The mining and lignite coal company Leag has said it wants to get into the battery storage business in 2018, a new business area for the company, according to an article on the website Die Welt/N24. The goal is to improve the network that manages supply ...
04 Aug 2015
04 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “With greetings to Paris” The German environment ministry and several NGOs welcomed President Obama’s clean power deal as increasing the chances of achieving an effective ...
Exiting coal in Germany is a generational project that takes 30 years, says Helmar Rendez, chairman of Germany’s LEAG, the company responsible for lignite operations in eastern German region Lusatia. Rendez plans to decide by the summer if LEAG will ...
31 Jan 2019, 13:27 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in German cities – mainly ...
27 Aug 2019, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars 91tv The bulk of external costs caused by transport in Germany is due to road traffic, which accounts for 95 percent of total costs, NGO Allianz pro Schiene (Pro Rail Alliance) said. The NGO ...
E.ON subsidiary Uniper will debut on the stock exchange on 12 September and analysts say the share may see some ups and downs, due to pressures on the utility’s coal, gas and hydro power business, according to an article in Wirtschaftswoche. The share ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:00 A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the courts into a new and powerful line of defence in the fight against climate change. An increasing number of judges now consider global warming a ...
04 Nov 2015
04 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) “Gabriel: The basis for the power market of the future is established” The German government has approved wide-reaching reforms of the power market ...
Green Party energy expert Ingrid Nestle says renewable power plants are not responsible for record grid management costs, which according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) amounted to 1.4 billion euros in 2017. “I warn against making renewables a ...
Flexible energy options, such as energy storage, smart charging electric vehicles, demand response, and interconnectors are needed to ensure that the energy transition proceeds on an optimal path, according to a Bloomberg NEF report focused on the UK and ...
12 Feb 2020, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann International 91tv The German government must take advantage of its EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 to bolster the bloc's climate action ambitions and vouch for a 2030 emissions ...
10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters “Study – Germany spends billions on export of coal technology” Germany and France are the EU’s biggest sponsors of the export of coal technology, according to a confidential OECD study ...
Germany’s experiences with its energy transition have made the country a global leader in the shift from fossil fuels to renewables, but many of its neighbours are not satisfied with the way Europe’s biggest economy exercises this leadership, business ...
02 Jun 2022, 08:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Countries like Germany should endeavour to find new, additional sources of natural gas as they are trying to wean themselves off Russian supply, instead of crowding out weaker competition on the ...
30 Oct 2020, 10:18 91tv 91tv Grid 91tv Some 110 billion euros will need to be invested in expanding and updating Germany’s electricity network by 2050 in order to meet the demands of the energy transition, according to a study ...
The federal government “shows an alarming despondency” when it comes to its policy on a coal phase-out, writes Thorsten Knuf in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Rundschau. “Clear decisions about a long-term exit would be in the interest of the relevant ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:38 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ...
13 Oct 2014
13 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Energy transition: Gabriel to put more pressure on utilities” German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel plans to put more pressure on utilities by taking 10 gigawatts of coal-fired power ...
20 Jan 2015, 00:00 Sigmar Gabriel has made strong statements against capacity markets, with the utilities once again insisting they are needed to ensure investment in the power sector. The state secretary for energy said that with current overcapacity, ...
30 Oct 2020, 10:42 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv Germany’s federal states are lagging behind on many sustainable transport targets, particularly on climate protection goals, according to a study commissioned by German transport and ...
15 Aug 2019, 12:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The production of solar power modules in Europe can be made economically viable again if production sites are planned sufficiently large, a study by research institute Fraunhofer ISE and ...
The proposal by the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment to tighten emissions limits for new vehicles has triggered a lively debate in Germany. The country’s car industry association VDA called the proposal “highly alarming” and “unworkable, ...
Germany will miss its climate targets unless the next federal government steps up its efforts, according to non-profit environmental and consumer protection association Environmental Action Germany (DUH). In a list of 85 measures for the energy, heating ...
German utility RWE has reorganised its power generation business by spinning off its lignite and nuclear power operations into a separate company, the company says in a press release. The move was intended to “make our electricity generation companies ...
The need to protect the climate and remain profitable will continue to exert pressure on coal-fired power generation businesses, and German energy company EnBW will continue to review its power plants, EnBW’s CEO Frank Mastiaux told Handelsblatt in an ...
10 May 2021, 14:22 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang Cars Industry Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Government ...
German utilities RWE, E.ON, and EnBW should use the nuclear fuel tax refunds to prepare their companies for the future, writes Jürgen Flauger in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. “The one-off effect comes at exactly the right moment and could help ...
06 Nov 2017, 00:00 The UNFCCC conference in Bonn needs to see more states make ambitious climate mitigation pledges, Sabine Nallinger, Managing Director of the Foundation 2°- German Businesses for Climate Protection, tells 91tv. The outcome could spur the ...
Low wholesale power prices and higher prices for CO 2 emission allowances are weighing on Germany's lignite plant operators’ balance sheets, according to an evaluation of the energy information service Tagesspiegel Background, Der Tagesspiegel ...
The state government of Baden-Wurttemberg wants to introduce selective inner city driving bans for older diesel cars if plans for a nationwide ‘blue badge’ are not realised, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). A cabinet decision draft by the ...
10 Apr 2015
10 Apr 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Gabriel risks losing the coal war” A heavy storm is brewing above Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, as unions, employees, industry heads and parts of his own party rebel ...
The German government is still a long way from finding a common position on future EU car fleet emission limits, report Till Hoppe and Silke Kersting in the business daily Handelsblatt. German car makers’ works councils and the top brass of metalworkers’ ...
The German Council of Economic Experts has suggested that instead of “national energy transitions and action programmes”, a global CO 2 price would be the better system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In its 2018/19 annual report, the council says ...
Germany’s most populous federal state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), plans to expand its solar power capacity, Die Welt online reports. NRW’s economics minister Andreas Pinkwart said the state would cut red tape for new rooftop solar panels, including on ...
14 Jan 2020, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Most people in Germany are ready to implement changes to their lifestyle in order to reduce their individual impact on the climate, a survey commissioned by the European ...
09 Jun 2020, 12:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv The volume of financial investments classified as sustainable increased by nearly one quarter in Germany last year, according to the latest figures published by the financial industry ...
19 Nov 2021, 13:17 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Society Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background A new climate movement has ...
Germany's Council of State Governments (Bundesrat) has expressed fears that lignite mine operators have not set aside enough money to cover the future costs of decommissioning, demolishing, and renaturing mined land, spurring more widespread concern, ...
02 Mar 2015
02 Mar 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Vattenfall connects coal-fired power plant Moorburg to the grid” After trial runs lasting over a year, the controversial coal-fired Moorburg power plant in Hamburg has begun commercial operation, ...
The protests against energy company RWE in that Hambach Forest are directed at a coal lobby that wants to show its power and create precedents, even though clearing the forest is now technically not necessary, Rainer Balcerowiak writes in an opinion piece ...
05 Jul 2022, 13:08 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables Handelsblatt / ...
22 Jan 2019, 17:31 Germany and France have signed an update to their landmark 1963 post-war Élysée friendship treaty, showcasing their commitment to European cooperation in the face of Brexit and growing nationalism in several member states. The treaty ...
09 Oct 2017, 00:00 As Germany digests the result of this year’s federal election, the country prepares for yet another important vote, this time in the state of Lower Saxony. The early election in the country’s number one wind power state is seen as vital ...
Environmental organisations have responded to a government proposal to decarbonise the economy with outrage. They say the Climate Action Plan 2050 will fall well short of meeting climate targets, and accuse the environment ministry of caving in to ...
05 Dec 2018, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Solar Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Transmission grid operator Tennet has certified the solar power home battery producer Sonnen to become a control energy provider for the German power grid, ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:39 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germans doubt that climate protection and economic growth can ...
Making electricity cheaper and heating and transport fuels more expensive would be a first step towards successful sector coupling in Germany, writes Stefan Schultz in an opinion piece for Spiegel Online. Renewables expansion costs for consumers would be ...
Lower Saxony should become a “ pioneer region ” for storing excess wind power by converting it into hydrogen, the German federal state’s environment minister, Olaf Lies, told the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Lies argues that Germany needs power-to-gas ...
The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to help solve pressing environmental challenges needs to be better understood and exploited, panellists agreed at a debate on AI and the environment organised by Microsoft in Berlin. “AI is going to change the ...
NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) says it’s sceptical of government efforts to prevent driving bans on diesel cars in inner cities, as well as a lawsuit by the European Union over excessive air pollution. With a crucial verdict by Germany’s Federal ...
Germany scores poorly in a new ranking of EU member states’ ambition and progress on slowing global warming, according to a press release from Climate Action Network Europe, an umbrella organisation of European civil society groups working to fight ...
17 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
It was “tactically unwise” for social democratic environment minister Svenja Schulze not to coordinate her initiative for a price on CO₂ emissions better with finance minister and party colleague Olaf Scholz, writes Jan Drebes in an opinion piece in ...
30 Jan 2015
30 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Zeit Online "Germany warns against overly strict thresholds for cars" Under EU regulations, by 2021 CO2 emissions from new cars must not exceed an average of 95 grams per kilometre. By ...
Charges that wind and solar power cause large “hidden” emissions are false, because emissions remain low even when the energy needed to build them is taken into account, according to a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). “A ...
24 Sep 2021, 11:20 Their goal is to create an entirely new industry, one that will become as important as today’s oil and gas giants, because the world will be in desperate need of removing carbon to mitigate climate change. Swiss company Climeworks has ...
24 Apr 2019, 17:27 Power production from renewable sources in Germany hit a new record high on Easter Monday when renewable installations such as wind and solar PV generated 77 percent of net public electricity supply thanks to strong winds and abundant ...
Lowering energy costs is one of the most important goals for Germans in the Energiewende, according to the “Stiebel Eltron Energie-Trendmonitor 2018” report, seen by the 91tv. Seventy-two percent of the respondents in the representative ...
Energy utility RWE has transferred two of its lignite-fired power station units in North-Rhine Westphalia into the so called emergency standby reserve. Four of eight coal station units have thus far been committed to the reserve, where they will remain ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background The German government supports plans for a first domestic LNG import terminal, but the volatile global market is complicating existing endeavours, writes Christian Schaudwet in Tagesspiegel ...
29 Jan 2021, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Grid Spiegel / 91tv As electricity needs in all economic sectors increase with efforts to make them more climate-friendly, Germany’s transmission grid operators see an increased need for major new power ...
The energy policy official of the German Chancellery, Winfried Horstmann, will likely succeed Rainer Baake as state secretary for energy in the economy ministry, the Rheinische Post reports. Horstmann is said to be “a capable civil servant who is unlikely ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:41 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Danish offshore wind company Orsted and German chemical maker Covestro have signed the world's biggest purchase agreement for an offshore wind farm planned without support payments. ...
The proposed goal by EU ministers to cut the average CO₂ emissions of new passenger cars by 35 percent by 2030 is “not mature,” the head of the metal industry union IG Metall Jörg Hofmann told Alfons Frese in an interview with the Tagesspiegel. “I can& ...
It is incomprehensible that the Left Party in the Brandenburg state government does not defend existing ambitious emission reduction targets against its coalition partner SPD, writes Eva Bulling-Schröter, spokesperson for energy and climate policy for the ...
04 Jun 2019, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Rheinische Post / n-tv The German conservative party CDU has said it will work on a reform of the country’s system of taxes and levies on energy to better align ...
17 Apr 2015
17 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung "Powered out" The German nuclear power sector's final battle is currently being fought on paper, writes Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The likes of E ...
Germany ranks 11 th in business consultancy PwC’s Low Carbon Economy Index 2016 because the country’s carbon intensity fell 1.1 percent in 2015. The Paris Agreement implies that Germany’s carbon intensity must fall 3.1 percent per year between 2015 and ...
24 Apr 2020, 14:15 Freja Eriksen Storage Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Reinsurer Munich Re has said it will be the first to offer insurance of the long-term performance of large-scale storage facilities, writes Süddeutsche Zeitung. The possibility ...
According to Thorsten Deppner, an expert on environmental law, the German state would not necessarily have to pay huge sums in compensation for shutting down coal-fired electricity plants, despite a precedent set by a recent constitutional court ruling on ...
24 May 2019, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency 91tv The energy efficiency gains of one- or two-family homes in Germany have begun to flatten out in recent years, making clear that more efforts are needed to achieve further progress in ...
German energy utility RWE earned profits of 2.2 billion euros in the first nine months of 2017, the company announced. After record losses of 5.7 billion euros in the full year 2016, the company profited from higher prices in energy trade, and from a ...
05 Aug 2021, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Due to a significant increase of coal use, greenhouse gas emissions from Germany’s industry and energy sectors look set to rise this year compared to 2020, and industry might even ...
03 Aug 2021, 14:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics If they are part of a future government, the German Greens want to install a climate ministry that has the right to veto other ministry’s plans in case they are not compatible with the Paris ...
21 May 2019, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit Parties which stand for election in the European Parliament vote this weekend may face a "historic opportunity" to set the continent on track for ambitious ...
Environment minister Svenja Schulze’s push for e-mobility will not allow Germany to meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, Dieter Seifried writes in a commentary for Frankfurter Rundschau. That's because the electricity needed to power electric ...
18 Dec 2018, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas International 91tv Liquefied natural gas shipped from the US currently cannot compete economically with natural gas that is transported to Europe via pipelines, Wintershall board ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Süddeutsche Zeitung / WirtschaftsWoche / Welt / Frankfurter Rundschau German media have praised the EU Council’s decision to raise the bloc's 2030 climate target as a success for the country’s ...
The first day-ahead auction on the EPEX SPOT power exchange after the split of the common power price zone between Austria and Germany, which becomes effective today (1 October), saw higher prices for Austria than Germany, writes the Austrian Energy ...
12 Dec 2018, 13:21 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Utilities ARD The roll-out of renewable energies has increased profits at Germany’s fifth-largest utility MVV Energie, according to a report by public broadcaster ARD. Operative profits at the ...
Allowances for emitting a tonne of CO 2 have tripled in price, reaching nearly 16 euros on the European Energy Exchange on Friday, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes. The rise follows trading being at around 5 euros a year ago. Rolf Schmitz, head ...
Germany’s oversupply of electricity could aid France this winter during its expected power supply shortage due to safety concerns in 18 of its 58 nuclear reactors, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. “In Germany, there is enough power capacity that ...
20 Aug 2020, 13:10 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility 91tv The increase of remote working triggered by the coronavirus pandemic can contribute significantly to ...
10 May 2016
10 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “The country, a wind industry park” "Rapeseed, maize, and wind monocultures" in the German countryside reveal what the solar age looks like, ...
16 Dec 2014
16 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Study: Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) “Environmentally harmful subsidies amount to over 52 billion euros” Even as Germany focuses much effort and funding on climate protection measures, it ...
Germany’s energy and climate policy lacks decisiveness and a coherent approach, according to representatives of the country’s industries. “Germany must urgently take an integral approach to the climate-friendly modernisation of our economy, instead of ...
06 Nov 2019, 13:32 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Clean ...
18 Jun 2019, 08:43 Germany will join a growing group of EU countries to support the pledge to aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, increasing the likelihood EU leaders will agree to the goal at a meeting this week (20-21 June), several media outlets report. ...
E.ON’s record loss is the result of massive management mistakes, according to Greenpeace. “Anyone who ignores the energy transition for many years, and instead bets on fossil energies, shouldn’t be surprised about huge losses,” said Greenpeace energy ...
03 May 2019, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Policy ZDF Germany’s economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier is sceptical of the idea of introducing a tax on CO₂, he said on Maybrit Illner, a political television talk show by ...
10 Apr 2019, 13:26 Coal Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs Bloomberg Germany’s Rhine River could be impassable to ships again this summer if Europe has another drought, reports William Wilkes for Bloomberg. German and Swiss scientists say that heavy ...
The incoming German government has two options to replace coal power with cleaner sources to reach climate targets, writes analyst Martin Brough in a Deutsche Bank Research paper. The first is to use natural gas as a bridge fuel, while the second is to ...
11 Oct 2021, 14:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must get a great deal of ambitious policy underway very quickly to put Germany on a path towards climate neutrality by 2045 right ...
04 Feb 2019, 14:06 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Storage Cars Handelsblatt A group of western German companies including battery producer BMZ and start-up TerraE around Streetscooter-founder Günther Schuh are planning to establish a battery cell ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:10 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 dpa Germany’s main conservative party (CDU) will present its own concept for a CO2 pricing scheme ...
The proposal by the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment to tighten emissions limits for new vehicles begs for a clarification by the German government “whether it wants to protect the climate or the car industry,” environmental NGO VCD says ...
02 Dec 2020, 13:44 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry International 91tv EU member states have reached an agreement on a new supply chain law, which is to hold countries and companies accountable for ensuring that social and environmental standards ...
A large increase of wind power generation pushed Germany’s renewable share of total power use to a record 36.1 percent last year, an increase of 3.8 percentage points over 2016, according to energy think-tank Agora Energiewende*. A rising number of ...
10 Jun 2020, 13:03 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Solar Storage 91tv The number of solar power storage devices ...
17 Apr 2019, 13:18 Kerstine Appunn Transport Cars Handelsblatt Managers of BP, Exxon-Mobil, Shell and Total are opposing the push for electric mobility by Germany’s major car manufacturers, writes Klaus Stratmann in Handelsblatt. While VW, BMW and Daimler ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:21 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Technology 91tv Wind power production in Germany could be ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:59 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Julian Wettengel Agriculture Climate-Alliance ...
31 Oct 2017, 00:00 Ahead of the climate summit in Bonn, Professor Mojib Latif, a leading climate scientist from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, tells the 91tv about his distrust in emission data, the unfortunate ...
19 May 2017, 00:00 The dominance of citizens’ energy projects among the successful bids in Germany’s first onshore wind power auctions comes as a big surprise for industry observers. Not only did citizen cooperatives account for the bulk of accepted ...
09 Dec 2021, 13:38 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Frankfurter Rundschau The three candidates in the race to succeed CDU party leader Armin ...
10 Oct 2019, 13:57 Freja Eriksen Grid Cost & Prices 91tv / Montel News Transmission system operators (TSO) in Germany are considering splitting the country's single power market bidding zone into different zones as the first step of ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:54 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Cars EU Handelsblatt / Focus Online Europe needs to show more speed and commitment to the expansion of charging infrastructure for electric ...
The governments of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, two of Germany’s northernmost federal states, have announced the goal to supply the region with 100 percent renewable power by 2035, reports Andreas Dey in Hamburger Abendblatt. Hamburg Mayor Peter ...
Uniper is the “surprise winner of the German energy market” with a nearly 20 percent rise in its share price since the company’s stock market debut, writes Helmut Bünder in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “With this, the utility – ...
The Carbon brief published an interactive map on power generating capacity in Germany as well as a series of charts that show how the coal problem reveals the challenge of decarbonising heat, transport and industry in the country. The map and an ...
08 Feb 2022, 14:10 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Government EU 91tv France and Germany, who have recently been at odds over the future role of nuclear and gas, will intensify their cooperation on climate action in Europe and work ...
In an open letter published in the WirtschaftsWoche, Gunhild Grieve, head of investor relations at German utility RWE, refutes the advice that investors should get rid of “toxic coal stocks”. The suggestion had been made by Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of ...
29 Mar 2019, 14:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs International 91tv German carmaker Daimler has teamed up with China’s Geely to develop the Daimler brand Smart into a “leader in premium-electrified vehicles,” the companies say in ...
The switch to auctions in the reformed Renewable Energy Act is reasonable, but the reform effectively puts the breaks on the amount of renewable development, writes Georg Ehring in a commentary for public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. He argues a limit of ...
A 2-billion-euro fund should be created to assist German cities in the adaptation to climate change, Annalena Baerbock, chairwoman of the Green Party, says in an interview with the Neue Ruhr Zeitung. This money could be used not only to make agriculture ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Grid 91tv The conversion of large parts of the German gas infrastructure to reflect changing supply is well underway, the country’s gas grid operators write in their implementation report for the ...
27 May 2021, 13:28 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next government after the ...
German utility RWE could turn out as “ one of the winners of the expected grand coalition” between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), Maximilian Völkl writes in the business magazine Der Aktionär. Researchers like Manuel ...
The Moorburg ruling means the plant will have to stop using river water for cooling, and instead run with its cooling tower only- making it dirtier and less efficient, writes Sven-Michael Veit in a commentary for left-wing newspaper tageszeitung (taz). ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:36 Germany must increase efforts to reduce emissions even as the European Union introduces stricter climate legislation, said Brigitte Knopf, deputy chairwoman of the country’s Council of Experts on Climate Change. While the EU will also ...
28 Feb 2020, 13:45 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate ...
The grand government coalition in Germany failed to recognise that the economy was “the central actor of the new climate movement,” writes German investor Jochen Wermuth in a guest article for German weekly Die Zeit. He calls for more divestment, a hold ...
13 Dec 2023, 13:47 German and European politicians, scientists, businesses and civil society have overwhelmingly welcomed the key message of this year’s UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai: the agreement to "transition away" from fossil ...
A pilot project by Dutch grid operator TenneT and German company Sonnen is meant to test power grid stabilisation with blockchain technology based on Sonnen’s decentralised home energy storage systems, TenneT says in a press release. TenneT will integrate ...
The environment ministry’s new Climate Protection Report showed that the 2020 emissions reduction target of 40 percent could only be reached if the German economy collapsed, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “In theory, the German climate ...
01 Sep 2015
01 Sep 2015, 00:00 Institute of Renewable Energy Industry (IWR) “Additions of new solar arrays speeds up in July – Total capacity exceeds threshold of 39,000 MW” The addition of new PV-systems has increased significantly in July compared to June, but not ...
Primary energy consumption in Germany rose by 1.6 percent in the first six months of 2016, compared to the same period last year, the AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) reports. The reasons are the colder weather at the beginning of the year, a growing economy, ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:40 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 COP24 Die Welt “Without a doubt”, Germany – once a role model in international climate protection – is a “total failure” at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Poland, ...
11 Apr 2019, 12:56 Julian Wettengel Finance International ICIJ / Urgewald The World Bank is touting investments in solar parks and other climate-friendly projects but has continued to finance oil and gas exploration, pipelines and refineries that ...
German statesecretary Rainer Baake has called for “consistency on European climate and energy targets” and capacity markets not to undermine emission trading. Speaking during consultation between EU energy ministers' following the release of the ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:45 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said protecting the climate and digitalisation are the two key challenges that Germany faces in the future. Her comments ...
24 Nov 2020, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Transport Hydrogen 91tv State-owned German railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to test a hydrogen-powered train in an effort to ...
The southern German federal state Hesse has become the third in the country to make its so-called “disadvantaged areas” available for solar fields, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) has announced in a press release. Following in the footsteps of ...
Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), WWF Germany and other environmental and development NGOs in the umbrella organisation DNR have presented a proposal for Germany to reach its 2020 goals. The emergency climate protection programme includes concrete ...
10 Sep 2019, 13:43 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Alliance for Climate and Economy Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft Business & Jobs Freja Eriksen Efficiency 91tv The draft law aimed ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:45 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics International German President German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is among several European heads of state who signed a declaration calling for more ambitious ...
Large utilities mainly operating fossil power plants have had much more top-level contacts with government than the renewable industry, reports left-wing newspaper tageszeitung (taz). Since October 2014, RWE has held 40 talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel ...
02 Feb 2021, 13:44 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables EU Clean ...
Germany can reach its target of increasing the share of renewable energy to 65 percent of power consumption by 2030 from the current 36 percent at moderate costs, according to energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. Agora proposes a series of measures to ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:30 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Clean ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv Aside from forests and other natural greenhouse gas emission sinks, negative emissions technologies will be necessary to reach climate neutrality by mid-century, said the ...
British oil company BP is disposing of oil production waste, which possibly contains elements harmful to humans, by delivering it to energy company E.ON for burning in a Gelsenkirchen coal plant, Jürgen Döschner and Jochen Taßler report for public ...
Total EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) stationary emissions rose by 0.3 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year – the first rise in seven years, according to an analysis by British climate NGO Sandbag, based on provisional EU data. Lignite ...
06 May 2021, 12:12 The German government has presented its strategy to make the country a global leader in sustainable finance and help mobilise money for greening the economy. The Sustainable Finance Strategy proposes a “traffic light” system to identify ...
A CO 2 tax or European wide minimum price for CO 2 emissions as suggested by French President Emmanuel Macron is worth thinking about, writes Andreas Mihm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The current system is “inefficient, prone to lobby interests ...
“Little will change on the European continent due to the decision of the British people, including when it comes to the climate and energy agency,” writes Sabrina Schulz in the blog of climate and energy think tank E3G. In Germany, the fight over the ...
The German and Indian utilities Uniper and India Power Corporation Limited have agreed to set up a 50:50 service company joint venture, India Uniper Power Services, to offer services including the operation and maintenance of power stations. The venture ...
Left and Green Party politicians in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg want clarity about the follow-up costs of lignite mining in the eastern German region of Lusatia, reports the news agency dpa in an article carried by Welt Online. Left Party ...
Hard coal power plant operator and one of Germany’s biggest power suppliers Steag announced that it will leave the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) by the end of 2016, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). The industry association ...
An ambitious target to replace all combustion engine cars in Germany with electric vehicles by 2030 might increase CO 2 emissions instead of lowering them, writes Denes Csala, lecturer at Lancaster University, in an article for The Conversation. “Unless ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:23 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:04 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Policy EU 91tv Germany will focus its upcoming EU Council presidency on the dual challenges of overcoming the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and making the continent more ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:42 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cars Society 91tv A large majority of Germans say that public transportation services should be offered free of charge, ...
Germany’s biggest power producer RWE won’t pay a dividend for a second consecutive year after writing off billions because of sliding electricity prices, report Lars Paulsson and Tino Andresen for Bloomberg. The Essen-based utility booked impairments of 4 ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:16 G7 leaders have finished their three-day meeting in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed that public funding could be necessary for some fossil gas projects to reduce dependence on ...
To make their national energy transition a success, France and Germany need to closely coordinate the reduction of nuclear and coal power, French and German think tanks IDDRI and Agora Energiewende* have concluded in a joint study. “If the two countries ...
Eastern German regions will receive 1.23 billion euros over the next five years for the recultivation of former lignite mines, according to the federal finance (BMF) and environment (BMUB) ministries. The federal finance and environment ministers signed ...
Dark and calm winter days have led some commentators to suggest that renewables are unsuitable for providing a secure energy supply, reports Tamsin Walker for Deutsche Welle. Utility association BDEW argues this weather pattern proves flexible gas and ...
17 Jun 2022, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ARD / Tagesspiegel The increasing pressure on Germany’s gas supply system could lead the government to tighten its grip on gas distribution and enforce savings by law, economy and climate minister Robert ...
Hurricanes such as Irma and Harvey are a “wake-up call for resolute climate DZ” and it is alarming that climate is playing no role in the current German federal election campaign, writes environmental and development NGO Germanwatch in a press release ...
21 Oct 2020, 13:41 The EU’s 27 agriculture ministers have found a compromise on how the 387 billion euros in farming subsidies should be spent in the years until 2027, agreeing to make certain environmental and climate standards mandatory and earmarking a ...
25 Jan 2019, 14:26 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Reducing greenhouse gas ...
Germany is likely to lower its Energiewende ambitions after the upcoming general elections, according to an analysis by French government think tank France Strategie. Germany will likely miss its 2020 climate targets, while the long-term insecurity of the ...
German administrative districts (Landkreise) want to be more independent of energy imports, writes Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche. The rise of renewables had brought new possibilities to many regions. “In plain language this means: Instead of ...
Germany’s primary energy consumption rose strongly at the start of the year, mainly due to icy temperatures, according to energy research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). The booming economy and population growth also pushed up energy use, which went up 5 ...
To help protect the climate, members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) should vote in favour of a grand coalition government with Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance, writes Benjamin von Brackel in an opinion piece for klimaretter.info. “A ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:48 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
While the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia were largely decided on local factors, “in more ways than one this was a dry run for the general election,” writes Jeremy Cliffe in a blog article for The Economist. “Thrusting social reformism went up ...
Peter Altmaier’s track record as Germany’s economy and energy minister lacks actions, particularly in energy policy, Antje Höning and Birgit Marschall write in the Rheinische Post. “The energy transition resembles a construction site, and the planned coal ...
20 Sep 2019, 20:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel's so-called "climate cabinet" has put together the bedrock for future climate action legislation in Germany, just in time for UN Secretary-General António Guterres' Climate Action Summit in ...
RWE’s CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz plans to reorganise the company’s senior management, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt, citing company sources. Subsidiaries RWE Power – responsible for lignite and nuclear power – and RWE Generation, which deals with gas ...
Two executives of major German companies, VW CEO Herbert Diess and RWE CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz have traded blows over lignite mining, reports business daily Handelsblatt. Diess triggered the dispute by declaring in an interview the Süddeutsche Zeitung ...
By opposing stricter EU car emission limits, Germany’s government delays the transition to renewable mobility and risks isolating the country, according to Green MP and transport expert Cem Özdemir. “France, Denmark, Luxembourg and Netherlands have ...
German municipal utilities that have invested in fossil fuels over the past years – for example by modernising old coal-fired power plants – now find themselves under financial pressure in part due to the Energiewende, writes Bastian Brandau for ...
The German federal government and the states have agreed to allocate 7.3 million euros over the next four years to help the eastern German Lusatia region cope with the structural changes resulting from a “gradual adaptation process in lignite-based power ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 The G7 has published its final communiqué after the summit in Elmau in southern Germany. 91tv presents reactions from Germany to the results of the meeting of major industrialised countries. Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Clean Energy ...
18 Dec 2015, 00:00 Second parliament chamber passes laws for combined heat and power support and new power cables / Progress in grid expansion and more money for efficient power stations will advance energy transition and national climate targets, says ...
Several German power plants have reduced production as the ongoing heat wave limits the amount of cooling water, writes Daniel Wetzel in an article in Die Welt. With air temperatures of more than 30 degrees across Germany, water in cooling towers becomes ...
26 May 2020, 12:43 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv An active removal of several hundred ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling EU Handelsblatt European states have to seriously explore possibilities to source key raw materials for more climate-friendly technologies domestically instead of relying on imports from ...
The dual phase-out of nuclear and coal power in Germany means the country has to increasingly rely on natural gas to complement its power production from renewable sources but unlike other major European countries, the world’s second largest gas importer ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the “de facto leader of the global green caucus” after US President Donald Trump decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement, writes Jamie Horgan in a blog article for The American Interest. But with the nuclear phase-out ...
09 Nov 2020, 14:57 European leaders, researchers and media commentators breathed a collective sigh of relief following Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential elections and expressed hope for a new partnership on combating climate change. The news ...
Bloomberg New Energy Finance says Germany could meet its 2020 emissions targets through carbon trading. Buying the right to pollute could allow Germany's domestic coal industry to keep operating, Bloomberg Technology reports, with carbon cuts ...
Three studies highlight the additional need for skilled labour to implement the energy transition in the German buildings sector. The Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) has published a policy paper highlighting the need for an additional 100,000 ...
23 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany is hosting this year’s international climate summit (COP23) in Bonn while in Berlin ongoing coalition talks will shape the future of national climate actions. Annalena Baerbock, climate spokesperson of the Greens, which are ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:58 Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Tagesspiegel Berlin wants to become climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this, climate senator Regine Günther (Green Party) proposed an amendment to the city’s Energy Transition Act (EWG) on 9 February, ...
German power customers demand more green power than domestic wind, solar and biogas installations can provide, prompting energy providers to buy Norwegian certificates that allow them to label their product as “green”, Jens Heitmann writes for ...
Germany’s “headline success story” on climate protection has “a dark underside that is usually overlooked in all the fanfare,” Paul Hockenos writes for CNN Online. The country’s greenhouse gas emissions have “stagnated at about 900 million tonnes” of CO₂ ...
Germany’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 and by at least 55 percent by 2030 looks to be in grave danger following reports that the state of Brandenburg may drastically soften its climate protection targets. The ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:45 Exceeding the 1.5°C temperature limit of the Paris Climate Agreement would jeopardise the prospect of living in security and prosperity in Germany and globally, says Germany’s first-ever National Security Strategy. In the document, the ...
For a long time, Germany's insistence on the energy transition raised eyebrows, Nils-Viktor Sorge writes in an opinion piece for manager magazine Online. Six years on from the Fukushima disaster, it's the USA that increasingly looks like the ...
The non-governmental Global Climate Action Summit in California brings together representatives of private companies and cities from around the world and adds pressure on the German government and the European Union to step up their efforts to comply with ...
Germany's energy storage industry now provides more than half the number of jobs of the country's lignite industry, Jason Deign reports in Greentech Media. The energy storage industry employed around 11,130 workers in 2017, according to an ...
11 May 2021, 13:30 Edgar Meza Industry 91tv The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has opened a new research facility in the eastern state of Brandenburg that will focus on alternatives to fossil fuels as part of its efforts to decarbonise ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:16 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance 91tv Several parties in Germany's parliament have warned against placing excessive burdens on small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) through regulation of financial markets due to tighter ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:26 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The shift to electric mobility will cost fewer jobs at carmakers than many experts and unions assume, a study commissioned by Volkswagen and ...
02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
03 Aug 2021, 14:15 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The construction of new solar PV installations in ...
Czech investor EPH has announced plans to move “several hundred” administrative jobs to the city of Cottbus in Lusatia- one of Germany’s lignite mining and power production regions- once the acquisition of Vattenfall’s German lignite plants and mines is ...
Employees of German utility Uniper fear that the company could be split up after its potential acquisition by Finnish energy group Fortum, affecting many jobs, write Michael Bauchmüller and Benedikt Müller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Should Fortum become a ...
When power prices linger below zero for six hours or more, wind turbines larger than 3 megawatts in capacity don’t receive any remuneration. This could become a problem for wind farm operators when more hours with negative prices occur after a possible ...
24 Mar 2015, 00:00 German utilities say plans to cut 22 millions tonnes of CO2 emissions from the energy sector by demanding additional emissions trading allowances from older power plants amount to an exit plan for the brown coal industry. But despite ...
07 Oct 2016, 00:00 Only in a best case scenario will Germany be able to reach its goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, the latest projections from the environment ministry show according to analysts. The opposition in parliament and ...
Considerable discrepancies between the German Green Party’s draft election programme and the ’ Ten-point plan for Green governance ‘ it published in May will make this weekend’s federal party conference difficult, writes Henrike Roßbach in an opinion ...
17 Jun 2019, 12:50 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Bild am Sonntag Germany should set up a national fund endowed with billions of euros to ...
Germans generally accept the idea that an energy transition costs money, but they are opposed to wasting money, Johannes Teyssen, manager of energy company E.ON, said in a joint interview with Green Party head Cem Özdemir in the Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
01 Oct 2021, 11:34 After Spain hosted the COP25 in 2019 and many Spanish cities declared a climate emergency, the country's climate movement has grown – especially among young people. But the coronavirus pandemic slowed down this newfound momentum ...
Electricity consumers will likely see rising costs for the support of renewable energies with a possible increase of the renewables surcharge to 7.5 to 10 cents per kilowatt hour (KWh) by 2025, compared to the current 6.35 cents/KWh, according to a new ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:18 The German government overall has done a good job in maintaining energy supply security in the country in the turbulent year 2022, but risks to the energy system's stability persist also in 2023, says Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the ...
07 Jun 2019, 13:05 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Sören Amelang Cars 91tv The German states home to carmakers ...
28 May 2019, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Energiewende Elections & Politics 91tv The results of the European elections, in which the Greens surged driven by concerns over global climate change, mean that energy companies must ...
02 Apr 2024, 10:30 “Reuse and recycle” is a catchphrase most people associate with plastic bags or bottles. But our homes, schools and offices are also made with materials that are far too valuable and carbon-intensive for single use: They shouldn’t ...
04 Sep 2015
04 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW / afp “The power price turn-around” Electricity has become cheaper for private consumers for the first time since 2000, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) reports. ...
01 Apr 2022, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Security Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The heads of Germany’s large, energy intensive companies have warned against severe damages that would be caused by a stop to Russian gas ...
15 Jan 2021, 12:50 Charlotte Nijhuis Finance 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / dpa Germany’s largest insurance company Allianz has set a new interim target for the restructuring of 800 billion euros in investments, the company announced in a press ...
10 Aug 2023, 14:20 Nearly halfway through its four-year term, Germany’s government faces increasing public discontent over its switch from two years of energy crisis management to controversial climate policies. The coalition government of the Social ...
Energy and financial policy in Europe could be substantially affected by a government participation of the Green Party and the economic liberal FDP in the next German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance of CDU/CSU, Ambrose ...
Germany needs an end date for coal-fired power production and for internal combustion engines in cars to make progress in emissions reduction and ensure that its industries do not fall behind others in developing technologies of the future, Michael Nelles ...
27 May 2019, 13:49 Rose-Anne Clermont Gas Renewables Hydrogen Die Welt As the need for energy transition across all sectors is made more urgent by the fight against climate change, Germany's leading heating and air conditioning manufacturer Vaillant ...
29 Nov 2018, 12:35 The rise of populism and unilateralists like US President Donald Trump increasingly challenge the rules-based international order and put global climate action as pledged in the Paris Agreement at risk. Still, a changing mind-set in ...
16 Sep 2015
16 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv /sites/default/files/files/article/media-utility-shares-slump-criticism-coal-plant-export-financing/clew-reporters-guide-2015.pdf Süddeutsche Zeitung “Why shares of E ...
Retiring most of Europe’s dirtiest power plants is cheaper than most people think, report Mathew Carr, Tino Andresen, and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. A price floor of 30 euros per tonne of CO 2- six times the current price- would cost each European ...
23 May 2019, 12:20 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The impact of global climate change in Germany will be felt less ...
The Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag (federal parliament) has decided on a programme for an “ecological modernisation of the economy” that would overturn the current economic order in Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reports ...
07 Jun 2021, 13:53 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics 91tv Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a surprisingly clear victory in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, in a boost for the bloc's ...
03 Apr 2020, 13:44 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The ...
Swedish utility Vattenfall will not sell its financially struggling Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg despite revamping its business model towards more renewable energy sources and digitalisation of the energy system, Björn Hartmann writes in Hambuger ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband ...
The German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Stuttgart University aim to store renewable power in the form of heat on a “power plant scale,” reports Sandra Enkhardt in pv magazine. The institutes agreed to build the ...
16 Jul 2015
16 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Zeit “Don’t get distracted” The carbon divestment movement and the G7 commitment to decarbonisation indicate that climate policy is getting serious and irreversible, writes Andreas Kuhlmann, ...
16 Nov 2020, 13:35 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Solar dpa / Focus Online Germany's solar industry ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:46 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv Despite all the changes that are necessary to protect the ...
E.ON-spinoff Uniper is often seen as the Energiewende’s bad bank or left-over sale, writes Helmut Bünder in a commentary for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Whenever Uniper CEO Klaus Schäfer talks of “upside potential”, he means it can’t get worse, ...
30 Oct 2019, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv / Financial Times The German central bank (Bundesbank) has to maintain market neutrality and cannot become a proactive advocate of climate action, Bundesbank head Jens Weidmann said at a ...
A rapid decommissioning of fossil and nuclear power plants in Germany “poses the risk of knowingly causing an undersupply of guaranteed capacity by 2023 the latest”, says the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) in a response to an analysis ...
German engineering giant Siemens is among the top companies listed on the global clean energy ranking “Clean 200,” reports Andrea Vittorio for Bloomberg. The “Clean 200” by California non-profit As You Sow and researchers Corporate Knights, ranks ...
09 Apr 2021, 09:39 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv [CLARIFICATION: Agora Energiewende said Q1 developments in the power market show greenhouse gas emissions could rise in 2021. Drops reference to 2020 target.] Unfavourable weather ...
05 Jul 2021, 14:50 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter Climate & CO2 91tv Environmental NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) has issued five new legal cases on ...
Dutch sustainable energy group Eneco has teamed up with Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi to build Europe’s largest battery in the north of Germany, which will supply sustainable reserve capacity to the grid. “The battery system will be able to take ...
16 Oct 2014
16 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Öko-Institut Research on the Energiewende – inter-active map goes online A new online-platform brings together the output of 33 research projects funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research ...
Energy and climate policy must be key policy areas for Germany’s government in 2019 in order to significantly reduce carbon emissions and make a substantial contribution to limiting climate change, Social Democratic (SPD) energy and climate politician ...
21 May 2015
21 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Coalition doesn’t get together in coal politics” A meeting between Chancellor Angela Merkel and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel on the additional levy on old coal ...
The decision by Czech mining company EPH, the new owner of eastern German lignite-mine operator LEAG, to cut back its extension plans for the Lusatia region might provide local actors with “some planning security” but is “without a doubt a step towards ...
The EU’s plan to allow fuel from felled trees to qualify as renewable energy could accelerate climate change, writes Felix Creutzig of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in a guest commentary in the Süddeutsche ...
While generous subsidies have made Germany a clean power leader, helping to increase the country’s share of power generation from renewable sources from 3.6 percent in 1990 to 30 percent last year, the country continues to face challenges in implementing ...
24 Sep 2017, 00:00 Despite heavy losses in Germany's parliamentary elections, Angela Merkel is poised to stay chancellor for another four years. The voters’ decision sets her conservative CDU/CSU party alliance on course for coalition talks with the ...
Germany’s federal elections in September will also be a decision “on the direction of the country’s energy DZ” and a lot depends on which parties form a government coalition, Arne Jungjohann writes on website China Dialogue. With near-term [climate ...
02 Jul 2021, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv The European Green Deal should be expanded to also include African states as partners in the bid to achieve a climate-friendly economic recovery after the downturn caused by the ...
29 Jun 2021, 14:38 Expert BASE- Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung Nuclear phase-out Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear ...
In an opinion piece for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Michael Bauchmüller asks if Chancellor Angela Merkel can be trusted, after the parties in exploratory talks to form a new grand coalition government dropped Germany’s 2020 climate target. The outgoing coalition ...
11 Oct 2017
Germany’s environment ministry fears high emissions from coal-fired power plants and transport will make the country miss its 2020 climate targets by a wider margin than previously anticipated. The ministry’s warning in an internal paper seen by the Clean ...
29 Jun 2021, 14:42 Expert PIK- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Eastern Germany, including Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg, will likely continue to suffer from very dry ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) has criticised the government for its “inadequate” management of the energy transition. In a new report, the BRH argues that the economy ministry ...
Diesel cars will continue to be necessary to reach climate protection targets, said Matthias Wissmann, president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) in an interview with Handelsblatt. “They use 25 percent less fuel than petrol ...
12 Mar 2020, 13:52 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Energy-intensive companies from Germany are calling for an EU-wide electricity price for industry as a simple instrument to safeguard the sector's global competitiveness during ...
It is “nonsense” that Germany’s Energiewende destroys big utilities because it is a peculiar and unique policy, writes Ingo Arzt in a commentary in the left-wing taz. “The global utility world faces massive upheavals that will push companies into ...
04 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 5 at the UN climate conference: Negotiatons are not "leaping forward" / 1.5°C should be mentioned in agreement / German climate action in the spotlight at home Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature ...
The mining and manufacturing industry in Germany contributed 11.2 percent of the country’s gross power production in 2016, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has said in a press release. With a total of 54 terawatt hours, the share was 0.8 ...
Germany is able to live up to its obligations in international climate protection and should not give up the pioneer role it has played in areas such as renewable energies and environmental technologies, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:36 One year before Germany's next general election, economy minister Peter Altmaier calls for a "historic consensus" between all democratic parties, businesses and civil society to ensure that climate action and the ...
07 May 2020, 09:31 Slumping power demand due to the coronavirus crisis combined with April’s strong wind and solar power production have revealed that Germany's fossil and renewable electricity generation, as well as electricity demand, need to ...
Social Democratic economy minister Sigmar Gabriel has lost his credibility regarding climate and environment policy with his last-minute decision to block an agreement on Germany’s Climate Action Plan 2050 out of consideration for unions and industry, ...
German utility E.ON might sell its remaining share in fossil spin-off Uniper to Finnish utility Fortum for 3.8 billion euros, the company said in a statement. The announcement was greeted by dismay by Uniper, which could be broken up by Fortum, according ...
Germany’s foreign minister and former SPD head Sigmar Gabriel says his party should focus less on environmental and climate protection and instead emphasise topics that concern its traditional voting bloc, such as industrial job security and upholding ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:30 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics tageszeitung (taz) Germany’s Left Party has agreed the most radical election programme yet in terms of climate protection goals and demands at its party convention on 19-20 June. Climate is the key ...
German customers are being misled by inaccurate labelling of the origin of their electricity, the energy provider LichtBlick writes in a press release. Suppliers are obliged by law to indicate an averaged share of green electricity in their tariffs, even ...
The nuclear sector is showing confidence at its big trade fair in Le Bourget, France. And German companies which are feeling sidelined by the nuclear phase-out at home are hoping to get work abroad, writes Leo Klimm in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Germany is ...
The energy transition in Germany does not achieve most of its goals, and its progress has slowed down over the last few years, a study conducted by the consultancy Prognos and commissioned by the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw) has found. Improvements ...
The Green Party is slumping in national polls as security and migration overshadow the party’s core topics of the environment and climate, writes Silke Kersting in Handelsblatt. “Yet, the conditions for the party to again play a bigger part on a national ...
24 Jan 2017, 00:00 Germany's economy and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel will not run for Chancellor in this year's federal election. Gabriel plans to step down from his current role to head the foreign office instead, various news outlets ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The German environmental NGO umbrella association DNR and 54 other organisations are calling on the German government to back up the soon-to-be revised Climate Action Law with ...
The planet holds enough natural resources needed for the global energy transition, write research institutes acatech, Leopoldina and Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities in a report. But the uneven distribution creates the need for ...
Swedish power company Vattenfall reported a fourth-quarter and full-year net loss on the back of low electricity prices and write-downs, press agency dpa reports. For the full year 2016, Vattenfall said its net loss was 2.7 billion euros, including the ...
Helmar Rendez, chairman of Germany’s newest lignite company LEAG, has pushed for a swift decision over the possible expansion of open pit mining in the Eastern German region of Lusatia, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. “This is no decision that we can ...
The Green election programme would demand a lot of possible coalition partners after the elections, such as the coal exit and the phase-out of the combustion engine, said Schleswig-Holstein state energy minister Robert Habeck in an interview with daily ...
27 Mar 2019, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Reuters Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said he wants to extend tax incentives for buyers of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids for another decade, news agency Reuters reports, ...
15 Aug 2022, 14:30 A new levy on natural gas use that is meant to save struggling importers from bankruptcy is going to further inflate already high bills of German consumers. The government argues the levy is needed to ensure the country’s gas market ...
14 Oct 2020, 15:14 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal ...
26 Aug 2015
26 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Upwind” Germany’s offshore wind development is accelerating, write Franz Hubik and Daniel Delhaes in the Handelsblatt. While the first wind parks suffered from delays, exploding costs ...
The strong showing by the Christian (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) in the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia shows that voters have put more emphasis on economic policy and wealth, writes Heike Göbel in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
Germany’s role as a host of this year’s UN climate conference “left a question mark for many diplomats” at the COP23 in Bonn, Jürgen Polzin writes in an op-ed for the Hamburger Abendblatt. That Germany is still ruled by a provisional government and ...
There’s a big discrepancy between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s call for other countries to decarbonise their economies and the grand coalition’s climate policy at home, Michael Bauchmüller writes in an opinion piece for Süddeutsche Zeitung. Merkel was able ...
The German economy ministry (BMWi) has visibly lost influence under three consecutive coalition governments led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, Heike Goebel writes in a commentary for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But Merkel's CDU party now claims ...
24 Jul 2020, 14:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The climate activist movement Fridays for Future (FfF) has announced a new "global climate action day" on 25 September on which it will hold protest events in ...
German economy minister Brigitte Zypries opposes a quick end to lignite-fired power production in the country, Christian Grimm writes in an article for Dow Jones Newswires carried by website finanztreff.de. “We cannot afford to shut down the large lignite ...
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 State-owned Swedish utility Vattenfall has agreed to sell its east German lignite operations to Czech utility EPH, the company said on Monday. While the affected regions stressed the sale would finally put an end to employees' ...
07 Dec 2020, 09:46 Germans should not expect a lot of climate policy decisions next year, as the debates will be firmly in the grip of the national and state election campaigns, says Brigitte Knopf, secretary general of the Mercator Research Institute on ...
Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) would be wise to “massively advocate” for shifting the financial foundation of the country’s energy transition from national subsidies to a better functioning European Emissions Trading System ...
The construction of new wind and solar power facilities is more economic than the construction of new coal and gas power plants, says an information paper by the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko Institut), writes Gerald Traufetter in German weekly Der ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:59 The world’s top management consultancies, who for decades have advised the biggest polluters, are now piling into the business of helping companies cut emissions to become more sustainable. They are retraining staff, poaching ...
It is embarrassing that the former eco-champion Germany has taken a break in the global competition for the fastest and best energy transition, writes Joachim Wille in a commentary for klimaretter.info. “The German government, which fought so ardently and ...
27 Nov 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv More than 500 German cities will see protests for more ambitious climate action on Friday, 29 November, the activist movement Fridays for Future Germany has announced. The ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:53 Rachel Waldholz Cars dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung More than half of Germany’s automotive suppliers are planning to cut jobs, according to a survey by the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) reported by ...
A new Jamaica coalition government of CDU, CSU, FDP and the Greens could “improve the energy transition”, Andreas Kuhlmann, head of the German Energy Agency (dena), told Die Welt in an interview. Kuhlmann said the different demands brought forward by the ...
27 Oct 2021, 16:14 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Elections & Politics WDR / 91tv / Die Zeit Conservative CDU politician Hendrik Wüst has been voted in as new state premier of Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia ...
Opposition to the planned Russian-German gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is growing as Denmark drafts a new law that would allow the government to prevent the construction on the country’s continental shelf, writes Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
Troubled German energy company E.ON is listing its conventional power division Uniper but the move lacks a convincing plan, Angela Hennersdorf writes in WirtschaftsWoche. Uniper comprises commodity trading operations and more than 300 coal and gas power ...
09 Jul 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics tageszeitung (taz) Chancellor Angela Merkel must now walk the walk when it comes to making sure climate action “tops” the German EU Council presidency agenda and ensuring that ...
Paying extra for “green power” might help consumers' conscience but does little to advance energy transition, Jürgen Flauger writes on Handelsblatt Online. “The Energiewende’s success is determined in energy generation,” Flauger explains. Green ...
In a far-reaching decision, eastern German energy company and operator of one of the country’s largest lignite mining operations LEAG scrapped plans by former owner Vattenfall to expand one of its lignite mines, and downsizing or putting on hold other ...
08 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn 91tv ...
15 Jun 2020, 10:30 A mainly fossil energy guzzler, heating in Germany has taken a back seat to the Energiewende's poster child, the power sector. But the “Wärmewende”, or heating transition, has significant potential to curb emissions and is ...
Vattenfall’s lignite business results ahead of the sale of its coal mining and production facilities in eastern Germany offer some insight into why the Swedish utility is selling. They also raise the question of why Czech investor EPH is interested in the ...
The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from ...
Conflict of interests between wind power production and wildlife protection is “marginal if we look at the alternatives,” the head of the German Green Party’s parliamentary group, Anton Hofreiter, says in an opinion piece for Der Tagesspiegel Online. ...
05 Dec 2014
05 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau "We need a fund" Jörg Sommer, chairman of the German Environment Foundation, says more money is needed to treat nuclear waste in Germany. In an ...
Germany is ranked 29th in this year’s Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by environmental organisation Germanwatch – a position blamed on lagging greenhouse gas emissions reduction and the lack of a clear roadmap for ending coal-fired power ...
Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and UN special envoy on climate change and El Niño, has condemned the UK and Germany for introducing new support schemes for the fossil fuel industry that betray the Paris climate deal, Adam Vaughan writes in ...
Germany’s politicians should focus less on the 2020 greenhouse gas reductions target and more on the long-term goals, especially in the heating and transport sectors, economist Andreas Löschel, who heads the advisory board authoring the German government ...
12 Feb 2021, 13:58 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Renewables Hydrogen Handelsblatt Renewables energy company Siemens Gamesa is to start production of green hydrogen in addition to wind power, CEO Andreas Nauen said in an interview ...
The Christian Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia will form a government coalition, state chairmen Armin Laschet (CDU) and Christian Lindner (FDP) told news agency dpa. “We have a coalition agreement” and the ...
13 Oct 2021, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron to ramp up the country’s hydrogen production capacity and invest in the development of small modular nuclear ...
03 Aug 2021, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Die Welt The earnings from selling allowances in the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the German state look set to reach a new record level in 2021 ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:16 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Finance EU Clean ...
A study by environmental groups adding up premature deaths caused by coal power stations in neighbouring countries is a horrifying calculation reminiscent of war times, writes Marlene Weiss in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Has the European Energy Union really ...
The chemical industry has had “a good year without limitations” in 2017 but says that further increases in energy prices continue to pose a risk for Germany’s third largest industry branch, the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) says in a press ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 Increasing the EU's renewable energy target without a clear idea on how to achieve it would undermine political credibility, according to German energy minister Peter Altmaier. Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv International ...
02 Jun 2017, 00:00 President Donald Trump has announced that he will pull the United States out of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement. The USA will be the first country to leave the seminal 2015 treaty signed by nearly 200 individual nations that agreed ...
Climate protection and the energy transition are among the losers of the German election campaign, writes Ralf Köpke in sector magazine Energie & Management. The current grand coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU and the Social ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Gas Security 91tv All of the parties represented in the German parliament reject the economic sanctions threatened by the United States over the construction of the controversial ...
22 Oct 2020, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Tagesspiegel Background The price crash on international oil markets caused by the coronavirus pandemic is having a heavy impact on Germany's domestic oil industry, with companies cancelling ...
Germany's current power grid development plans for 2030 are not aligned with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, write the NGOs Environmental Action Germany (DUH), Germanwatch, and WWF in a joint press release. "Until now, none of the ...
Germany’s primary energy consumption fell 1.4 percent in the first quarter of the year, according to statistics from energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). While economic growth and low January temperatures pushed energy consumption ...
08 Nov 2017, 00:00 Talks in Bonn as technical as expected but also “unexcited, friendly and positive”, says German negotiator / Developing countries call for voluntary reporting / US should remain part of COPs / German taxpayers are financing the climate ...
Rather than big flagship projects, “subversive innovations” could prove more successful in making a breakthrough in the decarbonisation of the world’s economies, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) told ...
18 Jul 2019, 13:36 Expert SWP- German Institute for International and Security Affairs Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Policy International Security G20 & G7 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Policy German Institute for International and Security ...
The coalition treaty agreed by Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) is filled with promises and vaguely worded provisions on climate, energy and transport and it remains to be seen if 2030 climate targets will ...
Divesting the capital of German foundations – about 100 billion euros in total – from fossil fuels would send a “strong and effective signal to the capital markets” and to the government to implement the Paris Agreement, writes Matthias Fiedler in ...
The pro-business party FDP stands out at the ongoing Jamaica coalition talks for Germany’s next federal government with its “astonishing claims on climate and energy”, Malte Kreutzfeldt writes in left-wing newspaper Die Tageszeitung (taz). Remarks by FDP ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv With European cooperation and an “appropriate design” of climate policy, the seemingly diverging calls for change by French yellow vests ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Politics International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit Green party co-leader and chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock has criticised the Nord Stream 2 agreement with the U.S. government. On 21 July, Berlin ...
innogy’s stock market debut on 7 October could turn into Germany’s largest initial public offering (IPO) since 2000, writes Jürgen Flauger in Handelsblatt. innogy- RWE’s renewable spin-off- wants to attract investors interested in a stable and reliable ...
Large German environmental NGOs plan to boycott an upcoming hearing on the Climate Action Plan 2050, organised by the federal environment ministry, writes Der Spiegel. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Nature and Biodiversity ...
01 Jun 2016
01 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government “Federal and state governments agree on key points of the Renewable Energy Act reform” State premiers and the federal government have agreed on ...
16 Dec 2019, 12:41 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen 91tv Battery electric cars are more climate-friendly over their full lifecycle than ...
German utility RWE has contested a court’s evidence order from November 2017 which says that a consultant shall assess whether greenhouse gas emissions caused by the country’s largest coal user have contributed to the melting of a glacier in Peru, which ...
The introduction of an EU-wide carbon price would help member states avoid 943 million tonnes of CO₂ by 2025 as electricity generation from hard coal and lignite will decrease by 28 percent, according to a study by non-profit EWI Energy Research & ...
Climate activists’ guerrilla-style protest against lignite mining in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has divided the region, reports Stefan Schultz in a long article in Spiegel Online. The dispute dates back to 2012, but is now ...
27 Apr 2021, 13:43 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:01 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics 91tv At first sight, this election result could be interpreted as a defeat for climate action because both the Green Party and the Left Party, which have the most convincing answers ...
Germany’s biggest power consumer, Deutsche Bahn (DB), has set itself new climate protection targets ahead of the COP23 UN climate conference in Bonn next month, Henrik Mortsiefer reports for the Tagesspiegel. The company – including its global logistics ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind 91tv Germany will not add ...
The federal government is “increasingly without ambition” regarding concrete steps to fight global warming – with the exception of environment minister Barbara Hendricks – writes Silke Kerstig in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt. Hendricks so far is ...
13 Jun 2019, 13:24 Sören Amelang Storage Technology 91tv Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa has begun storing renewable power as heat in about 1,000 tonnes of volcanic rock in the Northern German city of Hamburg. Electricity heats the rock to ...
Germany is struggling with ‘cognitive dissonance’ in agreeing on the details of its climate protection plan, writes Hermann Falk of the German Association for Renewable Energy (BEE) in a guest commentary in the Frankfurter Rundschau. Various competing ...
20 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Fraunhofer ISE “Exported power more expensive than imported power” Germany makes billions of euros from exporting power every year, researchers at the Fraunhofer ISE found. The country made 1.7 ...
26 Apr 2016
26 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Energy policy after Chernobyl” The impact of Chernobyl was the largest where its fallout was the smallest – in Germany, where the ...
The German port city of Hamburg has concluded the trial phase of a massive subterranean aquifer heat storage system, which is supposed to replace a coal plant and which can provide heat to 8,000 households in winter, Julia Witte writes in Die Welt. ...
20 Feb 2019, 13:26 Rachel Waldholz Climate & CO2 Society Washington Post Tens of thousands of teenagers across Europe have skipped school since the beginning of the year, joining protests demanding action on climate change, Luisa Beck reports in the ...
Annual climate protection efforts must be quadrupled compared to the average over the past ten years in order for Germany to reach its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, according to members of the Green Party parliamentary ...
Norway is aiming to eliminate sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2025 and allow only electric vehicles, but such a model would be harmful to the environment in Germany, Daniel Delhaes writes in Handelsblatt. While Norway can generate most ...
03 Nov 2015
03 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv BDEW / ZSW “Renewables share will likely rise to 33 percent in 2015” Renewable energies are likely to cover around 33 percent of Germany’s gross power consumption in 2015, research institute ZSW ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:43 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Security ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:30 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The candidate for chancellor of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance, ...
07 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germany must urgently step up its CO2 reduction efforts immediately after the upcoming elections if it wants to prevent a spectacular miss of its 2020 climate targets, according to think tank Agora Energiewende. Instead of reducing ...
The regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia plays a key role in Germany’s energy transition and needs to heavily expand its power grid infrastructure despite local opposition, writes Guido M. Hartmann for Welt am Sonntag. The industry-heavy state ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The slump in wind power expansion in Germany has prevented a new record for investments in the technology in Europe, industry association WindEurope says in an analysis of 2019 financing trends ...
Germans are less and less keen about electric cars, Bild Zeitung reports. According to a survey by mobile.de, 15.7 percent of people said they were interested in buying an e-car, compared to 16 percent in the 2015 survey, Bild writes. In the countryside, ...
Brown coal is causing a rift between the Social Democrat and Left Party coalition in the state of Brandenburg, Germany’s second biggest lignite mining region, according to a dpa report carried by Die Welt. Thomas Domres, head of the Left Party’s ...
Environment and climate policy “ do not take place ” in Germany under the current grand coalition government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD), writes Michael Bauchmüller in an opinion piece ...
05 Jan 2021, 12:51 Expert EWI- Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices International Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity ...
18 Dec 2014, 00:00 A leaked document outlines plans to transfer some provisions German utilities have put aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal to a state-managed fund. The 91tv spoke to two policy analysts about the ...
22 Apr 2015
22 Apr 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online Resistance among Christian Democrats against power market law Four senior members of Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) have send a letter to all members of the CDU-CSU ...
20 Jun 2017, 00:00 NGOs from all over the world have called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to fight for a strong stance on climate at the G20 summit in little more than two weeks. Merkel said the US decision to leave the Paris Climate Agreement “broke ...
Despite a surge in clean energy production, German utility RWE will continue to rely on coal and gas plants for the foreseeable future, Handelsblatt online reports. RWE CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said conventional power plants were irreplaceable as long as ...
08 Jun 2016
08 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Federal government Renewables law reform gets government approval Angela Merkel’s cabinet has decided on the reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) that is to take ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen International Die Welt The importance of Russian gas for Germany is set to grow further amid the latter country's energy transition, economy minister Peter Altmaier said at a German-Russian industry ...
The Green Party plans to base its campaign for the autumn federal elections on the core topics of environment and climate protection, announced Green parliamentary group head Katrin Göring-Eckhardt, writes Stefan Braun in Süddeutsche Zeitung. She said her ...
In a guest commentary published by the business daily Handelsblatt, Franz Untersteller, environment minister of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and Green member of the federal parliament Oliver Krischer call for a CO₂ price to be set for energy sources ...
19 Feb 2015
19 Feb 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Berlin wants to close its coal-fired power plants by 2020” The German capital of Berlin will shut its four remaining coal-fired power plants by 2020, according to provisional results from a parliamentary ...
21 Jan 2019, 13:37 Expert KIT- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Energiewende Society Spiegel Online The switch from fossil ...
21 Aug 2015
21 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / Süddeutsche Zeitung “Twelve minutes without power” The German power supply was more stable in 2014 than in any year since 2006, the Federal Network Agency said yesterday. ...
20 May 2019, 13:12 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Policy Hamburger Abendblatt / 91tv The idea by socialist EU Commission ...
Germany’s Energiewende will not succeed “fast and easy”, and the country’s energy supply will continue to depend on lignite for some time, said Brandenburg’s state economy minister Albrecht Gerber in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung. “I do know that ...
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the country’s most populous state and home to numerous emissions-intensive heavy industries, has launched an initiative to examine options for bringing down industry’s carbon footprint, the NRW ...
Germany is quickly reducing its conventional power capacities, risking a lack of secure capacity by 2023 at the latest, says the energy industry association BDEW in an analysis of the country’s power plants. Germany currently has power overcapacities. The ...
20 Jan 2021, 13:29 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Agriculture EU 91tv Germany’s agriculture ministry is pushing for a carbon adjustment mechanism at EU ...
07 Jan 2019, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Politics WirtschaftsWoche Germany’s economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier has disappointed many observers with what they consider an “erratic and sluggish” administration of his department, ...
20 Jan 2021, 10:10 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Gas Security ...
21 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Vattenfall Impairment losses and higher provisions for German operations Impairment losses and higher provisions for its German activities, as well as low electricity prices, widened losses at Swedish utility ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:27 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party ...
10 Jul 2023, 13:00 Germany is bracing for summer heat and drought, as temperatures across Europe reach record levels and the rest of the world faces unparalleled extreme weather events. With the first heat warnings, dropping water levels in major rivers, ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
07 Aug 2019, 14:01 Sören Amelang International 91tv Germany has to step up its climate ambitions so Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn’t travel to the UN Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September empty-handed, according to Climate ...
Amid rising prices for carbon emissions and coal, Germany’s wholesale power price for one-year futures has reached its highest level in six years, Nora Kamprath Buli writes for Montel News. At 50.10 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), prices reached their ...
06 Oct 2014
06 Oct 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Expensive power in the south” Power prices in Germany may eventually be as much 10 percent higher in Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg if the two southern German states do not get access to cheap ...
Germany’s Energiewende – the country’s double shift to a low-carbon and nuclear-free economy – yielded mixed results in the past year, according to an analysis by energy think tank Agora Energiewende.* Thanks to a partial switch from coal to gas and a ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:44 Rachel Waldholz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Tesla could break ground on its new e-car factory outside Berlin as soon as this month, and the company could be eligible for 280 million euros in subsidies from the ...
Germany’s fifth largest power producer STEAG plans to shut down about half of its power production capacity sooner than originally planned, writes Jürgen Flauger in the Handelsblatt. The company that operates several hard-coal power plants in the Ruhr ...
The current draft of the environment ministry’s Climate Action Plan 2050 showed that Chancellor Angela Merkel – weakened by the refugee crisis – avoided a dispute over climate targets with the economic wing of her party, writes Bernhard Pötter in an ...
25 Jul 2019, 14:50 Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Policy The deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU parliamentary group, Andreas Jung, has suggested consumers should pay less for electricity and receive an “eco commuters’ allowance”, ...
24 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert NABU- Nature and Biodiversity ...
The head of the German Greens’ parliamentary group, Anton Hofreiter, says a coalition with the conservative CDU/CSU and free-market FDP is far from a fait accompli. “It’s not a done deal at all,” Hofreiter said in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau. ...
Fixing the ongoing diesel crisis ranks among the top priorities of the new German government with the goal to avoid large-scale driving bans, Chancellor Angela Merkel told parliament in her first speech of the new legislative period. “The federal ...
22 May 2015
22 May 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Destatis “G7 in Figures” Germany’s Federal Statistical Office Destatis has published a booklet ahead of the G7 summit in Bavaria this June, including data on energy and climate protection efforts ...
02 Oct 2019, 13:53 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the ...
A growing population and the economic boom pushed up Germany’s total energy use by almost one percent last year, but the country’s CO 2 emissions likely stagnated due to the rising share of renewables and an increase in gas use, according to energy market ...
25 Mar 2020, 13:56 Expert RNE- German Council for Sustainable Development Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Electronic devices turned into standby-mode cost German households about 448 ...
01 Apr 2019, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices 91tv Power customers in Germany paid the highest power prices ever registered in the country during the first three months of 2019, price comparison website Verivox says. With 29.42 cents ...
The growing reliance of Germany’s power system on renewable energy sources means the country will have to increase efforts to find viable long-term power storage solutions, Stefan Schultz writes on Spiegel Online. The German government has no sound ...
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 With backing from economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, thousands of German steelworkers rallied against EU reform plans for the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) on Monday. Gabriel said there must be no contradiction between climate ...
20 Mar 2020, 13:55 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Expert Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewables Freja Eriksen Gas ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:19 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Solar 91tv The demand for solar power panels in Germany has ...
In a draft for a call-to-vote, the Green Party writes that it is willing to negotiate with all parties except the AfD after the elections on 24 September, but “distances itself as far as possible from the FDP” (Free Democratic Party), writes Stefan Braun ...
With wind and solar power revolutionising energy systems in many countries, the world is currently witnessing a development that would have been written off as “wishful thinking by idealistic fools” just a few years ago, Thorsten Knuf writes in ...
German business association CDU Economic Council, associated with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on Germany and the EU to work towards a global regime to reduce CO₂ emissions “like the ETS” (European Union Emissions Trading ...
01 Mar 2021, 14:13 Expert Climate-Alliance Germany Klima-Allianz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Germany must phase out coal by 2030, oil and fossil gas by the early 2040s and base its energy system on renewables, ...
Setting a regional carbon floor price for power generation within the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) would make Germany’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more consistent and contribute to phasing out coal, Felix Matthes of the Institute for ...
The approval of the sale of Vattenfall’s German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH showed that Germany and Sweden were not willing to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, says Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience ...
11 Sep 2019, 13:55 The German wind power industry has warned of the "precarious" situation of the country's dominant renewable power technology. As the industry gathered in the northern German town of Husum for one of the sector’s most ...
The German gas industry believes gas is being “discriminated against” in Energiewende policies. In heating, renewable gas was being treated as a fossil fuel, and CO 2-savings by gas-powered cars were not counted as decarbonisation measures, said Timm ...
30 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen ...
There are limits to a national energy transition in Germany, writes economy professor Andreas Löschel, from the University of Münster, in a guest article for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. If a few countries like Germany and the UK decide to phase-out coal ...
Wind power turbines are Germany’s most important renewable energy source and in 2017 produced more electricity than coal plants for the first time, Thorsten Preuschgas, CEO of Soventix, writes in a guest commentary in the pv magazine. But it is “a false ...
21 Sep 2021, 14:04 The German state secretary in the environment ministry, Jochen Flasbarth, has called on wealthy nations to do more on climate finance and come up with a plan to reach the target of mobilising 100 billion U.S. dollars per year for ...
The G20 group of countries, whose energy ministers are going to meet in Beijing this week, are responsible for around 75 per cent of global energy consumption and energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. State secretary Rainer Baake, who is going to ...
10 Nov 2020, 14:09 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Edgar Meza Electricity market Grid 91tv German and Belgian transmission system operators Amprion and Elia Group have completed the first direct current ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Security 91tv German energy industry lobby ...
17 Jul 2020, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Supporters of different climate action organisations have protested in Frankfurt against the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy during the coronavirus ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Energy and climate cooperation, as well as countering migration, will be among the top priorities of Italy's G7 presidency this year. Led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the country's right-wing government will bring its ...
Cheap German power exports hinder neighbouring countries’ energy transitions, Austrian environment minister Andrä Rupprechter told German weekly Der Spiegel. “Germany produces too much cheap electricity that other countries like Austria have to accept. ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:34 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
26 Feb 2019, 14:28 Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs International The Hill / Bloomberg Opinion Opinion writers are invoking Germany’s Energiewende in their arguments over US proposals for a Green New Deal (GND). Germany’s experience proves the Green ...
A series of detrimental external factors and poor strategic reactions have led to a destabilisation of Germany’s electricity industry over recent years, a study conducted by the University of Stuttgart’s Institute for Social Sciences has found. Energy ...
German utility STEAG has announced the decommissioning of five coal-fired generating units due to a low wholesale electricity price, Handelsblatt Online reports. The shutdown will affect hundreds of jobs on the sites in the regions of North-Rhine ...
10 May 2021, 14:29 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Policy Elections & Politics Zeit Online / Reuters Germany’s Social Democratic Party ...
20 Aug 2019, 13:59 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy ...
15 May 2020, 14:07 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv Germany is on track to widely miss its EU obligations to reduce CO2 emissions ...
In an interview with taz, Agora Energiewende* director Patrick Graichen says he expected the prospective government to abandon Germany’s 2020 climate targets. "Saving 150 million tonnes of CO2 within two years is clearly urealistic unless you want to ...
Sigmar Gabriel has assured industry bosses the energy transition’s impacts on industry and the country’s competitiveness would be minimised and market forces would play a greater role in the sector. Germany’s Renewable Energy Act is likely to see further ...
07 Dec 2015
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt “Still up in the air” There are still many hurdles to an agreement in Paris and there is a real danger of disappointment, writes Klaus Stratmann in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
The fact that climate protection has been one of the most discussed topics at the G20 summit in Hamburg is “one of the paradoxical achievements of Donald Trump”, Michael Bauchmüller writes in an opinion piece for Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Alas, the climate ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Industry Handelsblatt The German steel industry accounts for about one third of the country's total industry emissions, meaning that becoming carbon-neutral by 2050 comes with particular challenges to the ...
Delays in approving the Climate Action Plan 2050 are the reason projects for structural change in eastern Germany’s lignite mining regions aren't yet receiving funding, writes Kurt Stenger in the socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland. The 2016 ...
Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions rose to 906 million tonnes in 2016 (from 902 mln in 2015), due to colder weather and rising emissions in the transport sector, according to preliminary calculations by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The data ...
The city of Berlin has set out concrete steps to achieve its goal of drastically reducing its CO2 emissions by 2050, the city council said in a press release. Its new Energy and Climate Protection Programme 2030 (BEK 2030) contains around 100 efficiency ...
In an interview with Angela Schmid in WirtschaftsWoche, Daniela Jacob, head of Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), said Germany’s phase out of nuclear energy would result in a short-term increase in carbon emissions because coal cannot be substituted ...
The Green Party has failed to learn from past experience that insisting on controversial demands can cost the party dearly in terms of voter approval, Ludwig Greven writes in a commentary for Zeit Online. While the world is “grappling with Donald Trump,” ...
“We will correct the ideological, much too fast expansion of wind energy” in North Rhine-Westphalia, said the Free Democrats’ (FDP) state chairman Christian Lindner in a video on Twitter, talking about coalition negotiations. His comments came just hours ...
Climate-friendly infrastructures in cities provide urban planners with a large potential for emission reduction, according to a new study by Felix Creutzig (lead author) from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and ...
25 Jan 2021, 12:36 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:37 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The German Green Party's candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, has said her party would ...
The leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) dissociated itself from a paper by a conservative group within the party – “Berlin Circle” – that had criticised “increasingly aggressive policy goal setting, especially the CO₂ ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:21 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Freja Eriksen Grid Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background Germany's four ...
21 Jan 2020, 13:17 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Freja Eriksen Cars Handelsblatt German carmaker Volkswagen is in favour of support for electric cars, which can provide the "initial ignition" needed to encourage the transition to electric ...
The rapid rise of renewable energy systems in recent years could signal that “the world is entering an era of clean, unlimited and cheap power,” The Economist writes. But while it was “about time” renewables played a more important role, the “dirty secret ...
A new draft of federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks’ contentious Climate Action Plan 2050 says that there would be no new coal-fired power plants or expansions of existing open pit mines, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “With ...
The resolute stance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in advocating climate protection on the international stage could be seen as being at odds with her energy and climate policy at home, Silke Kersting writes in Handelsblatt Global. “Not much is left ...
Germany’s excess power spilling over into Poland and Czech Republic on days with high renewables generation creates political and economic tension, writes Zeke Turner for Wall Street Journal. “The fallout has become acute for Polish and Czech coal power ...
21 Dec 2015, 00:00 Germany’s CO2 emissions have inched up in 2015 despite a rapidly increasing share of renewables in electricity production, according to first calculations by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen. The main cause for the year ...
13 Jan 2020, 14:20 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE aims to become carbon neutral by 2040 and plans the requisite renewables investments ...
05 Dec 2019, 13:08 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:40 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Hydrogen 91tv ...
24 May 2022, 07:59 Germany could support Senegal in efforts to exploit fossil gas resources off its coast, chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to the western African country. As Germany seeks alternatives to Russian fossil fuel imports, Scholz said ...
11 Sep 2015
11 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Die Welt “There’s no alternative to a nuclear fund” In the fight over who will provide the billions of euros needed for nuclear decommissioning and storage, the utilities always seem to be two ...
Three days before parliamentary elections in Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party has taken the lead in polls, ahead of the governing SPD, national TV station ZDF reports. The CDU ...
28 Jun 2021, 13:36 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Münchner Merkur Europe's largest car brand Volkswagen will end the sale of combustion engine cars in the region by the middle of the next decade, branch manager Klaus ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:16 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
07 Jan 2020, 14:00 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cities 91tv A more rapid and determined climate and energy transition policy is ...
The transition to a low-carbon economy cannot be brought about by subsidising clean energy sources and will unfold by itself if market forces are allowed to come into play, Helmut Stalder writes in Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). “Germany ...
28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union’s two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
The German Green Party is polling at its lowest nationwide level in 15 years and risks falling below the five-percent-threshold required to stay in parliament, Robert Rossmann writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In several recent polls, the Greens’ ...
20 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- Germany needs a national instrument to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector to meet climate targets by 2020 because even a reformed European Emissions Trading System (ETS) alone will not have enough impact, leaked ...
The new federal government has to work out a comprehensive concept to secure the German industry’s competitiveness, write Christoph Schmidt and Steffen Elstner of the Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary ...
08 Jul 2017, 00:00 The German presidency and chancellor Angela Merkel pulled off a “solid” diplomatic success on climate policy by closing the ranks of all G20 members except the United States at the summit in Hamburg, experts for climate diplomacy said. ...
Many operators of nuclear, gas or coal-fired power plants in Germany do not throttle feed-in at times of “ negative power prices,” the Federal Grid Agency (BNetzA) has said in a press release. Although operators of conventional plants have to pay for ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
25 Mar 2019, 13:39 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv A mandatory minimum distance for wind turbines from residential areas would severely ...
Environment minister Barbara Hendricks wants to have her Climate Action Plan 2050 approved before the climate conference in Morocco in November, “to send a signal to the global community”, she writes in a guest commentary in the Handelsblatt. “What ...
21 Jan 2021, 14:14 Government officials from the European Union and Germany have welcomed the inauguration of U.S. president Joe Biden as the start of a new phase of transatlantic cooperation and an opportunity to tackle global challenges such as climate ...
