03 Apr 2019, 12:16 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen 91tv Extending the range of battery-based electric cars with an additional hydrogen fuel cell makes more sense from an economic and environmental perspective than using huge batteries, said ...
Germany’s current cheapest electric car, the e.GO Life, comes from the small, new manufacturer e.GO Mobile and has the potential to become a bestseller, Focus Online reports. “We aim for a production of 20,000 cars by 2019,” says CEO Günter Schuh, who is ...
10 May 2019, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Start-ups 91tv German E-car start-up e.GO has started to deliver its compact car model e.GO Life in a bid to stir up the country’s automotive industry with its low-price electric vehicle. The company ...
31 May 2019, 12:16 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
05 Mar 2019, 13:56 Sören Amelang Cars Business & Jobs Reuters / Die Welt Volkswagen has signed German startup e.GO Mobile as the first external partner for its modular platform for electric vehicles (EV), reports Ludwig Burger for Reuters. The partner ...
15 Mar 2019, 13:42 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Cars Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt German ...
Seven German universities have teamed up to develop an autonomous e-car, competing with automakers and tech giants such as Google and Apple, reports Spiegel Online. RWTH Aachen University – which already developed the successful Streetscooter delivery van ...
Thanks to unexpectedly strong demand, new budget e-car maker e.GO has expanded its production plans, reports public broadcaster WDR. The company aims to make up to 100,000 electric vehicles per year, considerably scaling up original plans for 20,000 cars. ...
German e-car pioneer Günther Schuh, founder of the successful e-van company StreetScooter and inventor of the new compact e-car e.GO Life, says he is “optimistic” that there will be more than one million electric cars on the country’s roads by 2022, two ...
11 Nov 2019, 13:04 Expert Stefan Bratzel Director Cars Transport Freja Eriksen Cars Spiegel Online Small manufacturers of e-cars say their business could be threatened by the German government's increased buyer's premium intended to boost sales ...
30 Apr 2019, 13:14 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Bloomberg Bosch, the world’s largest auto-parts supplier, says it continues to believe that hydrogen fuel cell trucks and cars will play a key role in future mobility, and has taken a further step to advance ...
20 May 2019, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The production of Volkswagen’s highly-anticipated low-cost e-car ID could be relocated to a factory in Eastern Europe and not take place in the company’s factory in Emden in ...
05 Apr 2019, 09:08 German e-car pioneer Günther Schuh, who runs the e-car startup e.GO Mobile and spearheaded the development of the electric delivery van StreetScooter now used by Deutsche Post DHL, has set his sights on conquering the air. Schuh, ...
14 Jan 2020, 10:06 Germany's shift to electric mobility looks set to get underway in earnest in 2020, and the country's mighty carmakers look ahead with trepidation to what promises to be a tremendous effort for the industry. Against the ...
02 May 2025, 09:30 The European Union should strive for a well-connected energy system designed in a way that allows different national strengths to complement each other, says Nikos Tsafos, deputy energy minister of Greece. The country is expected to ...
24 Apr 2025
24 Apr 2025, 13:14 91tv Team Reuters: German economy to flatline in 2025 as tariff turmoil hits, government says The German government cut its economic growth forecast and now sees stagnation in 2025 instead of a 0.3% expansion as uncertainty from global ...
28 Nov 2024
28 Nov 2024, 10:30 91tv Team BPIE: EU buildings sector significantly off track to meet 2030 and 2050 climate goals Overall, the four key indicators of the EU Buildings Climate Tracker – CO2 emissions reduction, final energy consumption, renewable energy ...
16 May 2025, 13:20 Expert BMUKN- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Bundesminister für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Nuclear phase-out Policy Government ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Construction 91tv Germany's first database of materials for the country's entire building stock could provide an important foundation for increasing the rate of reuse and recycling of ...
18 Mar 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Security 91tv / rbb Germany’s outgoing economy minister, Robert Habeck from the Green Party, has warned that the next government must not create new energy dependencies and should instead ...
28 Nov 2024, 11:05 The cheapest way to make the most of a growing renewable electricity supply is to ensure demand follows power generation, and not the other way around – which is still the case today. Dynamic electricity tariffs, which reward households ...
13 May 2025, 13:21 Julian Wettengel EU Security 91tv Germany’s new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche, has emphasised the value in working with European partners to ensure energy supply for the continent. “Cooperation with European ...
11 Apr 2024, 13:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Cost & Prices Der Spiegel / 91tv Electricity prices in Germany are unlikely to go down in the near future, despite repeated claims that a complete switch to renewable power is going to make ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 The European Parliament elections this week (6-9 June) are unlikely to cause a big rollback of existing EU Green Deal legislation, but a projected shift to right-wing – and often climate action sceptic – parties could lower ambition ...
04 Jun 2025, 16:37 The Danish government intends to use its EU Council presidency in the second half of this year to prioritise reaching an agreement among member states on a 2040 climate target for the European Union, said climate and energy minister ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Augsburger Allgemeine / dpa Germany's Olaf Scholz considers a gas drilling project off the coast of Germany and the Netherlands as likely, as environmentalists continue to push back, the chancellor told radio ...
06 Feb 2025
06 Feb 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Reuters: Year begins with warmest January despite shift towards cooling La Nina Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift towards the cooling ...
11 Feb 2025
11 Feb 2025, 11:00 91tv Team PIK: Research institute compiles 85,000 individual studies about climate policy, offering "wealth of evidence" Over a quarter of studies reviewed from 2020 or later; Potsdam Institute for Cliamte Impact Research ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Fossil fuels Cost & Prices RND / Tagesspiegel Background Germany is reducing its fossil fuel imports even as the cost of buying them has increased from 2021 to 2023, according to a report by the Öko-Institut ...
30 May 2025, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Government 91tv The new German coalition government has agreed which measures and policies to tackle as priorities in the coming months, including an act to unlock hundreds of billions of ...
15 May 2025, 13:43 Expert DGNB – German Sustainable Building Council Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen Climate & CO2 Efficiency Cities Construction Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Construction 91tv Climate-friendly homes ...
28 Aug 2024, 14:06 Jack McGovan Storage Hydrogen MDR / 91tv The German government is co-funding a hydrogen storage project in the Saale region, with economy minister Robert Habeck having handed over the funding notice of 61 million euros on ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cities Construction Süddeutsche Zeitung A draft "modernisation" law intended to speed up housing construction in the southern German state of Bavaria has met resistance in cities and municipalities, as local ...
12 May 2025, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society Die Zeit Most people in Germany say they do not think that the country is going to meet is national climate target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, a survey commissioned by ...
07 Mar 2025, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Utilities 91tv Germany should restart its transition away from fossil fuel-based energy with a larger focus on cost-efficiency, said local utility association VKU. Among the proposals for the country’s ...
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 ...
03 Sep 2024, 17:20 Jennifer Collins Coal 91tv / Table.Media So many of Germany's coal-fired power plants are already slated to go offline that the country's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) did not have to announce a ban on power ...
16 Apr 2025, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars WirtschaftsWoche The tariff policies of US president Donald Trump are likely to lead to a massive drop in global automobile production, the CEO of German automotive industry supplier Mahle, Arnd Franz, has warned ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv Policies on migration and combating climate change are the most polarising topics for people surveyed in several European countries, a report by the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy ...
26 Feb 2025
26 Feb 2025, 10:30 Sören Amelang Bloomberg: EU pitches new Clean Deal as industries struggle to compete European Commission to outline measures to reduce energy costs. Politico: Europe’s impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green ...
14 Feb 2025, 10:00 Germany’s snap elections on 23 February take place against the backdrop of massive changes in geopolitics, presenting the next government with the opportunity to reset its relationships with major European partners, says Rafael Loss, ...
11 Apr 2025, 12:30 Climate will play a smaller role under Germany’s next government and greater ambition will be mostly pushed by the opposition, says Johannes Hillje, a political communication advisor who has worked with several German ministries. The ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:09 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating Handelsblatt / 91tv Chemicals company BASF has started tests in the depths of the Upper Rhine Plain to explore the potential of using geothermal energy, business daily Handelsblatt ...
05 Feb 2025, 12:13 Julian Wettengel Gas Security Handelsblatt The German government and industry players are considering using parts of the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea for hydrogen deliveries ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:01 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv Limited capacity and environmental risks mean that carbon storage in the German North Sea should only be used for residual emissions that remain unavoidable, said ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:48 Carolina Kyllmann Company climate claims 91tv NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) has won separate greenwashing lawsuits against airline Lufthansa and apparel company Adidas on the grounds of misleading consumers with ...
22 May 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Ensuring that flexible electricity use is accounted for in Germany's grid fee reform could allow for lower electricity bills, a group of energy providers and mobility ...
28 Feb 2025, 15:00 Last week’s parliamentary snap election changed Germany’s political landscape: The former tripartite “traffic light coalition” of chancellor Olaf Scholz has been clearly voted out- and conservative CDU opposition leader Friedrich Merz ...
06 Nov 2024
06 Nov 2024, 13:24 91tv Team Euronews: Thousands of jobs to go at German car parts maker Schäffler The company is downsizing at 10 locations in Germany and five other sites in Europe, further illustrating the challenges facing the European car industry. ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:08 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency Policy 91tv Germany should develop a binding strategic framework for "good enough", in the form of a national sufficiency strategy, to reduce emissions as well as energy and raw ...
20 Feb 2025, 13:38 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Policy 91tv The German government has started its largest green hydrogen import auction yet. For the first time, one portion of the tender worth 2.5 billion euros in total will be funded jointly by ...
23 Apr 2025, 13:42 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture Business Company climate claims 91tv Large food retailers in Germany have a long way to go to make good on their sustainability promises, according to a report by Dutch think tank Questionmark. ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:32 Edgar Meza Mobility Transport 91tv More than 25 percent of Germans have poor access to local public transport, according to a report by Greenpeace, which is calling on the government to improve the situation. Based on data ...
27 Jan 2025, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv / dpa / Handelsbatt Offshore wind farms in the German North Sea generated around eight percent more wind power last year compared to 2023, transmission system operator TenneT said. At 20.8 ...
10 Feb 2025, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche Parties’ failure to agree on final details of a reform to allow carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Germany ahead of the election on 23 February will set efforts back significantly, industry ...
09 May 2025, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv The new German economy and energy minister, conservative Christian Democrat (CDU) politician Katherina Reiche, has said that Germany had to “find a new agreement on the ...
28 Mar 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Efficiency 91tv Reducing the energy consumption of Germany's least energy efficient buildings is essential for letting clean heating technologies achieve the sector's climate targets, a report by ...
14 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025, 11:26 91tv Team Reuters: German premium carmakers' sales battered in China and Germany amid slowdown Germany's top-end carmakers took a battering at home and in China in 2024, sales volume data showed, as wealthier consumers held ...
10 Jan 2025, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Climate-friendly heating technologies may now be predominant in new builds in Germany but the country’s existing buildings continue to rely on fossil fuels, shows a report by the German Energy ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs SWR / 91tv / dpa Germany is debating a range of ideas to boost sales of electric vehicles (EV) and support the transition of one of the country’s most important industries. The ...
19 May 2025, 17:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Policy 91tv [UPDATE adds quotes by minister Reiche, Commissioner Ribera] The new German government should largely adopt the previous government's plans for building new gas power ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:35 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction Handelsblatt / 91tv With a new label for low-carbon cement, Germany's industry aims to ramp up production and sales of the climate friendlier construction material, business ...
12 Mar 2025, 13:20 Edgar Meza Grid Society 91tv Berlin-based think tank Zukunft KlimaSozial has called for alternative methods to finance electricity grid expansion in Germany. The current financing of electricity grid expansion via grid fees ...
02 Apr 2025, 10:05 They may rail against immigration and climate action on stage but behind the scenes, far-right leaders across Europe welcome labour migrants who are needed for the continent’s energy transition. To fill its rapidly widening skill gaps, ...
23 Jan 2025, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen International 91tv Government representatives from Algeria, Austria, Italy, Germany, and Tunisia have signed a joint letter of intent for a new hydrogen corridor that should connect southern ...
22 May 2025, 10:46 Carbon capture is set to play a key role in decarbonising the cement and concrete industry, says Jan Theulen, Group Lead Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) at Heidelberg Materials, one of the world's largest cement ...
03 Dec 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Spiegel Germany’s government had aimed to reform several laws to improve flood protection in the country, but environment minister Steffi Lemke told news magazine Spiegel that the reform is no longer possible ...
13 Jan 2025, 13:40 Sören Amelang Electricity Cost & Prices Elections & Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background With just six weeks to go before Germany’s parliamentary elections in late February, several parties have specified their ...
12 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024, 12:00 91tv Team ICCI: State of the Cryosphere 2024 – Lost Ice, Global Damage 50 leading cryosphere scientists warn that current climate commitments, leading the world to well over 2°C of warming, would bring disastrous and irreversible ...
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 ...
28 Jan 2025, 13:13 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Elections & Politics dts Significant parts of the population in Germany are not sufficiently prepared for the expected cost increases in fossil heating and mobility due to carbon pricing, said Dirk ...
07 Oct 2024, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Gas dpa Two additional floating import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) are due to go into operation before the winter in Germany, state-owned operating company Deutsche Energy Terminal (DET) told news agency ...
08 Jan 2025, 13:02 Jennifer Collins Cost & Prices Efficiency Heating 91tv Some 10 percent of 30 million households in Germany still reliant on fossil fuels for heating are unable to adequately warm their homes or are "heavily ...
24 Mar 2025, 11:00 Geopolitical disruption through events like Russia’s war on Ukraine or a new transatlantic rift can speed up the rapid build-up of renewable energies, says Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy ...
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' ...
12 Dec 2024, 13:35 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Finance 91tv / Handelsblatt The upcoming requirements on sustainability reporting for credit ...
18 Oct 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Grid Industry Hydrogen Technology Policy Handelsblatt Doubts over Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe’s (TKSE) strategy to decarbonise using hydrogen puts Germany’s plans for the construction of a hydrogen core grid at risk, gas grid ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv / Die Zeit / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany is introducing a nationwide monthly 49-euro public transport ticket which will allow users to use any regional buses or trains across the country, ...
26 Nov 2024, 13:19 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv Businesses in Germany invested 85 billion euros in measures to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, a 12 percent increase over the previous year, shows a survey ...
22 Jan 2025, 13:19 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & ...
16 Dec 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Cars Cost & Prices Süddeutsche Zeitung / Handelsblatt The CEO of German car manufacturer Mercedes, Ola Källenius, has called for more long-term subsidies for electric vehicles as demand weakens. By the end of the decade ...
13 Dec 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Staatsanzeiger Baden-Württemberg / 91tv Dissatisfaction with Germany’s energy policy and soaring prices are driving company investments out of the southwestern ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Many nuclear waste storage facilities in Germany are not up to safety standards with issues like rusting drums and interim sites being used without permits, ...
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 ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:11 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The past year was “a record year” for ...
05 Jan 2024, 11:43 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Cost & Prices Society Government 91tv / Spiegel / Table.Media Following a noisy backlash from farmers, the German government coalition has decided to backtrack on planned cuts to climate ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Construction 91tv Germany should make better use of existing buildings instead of focusing on new construction to solve the housing shortage, researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and ...
13 Sep 2024, 13:01 Jack McGovan Technology Society 91tv A total of 12.9 million households in Germany- almost one in three- use at least one energy transition technology like solar panels, a heat pump, or an electric car, according to a ...
03 Feb 2025, 13:35 Jennifer Collins International Kölner Stadtanzeiger / Tagesspiegel / 91tv / Politico The German government has warned U.S. president Donald Trump against starting a trade war with Europe, saying that if the country imposes ...
20 Feb 2024, 14:04 Jack McGovan Industry EUElections2024 EU Handelsblatt / 91tv More than 70 companies from across Europe have come together to demand an industrial deal from the European Commission and member states under fear of falling ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating Society 91tv The German government should protect poorer households against incurring higher costs from the rising national carbon price, researchers at the Mercator Research ...
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 ...
24 Jan 2025, 12:32 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Renewables 91tv The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has cautioned that new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power, as a means to mitigate global warming, must not slow the rollout of ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Policy Society The majority (79%) of homeowners in Germany are in favour of replacing fossil heating systems with climate-friendly alternatives, but uncertainty reigns as to how this heating transition will be ...
25 Nov 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Politics Tagesspiegel Background / Table.Media / Zeit A planned law to ensure new gas power plants can be built in Germany to secure electricity supply as the country phases out coal power continues to hang ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Industry 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s reform plans to allow the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies should restrict their use to emissions that are impossible to ...
28 Jan 2025, 12:58 Slowing down industry decarbonisation in Germany would result in a dangerous loss of competitiveness in emerging green markets, says Philipp Verpoort, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Instead, the ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv The row between Germany’s coalition partners over key climate and energy policies such as industry support shows no sign of letting up despite a two-day retreat ...
17 Jan 2025, 15:00 Energy prices are becoming increasingly expensive for Italian businesses and households due to delays in the development of renewables and increases in the cost of gas on international markets. The rise in energy costs will be, along ...
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 ...
17 Jul 2024, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Transport Freight 91tv / Electrive German transport minister Volker Wissing has said that the government will launch first auctions for the right to set up electric truck charging infrastructure along the ...
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 ...
09 Sep 2024, 13:29 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Heating 91tv Germany needs to invest 120 billion euros in energy-related ...
09 Jul 2024, 13:17 Jennifer Collins Construction 91tv Germany's state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has opened a second sustainable station made of locally sourced and processed wood. In operation one year after construction ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:34 Sören Amelang Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Germany’s Green Party economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has expressed confidence that the country’s efforts to reach climate neutrality by 2045 would not be derailed by a ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:20 Jennifer Collins Julian Wettengel Nuclear phase-out Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany's federal government may have to pick up a one billion euro tab to dismantle a nuclear power plant that shut down in 1989 as the operating ...
03 Sep 2024, 12:29 Jennifer Collins Transport 91tv A heavily subsidised public transport ticket introduced for three months in Germany in 2022 led to a significant increase in train delays and only marginally reduced traffic on the roads, ...
31 May 2024, 12:50 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen International 91tv Germany has signed a declaration of intent with Italy and Austria to develop a green hydrogen import corridor in a bid to improve future energy security, the economy ministry ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:27 Jack McGovan Gas Society 91tv / Handelsblatt / NDR As a gas drilling project off the German North Sea island of Borkum advances, environmental organisations have renewed calls to shutter the new extraction site. Groups ...
22 Nov 2024, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics MDR / dpa Three parties have agreed to form a coalition in Germany's eastern state of Thuringia following elections in September. The Christian Democrats (CDU), Social Democrats (SPD) and ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Germans' support for the climate movement has halved following the rise of highly controversial street blockades by more radical activists, shows a survey by More in ...
27 Jun 2022, 19:30 The leaders’ meeting at Schloss Elmau in the German Alps is set to be a “historic” G7 summit, says political analyst John Kirton. Never before has a summit of the G7 summit faced such a simultaneously unfolding and severe set of ...
31 May 2024, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Germany's economy minister has awarded steelmaker ArcelorMittal 1.3 billion euros to drive the decarbonisation of its production sites in the states of ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:32 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Construction 91tv European manufacturers in the construction industry should be made responsible for managing the waste created when their products reach the end of their lives, think tank BPIE ...
20 Sep 2022, 13:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security dpa / Zeit Online / 91tv One of the two nuclear plants in Germany slated to go into an emergency reserve until April 2023 has to undergo urgent maintenance work due to a valve ...
01 Nov 2024, 16:30 As the world heads to the international climate summit COP29, the European Union is in a tricky position. The Brussels machine is still getting back up and running after the June elections, with the European Commission chiefs yet to be ...
24 Apr 2025, 17:08 Poland is driving European efforts to end the reliance on Russian fossil fuel imports and has announced an “economic nationalism” policy in response to US tariffs, which could have an impact on energy and climate policy. In the meantime ...
08 Sep 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables G20 & G7 91tv Germany is advocating for an agreement on "a clear and concrete target" for the global expansion of renewables among the Group of Twenty (G20), said ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:46 Julian Wettengel Heating Construction 91tv The shortage of skilled labour is the decisive hurdle that keeps Germany from modernising enough buildings towards more energy-efficiency to reach climate targets, said ...
30 Sep 2024, 13:46 Sören Amelang Carbon removal 91tv The German government's current plan for allowing carbon capture and storage (CCS) is far too permissive and set to delay the phase-out of fossil fuels, said environmental NGOs. They ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:28 Ruby Russel Transport dpa / Tagesschau The cost of the 49-euro ‘Deutschlandticket’ will not rise this year, the chair of the conference of state transport ministers Oliver Krischer (North Rhine-Westphalia) told news agency dpa in an ...
25 May 2023, 14:01 Sören Amelang Grid Hydrogen 91tv / dpa The German government has agreed rules to build an initial “core” hydrogen network that is set to enter operation by 2032. "Our goal is the rapid ramp-up of the hydrogen market, ...
07 Nov 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices ARD / 91tv The nationwide public transport ticket for Germany will still be available in 2024 but its monthly price may go up, the federal government and the country’s 16 states ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Policy 91tv A German strategy on carbon capture and use (CCU) or storage (CCS) – the carbon management strategy which is currently being developed by the government with stakeholder input – ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv / ARD The quick rise in natural gas prices impacts Germany, but the economy ministry at this point does not aim to use government action to protect ...
05 Jul 2024, 14:38 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv A large part of Germany's future hydrogen demand could be supplied to the country via pipelines from neighbouring countries, according to a report by think tanks Agora Energiewende and ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:14 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv Demand for purely battery-electric vehicles (BEV) dropped dramatically in Germany during the first half of 2024 and the country’s automotive sector is bracing for a gloomy full year as high prices and ...
02 May 2025, 14:40 Against the backdrop of the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in late April, which also affected parts of France, the country is heading for controversial discussions about its energy strategy for the coming decade. A focus will ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics 91tv The Green Party is calling for major investments in Germany’s infrastructure, energy system, industry and administration to use decarbonisation and the energy transition as an ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv A consistent policy mix promoting decarbonisation and climate neutrality can significantly reduce energy imports and electricity costs for Germany in the next ...
07 Apr 2025, 09:39 Croatia is making moves on renewable energy reform, including new rules for self-supply, storage, and energy communities, but long-standing challenges persist. Grid bottlenecks continue to slow solar expansion, and major energy ...
08 Jul 2022, 12:31 Hannah Naylor Finance International 91tv The economy ministry (BMWK) is channelling an additional 126 million euros into the International Climate Initiative (IKI) in order to support decarbonisation efforts in emerging and ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:36 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv In its highly anticipated first auction for the import of green hydrogen products, Germany has awarded a contract to receive green ammonia from Egypt. “Between 2027 and 2033, at ...
11 Jun 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann EUElections2024 EU Zeit Online Germany's government coalition parties- chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party, and the Free Democratic Party (FDP)- have laid out conditions for ...
04 May 2022, 13:57 Sören Amelang Cars 91tv BMW and Mercedes-Benz have agreed to sell their joint car-sharing venture Share Now to Stellantis, a company formed last year through a merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot maker PSA. The German ...
08 May 2024, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv The industry-affiliated NGO German CEO Alliance for Climate and Economy (Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft) has called on Germany’s government to come up with an ambitious ...
02 Aug 2024, 14:02 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Carmaker Volkswagen is facing “enormous efforts” to meet its own business targets due to high costs and decreasing revenue, said the company’s CEO Oliver Blume. ...
27 Mar 2024, 11:51 Julian Wettengel Solar Business & Jobs MDR Swiss photovoltaics manufacturer Meyer Burger has sealed the closure of its solar module plant in eastern German state Saxony, following news that the federal government is unlikely to ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:47 The public debate in Poland in recent weeks has been dominated by international security and the implications of the rift between the new US administration and Europe on Ukraine. Beyond the frontpage news, there has been progress on ...
30 May 2024, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen 91tv Germany's cabinet has agreed to give hydrogen infrastructure planning and approval priority to drive the rapid development and expansion of its production, storage and supply. The draft ...
19 Mar 2024, 13:48 Jack McGovan Adaptation Tagesspiegel Reinsurance company Munich Re's top climate scientist has said that many settlements destroyed by floods shouldn’t be rebuilt. With reference to Germany's Ahr valley, which suffered 40 ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:16 Two new projects for the climate-friendly production of steel and cement illustrate the ambition of Germany’s industry to meet sustainability targets without ceding market share to foreign competitors. Economy minister, Robert Habeck, ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:50 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / Handelsblatt Germany's government wants to boost the expansion of hydrogen projects by giving them "overriding public interest" status, which would streamline planning ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs n-tv / Handelsblatt / Elektrek / The Guardian Plans announced by electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla to cut ten percent of its global workforce have led to worries over the potential impact on ...
01 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Cost & Prices 91tv With its largest offshore wind power auction to date, Germany aims to make progress on its ambitious target to nearly quadruple capacity by the end of the decade – and could ...
15 Apr 2024, 12:33 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal 91tv Germany cannot realistically reach climate neutrality by 2045 without using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, several research academies have said in a ...
31 Jan 2025, 14:00 Poland’s energy transition is lagging and set to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel and nuclear energy for baseload capacity. A far-right party is pushing against new renewable investment with a referendum on a pending new wind farm ...
German premium carmaker Daimler will buy its long-standing joint venture partner Europcar’s 25 percent stake in car2go in its quest for greener pastures that might even include a car-sharing alliance with German rival BMW, reports Reuters. With the move, ...
15 May 2025, 12:15 The new German government’s coalition agreement remains too vague on climate policy to make sure emission-cutting targets are met, warned the country’s Council of Experts on Climate Change. A comprehensive climate action programme, ...
12 Jan 2022, 12:00 As some of the richest democracies in the world, the Group of Seven (G7) have the opportunity to strike a “grand bargain” with developing nations on combatting climate change at the same time as health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
14 Jun 2024, 12:53 Sören Amelang Society EUElections2024 EU 91tv A broad alliance of German environmental NGOs, unions, consumer, and church groups has called for a “European Green and Social Deal” to be implemented in the next EU legislature ...
20 Dec 2022, 13:19 The new year is going to pose the great challenge for Germany’s government to ensure that companies hit by the ongoing energy price crisis do not choose to relocate their business, according to Frederik Moch, head of energy policy at ...
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 ...
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. ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv The German government should use revenues from carbon pricing to lower or abolish several components of the electricity price, rather than make good on its plan to ...
06 May 2025, 14:00 Germany’s designated next environment minister Carsten Schneider may not have much background in climate policy, but his experience in navigating political divide in the country’s east and its population’s fatigue of constant changes ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in May that her government was probably going to miss its goal of putting one million e-cars on the road by 2020- but now the mood seems to have changed, Peter Hannen writes in pv magazine. In a response to a ...
17 Apr 2025, 15:00 The return of nuclear energy in Italy is slowly but steadily shifting from possibility to concrete political project. The transition to renewables, meanwhile, has entered a paradoxical phase: installation numbers are solid yet local ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:36 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Wind Tagesspiegel Background / Der Spiegel German utility RWE has been awarded the contract by the Danish government to build a large-scale wind farm ...
11 Mar 2024, 13:11 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen EU 91tv Hydrogen trade with the EU could play an important role in rebuilding the economy and energy infrastructure of Ukraine, Germany’s government-appointed National Hydrogen Council has said. ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:10 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Prices for energy have decreased 4.5 percent in Germany in the year up to November ...
11 Jul 2019, 14:16 Sven Egenter Cars Süddeutsche Zeitung German drivers do not want electric cars because these do not offer the same range as any gasoline car at a competitive price, e-mobility pioneer Günther Schuh says in an interview with Süddeutsche ...
11 Apr 2025, 15:30 The biggest hurdles to building Germany's next government have fallen: a historic spending package has laid the groundwork for coalition negotiations between the conservative CDU/CSU alliance – winner of February’s snap election – ...
13 Dec 2023, 14:15 Germany and other EU governments have welcomed the outcome of the climate conference COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, saying it heralds the end of the fossil fuel era. EU lawmakers said the deal reached in Dubai will form the ...
08 Apr 2024, 13:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Cost & Prices Deutsche Verkehrszeitung Germany has only spent about ten percent of the 1.8 billion euros earmarked for the expansion of electric mobility charging infrastructure in its Climate and ...
23 May 2025, 15:20 Germany finally has a new government, ending months of political uncertainty at a time when multiple global crises require a safe pair of hands at the steering wheel of the EU’s most populous member state and largest economy. Friedrich ...
04 Jun 2021, 11:57 Julian Wettengel Cars dpa German carmaker BMW has announced it wants to reduce supply chain CO2 emissions in China by 20 percent from 2019 levels by 2030, reports news agency dpa. “Many people believe that the biggest source of ...
02 Apr 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Government Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF), a multi-year federal budget set up to finance climate and energy transition policy measures, again fell significantly short of spending ...
11 Oct 2024, 16:39 In Italian, the expression “hot autumn“ describes what happens when, after the long summer lull, political and social conflict cyclically rises again. For the energy transition, this is going to be a hot autumn indeed. Three of Italy’s ...
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, 13:42 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Developed countries finally made good on their pledge to mobilise 100 billion U.S. dollars in climate finance for developing countries in 2022, two years later than promised, the ...
27 May 2024, 13:19 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Transport 91tv Germany should lead the way in making mobility more sustainable, transport and environmental association Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) said following the conclusion of the ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen EU 91tv Countries like Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany should form a joint hydrogen alliance to use their market power as future importers of hydrogen derivatives, said researchers from ...
12 Nov 2021, 13:04 The upcoming rules in the European Union taxonomy for sustainable investments have to treat the supply of fossil gas different from the buildout of infrastructure that can also be used with green gases, said Jan Philipp Albrecht, Green ...
Germany’s federal cabinet has agreed on a law that is aimed at facilitating the search for a final repository for the country’s nuclear waste by 2031, the Federal Ministry for the Environment has said in a press release. Environment minister Barbara ...
30 Nov 2022, 13:18 Julian Wettengel Gas International 91tv / Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed two contracts that are set to supply Germany with liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a duration of at least 15 ...
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 ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:52 Several days of little sunshine and wind have pushed down renewable electricity production in Germany in early November, causing an increase of fossil fuel use and high power prices. However, energy analysts said such conditions are ...
Green power-utility innogy has assured its shareholders that it will raise its profits and make high dividend payouts, Frankfurter Rundschau reports. “We want to make money and pay dividends,” CEO Peter Terium said at the first annual stockholders’ ...
16 Sep 2022, 13:52 Sören Amelang Gas Security Handelsblatt Germany will only be able to find out at short notice whether it will face any form of gas shortage in winter, which will then be impossible to prevent, according to the country’s grid agency ...
01 Nov 2023, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Cost & Prices Policy 91tv The German government has greenlit a subsidy worth 5.5 billion euros to go towards grid fees in 2024 in a bid to cushion the impact of rising electricity prices on ...
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 ...
07 Mar 2025, 15:00 Winter may finally be on the way out but Italy is still grappling with high electricity prices, with average wholesale prices in February among the highest in Europe. Under increasing pressure to halt further rises, the government ...
29 Jan 2024, 13:53 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt A ...
14 Mar 2019, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business Utilities 91tv A lower power production from coal and nuclear plants, as well as lower wholesale power prices, have dented the profits of German RWE, the energy company’s annual balance sheet ...
10 Apr 2024, 13:48 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Hydrogen 91tv Industry association vbw has ...
12 Feb 2019, 14:14 Sören Amelang Gas Hydrogen 91tv German power grid operator Amprion and gas grid operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) are planning to build a 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas plant along with hydrogen infrastructure, a project they ...
The federal cabinet’s approval of a bill for supporting tenant electricity models in Germany will “make tenants directly participate at energy transition”, economy minister Brigitte Zypries said in a press release by the Federal Ministry for Economic ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:53 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Policy The age of nuclear power in Germany ended on Saturday (15 April) after more than 60 years with the decommissioning of the country’s three remaining reactors. Operators said the switch-off happened ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Carbon removal ARD / Der Spiegel The German Green Party has finalised its manifesto for the 2024 EU elections, including a promise for rules to allow capturing and storing carbon emissions (CCS) from ...
A wave of mergers and acquisitions in the energy market does not bode well for the future of German utility E.ON as an independent company, Jürgen Flauger writes in Handelsblatt. “E.ON has been low priced for some time now,” Flauger writes, explaining ...
A panel of 180 energy market experts is expecting energy prices to rise over the next five years, a survey by research institute Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) has found. In its “Energy Market Barometer,” 80 percent of participants expect ...
10 May 2021, 14:22 Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Sören Amelang Cars Industry Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Government ...
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 ...
The go-kart track where former German Formula 1 race driver and motorsports icon Michael Schumacher learned his trade is to fall prey to the expansion of the lignite mine Hambach of energy company RWE, public broadcaster WDR reports on his website. The ...
24 Jan 2025, 15:30 Germany has fully switched into election campaign mode ahead of the national vote on 23 February. Parties have presented their manifestos, with key energy transition issues including the future of industry, boosting investments, energy ...
22 Dec 2023, 12:00 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv Germany’s Green Party lawmakers in federal parliament (Bundestag) want the country to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) or capture and use (CCU) in sectors where – with ...
The German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) is taking legal action against the controversial natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, which is supposed to connect Germany with Russia via the Baltic Sea. The NGO says the offshore pipeline will ...
29 Feb 2024, 13:46 Jennifer Collins Nuclear phase-out 91tv / t-online Environmental NGO Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) called on German authorities to reject an application to allow the production of Russian-designed nuclear fuel rods in ...
24 Jan 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs EU Handelblatt / 91tv The opposition by the German co-governing Free Democratic Party (FDP) could prevent the planned adoption of sustainability and human rights rules for the EU's ...
23 Jan 2024, 13:35 Ruby Russel Cars Business & Jobs Technology NDR / Spiegel / dpa Plans to build one of Germany’s largest car battery cell factories have been approved by local authorities on what Swedish manufacturer Northvolt hailed as a " ...
27 Feb 2024, 13:20 Franca Quecke Digitalisation 91tv Digitalisation can induce almost one quarter (24 percent) of the emission reduction that Germany needs to reach its 2030 greenhouse gas target, according to the country’s digital industry ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:19 Sören Amelang Agriculture Tagesspiegel / Focus Online / T-Online Following weeks of disruptive street blockades, German farmers have threatened to ramp up protests against the planned cuts to agricultural diesel subsidies. The president ...
15 Feb 2023, 12:59 Expert Allensbach Institute The Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach (IfD Allensbach) Elections & Politics Benjamin Wehrmann Mobility Cars 91tv Decarbonisation in the mobility sector is the most important area for ...
15 Jun 2023, 12:36 Jessica Bateman Business & Jobs Manager Magazin Germany needs to recruit an additional 100,000 workers to meet the country’s solar expansion targets, according to the German Solar Industry Association (BSW). Speaking at industry ...
German carmaker BMW has bought the shares of car rental service Sixt in their joint car sharing service DriveNow, clearing the way for a merger with rival Daimler’s service Car2Go, news agency dpa reports in an article carried by the Frankfurter ...
14 Feb 2024, 14:00 Ruby Russel Industry Business & Jobs 91tv A survey by consulting firm EY has found that only one in five companies considers Germany a compelling place to decarbonise production – with excessive bureaucracy the biggest ...
18 Mar 2024, 13:03 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv An alliance of social and environmental NGOs has called on the German government to include concrete and binding sustainability and justice standards in its hydrogen import strategy ...
07 Jun 2024, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Agriculture Der Spiegel / ARD Severe floods like those affecting large parts of southern Germany in June are no longer a “once-in-a-century” event, but rather “a new reality” that the country must come to ...
07 May 2025, 15:00 The six-month wait for a new German government came to an end when Friedrich Merz was finally confirmed as chancellor in a day of high drama in parliament on 6 May. Stakeholders and observers have urged the new chancellor to keep energy ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to be factual and content-focussed in her clear criticism of US President Donald Trump’s policies but she is unlikely to be successful in light of the “cacophony of interests” at the G20 summit, writes Stefan ...
14 Nov 2023, 13:53 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Jack McGovan Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs Utilities Clean ...
German carmakers BMW and Daimler have signed an agreement to merge their mobility services business units to compete with Uber in the United States and Didi Chuxing in China, writes news agency Reuters. “As pioneers in automotive engineering, we will not ...
30 May 2022, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Funke Mediengruppe / Bild / n-tv Plans by Germany’s labour minister to assist households struggling with high energy prices and inflation by paying them a “social climate money” have led to ...
15 Dec 2023, 11:31 Industry and grid investments must be at the heart of the follow-up to the landmark European Green Deal policy package after the 2024 EU elections, says Bas Eickhout, member of the European Parliament. The results of the vote will shape ...
27 Mar 2025, 12:57 Germany's prospective next government is stepping back from its predecessor's ambition to speed up the country’s coal exit to 2030, sticking instead to the original 2038 deadline. Leaked negotiation documents reveal that many ...
03 Nov 2023, 13:49 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Storage 91tv / dpa Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:40 James Jackson Wind 91tv The rollout of offshore wind in the German North and Baltic seas can be reconciled with environmental concerns, but the location of specific marine ecosystems must become a core part of the planning ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:03 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas dpa / Zeit Online The German government must quickly present a strategy for the building of new gas-fired power plants to avoid missing the 2030 end date for coal-fired power production in western state North ...
16 Jan 2024, 13:06 Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Cost & Prices 91tv / Augsburger Allgemeine In a parliamentary hearing, economists have largely backed the German government’s insistence on gradually phasing out subsidies for diesel fuel ...
25 Mar 2020, 13:58 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Passauer Neue Presse / 91tv The nuclear plant Gundremmingen in Bavaria will go offline until the end of March or early April due to a malfunctioning fuel element that needs replacing, the ...
11 Oct 2023, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling Construction 91tv Germany must set a good example worldwide when it comes to construction with timber, agriculture minister Cem Özdemir said during the " Charter for Wood 2 ...
17 Oct 2022, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Government Bild / Der Spiegel The dispute over delaying the completion of Germany’s nuclear phase-out drags on within the country’s coalition government. A meeting between chancellor Olaf Scholz from ...
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 ...
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 ...
05 Nov 2024, 13:24 Government members and political observers have warned that Germany must avoid a high-stakes gamble among government coalition parties at critical time for the country and Europe. As disunity in the three-party coalition becomes more ...
The governments of France and Germany have vowed to make cross-sectoral climate protection covering all areas “a priority” of their bilateral activities. In a joint statement by the Franco-German council of ministers, the countries’ leaderships said they ...
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 ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International 91tv This year's Petersberg Climate Dialogue will create space for ministers from about 40 countries to have "difficult discussions" on international climate ...
The G20 group of countries, whose energy ministers are going to meet in Beijing this week, are responsible for around 75 per cent of global energy consumption and energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. State secretary Rainer Baake, who is going to ...
14 Sep 2023, 14:10 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The European Union should set up a joint transport infrastructure and storage facilities for CO2, said the German Green Party in its draft programme for the EU elections on 6-9 June ...
30 Nov 2020, 15:22 Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Security Focus Online / Reuters The completion of the controversial natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 between Russia and Germany is facing ever more hurdles. After the United States government threatened to impose ...
The possible diesel driving ban in Germany’s inner cities poses a major threat to many small and medium-sized businesses that use cars with the contested engine technology in their everyday work, Georg Berger writes on Welt Online. “If there was a driving ...
06 Dec 2024, 11:14 The appointment of Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister in September sparked as many concerns as it ignited hopes for advocates of more ambitious climate action. But the former environment minister, who had laid some of the ...
12 Jul 2024, 13:44 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Industry Policy 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche The German government’s plans for a so-called capacity market, which would reward power plant operators for providing generation capacity rather ...
12 May 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Der Spiegel About half of the people in Germany would accept a carbon storage site in their region, an online survey commissioned by news magazine Der Spiegel has found. In the survey ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:38 Julian Wettengel International COP28 91tv The challenge to reach an agreement on phasing out fossil fuels is going to be the toughest nut to crack at the ongoing UN climate change conference COP28 in Dubai, said German ...
10 Jul 2024, 13:15 Sören Amelang Coal Policy Tageszeitung / 91tv The German government does not intend to introduce a law to pull forward the country’s coal power phase-out from the officially agreed 2038 exit date to 2030. "A legal ...
German homeowners installed about 25,000 power storages in their houses in 2016, more than in any other European country, but the real boom of “ decentralised power supply ” might only start in 2020, Stefan Mayr writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. 2020 will be ...
02 Apr 2024, 10:30 “Reuse and recycle” is a catchphrase most people associate with plastic bags or bottles. But our homes, schools and offices are also made with materials that are far too valuable and carbon-intensive for single use: They shouldn’t ...
01 Sep 2023, 12:07 Chinsisi Moyo Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Extreme weather events such as heatwaves and river floods are known to hit the economy- but the damages could be significantly worse if economic output is already low, ...
23 Mar 2023, 13:23 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv German exports of electric cars rose more than 65 percent last year to some 500,000 units valued at 24.2 billion euros, statistical office (Destatis) reports. While foreign trade of electric vehicles is ...
German carmakers’ grand promises on going electric may be more about buying time than a complete shift of focus, writes Jack Stewart in Wired. A big part of the problem is that customers are not clamouring for electrics, while regulators around the world ...
19 Feb 2020, 14:23 Rachel Waldholz Cars Handelsblatt Just a few years after being hit with massive fines for its role in the emissions cheating scandal, Volkswagen is hoping to re-brand as the climate-friendly alternative in the American market, Astrid ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:05 Germany will see the first hydrogen flow in pipelines from next year after the country’s "core hydrogen grid" was approved. The backbone of the long-distance transmission network for hydrogen will be slightly smaller than ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany should not push for more ambitious EU car fleet emission limits. “I think the [European] Commission’s proposal forms a reasonable basis” for the upcoming negotiations, Merkel said at an event hosted by the ...
02 Jun 2021, 12:10 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Clean Energy ...
07 Feb 2025, 14:40 The fallout triggered by the dissolution of the French National Assembly last June continues to afflict political decisionmaking in France. The collapse of the Barnier government in December, and the resulting ministerial reshuffle, ...
08 Dec 2021, 13:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Efficiency Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Focus Online The creation of a new buildings ministry by the next German government gives reason for hope that the country’s laggard sector will finally make more ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:25 Jack McGovan Transport Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government’s decision to cut its climate budget by 45 billion euros over the next three years could put the country’s ‘Deutschlandticket’ at risk, the transport minister for ...
10 May 2024, 15:00 Poland saw a change in power last autumn when a pro-EU coalition led by former European Council president Donald Tusk took over after eight years of rule by the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS). Since then, however, the ...
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 ...
21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Security Hamburger Abendblatt The energy crisis in ...
10 May 2024, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Representatives of Germany’s energy industry have voiced doubts whether the government’s planned Power Plant Strategy, which is supposed to pave the way for the use of new ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:10 Sören Amelang Cars DPA / Tagesspiegel The city of Hamburg is the first German state to ban new registrations of combustion engine taxis from 2025, reports newswire DPA in an article published in Tagesspiegel. "We hope that this ...
Providers of carsharing services in Germany have called for new legislation that would grant them their own parking sites in crowded inner cities, Max Hägler writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Companies operated by carmakers like Car2go (Daimler), DriveNow ...
21 Feb 2019, 13:32 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Deutsche Welle German car-sharing companies logged sharp growth in 2018, picking up an extra 350,000 registered customers, reports Deutsche Welle (in English). The total number of registered users increased ...
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 ...
16 Jan 2025, 12:00 Europe's ageing buildings are particularly vulnerable to the damaging effects of climate change, with homes increasingly threatened by floods or at risk of becoming unbearably hot to live in. The job of adapting the spaces where ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:31 Jennifer Collins Mobility dpa / ARD The number of rail journeys in Germany has increased since the introduction of a new nationwide 'Germany ticket' in May, according to a report by news agency dpa published by broadcaster ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:57 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Renewables Cost & Prices Die Welt / dpa / ARD The head of Europe’s largest energy network operator E.ON has suggested that Germany could ...
24 Mar 2020, 14:39 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Policy 91tv Parts of the ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:05 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Coal 91tv Germany's ...
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 ...
02 Aug 2024, 12:34 The upcoming elections in three Eastern German states in September have put the region at the centre of attention of the country’s political landscape in 2024, especially due to the expected success of populist parties which could shake ...
03 Nov 2020, 13:49 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs International Tageszeitung (taz) As US voters go to the polls on Tuesday, leading German chemicals producer Bayer will be mainly sponsoring candidates from US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party, ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected a proposal by social democratic (SPD) frontrunner Martin Schulz to introduce a mandatory European quota for electric cars, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. “What are we going to do if the quota is not ...
22 Jun 2021, 13:48 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The German government aims to spend some 5.2 billion euros next year in climate protection investments as part of an emergency climate pact that is expected to be approved by ...
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 ...
29 Oct 2019, 14:22 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Only eight months after launching their combined car sharing with great ambitions, BMW and Daimler have grown highly sceptical of the business, write Markus Fasse and Franz Hubik in business daily ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & Recycling 91tv Making greater use of old electric vehicle (EV) batteries could greatly help reduce waste and stabilise the power grid in the shift towards renewable power, the ...
24 Feb 2025, 11:00 German businesses, researchers and civil society have called for speedy coalition negotiations following the country's snap elections on 23 February. Planning security and clarity are essential in view of the stagnating economy and ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Gas 91tv The plans for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea face more opposition by local interest groups who fear that the large ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government ARD German chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that the federal government is to reduce its spending and return to “fiscal policy normality” after state support for citizens and businesses ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:56 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Benjamin Wehrmann Agriculture Business & Jobs 91tv German agriculture is going through a transformation to make the sector more sustainable ...
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 ...
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 ...
16 Jun 2023, 13:45 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv The premiums for insuring residential buildings could double over the coming decade in the face of increasing damages caused by climate change, the German insurance ...
25 May 2022, 13:41 Sören Amelang Digitalisation Handelsblatt The installation of smart electricity meters in German households is set to take longer than planned, reports business daily Handelsblatt. The country’s Federal Office for Information Security ...
17 Aug 2021, 12:19 Activists from the coalition group ‘August Rise Up’ took to the streets in Berlin on Monday 16 August to call for more climate action six weeks ahead of the German federal election. Around two hundred people blocked the road in front of ...
25 Oct 2024, 16:00 Poland’s new government has updated the country’s energy strategy, which it says is more ambitious, but implementation remains uncertain as it depends on how coal miner unions react. In its push to increase nuclear power generation, the ...
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 ...
20 Aug 2024, 13:26 The transport sector receives by far the biggest share out of all of Germany's government subsidies that are harmful to the climate, according to a report commissioned by the economy ministry. In their coalition agreement, the ...
20 Dec 2024, 10:13 Large-scale solar PV developers have not been able to overcome Nigeria’s reputation as a risky place to do business, a problem which can be seen across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite tremendous solar potential, very little of it has been ...
06 Jan 2020, 14:12 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert EnBW EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out ...
30 May 2023, 13:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Süddeutsche Zeitung Ministers from the German coastal state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have drafted a catalogue of measures worth one billion euros, which they claim will help ensure that the island ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Cities Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel / RBB Berlin’s Senate has adopted a five-billion-euro climate protection fund to flow into mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, power supply and the economy. The ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:35 Jennifer Collins Heating Spiegel / 91tv Local authorities across Germany may have to submit plans detailing how they are going to transition to climate-neutral heating systems in their jurisdictions six months earlier than ...
19 Dec 2019, 13:42 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Sven Egenter Nuclear phase-out 91tv / Der ...
21 Sep 2021, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv / rbb Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has announced the closure of a blade factory in eastern German state Brandenburg. The company is axeing over 450 jobs in the town ...
21 Jul 2023, 13:45 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Handelsblatt The slow development of Germany’s ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Cities 91tv Relevant stakeholders at a parliamentary hearing on 16 October called for more financial resources and less bureaucracy for the decarbonisation of Germany's heating grids. The ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:35 Edgar Meza Transport Policy Süddeutsche Zeitung / Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s governing coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP), has- after long negotiations- agreed on a far-reaching ...
16 May 2023, 13:40 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Cost & Prices BR In the month after ...
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 ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:42 Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz’ conservatives have won Germany’s snap election, while the current government parties booked significant losses, indicating a reduced focus on climate policies in a future government. But it remained ...
12 May 2023, 13:51 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices 91tv The flat-rate ticket for nationwide public transport in Germany ...
16 Dec 2022, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal EU Die Zeit The shut down of German coal plants in 2021 is set to have only a minor impact on European emissions reduction because the government might not report plant decommissionings to the European Commission, ...
11 Mar 2019, 14:20 Expert E.ON Utility Electricity market Business & Jobs Utilities Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Business & Jobs Utilities Reuters EU regulators will take a hard look at part ...
In two separate interviews, the CEO of energy company RWE, Rolf Martin Schmitz, has vowed to continue contending for the clearing of the embattled Hambach Forest, which a court ordered to halt on 5 October. In an interview with the Rheinische Post, ...
02 Dec 2022, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German economy ministry (BMWK) aims to solidify targets to double the country’s electrolysis capacity- which is needed to split water into hydrogen and oxygen- by 2030 by revising ...
14 Dec 2022, 13:18 Finding a proper economic policy response to the U.S. government's "Inflation Reduction Act" to lure green energy investments into German and European projects will be one of the key challenges the government is going to ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility 91tv Many German cities have improved their cycling infrastructure in recent years, but the majority of cyclists in the country continue to consider road traffic to be unsafe for them, according ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Gas Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung The German environment minister has urged to stop gas extraction plans near the north-western island of Borkum, newspaper Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung reports. Dutch company ...
14 Oct 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv High prices and possibly also pleas by the government are driving down gas consumption in Germany, reports Jakob Schlandt in energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
24 Jun 2019, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Government Handelsblatt / Stuttgarter Nachrichten / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung After a series of meetings with high-profile car industry representatives in recent years to deal with the fallout of the so ...
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 ...
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. " ...
03 May 2024, 10:42 Making buildings more sustainable hinges on being able to measure what sustainability actually means. Definitions and standards vary widely across Europe, making it hard to compare projects and assess progress. Certifications can ...
The US negotiating team is “working hard to water down” climate texts for the upcoming G20 summit at the preceding negotiations, said International Executive Director at Greenpeace Jennifer Morgan at the Global Solidarity Summit in Hamburg. It is ...
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Germany’s environment minister Barbara Hendricks has shunned calls for making a clear commitment to initialising the country’s exit from coal-fired power production. At a press conference by government members of her Social Democratic Party (SPD), ...
20 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Wind 91tv A new area development plan for the expansion of offshore wind energy is a key step in helping Germany come closer to its target of installing at least 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, the economy and ...
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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 ...
21 Nov 2023, 12:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Government ARD / Stern Leading members of Germany’s government coalition parties have questioned the sensibleness of the country’s limit on new government borrowing, the so-called ‘debt brake’, after ...
29 Oct 2019, 08:40 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how Germany's energy transition is transforming the commercial landscape. To showcase these big changes in the world’s fourth largest economy, this new series ...
09 Jan 2023, 14:28 Julian Wettengel Wind Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt The German economy ministry is working on a proposal to subsidise offshore electricity for industry customers through an auction scheme in order to shield companies against ...
20 Mar 2023, 12:12 Carolina Kyllmann Nuclear phase-out Funke Mediengruppe / Nikkei The lifespan of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power plants will not be further extended, environment and nuclear safety minister Steffi Lemke told publishing house ...
19 May 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Politics Society 91tv / Zeit Online The island of Rügen on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast is to be included into law as a location for floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals despite local ...
03 Feb 2021, 09:23 Germany won't reach its 2030 energy and climate targets at the current energy transition pace, a top government advisor has warned. A higher EU 2030 climate target means Germany will likely have to raise its national greenhouse gas ...
16 Mar 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Cities Politics Tagesspiegel At least five billion euros are to be earmarked for climate protection in the city of Berlin, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Cristian Democrats (CDU) decided, newspaper Tagesspiegel ...
15 Dec 2021, 12:09 Sören Amelang Coal 91tv A large hard coal power station and two small-scale combined heat and power plants in Germany are set to stop selling electricity by May 2023 as part of the country's coal exit. In the fourth ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:40 Oil majors BP and TotalEnergies pledged to pay a combined 12.6 billion euros for the right to build wind farms in the North and Baltic seas in the world’s largest ever offshore wind auction. Environmentalists hailed the result as a ...
01 Sep 2020, 12:47 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv The price of green hydrogen will be significantly ...
06 Apr 2020, 13:58 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen ...
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 ...
10 May 2023, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Gas NDR / 91tv The federal government has decided on a location for the disputed import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the popular holiday destination island of Rügen, reported public ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:32 Edgar Meza Carbon removal Technology 91tv NGO Germanwatch, which promotes sustainable development and climate protection, is warning against the country’s CO2 management policy opening the door to “a permanent extension of ...
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 ...
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 ...
16 Feb 2023, 13:59 The world’s top management consultancies, who for decades have advised the biggest polluters, are now piling into the business of helping companies cut emissions to become more sustainable. They are retraining staff, poaching ...
24 Sep 2021, 11:20 Their goal is to create an entirely new industry, one that will become as important as today’s oil and gas giants, because the world will be in desperate need of removing carbon to mitigate climate change. Swiss company Climeworks has ...
12 Jul 2022, 12:06 Julian Wettengel Gas Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s economy faces a “severe crisis” should fossil gas supplies from Russia come to a complete stop, the president of the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI), ...
08 Feb 2023, 13:25 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Finance International EU 91tv The European Union should go further in its proposal to counter the U.S.’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), more than 40 business organisations, companies, think tanks ...
13 Apr 2023, 13:01 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs Handelsblatt Higher energy prices in Germany will not lead to an “industrial exodus” of companies seeking cheaper production locations abroad but rather strengthen efficiency and innovation ...
16 Dec 2021, 11:11 Discussions about climate action tend to centre around the need for mitigation – reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming. But even if we get on track to limiting warming to 1.5C, scientific projections show ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind rbb Hundreds of wind turbines in the eastern German state of Brandenburg will be decommissioned this year because they will lose their guaranteed funding after 20 years in operation and can no longer be operated ...
10 Jun 2024, 13:44 German businesses, researchers and civil society have welcomed that democratic and pro-EU parties continue to have a large majority after the 2024 EU elections, but warned that wins for the populist and far-right camp means that it ...
04 Oct 2021, 12:23 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Grid Der Spiegel Bureaucratic hurdles and citizens’ initiatives ...
03 Feb 2025, 14:49 Germany is increasingly looking outwards to find skilled workers to fill its green labour gap, especially to India. Joint collaborations aim to tackle a critical challenge faced by both nations: securing a skilled workforce capable of ...
29 Apr 2022, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG Policy 91tv German consumers will no longer have to pay the renewables surcharge on the power price as of 1 July 2022. The German federal parliament (Bundestag) passed ...
04 Nov 2022, 14:00 Carolina Kyllmann Gas International COP27 91tv The German government has signed two memoranda of understanding with Egypt to strengthen partnerships on liquefied natural gas (LGN) and green hydrogen. The cooperation, which ...
According to the latest polls, the Green Party could be the second-largest party in the October state elections in Bavaria, which would make possible a conservative-green coalition with the Christian Social Union (CSU), writes Die Welt. The Green’s co-top ...
17 Jan 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Business Finance 91tv Around three quarters (76 %) of businesses in Germany increased investments in sustainability measures in 2022 despite high economic uncertainty, a survey by consulting firm Deloitte ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv / Rheinische Post Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the sluggish rollout of wind power in the south of the country "depressing" and warned that the three southern states – Hesse, Baden ...
07 Feb 2022, 13:42 Jessica Bateman Bioenergy Transport Die Zeit Germany’s national railway provider Deutsche Bahn has announced plans to run all trains on biofuels by 2040, newspaper Die Zeit reports. The group says it is phasing out diesel and wants to ...
24 Oct 2022, 13:43 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices 91tv / ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Industry Handelsblatt German conglomerate thyssenkrupp finds it increasingly difficult to spin off its troubled steelmaking division, Kevin Knitterscheidt and Martin Murphy write in Handelsblatt. In order to successfully sell ...
06 Jul 2021, 13:20 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 The ...
10 Jun 2020, 12:15 Extreme droughts and prolonged heat waves have significantly raised awareness of climate change dangers in Germany in the past years. And the changing weather patterns are also having a huge impact on the country's environment, as ...
25 Sep 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas 91tv Propelled by a rapid transformation in the heating sector, Germany’s demand for natural gas looks set to plummet by one third by 2030 and by another third in the following decade, consultancy ...
27 Feb 2020, 14:10 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Expert STEAG Electricity generator Fossil fuels Utilities Freja Eriksen Coal Welt / Tagesspiegel Background A legal opinion by the energy law firm Rosin ...
03 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Spiegel Germany’s government has postponed a decision to include a planned new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of the Baltic Sea island of Rügen in the country’s LNG ...
12 Nov 2020, 14:26 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s gas demand is set to increase significantly from 90 billion cubic metres (Bcm) today to 110 Bcm by 2034 as the country exits both nuclear and coal, said the energy research company and ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:50 The criminalisation of climate protesters is intensifying all over Europe, with multiple countries considering harsh new laws. While human rights activists express concern at the crackdown, experts are divided over the impact on the ...
22 Jan 2020, 13:26 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv / Die Welt Germany’s hard coal power plant operators criticise the ...
28 Sep 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv Consumers in Germany can expect to pay about 20 percent more for their appartment's gas heating bill 2021 than for the year before, and prices could climb by 67 percent ...
27 Sep 2019, 13:39 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ ...
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 ...
16 Jul 2021, 10:23 The UK is leading the world in terms of climate targets as it heads towards COP26. This is in no small part due to the work of climate activists, who, in the words of the campaigning group Extinction Rebellion, have come together to ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:38 Expert E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Non-profit organisation for policy transformation Climate & CO2 Finance Policy Expert Germanwatch Climate & CO2 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 COP24 tageszeitung (taz) / Clean ...
13 Dec 2021, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Renewables Wind 91tv / Handelsblatt The demand for zero-support renewable electricity is booming and the latest sign is a large-scale power purchase agreement (PPA) energy company EnBW concluded with ...
14 Sep 2022, 13:52 Sören Amelang Coal Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Readying retired German coal plants for use during the winter in case of gas shortfalls is not economically viable for the sector, Germany’s coal industry has said. The lifetime ...
17 Dec 2019, 13:23 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv / Spiegel Online The German rail service Deutsche Bahn (DB) is going to make the biggest investment in its vehicle ...
13 Sep 2022, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv Activists from the Fridays for Future student group have called on the German government to set up a special fund for “massive” investments in climate action. “We ...
25 Nov 2022, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann EU 91tv Germany should ensure there is solidarity in Europe to get through the energy crisis and be prepared for the winter 2023/24, International Energy Agency (IEA) head Fatih Birol said. “Europe needs ...
A US judge has approved a record settlement of 16.5 billion dollars (15.2 billion euros) over the VW exhaust scandal. Much of the sum to be paid out by the German carmaker will go to buybacks and customer compensation. No such deal has been reached in ...
18 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Grid Solar Spiegel, rbb As expected, the Berlin House of Representatives has passed a law making solar photovoltaic (PV) systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Spiegel writes. The Berlin ...
01 Sep 2022, 12:15 Julian Wettengel Digitalisation 91tv The German government has said its new digitalisation strategy will help in the fight against the climate crisis and in efforts to transform the economy. Environmental data and ...
A majority of 61 percent of the German population think the transition to an energy system dominated by renewables is the right way to go, 30 percent are undecided and 7 percent are opposed to the idea, the 2017 edition of the bi-annual survey on “nature ...
16 Dec 2020, 15:16 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Finance EU Clean ...
22 Mar 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Grid Energate The higher renewable targets of Germany’s government will require a faster expansion of the power grid, Tim Meyerjürgens, COO of transmission grid operator TenneT, has told Energate. Connecting the ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
Germany’s energy ministry is drafting a law to accelerate the development of the country’s electricity network, Michael Bauchmüller reports in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The draft, seen by the paper, will include streamlining the planning procedure, ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:55 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv Two German hard coal power stations and ...
12 Jan 2022, 13:18 Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv The conversion and expansion of Germany’s power grid is going “nowhere as fast as necessary for the transformation,” the new economy ...
26 Nov 2020, 13:31 Expert Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany Finance Benjamin Wehrmann Finance 91tv Climate activists have criticised new stock index rules introduced by Germany's stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse for not ...
Diesel engines will have “ a renaissance in the foreseeable future ” and shed its currently-tarnished image as a particularly polluting technology, VW head Michael Müller said at the important trade fair Geneva International Motor Show, the Frankfurter ...
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 ...
01 Nov 2024, 11:29 Julian Wettengel Finance COP29 Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Upcoming negotiations on a new goal for financial support from richer countries to developing economies to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be “very ...
31 Oct 2022, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Solar 91tv Regional officials in eastern German Cottbus have given the green light for the country's largest floating solar power plant to be built on the man-made Cottbus Ostsee lake, a former open ...
02 Mar 2021, 13:01 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Grid 91tv The Moorburg coal plant in Hamburg will be taken offline completely in July 2021, after Germany's four grid operators ...
The European Commission’s proposal to raise the EU’s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target from 40 percent to 45 percent relative to 1990 levels is misguided, Federation of German Industries (BDI) Deputy Director Holger Lösch says in a statement. ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:36 Carolina Kyllmann Digitalisation Policy 91tv The proposed energy efficiency laws in Germany might place a too heavy burden on data centres and could drive them out of the country, digital association Bitkom said in a press ...
German Social Democratic (SPD) chancellor candidate Martin Schulz’s call for a European e-mobility quota "seems like a shot from a blank gun”, writes Peter Fahrenholz in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “As a Europe expert, Schulz knows only ...
03 Jan 2023, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Finance EU 91tv The European emissions trading system (EU ETS) and national carbon pricing brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros from the sale of carbon dioxide pollution rights in 2022, the Federal ...
A new research project by Fraunhofer institute IWM in Freiburg is going to investigate the secure use of hydrogen in natural gas pipelines. The project will run for 4 years and cost 9.4 million euros, 1 million of which will be contributed by the federal ...
08 Dec 2020, 08:03 The European Union and Germany will continue to deal with the general question of energy sovereignty and strategic autonomy even with a new US administration led by Joe Biden, says Kirsten Westphal, senior associate at the German ...
18 Oct 2022, 14:10 Carolina Kyllmann Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany’s economy will take a bigger hit from the energy crisis compared to other European countries, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), business ...
The European Union’s competition authority has approved the plan of German luxury carmakers Daimler and BMW to combine their car-sharing businesses, subject to conditions, reports Gabriela Baczynska for Reuters. The deal includes car-sharing units Car2Go ...
19 Jul 2022, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Security Süddeutsche Zeitung The German government has said it will carry out a second assessment of the benefits of extending the runtime of the country’s remaining nuclear plants beyond their ...
03 Feb 2022, 12:32 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Jessica Bateman Transport Business & Jobs 91tv Germany’s national railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced it is investing a record €13 ...
30 Mar 2022, 14:07 Expert Fridays for Future Germany Climate activism group Climate & CO2 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Society dpa / Die Welt Climate activists from student protest movement Fridays for Future (FfF) have said they will resist the planned ...
26 Sep 2022, 12:04 The spread of unregulated company publicity involving “net zero” or “climate neutral” claims has become a systemic barrier to achieving climate targets, argues ClientEarth, an NGO focussing on using laws to advance environmental ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:29 Charlotte Nijhuis Coal Climate & CO2 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background German energy utility RWE is struggling to make the transition to climate-neutrality, according to a report published by EnergyComment and commissioned ...
03 Mar 2023, 13:34 With a significant “safety buffer” of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity, the German government aims to ensure that the country and neighbouring states will receive sufficient supply of natural gas in the coming years, says ...
Despite opposition for geostrategic, budgetary, economic and environmental reasons, the EU should go ahead with the Baltic natural gas pipeline project with Russia ‘Nord Stream 2’, writes Andreas Mihm in an opinion piece for FAZ. Imposing a construction ...
Germany might need new gas power plants to balance out the fluctuating feed-in by renewables, Uniper CEO Klaus Schäfer tells Rheinische Post in an interview. “The question of supply security is going to resurface, at the latest when the last nuclear ...
13 Jan 2025, 10:15 A last-minute move by Germany’s government to call for a delay to key EU sustainable finance legislation has caused dismay among observers from the finance industry and beyond. At a time when economic and political uncertainty is ...
08 Dec 2022, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv The planned infrastructure for direct imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Germany’s coastlines are “massively oversized” and state involvement means that taxpayer money is used for what could ...
Following the executive order by US President Donald Trump to repeal former president Barack Obama’s “Clean Power Plan,” Germany’s Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks warned the US against “making a stand against technologic and economic change,” ...
24 Jun 2022, 13:24 Kerstine Appunn Cars Deutschlandfunk Environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) remains optimistic that Germany’s government cabinet will find a common line on the ban of internal combustion engine cars in the EU, despite recent ...
04 Oct 2022, 15:05 Germany's western coal mining and heavy industry state North Rhine-Westphalia aims to complete the phase-out of coal-fired power production no later than 2030, eight years earlier than agreed in German coal exit law. However, two ...
Germany’s largest carmaker still has to invest a lot of effort in the US to regain the trust that it lost after it was revealed in 2015 that the company cheated on emissions tests on a large scale, Jack Ewing writes in the New York Times. A report ...
16 Jun 2022, 13:17 Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Rheinische Post To save gas and money, German households should be incentivised to use less energy for heating, the president of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), Klaus Müller, has told newspaper ...
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 ...
07 Nov 2024, 10:29 Following the break-up of Germany's governing coalition, the country's energy industry urged rapid snap elections to give companies much-needed investment security in uncertain times. Youth climate movement Fridays for Future ...
10 Feb 2021, 12:52 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv CO2 emissions from the German power mix range between 87 and 664 grammes per kilowatt-hour depending on the time of year and day, researchers from consultancy EUPD Research ...
09 Sep 2022, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out EU dpa / n-tv A delivery of uranium is on its way from Russia to Germany six months after the beginning of the war on Ukraine and the ensuing energy trading sanctions imposed by the EU, news agency ...
30 Jan 2023, 12:54 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine The heads of many renewable energy companies showed mixed opinions in whether Germany can meet its targets for green electricity generation, according to an article in newspaper ...
29 Jul 2021, 13:31 Expert LEAG Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG Coal Fossil fuels Julian Wettengel Coal Solar dpa / 91tv German lignite operator Leag seeks to take advantage of the country's coal phase-out and ...
07 Oct 2021, 13:46 Edgar Meza Industry In its efforts to slash CO2 emissions in steel production, thyssenkrupp Steel has announced what it describes as a milestone on its path to climate-neutral steel – its new bluemint Steel brand, produced with less ...
02 Jun 2021, 10:44 After 20 years, many pioneer clean energy projects are losing their guaranteed feed-in tariff, with possible repercussions for citizen involvement in the energy transition. In the solar sector, this change is mainly affecting households ...
The head negotiators of CDU and SPD in the coalition talks have praised the decisions on energy and climate policy as “a good compromise” (Armin Laschet, CDU) and a “huge step forward” (Barbara Hendricks, SPD). Hendricks, who is acting environment ...
German utility E.ON will go ahead with listing its spin-off company Uniper in September 2016, according to a press release. The vast majority- 99.7 percent- of shareholders had agreed to the split in June and no legal case had been made against the ...
Wind turbines in Germany should not be illuminated throughout the whole night as this would gravely impede the acceptance of wind power by local residents, the conservative CDU’s deputy parliamentary group leader Carsten Linnemann told the Frankfurter ...
23 Nov 2020, 13:44 Kerstine Appunn International Security dpa The government of the United States is increasing its pressure on people and companies associated with the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany again, reported ...
01 Dec 2020, 14:48 The first auction for the decommissioning of hard coal plants in Germany has been hailed as a success both by coal plant operators and climate activists, as it ensures that plants with a capacity of almost 5 gigawatts will be off the ...
09 May 2023, 12:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport 91tv The German government must address structural obstacles to faster and more comprehensively reduce emissions across the country’s economy in order to achieve international ...
30 Nov 2018, 15:04 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels International 91tv Despite the extension of the work of Germany’s coal exit commission, the country’s delegation will not go to Katowice empty-handed, said environment ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics EU Dlf / 91tv / dpa The European Union’s focus on climate in all policy fields is unnecessary and the Green Deal should be abolished, Maximilian Krah, the German populist far-right ...
17 Aug 2022, 14:53 Hannah Naylor Efficiency Resources & Recycling Süddeutsche Zeitung As solar panels, thermal insulation and heat pumps are increasingly becoming a standard in the tens of thousands of new houses that are built each year in the ...
23 Nov 2021, 13:24 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Climate change is still young Germans’ biggest concern, but they would rather politicians act on the topic than drastically change their own lifestyles, a survey ...
21 Jan 2022, 12:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport 91tv Together with French manufacturer Alstom, German railway company Deutsche Bahn is going to start trial runs with the country’s first battery-powered passenger train. Test operation of the so ...
Car sharing schemes differ greatly in their impact on users’ car ownership, according to a report published by the car sharing association bcs. Whereas car sharing businesses using fixed stations for pick-up appear to have reduced car ownership ...
The European Commission’s decision to start infringement proceedings against a number of European countries for failing to cooperate in emissions cheating investigations is “long overdue,” writes Jörg Münchenberg in a commentary for Deutschlandfunk. ...
19 Jan 2022, 12:09 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv Germany aims to secure a full supply of green hydrogen in its drive to become climate neutral, but may use blue hydrogen made with natural gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Norway for a ...
Heat generated from geothermal sources will become Germany’s primary source for district heating, geo scientist Ernst Huenges says in an interview with the Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten. “There are almost no alternatives from other regenerative sources”, ...
28 Feb 2023, 13:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv The launch of the latest offshore wind power auction could signal a “critical stage” for the technology’s role in Germany’s energy transition, the offshore wind industry has said. The ...
25 Apr 2022, 12:52 Expert BMWK- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Climate & CO2 Grid Renewable Energy Act | EEG Business Benjamin Wehrmann Storage Resources & ...
Mercedes-Benz plans to invest 1 billion dollars in making electric vehicles in the US state of Alabama, reports Nathan Bomey in USA Today. The investment will go both to an expansion of the German luxury brand's existing plant near Tuscaloosa and to ...
21 Mar 2017, 00:00 Over 1,000 ministers, officials, business people, energy experts and journalists from around 90 countries take part in the third Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, a two-day confernce hosted by the German Foreign Ministry. The following ...
13 Oct 2022, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas Tagesspiegel Background While Germany is building up an infrastructure to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) at its North and Baltic Sea coasts in record time, there continues to be uncertainty about where the ...
19 Feb 2025, 13:00 As the new U.S. administration under president Donald Trump upends decades of transatlantic relations and the wider geopolitical order, Germany faces the challenging task of resetting relations with its neighbours to ensure a strong EU ...
There is still a long way to go until the financing mechanisms of the German energy transition are transferred into a sustainable market design, writes Felix Matthes, research coordinator for energy and climate policy at Öko Institut, in a guest ...
German utility EnBW has increased its profits by one third in the first quarter 2018 compared to the same period last year, the company said in a press release. EnBW made 687 million euros in profits between January and March, with all business segments ...
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13 Dec 2024, 15:30 The coming year will show whether the EU can use a new strategy to clean its industry and continue the path laid out over the past five years in the European Green Deal, or whether increasing global competition and protectionist efforts ...
German carmakers must present ways to significantly reduce NOX emissions from diesel engines at an upcoming “ diesel summit ” with federal ministries, Handelsblatt report. Economy minister Brigitte Zypries told the business daily in an interview the ...
27 Mar 2020, 13:49 Expert Daimler AG Transport Cars Business & Jobs Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Benjamin Wehrmann Business & Jobs 91tv / Erneuerbare Energien Germany's largest carmaker, VW, has extended the suspension of ...
15 Jul 2022, 12:10 Hannah Naylor Transport Cost & Prices 91tv The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) has proposed a permanent 69-euro ticket for citizens to use local and regional public transport across the country as a way ...
The Green Party has criticised the Bavarian environment ministry for giving the go-ahead to tear down a nuclear power plant. The Isar I plant is to be demolished despite around 300 tonnes of radioactive material which cannot be removed for storage until ...
25 Apr 2024, 13:57 Germany will continue to aim to provide 6 billion euros annually in funds to developing countries for climate mitigation and adaptation by 2025, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said. The government would do so despite a recent ...
24 May 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Elections & Politics 91tv The intensifying quarrel within the German government coalition is increasingly likely to delay a law designed to pave the way towards climate-friendly heating. ...
05 Jan 2024, 10:00 The German government must stop relying too much on giving out subsidies for climate action from 2024, and instead tackle the country’s system of fossil fuel taxes, says energy analyst Andreas Schröder from commodity intelligence ...
10 Dec 2021, 14:05 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Business & Jobs 91tv Investments in the former coal mining region in the western German state of ...
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn hopes to operate a fleet of autonomous vehicles in the future to bring clients to the nearest train station, according to CEO Rüdiger Grube. “We will offer our door to door services in the future: Call a bike, car to go ...
To compensate for loss of revenue after Brexit, EU Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger proposes that member states could transfer part of their tax revenues to the EU, including revenues from taxes on CO₂ emission rights, he told German weekly Der ...
29 Sep 2022, 14:02 Expert Deutsche Bahn German railway operator Transport Business & Jobs Edgar Meza Transport Cost & Prices 91tv German railway group Deutsche Bahn (DB) has announced an increase in average fares for long-distant ...
The German government says the EU should devote at least 20 percent of its budget to climate-friendly projects and programmes, Rheinische Post reports. “The government supports the propositions of the EU’s Green Growth Group,” which called for one fifth ...
06 Jul 2022, 14:14 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 G20 & G7 Handelsblatt The concept of an international climate club of nations which agree to cooperate on higher climate policy standards could lose drive before it is even launched due to the ...
03 Dec 2021, 13:20 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Charlotte Nijhuis Business Handelsblatt German industrial giant Siemens regards industrial companies' responsibility to become more environmentally friendly as a defining task of the future and ...
02 Dec 2021, 13:39 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Electricity 91tv Germany’s five biggest power ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:46 The EU member states' agreement on reforming the bloc's electricity market has been hailed as a success from ministers in France and Germany, whose dispute over the role of nuclear power in European climate action has ...
23 Sep 2020, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv Almost a quarter of Germany’s wind turbines require a new business model when fixed payments under the country’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after their 20-year guaranteed support period, ...
14 Feb 2025, 14:20 The conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz is widely tipped to become Germany’s next chancellor – but remains ambiguous on a range of policy fields, notably on energy and climate. Despite being known as a senior policymaker for decades, ...
Even though new power transmission lines in Bavaria are going to be buried underground, environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (BUND) is still opposing the grid expansion in the southern state, dpa writes. There was no need for new large power ...
