19 May 2025, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's federal government needs to provide additional funds for climate mitigation and adaptation measures, and make these easily available to its states ...
21 Dec 2022, 12:53 Germany’s efforts to replace Russian gas this year are perceived internationally as lacking coherence with its climate ambitions and the government must show that these efforts do not impede the country’s emissions reduction plans, says ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:58 S?ren Amelang Renewables International G20 & G7 91tv The German government and NGOs have welcomed the first G7 commitment to concrete targets for the rollout of renewables, but environmentalists also warned that the ...
04 Dec 2020, 13:29 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Cost & Prices Utilities Digitalisation WirtschaftsWoche Energy company E.ON is teaming up with software company SAP to digitalise its power grid ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:45 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung In the runup to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, eight leading environmental organisations have called on Germany’s next government ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:19 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westf?lisches Elektrizit?tswerk AG Utilities Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Expert ...
18 Dec 2019, 14:05 Germany has seen a second year of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as coal use fell by more than 20 percent and energy production from renewables increased, preliminary calculations by energy research group AG ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:34 S?ren Amelang Mobility Heating Elections & Politics 91tv / Reuters Germany’s three-way government coalition is waging a public battle over pending climate policy decisions, only days before Sunday’s key government ...
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 ...
01 Oct 2020, 16:41 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 EU 91tv EU ...
13 Feb 2025
13 Feb 2025, 13:49 91tv Team Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)- Little potential for "climate plantations" within planetary boundaries Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is being discussed as a way to remove ...
21 Jan 2022, 18:40 The German government wants to use this year’s presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialised nations and democracies to improve the coordination of global efforts to combat climate change. “We want to achieve that no ...
29 Jun 2021, 14:19 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cities 91tv / HR German railway operator Deutsche Bahn is planning one of the largest infrastrucuture projects of the ...
29 Jun 2021, 13:57 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Edgar Meza Cars Elections & Politics WirtschaftsWoche / dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung German transport minister Andreas Scheuer has ...
25 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society 91tv A third of people in Germany say they do not feel well connected by bus or train near their home, and are not satisfied with the number of departures at their nearest stop, according ...
29 Apr 2025
29 Apr 2025, 13:45 91tv Team Bloomberg: Spain slowly returning to normal after crippling blackout Spain and Portugal were returning to some semblance of normality early on 29 April, with many questions remaining about what caused one of Europe’s worst ...
19 Aug 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt / dpa Germany's cabinet will discuss a draft law to better protect so-called critical infrastructure against physical damage "shortly after the summer break", dpa reported in an ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:05 The cheapest way to make the most of a growing renewable electricity supply is to ensure demand follows power generation, and not the other way around – which is still the case today. Dynamic electricity tariffs, which reward households ...
17 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just days away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
11 Jun 2021, 08:00 As the global fight against climate change gains momentum with more and more countries updating their emissions targets, a green surge is washing over Germany’s national election campaign and sets the scene for the country to become a ...
03 Feb 2025
03 Feb 2025, 12:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany opens way for gas beyond 2035 with subsidy extension Germany’s parliament has extended a support scheme for some gas plants by four years to 2030, in a law hurried through just before the general election on ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:27 Jennifer Collins Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / SWR Plans for a 2.75 billion euro?cutting edge silicon carbide chip plant in Germany are up in the air, amid reports that construction?has been put on hold indefinitely and that ...
07 May 2025, 13:03 S?ren Amelang Elections & Politics 91tv The election of Friedrich Merz as Germany’s new chancellor in an unprecedented second parliamentary vote was greeted with relief by the country’s energy, industry, and ...
16 May 2025, 13:12 Jennifer Collins Renewables Business & Jobs 91tv More than half of business leaders in eastern Germany rate the region's economic potential as "high" or "very high", with renewable energy seen ...
06 Nov 2024
06 Nov 2024, 13:24 91tv Team Euronews: Thousands of jobs to go at German car parts maker Sch?ffler The company is downsizing at 10 locations in Germany and five other sites in Europe, further illustrating the challenges facing the European car industry. ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal G20 & G7 91tv The Group of Seven (G7) large industrial democracies can be a key forum for “pioneering new cooperation” on carbon dioxide removal (CDR), wrote researchers from Germany and ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: German, French companies less hopeful over economic recovery Companies in the euro zone's two largest economies are growing more pessimistic, surveys showed on Thursday (26 July), raising concerns over ...
13 Dec 2018, 17:40 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
06 Oct 2021, 12:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz, Frankenpost The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ decision to award this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg ...
06 Jul 2021, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 The ...
23 May 2025, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Technology Security Handelsblatt Germany’s leading arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is looking to convert a large part of its fuel supply to renewable energy-based e-fuels. At an industry summit hosted by business daily ...
23 May 2025, 13:08 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out 91tv / FT Economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche has confirmed media reports that her government agreed with France to largely drop its resistance to supporting new nuclear power ...
19 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just days away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
06 Dec 2024, 12:56 S?ren Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv Climate action has dropped in German voters’ priorities vs economic growth over the course of the past five years, according to a? survey ?conducted by the Konrad Adenauer ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:22 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 ...
26 Oct 2021, 12:43 The booming voluntary market for CO2?emission offsets is facing a hairy double counting issue that could stop further growth in its tracks. While high-aiming businesspeople are preparing a new standard to scale the market and make it ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society RND Public health officers in Germany have proposed to introduce a midday break akin to the Spanish ‘siesta’ to protect workers during the hottest hours of the day, media network RND reported. “We ...
11 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 ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Concern about the impact of climate change is rising, while fewer people feel individual action is needed to combat the problem, according to a survey in 32 countries on ...
21 Feb 2020, 13:25 Greta Thunberg will travel to Hamburg to participate in the student climate protests preceding local elections in the maritime city on 23 February, according to media reports. The Swedish activist's presence at the "Hamburg ...
03 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 ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
24 Sep 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv The rollout of public electric vehicle charging points in Germany continued to progress at pace in the first half of 2024, despite existing charging networks not being well utilised, said the ...
12 Jan 2021, 13:43 Charlotte Nijhuis International 91tv / Der Spiegel Germany is joining the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced at the One Planet Summit for biodiversity in Paris. The ...
27 May 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Energy consumption in Germany has seen a “surprisingly strong” increase in the first three months of 2025, an analysis by AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) has found. Consumption ...
23 Jun 2021, 13:25 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Deutsche Welle, Zeit Online, Handelsblatt Chancellor Angela Merkel has said both the private sector and the state have a duty to invest ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen FAZ / 91tv Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner, a Free Democrat (FDP), has proposed several tax exemptions for combustion engine cars that run exclusively on renewables-based ...
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 ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:07 Edgar Meza Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Federal funds required to support the expansion of renewable energy in Germany could drop in 2025, according to an analysis by the Institute of Energy Economics at the University ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:39 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany should act quickly to kickstart the hydrogen economy with concrete steps as not enough has been done in practice so far, said the Association of German Engineers ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
25 Oct 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Coal International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany could play a decisive role in the global transition to renewable energy,?Fatih Birol, executive director of the?International Energy Agency (IEA ...
23 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024, 11:47 91tv Team Reuters: Germany bets on India to reduce reliance on China From cars to logistics, German companies are largely optimistic about India's growth potential, tapping into a wealth of skilled young workers, a cheaper cost ...
15 Dec 2015, 00:00 The widely celebrated Paris Agreement has intensified the debate about how Germany can achieve its endangered climate targets. Most commentators and climate activists argued the results of the climate summit vindicated demands that ...
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 ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:18 Edgar Meza Grid Storage Handelsblatt Sales of large-scale battery storage units are booming in Germany but their role in facilitating and advancing the energy transition appears to have been impeded by their increasing use for profit, ...
13 Dec 2018, 18:20 The global community is closely watching Germany’s lagging domestic climate action, which certainly does not help the country’s credibility in international negotiations, says Lisa Badum, climate policy spokesperson of the Greens' ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society dpa / ZfK Optimism that Germany can achieve its national energy transition targets is moderately growing in Germany, a survey by consultancy EY has found. The share of respondents saying that the ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
16 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024, 10:45 91tv Team The Guardian: Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month. DeSmog: ...
28 Apr 2016
28 Apr 2016, 00:00 S?ren Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “A bird in the hand” The proposed fund for nuclear storage costs is in breach of some fundamental principles, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an op ...
09 May 2025, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv The new German economy and energy minister, conservative Christian Democrat (CDU) politician Katherina Reiche, has said that Germany had to “find a new agreement on the ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:31 Bennet Ribbeck Business & Jobs International 91tv European industry could profit from a possible US drawback in climate-policy related collaborations, said Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock. Climate ...
17 Dec 2020, 14:20 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has passed the? latest reform of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG),?which specifies a timeline of tenders for renewable power installation additions until ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:45 S?ren Amelang Mobility Transport 91tv Germany’s government has agreed on the country’s first ever? pedestrian transport strategy ?that aims to strengthen walking as a sustainable and healthy way of getting around. Transport ...
22 Nov 2024, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics MDR / dpa Three parties have agreed to form a coalition in Germany's eastern state of Thuringia following elections in September. The Christian Democrats (CDU), Social Democrats (SPD) and ...
08 Oct 2018, 16:58 Anti-coal activists in Germany and beyond experienced a sudden change in fortune on 5 October, when a court ruling boosted their cause and provisionally stopped plans of energy company RWE to cut down the embattled Hambach Forest in ...
14 Jul 2022, 11:51 Germany must better prepare for the impacts of climate change, environment minister Steffi Lemke said, as a heat wave is sweeping across Europe exactly one year after deadly floods killed hundreds of people in Germany and neighbouring ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The cost of buying and running a new gas boiler in Germany is predicted to be twice as high as a heat pump over a 20-year period, according to a report by non-profit ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country’s industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:51 The German government has refused to sign on to a COP26 climate summit declaration on zero emissions cars and vans because the transport and environment ministries could not agree on whether to include e-fuels in the country’s ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Germany is likely to reach its target of having a total offshore wind electricity capacity of 30 gigawatt (GW) in 2031, one year later than planned, said several industry groups in a joint press ...
11 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024, 10:23 91tv Team WBGU: German govt advisors call for international water strategy with regional platforms In a climatically and geopolitically heated world, the challenges surrounding water are becoming substantially more acute, said the ...
23 Aug 2024, 12:34 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany could cover at least part of its future critical raw material demand with domestic production, found a report by the Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...
19 Nov 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Handelsblatt Gas supply in Germany at the beginning of winter is stable and storage facilities are well stocked as the heating season gets underway, business daily Handelsblatt reported. The risk of a tight gas ...
14 Sep 2021, 10:00 The EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ package of climate and energy legislation will be “incredibly difficult” to get through member states and German chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor must be willing to spend time, energy and diplomatic capital, ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:40 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Handelsblatt German transmission grid operator 50Hertz has called for a more balanced and careful approach when it comes to the further expansion of solar photovoltaics (PV), saying there is a risk of overloading ...
22 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Bloomberg: Allianz sees damages worth tens of millions for German vineyards Insurer Allianz SE expects to pay German winemakers tens of millions of euros in insurance claims this year after many vineyards lost their ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:15 Germany’s most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country’s strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
20 Mar 2025, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Die Welt / 91tv A new round of purchase incentives for electric vehicles planned by the prospective next German government has aroused scepticism among the country’s car industry, ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Energy consumption in Germany has fallen significantly in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period one year before, energy industry and research initiative ...
19 Apr 2022, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Gas Elections & Politics 91tv / FAZ / Welt am Sonntag / t-online Leading German politicians have called for a probe into the role played by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's state premier Manuela ...
16 Sep 2024
16 Sep 2024, 12:13 91tv Team Bloomberg: Travel chaotic, damage mounts after Central European floods Widespread flooding in central and eastern Europe from days of unrelenting rain is playing havoc with rail transportation and causing more evacuations of ...
24 Mar 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Nuclear phase-out 91tv Germany’s government cabinet today approved an amendment to the Nuclear Energy Act which provides for financial compensation to nuclear power plant operators due to the country’s phase ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:46 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 Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko ...
05 May 2021, 10:03 The latest pledges for greenhouse gas reductions by large emitters like the EU and the U.S. are making a difference in predicted global temperature rise and “show progress and a great need for action,” Germany’s environment minister ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become Germany’s next chancellor – but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
29 Jan 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The energy transition is placing an uneven financial burden on Germany‘s poorest households – and transition costs related to heating are impacting these citizens ...
23 Aug 2024
23 Aug 2024, 10:50 Carolina Kyllmann Fortune: Greenpeace files supreme court case accusing Finland of climate inaction A group of environmental and rights organisations said Thursday (22 August) that they were suing the Finnish government for violating ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:26 S?ren Amelang International 91tv The EU must commit to new climate targets this spring in order to increase the chances of success at this year's crucial climate conference COP26, an alliance of German environmental ...
05 Oct 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Several lignite power plants in Germany will be allowed to return to the market this winter to help secure supply and save gas during the heating period, said the economy ministry in a press ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:23 Jack McGovan Cars 91tv Germany's economy and climate ministry has welcomed the European Commission’s plans for the automotive sector, arguing it will increase the sector's international competitiveness. "With ...
06 Mar 2025, 13:20 Jack McGovan Storage Resources & Recycling 91tv Deep bodies of water in northern Germany have been found to contain large amounts of lithium that could be used to help produce batteries for the energy transition, ...
06 Jan 2021, 18:13 A German state government attempts to circumvent looming U.S. sanctions on the contentious natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 with the help of a “climate” foundation. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where the pipeline will land, ...
08 Aug 2024
08 Aug 2024, 15:22 91tv Team NewClimate Institute: Unpacking Germany’s hydrogen import strategy: 3 considerations for Global South partners Expectation that lower production costs can partially offset high conversion losses & transport costs may not ...
12 Feb 2025, 13:39 Bennet Ribbeck Cost & Prices Policy Most Germans say that the country’s landmark energy transition is not implemented in a socially just way as the burdens are not fairly distributed (63%), and they have little trust in politicians ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:42 S?ren Amelang Cars 91tv / Spiegel / Bild / dpa German policymakers, industry experts, environmental NGOs and unions were split over a proposal to support the country’s ailing car industry with a new ‘cash for clunkers’ ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / rbb German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has narrowly defeated the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to emerge as the strongest party in the ...
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 ...
23 Jan 2019, 10:55 Power prices are less of a concern for some industry sectors and coal-heavyweight RWE has long been about “much more than coal” – industry representatives offered an unusual take on the German coal exit debate in a panel discussion ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:42 Jack McGovan Efficiency Construction 91tv Buildings in the worst energy efficiency categories have above-average carbon emissions, so targeting them first for refurbishments would have a significant climate impact, ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Households in East Germany on average pay nearly a quarter more for energy than those in the West if adjusted for purchasing power, an? analysis ?by price comparison website ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:05 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) – the second strongest polling party ahead of Germany's snap elections on 23 February – is the only major party to outright reject the scientific consensus behind human-induced climate ...
21 Oct 2015
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Environment State Secretary Flasbarth (BMUB) Germany must exit coal in the next 25-30 years A well-organised exit from coal which considers social aspects is needed in the next 25 to 30 years if ...
18 Dec 2019, 13:31 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 Expert DENEFF- German Industry ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Germany, Denmark, the UK and the EU will provide 100 million euros for climate change mitigation projects in developing countries, economy minister Robert Habeck said at the Global NDC ...
13 Mar 2025, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv Thousands of scientists from a broad section of fields have come together to urge Germany's next government to prioritise climate policy. "We are very ...
23 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Electrek: Porsche scales back 80% EV goal by 2030 amid falling sales, shifting market Although it could still happen, Porsche said the target was too ambitious and the transition “will take longer than we assumed.” ...
18 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ursula von der Leyen: "We'll stay the course on the EU Green Deal and the goals we set for 2030 and 2050" " We will now focus on implementation & investment" and "put forward a Clean ...
28 May 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv Extreme weather events, such as storms, hail and heavy rainfall, caused insured losses to the tune of 5.7 billion euros in Germany in 2023, the German Insurance ...
02 Aug 2024
02 Aug 2024, 14:20 Six months after the new ruling coalition in Poland came to power, there are still no significant changes to the country’s energy policy. The government of Donald Tusk, however, is finally getting back to work on key laws for the energy ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Business Company climate claims 91tv Large food retailers in Germany have a long way to go to make good on their sustainability promises, according to a report by Dutch think tank Questionmark. ...
07 Oct 2024
07 Oct 2024, 10:53 91tv Team Bruegel: Europe’s 2040 climate target: four critical risks and how to manage them Achieving target will require massive expansion of renewable electricity generation, drastic reductions in fossil-fuel use, energy efficiency ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Business Elections & Politics 91tv Bureaucracy and energy are the top issues that German companies say the next government to should prioritise, according to a survey by economic research institute ifo ...
21 Mar 2024, 13:53 S?ren Amelang Jess Smee Agriculture Society Spiegel Online / 91tv Increasingly “rancid” or “muddy” tasting olive oil appears to be the first prominent example of climate change blighting what people eat in Germany, the ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:06 S?ren Amelang Electricity market Storage Technology pv magazine Large-scale battery projects with a combined capacity of 226 gigawatts (GW) seek to be connected to Germany’s transmission grid, fanning industry speculation that the ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:32 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport 91tv More than 25 percent of Germans have poor access to local public transport, according to a report by Greenpeace, which is calling on the government to improve the situation. Based on data ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv / dpa / Handelsbatt Offshore wind farms in the German North Sea generated around eight percent more wind power last year compared to 2023, transmission system operator TenneT said. At 20.8 ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:09 Julian Wettengel Agriculture 91tv German stakeholders in agriculture support calls for an EU-wide benchmarking system, arguing that this could help reward sustainable practices in the sector. Such a system has been proposed ...
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 ...
02 May 2025, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv EU member states’ national climate plans insufficiently address just transition issues, a crucial deficiency ahead of the introduction of a carbon price on ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:56 Negotiators in Glasgow reached a breakthrough on the rules for global carbon emission reduction trade. After five years of unsuccessful deliberations since the Paris Agreement laid down the framework for a new market where states and ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche Parties’ failure to agree on final details of a reform to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Germany ahead of the election on 23 February will set efforts back significantly, industry ...
08 Jan 2025, 10:08 Jennifer Collins Electricity Renewables 91tv The share of renewable energy in net public electricity generation in Germany in 2024 reached a record high of 62.7 percent, with solar power smashing government expansion ...
07 Feb 2025, 13:22 Joey Grostern Wind 91tv Germany looks set to exceed its 2030 onshore wind power target by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis by the Google-backed think tank Goal100. Considering the number of applications and permits for ...
06 Feb 2025, 13:24 Bennet Ribbeck Industry 91tv The electrification of industrial processes with renewable energy is the most cost-effective transformation path for the sector, the research consortium IND-E has stated in a report. The authors ...
06 May 2024, 12:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The number of electric vehicles (EVs) exported from Germany rose sharply in 2023, meaning that EVs accounted for about one quarter of all car exports that year, the country’s ...
21 Jun 2024, 14:14 On the night of the European elections, French president Emmanuel Macron did not wait until the official results were called to announce the dissolution of the country’s parliament and, consequently, to call new elections already by the ...
09 Feb 2024, 13:01 S?ren Amelang Mobility Transport A broad alliance of German climate NGOs, welfare organisations, trade unions and business associations? has warned ?that the cuts to the country’s railway budget puts the mobility transition and climate ...
07 Aug 2024
07 Aug 2024, 13:41 91tv Team Reuters: German drugstore chain shuns Teslas over Musk's support for Trump Rossmann drugstore chain, which is among the largest in Europe, said its decision was with immediate effect and due to what it called an " ...
26 May 2025, 12:04 Germany’s plans for the ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy has run into significant uncertainties, including over the fuel’s future price, regulation, and the necessary infrastructure development, said an energy industry report. ...
17 Nov 2023, 13:19 Milou Dirkx Finance International COP28 91tv The 100 billion U.S. dollars that developed economies aimed to raise annually for climate action in developing countries was likely reached for the first time in 2022, said the ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's economy ministry expects the country's GDP to rise 0.3 percent in 2025, according to its annual report. A report from autumn put growth at 1.1 percent, however, ...
28 Nov 2023, 14:36 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Business Finance 91tv German industry is increasingly investing in climate protection measures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28 ...
23 Jan 2019, 17:36 Developed countries have the responsibility to establish “technologies from which others can benefit”, such as forms of renewable energy production, after they emitted a lot of CO? during the industrialisation, German Chancellor Angela ...
12 Dec 2018, 12:05 Negotiations on the “markets article” (Article 6) of the Paris Agreement are a bit on the side lines of the talks at COP24. While representatives of many countries and regions, e.g. the one of Canadian British Columbia don’t tire to ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:07 Expert Vattenfall Germany Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Almost three years after the peak of Europe’s energy crisis in 2022, many people in Germany are ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / 91tv With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:25 S?ren Amelang Policy Security Tagesspiegel Background The German government has agreed to hand extra power to the country’s grid agency to improve the protection of critical energy infrastructure. The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is ...
26 Feb 2025, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung A proposal from Germany’s likely next chancellor for a “moratorium on dismantling” the remaining decommissioned nuclear reactors in the country has been met with reluctance ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:22 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Ahead of the German snap election, an alliance of industry associations has called on political parties to push for a government strategy to decarbonise heat that businesses use in their ...
18 Dec 2018, 13:59 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Government COP24 Zeit Online Energy minister Peter Altmaier correctly said that Germany needs a new approach to climate action by the government and businesses, but it is now up to him and ...
30 Jan 2025, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics 91tv The absence of climate mitigation measures is the greatest threat to prosperity and security in Germany and Europe, a group of environmental organisations said in a joint ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:53 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv In addition to electrification and a massive ramp-up of renewables, a greater use of diverse technologies such as seasonal heat storage or feed additives that reduce methane emissions from ...
24 Oct 2023, 13:35 Jack McGovan Grid Wind Tagesspiegel Background Onshore grid bottlenecks in northwest Germany have led to a quarter of offshore wind power generation being curtailed in the first three months of 2023, reports Tagesspiegel Background ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:51 Julian Wettengel Gas Politics Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed the buildout of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure and increased efforts to extract fossil fuels in the U.S. in? an interview with ...
06 Mar 2024, 10:00 UEFA is reining in the climate impact of the Euro 2024 football tournament by funding subsidised rail travel for fans, and initiatives to make Germany’s amateur football scene greener. But critics argue that for long-term sustainability ...
06 Sep 2024
06 Sep 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Copernicus: Summer 2024 – Hottest on record globally and for Europe During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer ...
02 May 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv / dpa German government representatives welcomed? the agreement ?by the Group of Seven (G7) major economies to end coal power generation by 2035, and said EU emissions trading means that there is ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv Government representatives from Algeria, Austria, Italy, Germany, and Tunisia have signed a joint letter of intent for a new hydrogen corridor that should connect southern ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Die Welt A legislative standstill in plans to build new gas-fired power plants poses a threat to the transformation of East German coal-mining regions, the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) has said ...
25 Feb 2025, 13:44 Edgar Meza Industry Policy EU 91tv Expectations among industrial players and environmental NGOs are high for the EU’s highly anticipated Clean Industrial Deal, a follow-up to the European Green Deal that aims to build on ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The row between Germany’s coalition partners over key climate and energy policies such as industry support shows no sign of letting up despite a two-day retreat ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:49 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv / Erneuerbare Energien Germany's largest carmaker, VW, has extended the suspension of ...
09 May 2023, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv European governments must ensure that no one is left behind during the move towards a climate-neutral future, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a? speech in the European Parliament, ...
12 Nov 2021, 17:20 With only hours officially left to conclude talks in Glasgow, the details of how future carbon markets can help to increase climate mitigation ambition are being formed at the hands of government ministers while NGOs warn that current ...
21 Feb 2025, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics ZDF Most of Germany’s leading parties say they are committed to the country’s 2045 climate neutrality target. In the last major? TV debate ?on public broadcaster ZDF before ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:23 S?ren Amelang Cars dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau / 91tv The expansion of Germany's charging network for electric vehicles is making fast progress. The network grew by 45,000 charging points to a total of nearly 146,000 ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:09 S?ren Amelang Heating Elections & Politics 91tv Electrical and IT companies in Germany have called on Germany's parties to not discredit the energy transition in the federal election campaign leading up to the vote ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Heating 91tv / ZDF Many people in Germany have no idea that the planned expansion of EU carbon pricing could significantly push up their fossil fuel heating costs, in some ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:04 Jack McGovan Industry Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv Many German companies introduced energy efficiency measures and some shifted towards renewable power sources due to higher energy prices in the aftermath of ...
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 ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Hamburger Morgenpost / Tagesspiegel / Die Zeit / Merkur / Radio Hamburg Just one week after their defeat at Germany’s snap election, the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf ...
26 Jul 2019, 13:52 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv The natural resources humans can consume sustainably this year will be used up by Monday 29 July, according to calculations by the Global Footprint Network. If all the world’s population ...
It is futile to hope that the German government will officially propose the introduction of a “climate passport” at the upcoming UN climate conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. In a ...
23 Jan 2025, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices Die Welt Representatives of the German energy industry say that the policy announcements by the new U.S. administration could benefit their country’s competitiveness if the next government ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:53 S?ren Amelang Electricity market Society 91tv Half of German households have never heard of dynamic power pricing, only months before it will be introduced in the country. In a? survey ?by consumer organisations federation ...
10 Sep 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture 91tv The agriculture and forestry sector could play an important role in the EU's goal to achieve climate neutrality by mid-century, while at the same time improving biodiversity ...
15 Dec 2023, 13:23 S?ren Amelang Technology International 91tv Europe is heavily reliant on China in realising its green ambitions and must be prepared to pay more for the shift to climate neutrality if it wants to increase independence, ...
09 Dec 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cars dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The state premier of southern German Baden-Wurttemberg, Green Party politician Winfried Kretschmann, has called for the suspension of possible EU climate ...
Environmental groups called on participants of the UN’s Climate Change Conference in the German city of Bonn to not be sidetracked by the “distracting fire” of US President Donald Trump, reports Andreas Mihm in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Details of ...
26 Mar 2024
26 Mar 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The growing volumes of cheap green technologies coming out of China are leading to worries that solar panels, electric cars, batteries and other products sold below their production price ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Heating Elections & Politics Rheinische Post Ahead of Germany's snap elections, economy minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) has warned that overturning a law aimed at reducing stubbornly high heating emissions ...
15 Jun 2022, 13:00 Gas flows from Russia to Germany through the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be drastically reduced for an unspecified period, state-owned Russian gas provider Gazprom has announced. The company said that German engineering company ...
Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks did well not to rush approval for the watered-down climate plan before the COP22, writes Joachim Wille in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. “It may be embarrassing to arrive at the summit in Marrakesh empty ...
28 Apr 2022, 11:30 Germany has reduced its dependence on Russian crude oil from 35 to 12 percent and will take steps to replace the remaining deliveries to the Russian-operated Schwedt refinery within the next days, said the economy and climate minister. ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:23 S?ren Amelang Electricity market 91tv An energy system dominated by solar and wind energy does not require baseload power stations to guarantee supply security, German research academies? have said. “The academy project ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv A majority of?households in Germany continue to save energy also more than two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which exacerbated a major energy crisis leading to ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Security Handelsblatt Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will cooperate on an accelerated energy transition to meet their climate neutrality targets, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International ...
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27 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa Criticism of environment minister’s ‘solo’ push for coal exit North-Rhine Westphalia’s state premier Hannelore Kraft and her economy minister Garrelt Duin have criticised Federal Environment ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:10 S?ren Amelang Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, conservative Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, has reached a breakthrough deal on the 500-billion-euros ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:17 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:13 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dts Significant parts of the population?in Germany are not sufficiently prepared for the expected cost increases in fossil heating and mobility due to carbon pricing, said Dirk ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv More people in Germany say they want the government to invest CO2 price revenues in renewable energy sources and to lower grid fees, than compensating citizens through an ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:44 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's revenue from carbon pricing rose to a record 18.5 billion euros in 2024, up around 100 million euros from the previous year, said the country's Federal Environment ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv A monitoring system for the expansion of renewable energy sources and better planning tools for companies are needed to ensure a reliable transformation of Germany’s economy, ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Hydrogen International 91tv Germany has pledged at least 112 million euros to support Kenya in implementing “its ambitious goal of switching entirely to renewable energy sources by 2030,” the ...
30 Aug 2024, 13:09 Joey Grostern Solar Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has announced that bids for ground-mounted solar PV from July have been successful, according to an agency press release. “The ...
05 Dec 2022, 13:55 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas will be a crucial part of Germany’s power and energy supply for at least another ten years, because the expansion of renewables and the electricity grid are lagging behind, said ...
14 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables 91tv The increasing use of new rooftop installations is quickening the expansion of solar PV in Germany, meaning the technology’s efficient integration into the energy system becomes ...
Environment minister Barbara Hendricks’ announcement that she did not expect the cabinet to approve her Climate Action Plan 2050 before COP22 in Marrakesh next week “marks the latest embarrassment for a country that once pioneered the fight against global ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv In order to reach climate neutrality in the most affordable way, Germany must ensure it can transport energy across its regions by expanding its electricity and hydrogen grids, ...
14 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Denmark tops the latest edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) by NewClimate Institute, Climate Action Network and Germanwatch, which saw Germany fall ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel / WDR The construction of new gas-fired power plants that are supposed to provide backup capacity for the German electricity system amid the transition to renewable power needs ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv German grid operator Amprion can start construction of a key power line seven months sooner than planned thanks to new regulations to speed up permitting procedures, said the economy ministry in a ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Handelsblatt The German government is considering allowing old coal power plants to remain on standby beyond the currently planned spring 2024 to help save gas and ensure supply security when necessary, ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv A majority of people in Germany (53%) agree that the next government should do more for climate protection, according to a survey commissioned by environmental NGO ...
28 Sep 2023, 14:17 Expert DWD- Germany's National Meteorological Service Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The Paris Climate Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...
27 Jun 2022, 19:30 The leaders’ meeting at Schloss Elmau in the German Alps is set to be a “historic” G7 summit, says political analyst John Kirton. Never before has a summit of the G7 summit faced such a simultaneously unfolding and severe set of ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cities Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Urban greening and parasols in hotspots should help protect people in Germany's cities during periods of high heat. With a new urban heat protection strategy, the ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has said in? its draft election campaign programme ?that it aims to ensure the country is competitive in industry ...
08 Jun 2015, 00:00 G7 leaders made a commitment to limit global warming to 2 degrees at their meeting in southern Germany. In order to achieve this goal, the group of seven industrialised countries said they would push for a decarbonisation of the global ...
22 Dec 2022, 09:12 Hungary’s climate movement is struggling to build on the earlier success of the country's Fridays for Future student protests to make their voices heard. Nonetheless, many activists believe that spectacular acts of civil ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Carbon market 91tv The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) should be reformed to make it more resilient to crises, such as the effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine or the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
06 Oct 2023, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv Twenty-five countries including Germany, France and Japan have pledged a total of 9.3 billion U.S. dollars to support climate action in developing countries from 2024 to 2027 ...
04 Dec 2018, 15:29 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics COP24 Federal Environment Ministry For the start of the UN climate change conference in Poland, German astronaut Alexander Gerst has called for increased action to protect ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv The conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) has said it aims to strengthen Germany’s competitiveness as a basis for ...
29 Nov 2024, 12:19 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's energy industry has warned that the country might struggle to find investors to build new hydrogen-ready gas power plants, following the end of a ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv / Frankfurter Rundschau A German business initiative called "Entrepreneurs for Future" will join the global climate strike on 20 September and call for a ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:53 S?ren Amelang International 91tv Public climate financing from Germany for poorer countries reached a new record level last year, already surpassing the 6-billion euro target set for 2025, the government has said. A total ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU 91tv France and Germany could soon agree on a reform of the EU electricity market, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz have said after their meeting in ...
Cabinet approval of environment minister Barbara Hendricks’ Climate Action Plan 2050 before she travels to the COP22 in Marrakesh could be possible after all, reports news agency dpa. Ministry sources told dpa that Chancellor Angela Merkel had signalled ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany expects cooperation with Indonesia to expand and intensify in the coming years, particularly in the areas of renewable energy and raw materials, the ...
11 Dec 2024, 12:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Onshore wind power auctions held in November in Germany have led to a new record in submitted bids, the country’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. Bidders submitted ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:11 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The past year was “a record year” for ...
29 Apr 2025, 13:37 Germany is unlikely to face the kind of massive power outage which hit Spain and Portugal on 28 April, as the country’s system is based on redundancies and many safeguard measures are in place, said grid agency BNetzA. The two countries ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:36 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Edgar Meza Coal Renewables 91tv Germany generated 47.3 percent less electricity from coal-fired power plants in the third quarter of 2023 ...
28 Apr 2025, 13:55 Conservative CDU member Katherina Reiche looks set to become Germany’s new economy and energy minister in a government led by Friedrich Merz as chancellor. Reiche looks back at ten years in the energy industry, where she assumed leading ...
03 Dec 2018, 14:39 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 COP24 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The international community is failing badly to cooperate as needed to counter the rise in global temperature, writes Andreas Mihm in an ...
06 May 2025, 14:00 Germany’s designated next environment minister Carsten Schneider may not have much background in climate policy, but his experience in navigating political divide in the country’s east and its population’s fatigue of constant changes ...
22 Jul 2022, 13:48 S?ren Amelang Efficiency 91tv German business associations have launched an appeal to redouble energy saving efforts in order to avoid gas shortfalls this winter. “The heating period is less than 100 days away and is ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Elections & Politics 91tv Solar and heating industry associations have appealed to politicians at the federal and state levels to show clear policy commitments to the energy transition after ...
04 Dec 2024, 12:31 Jack McGovan Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background The CDU/CSU conservative alliance in Germany has called for revenues from the upcoming Emissions Trading System (ETS II) for fuels used in transport and heating to ...
22 Aug 2024, 12:32 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating Rheinische Post Reaching Germany's district heating goals was put in jeopardy following planned cuts to the country's 2025 budget, local utilities association VKU warned, as reported by ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:57 Carolina Kyllmann Construction 91tv Excessive bureaucracy and lack of acceptance for used building materials are getting in the way of Germany's targets to increase recycling rates of construction products, according ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:44 S?ren Amelang Cars 91tv / taz The switch to electric vehicles is not yet possible for all income groups equally in Germany, according to a report by clean mobility NGO International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).?? ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Transport dpa / 91tv Germany's railway service reliability took a severe hit in June 2024 due to the effects of extreme weather events, reported news agency dpa. Ageing and ...
19 Sep 2024, 11:26 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv To?supply a sufficient number of homes?with district heating, Germany needs to rapidly expand networks, ensure better profitability and double its annual investments in the technology,? a report ?by ...
15 Oct 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Households in Germany face an abrupt rise in gas prices at the beginning of next year as grid fees increase in 2025, an analysis by price comparison website Verivox has found. ...
15 Oct 2024, 12:58 Jack McGovan Wind Cost & Prices taz The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has proposed a statutory maximum limit on prices for land use among industry complaints that rents for wind farms continue to rise, newspaper Tageszeitung ...
12 Dec 2022, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Tagesspiegel Background / Bloomberg The first gas flows into the German grid from the new floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven are expected on 22 December, newspaper ...
28 Jun 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Heating 91tv More and more households are turning to air conditioning to stay cool in Germany’s increasingly hot summers. The share of households using air conditioning has grown to 19 percent ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung Low wholesale electricity prices are causing a hefty increase in the federal funds required to pay renewables operators the legally agreed upon support amounts in 2024, show ...
21 Jan 2025, 13:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Die Welt The mayor of Hamburg has warned against burdening citizens with too ambitious climate targets, as Germany’s second largest city might be headed for a referendum on its emissions ...
Germany is making haste in ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement partly over fears that Donald Trump will pull out of the deal before it comes into force if he becomes US president, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Time is pressing, and ...
12 Jul 2024, 15:00 The European elections are over and, as was widely expected, centre-right conservatives finished on top, leaving everybody else in the European Parliament the duty to find common ground with the biggest group and form an alliance. ...
16 May 2025, 14:30 As Croatia goes to the polls for local elections on 18 May the green transition has been relatively absent in political campaigns. Citizen participation in the transition has picked up with the opening of the first large-scale solar ...
08 Oct 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Transport Cars 91tv The number of cars on German roads has reached a record high of 49.1 million at the start of 2024, according to a new report from the government’s statistical office Destatis. From January ...
25 Jul 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Renewables Hydrogen 91tv The German government drafted a law to accelerate the expansion of onshore wind, solar farms and energy storage facilities by shortening approval times for projects and designing so ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:11 Ruby Russel Freight 91tv Battery-electric trucks are the best option to reduce emissions from road freight transport, and market forces are working in their favour, according to a report by the German Institute for Economic ...
The energy ministers of Germany’s 16 federal states have agreed to strengthen their focus on the separation of key energy policy decisions from party politics, and to improve coordination between the individual state ministries, the Environment and Energy ...
The slow pace of progress in the negotiations on a rulebook for the Paris Climate Agreement is “deeply worrying,” and industrial countries must both help configure global climate policy in a socially responsible way and do their own homework, write ...
18 Nov 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Construction dpa / Spiegel Bad insulation and the use of gas- or oil-based heating systems increasingly eat into the market value of residential property in Germany, according to a report by ...
24 May 2017, 00:00 Days before the G7 summit in Italy, foreign governments praised German Chancellor Merkel for her international leadership on climate and urged her to sway US President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the Paris Agreement. ...
15 Nov 2024, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Elections & Politics ARD Germany’s largest opposition group in parliament, the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, has supported the continuation of the country’s national flat-rate ticket for using local ...
14 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The collapse of Germany’s coalition government could threaten important energy transition projects across the country if no precautions are taken ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has cautioned that new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power, as a means to mitigate global warming, must not slow the rollout of ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:17 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Rising temperatures in Germany due to climate change are having a direct impact on the health of people, particularly the elderly, according to a? new report ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv A new start in German-African relations is needed to diversify raw material providers and reduce dependencies, a report by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:02 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany will not leave developing countries alone in dealing with climate protection and adaptation to climate change, said German environment ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:05 Germany will see the first hydrogen flow in pipelines from next year after the country’s "core hydrogen grid" was approved. The backbone of the long-distance transmission network for hydrogen will be slightly smaller than ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:38 S?ren Amelang Adaptation Society 91tv Citizens expect the German government to take decisive action against the consequences of climate change, and are calling for the greening of inner cities to counter increasing heat, as ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv A broad alliance of more than 40 civil society associations and organisations? has called on the German government to step-up climate measures as the country is projected to miss its ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:17 Edgar Meza Mobility Policy Spiegel / NDR Germany's economy ministry has invited stakeholders to a car industry summit to discuss the current industry crisis, Spiegel reported. Representatives of the country's carmakers, the ...
11 Feb 2022, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Government International 91tv The German government plans to support climate and environmental protection projects in Indonesia with credits worth 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the German development ...
18 May 2020, 14:02 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert Franco-German Office for the Energy Transition Office Franco-Allemand pour la Transition ?nergétique / ...
Ahead of the G7 environment, energy and ocean ministers meeting in Halifax, Canada, humanitarian relief organisation CARE published a comprehensive analysis of the finance provided by the G7 group to developing countries for climate change adaptation and ...
25 Nov 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Table.Media / Zeit A planned law to ensure new gas power plants can be built in Germany to secure electricity supply as the country phases out coal power continues to hang ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Heating with gas and oil could be cheaper for German households in this year’s heating season compared to the previous winter, said price comparison website Verivox. In ...
16 Jul 2024, 12:23 Edgar Meza Gas Handelsblatt EU countries are increasing Russian gas imports despite the bloc’s efforts to reduce fossil fuel from Russia in the wake of the Ukraine war, Handelsblatt reports. EU countries imported around 30 percent more ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:58 The global growth of renewable power sources is an encouraging trend for climate action but needs to be better coordinated to ensure international targets are met, according to Germany’s economy and foreign affairs ministers. ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:15 Germany made significant progress in the area of climate adaptation in the past legislative period, said Andrea Fischer-Hotzel from the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). From the national to the municipal level, there is now ...
06 Nov 2023, 13:55 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices dpa / Zeit Online More than a third of people currently using Germany’s nationwide public transport ticket would end their subscription if costs went up much further than the current 49 ...
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09 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Grid fees push up power price” An internal analysis by the federal grid agency reveals that the systemic costs of the Energiewende will push up grid fees, reports ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv German exports of electric cars rose more than 65 percent last year to some 500,000 units valued at 24.2 billion euros, statistical office (Destatis) reports. While foreign trade of electric vehicles is ...
11 Dec 2018, 13:51 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Tagesspiegel Germany plays a central role at the UN climate summit COP24 because it wants to show that ambitious climate protection offers big opportunities for new and ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv New large scale batteries and hydrogen electrolysers could see their grid connection fee lowered in areas where there is surplus electricity, according to proposals made by ...
10 Dec 2018, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Business & Jobs 91tv The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged delegates at the UN climate conference COP24 in Poland to ensure progress is made in ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:34 Edgar Meza Wind Tagesspiegel Background New military exclusion zones could lead to the loss of up to a third of federal land for wind power generation in Germany, Tagesspiegel Background reported. The German Wind Energy Association (BWE ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Renewables Germany’s ministries for the economy, the environment and construction have released a draft for translating the EU’s renewable energy directive (RED) into German law to speed up the roll-out of ...
The climate talks in Bangkok?must lead to tangible results that make this year’s COP24 UN climate conference in Poland a success, NGO Germanwatch says in a press release. “Robust rules for the Paris Climate Agreement, improved climate goals for countries ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Cars Spiegel / Automobilwoche The Volkswagen group’s future CEO, Oliver Blume, who is set to take the reins at the German carmaker on 1 September, has again expressed his support for electrofuels, also known as e-fuels and ...
The squabbling in the German government over its Climate Action Plan 2050 is a result of the seriousness with which the topic is being treated, writes Bernhard P?tter in a commentary for Deutschlandfunk’s website. “Most other countries come up with some ...
19 Jun 2020, 14:04 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables 91tv The amount of electricity produced with renewable energy sources in Germany within one year could theoretically power ...
09 Apr 2024, 14:00 German environmental NGOs have welcomed a landmark climate victory by an association of women in Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights as a breakthrough for climate action. The court found that the European Convention on ...
The German federal government cabinet has decided on a draft law for the ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement. Once the parliament passes the law, Germany has done its bit to ratify the climate treaty. The ratification law would also be “the basis ...
29 Nov 2018, 16:24 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International WWF / Greenpeace / DUH / BNE / VCI / BDI The European Commission’s plan to make the EU CO2-neutral by 2050 has been largely appreciated by environmental NGOs as ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:52 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv CO2 emissions from the German power mix range between 87 and 664 grammes per kilowatt-hour depending on the time of year and day, researchers from consultancy EUPD Research ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv German industry's dependence on ...
22 May 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel International G20 & G7 91tv Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) ...
27 Aug 2024, 13:29 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Hydrogen NDR German state-run energy company Uniper is trialling the use of a former salt mine in northern Germany for large-scale hydrogen storage, public broadcaster NDR? ...
As a result of the diesel crisis, used car sales were down 1.9 percent in 2017, compared to the previous year, according to the German Association for Motor Trade and Repair (ZDK). “Auto dealers are deeply unsettled,"?ZDK president Jürgen Karpinski ...
Germany and California have agreed to ramp up their cooperation and commitment to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement and limiting the effects of global warming, the California Environmental Protection Agency said in a press release. Germany’s State ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:54 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Edgar Meza Gas International 91tv The highest Dutch court has put a halt to gas drilling off the German North Sea island of Borkum. The ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government ARD / ntv / Funke Mediengruppe Only days before nuclear power production is set to end in Germany on 15 April, the government coalition party Free Democrats (FDP) has suggested to mothball ...
20 Nov 2024, 13:18 Germany needs to implement a host of measures to achieve a climate neutral electricity system effectively, climate policy research institute Ariadne said. More flexibility and efficiency should be the focus of power market reforms, as ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv / RBB / NDR A court in Germany has imposed a nearly two-year sentence for a road block climate protest by the activist group Last Generation (Letzte Generation). The local ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Germany should consider the import of direct reduced iron as a way to produce the hydrogen that is needed to generate electricity in its planned backup power plants, says a report by Norwegian ...
25 Jan 2023, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Several environmental NGOs call on the German government to align the more rapid buildout of renewable energy with protecting and expanding ‘ green infrastructure ’ such as natural wetlands ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
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20 Sep 2019, 12:55 Hundreds of thousands of people demanded rapid climate action at Germany's Fridays for Future protests, keeping public pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel's government following the announcement of a broad action package to ...
The number of solar power plants, wind turbines and other renewable energy sources in Germany has risen to 1.74 million, with a combined capacity of almost 112 gigawatts (GW), energy company innogy says in a press release. The vast majority of ...
The European Commission has given up plans to tighten the European emissions reduction goal for 2030 ahead of the UN climate conference COP24 in Katowice as member states did not voice sufficient support for the ambitious target to reduce CO 2 levels by ...
11 Oct 2017, 00:00 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 adds further ...
03 Mar 2022, 12:55 Edgar Meza Fossil fuels Security 91tv The German government is releasing oil reserves from the country’s Petroleum Stockholding Association (EBV) in an effort to calm the oil market. The move follows a decision on Wednesday ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices 91tv German leaders see the country well-equipped to get through the coming winter in the ongoing energy crisis. The government had initiated the necessary preparations to secure ...
06 Jun 2024, 13:51 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables 91tv Nearly 60 percent of all electricity fed into the German grid in the first three months of 2024 ...
08 Dec 2021, 14:36 Jessica Bateman Elections & Politics Government Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s new foreign minister, Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock, will head up international climate policy for the first time in the ministry’s history, ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:15 Jennifer Collins Transport Cost & Prices n-tv The price of the Germany Ticket, a monthly subscription allowing passengers to travel on regional transport across the whole country, is set to increase next year from its current?49 ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Society 91tv Anchoring health, climate and environment in all government departments and ministries is one of the recommendations put forward by Germany's health and resilience expert council, an ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Policy EU FAZ The European Union should focus on strengthening existing policy instruments when charting the course for climate action in the years after 2030, write researchers Brigitte Knopf and Oliver Geden in an op ...
20 Oct 2021, 13:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Climate activists from Fridays for Future have presented a list of demands for the first 100 days of a new German government. The activists first and ...
31 May 2024, 12:50 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany has signed a declaration of intent with Italy and Austria to develop a green hydrogen import corridor in a bid to improve future energy security, the economy ministry ...
04 Dec 2023, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Leading members of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) have called for a reversal of the country’s nuclear phase ...
23 May 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen dpa / ARD / 91tv Germany’s gas storage capacity is insufficient for the planned expansion of the use of hydrogen, according to gas storage network operator INES. Current gas storage facilities ...
03 Jul 2024, 13:21 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Society EU 91tv / Spiegel The European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has reduced the emission of hazardous air pollutants like sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides, ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The construction of hydrogen storage facilities beyond the existing caverns is crucial for the energy system of the future, especially as a basis for solar photovoltaics (PV) ...
E.ON fossil-fuel spin-off Uniper’s IPO revealed the difficult situation both companies face in the near future, writes Helmut Bünder in an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “The first day of trading became the day of truth. The market ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs dpa / Zeit Online German chancellor Olaf Scholz has unveiled plans to hold an industry summit later this month in a bid to address the ongoing woes in the country’s manufacturing sector. ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:08 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Business Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany’s leading business executives are taking climate and environmental protection increasingly serious, according to a survey presented at the COP26 climate ...
19 Dec 2022, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv Germany’s first import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) opened on Saturday, 17 December, and is slated to supply gas to the German grid within days. “This is a very special moment ...
31 Jul 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Solar Handelsblatt / 91tv The fast pace of Germany’s solar PV expansion is causing concerns among energy companies about the buildout’s effect on the grid, business daily Handelsblatt? writes. “If ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv / n-tv / NZZ The stock price of Swiss solar panel manufacturer Meyer Burger has plunged after the company? announced ?it would not follow through on plans to open a new ...
23 May 2024, 14:40 Jack McGovan Adaptation Cost & Prices Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Representatives of Germany’s states of Germany will discuss the idea of introducing mandatory insurance for homes for natural hazards with chancellor Olaf Scholz on ...
23 May 2024, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Acceptance of the energy transition in Germany would greatly improve with the introduction of a compensation mechanism for citizens to counter cost increases caused by CO2 ...
11 May 2023, 13:11 Edgar Meza Policy Security Handelsblatt / 91tv Economy minister Robert Habeck has warned against over-reliance on China and called for the broadening of supply chains while reassessing “the opportunities and risks of our ...
19 Sep 2024, 11:34 Edgar Meza Solar Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Despite a strong performance?over the past two years, Germany’s solar sector is facing declining demand and a weakening market, leading to major cutbacks among photovoltaic (PV) companies. ...
13 Jan 2025, 10:15 A last-minute move by Germany’s government to call for a delay to key EU sustainable finance legislation has caused dismay among observers from the finance industry and beyond. At a time when economic and political uncertainty is ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 Germany’s snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
Germany and France have agreed to develop a 2050 European Union strategy for long-term decarbonisation, both governments said in a declaration following a joint ministerial meeting near Berlin. This is not only a necessity, but also an economic ...
23 Aug 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Cars 91tv / Reuters Germany needs biofuels and synthetic fuels made from renewable electricity (e-fuels) to ensure that the country's existing fleet of combustion engine vehicles can help reach climate ...
Offshore wind farms produce electricity more reliably than previously thought, a study by research institute Fraunhofer IWES has shown. Wind turbines in the German North- and Baltic Sea produce power on 363 days a year, while older data from 2013 had seen ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The projected demand for green hydrogen in Europe can largely be covered by domestic production, said researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Integrated Energy Systems ...
24 May 2024, 15:00 The curtain is coming down on five years of EU energy and environment legislative drama. Since the 2019 “green wave” that helped put the spotlight on sustainable policy, dozens of laws have passed through the complex process of EU ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:47 The public debate in Poland in recent weeks has been dominated by international security and the implications of the rift between the new US administration and Europe on Ukraine. Beyond the frontpage news, there has been progress on ...
Warnings from representatives of Germany’s conventional power industry that the country’s power supply security was in danger during dark and windless periods like in January as more and more conventional plants are becoming uneconomical and are set to ...
30 May 2025, 15:00 Italy is facing a delay in the phase-out of coal, as the future of a major coal-fired power plant near Rome remains unclear, despite plans for its closure by the end of the year. The uncertainty is partly fuelled by industry concerns ...
10 Aug 2021, 13:00 German politicians and other stakeholders said the latest major report on climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an urgent warning that rapid emission cuts are needed to keep the Paris Agreement target ...
16 Jul 2024, 13:52 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Germany’s weakened industrial sector coupled with the expansion of renewable energy sources have resulted in a record drop in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions traded in the EU Emissions Trading System ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics ntv / 91tv The industrial jobs that will be lost due to the end of coal-fired power production in Germany’s eastern mining region Lusatia have already been replaced by new ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germans' support for the climate movement has halved following the rise of highly controversial street blockades by more radical activists, shows a survey by More in ...
21 Dec 2022, 10:51 The uptake of net zero targets among India’s industrial giants is unlikely to translate into rapid emissions reductions given a lack of adequate policies, funding and regulatory oversight. On the contrary, the country's steelmakers ...
14 Dec 2018, 14:34 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Politics Focus Online The commission tasked with planning the end of coal-fired power production in Germany may be imperilled by internal differences that hinder compromise, climate ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:39 Jack McGovan Cars Spiegel German chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to meet with heads of the car industry this coming Monday to discuss electric vehicle targets as part of the country’s plans to move away from fossil fuels, reports Spiegel. ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:08 Germany and Europe must urgently strengthen their competitiveness and defence capabilities, government, businesses and NGOs said in first reactions the U.S. presidential election win by Donald Trump. Industry association BDI warned that ...
06 Dec 2018, 14:16 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International Federal Environment Ministry The German environment ministry (BMU) will support a global initiative to protect moorlands, which act as important storage for carbon ...
03 Sep 2019, 17:45 Following key regional elections in eastern German Saxony and Brandenburg, the conservative parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's grand coalition – the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) – have ...
11 Aug 2021, 13:49 Kerstine Appunn Finance 91tv One of the main objectives of this year’s UN Climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) should be reworking the details of international climate finance and include more links to reciprocal efforts in ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:36 A sudden and sharp electricity price spike during a day of very little wind and solar power output in Germany has prompted the country’s grid regulator to investigate a possible market manipulation. Fossil backup plants that are meant ...
16 May 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann EU Table.Media Members of parliament from France and Germany have called for intensifying efforts to create a more coherent energy policy together with Poland, Table.Media reported. The three major EU member states ...
19 Mar 2020, 13:59 Foundations are calling on the EU to use any economic stimulus enacted in response to the coronavirus to accelerate the transition to a green economy. The global climate crisis cannot be ignored even as governments focus on the health ...
10 Oct 2022, 14:07 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is testing emission-free delivery on Berlin’s Spree river with a solar-powered ship. The pilot project in the capital is an addition to the company’s ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Bioenergy Policy 91tv / Table.Media A draft bill that would seal a deal to phase out biofuels derived from food or feed crops should be voted on by ministers “as soon as possible”, German environment ...
The decision of 48 poorer countries to terminate coal-fired power production has sparked calls for Germany to envisage a speedy coal exit as well, the Rheinische Post newspaper reports. The announcement of the Climate Vulnerable Forum’s countries at the ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:38 Germany will earmark billions of euros less for climate and transformation projects every year until 2027 in order to make the government budget comply with constitutionally enshrined limits on borrowing. One month after a seminal ...
Members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group in the Bundestag have strongly criticised the current draft of federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks’ Climate Action Plan 2050, Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann write in ...
04 Jul 2024, 14:10 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Germany has awarded the most onshore wind contracts ever following the latest round of tenders by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). "The current round of tenders represents a record with almost ...
31 May 2024, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy minister has awarded steelmaker ArcelorMittal 1.3 billion euros to drive the decarbonisation of its production sites in the states of ...
28 May 2024, 13:26 Edgar Meza Storage Business pv magazine / electrive German solar photovoltaics company Solarwatt is halting production of battery storage systems at its site in Dresden by the end of the year, pv magazine reports. The move follows ...
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The leaders of the leading industrialised and emerging economies will discuss ways to funnel capital into financing climate measures at the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 4 and 5, a German government official said on Tuesday. The Chinese ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 Germany’s three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country’s energy transition. Energy industry and ...
Slow sales of e-cars are caused by a lack of demand, not supply, VW CEO Matthias Müller told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in an interview. “On the one hand, many Germans think and act green in their day-to-day lives, but when it comes to e ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:20 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft K?ln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv An accelerating trend towards electric mobility puts German carmakers’ success ...
Environmental NGO DUH, which sues many German cities over excessive air pollution levels, calls the measures agreed in Stuttgart a “Mickey Mouse driving ban” because it only affects certain diesel cars on certain days. “We need driving bans for all ...
23 May 2024, 13:59 Carolina Kyllmann Grid EU 91tv Investments in Europe's distribution grids need to double to 67 billion euros per year by 2050, a report commissioned by electricity industry association Eurelectric found. Failing to ...
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23 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) / Green Budget Germany (F?S) “Energiewende in transport a long time coming” Fundamental political steps to relocate and avoid traffic and push alternative fuels and engines are ...
05 Nov 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs COP26 91tv Instead of distributing increasing amounts of their profits to shareholders, publicly-listed German corporations should invest more in climate protection, development and aid NGO ...
20 Aug 2024, 12:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Business & Jobs Technology Reuters / 91tv Nationalism and resentment endanger investments in key future technologies,?Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the ceremony for the start ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:21 Joey Grostern Hydrogen 91tv Methanol derived from green hydrogen could play an important role in Germany’s transition to a decarbonised economy, a paper from the German Energy Agency (dena) has found. The compound, which is ...
The German government expects difficult negotiations in climate and trade policy with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, reports Henrike Ro?bach in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “In terms of trade and climate, the communiqué ...
15 Nov 2021, 13:48 The results of the UN climate conference in Glasgow (COP26) add pressure to Germany's ongoing negotiations to form a new government coalition that needs to agree on ambitious steps to cut emissions. As the coalition negotiations ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The planned expansion of district heating in Germany will require 43.5 billion euros in investment by 2030 to help the country reach its climate targets, said a report by analysis ...
07 Feb 2024, 13:52 S?ren Amelang Agriculture Company climate claims 91tv Three quarters of Germans are in favour of a binding climate label for food, according to a? survey ?by health insurance provider AOK. Seventy-six percent agreed with ...
07 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations about a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:47 Julian Wettengel Grid Tagesspiegel Background Europe has to better coordinate its electricity grid buildout, and other countries should learn from Germany's mistakes, said Michael Jesberger, member of the executive board at grid ...
20 Mar 2024, 10:10 Julian Wettengel EUElections2024 International EU 91tv / Table.Media / Reuters The German government has said it will give its consent to the EU nature restoration law in an upcoming member state meeting which is set to ...
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10 Sep 2024, 13:44 With the summer break coming to an end, lawmakers in Brussels are back to school. After the newly elected European Parliament started its legislative term last July, all eyes are now on the formation of the next European Commission. ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:51 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology ?ko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 International ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:28 Ruby Russel Transport dpa / Tagesschau The cost of the 49-euro ‘Deutschlandticket’ will not rise this year, the chair of the conference of state transport ministers Oliver Krischer (North Rhine-Westphalia) told news agency dpa in an ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:31 S?ren Amelang Adaptation dpa Climate change has particularly severe impacts on mountains across the globe, as glaciers disappear, dangerous rockslides and avalanches become more likely, and biodiversity decreases, Swiss researchers have ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:23 S?ren Amelang Carbon removal Industry Policy Tagesspiegel Background / rbb The German state of Brandenburg, which surrounds the capital Berlin, plans to quicken the controversial capturing, transport, storage and utilisation of CO2 to ...
14 Jun 2024, 13:02 S?ren Amelang Adaptation Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Due to rising global temperatures, the first hobby farmers in Germany have started growing olive groves, which are on track to becoming profitable in the future, reports ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU 91tv Germany’s prospective next government coalition will likely support EU plans to introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), said Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv All six eastern German states have set up a joint initiative on renewables-based hydrogen. It is intended to closely connect politics, business and science on the fuel "in order to fully ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:35 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The German car industry produces the most electric cars in Europe and globally comes second only to China, ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:38 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Coal Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels 91tv The members of Germany’s coal exit commission are “willing to work together constructively to find solutions”, but the conditions are “chaotic ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv The year 2023 was the windiest in Germany in more than 15 years, providing excellent conditions for wind electricity generation, said Germany's National Meteorological ...
07 Aug 2024, 13:34 S?ren Amelang Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Electricity from large ground-mounted solar PV systems combined with batteries has become cheaper than that generated from fossil power sources in Germany, researchers from ...
27 Aug 2020, 11:48 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 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity ...
At the next UN climate conference in Poland, the German government can credibly call on the international community to put more effort into climate protection only if it successfully manages its own coal exit, write Ottmar Edenhofer and Hans Joachim ...
02 May 2024, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Citizens' energy Solar 91tv Almost a third of Germany's residents are planning to install – or have already installed?– a small plug-in solar photovoltaic (PV) unit, often known as a balcony ...
15 Sep 2023, 11:39 Aniket Narawad Policy Society 91tv Climate activists in Germany have accused the government of watering down a key law to ensure emissions reductions during the global climate strike organised by the Fridays for Future ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv Regional train travel has increased by 28 percent since the introduction of the Germany-wide monthly public transport ticket one year ago, according to national railway service DB. ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:49 Edgar Meza Society EU 91tv People in Germany would like to see more European cooperation in energy and climate policy, according to a survey conducted by market research institute Prolytics on behalf of the German ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:23 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities S?ren Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv ...
10 Sep 2021, 10:11 Once touted as the “climate chancellor”, Germany’s outgoing head of government Angela Merkel’s climate leadership over her 16 years in office is now seen by many as middling. International observers commend her steadfast leadership in ...
Germany and other European countries need to “move ahead” with their climate commitments and should “intensify their efforts” following the election of Donald Trump, which has made international climate diplomacy far less predictable, said climate policy ...
17 Dec 2020, 13:53 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 Hydrogen ...
27 Jun 2024, 14:07 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Society More than two thirds of Germans say they would “rather not” or “definitely not” make financial sacrifices and lower their personal standard of living for the benefit of the climate, according to a ...
17 Apr 2025, 15:00 The return of nuclear energy in Italy is slowly but steadily shifting from possibility to concrete political project. The transition to renewables, meanwhile, has entered a paradoxical phase: installation numbers are solid yet local ...
23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
22 Aug 2019, 13:55 Eastern German coal mining regions have welcomed draft legislation to support the states most affected by plans to phase out the fossil fuel by 2038 at the latest. The economy ministry presented an "investment law for coal regions ...
08 Jan 2019, 13:09 S?ren Amelang 91tv 91tv Fossil fuels Policy Handelsblatt / Süddeutsche Zeitung The stagnation in Germany’s task force on a coal exit is mainly due to neglect or even obstruction by policymakers,? writes Klaus Stratmann in a ...
21 May 2024, 14:05 Jack McGovan Renewables Government 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background A law reform agreed by lawmakers from Germany's government coalition would speed up approval processes around the planning and construction of new ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:27 Facing an unprecedented wave of climate protests, Germany's trio of car groups, BMW, Daimler and VW, put their sustainability ambitions at the centre of their presentations at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA). In an unprecedented ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:52 Several days of little sunshine and wind have pushed down renewable electricity production in Germany in early November, causing an increase of fossil fuel use and high power prices. However, energy analysts said such conditions are ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The Green Party is calling for major investments in Germany’s infrastructure, energy system, industry and administration to use decarbonisation and the energy transition as an ...
10 Sep 2019, 14:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 91tv The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover – Germany's largest Protestant state church body – has called on its employees and members to join the planned global climate strike ...
23 Dec 2021, 13:13 A new German government has started its work shortly before Christmas, kicking off its four-year term with a key promise to make the country ready for its ambitious bid to become climate neutral before the middle of the century. At a ...
30 Jun 2022, 13:24 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Kerstine Appunn Gas Security 91tv Germany’s ...
05 Apr 2024, 11:50 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The number of companies in Germany which say they offer goods and services that contribute to climate protection has reached 30 percent, according to results of survey by the state-owned ...
14 Dec 2018, 13:35 Germany abstained from a call by nine other European countries for a stronger and extended role of carbon pricing at the COP climate conference in Katowice. The German environment ministry said it did not want to pre-empt the country’s ...
10 May 2023, 12:23 S?ren Amelang Resources & Recycling Security 91tv Germany should make its landmark energy transition more crisis-resilient by increasing independence from raw materials that are needed for climate-friendly technologies ...
23 Jan 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv Germany and France have reiterated their wish to work together on the energy transition, technological sovereignty, supporting industry in the transition to climate neutrality and ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU dpa / Die Welt / Reuters Erecting trade barriers to shield national industries from foreign competition is not the way to ensure European companies remain competitive, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz during ...
29 Nov 2018, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Politics International MCC / PIK The United Nations Environmental Programme’s (UNEP) “Emissions Gap Report” on the divergence between the Paris Agreement’s goals and actual ...
08 Jul 2024, 13:24 S?ren Amelang Heating Cities 91tv District heating already supplies more than a third of houses in Germany’s three largest cities of Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, according to utility E.ON. In Munich and Hamburg, the share ...
07 Sep 2020, 14:19 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Solar Business & Jobs MDR Swiss photovoltaics manufacturer Meyer Burger has sealed the closure of its solar module plant in eastern German state Saxony, following news that the federal government is unlikely to ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:15 Many economists and climate researchers view raising the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels faster than currently planned as essential to reaching new, higher climate targets in both sectors. The debate about a ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Seven lignite-fired power plant units with a combined capacity of 3.1 gigawatt will finally be shut down in Germany at the end of March, after their decommissioning had been postponed due ...
02 Apr 2025, 10:05 They may rail against immigration and climate action on stage but behind the scenes, far-right leaders across Europe welcome labour migrants who are needed for the continent’s energy transition. To fill its rapidly widening skill gaps, ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:30 S?ren Amelang Solar Storage 91tv Germany’s boom in stationary batteries linked to solar PV systems accelerated last year, doubling the total number of units to more than one million, reports solar industry association BSW. ...
06 Feb 2024, 13:12 Jack McGovan Industry 91tv The German government has pledged to support the multinational steel manufacturing corporation?ArcelorMittal with a total of 1.3 billion euros to help reduce carbon emissions from steel production ...
The fondness of Germans for firecrackers released about 4,000 tonnes of particulate matter during New Year celebrations – about 15 percent of what vehicles in the country emit during an entire year, Christoph Behrens writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. On New ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Jack McGovan Solar Handelsblatt / Frankfurter Rundschau Germany’s most recent push to boost the rollout of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the country, which is set to be agreed upon in parliament on Friday (26 April), could result in ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out n-tv The German Green Party has rejected criticism from the conservative CDU/CSU opposition alliance over economy and climate minister Robert Habeck’s decision to put two of the country’s remaining ...
German lignite plants make up seven out of 10 of Europe’s biggest polluters, according to an analysis of European ETS data by climate NGO Sandbag. “That is because lignite power plants, especially in Germany, continue to run nearly 24 hours a day x 7 days ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Policy 91tv Germany's government will have to amend its national clean air programme and present effective measures to reduce air pollution in line with EU rules, a court has ruled. ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:17 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Germany’s gas transmission system operators have submitted a joint application for a planned hydrogen core network to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). Due to be completed by 2032, the planned network would ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Deutschlandfunk / ARD / n-tv The influential business association Federation of German Industries (BDI) has urged the government of chancellor Olaf Scholz to quickly implement measures that ...
The governments of China and Germany have vowed to intensify their joint efforts in global climate diplomacy and in upholding free trade, as well as in the development and rollout of energy transition technologies, the German government says in a press ...
27 Oct 2017, 00:00 Germany’s future energy and climate policy has proven the expected difficult issue in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. According to media ...
21 Oct 2020, 12:22 The average air temperature in Germany has risen by about 1.6°C from pre-industrial times and the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in the central European country. The government’s progress report on its climate ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:46 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Government 91tv A pause on funding from Germany’s Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF) has been lifted for programmes under the economy and climate action ministry (BMWK). The option to apply ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:22 James Jackson Transport Travel Talk Lufthansa, Germany’s largest airline, wants to increase the number of domestic flights to compete with rail travel and video conferencing services, the company’s sales manager, Frank Naeve, told ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany should introduce a "balanced catalogue of measures" to secure its supply of necessary raw materials as the world shifts through a dual transformation of ...
19 Jan 2023, 13:44 Edgar Meza Society Table.Media The protests against the razing of the village of Lützerath in order to expand the brown coal mining operations of energy giant RWE are damaging Germany’s image and standing in international climate ...
Trees in German cities are stressed by an unusual drought that affects their ability to absorb CO 2 and convert it into oxygen, biologist Michael Blaschke says in an article written by Peter Clement in the Rheinische Post. Many trees in inner cities shed ...
15 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Grid Renewables Der Spiegel / Golem Germany’s railway operator will test whether the power lines on its tracks can relieve the wider electricity grid, which is straining to cope with the rapid growth in renewable energy ...
18 Dec 2023, 13:35 S?ren Amelang Solar Industry Zeit Online Germany’s Green economy ministry plans to protect domestic solar panel makers against low-cost competition from China. "Solar products from Germany fulfil standards that others do not. For ...
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14 Oct 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online/dpa-AFX “Renewable energy surcharge rises to record level of 6.35 cents” The renewables surcharge German consumers pay with their power bills will rise to a record 6.35 cents per KWh next year, ...
23 Oct 2020, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt The German government’s draft update of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) is not ambitious enough, as it fails to take into account developments that increase the need for renewable ...
11 Nov 2022, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling Security Der Tagesspiegel A new resource strategy that includes stronger state involvement could be forthcoming in Germany after a report commissioned by the economy and climate ministry (BMWK ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:08 Milou Dirkx Mobility Cars 91tv Germany now has more than 100,000 public electric car charging points- but the energy and auto industry are squabbling over whether this figure is too high or too low. “As of 1 July, electric ...
