25 Feb 2021, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Grid Renewables 91tv Freezing gas infrastructure and subsequent supply outages happening in Texas during a recent winter storm are “extremely unlikely” in Germany, gas grid operators said. “The transmission ...
Scientists of the Technical University of Dresden are calling for a “readjustment” of Germany’s energy policy as power prices are turning negative due to the expansion of renewable energy sources and persisting nuclear and fossil power generation capacity ...
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23 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv 'Frohe Weihnachten' from the 91tv newsroom Our best wishes for a joyous holiday season. We will publish our next News Digest on 28 December and take another short break from ...
25 Jan 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate action policies and the ability of the economy to cope with them will become a defining factor for the financial system’s stability, the German central bank Bundesbank has said in a ...
04 Mar 2022, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Security Energate messenger / 91tv The reduction of hard coal imports from Russia to Germany has pushed up prices significantly, the German coal import association VDKI told ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Cost & Prices n-tv / 91tv Germany will achieve its target of achieving a share of 80 percent renewable energy in its electricity use by 2030, according to chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking at ...
04 Jun 2025, 11:00 Nuclear fusion technology presents a huge chance for European industry, which the continent must pursue without delaying the rollout of renewable energies, says Markus Roth, co-founder of nuclear fusion startup Focused Energy. “It’s not ...
14 Oct 2024, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Die Zeit / ntv / ARD / Politico Germany’s parties are gearing up for their election campaigns with around a year to go before the country’s next scheduled national vote. Chancellor ...
02 May 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Renewable energy capacity has increased rapidly in Germany in the past year, but the expansion must be accelerated further for the country to meet its target of sourcing ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:06 Jessica Bateman Adaptation Society Tagesspiegel Germany is drafting its first-ever nationwide plan to prevent heat-related deaths as heatwaves have become more severe as a result of climate change, health minister Karl Lauterbach said. ...
30 Apr 2024, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Business Policy Handelsblatt / 91tv Solar panel manufacturer Solarwatt is set to halt production of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in its factory in Dresden, business daily Handelsblatt reported. ...
16 Oct 2023, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Society 91tv The amount of meat being eaten in Germany per year is dropping and people think more about what impact their dietary choices have on the environment and climate, according to the ...
12 Feb 2024, 13:30 Franca Quecke Carbon market Cost & Prices Society dpa / Zeit Online The planned climate bonus (“Klimageld”) payment to return state revenues from carbon pricing to citizens as compensation for rising CO2 prices is an “excellent idea ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel, economy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment minister Barbara Hendricks have agreed on the Climate Action Plan 2050, which they had heavily debated in the run-up to the COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh, writes news agency ...
The German federal ministries, together with the Chancellery, have agreed on a national Climate Action Plan 2050 in time for COP22 in Marrakesh after months of dispute, reports Markus Wacket for Reuters. The federal cabinet is to approve the plan on ...
Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks does not expect the cabinet to approve her Climate Action Plan 2050 before COP22 in Marrakesh next week. “My assessment at this moment is that it will be ready for approval in December,” Hendricks said at a ...
17 Dec 2021, 12:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Digitalisation Handelsblatt If German industry is to remain competitive and become more sustainable, the process of digitalisation needs to be much faster, writes Thomas Saueressig, executive board member of ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:38 Unusually low wind power output has caused another 'Dunkelflaute' period in Germany with significantly reduced renewable power production and extreme price hikes in short-term electricity trading. Most customers are shielded ...
15 Dec 2021, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Gas EU Security 91tv The contentious Russian-German pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is not a suitable instrument to penalise Russia in case it attempts to invade neighbouring Ukraine, said German government ...
24 Nov 2021, 12:14 Jessica Bateman Industry The Federal Environment Ministry in Germany (BMU) is funding two projects researching alternatives to fossil fuel use in the glass industry. Glass manufacturer Schott, based in Mainz, will receive around 4.5 ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:33 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Coal Gas Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Germany’s ...
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14 Feb 2025, 13:57 Administrative "simplification" will be a key focus of the European Commission's 2025 work programme, trade and economic security commissioner Maroš Šefčovič told MEPs during the European Parliament’s plenary session in ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / Table.Media Several formerly leading politicians from Germany's Die Linke (The Left) party have split off with the aim to found a new political party in the coming ...
25 Jan 2024, 13:08 Franca Quecke Renewables Solar Wind dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung The southern German state of Bavaria continues to lead the field in renewable energy expansion, news agency dpa reports in an article published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:26 Franca Quecke Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv Germany should allow carbon storage on its territory, economy and climate minister Robert Habeck said at an energy summit by business daily Handelsblatt in Berlin. Claiming ...
19 May 2020, 14:38 Edgar Meza Coal Renewables Tageszeitung (taz) Germany's controversial new Datteln 4 coal plant in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is running at full capacity in test operation despite the low demand for electricity on the ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:23 Edgar Meza Wind Security Der Spiegel Growing tensions between the West and China are leading to increasing concern over the role of Chinese companies in Germany’s energy sector, particularly in the wind power segment, Spiegel reports. A ...
09 Nov 2021, 12:50 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv The heads of Greenpeace Germany and an activist from climate protest group Fridays for Future activist have filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen in a German court accusing the carmaker of failing to do ...
19 Sep 2019, 13:37 Germany's governing parties are heading into the final talks over what finance minister Olaf Scholz has said must be a "big and convincing step for climate action." But CO₂ pricing and a proposed major framework climate ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:34 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Policy EU 91tv German economists are split on whether additional EU tariffs on electric cars from China are needed or appropriate, a survey by the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) found. A third ...
17 Mar 2022, 14:00 Sören Amelang Cars EU 91tv / Politico Germany backs the EU proposal to phase out the sale of combustion engine cars from 2035, dropping its earlier insistence on an exception for cars using synthetic e-fuels made with ...
11 Dec 2019, 12:59 Freja Eriksen Finance Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany is wavering at the last minute to make a decision on whether to support an EU taxonomy for green financial activities that aims to identify the investments that will be regarded as ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:24 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Rose-Anne Clermont Climate & CO2 91tv In time for the UN climate conference COP25 being held in Madrid, the German Federal Statistical ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The completion time of the high voltage power line Nordostlink in northern Germany is set to be completed around one year faster thanks to government efforts to ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
02 Jul 2024, 13:42 Ruby Russel Heating 91tv Industry groups have criticised recommendations by Germany's Monopolies Commission to keep the consumer cost of district heating in check – claiming the proposed measures would actually ...
27 Sep 2021, 14:06 The Social Democratic Party (SPD), which narrowly won Germany's federal elections, topped off its election day results with two victories in regional votes in the German capital Berlin and the eastern renewable energy state ...
08 Oct 2021, 11:59 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Capturing, using and storing CO2 emissions on a large scale will be necessary for Germany to reach its target of climate neutrality by 2045 and the next national government should ...
03 Jun 2022, 13:40 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv / manager magazin The Federation of German ...
24 Nov 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv Germany’s network of charging points for electric cars is growing rapidly, according to utility association BDEW. “As of 1 October, 113,112 public charging points with a total of 5.2 gigawatts (GW) ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Finance Correctiv Leading German insurance companies continue to provide cover to liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure, even as they often make sustainability a key corporate goal, investigative news outlet ...
22 Feb 2024, 14:13 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices ...
25 Nov 2020, 12:19 Battery-electric trucks are set to take over heavy duty road freight because they are much cheaper to run than other low-emission technologies, says green vehicle expert Auke Hoekstra, a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:30 Leading climate experts have called on the next German government voted in after the February snap election to reintroduce the so-called ‘climate cabinet’. In its report on emissions developments and the direction of Germany’s future ...
09 Jan 2024, 14:03 Franca Quecke Gas Security Der Spiegel / Hamburger Abendblatt The alleged sabotage of an important gas pipeline currently under construction in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein might lead to damages of at least 1.6 million euros, ...
20 Feb 2024, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Clean Energy ...
29 May 2024, 14:07 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv The production of low emissions cement and steel is set to become cheaper than that of counterparts produced with fossil fuels before the middle of the century, according to a report by the ...
06 Feb 2023, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Government Bild Zeitung In a bid to achieve the high renewable power expansion targets for the end of the decade, German chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to make the buildout a priority and hold talks with the 16 ...
03 Aug 2020, 13:17 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Elections & Politics Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland The Green Party has called for an investment programme worth 800 million ...
22 May 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Using public procurement contracts and quotas for climate-friendly basic materials could help drive demand for climate-friendly products like green steel or cement, the German economy ministry ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:23 Edgar Meza Heating Tagesspiegel Background Representatives of federal and state consumer protection ministries report an "urgent need for action" in view of recent price hikes in Germany’s district heating market, energy ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:36 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Algeria are discussing closer bilateral cooperation in the rollout of renewables and green hydrogen during a visit by economy minister Robert Habeck to the north African ...
20 May 2021, 13:34 Germany’s first movers in hydrogen generation using electricity will be supported by lower power prices and a wide definition of “green” hydrogen, the government has decided. By creating “clear and pragmatic” requirements for green ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices EU Süddeutsche Zeitung / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Member countries of the EU should have the option to temporarily opt out of the planned emissions trade for transport and buildings when it comes ...
29 Aug 2019, 12:55 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Wind 91tv The Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) has ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:56 Sören Amelang Heating Policy dpa Germany's Green Party parliamentary group wants to support the country’s struggling economy with a 30 billion euro investment programme that focuses on energy-efficient building modernisations. An ...
03 Jan 2024, 12:09 Expert Fraunhofer ISE Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Renewables Solar Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Renewables Germany's lignite power production fell to the lowest level since 1963 last year, while hard coal power ...
21 Apr 2021, 12:37 Germany’s conservatives have chosen Armin Laschet as their leading candidate for the national election in September, signalling continuity with the era of Chancellor Angela Merkel and ending a days-long power struggle with top rival ...
06 Jun 2024, 14:25 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / 91tv / Rheinische Post A nationwide mandatory insurance against natural hazards will be “an important topic” at an upcoming meeting between Germany’s ...
09 Mar 2023, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Company climate claims 91tv Germans’ holidays have become more sustainable, but the demand for offers with an eco-label, or for CO2 compensation is still at a low level, said the ...
07 Dec 2021, 12:55 Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs 91tv Following a "mixed technology approach" in the decarbonisation of Europe's transport sector could deliver significant CO2 emissions reduction while simultaneously ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:15 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Technology Table.Media / 91tv / Handelsblatt Germany is leading among EU countries when it comes to the production of climate technologies like wind power, solar energy, heat pumps, batteries ...
28 Feb 2023, 14:21 Edgar Meza Wind Cities Süddeutsche Zeitung Climate protection activist Greta Thunberg is leading the charge against Munich municipal utilities company Stadtwerke München (SWM) and its wind farm in Norway to protect the ancestral lands ...
31 Jul 2017, 00:00 Environment minister Barbara Hendricks has been at the helm of Germany's climate protection efforts for the past four years. During her tenure, the country has contributed substantially to brokering the Paris Agreement and put ...
16 May 2023, 13:43 Jessica Bateman Grid Heating Germany’s electricity grid may struggle to cope with the millions of heat pumps planned for installation around the country, experts have warned. The government is aiming to connect 500,000 heat pumps to the ...
17 Jan 2024, 13:25 Edgar Meza Bioenergy Policy ARD / Die Welt Germany's environment minister Steffi Lemke is moving away from her opposition to the use of biodiesel, at least in the agricultural sector, public broadcaster ARD reports. While there are ...
07 Dec 2018, 19:29 Germany's conservative Christian Democrats elected general secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel at the helm of the party. The election of Merkel's close ally and former premier in the ...
15 Dec 2022, 13:58 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security ZDF The cold snap that has gripped large parts ...
20 Sep 2019, 10:12 Today, the grand coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) aim to agree on a major policy package to bring Germany back on track to reaching the international ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany will raise its federal budget contribution for international climate financing from the current four billion euros to six billion euros annually by 2025. The success of the ...
08 May 2023, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv / ARD Kenya has signalled its interest in becoming the first African nation in an international ‘climate club’ of countries agreeing on tighter climate action rules that ...
16 Nov 2021, 16:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics The parties negotiating Germany’s next government coalition plan to table a coalition treaty and propose new government ministers next week. In a joint statement by the Social Democrats (SPD ...
24 May 2019, 17:25 Young climate activists across Europe took to the streets Friday to demand more ambitious climate action from politicians two days ahead of the main day of the EU elections. In Germany, “Fridays For Future” students protested in more ...
26 Mar 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Cars Technology EU 91tv / NDR / NZZ German chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed the start of construction of a battery cell factory by Swedish Northvolt in northern Germany for being "of strategic ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Solar ARD / Tagesspiegel Background The head of Germany's treasury, finance minister Christian Lindner, has reiterated his opposition to more state support for Germany's domestic solar industry. In an ...
23 May 2024, 13:37 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bloomberg In the looming trade conflict with China over import tariffs on electric vehicles, Germany is at risk of seeing its rejection of trade restrictions being outvoted in the EU, the ...
28 Sep 2023, 13:52 Sören Amelang Transport Cars Handelsblatt The German government has spent a total of 9.5 billion euros to subsidise the purchase of two million electric cars, reports business daily Handelsblatt. The Federal Office for Economic Affairs ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has called on the German government to better anticipate possible carbon price jumps at the time of the introduction of the EU ...
02 Feb 2022, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture International 91tv Germany’s environment ministry (BMUV) will launch four new projects worth a total of 32 million euros to protect wetlands and peatlands abroad, it announced on the occasion of ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling Handelsblatt Sewage treatment plants could unlock their clean power potential by producing and using hydrogen while treating wastewater, business daily Handelsblatt reports. ...
08 Apr 2016, 00:00 In Czech company EPH, Vattenfall might have found a buyer for its lignite coal mines and power stations in Lusatia. But as the companies involved refuse to comment, environmentalists warn that coal has no future in a country that wants ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:41 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Klimareporter Rapidly rising costs could jeopardise the construction of already planned wind turbines with a total capacity of several gigawatts, news outlet klimareporter reports. Up to 4 gigawatts (GW) ...
29 May 2019, 12:09 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics CNN The results of the European elections mean that Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) must give better answers on the climate issue, the German ...
10 Aug 2022, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices ZDF / 91tv In the face of high inflation driven by rising energy prices, German finance minister Christian Lindner wants to relieve citizens with a tax cut of more than 10 billion euros, ...
01 Feb 2024, 13:45 Jack McGovan Policy Tagesspiegel Background Energy sector groups have called for improvements to a German interior ministry draft law set to regulate the resilience and physical safety of critical infrastructure, reports Tagesspiegel ...
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08 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel “Government could use mercury limits to take coal plants offline” The government “has a plan B up its sleeve" in case there is no political agreement on a coal exit, reports ...
03 Jun 2024, 13:19 Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine Catastrophic flooding following heavy and long-lasting rainfall in southern Germany over the first weekend in June has led to calls for ...
17 Dec 2018, 10:11 Nearly 200 nations agreed on a rulebook for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement at the UN climate change conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland. The deal on climate action rules was immediately hailed as a victory for ...
22 Mar 2022, 15:21 U.S. e-car company Tesla has inaugurated its first European production hub with the gigafactory near Germany’s capital Berlin. Opened only two and a half years after Tesla’s bombshell announcement for the location in the birth country ...
25 Sep 2020, 13:37 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel Utilities Handelsblatt The German government has requested permission to support ...
10 Feb 2022, 09:25 Germany aims to strengthen its climate foreign policy with the appointment of Greenpeace International head Jennifer Morgan as special envoy. The new “face of Germany’s international climate policy” will expand partnerships with other ...
13 Jan 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Government Der Tagesspiegel The existing combustion engine vehicle fleet in Germany cannot be made climate-neutral by switching to synthetic e-fuels, new transport minister Volker Wissing has said. In an interview ...
12 Dec 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv With several years of delay, construction of a key piece of grid infrastructure in Germany has started in the southern state of Bavaria. The SuedOstLink connection built by grid operator TenneT ...
21 Mar 2019, 12:31 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Business & Jobs Technology dpa / Focus Online BMW, Daimler and VW have settled a dispute over how to manage the transition to green ...
23 Oct 2023, 13:29 Julian Wettengel Solar Tagesspiegel Background The parliamentary groups of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and Green Party consider supporting the rebuilding of Germany’s domestic solar industry through measures such as clauses that ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Society 91tv German health minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) aims to halve the number of excess deaths due to heat this year compared to 2022 with a nationwide heat protection plan. Lauterbach, who ...
19 Jul 2024, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 EUElections2024 91tv The re-election of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has largely been welcomed by Germany’s government, observers in the energy industry and by civil ...
13 Mar 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann International 91tv / Handelsblatt / dpa Germany’s economy and agriculture ministers seek to intensify strategic cooperation with Brazil and Colombia on trade and climate action, they said. Over a six-day ...
11 Dec 2024, 13:10 Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of Germany’s steel and chemical industries, the country’s government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance has warned. These sectors ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:40 Franca Quecke Company climate claims EU 91tv Following a dialogue with the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities, Berlin-based fashion retailer Zalando has committed to removing "misleading ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:30 Sören Amelang Renewables Solar 91tv A package of measures to boost the use of solar energy in Germany by removing red tape, approved by parliament on Friday (26 April), will significantly accelerate the rollout of the ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- While millions of Europeans will look skyward for a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse on March 20, technicians at German power grid operator TenneT will be glued to their controls. When the moon covers parts of the sun, the ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany's would-be governing coalition partners have concluded a treaty that is likely to result in a final deadline for coal-fired power production in Germany. The agreement reached after weeks of intensive talks largely confirms ...
28 Oct 2022, 13:11 Kiprotich Koros Gas Industry 91tv African governments run the risk of stranded investments if they respond to the EU's short-term need for natural gas in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a report by the ...
03 Feb 2021, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's coal plants provided the bulk of the country’s power consumption amid a period of cloudy short days and little wind in early January, foreshadowing the ...
The cabinet of the government today passed the Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 with a total volume of 269.6 billion euros. The largest part of 132.8 billion euros are marked for Germany’s roads, 112.3 billion euros for rail transport and 24.5 billion ...
27 Feb 2023, 13:48 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind dpa / Der Spiegel The expansion of onshore wind power in ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation EU Handelsblatt / Euractiv / 91tv A severe winter drought in France is causing worries that the country’s energy production could be impacted throughout the year, compounding an already tense ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Kerstine Appunn Transport 91tv / Tagesspiegel Germany’s railway operator Deutsche Bahn and airline Lufthansa are planning on making rail travel to ...
27 May 2020, 13:35 Julian Wettengel Green stimulus 91tv Dealing with the coronavirus crisis will be the main priority of the German EU Council presidency in the second half of 2020, chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of the European ...
For the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), a combustion engine ban is a no-go in coalition talks after the September elections, CSU head Horst Seehofer said in an interview with Funke Mediengruppe. It would “strike at the roots of our prosperity,” ...
08 May 2023, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Recent examples of investment decisions on climate-friendly technologies in Germany and Europe show that the continent is on the right track to respond to the U.S. Inflation ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:44 Sören Amelang Industry Business & Jobs Technology 91tv A 10 billion euro investment in semiconductor chip production in eastern Germany will secure the country’s emission reduction efforts, according to the government. ...
14 Jun 2022, 12:11 Kerstine Appunn Industry Business & Jobs 91tv The German government has set up a new “Transformation Alliance” between the chancellery, several ministries and representatives from businesses and trade unions, research ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:48 Sören Amelang Renewables Industry 91tv Germany’s steel and renewable industries have launched a joint call for a “transformation summit” to clarify the urgently needed funding for industry decarbonisation in the wake of ...
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02 Mar 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Vattenfall connects coal-fired power plant Moorburg to the grid” After trial runs lasting over a year, the controversial coal-fired Moorburg power plant in Hamburg has begun commercial operation, ...
25 Apr 2025, 14:00 The aspiring German coalition government under conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to assume control at a time of unprecedented transatlantic turmoil for the EU. Amid a backlash against global climate policy led by the new US ...
23 Jun 2022, 13:05 Edgar Meza Policy EU Euronews, 91tv The European Parliament’s approval on 23 June of a draft law overhauling the bloc’s emissions trading system (EU ETS) has been met with widespread criticism from industry and ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:35 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv German energy company RWE is set to bring three lignite power plant units in the western part of the country back online in the coming days to help secure power supply during the coming winter, ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:39 Expert Institute for Applied Ecology Öko-Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv The twelve largest chemicals production sites in Germany caused ...
13 Mar 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs 91tv Public transport in Germany could be headed for a “collapse” if the government does not take measures to abate the “massive labour shortage” in the sector, labour union ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:12 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s famed “Mittelstand” sector of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) has coped well with turbulent prices on the energy markets caused by the Ukraine war, ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:36 Julian Wettengel Mobility Cars 91tv / ARD German transport minister Volker Wissing has announced new state support programmes to speed up the lagging development of sufficient charging infrastructure for electric cars and ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:52 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv The German government has agreed on a ‘lightweight construction strategy’ set to reduce raw material consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The strategy puts forth measures to ...
German electric air taxi startup Volocopter has presented a concept for the inner-city infrastructure needed to transport thousands of passengers with its autonomous and emission-free drones that take off vertically. “The vision integrates air taxis into ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:26 Ruby Russel Transport Cars 91tv Carmakers are under-reporting CO2 emissions from their vehicles, and the gap between official figures and reality is growing, according to calculations by the Council on Clean Transportation ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:30 Sören Amelang Cars Utilities 91tv / Die Welt Germany’s energy industry wants to give up on the government target of installing one million charging points for electric cars in the country by 2030, but faces headwind from ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:23 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Utilities 91tv German energy company RWE has ...
21 Dec 2018, 15:08 Germany plans to use its diplomatic clout during its two-year term on the UN Security Council to ensure that climate change concerns are an integral part of UN security policy. People who are most vulnerable to global warming, such ...
14 Sep 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal International 91tv Colombia has become an important supplier of hard coal to Germany, substituting for Russia, the government has said in an answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party. ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany is currently heavily dependent on imports of raw materials key for energy transition technologies, but the government is only in the early stages of ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:46 After an exhaustingly hot summer, the end of September and beginning of October ushered in extreme rainfall events and flooding in several Croatian cities along the coast and in the hinterland. At the start of November, higher ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:20 Jennifer Collins Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A mooted cap on industry power prices could stall green energy expansion in Germany by making investments in wind and solar unprofitable, according to a report by business daily ...
06 Dec 2021, 13:36 Jessica Bateman Renewables Elections & Politics Handelsblatt The incoming German coalition government’s ambitious energy and climate goals can only be achieved with industrial transformation on a scale never before seen in Germany, ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Hydrogen Handelsblatt Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power was a "historic mistake," Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) told business daily Handelsblatt. ...
06 Feb 2020, 14:10 Thomas Kemmerich of the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) has been elected state premier by the Thuringia state parliament with support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), in what many politicians see as breaking a taboo. ...
04 Apr 2023, 14:03 Edgar Meza Renewables Politics Tagesspiegel Background / epd The state of Lower Saxony is aiming to become a pioneer in geothermal energy, Tagesspiegel Background reports, citing an article by the epd news agency. "Geothermal ...
12 Dec 2023, 14:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen Die Welt Steel producers in the western German state of Saarland have been granted 2.6 billion euros in state support to transform their production procedures towards climate neutrality. Economy and ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv The German economy is emerging from its downswing slower than expected and will likely only achieve minimum growth of 0.1 percent in 2024, a joint analysis by five leading research ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon market 91tv Germany’s emissions under the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) remained constant in 2022 compared to the previous year, the annual report from the German Emissions Trading ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:35 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv Swiss solar module maker Meyer Burger has announced its intention to wind up panel production in Germany, citing “grave market distortion” and better investment conditions in ...
05 Jul 2023, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Table.Media Germany’s coalition government has agreed a higher national CO2 price for transport and heating fuels for 2024, news site Table.Media reports citing coalition sources. The ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:20 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Berlin has expanded its ...
22 May 2017, 00:00 Germany and China increased pressure on the US government to stay in the Paris Climate Agreement ahead of the G7 and G20 summits. The continuing uncertainty about the US position puts Germany’s aim to agree on a G20 energy and climate ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:38 Ruby Russel Renewables 91tv Eurelectric corrects figures: Power demand in the EU decreased by 5.1% in the first half of 2023, compared to 2022, and was 4.8% lower in the first half of 2024, compared to 2022. Electricity ...
16 Nov 2020, 14:15 Charlotte Nijhuis 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International Der Spiegel Germany's state environment ministers back the European Parliament's call for raising the bloc's 2030 emission target to a 60 percent ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert DHL Express Transport Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Freight 91tv German postal service Deutsche Post DHL is investing seven billion euros in climate-neutral logistics until 2030, the company ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling 91tv The transformation into a truly circular economy would have positive effects on climate, resource and biodiversity protection, as well as supply security in Germany- but the ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Solar Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The economy ministry aims to speed up solar energy expansion in Germany with legislative reforms it calls “solar package I”, which are set to be unveiled before the ...
24 Aug 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Die Zeit The parliamentary group of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) has presented its own concept for reducing power prices for energy-intensive industry – an idea so far ...
15 Sep 2021, 17:52 In the run up to the German federal election, a group of young people have entered a third week of a hunger strike to call for more climate action- with one of the protesters being temporarily admitted to hospital. The group, which ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany will miss its climate targets for 2030 and 2045 without additional measures despite considerable progress being made, according to the emissions projections report 2023 by the ...
21 Aug 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cities Tagesspiegel Berlin could use its two disused airfields to build wind turbines on, Christian Gräff, member of the Berlin House of Representatives with the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), told ...
23 Jan 2019, 13:21 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Transport Cars Frankfurter ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Rising temperatures in Europe could have a negative impact on one of the world's most important regions for growing hops, a key ingredient in beer ...
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02 Nov 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Greenpeace “Greenpeace excluded from Vattenfall bidding process” Citigroup has excluded Greenpeace from the sale process of Swedish utility Vattenfall’s German lignite operations. The bank said the ...
04 Aug 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt / Zeit / FAZ German media commentators have taken a closer look at the Green Party’s climate action emergency programme for the first 100 ...
23 Feb 2021, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv / Spiegel Renewables expansion in Germany and across the world is insufficient to help keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C, a key goal of the Paris Climate ...
10 Jan 2022, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government dpa / n-tv Germany's Court of Auditors has criticised the supplementary budget presented by finance minister Christian Lindner, which rededicates billions of euros reserved for ...
23 Jun 2021, 13:21 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Heating dpa / Handelsblatt An agreement by the government coalition to split the extra costs from Germany’s new carbon price on heating fuels 50:50 between landlords and tenants has failed at the last ...
07 Mar 2023, 13:46 Edgar Meza Cars Spiegel, Handelsblatt The German government is aiming to see 15 million electric cars on the roads by 2030, but current sales are making this target increasingly difficult to reach, transport transition think tank Agora ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:50 Julian Wettengel Government Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The parliamentary groups of Germany’s coalition government have postponed a decision on the 2024 federal budget, as the full extent of the consequences of a shock ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:38 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out International Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischer Rundfunk Local politicians from Germany’s border region in Bavaria have expressed concerns about the security of nuclear power stations planned in the ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv NGOs have called on the German government to immediately start the process of phasing out fossil gas use and set an end date for 2040 to ensure a transformation in line with the Paris Agreement ...
15 Aug 2023, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Post Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Freight Cost & Prices Die Welt / 91tv Germany’s postal service Deutsche Post says it will invest less than planned in emissions reduction and climate action ...
Around 750,000 people have signed an online petition to protect Hambach Forest against plans by utility RWE to clear it for the expansion of a nearby lignite mine, reports the newswire dpa in an article carried by Focus. Over the past 14 days alone, 300 ...
04 Jan 2021, 12:52 Wind, solar PV and other renewable sources overtook fossil fuels in German power production last year, according to preliminary data by the federal network agency (BNetzA) and think tank Agora Energiewende. Together with record-low ...
11 Jan 2022, 13:40 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende Finance Watch Germany Finance Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv The number of flights taken in Germany to domestic as well as international destinations continues to rise, the Destatis national statistical office has found. In the first half of 2019, the ...
29 Nov 2024, 13:45 The collapsed coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz achieved a few important breakthroughs for Germany’s energy transition that should not be sacrificed for point-scoring in election campaigns, says Wolfram Axthelm from the Renewable ...
22 Feb 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv Better financing, hedging tools and support for innovation are needed to strengthen the production of energy transition technologies in Germany and Europe, economy ...
29 Nov 2018, 12:35 The rise of populism and unilateralists like US President Donald Trump increasingly challenge the rules-based international order and put global climate action as pledged in the Paris Agreement at risk. Still, a changing mind-set in ...
07 Oct 2019, 16:41 The German government has presented a draft of Germany’s first-ever major Climate Action Law, which assigns flexible annual greenhouse gas budgets to economic sectors for the years 2020-2030, but does not make long-term climate targets ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:09 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s economy minister and vice chancellor Robert Habeck has questioned the country’s commitment to a largely balanced budget, given the massive financial requirements for ...
05 Apr 2023, 11:36 Shocked by recent heatwaves, floods, wildfires and ongoing droughts, France is currently rebooting its strategy to cope with the impacts of climate change. In a “turning point” in the country’s adaptation efforts, the plans will also ...
Germany’s resistance to an emissions testing overhaul shows that the government continues to protect the auto industry, writes Markus Balser in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “No [EU] government has taken legal steps against its car ...
24 Mar 2022, 14:20 Germany’s government coalition has decided a wide-ranging relief package to help shield citizens from rising energy costs exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine. The government plans to introduce a 300-euro tax bonus for employed ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government Süddeutsche Zeitung / dpa With a set of demands on Germany’s energy transition and social security expenditures, the pro-business government party Free Democrats (FDP) has caused a stir in the ...
27 Apr 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 Freja Eriksen Transport Clean Energy ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv People in Germany are increasingly doubtful that the country will achieve its 2030 climate targets, from the expansion of renewable energy to the growth of electric vehicles on the country& ...
A sober look at German carmakers and utilities reveals that their constant talk about sustainability is not backed up by actions, writes Bert Fröndhoff in a commentary for the business website Handelsblatt Global. The car industry provided the best ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:30 Jennifer Collins Transport Freight 91tv Germany's ports require huge investments to maintain their crucial position in supplying energy and goods, and to keep up with the energy transformation, said coastal state ...
The German government will have to decide in the coming days who will participate in the country’s coal exit commission because Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet is due to approve the composition on 16 May, report Silke Kersting and Klaus Stratmann in ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:23 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 International 91tv Germany should put more emphasis on international cooperation in the fight against climate change, the country's Council of Economic Experts has ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Society 91tv German rail company Deutsche Bahn has signed a partnership agreement with the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship to transport teams and fans across the country in a climate ...
Diesel fuel was invented by a German engineer and is pushed relentlessly by the country’s carmakers to this day, which is why banning it “has the feel of a ban on beer or bratwurst,” writes Griff Witte in a feature article for the Washington Post. “Yet ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Handelsblatt Germany needs gas-fired ...
Nuclear plant operators removed the last hurdle to an agreement with the government over who will pay for storage and clean-up of nuclear waste after power plants are shut down in 2020, writes Manfred Schäfers in FAZ.net. Operators agreed to revoke most ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany is exploring ways to expand cooperation with Australia on hydrogen and raw materials in a bid to diversify its import partners and reduce dependencies. Together with a ...
The upcoming commission tasked with the management of Germany’s coal exit will prioritise jobs and economic stability over climate protection, a strategy paper seen by the 91tv suggests. “Federal government policy aims to create full ...
Just 20,000 people in Germany are still employed in the once-mighty coal sector but their influence on energy policy is far greater than their number would suggest, Felix Heilmann writes for Climate Home. Coal workers are well-organised and good at ...
18 Mar 2022, 14:48 The new German three-party coalition under chancellor Olaf Scholz had started its term at the end of last year with optimism to launch a vigorous climate action programme after two difficult years in a pandemic. But the “traffic light ...
The German government should put in place “clear incentives” to reduce CO 2 emissions, said Utz Tillmann, director of German chemical industry association VCI, in an interview with Tagesspiegel Background. The fledgling government has delayed policy ...
12 Apr 2024, 14:08 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Carbon market EU 91tv The German government should use its national experiences to support EU neighbours in ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The steel pipelines used in Germany’s gas grid are generally suitable for the transport of hydrogen, said the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW). “The ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society dpa / 91tv Several thousand people took to the streets across Germany on 22 October to demand solidarity and redistribution in the energy crisis, news agency dpa reported. With the ...
10 Dec 2024, 14:45 The early end of Olaf Scholz’s coalition government follows a three-year term marked by crises and a deep internal dispute over funding for future climate and energy policies. Despite its noisy demise, the chancellor’s three-party ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:23 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The steel industry needs a clear and reliable framework for its decarbonisation, said Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann, CEO of the Salzgitter Group, at the presentation of the company’s ...
11 Mar 2020, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv Some countries are likely to wait and see whether U.S. President Donald Trump wins another four years in office in November before committing to stepping up their ...
Bloomberg highlights some of the ways the individual big German utilities could find the money needed to free themselves of the responsibility for storing nuclear waste. It comes after last week’s federal cabinet decision that sees nuclear power plant ...
11 Sep 2020, 14:36 One year before Germany's next general election, economy minister Peter Altmaier calls for a "historic consensus" between all democratic parties, businesses and civil society to ensure that climate action and the ...
13 Jan 2023, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices 91tv For the comprehensive electrification of sectors like heating and road transport, Germany must massively expand renewables and update its energy infrastructure with investments of 900 ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:01 Julian Wettengel Cars EU Handelsblatt / 91tv The deal between Germany and the European Commission to allow new combustion engine cars after 2035 – if they run exclusively on e-fuels – could upset politicians’ climate policy ...
The “chaotic” internal strife in the German government's conservative camp over immigration means that no progress of any kind can be expected in the country's energy and climate policymaking for some time, writes Tagesspiegel Background in an ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:09 Julian Wettengel Coal Spiegel / 91tv The climate activists occupying the western German village of Lützerath, which is slated for demolition to make way for a nearby lignite mine, are set to be evicted by “massive” police ...
German consumer groups have filed the country’s first class action lawsuit against VW over the emissions cheating scandal, reports newswire AFP in an article carried by the Business Times. "Volkswagen will remember this day as the moment the kid ...
While electric cars continue to face low sales despite government incentives, state premiums in Berlin for electric cargo bicycles triggered a flood of applications, Spiegel Online reports. The unexpected high demand for the increasingly popular utility ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv New constructions and renovations in Germany are failing to sufficiently account for the growing effects of climate change, increasingly putting them at risk of overheating during summer ...
New tighter emissions tests in Germany have led the country’s biggest carmaker VW to shut down its main plant in Wolfsburg for 1-2 days per week, Reuters news agency reports. Other VW plants will also see their production volumes cut, as the new Worldwide ...
Car suppliers whose sales depend largely on the combustion engine face a difficult future after the emissions scandal and analysts predict stock prices will remain relatively unchanged over the coming year, writes Martin Gropp in Frankfurter Allgemeine ...
Germany on average consumed 121 million litres of diesel fuel every day in 2016, resulting in a record share of diesel in total fuel consumption of 65 percent, reports Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Diesel sales increased 30 percent from ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:23 Expert Greenpeace Energy (now Green Planet Energy) Green energy provider Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Renewables Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal 91tv Eastern German lignite power plants that are scheduled to ...
23 Sep 2019, 14:04 Freja Eriksen Climate & CO2 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom have called for "increased ambition and action by the global community" to conserve and restore tropical ...
08 Jan 2025, 12:06 The application of sustainable finance principles across the EU will take a major step forward in 2025 as reporting duties for environmental data are expanded to cover a much wider range of companies, says Matthias Hübner, head of the ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility 91tv The roll-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure has made good progress in 2022, with the number of public charging points growing 35 percent to more than 80,500, energy industry ...
30 Sep 2022, 12:29 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables 91tv Higher electricity demand, fewer fossil power plants, and insufficient renewable energy, combined with extreme weather conditions, could lead to gaps in Germany’s power supply ...
21 Apr 2022, 13:42 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Efficiency Heating 91tv The German government’s 1-billion-euro subsidy programme for new energy-efficient buildings was depleted just hours after its 20 April start, according to the economy and ...
Electric trucks with low noise emissions could be used in the German state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) for night-time deliveries in inner cities, which would also reduce traffic volumes during the day, the Rheinische Post reports. NRW transport minister ...
27 Nov 2018, 15:07 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Climate & CO2 Society Government Germany will ultimately need a price on greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors that does not overburden citizens with lower incomes in order to complete its ...
17 Jan 2020, 13:48 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 ...
27 Sep 2022, 13:56 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas 91tv The German government will stick to its plan to add gas power capacity in the country, despite the difficult supply situation for the fossil fuel caused by the energy crisis. “I would ...
13 May 2020, 13:39 Sören Amelang Transport 91tv The total number of rail passengers on Germany's long and short distance routes fell 40 percent in March compared to a year ago, according to national statistics office Destatis. The ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Technology 91tv German researchers said they have reached an important milestone in the development of a scalable and energy-efficient direct air capture (DAC) technology to remove CO2 from the ...
Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas and economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier have welcomed some 2,000 government representatives, energy experts and business people from 90 countries to the two-day 4 th Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue (BETD) in ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government Handelsblatt / Süddeutsche Zeitung One day after being thrashed by voters in two state elections, the three parties of Germany’s federal government coalition went into damage ...
04 Jan 2019, 13:29 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Handelsblatt Edison The combined electricity generation of wind turbines (111 terawatt-hours (TWh)) and hydro power (17 TWh) in 2018 equalled the electricity consumption of all German households (estimated at ...
11 Apr 2025, 13:00 Germany’s prospective coalition government has agreed to continue the country’s landmark energy transition without major adjustments, and stick to existing climate targets. In their coalition treaty, conservatives and Social Democrats ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Business & Jobs Bloomberg The German government is considering merging the country's four transmission system operators (TSOs) into a single “German Grid Corporation,” news agency Bloomberg reported. The ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt / 91tv Following the attacks of the Nord Stream pipelines in September, the German government wants to expand the requirement for operators of so-called critical infrastructure (kritis) ...
29 Sep 2023, 13:56 Sören Amelang Electricity Renewables 91tv Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, according to calculations by utility association BDEW and the Centre for Solar Energy and ...
20 Dec 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Transport Policy Government 91tv / Table.Media The German government aims to raise the levy on passenger flights as part of a comprehensive budget package for 2024 and the following years to fill the ...
Carmaker VW will significantly step up the production of the electric version of its trademark Golf model at its e-car factory in Dresden due to a growing demand, the company says in a press release. Germany’s largest carmaker will increase production in ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv / Focus Renewable energy supplied a record of 69.2 percent of Germany’s public net electricity generation in July 2023, according to data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE. Due ...
07 Aug 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv The reform of an energy consumption label for passenger cars underestimates the projected CO2 price of transport fuels like diesel and petrol, consumer protection ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 91tv The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:48 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas Wind 91tv / Spiegel / Bloomberg The German government is set to introduce a law to prescribe minimum levels for the country’s gas storages, according to economy and climate ministry plans seen by ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Agriculture EU 91tv / Dlf / taz German farmers have called on the EU to put more emphasis on food security in its "Green Deal" strategy to become climate neutral by 2050. The farmers& ...
10 Dec 2019, 13:31 Expert GIZ- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit German development agency International Sören Amelang Gas Renewables Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will establish a central hub to coordinate its ...
29 Nov 2019, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 International 91tv Global climate action and environmental protection can only work with an active Russian engagement, Germany's development minister Gerd Müller said at the German ...
Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Passauer Neue Presse that Germany will have the word’s most modern transport system by 2025, with electric vehicles and automated buses playing a key role, FAZ reports. “In order to further improve air ...
05 Dec 2019, 12:47 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The German auto industry association VDA has warned against the new European Commission's push for ...
Around 70 partners, including grid operators, power producers, consumers, and traders in eastern Germany, have launched a trial to find cheap and efficient ways of resolving costly grid congestion on windy days, for example by using demand flexibility, ...
03 Jun 2024, 14:08 For years, Germany's government heavily lobbied for the completion of an additional direct natural gas link to Russia, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, while publicly calling it a "private sector project", internal documents ...
25 Aug 2021, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics 91tv Nearly all parties expecting to gain seats in Germany's parliament are open to completing the country's coal exit well before the official 2038 end date. At a ...
06 Nov 2023, 13:51 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bloomberg The CEO of Germany’s largest power company RWE insists the country can still achieve an earlier ...
13 May 2022, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv With the current legal framework for energy and climate policy, Germany’s building sector climate target would be missed by a wide margin, said energy industry association BDEW in a report. The ...
31 May 2021, 11:05 Many of Germany’s early renewable energy pioneers were experimenters with onshore wind technology. Inspired by the example of neighbouring Denmark, which had already proven the effectiveness of wind technology in the early 1990s, a ...
As renewable energy facilities supply a growing share of Germany’s electricity, the power grid is struggling to cope with their fluctuating output, Peter Ilg writes for Zeit Online. On very sunny or windy days, too much electricity surges into the network ...
18 Nov 2022, 13:23 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany’s first terminal for the import of green hydrogen and its derivatives will be built in the northern port city of Hamburg. Economy minister Robert Habeck said the terminal is set to start ...
The economy minister of the state of Hesse Tarek Al-Wazir called the federal economy ministry’s plan to declare parts of the state as grid congestion zones “ludicrous” and “preposterous,” writes the Rhein-Main-Zeitung. This would “vaporise the ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Heating 91tv To reach its climate targets, Germany's building sector must phase out the use of fossil fuel boilers and introduce minimum efficiency standards for existing buildings, a ...
23 Jan 2020, 13:23 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's emissions fell stronger in 2018 than originally assumed, the country's ...
02 Nov 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv Primary energy consumption is likely to hit a record low this year as Germany’s economy remains weak, according to a forecast by energy data service AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Energy ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:10 Carolina Kyllmann Grid ARD / 91tv Germany should cut the time it takes to approve planned transmission and distribution grid expansions by half, economy minister Robert Habeck said in a report by public broadcaster ARD. “We ...
20 Jun 2023, 14:40 Carolina Kyllmann Freight Spiegel / 91tv Low water levels in the Rhine river as a consequence of ongoing droughts in various German regions threaten to hurt the country's economy, economists at Deutsche Bank Research ...
29 Aug 2022, 13:22 Hannah Naylor Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) are preparing a formal list of additional measures to aid German citizens cope with the dramatic increase in energy prices, reports dpa news ...
28 Jun 2022, 15:11 Civil society groups and others have largely reacted with criticism of the German presidency's role in furthering climate action within the G7 group of influential economies. With the energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion ...
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12 May 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for Energy and Economic Affairs (BMWi) Germany aims to give energy efficiency new push The German government has launched a new offensive to increase energy efficiency. ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:04 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market 91tv The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has imposed fines of 200,000 euros on Energi Danmark and 175,000 euros on Optimax Energy for market manipulation in the wholesale ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:42 Jennifer Collins Company climate claims Handelsblatt The vast majority of consumers avoid companies linked to greenwashing, a survey seen by business daily Handelsblatt has found. Some 72 percent of respondents in the survey conducted ...
Peter Terium, CEO of German utility innogy, has left the RWE renewables spin-off days after the company said it will make less profit than anticipated this year and next, which had resulted in a considerable drop in share prices in the second week of ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:19 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of German engineering company Siemens expects power prices in the country to increase for some years, as the country undergoes a ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:06 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the ...
25 Oct 2023, 12:51 Julian Wettengel Wind EU 91tv German energy industry players have welcomed a European Union package of proposals to strengthen the bloc’s wind power industry. The main goal of the measures in the package should be to ...
18 Jun 2020, 14:04 Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Policy EU 91tv Germany will focus its upcoming EU Council presidency on the dual challenges of overcoming the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and making the continent more ...
09 Jan 2024, 13:41 Edgar Meza Society Elections & Politics 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Die Welt / Dlf Former German Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht on 8 January officially launched her much-anticipated political party, the " ...
03 Dec 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty have kicked off in Paris. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The 91tv ...
On the occasion of World Health Day on 7 April, medical doctors and climate protection proponents called for a coal exit in Germany by 2030. "We are firmly opposed to an economy that causes and tolerates illness," reads a declaration issued by ...
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20 Dec 2024, 14:57 Dave Keating *** Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality i n selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society and industry. For ...
Wholesale power prices in Germany were comparatively low in 2017, grid operator TenneT says in a press release. Especially during the winter months, average prices in Germany and the Netherlands were much lower than in France and Belgium, TenneT reports, ...
04 Nov 2020, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs EU Die Welt Concerns about climate and the environment have climbed significantly on the agenda of German companies over the last year, a survey conducted by consultancy EY and the Wuppertal ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:32 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy 91tv More than one billion euros will be invested by the German government on fusion research over the next five years. "Fusion is a huge opportunity to solve all our energy ...
11 Aug 2022, 14:08 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Utilities Tagesspiegel Background Energy company E.ON has said it is “open to discussions” about a possible runtime extension of its ...
20 Apr 2022, 13:41 Sören Amelang Cars Utilities 91tv The German government's subsidy programmes for the rollout of public e-car charging infrastructure are so ineffective that they should be rebuilt from scratch, the country's ...
05 Sep 2023, 12:07 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 91tv Germany's climate policy and action are "insufficient" to meet its national and international climate targets, according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project. ...
15 May 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation 91tv Electricity smart meter should become “largely standard” in Germany’s homes by 2032 as the Bundesrat – the country’s upper house of parliament representing its 16 states – approved a ...
A capacity market in Germany could cost two billion euros annually, RWE’s new CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz said in an interview with Rheinische Post. “Two billion euros is not a lot considering that the power consumer receives supply security for all those ...
13 Sep 2024, 15:00 The fate of France’s green transition remains on hold despite President Emmanuel Macron finally appointing a new prime minister in Michel Barnier. The decision to name a new prime minister had been a long time coming, following the ...
23 Apr 2019, 13:48 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bild am Sonntag Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to ensure that combustion engine cars powered by synthetic fuels enjoy the same tax advantages ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:19 Sören Amelang Industry Cost & Prices Policy Handelsblatt The premiers of Germany’s 16 federal states have urged the EU to enable electricity price subsidies in support of industry, reports business daily Handelsblatt. In a joint ...
12 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
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22 Oct 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) “The energy transition in Europe: initial lessons from Germany, the UK and France” The experience of Germany, the UK and France shows that the transition to a ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:42 The decade-long debate about the the role of nuclear power in Germany flared up for a last time before the remaining three reactors are shut down on Saturday 15 April. Politicians from government coalition party FDP and the opposition ...
29 Nov 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv Germany must step up its climate adaptation efforts as it faces prolonged droughts, severe water loss and increasing warming, according to the latest update to the country's Adaptation ...
Blockchain will revolutionise Germany’s energy market, potentially rendering major utilities redundant, Kathrin Witsch and Christine Coester write in a commentary for Handelsblatt Global. The digital ledger technology, which allows users to exchange money ...
12 May 2023, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung Germany installed 128 new wind turbines with a total capacity of 0.6 gigawatts (GW) between January and April 2023, an increase in the growth rate of 46 ...
13 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Government 91tv The court ruling on the unconstitutional nature of Germany’s Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF) hits at the country’s “economic core” and urgently requires a resolute and joint response ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Finance Policy Deutschlandfunk / Tagesspiegel / 91tv Germany's finance minister Christian Lindner has announced that price subsidies for electricity and gas introduced during the ...
10 May 2023, 12:20 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv Germany should introduce a ‘climate passport’ for people displaced by the effects of climate change, an independent government advisory panel has proposed in its annual report. The Expert ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany’s volatile 2023 summer weather was marked by heat peaks, extreme rainfall and above-average sunshine – with the temperature once again being significantly above the long-term ...
21 Oct 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
With 144 charging points to supply more than 4,000 cars per day, the medium-sized Swabian van interior racking systems manufacturer Sortimo plans to build the world’s largest e-vehicle charging station in 2018, writes Bernd Freytag in the Frankfurter ...
02 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:05 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv More than half of German companies say that the energy transition has negative effects on their competitiveness, shows the energy transition barometer survey by the German Chamber ...
10 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
The first bicycle lane made out of solar panels in Germany has been opened on a 90-meter stretch near the western German city Cologne, Florian Gontek reports for Spiegel Online. The path consists of 150 solar power modules that are capable of feeding ...
Germany's would-be governing coalition partners have concluded a treaty that is likely to result in a final deadline for coal-fired power production in Germany. The agreement reached after weeks of intensive talks largely confirms the most important ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Gas dpa Germany’s gas storage levels could reach 90 percent by 1 November, even under the scenario where flows from Russia through the crucial Nord Stream pipeline remain curbed, the association of gas storage system ...
28 Jul 2022, 12:21 Hannah Naylor Gas Society dpa Berlin’s parliamentarians and tourists alike will soon feel the impact of Germany’s drive to save energy, in response to looming gas shortages. The Reichstag parliament building is in the process of ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Tageszeitung (taz) A meeting of Germany’s state ministers for transport has not produced an agreement on securing future funding of the country’s new nationwide public transport ticket, ...
23 Oct 2019, 13:26 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv German millennials' attitudes towards cars are less sceptical than generally assumed, according to a survey by business advisory Duff & Phelps. The use of cars is more prevalent among ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv / Handelsblatt Eleven environmental associations and citizens' initiatives have joined forces to come out against controversial technologies to capture and store CO₂ ...
23 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. " ...
27 Feb 2019, 13:33 Rachel Waldholz Utilities Reuters / Handelsblatt The European Commission announced Tuesday that it will not raise antitrust objections to a major part of the deal between German utilities RWE and E.ON, Reuters reports. The approval ...
Drivers of diesel cars have apparently ignored the first diesel driving bans in Germany that took effect on 31 May on two busy roads in the city of Hamburg, website bild.de reports. “Commuter traffic flows as usual”, the article says, adding that police ...
05 Dec 2024, 11:49 Germany’s next government must focus on the shift to climate-friendly mobility to secure industry competitiveness and ensure a socially just energy transition, says Christian Hochfeld, director of green mobility think tank Agora ...
22 Mar 2023, 13:28 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv Following the increase in severe flooding events in Germany over the past years, the country’s weather service DWD has improved its ability to forecast such events. “Thanks to ...
24 Mar 2022, 12:07 Jessica Bateman Gas Der Spiegel The energy minister of Lower Saxony has called on the German federal government to provide partial funding for four liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in his state, Der Spiegel reports. In a letter to ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:44 Jack McGovan Industry Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Germany’s energy price caps, implemented to help consumers with rising costs during the energy crisis, often did not compensate businesses for price increases to the ...
15 Sep 2020, 14:27 Kerstine Appunn Renewable Energy Act | EEG energate messenger / Tagesspiegel Background The latest version of amendments to Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) includes a tougher climate goal for the electricity sector, which should ...
19 Jul 2019, 14:04 Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the introduction of price on CO2 emissions as part of a package to reach the country’s 2030 climate targets. In her annual mid-year press conference, Merkel said experts had made a convincing case for ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:24 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities 91tv The European Commission has approved ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:05 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society dpa / 91tv The largest beer tents at Munich’s famous Oktoberfest are to become "climate-neutral" within five years at the latest, reports newswire dpa. The ...
22 Jun 2023, 14:03 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Policy 91tv Germany's government cabinet has approved a draft law that would give cities and municipalities a greater say in regulating road traffic, particularly when it comes to bus lanes, ...
25 Aug 2020, 13:26 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars Handelsblatt / 91tv / Der Spiegel Representatives of German government coalition parties have voiced diverging views on the consequences for transport if a law reform is delayed that would ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
Wind generation is forecast to climb to a record on Sunday, creating more output than needed and driving electricity prices below zero, reports Jesper Starn for Bloomberg. It would be the first time this year that the average price for a whole day is ...
21 Sep 2022, 12:59 Julian Wettengel Solar 91tv 2022 will become a record year for solar power generation in Germany, data by research institute Fraunhofer ISE’s Energy Charts suggests. “By mid-September, solar plants in Germany had already ...
23 Aug 2019, 13:23 Sören Amelang Electricity Climate & CO2 91tv Droughts caused by climate change pose a growing risk to the power supply in Germany and around the globe, according to a report by WWF Germany. 90 percent of global ...
17 May 2023, 14:09 Germany’s Green energy and climate action minister, Robert Habeck, has suffered a setback for his decarbonisation plans with the departure of his energy state secretary, Patrick Graichen. Habeck’s state secretary left his post following ...
The energy and coal industry is happy about the new, weakened language in the draft version of the Climate Action Plan 2050, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes. Share prices of energy companies E.ON and RWE have increased in the past days – against ...
27 Sep 2023, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv Improving circular economy principles for the use of steel, cement and plastics could help Germany’s energy-intensive industries reduce their greenhouse gas ...
Baden Württemberg’s Green environment minister Franz Untersteller has suggested partly replacing the renewable surcharge with taxpayers’ money. The high costs of early solar development shortly after the year 2000 should be financed separately by a fund, ...
04 Oct 2022, 12:14 Edgar Meza Coal Society 91tv The town of Lützerath that has become a symbolic battle ground for climate activsits in Germany will be demolished to make room for a nearby coal mine, the state government of North-Rhine ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv Most homeowners in Germany support climate-friendly modernisation of heating systems, according a survey by non-profit consultancy co2online. Nearly 80 percent said it is ...
The Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, is currently in a transition phase that is likely to take some time and which will delay the appointment of the parliamentary committees for climate and energy, Jakob Schlandt writes for the Tagesspiegel Background ...
Energy utility RWE has transferred two of its lignite-fired power station units in North-Rhine Westphalia into the so called emergency standby reserve. Four of eight coal station units have thus far been committed to the reserve, where they will remain ...
08 Aug 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Start-ups Industry Technology Handelsblatt German nuclear fusion start-up Marvel Fusion has blamed a lack of government support in Europe for its decision to build a laser fusion facility in the US, in a ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Policy Security 91tv Germany’s government will present the long-awaited National Security Strategy on Wednesday (14 June), with critical raw materials as one focus, said chancellor Olaf Scholz at the East ...
17 Dec 2015, 00:00 [UPDATES with comments from VKU] German politicians, climate activists, scientists and media celebrated the "historic" Paris climate agreement. Some business associations as well as activists pointed to flaws of the deal, and ...
German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp’s CEO Heinrich Hiesinger said that a strict combustion engine ban could cost the auto industry a lot of money because of the long-term planning of affected companies, writes Carsten Dierig for Welt Online. “The immediate ...
04 Aug 2023, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Dimethyl ether (DME) – a compound used as propellant in deodorant sprays – is a “hitherto underestimated” way to store and transport hydrogen over long distances, said researchers of the ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Heating ARD A large new power-to-heat facility, running on wind energy has come into operation in the northern German city of Hamburg which is technically capable of providing about 27,000 households with low ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the “ SoutH2 Corridor “ project. “The ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Society Government 91tv Public opinion on climate action in Germany is highly polarised, with a large part of society (56%) wishing for more climate action and around a quarter (24%) denying human-caused ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:45 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Wind power has become Germany’s most important electricity source again in the first quarter of 2023, ...
15 Jul 2020, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv The increasing risk of prolonged droughts in central Europe warrants a "paradigm shift" in Germany's water management in order to avoid supply bottlenecks, the ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv Climate Action Germany (DUH) has won a lawsuit against TotalEnergies over “climate-neutral” and “CO2-compensated” heating oil claims, the environmental NGO announced. DHU had ...
02 Aug 2023, 14:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv [Update adds link to report] Germany has generated a record 3.89 billion euros from the sale of allowances under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ...
German utility RWE, coal mining corporation RAG AG and HeidelbergCement are among 47 major global CO2-emitters the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) accuses of breaching people’s fundamental rights to “life, food, water, sanitation, ...
18 Sep 2023, 13:37 Edgar Meza Efficiency Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / Politico Germany’s construction minister, Klara Geywitz, has pushed back against EU plans to mandate energy-efficiency renovations for the bloc's worst performing buildings, she told ...
Dark and calm winter days have led some commentators to suggest that renewables are unsuitable for providing a secure energy supply, reports Tamsin Walker for Deutsche Welle. Utility association BDEW argues this weather pattern proves flexible gas and ...
The northern German city of Hamburg has begun to enforce the diesel driving ban it introduced as the country’s first city last week, the public broadcaster NDR reports. The ban that affects short stretches of two major roads in the port city and include ...
District cooling offers property owners a more climate-friendly and potentially cheaper way to cool their buildings on hot summer days, writes Ralph Diermann in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Water running through buildings’ walls is centrally cooled down to ...
After the sudden departure of CEO Peter Terium, German utility innogy is “reviewing discretionary spending across all segments”, the company says in a press release. The spin-off of energy company RWE says it “reiterates its financial discipline targets”, ...
Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement will be challenging, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel. She said at the second day of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin this was already evident at Germany’s present work on a Climate Action Plan. All ...
The state government of Brandenburg was involved in sales talks concerning Vattenfall’s former German lignite operations much sooner and more intensively than previously thought, according to Greenpeace Germany. And it failed to use its legal options to ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany will likely need several lignite power units that had been brought back online from reserve during the energy crisis last year also for the coming winter, economy minister Robert Habeck ...
10 Oct 2016, 00:00 German federal states want to ensure that the sale of new diesel and petrol cars in the European Union ends by 2030, in order to protect the climate. The surprising cross-party initiative in the upper house of parliament (Bundesrat), ...
Climate and Energy have been the most debated G20 topics discussed on social media on the first day of this year’s summit in Hamburg according to data provided by the Press and Information Office of the German Government. The office counted 16,881 posts ...
Germany needs a clear phase-out plan for combustion engine vehicles to increase pressure on carmakers to heavily invest in the development of e-cars and batteries, writes Jan Schmidbauer in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Unfortunately, the ...
05 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just weeks away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
The city of Hamburg, host of this week’s G20 summit, has joined the international network Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, according to a press release. “Cities and communities are key to reaching international climate targets. Especially after ...
In a telephone call, US President Donald Trump told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he wants to help her make the G20 summit in Hamburg this week a success, according to the White House, reports Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Before the phone call, Merkel ...
07 Sep 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The preparations for a collapse of gas trading with Russia have advanced enough to get Germany through the coming winter, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. “We are prepared ...
Daimler-owned Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen’s Audi and BMW will all unveil new electric cars in the coming days in a “German onslaught against Tesla’s dominance of the fast-growing market for premium battery cars”, report Esha Vaish and Laurence Frost for ...
07 Sep 2017, 00:00 Germany must urgently step up its CO2 reduction efforts immediately after the upcoming elections if it wants to prevent a spectacular miss of its 2020 climate targets, according to think tank Agora Energiewende. Instead of reducing ...
The German federal government wants to support electric vehicle adoption in the trucking industry, reports Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “From 1 January 2019, electric trucks will be exempt from the motorway toll for trucks. This is a big ...
23 Mar 2022, 15:41 A sudden stop of energy imports from Russia would threaten "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and push Europe's economy into recession, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned. He said Germany will end its energy dependence as ...
23 May 2023, 13:15 Edgar Meza Industry 91tv Energy prices are slowly stabilising in Germany but companies continue to see them as a business risk for the coming months, shows an economic survey by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...
04 Dec 2019, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy 91tv The energy ministers of Germany's federal states have criticised the government's climate package for being full of "gaps and shortcomings" and called for measures to ensure ...
24 Nov 2023, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Die Welt / Stern / NDR / Süddeutsche Zeitung Governments in Germany’s federal states are concerned that the recent ruling by the country’s highest court declaring parts of the federal government’s budget ...
03 Feb 2023, 12:56 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The hasty buildout of Germany’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import infrastructure is turning into a ...
It is sad to see politicians such as transport minister Alexander Dobrindt and Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer try to protect the car industry against calls for a ban on combustion engines from 2030, writes Annina Reimann in a commentary for ...
22 Mar 2024, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Reuters Novel nuclear power plant designs do not resolve the technology’s fundamental challenge of hazardous nuclear waste, a report commissioned by Germany’s Federal Office for ...
14 Mar 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Policy 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background There is still a long way to go to increase digitalisation and make planning procedures faster and more efficient, for example for site planning for ...
17 Jul 2021, 10:30 Catastrophic floods have killed more than 130 people in Germany in one of the worst natural disasters in the country's post-war history. The torrential rains have been widely linked to climate change, swinging the issue into focus ...
21 Sep 2021, 10:43 Regional votes in two German states on 26 September are being overshadowed by the federal election on the same day. But the outcome in German capital Berlin and in the north-eastern state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will affect how ...
18 Apr 2019, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics New York Times For years, Germany has been embroiled in a cultural war over immigration, refugees and diversity, but the environment has also emerged as a deeply polarising issue that the ...
03 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal Nuclear phase-out 91tv Germany’s nuclear and coal phase-out both took a step towards their completion on the last day of 2021, when ...
23 Dec 2022, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Grid 91tv After two years of negotiations, landowners in four German states have reached agreements with electricity grid operators over compensation for land affected by the construction of underground ...
Premium German automaker BMW is planning a major electrification initiative to keep up with US rival Tesla, according to information obtained by business daily Handelsblatt. “In addition to the fully electric “i3” models, which have been in production ...
29 Aug 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv A new report commissioned by Germany’s Bertelsmann Stiftung and carried out by the Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS) economic think tank, criticises the ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:13 Youth climate movement Fridays for Future called for a rapid transition to climate neutrality at its eighth global climate strike just two days before the German federal election. Protests took place in hundreds of German towns and ...
17 Aug 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices 91tv Power prices on the European Energy Exchange (EEX), based in the eastern German city of Leipzig, have reached a new all-time record level in day-ahead auctions of 553 ...
08 Mar 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German government’s plan to introduce a subsidy scheme with so-called “climate contracts” for less climate-damaging industry processes will also include small and medium-sized ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
The German government currently administers past achievements and fails to set new impulses in economic and energy policy to ensure that the current economic upswing can be sustained, Rainer Dulger, head of the heavy industry employers’ association ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Freight dpa Germany’s postal service Deutsche Post has called for mandatory labelling of the CO2 footprint of parcels sent by parcel services to inform customers, reports news agency dpa. Such a ...
22 Sep 2020, 13:49 Expert BMF- Federal Ministry of Finance Bundesministerium der Finanzen Finance Government Climate & CO2 Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s federal budget draft shows spending on the “Energy and Climate Fund” (EKF) tripling in 2021 to ...
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11 Mar 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Ministry for Environment “5 years after Fukushima: Nuclear power has no future” The nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago showed that atomic power was never 100 percent controllable, ...
The federal environment ministry’s statement that software updates are insufficient to improve air quality in German cities makes the August ‘ diesel summit ’ a failure, writes Michael Bauchmüller in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Action plans ...
06 Oct 2021, 14:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Elections & Politics 91tv Renewable energy industry groups have laid out a series of proposals for the incoming federal government to accelerate the expansion of green power sources. "From an ...
15 Jan 2019, 11:57 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Technology Handelsblatt Germany must take responsibility for fighting climate change by continuing research into nuclear fusion, Julian Olk writes in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. ...
16 Jul 2019, 13:08 German defence minister and European Commission candidate Ursula von der Leyen told Members of the European Parliament that if elected, she would introduce a "Green Deal" for Europe in her first 100 days in office, including a ...
16 Jan 2023, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security 91tv The German energy crisis has not ended yet, but has become “manageable” to a point where the government is confident it could be overcome for good by 2024, economy and climate minister ...
30 Mar 2020, 14:03 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Freja Eriksen Electricity market Utilities Clean Energy ...
09 Dec 2022, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv Former coal regions in eastern Germany have secured a budget worth 1.44 billion euros for the renaturation of lignite mines over the next five years. The states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony ...
07 Apr 2020, 13:19 Expert Hans-Josef Fell Politician Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Energiewende Julian Wettengel Renewables 91tv Operators of innovative renewables systems that guarantee continuous energy supply day and night, ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
27 Jun 2023, 09:42 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling EU 91tv / Bloomberg Ministers from France, Italy and Germany have agreed on closer cooperation on the extraction, processing and recycling of critical raw materials needed for ...
06 Dec 2019, 14:56 Expert SPD- Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Government 91tv The new leaders of Germany's Social ...
The German environment ministry (BMUB) published a fact-check of US President Donald Trump’s announcement speech to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. To Trump’s statement that the accord was a “deal that punishes the United States”, BMUB replies: ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:18 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv / dpa Germany's CO2 reduction by 2030 could more than double as a ...
01 Dec 2022, 13:22 Julian Wettengel Grid Government 91tv / Reuters The German government wants to buy either a majority stake or even all of the German subsidiary of Dutch power grid operator TenneT, two government sources told news agency ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:14 Kerstine Appunn Transport To cut the number of short-haul flights in Europe, a group of German Green Party politicians has presented proposals for an expansion of train services, in particular night trains, in Europe. The new night ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:44 Edgar Meza Grid 91tv Germany experienced its first increase in power supply cuts since 2017 last year, largely due to a single accident at a transformer station and floods, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) reported. The ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:13 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Tageszeitung (taz) Leaders of the three parties currently negotiating the coalition treaty for the next German government are confident that they will reach an agreement early this week. For the ...
27 Jun 2022, 14:23 Kerstine Appunn International Security 91tv The G7 leaders should agree on import tariffs on Russian oil and gas at their summit in Elmau, according to researchers from the economic institute IfW Kiel. "A tariff ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Finance International Die Zeit The German and French economy ministers said “substantial progress” has been made in talks about transparency and cooperation on green subsidies between the EU and the U.S during a visit ...
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has called for the revival of the “spirit of the generation of 1989-90” to tackle current challenges like the Energiewende or globalisation, Leipziger Volkszeitung reports. At an event celebrating the 25 th ...
20 Sep 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv / Der Spiegel A proposed subsidised electricity price for heavy industry would not be effective for the economy as a whole, according to a report by the German Institute for ...
05 Feb 2020, 13:21 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry Reuters / Deutsche Welle Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser is ready for Siemens Energy- an energy business it plans to spin off by September- to be at the centre of the ...
22 May 2019, 16:37 Ahead of the European Elections from the 23rd – 26th of May, organisers of the German Fridays for Futures see the election as a last chance to put climate at the top of the European Parliament’s agenda. “This election will have a ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:35 Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Grid 91tv The expansion of Germany’s electricity transmission grid is starting to make progress after the government introduced steps to ...
16 Nov 2022, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Policy Handelsblatt German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) plans to streamline planning and approval procedures for faster construction of wind turbines, rail projects and even houses, newspaper Handelsblatt reports. The ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:16 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Resources & Recycling Rheinische Post / 91tv Agriculture ministers in Germany’s states have called to make the use of wood in new housing projects easier in a bid to increase the sector’s ...
Germany is not the “poster child” it likes to portray itself as, writes Ursula Weidenfeld in an opinion piece in Tagesspiegel. She points to the German government’s Nord Stream 2 policy, years of electricity loop flows through neighbouring countries, and ...
East Germany could produce more energy from renewable sources than it uses, but the region’s full potential remains untapped, the Reiner Lemoine Institut research organisation says in a press release. Wind energy production in particular could still be ...
06 Jun 2023, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling dpa / Der Stern The lack of mineral resources could become a challenge for the planned ramp-up of hydrogen industry in Germany, Europe and worldwide, news agency dpa writes in an ...
06 Apr 2023, 12:11 Julian Wettengel Wind Business & Jobs dpa / 91tv Germany needs to increase its workforce in the windpower industry for the planned doubling of installed wind power capacity by 2030, industry association BWE told news ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv German drugstore chain DM is no longer allowed to advertise several of its own brand products as ‘climate neutral’ or ‘environmentally neutral’, a court ruled on 26 July. In a ...
03 Jan 2019, 11:55 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung More than 300 ...
The German energy industry is utterly unsatisfied with the government’s energy policy track record after the first six months in office, Michael Bauchmüller writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “We’re lacking someone to set the pace in policymaking,” says ...
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21 Jun 2018, 16:13 An internal brawl in the German government's conservative camp over immigration has a paralysing effect on the country's energy and climate policymaking. After 100 days in office, the government coalition officially has to ...
Solar modules provided about one-third of Germany’s power in June but fell short of reaching record output volumes despite seemingly perfect weather conditions, Ralph Diermann writes on Spiegel Online. The country’s 1.6 million PV modules produced 30.6 ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Plans to sell the western German coal plant operator STEAG could present a significant hurdle to government plans to pull the country’s coal exit forward to 2030, unless the company puts in place ...
Underground salt caverns in the northern German region of Frisia could become the “world’s largest battery”, German energy company EWE AG told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. EWE plans to use the caverns as large redox flow batteries. Commonly, climate ...
07 Sep 2023, 13:23 Carolina Kyllmann Aniket Narawad Electricity Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv / dpa Germany's net exports of electricity in the first half of this year were significantly lower than in the same period in 2022. The ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:44 Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv Germany’s federal government has spent 16.3 billion euros supporting projects to help coal mining regions with the transition away from the fossil fuel industry, a first report by the federal ...
02 Jan 2023, 12:53 Germany's government needs to devise support for the country's energy-intensive industry in 2023 in order to keep it competitive, says Carsten Rolle, who heads the climate and energy division at industry association BDI. ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:19 Sven Egenter International Security Increasing competition and new global power structures caused by the shift to climate-neutral industries and energy sources risk splitting the world anew into conflictive spheres, German economy and ...
27 Oct 2022, 13:15 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Jessica Bateman Wind 91tv The price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) specified in Germany’s ...
The search of Daimler offices last week by prosecutors reveals that the diesel engine has become the biggest and most dangerous problem for German carmakers, writes Grischa Brower-Rabinowitsch in a commentary for business daily Handelsblatt. The companies ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices Deutschlandfunk / Spiegel German economy minister Robert Habeck has said that the government intends to tighten the country’s antitrust law amid concerns that oil companies do not pass on ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:47 Controversial plans by the German government to reform the country’s key legislation for reaching climate targets faces legal challenges by NGOs and an opposition lawmaker ahead of a parliamentary vote scheduled for Friday. ...
With about 78,000 new solar heaters in 2017, a total of about 2.3 million solar heating systems are now in operation in Germany, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) and the Association of Heating Industry (BDH) say in a joint press release. Find ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:42 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Spiegel Online The German coalition government is considering a scrapping scheme for old boilers to try and overcome the dispute over how to move the transition to sustainable heating forward, reports ...
12 Jan 2023, 13:51 Edgar Meza Efficiency 91tv Some 5.4 million households in Germany – or 13 percent of all households in the country – have concrete plans for one or more energy-efficient refurbishment measures in the next five years, ...
German economy minister Brigitte Zypries opposes a quick end to lignite-fired power production in the country, Christian Grimm writes in an article for Dow Jones Newswires carried by website finanztreff.de. “We cannot afford to shut down the large lignite ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
Free public transport, blue badges, hardware retrofits- every day a different solution is touted to reconcile cars with the environment in Germany’s heated diesel debate, writes Marc Beise in a commentary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. But a congestion ...
13 Dec 2022, 11:30 European countries will continue to deal with the energy crisis throughout next year, and seek sufficient gas supply on world markets while boosting renewable energy and key technologies such as heat pumps. However, the biggest climate ...
28 Aug 2020, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv Germany has made decisive steps in regards to the climate challenge in past years, but efforts have to increase, Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Resources & Recycling Security 91tv Japan and Germany have agreed stronger cooperation to ensure sufficient supply of raw materials in areas critical to transforming their economies, such as ...
The EU agency Fusion for Energy (F4E) has rejected calls by German MPs to cut funding for the fusion reactor ITER and use the money for research on conventional energy transition technologies instead, Daniel Wetzel writes on Welt Online. “We Europeans ...
20 Sep 2019, 20:00 Chancellor Angela Merkel's so-called "climate cabinet" has put together the bedrock for future climate action legislation in Germany, just in time for UN Secretary-General António Guterres' Climate Action Summit in ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:35 Germany's outgoing government made important moves to protect the country against the worsening effects of climate change. Notably, it introduced the first legally-binding climate adaptation law and presented a strategy to protect ...
Electric cars will one day dominate Germany’s roads, but in the meantime cars with fuel cells that generate power from hydrogen could contribute to the country’s transition in transportation, Lukas Weber writes for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's ...
Peter Altmaier’s track record as Germany’s economy and energy minister lacks actions, particularly in energy policy, Antje Höning and Birgit Marschall write in the Rheinische Post. “The energy transition resembles a construction site, and the planned coal ...
12 Oct 2022, 12:55 Edgar Meza Julian Wettengel Bioenergy Renewables Wind 91tv Recent tenders for onshore wind, biomass and biomethane plants in Germany attracted fewer bidders than expected, leaving all three rounds clearly undersubscribed, ...
The Green election programme would demand a lot of possible coalition partners after the elections, such as the coal exit and the phase-out of the combustion engine, said Schleswig-Holstein state energy minister Robert Habeck in an interview with daily ...
British oil company BP is disposing of oil production waste, which possibly contains elements harmful to humans, by delivering it to energy company E.ON for burning in a Gelsenkirchen coal plant, Jürgen Döschner and Jochen Taßler report for public ...
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has ignited a storm with the recent publication of its Green Paper on increasing energy efficiency, Philipp Vetter writes in Die Welt. The paper proposed a flexible energy tax to counteract ...
02 Oct 2023, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Policy EU 91tv Solar PV companies and several German states have agreed on a 10-point action plan to protect and strengthen the country’s solar power industry in order to ensure the planned large ...
05 Oct 2022, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Coal dpa The premier of eastern German lignite mining state Saxony-Anhalt has said his state will not follow an agreement on an early coal phase-out made in the heavy industry state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv Europe must debate a framework to ramp-up a hydrogen economy on the continent as a key element of its move towards climate neutrality, said German energy industry association BDEW. “There ...
19 May 2023, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Bild / ARD / Table.Media / PV Magazine Economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is seeking to quickly replace energy state secretary Patrick Graichen, whose exit following ...
26 Aug 2020, 12:23 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 bne- Association of Energy ...
17 Sep 2019, 13:33 Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition is racing to put together a major climate action package by 20 September, just in time for UN Secretary-General António Guterres' climate summit in New York on 23 September. Mere ...
11 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Coal dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung East German coal mine operator LEAG has said it expects to extract lignite from its opencast pits past 2030, even though the government hopes to exit coal by that date. “We are very ...
The need for reform in German energy policy is “piling up” under the current grand coalition government, said Oliver Krischer, deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group in a plenary debate on the economy and energy budget for 2019. Economy minister ...
24 Aug 2020, 12:23 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Renewables ...
German car customers are losing interest in diesel engines as the evolving emissions scandal and looming driving bans in many German cities take their toll on the once dominant technology, Focus Online reports. Diesel registrations fell by 9.1 percent in ...
06 Mar 2023, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Energiewende EU 91tv Researchers at the German National Academy of Sciences have called on German and European governments to speed up efforts to transform the energy system to help reach climate targets, ...
The Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) has received 718 applications for the e-car buyer’s premium since the official launch on 2 July, according to a press release. The most popular models were BMW’s i3 (127 applications) and ...
20 Jun 2022, 12:32 Sören Amelang Gas dpa Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has rejected a suggestion by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) to allow the controversial fracking method to exploit unused natural gas deposits in the ...
23 Sep 2019, 13:49 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Edgar Meza Coal Utilities 91tv Government auctions aimed at shutting down Germany ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:53 Jessica Bateman Gas Society Süddeutsche Zeitung Local activists in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein are protesting the government’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure construction plans, newspaper Süddeutsche ...
22 Feb 2019, 13:23 Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Grid operators TenneT and TransnetBW have presented their detailed plans for the route of Germany’s large north-south electricity line “SuedLink”, running from windy Schleswig-Holstein down to ...
The German government exports the Energiewende and supports the development of renewable energies outside the country’s borders, like on the Greek island of Tilos, writes Handelsblatt. Economy minister Sigmar Gabriel is on a two day visit to Greece to ...
21 Dec 2022, 13:34 Expert DBV- German Farmers‘ Association Deutscher Bauernverband Agriculture Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Carbon removal 91tv Carbon farming is an essential tool for reaching Germany’s net zero targets and should therefore ...
05 May 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas use by private households, industry and power stations in Germany fell 23 percent in the second half of 2022, compared to the same period in the previous year, according to a report by ...
“As far as possible,” German carmakers themselves have to put right the “serious mistakes” made during the diesel crisis, said Chancellor Angela Merkel after a two-day cabinet retreat in Meseberg near Berlin. “The customer or taxpayer cannot be made ...
The Christian Democrats (CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia will form a government coalition, state chairmen Armin Laschet (CDU) and Christian Lindner (FDP) told news agency dpa. “We have a coalition agreement” and the ...
12 Aug 2022, 11:56 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv An alliance of associations have called on Germany’s government to boost energy efficiency ahead of the winter, as rising prices and a looming shortage of gas affect ...
09 Dec 2024, 14:00 The break-up of Germany's coalition government could further undermine public acceptance of the energy transition's costs, warns Brigitte Knopf, head of the think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial, which focuses on climate policy' ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:28 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Industry federations from France and Germany are lobbying for ...
The visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Berlin had special significance as it came just days after a difficult G7 summit had exposed deep rifts between Germany’s government and the current US administration, particularly over climate change, ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:13 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv Germany’s research ministry, which is led by the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), wants to accelerate research into nuclear fusion with a new funding programme. “The energy ...
