months of 2021, compared ...
Should the next German government decide on a speedy exit from coal-fired power generation, no company would be affected as much as German utility RWE, Europe鈥檚 largest CO鈧� emitter, writes J眉rgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. RWE is in a better financial ...
If the Social Democrats (SPD) lose their governing power after the upcoming vote in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), they may take a much stronger stance against plans to give up coal than they have in their current coalition with the Green Party, Claire ...
28 Jun 2022, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Gas Business & Jobs Security 91tv A sudden stop of Russian gas supplies as of July 2022 would lead to a loss of economic output of more than 12 percent, affecting up 5.6 million jobs in the country, a ...
The United Nation鈥檚 warning about a 鈥渨orrying鈥� gap between climate pledges and emissions cuts needed ahead of the climate conference in Bonn could provide the Green Party with tailwind in the ongoing talks to form a new government coalition, writes ...
German coal mining state Brandenburg premier Dietmar Woidke has rejected calls for an end date for the country鈥檚 use of lignite for power generation. 鈥淎 discussion on whether we will switch off brown coal in 10, 20 or 40 years would only lead to a loss of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), was 鈥渢he key state for the energy transition鈥� and needs to exit coal, former state environment minister and Green politician B盲rbel H枚hn said at an election rally, writes Thomas Peter in ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:28 Expert BVG- German Geothermal Association Bundesverband Geothermie e.V. Renewables Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Renewables 91tv Germany needs a masterplan for deep geothermal energy in order to reap the technology' ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut f眉r Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars 91tv Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
25 Feb 2019, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Technology 91tv An international research project aims to assess the potential of geothermal energy as a replacement for coal-powered heating in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 western state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). ...
The European Commission has announced it will sue Germany and several other countries聽including France and the UK at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over violating air pollution limits in cities, news agency Reuters reports. 鈥� Additional measures ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:58 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Business manager magazin 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 state-owned energy supplier Uniper will continue to have a stake in nuclear plants abroad even after the end of the technology鈥檚 ...
18 Sep 2018
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether BMW, Daimler and VW colluded, in breach of EU antitrust rules, to avoid competition on the development and roll-out of technology to clean the emissions of petrol and diesel ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv The ongoing drought in Germany is expected to have dire effects on this year鈥檚 harvest, which is already estimated to be below the average of previous years, said the German ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:34 Expert Green Party B眉ndnis 90/ Die Gr眉nen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Electricity market 91tv Due to the 2018 heat wave in northern Europe, some German power plants had to ...
03 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country鈥檚 major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
28 Oct 2020, 15:00 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 EU 91tv The European Union as a whole could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60 ...
07 Jul 2015
07 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淗eadwind鈥� The rapid increase in the number of wind turbines is leading to rising resistance in many rural areas in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 north, reports S眉ddeutsche Zeitung in a full-page report on the ...
07 Mar 2016
07 Mar 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Federal Motor Transport Authority Number of e-cars on German roads rises to 25,502 The number of pure electric vehicles on German roads rose to 25,502 at the beginning of the year, an increase of 35 percent compared to ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:33 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 International Handelsblatt / Guardian A 鈥渃limate-neutral, prosperous and equitable鈥� European economy is possible by 2050, said EU commissioner for climate action and energy Miguel Arias Ca帽ete in an ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv The establishment of U.S. carmaker Tesla will likely lead to the emergence of an electromobility cluster in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Berlin-Brandenburg region that could benefit from the numerous small and medium ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 The European Parliament elections this week (6-9 June) are unlikely to cause a big rollback of existing EU Green Deal legislation, but a projected shift to right-wing 鈥� and often climate action sceptic 鈥� parties could lower ambition ...
The conservative (CDU/CSU) parliamentary group said the EU Commission should instead support German efforts to improve air quality. 鈥淭he lawsuit is the exact opposite of that,鈥� transport spokesperson Daniela Ludwig said. 鈥淭his is beyond my comprehension. ...
The dwindling profitability of coal power plants brings financial difficulties for many municipalities in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 most populated region, the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Guido M. Hartmann writes in Welt am Sonntag. Municipal utilities from ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal sector remains strong enough to noticeably hinder the energy transition, writes Stefan B枚脽ner of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in a research paper. He examines the coal sector in Germany amid the Energiewende with the goal of ...
The results of the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and Schleswig-Holstein impede the energy transition in both states, as 鈥�coal friends and wind power opponents dominate鈥�, writes Joachim Wille in an article for Frankfurter Rundschau. The ...
There is a large gap between the standards in climate protection that German Chancellor Angela Merkel proclaims on an international stage and the actual results of her policies at home, according to a Greenpeace Germany paper. The NGO charts Merkel鈥檚 ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Tagesspiegel Background EU member states are behind schedule with bilateral agreements on how to help each other out in case of severe gas disruptions in the bloc, reports Steven Hanke for Tagesspiegel Background ...
Year-on-year hard coal power production in Germany decreased by 53 percent in January 2018, Handelsblatt鈥檚 Klaus Stratmann writes. The figures are based on unpublished data from the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Electricity ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:32 Three men compete to take the lead of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany's largest party, and to possibly follow in the footsteps of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leaves office after 16 years in September amid a global ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Grid The German Green Party has called for an adjusted grid expansion plan in Germany that accounts for a drastically reduced coal power capacity as well as the foreseeable progress in ...
08 Apr 2019, 12:46 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Energiewende 91tv German industrial trade ...
07 Dec 2020, 14:00 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Grid Handelsblatt German grid operator Amprion plans to invest around 24 billion euros in the electricity network over the next ten years, 9 billion more than previously planned,聽J眉rgen Flauger聽 ...
03 May 2019, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Society ARD A large majority of Germans (81%) see a great need for action to protect the climate and say that climate change cannot be stopped without restrictions on people鈥檚 lives,聽 according to a representative ...
The energy sector could achieve a 40 percent CO 2 reduction by 2020 if an extra five gigawatt (GW) of brown and hard coal-fired power stations were shut down in the next years, industry association BDEW says. The energy association finds in its analysis ...
Hard coal power plant closures in Germany are poised to accelerate because of decreasing profitability, report Weixin Zha und Rachel Morison for Bloomberg. 鈥淎 quarter of hard coal-fired generation capacity in Europe鈥檚 largest economy may shut ahead of ...
19 Oct 2016, 00:00 The German government decided on a pact to free nuclear power plant operators of responsibility for storing radioactive waste, and transfer it into the hands of the state. Utilities welcomed the decision made on Wednesday, while critics ...
The prospect of a new government coalition in Germany that would include the Green Party resulted in a drop in utility RWE鈥檚 share price of more than five percent on Monday, making the energy company that operates many coal-fired power plants the biggest ...
German Commerzbank has decided to stop financing new coal mining projects and coal power plants, writes Klimaretter.info. According to new internal regulations (fully enacted from 1 August 2016), Commerzbank also "expects German clients in the energy ...
05 Aug 2022, 14:00 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 91tv Traffic regulations in Germany need a comprehensive reform to make the ...
Social Democrats (SPD) in Saxony have made clear they consider lignite mining to play an important role as a 鈥渂ridging technology鈥� in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply for the foreseeable future, Welt Online reports. 鈥淲e rely on a gradual approach that equally ...
18 Nov 2021, 13:21 S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Gas Finance Handelsblatt The parties likely to form 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 next coalition government- 聽the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) 鈥� disagree over whether ...
15 Mar 2022, 13:55 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions have increased by nearly five percent in 2021, in an expected rebound during the economic revival after the pandemic. The country's Federal Environment Agency warned that the 鈥淐orona windfall ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest industrial company Siemens has sent an unofficial working paper to members of the Green Party in which it calls for 鈥渁n accelerated end of coal-fired power production鈥� coupled with a European carbon floor price. In the four-page document ...
12 Oct 2022, 14:48 The European energy crisis is set to push Germany into a recession in 2023, as rising energy prices put a damper on industrial production and inflation means citizens will buy less, said the economy ministry in its autumn projection for ...
Ending coal mining and coal-fired power production in Germany would mean that the country鈥檚 most populopus federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), alone would need tens of billions of euros to cope with structural economic changes, the state鈥檚 ...
Germany is bound to remain dependent on coal for years to come, up until 2040, although this dependence will gradually decrease, Andreas Pinkwart (FDP), economy minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), where one of the remaining lignite mines is located ...
18 Dec 2020, 14:35 Kerstine Appunn Bioenergy Transport Germany is to increase the greenhouse gas reduction quota for transport fuels from currently six to 22 percent in 2030, an environment ministry bill which has been approved by the other ministries ...
25 Mar 2015, 00:00 The protests against government proposals for a carbon emissions levy for older power plants are gaining momentum in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal mining regions. Unions warn the plans put tens of thousands of jobs at risk because they will make ...
Germany is the European champion when it comes to electricity exports, but this was mainly based on overcapacities of coal-fired power stations, according to Green politician B盲rbel H枚hn, writes Petra Pinzler in Die Zeit. 鈥淭he success of solar and wind ...
The federal state of Saxony intends to forge a coalition of coal-producing German states against a possible nation-wide coal exit, the Leipziger Volkszeitung reports. Saxony鈥檚 Christian-democrat state premier Stanislaw Tillich called the aim to tackle ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Edgar Meza Solar Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag Armin Laschet, North Rhine-Westphalia鈥檚 state premier and chancellor ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must massively increase climate action efforts in order to triple the current average annual greenhouse gas emissions reductions, ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Grid Security Handelsblatt Germany must be careful to 鈥渘ot overstep the mark鈥� on supply security when deciding on the process of phasing out coal-fired power production, Boris Schucht, CEO of ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 nuclear fund is meant to cover the costs accruing from the country鈥檚 nuclear phase-out for generations to come. If 鈥� and only if- the fund is managed well, taxpayers will not have to top it up, Helmut B眉nder and Brigitte Koch write in ...
Fossil-fuel utility RWE has called for compensation if Germany opts for a quick coal exit. 鈥淚f there is a desire, socially, that a coal exit should come very quickly we have to be compensated for it,鈥� company CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz told an industry ...
The Social Democrats鈥� (SPD) deputy chair Ralf Stegner has said that as far as he is concerned, the German coal exit is not a question of 鈥渋f鈥� but 鈥渉ow.鈥� At the debate forum鈥淪ustainability and climate protection: What roadmap do the parties have?鈥�, ...
26 Jul 2022, 11:23 S枚ren Amelang Gas 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 plans for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies exceed requirements and put the country鈥檚 and European climate targets at risk, argues a report commissioned by ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU 91tv France and Germany could soon agree on a reform of the EU electricity market, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have said after their meeting in ...
12 May 2022, 13:57 Edgar Meza Cars Business & Jobs 91tv 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate ministry has approved a grant of 155.4 million euros for Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt, which is planning to set up a large battery cell ...
Western 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 coal mining regions have long profited from mining companies鈥� cash flow into local communities but in exchange have tacitly agreed not to talk about immediate effects on the environment, disappearing villages, and emissions, Burkhard ...
26 Oct 2021, 17:29 High gas, petrol and power prices are set to play a part in the ongoing negotiations to form the next German government coalition, which will shape the country鈥檚 energy transition policy for years. The election winner Social Democrats, ...
Germany will likely phase out power production from coal within the next 30 years, according to state secretary Rainer Baake. 鈥淲hen I look at the stakeholders鈥� positions, it seems to suggest that the last [coal] power station will likely go offline ...
03 Sep 2021, 12:08 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics ARD / DW 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance of current chancellor Angela Merkel has reached a record low in the well-known Deutschlandtrend survey by infratest dimap, commissioned by public ...
Climate activist group Ende Gel盲nde has announced it will hold at least two major protests against coal-fired power production in Germany this year. The activists said they would 鈥渂lock the production of coal in the Rhineland lignite fields- as long as ...
07 Mar 2018
07 Mar 2018, 00:00 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has chosen her close ally and former head of the Chancellery Peter Altmaier as the next economy and energy minister. This puts the political heavy-hitter in charge of shaping 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Energiewende at a ...
German utility RWE and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have rejected a court settlement offer that would have allowed the company to continue producing lignite in its largest open pit mine on the proviso that it refrained from carrying out clearing ...
Germany should provide Belgium with power from coal plants in exchange for Brussels鈥� commitment to shut down the old nuclear plants Doel and Tihange near the German border, Green state MP Hans Christian Markert, from the federal state of North Rhine ...
12 Jan 2021, 14:28 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv A disturbance in the synchronised European high-voltage power grid on Friday, 8 January 2021, which resulted in a separation of ...
25 Aug 2021, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv Humus build-up and a more climate resilient choice of field crops are among the main targets of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 new 鈥� Arable farming strategy 2035 鈥�, which was presented by the Federal agriculture ...
An abandoned coal mine in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia is set to become a 200 megawatt pumped hydropower storage capable of powering over 400,000 households, Brian Parkin reports for Bloomberg. The 600-metre deep Prosper-Haniel hard ...
Around 6,000 European climate change activists aiming to "block coal infrastructure, to call for an immediate phase-out" of lignite mining, 聽have gathered in Germany's coal districts, writes Chase Winter in an article for Deutsche Welle. ...
On the sidelines of its surprising and far-reaching deal with competitor E.ON, German utility RWE is mulling another major transaction- the purchase of utility EnBW's coal and gas plants, J眉rgen Flauger writes for Handelsblatt. RWE CEO Rolf Martin ...
11 Nov 2014
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online "Energy efficiency in companies: Hidden chances for climate protection" Greater energy efficiency efforts by companies could help Germany save nearly a quarter of the聽CO2 emissions necessary to ...
Several European civil society organisations, including Friends of the Earth (BUND) and Climate-Alliance Germany, have launched a collective campaign 鈥渢o catalyse and hasten the move away from coal and towards clean renewable energy鈥�. Several maps and ...
The Green Party鈥檚 plan for phasing out coal in Germany makes sense and is overdue, writes energy expert Claudia Kemfert, from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in a commentary for Hamburger Abendblatt. 鈥淲e have a massive power oversupply, ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
Gas made by electrolysis using renewable electricity could become cheaper than natural gas in the 2030s, according to an analysis by consultancy Energy Brainpool commissioned by Greenpeace Energy. This would require investments to push costs down, cheap ...
A German coal exit is unlikely to be introduced in the foreseeable future if a coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU), Christian Socialists (CSU) and Free Democrats (FDP) take over the federal government after the September elections, writes klimaretter ...
10 Nov 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers鈥� Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv A new protection strategy for moorlands adopted by 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government aims to better ...
24 Jul 2019, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Rheinische Post / Die Welt The German fund for nuclear waste management is set to make a profit in 2019, putting the long-term disposal of radioactive waste on a financially sound basis, the fund鈥檚 ...
20 May 2022, 13:44 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 EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-W眉rttemberg ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:32 Edgar Meza Carbon removal Technology 91tv NGO Germanwatch, which promotes sustainable development and climate protection, is warning against the country鈥檚 CO2 management policy opening the door to 鈥渁 permanent extension of ...
Germany is due to close its last hard coal mine next year, and the affected regions prepare for the transition, for example by considering renewable energy projects or tourism, Valerie Hamilton reports in a feature for Public Radio International (PRI). ...
07 Jan 2020, 11:30 Preview 2020: European climate diplomats are facing a busy 2020, and Germany looks set to play a key role as it holds the EU Council presidency in the second half of the year. After the UN climate conference in Madrid left many ...
On a visit to Germany, Polish President Andrzej Duda said the planned Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 鈥渟hould not be realised鈥�, reports Deutsche Welle. At a joint press conference with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin, Duda ...
06 Oct 2021, 14:00 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 91tv Renewable energy and climate action are part of the solution to an energy crunch such as the one currently experienced by Europe, said German environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
Service sector trade union ver.di鈥檚 has said 聽 that a fair coal exit in Germany is possible and can be financed, a statement that could alter the course of the current discussion among Social Democrats, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in an opinion piece in ...
10 Dec 2020, 11:02 With the EU presenting its Green Deal implementation packages next summer, 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 autumn election will be a climate election, says Christoph Bals, Policy Director at NGO Germanwatch. He has a long list of changes that the new ...
Falling emissions from the energy sector mean 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell slightly in 2015, compared to 2014, according to revised data published by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). 901.9 million tonnes CO鈧� equivalents were ...
The share of renewables in German electricity generation grew from 29 percent in 2016 to a record 33 percent this year, according to preliminary calculations by the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). 鈥淭he gap between coal and renewables in ...
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 In Czech company EPH, Vattenfall might have found a buyer for its lignite coal mines and power stations in Lusatia. But as the companies involved refuse to comment, environmentalists warn that coal has no future in a country that wants ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:44 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv The International Energy Agency鈥檚 (IEA) latest report on renewable ...
A coal-fired power plant in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, is to be replaced by a gas-fired plant with turbines delivered from Siemens, Handelsblatt Online reports. Upon its completion, expected in four years, it will be one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 largest gas ...
26 Jan 2021, 12:04 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Wind Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv Deutsche Bahn (DB) will help to continue the operation of two wind farms marketed ...
No matter who will govern Germany after this week鈥檚 election, a coalition agreement that does not include a commitment to address a phase-out of coal-fired power production 鈥渨ould be a聽bad sign鈥�, Julian Schwartzkopff writes on euractiv.com. The technology ...
21 Mar 2022, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Security 91tv / ARD 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has launched an energy partnership with the Emir of Qatar which includes both the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv High energy prices are beginning to bite into companies鈥� investment plans and curtail production in Germany, raising the spectre of de-industrialisation in the country ...
25 Nov 2014
25 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Dow Jones Newswires "Gabriel's coal proposal: utilities keep calm" German utilities are prepared to shut down some power stations, reports Dow Jones Newswires. They agreed to Economy ...
17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016, 00:00 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency 鈥淐limate protection contributions of the transport sector by 2050鈥� Germany's transport sector will need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 98 percent to ...
Energy policy analyst and Green Party member Arne Jungjohann presents different scenarios for a coal phase-out in Germany, depending on the result of the general election and government coalition constellation in an article on chinadialogue. Read the ...
19 Feb 2016
19 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche 鈥淓xpert commission re-calculates nuclear provisions鈥� The expert commission on financing the nuclear clean-up has commissioned consultancy Warth & Klein to calculate the ...
Der Spiegel has published a long article by Benedikt Becker, Frank Dohmen, Gerald Traufetter, and Steffen Winter on 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 difficulties in phasing out power production from lignite. The article is the translated version of a German original, which was ...
The German hydrogen electrolysis sector must become a 鈥済igawatt industry鈥� for Germany to reach its climate targets, according to a new study by Fraunhofer ISE, Fraunhofer IPA and E4tech, commissioned by the federal transport ministry (BMVI). The ...
Wind power generation in Germany in the first nine months of 2017 has exceeded the amount of electricity generated in coal and nuclear plants for the first time, Bloomberg Technology reports. Bruno Burger, professor at Fraunhofer ISE said that this was ...
Renewable energy sources are booming in Germany as much as anywhere else but the country鈥檚 simultaneous rise in coal use and carbon emissions nevertheless make it 鈥渁 dangerous role model鈥� for countries setting out to emulate the German energy transition, ...
18 Mar 2020, 13:40 S枚ren Amelang Coal Gas Hydrogen Policy 91tv / Handelsblatt / Energate The German government has adjourned a decision on the country's highly anticipated strategy on how to boost the use of hydrogen to decarbonise ...
05 Sep 2019, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv Germany is set to miss several key energy transition targets for the year 2020, and the country's high power supply security is at risk unless new generation capacity and grid ...
16 Jan 2017
A concrete year for a German coal exit can't be specified, because of the many factors involved, according to economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, writes the Rheinische Post. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think much of this chase for phase-out dates,鈥� which could easily lead ...
The Moorburg coal power plant in Hamburg wastes the energy equivalent of 36 tonnes of hard coal per hour during normal operation because environmental organisations and citizen initiatives prevent it from聽 using waste heat for district heating, Olaf Preu脽 ...
Until now, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has not been the driving force behind climate protection, and if the party continues to govern with the Social Democrats (SPD) after this year鈥檚 election, a rapid coal exit would be a real surprise, Birgit ...
25 Jun 2020, 13:24 Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv The German government cabinet has approved the programme for its EU Council presidency one week before the start of its six-month tenure next week (1 ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:03 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut f眉r Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang Gas Germany will ...
16 Jun 2020, 14:59 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv / Spiegel Online CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the authors's name was misspelled as "Heckling". The correct name is " ...
14 Feb 2023, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Die Tageszeitung The planned modernisation of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 military announced in chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 鈥淶eitenwende鈥� (turning of the times) speech following Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine could face substantial ...
26 Jul 2017, 00:00 The SPD, Germany's oldest party, has been a junior partner to Angela Merkel's conservative union in the grand coalition since 2013. The Social Democrats have traditionally been the country's "labour party" and ...
Citizens of Munich have voted to shut down the city鈥檚 single largest source of CO 2 emissions ahead of schedule, klimaretter.info reports. Around 60 percent voted in favour of close the Munich Nord heating plant by 2022, instead of 2035 as planned by the ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy transition, or Energiewende, has transformed Germany into a global poster child for green energy, writes Emma Bryce in an article for online environmental magazine Ensia. 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 handling of the exit from coal-fired power generation ...
06 Dec 2022, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches Elektrizit盲tswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt Excessive EU regulation is stalling the development of competitive hydrogen infrastructure in Europe, the head of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
29 Jun 2015
29 Jun 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung 鈥淯nemployment benefit for coal鈥� The apparent death of the levy on old coal-fired power plants is bad news because the alternative presented by major utilities and mining ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics S眉ddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The far-right Alternative f眉r Deutschland (AfD) party鈥檚 current high results in German polls can be attributed to mainstream political parties ...
Hard coal power station operator Steag, under pressure from strong wind energy production, is looking for a new investor after returning to profitability last year. Company CEO Joachim Rumstadt said at the annual press conference the company was looking ...
Social Democrat state premier of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke warns that certain coal related provisions in a late draft of the environment ministry鈥檚 climate plan could endanger power supply security in Germany, reports Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. In a ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Germany covered over one third of its entire net electricity ...
German solar PV manufacturer SolarWorld Industries GmbH has filed for insolvency, writes Sandra Enkhardt for pv magazine. The announcement comes less than a year after SolarWorld AG filed for insolvency in May 2017. SolarWorld blames the planned phasing ...
Shares of German carmakers BMW, VW and Daimler were falling substantially on Monday after allegations emerged on Friday that the companies operated a cartel, followed by an EU probe into the affair, news agency Reuters reports. 鈥淭he European Commission ...
Germany should specify its mid-century climate ambitions soon, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel. 鈥淔rom my point of view, this must be decided at the start of the next legislative period,鈥� she said at a conference by local utility association VKU. ...
26 May 2021, 10:29 The EU's bid for climate neutrality puts a big question mark over the future of generating electricity by incinerating waste. The fiercely disputed process emits CO2 and toxins, although its proponents point out that it prevents ...
Coal-fired power generation 鈥渓ooks set to remain the backbone鈥� of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 energy supply, writes Vera Eckert for Reuters. This contrasts with Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 international ambition as climate protection role model, she adds. Read the article ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv With a rather low offshore wind power capacity expansion of 342 megawatts (MW) in 2022, Germany must quickly gear up to bring the buildout in line with its ambitious renewable power targets, wind ...
An abrupt end to coal-fired power generation in Germany would damage the steel industry鈥檚 competitiveness by pushing up electricity prices, the head of the country鈥檚 steel association, Hans J眉rgen Kerkhoff, said at the National Steel Summit, Reuters ...
More than three-fifths of Germans believe that their government is not doing enough to limit the country鈥檚 impact on climate change, a survey commissioned by the solar power lobby group BSW Solar has found. In the survey, conducted by pollster YouGov, ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:34 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Coal Fossil fuels Policy 91tv A group of politicians from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:08 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium f眉r Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Julian Wettengel Cars EU dpa German transport minister Andreas Scheuer has reiterated ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 efforts to protect the climate by reducing its CO 2 emissions have largely been in vain because the country falls short of implementing a much needed coal phase-out, Petra Pinzler writes in weekly newspaper Die Zeit. 鈥淭he country of the ...
24 Nov 2022, 13:46 S枚ren Amelang Company climate claims Society 91tv Food product labels such as 鈥渃limate neutral,鈥� 鈥淐O2-neutral鈥� or 鈥渃limate positive鈥� do not indicate that these are climate-friendly at all and should be banned, consumer NGO ...
Czech investor Daniel Kretinsky鈥檚 purchase of Vattenfall鈥檚 German brown coal business, officially completed on Friday, is a bet that Germany will not end coal-fired energy production anytime soon, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. Kretinsky鈥檚 holding EPH ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 The first block of a large coal-fired power station has just gone online in Hamburg, even as two thirds of German fossil-fuelled facilities fail to turn a profit and their operators are applying for many to be mothballed. So is the ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 91tv The majority of Germans (74%) are prepared to make changes to their lifestyle to prevent global warming, a survey among 1,000 consumers commissioned by heating technology company ...
22 Nov 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Finance 91tv Achieving a climate-friendly transition in the automotive sector will require better information disclosure by carmakers to make the sector fit for investments from financial actors ...
Germany is poor in natural resources and in 2017 had to import about 70 percent of its energy consumption from abroad, the World Energy Council Germany says in its weekly info briefing. Russia is the most important source country for German raw material ...
German utilities that are focusing on conventional power generation, i.e. RWE and Uniper, are exposed to 鈥� decarbonisation risks,鈥� rating agency Moody鈥檚 has said. The country is likely to accelerate coal plant closures and implement other low-carbon ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind Die Welt / S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has called on the country鈥檚 states to massively ramp up their onshore wind power efforts, newspaper Die Welt reports. ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas will be a crucial part of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 power and energy supply for at least another ten years, because the expansion of renewables and the electricity grid are lagging behind, said ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The planned gas levy designed to support 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 struggling gas importers could be undone before it even takes effect, energy policy newsletter ...
01 Jul 2015
01 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淒irty deal鈥� At a high-level meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight, the German government looks set to abandon plans for an additional levy on old coal-fired plants and instead adopt ...
A German CO 2 tax in combination with a European carbon floor price would be a very effective means to protect the climate, according to a study by consultancy Energy Brainpool commissioned by the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE). This model would ...
15 Oct 2021, 12:32 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
09 Feb 2023, 13:39 Mexico is experiencing a carbon offset gold rush, as polluting multinationals turn to the country鈥檚 extensive forests in droves to absolve their climate sins. Countless companies, eager to prove their climate credentials with 鈥渘et zero鈥� ...
25 May 2016
25 May 2016, 00:00 S枚ren Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Reuters Campaigners urge Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad Environmental groups urged G7 nations led by Japan and Germany to stop financing coal projects abroad, reports ...
Federal economy minister Sigmar Gabriel does not support setting an end date for coal-fired power generation in Germany, he said in the plenary of the German Bundestag, reaffirming his position that had held up the government鈥檚 Climate Action Plan 2050. ...
The decision by US President Donald Trump to pull his country out of the global Paris Climate Agreement has been met with dismay and defiance by the German government, Silke Kersting writes on Handelsblatt Online. Meanwhile, environmental organisations ...
The stakeholders in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 ongoing coal exit debate 鈥渟till form coalitions with traditional allies and cling to established lines of reasoning,鈥� according to a paper written by Anna Leipprand and Christian Flachsland, and published in Energy Research ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:55 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Cities Society 91tv Public support for climate protection measures such as the introduction of speed limits or the building of wind turbines, is split markedly between rural and urban ...
09 Jul 2015
09 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Zeit 鈥淲e have to exit within 25 or 30 years鈥� German environment minister Barbara Hendricks expects coal to be phased out in Germany by 2045 at the very latest. 鈥淲e have to exit the burning of coal step by step ...
Many more buildings than reported by the federal economy ministry can be made accessible for the new tenant power law, according to a study by Institute for Ecological Economy Research (I脰W), commissioned by the Green group in the Bundestag. Read the ...
17 Nov 2014, 00:00 Following heated debate over a possible exit from coal-fired power, Sigmar Gabriel has reaffirmed his commitment to reducing carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2020. Sven Egenter Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 Germany's Minister for ...
16 Oct 2015
16 Oct 2015, 00:00 Handelsblatt 鈥�Coal reserve throws up questions鈥� If at all possible, the German government wants to avoid using the planned 聽brown coal reserve as an emergency power back-up, according to the economics and energy ministry, in an answer ...
14 Dec 2015
14 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淔or humanity鈥� The Paris treaty is a 鈥渢errific day for humanity鈥� and spells out clearly that the fossil era is coming to an end, writes Michael Bauchm眉ller in a commentary for ...
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 North-Eastern region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania said the government鈥檚 stance on climate protection was 鈥渨ay too hesitant鈥�, Dow Jones Newswire reports. 鈥淚f we as a party want to be taken seriously as far ...
03 Nov 2016, 00:00 Germany's primary energy consumption is likely to remain broadly unchanged this year, according to estimates by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). While data for the first nine months of the year indicate a ...
16 Apr 2015
16 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv IG BCE / Friends of the Earth Germany Supporters and opponents of coal gear up for mass protests The heated debate over the future of coal in Germany will be taken to the streets next weekend, as ...
The federal government has published its National Reform Programme 2018, a report to be sent to the European Commission, in which Germany explains its policy reform plans. The section on energy and climate largely contains the provisions that Angela ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 approval of Vattenfalls Moorburg coal-fired power plant was in breach of EU environmental rules because its cooling system endangers protected fish species, according to a ruling by the European Court of Justice, reports Montel. Find the Montel ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 automobile industry has had a lot of 鈥� false friends 鈥� in the government in recent years, Green Party politician and head of the parliamentary commission on transport and digitalisation Cem 脰zdemir told Ansgar Graw at Die Welt in an interview. ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Transport To cut the number of short-haul flights in Europe, a group of German Green Party politicians has聽 presented proposals 聽for an expansion of train services, in particular night trains, in Europe. The new night ...
The German federal government has said that the country鈥檚 security standby of lignite power plants with a total capacity of 2.7 gigawatts has not yet been used, but operators are paid a total of 234 million euros in 2017 and 2018 to keep them at the ready ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:53 S枚ren Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday (15 April) after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country鈥檚 three remaining reactors. Operators said the switch-off happened ...
04 May 2022, 13:54 S枚ren Amelang Cities Der Tagesspiegel Berlin's city government has rejected a popular petition calling for Germany's capital to become climate neutral by 2030,聽 reports regional newspaper Tagesspiegel. "We must now use ...
A panel of 180 energy market experts is expecting energy prices to rise over the next five years, a survey by research institute Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) has found. In its 鈥淓nergy Market Barometer,鈥� 80 percent of participants expect ...
A global Energiewende is already underway, but world leaders should give it a further push at the upcoming G20 meeting in China, according to a WWF report. 鈥淎s the current level of coal in the mix remains a problem to be solved for Germany, the country ...
The Group of Twenty (G20) is 鈥渂eginning to head in the right direction鈥� towards a low-carbon economy but needs to step up its efforts to meet the Paris Agreement鈥檚 temperature goals, according to a report by Climate Transparency, the international ...
27 Apr 2015
27 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv S眉ddeutsche Zeitung 鈥淩esistance at the bucket wheel鈥� 10,000 coal workers demonstrated聽 in Berlin on Saturday 聽against energy minister Sigmar Gabriel鈥檚 planned climate levy. These were supported by ...
骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 capital Berlin has halved its emissions from power and heat supplied by utility Vattenfall since 1990. Vattenfall thereby reaches its emissions reduction target three years earlier than agreed in the climate action agreement of 2009 with the ...
01 Dec 2022, 12:20 One year after taking over 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 government, chancellor Olaf Scholz鈥檚 鈥渢raffic light鈥� coalition looks back at some turbulent first twelve months in office that were overshadowed by Russia鈥檚 attack on Ukraine and the subsequent ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:26 German environment minister Svenja Schulze has sent a first draft of the planned Climate Action Law to the chancellery for 鈥渆arly coordination鈥�, even as conservative politicians continue to criticise key elements and demand for it to be ...
29 Apr 2020, 13:13 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv German state-owned KfW Development Bank has for the first time reported on possible risks its ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant 鈥渟afety buffer鈥� of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
05 Jul 2021, 13:06 Expert BTU- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Renewables Hydrogen Technology Efficiency Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf盲lisches ...
Doctors in Germany should do more to promote the end of coal and oil in order to improve public health, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the German Medical Association (脛rztekammer), says in an interview with movum magazine. 鈥淐limate change is real, it is ...
The European Commission鈥檚 proposal to raise the EU鈥檚 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target from 40 percent to 45 percent relative to 1990 levels is misguided, Federation of German Industries (BDI) Deputy Director Holger L枚sch says in a statement. ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:35 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Industry 91tv Newly formed technology company Siemens Energy wants to phase-out any operations to do with coal-fired power production, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser said at an extraordinary ...
04 Nov 2021, 14:09 Finding sources of funding for climate action and ensuring a fair distribution of benefits and costs among different groups in society look set to become the main challenges for negotiators of a new German government coalition. While ...
The German government is planning to establish an expert commission charged with monitoring fracking (hydraulic fracturing) projects in the country, ntv reports. Although no application has yet been filed to test drill, Green MP Julia Verlinden warned in ...
The German government no longer supports the new construction or overhaul of already decommissioned coal plants via development finance instruments of the World Bank, it said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry of the Left Party. 鈥淢ultilateral ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Denmark tops the latest edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by NewClimate Institute, Climate Action Network and Germanwatch, which saw Germany fall ...
20 Jun 2023, 14:40 Carolina Kyllmann Freight Spiegel / 91tv Low water levels in the Rhine river as a consequence of ongoing droughts in various German regions threaten to hurt the country's economy, economists at Deutsche Bank Research ...
German lignite company LEAG is taking legal action against this year鈥檚 EU decision to lower power plant emission limits, a company spokesman told S盲chsische Zeitung. LEAG, in cooperation with other companies and mining associations, argues retrofitting ...
Germany risks 鈥渢acitly joining Donald Trump in turning its back on the Paris climate change deal鈥� as the state governments of North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg 聽鈥渉ave vowed to protect鈥� the lignite mining industry, writes Olaf Storbeck for Reuters ...
07 Nov 2017, 00:00 As 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 Jamaica coalition talks are approaching a critical point, the Green Party appears to soften core climate policy demands in an attempt to achieve similar concessions from its negotiating partners. Party leaders say that ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Handelsblatt / 91tv The looming trade conflict between Europe and the U.S. about government subsidies for green investments could be significantly defused after the American ...
09 Nov 2017, 00:00 German state secretary for environment says ETS reform shows EU can work together on climate policy / Negotiators progress on technical details of Paris rulebook / COP president Fiji was world's third most climate-impacted country ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende Government Bloomberg 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 long-time Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will leave her successor a long list of unsolved tasks once she leaves office, which will happen in 2021 the ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:18 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 91tv The German federal government and state governments have reached an agreement about the protection of moorlands. Environment minister Svenja Schulze and agriculture minister Julia ...
11 Nov 2014, 00:00 Germany still needs electricity from coal while shifting to a green economy, Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, reassuring utilities that a quick phase-out of the fossil fuel was not his plan. Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for ...
26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
06 Feb 2020, 12:47 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Industry S眉ddeutsche Zeitung The protest against Siemens鈥� involvement in the Adani coal mine project in Australia and the company鈥檚 handling of the situation is a cautionary example ...
17 Dec 2015
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit 鈥淲e can do it one more time鈥� Germany needs nothing less than a second energy transition in order to achieve its climate target of reducing emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050, writes Petra ...
With financing from its Horizon 2020 research programme, the EU is planning to allocate up to one billion euros to a research project on battery technology, reports Tagesspiegel Background. The call for tenders for electrochemical energy storage is ...
Autonomous vehicles will make road transport both safer and more environmentally friendly, according to a study commissioned by the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK). For that reason, the development of autonomous vehicle ...
15 Apr 2021, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Wind Seven European transmission grid operators (TSO) have launched an initiative for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The aim of 鈥淓urobar鈥� is to securely and efficiently ...
German coal mining company Mibrag posted a 43.7 million euro loss in 2016, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung reports. Mibrag, one of 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 four remaining lignite-mining companies, was suffering from 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 transition from fossil energy sources to renewables ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Transport Cost & Prices 91tv Germany has to reform its transport sector taxes to help reach climate targets, but also to ensure sufficient revenue in a climate-friendly mobility future, says a report ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:30 The climate impact of construction has mostly remained an afterthought in Europe's efforts to make its buildings climate-friendly, which has largely focused on heating emissions. Yet, as homes and offices become more energy ...
18 Feb 2021, 14:13 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices S枚ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars ...
The approach to phasing out coal-fired power production in Germany has become a bone of contention between the prospective coalition partners, the conservative CDU and the environmentalist Green Party, as remarks made by both parties鈥� energy politicians ...
15 Nov 2017, 00:00 German Chancellor calls on world to walk the talk, fails to deliver strong statement on German coal / Representatives from science, climate and environmental NGOs, and vulnerable small island states appealed to Merkel to meet the ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv A large majority of the German public continues to support the energy transition, but financial hardships as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could dampen households鈥� willingness to ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv Energy imports to Germany cost 131.7 percent more in July 2022 than one year before, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said. The 223.6 percent increase in the ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Welt am Sonntag The German government is preparing the necessary regulatory steps to make it possible to export and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in seabeds outside Germany, reports ...
08 May 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv With the inauguration of a new onshore wind power testing mast with a height of 300 metres, project developers in Germany hope it will pave the way for a new generation of wind ...
22 Sep 2020, 14:00 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 UBA- Federal Environment Agency ...
As the European Union sets itself more ambitious energy efficiency goals for 2030, Germany will miss its 2020 targets, writes Steven Hanke in Welt am Sonntag. 鈥淲e will not reach the efficiency targets we have set ourselves for 2020 in this way,鈥� said ...
More than half of Germans are in favour of temporary diesel driving bans when air quality is bad, according to Greenpeace. In a survey by pollster Emnid commissioned by the NGO, 61 percent of interviewees answered 鈥測es鈥� to the question: 鈥淒o you believe ...
The topic of climate change should be 鈥渢reated with utmost intensity and seriousness鈥� at the Hamburg Summit, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said at a press conference before official talks began. Juncker said he was 鈥渢hankful鈥� that ...
The topic of climate change should be 鈥渢reated with utmost intensity and seriousness鈥� at the Hamburg Summit, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said at a press conference before official talks began. Juncker said he was 鈥渢hankful鈥� that ...
The stagnation in 骋别谤尘补苍测鈥檚 CO 2 emissions in 2017 suggested by AGEB data implies that Germany has lost another year in the fight against climate change, according to Greenpeace. 鈥淭he disastrous record underlines what has been evident for so long: Without ...
