27 Feb 2025
27 Feb 2025, 13:14 91tv Team Bloomberg: Don't sound the death knell for Germany's green wave yet The nation’s industrial giants believe clean technology is the best bet for the future. That should be an incentive for Friedrich Merz to stay the ...
24 Mar 2025, 13:34 Edgar Meza Mobility Freight 91tv Economic experts in Germany and France are calling for the two countries to coordinate strategies in the decarbonisation of road freight transport. In a joint statement, the Franco-German ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Electricity market Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv Germany's plan to secure the supply of electricity at all times through hydrogen-ready gas power plants could not materialise ...
19 Sep 2024, 11:26 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv To supply a sufficient number of homes with district heating, Germany needs to rapidly expand networks, ensure better profitability and double its annual investments in the technology, a report by ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:27 Milou Dirkx Cars 91tv One in five German company fleet cars in 2023 were electric, around half of which are pure battery-electric vehicles (BEV) and the other half plug-in hybrids, a survey done by state-owned development ...
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 ...
21 Nov 2024, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv New large scale batteries and hydrogen electrolysers could see their grid connection fee lowered in areas where there is surplus electricity, according to proposals made by ...
12 Nov 2021, 18:24 With the goal to "keep 1.5° within reach", many see this year's COP26 in Glasgow as the most important UN climate change conference since the landmark 2015 Paris summit. The last official day has arrived and negotiations ...
03 Mar 2025
03 Mar 2025, 12:15 91tv Team DW: Social Democrats lead Hamburg state election: early results The Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens look set to be able to continue their coalition in the northern city state of Hamburg following a regional election ...
29 Oct 2020, 13:44 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 BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb24 / 91tv Tesla's planned e-car factory near Berlin continues to draw criticism from local residents who take issue with the fact that work already began despite pending licenses, ...
22 Aug 2023, 13:43 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv Germany will miss its climate targets for 2030 and 2045 without additional measures despite considerable progress being made, according to the emissions projections report 2023 by the ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The cost of buying and running a new gas boiler in Germany is predicted to be twice as high as a heat pump over a 20-year period, according to a report by non-profit ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:51 Sören Amelang Cars Tagesspiegel Tesla may have to stop construction of its "Gigafactory" near Berlin following new legal action brought by environmental NGOs, reports Thorsten Metzner in the newspaper Tagesspiegel. The ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Germany's grid agency BNetzA is set to adapt grid fees for industrial electricity consumers in a bid to incentivise flexible power consumption. In an impulse paper ...
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 ...
26 Mar 2024
26 Mar 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The growing volumes of cheap green technologies coming out of China are leading to worries that solar panels, electric cars, batteries and other products sold below their production price ...
11 Nov 2024, 13:59 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Resources & Recycling 91tv German industry's dependence on ...
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 UPDATE-- While millions of Europeans will look skyward for a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse on March 20, technicians at German power grid operator TenneT will be glued to their controls. When the moon covers parts of the sun, the ...
02 Sep 2024, 13:30 Jennifer Collins Gas Heating Handelsblatt Many gas grid operators in Germany have not decided yet whether to use the possibility to increase their fees now in order to protect their dwindling customers from a massive price hike in the ...
09 Oct 2024, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Cars Hydrogen FAZ / 91tv Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner, a Free Democrat (FDP), has proposed several tax exemptions for combustion engine cars that run exclusively on renewables-based ...
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 ...
15 Apr 2025, 13:07 Benjamin Wehrmann International EU Handelsblatt France and Germany are preparing a relaunch of their cooperation on energy policy, competitiveness, and technology for when conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz has formed his ...
08 Dec 2021, 15:00 The September 2021 election result has left Germany with several options for a new government coalition. Agreeing it will involve lengthy negotiations to overcome major discrepancies between party programmes, and agreeing on a ...
14 Feb 2025
14 Feb 2025, 13:57 Administrative "simplification" will be a key focus of the European Commission's 2025 work programme, trade and economic security commissioner Maroš Šefčovič told MEPs during the European Parliament’s plenary session in ...
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 ...
23 Sep 2024, 13:37 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Germany’s current expansion targets for wind and solar electricity by 2030 are nearly in line with what is needed to help the world limit global temperature rise ...
10 Sep 2024, 13:28 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind 91tv The wind power industry in Germany must not repeat the same mistakes as the country’s solar power industry and cede significant market shares to cheaper Chinese competitors, labour union IG ...
11 Mar 2025, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Heating Handelsblatt Germany is stepping up its research on geothermal energy storage, a way of storing heat energy between seasons using water, business daily Handelsblatt reported. Research is currently underway in ...
06 Sep 2024, 13:28 Julian Wettengel Electricity Gas 91tv Electricity connectors and pipelines are crucial to leverage the potential of closer cooperation on energy and climate between Europe and the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region, ...
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 ...
23 Aug 2024, 12:34 Carolina Kyllmann Resources & Recycling 91tv Germany could cover at least part of its future critical raw material demand with domestic production, found a report by the Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...
30 May 2025, 15:00 Italy is facing a delay in the phase-out of coal, as the future of a major coal-fired power plant near Rome remains unclear, despite plans for its closure by the end of the year. The uncertainty is partly fuelled by industry concerns ...
21 Oct 2022, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Government EU Reuters / Die Welt / 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The postponement of Franco-German government consultations has been labelled as a “ diplomatic earthquake ” in ...
27 Nov 2024, 13:15 Germany’s most powerful industry association has said the future government must reconsider the country’s strategy for becoming climate-neutral. Against the background of a sagging economy and news about mass layoffs, the head of the ...
26 Aug 2021, 10:15 International partners can be assured that Germany’s next government coalition after the September election will not veer far off course of the country’s current climate and energy policy, says government advisor and director of two ...
27 Nov 2024
27 Nov 2024, 11:03 91tv Team Euronews: Parliament gives final approval for new European Commission A majority of Members of the European Parliament gave the final approval to the new European Commission of Ursula von der Leyen, allowing the executive to ...
10 Sep 2024, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Agriculture 91tv The agriculture and forestry sector could play an important role in the EU's goal to achieve climate neutrality by mid-century, while at the same time improving biodiversity ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:31 Bennet Ribbeck Business & Jobs International 91tv European industry could profit from a possible US drawback in climate-policy related collaborations, said Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock. Climate ...
29 Jan 2025
29 Jan 2025, 11:30 91tv Team Economist: Who is ahead in the race for Germany’s next parliament? Model gives the CDU/CSU "Union" a 97 in 100 chance of winning the most seats. Bloomberg: German industry lobby sees economy shrinking 0.1% this year ...
06 Nov 2023, 13:51 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Gas Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bloomberg The CEO of Germany’s largest power company RWE insists the country can still achieve an earlier ...
22 Feb 2019, 18:00 German environment minister Svenja Schulze is calling for an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goal of “at least 95 percent” by the year 2050 compared to 1990, in a draft of the highly anticipated Climate Action Law, seen by Clean ...
19 Mar 2025, 13:16 Jack McGovan Adaptation Cities 91tv Areas destroyed by floods in western Germany in 2021 should not only be restored, but be rebuilt in a way that makes them more sustainable and resilient against future flood events, said ...
03 Jul 2020, 12:48 In a vote that has been hailed as "historic", Germany's parliament has adopted a law that will ensure the phase-out of coal power by no later than 2038. The decision follows two years of intense debate about the country& ...
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 ...
31 Jan 2024, 13:32 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government 91tv Several NGOs and industry trade union IG BCE have called on the government to make fundamental changes to how the state uses its financial powers to push the transition to ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
16 Nov 2021, 16:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics The parties negotiating Germany’s next government coalition plan to table a coalition treaty and propose new government ministers next week. In a joint statement by the Social Democrats (SPD ...
04 Mar 2025
04 Mar 2025, 11:39 91tv Team Euractiv: Von der Leyen proposes more relaxed CO2 target compliance for new cars European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced she will propose a more relaxed three-year timeframe for the automotive industry ...
04 Feb 2025, 13:25 Bennet Ribbeck Industry Elections & Politics 91tv German industry association BDI has called on the next government to focus on lowering energy prices at both the national and European level. In its recommendations for ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:30 Edgar Meza Adaptation Society 91tv Germany's major aid organisations are urging the future government to increase civil protections in light of " the disasters resulting from rapidly increasing global warming and ...
07 Jun 2024, 12:00 Right-wing populist parties opposed to climate action are gaining power and popularity across the European continent and are set to do well in the 2024 European Parliament elections. These parties strongly influence climate narratives ...
13 Nov 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Heating 91tv The transition to climate-friendly heating is slowly gathering pace in Germany with the country's first major city announcing a 2035 phase-out date for its gas grid. MVV, the local ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:42 Three eastern German states will elect a new government in September 2024, marking a potentially pivotal moment in the post-reunification history of the country and for the future of its climate and energy transition policies. The ...
23 Jan 2019, 18:16 Germany’s detailed coal exit path and the end-date to coal-fired power generation remain unknown only days before a highly anticipated phase-out proposal is due to be published. A leaked draft of the final report of the country’s coal ...
17 Jun 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv As the European Union has entered into the process of selecting a new leadership team for the next legislative term after the June elections, key climate science advisors call on the ...
29 Apr 2021, 14:43 In an unexpected decision widely hailed as historic, Germany's highest court has ruled that the government's climate legislation is insufficient, lacking detail on emission reduction targets beyond 2030. The decision ...
28 Feb 2025, 13:07 Carolina Kyllmann Wind EU 91tv Europe installed a total 16.4 gigawatt (GW) of new wind power capacity in 2024, down from 18.4 GW achieved in the previous year, according to data by industry association WindEurope. " ...
15 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025, 11:45 91tv Team dpa: Parties row over Germany's shift to 'green' steel Conservative leader Merz doubts viability of climate-friendly steel, but labour union says it's industry's only chance of survival. Andreas ...
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 ...
25 Sep 2016, 00:00 In a move to fast-track the full ratification of the 2015 UN climate treaty (Paris Agreement), the German parliament has unanimously approved the terms of the treaty, helping to pave the way for it to enter into force before the end of ...
25 Mar 2025, 13:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Freight 91tv A consortium linked to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has built a plant at the Mannheim wastewater treatment plant that cleans generated biogas and uses the resulting ...
23 Aug 2024, 15:00 The summer holiday peak has arrived across Europe and most parliaments on the continent have gone into recess. But while federal politics won’t fully resume in Germany before 8 September, politicians and their observers have already ...
14 Sep 2021, 10:00 The EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ package of climate and energy legislation will be “incredibly difficult” to get through member states and German chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor must be willing to spend time, energy and diplomatic capital, ...
23 Mar 2020, 14:01 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Freja Eriksen Renewables Policy 91tv Up to 100 projects in the field ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Hydrogen 91tv There’s a large imbalance between current investment and the potential for cheap hydrogen production in individual European regions, according to a new report. Regions with high potential to ...
05 Mar 2025, 13:20 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Fossil gas is set to continue to play a crucial role in Germany’s energy supply throughout this decade, and consumption will fall slower than authorities currently plan, said consultancy McKinsey ...
21 Nov 2014
21 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Zeit Online "Is Sigmar Gabriel secretly burying the Energiewende?" A “progress report” from the Economics Ministry on the Energiewende shows evidence of a political struggle over the ...
11 Sep 2024, 13:00 German industry association BDI has said that the country’s industrial success in the future depends on businesses doing well on green technologies such as modern power grids, wind energy, green hydrogen production, electric mobility, ...
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 ...
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 ...
19 Jun 2024, 11:54 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Allowing several key electricity transmission lines to be built above ground, as well as improved planning to connect offshore wind parks to the shore, could drastically reduce ...
21 Aug 2024, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Germany's national price on CO2 emissions of fuels used in the transport and heating sectors lacks acceptance among the population, shows a survey by the Hans Böckler ...
16 Oct 2024, 13:25 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Business & Jobs 91tv Germany’s largest industry lobby group, the ...
05 Nov 2024, 13:19 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Elections & Politics 91tv / dpa / Zeit Online Lawmakers of Germany’s largest opposition party alliance have called for an expert assessment of whether recently decommissioned nuclear ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:03 Sören Amelang Industry 91tv The global emission-cutting drive is among several factors dampening the long-term growth outlook of Europe’s largest economy, the country’s leading economic research institutes said in their ...
29 Jul 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Business 91tv Sustainability in Germany is now firmly mainstreamed in the business sector, according to a survey by state investment and development bank KfW. Over half (53%) of German businesses consider ...
10 Dec 2024, 14:45 The early end of Olaf Scholz’s coalition government follows a three-year term marked by crises and a deep internal dispute over funding for future climate and energy policies. Despite its noisy demise, the chancellor’s three-party ...
17 May 2024, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv There is a significant potential in the northern Baltic states, especially in Finland, to produce green hydrogen for export to central Europe, said a report by certifier and consultancy DNV, ...
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 ...
23 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024, 11:23 91tv Team DW: Germany increases 'Deutschlandticket' price to €58 The "Deutschlandticket" monthly travel pass allows passengers unlimited trips on local and regional trains, trams and buses. Starting in 2025, the ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:25 Expert BSW- German Solar Association Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Business & Jobs Jack McGovan Grid Solar 91tv Necessary regulatory and technical precautions ...
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 ...
24 Apr 2025, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Heating 91tv / ZDF Many people in Germany have no idea that the planned expansion of EU carbon pricing could significantly push up their fossil fuel heating costs, in some ...
03 Mar 2025, 13:43 Edgar Meza Wind Handelsblatt The planned installation of 16 Chinese wind turbines off the German coast should be prevented on the grounds of public safety, business daily Handelsblatt reported based on an advisory paper from the German ...
12 Apr 2024, 13:48 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Most people in Germany want the government to take on new debt to invest in areas that are important for security and prosperity in the future, rather than complying with strict ...
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 ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:15 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv / Münchner Merkur The number of applications for state support to pay for counselling on how to improve energy efficiency in residential buildings reached a new high of 80,000 ...
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 ...
29 Jul 2021, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Coal Gas 91tv / taz Following years of protests in the western German Rhenish lignite mining region, activist group Ende Gelände is set to target plans for an import terminal for LNG (liquefied natural gas) ...
18 Nov 2017, 00:00 Bonn had delivered what was necessary to be on schedule for the decisions needed at COP24 in Katowice, the Germany delegation said / Negotiations finished in the early hours of 18 November / Last contentious issues still debated through ...
18 Feb 2025, 12:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Nuclear phase-out BR Southern German state Bavaria will retire its last major coal plant this week because the plant in Zolling near Munich was used less and less, also after the country completed its nuclear ...
01 Aug 2024, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Resources & Recycling International dpa / Die Welt Germany looks set to vote against lifting the current ban on mining the seabed in international waters at a conference on the future of deep sea mining, news ...
13 Feb 2025, 13:45 Sören Amelang Mobility Transport 91tv Germany’s government has agreed on the country’s first ever pedestrian transport strategy that aims to strengthen walking as a sustainable and healthy way of getting around. Transport ...
24 May 2024, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Finance PV Magazine Finance minister Christian Lindner has presented a draft law reform that aims to ease the access for investment funds into Germany’s renewable power and energy system infrastructure, PV ...
05 Feb 2024, 14:34 Franca Quecke Solar Business & Jobs Handelsblatt / 91tv In a resolution, the council of German state governments (Bundesrat) called for special support for solar power products manufactured in the country or the ...
23 Jan 2019, 11:04 Germany’s coal exit commission will propose to protect companies and private households from rising electricity prices resulting from a state-driven phase-out of the fossil fuel, Reuters news agency says citing a draft report [shorter ...
20 Aug 2021, 13:03 Germany is facing a significant gap between estimated greenhouse gas emission reductions and targets over the coming 20 years, a draft government report shows. Germany recently decided to reduce emissions by 65 percent by 2030. However, ...
11 Nov 2016, 00:00 After months of heated debate, the German government has finally struck an agreement on its contentious Climate Action Plan 2050, due to be signed off by the cabinet over the weekend. It includes emission reduction targets for transport ...
27 Feb 2025, 13:51 The European Commission unveiled a series of plans to make the bloc's industry more competitive, reduce energy costs and cut red tape. Germany's industry associations called the proposals an important first step in the right ...
10 Jan 2024, 13:27 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) are doubling down on their efforts to achieve a reform of the country’s constitutionally enshrined limit on new government lending, the ...
03 Apr 2025, 11:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Energiewende Cost & Prices 91tv Germany could achieve climate neutrality by 2045 at a much lower cost through a combination of energy efficiency measures and a slower expansion of power generation and ...
18 Apr 2016
18 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Der Tagesspiegel “Czech investor wants to take over brown coal operations” A year and a half after Sweden's Vattenfall said it would sell its German lignite ...
01 Apr 2016
01 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Bild “People’s e-car” The premiere of Tesla’s new e-car “Model 3” might not only decide the future of the company, but the future of e-mobility, according to mass-daily Bild. “With ...
10 May 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s energy system will need ‘green’ gas to become climate neutral, but government must set the right framework conditions to ensure the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy, said several gas ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Grid 91tv New regional projections for future electricity consumption and production show that Germany’s electricity distribution grid operators will face massive challenges in the coming years of the ...
15 Aug 2024, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Wind 91tv A majority of Germans continue to be in favour of further wind power expansion in the country, with 68.9 percent in western states and 54.4 percent in the East supporting the industry, showed a ...
19 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Heating 91tv The city of Berlin could cover up to ten percent of its future heating demand with waste heat, according to a report by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Institute for ...
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 ...
05 Dec 2015, 00:00 UPDATE (adds NGO statement on climate finance pledge) Agreement on a draft agreement – with lots of options / Climate funding pledges reach $94 billion / Climate risk insurance can help dealing with loss and damages / Climate blind ...
25 Jun 2024, 13:22 Jack McGovan Gas Security 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The EU isn’t prepared to properly deal with a future gas crisis like the one resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to a new report ...
08 Oct 2024
08 Oct 2024, 10:30 91tv Team Reuters: EU backing for China EV tariffs shows Berlin's waning influence Germany was one of only five EU members to reject tariffs after months of pressure from its carmakers, which rely on China for almost a third of ...
27 May 2024, 13:22 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation dpa / Handelsblatt Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach has called on the country’s hospitals and care facilities to improve their preparedness against the negative health effects posed by ...
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 ...
28 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025, 12:00 As the European Union’s focus shifts away from climate action and towards increasing security and competitiveness, the question whether it will set a 90 percent emissions reduction target for 2040 has become central. Dave Keating *** ...
26 Sep 2023, 12:30 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Edgar Meza Transport Hydrogen Die Welt / 91tv Aviation industry representatives and political leaders in Germany have vowed ...
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 ...
17 Feb 2025, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cars dpa / WirtschaftsWoche While sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in Germany have stalled recently, the share of citizens who would consider buying one in the future has risen considerably, a survey ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv A broad alliance of more than 40 civil society associations and organisations has called on the German government to step-up climate measures as the country is projected to miss its ...
01 Jul 2020, 13:15 Germany's government has removed the last hurdles to finalising the country's much-anticipated coal exit law, clearing the way for a passage of the bill in parliament at the end of the week. The draft agreement grants ...
06 Jul 2020, 12:23 Coal Spiegel / Süddeutsche Zeitung / DW / NDR Following the German parliament’s vote on Friday in favour of a law ending all coal power production by 2038, the country’s media has been reacting to the controversial bill. As well as an ...
11 Dec 2015, 00:00 Agreement text expected Saturday morning / Germany, EU reiterate push for ambitious deal/ Leaders get on the phone/ Scientists fear weak deal Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate ...
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 ...
16 Apr 2019, 14:41 The opening of a new offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea gives Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel an opportunity to show her climate policy credentials and welcome the German-Norwegian project as a milestone for the energy ...
23 Sep 2019, 09:41 The German government coalition has reached an agreement on the country's climate action strategy, including a pricing system for carbon emissions in all major sectors. The 91tv presents reactions to the deal. Sören ...
20 Aug 2024, 12:23 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Business & Jobs Technology Reuters / 91tv Nationalism and resentment endanger investments in key future technologies, Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the ceremony for the start ...
04 Oct 2024, 09:00 While Europeans expect a continuation of the Biden administration’s climate policies under a Harris presidency, they are worrying about how to save the global climate fight from a second Trump administration. EU officials and experts ...
11 Feb 2025, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv More people in Germany say they want the government to invest CO2 price revenues in renewable energy sources and to lower grid fees, than compensating citizens through an ...
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 ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Society EU 91tv Security and affordability is the top priority for the future young Europeans want, followed by a liveable planet and social justice, according to the Next Generations Study 2023 survey by ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:19 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv Nine gas transmission system operators (TSOs) from countries bordering the Baltic Sea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that declares the aim to coordinate and facilitate the buildout ...
18 Jul 2024, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Government 91tv / Die Zeit Germany’s government has formally adopted the country’s draft budget for 2025 and amended the 2024 budget, which had become a difficult task after a court ...
10 Mar 2020, 13:11 Rachel Waldholz Transport Der Spiegel The steep drop in air travel caused by the coronavirus outbreak is reducing carbon emissions in the short-term, but the economic hit could undermine the aviation industry’s commitment to longer term ...
17 Jul 2021, 10:30 Catastrophic floods have killed more than 130 people in Germany in one of the worst natural disasters in the country's post-war history. The torrential rains have been widely linked to climate change, swinging the issue into focus ...
21 Mar 2025, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Electricity market 91tv A projected increase in electricity demand and a reduction of power plant capacity able to supply electricity at any moment are set to represent concrete challenges for Germany' ...
15 Jan 2025, 13:06 Sören Amelang Electricity market Storage Technology pv magazine Large-scale battery projects with a combined capacity of 226 gigawatts (GW) seek to be connected to Germany’s transmission grid, fanning industry speculation that the ...
22 Mar 2019, 16:00 European leaders did not call for climate neutrality by 2050 at today’s summit in Brussels, despite several countries including France suggesting it to be included. Germany is among a group of countries rejecting a tougher wording on ...
14 Nov 2024
14 Nov 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Euractiv: Likely future German coalition divided on energy, climate Germany's conservative CDU/CSU, led by Friedrich Merz, is expected to win the snap election on 23 February according to the latest polls but remains at ...
28 Jun 2019, 12:31 Germany’s parties are hastening to put together proposals on how the country can reach its national and international climate targets as pressure from recent election results, ongoing climate protests and an early heat wave continues to ...
28 Jun 2022, 17:00 Climate is planned to figure high on the agenda as leaders of the G7 democratic economies come together in a remote castle with picturesque views of alpine peaks in southern German state Bavaria. The German presidency has promised to ...
07 Aug 2024
07 Aug 2024, 13:41 91tv Team Reuters: German drugstore chain shuns Teslas over Musk's support for Trump Rossmann drugstore chain, which is among the largest in Europe, said its decision was with immediate effect and due to what it called an " ...
07 Dec 2022, 12:45 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Expert IZES- Institute for Future Energy Systems Institut für Zukunfts Energie Systeme Citizens' energy Electricity market Expert ...
15 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024, 13:39 91tv Team European Council: COP29: EU calls for efforts to keep the 1.5°C goal within reach The Council approved conclusions that will serve as the EU’s general negotiating position for the UN climate change conference starting on 11 ...
09 Apr 2024, 14:00 German environmental NGOs have welcomed a landmark climate victory by an association of women in Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights as a breakthrough for climate action. The court found that the European Convention on ...
10 Sep 2015
10 Sep 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv FAZ/Handelsblatt "Werner Müller wants to save RWE" RWE’s municipal shareholders plan to put former German economy minister Werner Müller in charge of the stricken utility’s supervisory ...
07 Mar 2024, 13:42 Jack McGovan Hydrogen Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A planned hydrogen "core" network in Germany has come under criticism for being larger than necessary and therefore becoming too expensive, reports Handelsblatt. ...
22 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Coalition wants to push through fracking law on Friday” The government has scheduled the Bundestag vote on a law restricting fracking in Germany for ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:04 Carolina Kyllmann Society Elections & Politics 91tv A majority of people in Germany (53%) agree that the next government should do more for climate protection, according to a survey commissioned by environmental NGO ...
21 Jan 2025, 12:35 Edgar Meza Electricity Cost & Prices 91tv Net electricity consumption in Germany may not rise as much in the coming years as assumed in current regulatory planning, according to a report by consultancy McKinsey. ...
22 Apr 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised the role of Norway in Germany’s energy supply, lauding the country as a reliable partner both during the energy crisis and ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:27 After months of delay, lawmakers from Germany's coalition government have agreed to a reform of the country's climate action law, which would weaken the responsibility of ministries to ensure targets in their sectors are met. ...
14 Jun 2023, 19:55 The German economy and climate ministry has presented a long-awaited climate action package, but the comprehensive policy proposals will remain insufficient for putting Europe’s largest economy on track for meeting its 2030 emission ...
08 Oct 2019, 11:00 Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion have begun two weeks of blockades and acts of civil disobedience by occupying two main traffic intersections in Berlin, demanding that Germany's government "tells the truth" ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:24 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market 91tv Energy industry association BDEW has presented a proposal for a new electricity market design in Germany, with a new capacity mechanism at the heart of the plan. “The current ...
16 May 2025, 14:30 As Croatia goes to the polls for local elections on 18 May the green transition has been relatively absent in political campaigns. Citizen participation in the transition has picked up with the opening of the first large-scale solar ...
18 Jun 2024, 13:21 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs 91tv / Handelsblatt Companies in Germany continue to be ...
07 Oct 2024, 09:30 We are almost exactly one year away from the next German federal elections. Or are we? The three-party coalition government led by chancellor Olaf Scholz is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in ...
16 Apr 2024, 13:06 Jennifer Collins Renewables 91tv The number of power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Germany grew by 323 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year, according to a market analysis by the country's energy agency (dena) ...
01 Jul 2024
01 Jul 2024, 11:00 Carolina Kyllmann Reuters: Germany, Morocco agree alliance to support green hydrogen production and exports Germany is seeking to expand its reliance on hydrogen as a future energy source to cut greenhouse emissions for highly polluting ...
30 May 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity International 91tv France and Germany will strengthen bilateral cooperation to unlock the potential of flexibility in the electricity system, government representatives agreed on the margins of ...
25 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: Germany sees €12.6 billion less in tax income by 2028 Finance minister Christian Lindner highlighted that the €7 billion in subsidies earmarked for US chipmaker Intel Corp in 2024 — which paused its investment on a ...
07 Jan 2025, 13:15 The next German government must achieve what the previous few have not: increasing digitalisation, says Robert Busch, managing director of the Association of Energy Market Innovators (bne). Electricity system flexibility can only be ...
01 Mar 2016
01 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv IHS “As European solar installations slow, China, US and Japan lead global installed PV capacity in 2016” The United States and Japan will surpass Germany’s installed solar PV capacity this year, ...
08 Nov 2024, 13:41 Sören Amelang Society Elections & Politics 91tv All Germans want significantly more climate action from the party they would vote for in the upcoming federal election, with the exception of those who support the far ...
16 Aug 2019, 10:00 Voters in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg head to the polls on 1 September for crucial state elections. The results could have an outsized impact on German climate policy for three reasons. First, these states are ...
17 Dec 2024, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv The conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) has said it aims to strengthen Germany’s competitiveness as a basis for ...
05 Mar 2024, 12:10 Jennifer Collins Climate & CO2 Government Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany's government has appealed November's court ruling that required it to present emergency climate measures after failing emissions reduction targets in ...
05 Dec 2024, 13:11 Sören Amelang Grid 91tv Germany will have to invest around 650 billion euros into the expansion of its electricity grids by 2045, according to a report by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans Böckler ...
05 Jan 2023, 13:13 Municipalities of all sizes are at the forefront of the transformation of cities, infrastructure and Europe’s energy system, and should therefore lead this change actively, the German Institute for Urban Affairs (Difu) said. Enabling ...
20 Dec 2024, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Grid Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower demand for electricity could substantially reduce Germany’s bill for expanding the power grid to accommodate its growing fleet of renewable power installations, business daily ...
10 Jun 2024, 14:54 Voters in Germany abandoned the parties of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government in their droves at the European elections, handing the conservative CDU/CSU alliance of European Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen a ...
02 Dec 2024, 12:47 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs International 91tv The expansion of renewable energies, in particular geothermal, as well as Germany’s shortage of skilled workers needed to implement its landmark energy transition will be ...
29 Nov 2024, 13:45 The collapsed coalition of chancellor Olaf Scholz achieved a few important breakthroughs for Germany’s energy transition that should not be sacrificed for point-scoring in election campaigns, says Wolfram Axthelm from the Renewable ...
10 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024, 11:44 Julian Wettengel FT: Northvolt to cut jobs and sell off unit to survive EV chill Swedish battery maker has been grappling with factory problems and slow growth in European EV take-up. Bloomberg: Europe braces for last of Ukraine’s ...
07 Oct 2024, 13:34 Julian Wettengel Storage 91tv / electrive State funding cuts for battery research projects mean that Germany’s government is exiting a key future technology, while other regions of the world increase their research and ...
16 Jan 2025, 13:15 Sören Amelang Agriculture Business & Jobs 91tv The largest German supermarket chains have increased their efforts to become more sustainable, but still don’t do justice to their central role in the transformation of the ...
28 Aug 2023, 13:43 Milou Dirkx Wind Cost & Prices FAZ New offshore wind farms could give an economic boost to German shipyards, but shipbuilding companies say they might not be able to finance the necessary investments without support, Frankfurter ...
06 Dec 2024, 09:25 Ensuring the timely construction of new hydrogen-ready gas power plants must be a top priority in energy policy for Germany's next government, says the head of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). Lobby ...
19 Nov 2024, 13:28 Ruby Russel Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv Greater clarity on the financial effects of energy efficiency renovations could help increase the rate of refurbishments in Germany's building stock, according to a report ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Cost & Prices 91tv Germany will provide up to 3.53 billion euros in the period 2027 to 2036 to procure hydrogen and hydrogen-based derivatives from different regions, said the economy ministry ...
16 Sep 2016, 00:00 To decarbonise Germany’s economy, small amounts of renewable electricity will have to replace large amounts of fossil fuel. The policies to make this Energiewende happen must be decided now, the economy ministry says in a new discussion ...
25 Feb 2019, 14:17 The first draft of Germany’s Climate Action Law, presented last week, has laid bare conflicting views within the German coalition government over how the country should meet its climate targets. The proposal has drawn criticism from ...
16 Feb 2024, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Renewables Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The construction of hydrogen storage facilities beyond the existing caverns is crucial for the energy system of the future, especially as a basis for solar photovoltaics (PV) ...
23 Feb 2025, 20:20 Germany's coalition government collapsed in November 2024 due to internal disputes over budget and economic policy. The country now gears up for snap elections in early 2025, against the backdrop of a flagging economy, the war in ...
22 Nov 2024, 09:30 The collapse of Germany’s coalition government has thrown climate policymaking in Europe’s largest economy into disarray, and added many question marks to the progress of its landmark energy transition. The sacking of finance minister ...
05 Apr 2024, 11:50 Edgar Meza Business & Jobs 91tv The number of companies in Germany which say they offer goods and services that contribute to climate protection has reached 30 percent, according to results of survey by the state-owned ...
04 Apr 2024, 13:27 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Some 70 percent of respondents from several European countries see the energy transition as everyone's responsibility and believe all citizens should be actively involved, ...
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 ...
13 Sep 2024, 15:00 The fate of France’s green transition remains on hold despite President Emmanuel Macron finally appointing a new prime minister in Michel Barnier. The decision to name a new prime minister had been a long time coming, following the ...
25 Mar 2024, 13:41 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv / Euractiv German environment minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) has slammed the EU member state governments' failure to consent to the bloc's Nature Restoration Law at today's (25 ...
03 Dec 2024
03 Dec 2024, 11:35 91tv Team Nature: Why the EU must reset its Green Deal – or be left behind- comment The world has changed since Europe’s ambitious climate package was designed. Here’s how the agreement should evolve. Reuters: Dutch power grid group ...
25 Apr 2025, 09:00 European and UK leaders have pledged to cooperate closely to strengthen energy supply security, and said bringing down fossil fuel imports and ramping up domestic clean sources is the only way to do so. At an energy security summit in ...
19 Sep 2024, 11:38 Sören Amelang Policy International Security 91tv / Deutschlandfunk Germany commits to “systematic climate and environmental protection in line with the Paris Climate Agreement” in the Arctic in new policy guidelines ...
01 Jul 2024, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Policy 91tv / Zeit / n-tv A law requiring German municipalities, states and the country as a whole to adapt to the effects of climate change has now come into force (1 July). For the first time, ...
20 Mar 2024, 13:41 Sören Amelang Business & Jobs 91tv One in two German utilities are finding it difficult to attract new employees, and four out of five companies in the sector expect the problem to worsen in the near future and slow ...
05 Apr 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv The use of synthetic fuels, also known as e-fuels, is unsuitable for road transportation in the medium to long term based on current knowledge, a report by the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
22 Dec 2023, 13:42 Julian Wettengel Coal Grid Die Welt Germany’s energy regulator BNetzA has said that several coal power plants should remain as a reserve until the end of March 2031 to ensure grid stability in times of need, reports Die Welt. The plants ...
22 Jan 2024, 14:04 Julian Wettengel Grid Solar Cars 91tv / WirtschaftsWoche German retailers say that significant delays in connecting new electric vehicle (EV) charging points and solar PV installations to the local electricity grid are ...
01 Aug 2023, 12:47 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The European Commission has set important framework conditions for planned German state support to build and operate about 24 gigawatts (GW) hydrogen power plants and fossil gas units ...
12 Nov 2024, 13:51 Jack McGovan Grid Security 91tv / Der Spiegel Disruptions to electricity supply within the German network remained around the ten-year average in 2023, the year in which the country had to deal with the fallout of the ...
18 Sep 2024, 13:30 Carolina Kyllmann Industry Heating 91tv Germany's industry could save up to 21 billion euros in energy costs annually if it generated heat more efficiently for the manufacture of products, according to a report ...
14 May 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Finance 91tv Germany should invest an additional 213 billion euros compared to current budget plans over the next ten years in public services and infrastructure to decarbonise its economy ...
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 ...
18 Dec 2024, 10:13 Italy is considering a return to nuclear power as part of its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality and increase energy independence. The debate has reignited political tensions over the issue, with proponents arguing that nuclear ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:33 Jack McGovan Business & Jobs Most German companies are in favour of the country's energy transition, with 85 percent supporting the policy agenda, according to a survey commissioned by the German Technical Inspection ...
21 Oct 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Cars Resources & Recycling 91tv / ARD With the official opening of a battery recycling plant in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, carmaker Mercedes-Benz plans to recover raw materials ...
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 ...
29 May 2024, 14:30 In a bid to help Germany reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045, the government has presented a draft law reform that would allow the storage of CO2 under the seabed, as well as onshore – but only if the federal states choose to do so. ...
09 Sep 2024
09 Sep 2024, 11:35 Julian Wettengel FT: Mario Draghi calls for €800bn EU investment boost Former Italian premier demands ‘new industrial strategy’ to stop Europe falling behind US and China. EU Commission: The future of European competitiveness: Report by ...
14 Oct 2024, 13:50 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs Bild The head of Germany’s largest airline Lufthansa, Carsten Spohr, has warned that the country’s aviation sector is facing huge difficulties due to higher state charges. “I worry greatly ...
04 Nov 2024, 13:48 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 International 91tv The UN biodiversity conference in the Colombian city of Cali achieved real progress by improving coordination between climate and environmental protection, according to ...
26 Sep 2024, 13:01 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv / ARD Germany's national railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) plans to test long-range drones that can survey railway tracks after severe weather events. From 2025, DB plans to deploy ...
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 ...
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 ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:52 Germany's pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) plans to argue the case for using emissions trading as the main tool for fighting climate change if they become part of the next federal government. The party wants to extend the ...
25 Oct 2022, 13:34 Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy could rest on, Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a conference in Berlin on the war-torn country’s ...
04 Oct 2024, 12:19 Joey Grostern Solar dpa The number of plug-in solar systems dubbed “balcony power plants” in Germany has surpassed 700,000 as of 2 October, having doubled since the start of 2024, according to reporting from news agency dpa, citing data ...
31 Oct 2024, 13:25 Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind Hydrogen 91tv Europe could cover its electricity and green hydrogen needs with domestic production, but only if renewables expansion proceeds as planned, said researchers from ...
11 Oct 2024, 12:28 Julian Wettengel Renewables Energiewende 91tv Germany should give greater consideration to the uncertain development of economic output and population trends when planning the country’s future energy and infrastructure ...
28 Oct 2024, 13:40 Carolina Kyllmann Business Policy 91tv Support for Germany's energy policies varies starkly between employees backing populist parties compared to those supporting the centre left or centre right, according to a study ...
24 Apr 2015, 00:00 [Updates explanation of climate contribution] The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has signalled it might make changes to its climate levy to ease concerns over potential job losses, media report on Friday as supporters ...
15 Dec 2021, 13:33 Edgar Meza Transport 91tv The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has unveiled a new aviation strategy that sets the path for emission-free flying. The goal is the development of highly efficient aircraft that use climate ...
16 Sep 2024, 13:29 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv Extreme rainfall in Central Europe has led to large scale flooding, damaged homes and infrastructure, and resulted in the evacuation of hundreds of homes. While Czechia, ...
19 Mar 2024, 12:45 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Finance EU 91tv / FT The EU must speed up the reform of capital market rules to help unleash private capital to ensure the resilience and technological competitiveness of the bloc, said ...
23 Apr 2024, 14:12 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv Representatives of Germany’s renewable power industry have criticised the government’s planned legislation package for expanding the capacity of solar, wind and other renewable energy ...
14 Dec 2020, 14:09 Members of Germany’s governing coalition have agreed on new rules to ensure a significant increase in the country’s renewable power production. However, exact targets of the much-anticipated reform of the country's landmark ...
24 Aug 2022, 13:32 Edgar Meza Cars Spiegel / Automobilwoche The Volkswagen group’s future CEO, Oliver Blume, who is set to take the reins at the German carmaker on 1 September, has again expressed his support for electrofuels, also known as e-fuels and ...
15 Nov 2022, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German government is setting up two new funds with a total of 550 million euros to support the development of the global hydrogen economy through cooperation, especially with emerging and ...
13 Feb 2024, 13:14 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics International 91tv The EU and the U.S. should have strong incentives to develop a joint green agenda – given their shared aim to foster decarbonisation while “de-risking” from China ...
02 Dec 2022, 11:59 Markets are usually good at establishing standards and compliance themselves to facilitate business, but climate neutral products and emission reductions appear to be an exception to this rule, says Georgios Agrafitiotis, auditor for ...
15 Nov 2024, 12:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / Die Welt / Deutsche Welle Restarting Germany’s decommissioned nuclear power plants is not a viable option, former plant operator E.ON has said. The company ...
14 Nov 2021, 12:40 A Glasgow Climate Pact, including the notion that climate action needs to be accelerated within this decade to keep global temperature from rising more than 1.5°C as well as a historic reference to the phase-out of climate damaging ...
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 Oct 2018, 16:40 Germany’s coal commission wants to ease the coal exit by granting lignite mining regions preferential treatment in infrastructure and innovation projects, according to a leaked draft report seen by the 91tv. The paper ...
28 Feb 2023, 13:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars EU Bild Zeitung / Euractiv An effective ban on combustion engines in new cars in the EU by 2035 might not get the approval by Germany if it does not include a clause on allowing engines powered with “climate ...
02 Aug 2022, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Technology 91tv Germany will be able to procure the volumes of hydrogen imports needed by 2030 if it quickly sets the right infrastructural, legal and entrepreneurial course, a team of researchers ...
11 Jul 2022, 12:24 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s government will make good on a key coalition agreement promise this week and present an “immediate climate action programme” with measures in all economic ...
21 May 2024, 14:17 The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has boosted hopes in Germany’s eastern coal mining region Lusatia that a prosperous future lies ahead in the transition towards climate-neutral industry in the area. At a visit to ...
08 Dec 2023, 13:09 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Technology Der Spiegel An alliance of companies plans to build Germany’s first industrial-scale production facility for synthetic e-fuels which could allow for the climate neutral operation of combustion engine ...
12 Oct 2023, 11:38 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 Industry Business & ...
08 Feb 2024, 13:36 Sören Amelang Hydrogen International 91tv Germany and Algeria are discussing closer bilateral cooperation in the rollout of renewables and green hydrogen during a visit by economy minister Robert Habeck to the north African ...
14 Jan 2025, 13:06 Edgar Meza Renewables Policy Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Grid operators and energy industry representatives in Germany are calling on political leaders to approve immediate measures to better control small solar installations following the ...
30 Sep 2024
30 Sep 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Bloomberg: VW’s second pofit warning exposes a carmaker in decline German manufacturer expects to sell fewer vehicles this year. Bungled EV shift and China slump are among VW’s many challenges. European Environment Agency: ...
26 Feb 2024, 15:55 The German government has proposed plans to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) possible to help the country reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. State support would focus on capturing and storing or using carbon from industrial ...
19 Sep 2024, 12:25 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv The German association of energy intensive businesses (VIK) has pushed back against plans to adjust industrial grid fees to incentivise flexible power consumption, saying it ...
05 Sep 2024, 13:22 Jennifer Collins Wind Hydrogen Technology A European hydrogen test project has successfully linked a wind turbine with two electrolysers, which could make it possible to generate off-grid green hydrogen at sea and drive down production ...
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 ...
25 Jan 2021, 10:48 Germany is facing a packed election year in 2021 with votes in six of the country’s 16 states and federal parliamentary elections in September. Although somewhat sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, campaigning and positioning of parties ...
12 Jan 2024, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Security 91tv Pressure is mounting to better protect the coasts of Germany and other North Sea countries against threats such as storm tides. Rising sea levels and increased rainfall and floods ...
09 May 2025, 16:15 Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is still trying to wean itself off Russian energy supplies. The bloc has come a long way from the dependency it once had, yet certain EU countries still rely on Russia for ...
20 Sep 2024, 12:14 Edgar Meza Adaptation 91tv Case studies on climate adaptation from around the world do not yet demonstrate truly sustainable strategies, yet sustainable climate adaptation is key for measures to be successful in the long ...
13 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024, 11:35 Julian Wettengel ISGlobal: Heat caused nearly 50,000 deaths in Europe last year – study More than 47,000 people died in Europe in 2023 due to extreme heat, says the study by Barcelona Institute for Global Health. E3G: Investment ...
17 Aug 2023, 14:25 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv Germany’s “excessive” energy efficiency standards for new buildings make the construction of new homes too expensive, proving fatal for people who need affordable housing ...
20 Feb 2023, 16:47 On the path to a climate neutral electricity system that is largely covered by renewable sources, Germany is planning a reform to its electricity market. Inaugurating the ‘Climate Neutral Electricity System Platform’, the economy and ...
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 ...
11 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv An alliance of civil society groups has issued an appeal to the German government to not implement planned cuts in the 2025 budget and avoid damage “to the economic, ecological, and social stability ...
29 Nov 2022, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Industry 91tv Challenges such as high energy prices, lowered competitiveness, skilled worker shortages or the high need for investment threaten to push industry investments away from Germany, but the ...
20 Nov 2023, 16:30 Germany will invest 4 billion euros in sustainable energy projects in Africa until 2030 to help improve the continet’s role in renewable power, green hydrogen and critical raw material extraction, chancellor Olaf Scholz announced at the ...
26 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024, 11:43 German ministers and lawmakers, just like most of their peers across the European Union, are heading into the parliaments’ summer 2024 recess and some time off. However, there are exceptions: three eastern German federal states will ...
26 Feb 2016
26 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche “The 54 billion-euro bill” On balance, it doesn’t matter how much the decommissioning of atomic power plants and the storage of nuclear waste will cost – it’s already clear that ...
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 ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:25 Sören Amelang Mobility Cars Tagesschau German chancellor Olaf Scholz used his opening address at the IAA mobility show in Munich to unveil a push to increase the number of rapid charging points in the country, reports Tagesschau. ...
26 Jan 2024, 13:31 Franca Quecke Renewable Energy Act | EEG Handelsblatt German power transmission grid operators have said that an additional 7.8 billion euros from the country's budget is needed to pay out renewable energy support in 2024, reports ...
17 Sep 2024, 13:50 Jack McGovan Policy 91tv The investments needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040 would help grow the EU economy by around two percent, think tank Agora Energiewende said in a report. It analysed the ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Finance 91tv Fourteen percent of German households are already putting their money into sustainable investments, while another 30 percent can imagine doing so in the future, a survey by the government-owned ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:28 Kerstine Appunn Security Handelsblatt Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will cooperate on an accelerated energy transition to meet their climate neutrality targets, the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International ...
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 ...
19 Sep 2023, 13:47 Edgar Meza Renewables 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) has called for a revision of long-term renewable power scenarios detailed in an analysis by the economy ministry (BMWK). The ...
12 Apr 2024, 14:08 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Julian Wettengel Carbon market EU 91tv The German government should use its national experiences to support EU neighbours in ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:33 Julian Wettengel Technology 91tv Nuclear fusion technology has the potential to provide long-term climate-friendly energy and reduce import dependencies- but it cannot contribute to mid-century climate targets because it ...
12 Nov 2021, 17:20 With only hours officially left to conclude talks in Glasgow, the details of how future carbon markets can help to increase climate mitigation ambition are being formed at the hands of government ministers while NGOs warn that current ...
31 Oct 2023, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Industry 91tv Germany must act quickly to secure its place as a key location for industries in an increasingly climate-friendly global economy, said economy minister Robert Habeck. “Almost all major ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:48 Sören Amelang Renewables Industry 91tv Germany’s steel and renewable industries have launched a joint call for a “transformation summit” to clarify the urgently needed funding for industry decarbonisation in the wake of ...
15 Jul 2021, 09:30 The German environment ministry has called new EU proposals to reform the bloc's climate and energy policy “nothing less than a new industrial revolution in the European Union.” The European Commission's comprehensive proposal ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Government Der Spiegel A draft report commissioned by the German government shows that the country’s current and planned climate policies are not enough to reach the official target of net-zero ...
29 Oct 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The projected demand for green hydrogen in Europe can largely be covered by domestic production, said researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Integrated Energy Systems ...
16 Aug 2024, 12:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Adaptation 91tv Climate resilience should be at the forefront of reconstruction and repair efforts of homes that have been damaged by storms, the General Association of the German Insurance ...
23 Oct 2024, 13:32 Jennifer Collins Society 91tv Anchoring health, climate and environment in all government departments and ministries is one of the recommendations put forward by Germany's health and resilience expert council, an ...
06 Jun 2025, 13:04 Germany’s most important car industry association VDA has called for a de facto reversal of the EU’s 2035 ban on the sale of new cars powered by a combustion engine, according to media reports. The Social Democrats, who govern in a ...
05 Jun 2024, 13:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Fossil fuels 91tv Eastern German lignite mining and power plant company Leag has received the green light for up to 1.75 billion euros in state support to compensate for the implementation of the ...
30 Aug 2024, 13:49 Expert PwC Electricity market Transport Cars Business & Jobs Efficiency Heating Carolina Kyllmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv German car suppliers are losing market share internationally and need to be more flexible ...
23 Feb 2024, 13:40 Franca Quecke Company climate claims EU 91tv Following a dialogue with the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities, Berlin-based fashion retailer Zalando has committed to removing "misleading ...
24 Oct 2024, 13:39 Jennifer Collins Policy International 91tv / FAZ / ARD Germany's economy and climate minister Robet Habeck and Indian renewable energy minister Pralhad Joshi are set to unveil a green hydrogen roadmap during a meeting ...
05 Jun 2025, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Electricity market Gas Utilities 91tv Auctions for new gas-fired power plants in Germany should be held before the end of this year, economy and energy minister Katherina Reiche has said. While the ...
02 Feb 2024, 14:35 Franca Quecke Government Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / 91tv The German parliament has passed the 2024 federal budget after delays caused by a constitutional court ruling on the country's debt limit and subsequent ...
13 Oct 2023, 13:23 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Cost & Prices Tageszeitung (taz) A meeting of Germany’s state ministers for transport has not produced an agreement on securing future funding of the country’s new nationwide public transport ticket, ...
21 Jun 2024, 11:44 Jennifer Collins Hydrogen Handelsblatt Construction of a hydrogen "core" network in Germany has been further delayed as its future operators and the electricity grid agency BNetzA await an EU decision on state aid, reported ...
23 Jan 2025, 10:30 Making German homes less climate-damaging and keeping them affordable for residents at the same time will be a central task for the country's next government. The heated controversy over a phaseout law for oil and gas boilers is ...
06 Aug 2024, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Digitalisation 91tv As the share of renewables in Germany's electricity mix increases, so does the potential for households to benefit from lower wholesale power prices. In the first ...
07 May 2021, 12:03 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Elections & Politics Security 91tv The co-leader of the German Greens, Annalena Baerbock, emphasised possibilities ...
03 Jun 2025, 12:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / ARD The energy industry has welcomed the new German government’s “investment booster” to stimulate growth in Europe’s biggest economy, which includes tax incentives for ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Rheinische Post Prices for electricity and natural gas in Germany are likely to stay elevated for the foreseeable future, the head of the country’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. “The times ...
29 May 2024, 15:19 One year later than originally planned, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a three-day state visit to Germany that allowed him to reinforce calls for closer European cooperation in the week before the EU elections. Both Macron and ...
15 Jan 2025, 11:20 As geopolitical tensions escalate and make UN climate negotiations increasingly difficult, the next German government should continue to explore alternative alliances to push for decarbonisation, says Marian Feist, senior research ...
06 Dec 2023, 13:27 Milou Dirkx Society EU 91tv Action against climate change ranks among the topics people in Germany want the European Parliament to prioritise, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey. Climate action and EU defence are ...
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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 ...
29 Mar 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv The steel pipelines used in Germany’s gas grid are generally suitable for the transport of hydrogen, said the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW). “The ...
19 Sep 2024, 11:34 Edgar Meza Solar Handelsblatt / Tagesspiegel Despite a strong performance over the past two years, Germany’s solar sector is facing declining demand and a weakening market, leading to major cutbacks among photovoltaic (PV) companies. ...
09 Aug 2024, 13:30 A number of key issues relating to France’s ecological transition have been put on hold after the rise of the far-right Rassemblement National party in June’s European elections caused president Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National ...
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 ...
30 Oct 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Chancellor Olaf Scholz travelled to Nigeria in a bid to secure new energy and economic partnerships, and help diversify Germany's energy ...
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 ...
22 Jun 2023, 14:03 Edgar Meza Transport Cars Policy 91tv Germany's government cabinet has approved a draft law that would give cities and municipalities a greater say in regulating road traffic, particularly when it comes to bus lanes, ...
13 Nov 2023, 13:38 Julian Wettengel Storage Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Background The German economy ministry warns of a significantly higher future demand for hydrogen storage capacity than previously assumed, reported Tagesspiegel Background. In its ‘Green ...
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 ...
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 ...
09 May 2023, 12:54 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv European governments must ensure that no one is left behind during the move towards a climate-neutral future, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech in the European Parliament, ...
13 Jan 2022, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Government Der Tagesspiegel The existing combustion engine vehicle fleet in Germany cannot be made climate-neutral by switching to synthetic e-fuels, new transport minister Volker Wissing has said. In an interview ...
23 Nov 2023, 12:49 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen 91tv Germany and Italy have agreed to expand energy cooperation in order to strengthen supply security and the transition to climate neutrality, with gas and hydrogen pipelines across the Alps ...
06 Nov 2024, 12:08 Germany and Europe must urgently strengthen their competitiveness and defence capabilities, government, businesses and NGOs said in first reactions the U.S. presidential election win by Donald Trump. Industry association BDI warned that ...
28 May 2025, 13:27 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Homeowners in Germany installed more gas boilers than climate-friendly heat pumps when replacing their heating systems in 2024, though the gap is closing, found a report by the government ...
21 Mar 2025, 15:30 French prime minister Francois Bayrou may have fended off a vote of no-confidence in parliament for the adoption of the 2025 finance bill, but the nation still has a long way to go to recover from the political turmoil brought by last ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Gas Hydrogen Handelsblatt Energy politicians from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) are proposing to introduce a mandated share of climate-friendly gases into the German gas mix, reported Handelsblatt. Companies that ...
14 Mar 2024, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Nuclear phase-out Technology 91tv The German education and research ministry (BMBF), through a new support programme for nuclear fusion research, aims to lay the groundwork for building the country’s first ...
23 Aug 2024, 13:16 Jack McGovan Cars 91tv / Reuters Germany needs biofuels and synthetic fuels made from renewable electricity (e-fuels) to ensure that the country's existing fleet of combustion engine vehicles can help reach climate ...
12 Sep 2023, 14:04 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables International 91tv The future of the energy system in economic powerhouse state Texas will be a key feature during an upcoming trip of German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to the United ...
11 Oct 2016, 00:00 Germany’s consumer surcharge to fund renewable electricity will rise to a record high in 2017, but less than experts predicted, according to a report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Grid operators will officially ...
21 Jul 2023, 13:58 Jack McGovan Industry EU 91tv / Die Welt Germany’s largest industry decarbonisation project to date has been approved for funding by the EU Commission, according to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate ...
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 ...
30 Nov 2023, 12:59 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Heating Policy Government 91tv The German government will have to present emergency climate action programmes with short-term measures to reduce emissions in the transport and building sectors, ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:21 Julian Wettengel International 91tv Germany, Denmark, the UK and the EU will provide 100 million euros for climate change mitigation projects in developing countries, economy minister Robert Habeck said at the Global NDC ...
18 Oct 2024, 10:56 The new government of prime minister Michel Barnier was announced on 21 September, with the 2025 budget following on 10 October. To reduce the public deficit to 5 percent of the country's economy by 2025, and to 3 percent by 2027, ...
26 Sep 2019, 14:12 Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives insist on a low initial price tag for CO2 emissions to secure public acceptance for the government's new climate strategy. In the first parliamentary debate on the package unveiled ...
20 May 2025, 13:06 Germany’s new government aims for a speedy adoption of the 2025 federal budget to finally end months of provisional budget operations resulting from the break-up of the previous coalition government. The finance ministry under its new ...
20 May 2025, 13:11 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt A key plan by Germany’s new government to introduce a subsidised electricity price for industry and revive the sector could be prevented by European Union law, business daily ...
17 Oct 2024, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Europe's wind power industry and the German government have agreed on a set of measures to tackle challenges regarding the sector’s competitiveness, continued investments ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:16 Expert Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Climate & CO2 Policy International Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv The past decade has seen a sharp drop in prices for clean ...
22 Sep 2023, 13:21 Jack McGovan Efficiency Policy 91tv A legal framework for energy efficiency has been passed into law by the German parliament for the first time. The Energy Efficiency Act aims for a reduction in annual energy consumption ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:07 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen Cities 91tv The prospective future government coalition of Germany’s smallest state, the City of Bremen, is betting on green hydrogen and its derivates to decarbonise local industries, such as ...
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 ...
The German energy industry is optimistic and sees itself well prepared for the future, financial services company KPMG said in its Future Readiness Index 2018. While its future readiness is "solid", it is currently facing only the beginning of a ...
12 Sep 2024, 13:50 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background Bids from southern states for support in building new gas power plants will be given priority to ensure the projects are built where they are most needed, according to key ...
05 Dec 2023, 13:14 Germany must not hide its commitments to international climate finance amid ongoing federal budget problems, said Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the development cooperation ministry, at COP28. The German delegation at the UN ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
11 Jan 2021, 13:32 Three men compete to take the lead of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany's largest party, and to possibly follow in the footsteps of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leaves office after 16 years in September amid a global ...
22 Nov 2023, 12:49 Jack McGovan Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Spiegel / Tagesspiegel German economy minister Robert Habeck has insisted that planned climate action measures must continue to be financed despite a constitutional court ruling which ...
10 Oct 2023, 13:10 German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron held an informal meeting aimed to nurse the crucial Franco-German axis for Europe’s industrial transformation on the way to climate neutrality. In Hamburg, northern ...
14 May 2025, 13:25 Jack McGovan Mobility Cost & Prices Policy 91tv A social leasing scheme could make it possible for low-income households in Germany to switch to an electric car without having to bear the upfront costs of buying a ...
15 Dec 2018, 22:10 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail to meet its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for ...
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 ...
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 ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Transport Cars 91tv Almost 70 percent of Germans say that the climate crisis means a "fundamental rethink is needed in the area of mobility," shows a survey by Germany’s leading technical ...
19 Dec 2023, 13:31 The German government must be on guard in 2024 to ensure it can meet its increasingly distant target of having 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030, says Wiebke Zimmer, deputy executive director of clean mobility think tank ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:06 Jessica Bateman Adaptation Society Tagesspiegel Germany is drafting its first-ever nationwide plan to prevent heat-related deaths as heatwaves have become more severe as a result of climate change, health minister Karl Lauterbach said. ...
04 Jun 2024, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Industry 91tv The states of eastern Germany are benefitting from the transition towards a climate neutral economy and are well-positioned to emerge as a strong industrial hub thanks to their ...
30 Jul 2024, 13:22 Edgar Meza Wind 91tv Think tank Agora Energiewende has outlined a number of possible solutions that could speed up the expansion of offshore wind power in Germany. Supply bottlenecks and price increases are currently ...
12 May 2025, 13:47 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Most people in Germany continue to be very concerned about the impact of global ...
09 Jul 2021, 12:25 Expert Leuphana University of Lüneburg Energiewende Business & Jobs Society Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Citizens' energy Renewables pv magazine, ...
07 Dec 2015, 00:00 Day 7/8 at the UN climate conference: Environment state secretary Flasbarth becomes facilitator / EU fights for new differentiation / Germany plans decarbonisation by 2050 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy ...
13 Aug 2024, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Wind Tagesspiegel Background / 91tv The results of Germany's latest offshore wind power auction indicate that revenues are on a sharp decline, reported energy and climate newsletter Tagesspiegel ...
05 Feb 2025, 13:30 Leading climate experts have called on the next German government voted in after the February snap election to reintroduce the so-called ‘climate cabinet’. In its report on emissions developments and the direction of Germany’s future ...
24 Jul 2024, 13:21 Joey Grostern Hydrogen 91tv Methanol derived from green hydrogen could play an important role in Germany’s transition to a decarbonised economy, a paper from the German Energy Agency (dena) has found. The compound, which is ...
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 ...
09 May 2025, 13:47 Carolina Kyllmann Transport Security 91tv Germany must speed up the electrification of its rail network for military purposes as well as for environmental reasons, said the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) ...
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 ...
26 Aug 2024, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Society 91tv Households in East Germany on average pay nearly a quarter more for energy than those in the West if adjusted for purchasing power, an analysis by price comparison website ...
23 Jul 2024, 13:13 Jack McGovan Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The planned expansion of district heating in Germany will require 43.5 billion euros in investment by 2030 to help the country reach its climate targets, said a report by analysis ...
26 May 2023, 13:35 Sören Amelang Electricity market Gas Grid Utilities Handelsblatt German energy companies have called for the introduction of a new incentive mechanism to trigger the construction of new gas power plants, which the country plans to use ...
17 Apr 2024, 12:47 China’s prime minister has branded allegations from Europe of Chinese overcapacities in key technologies such as solar panels as unfounded. The “theory” of unfair competition would not hold and China was merely using its national ...
08 Aug 2019, 13:41 A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on land use shows that climate change is threatening the world's food supply and livelihood, making it an "existential question", said German ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:03 Julian Wettengel Agriculture Solar 91tv The technical potential of solar PV installations on agricultural land (also known as agri PV) in Germany largely exceeds the potential of other so far unconventional PV technologies ...
10 Aug 2023, 13:11 Sören Amelang Wind Elections & Politics dpa A fifth of all mayors in Bavaria have called on the regional government to speed up the construction of wind turbines in the state, newswire dpa reported. In a cross-party appeal, 432 ...
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20 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv WirtschaftsWoche “Gabriel’s energy concept will cost Germany dearly” Energy minister Sigmar Gabriel has called his energy concept a “historic pact for new prosperity” but what he didn’t say was ...
05 May 2025, 13:27 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Several environmental and political NGOs have called on Germany’s new government to force state-owned gas company SEFE to halt purchases of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and make a clear ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:51 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs 91tv / n-tv / NZZ The stock price of Swiss solar panel manufacturer Meyer Burger has plunged after the company announced it would not follow through on plans to open a new ...
30 Jan 2024, 13:12 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business ...
06 Sep 2023, 13:21 Julian Wettengel Policy 91tv Chancellor Olaf Scholz has proposed a "Pact for Germany" in which all levels of government and the opposition pull together to guarantee the country's success in the future. ...
06 Oct 2023, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Finance 91tv Twenty-five countries including Germany, France and Japan have pledged a total of 9.3 billion U.S. dollars to support climate action in developing countries from 2024 to 2027 ...
04 Sep 2023, 13:23 Sören Amelang Cars Hydrogen Policy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Bild am Sonntag Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to ensure that combustion engine cars powered by synthetic fuels enjoy the same tax advantages ...
28 May 2024, 13:28 Edgar Meza Transport Freight 91tv In an effort to boost climate-neutrality in the shipping industry, the German government is bringing together representatives of the maritime sector, science, industrial and environmental ...
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 ...
07 Jun 2022, 13:12 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv / Reuters Environmental NGOs from Germany are among the lobby groups making last-minute efforts to influence European Union lawmakers, who are scheduled to vote on key elements of the bloc’s future ...
02 Jan 2024, 13:34 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Policy Society Rheinische Post The German government must quickly make good on its promise to introduce the ‘climate bonus’ (Klimageld in German) support payments to citizens as it increases the ...
23 Jun 2021, 13:25 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Elections & Politics Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Deutsche Welle, Zeit Online, Handelsblatt Chancellor Angela Merkel has said both the private sector and the state have a duty to invest ...
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 ...
12 Aug 2024, 13:23 Sören Amelang Carbon removal Industry Policy Tagesspiegel Background / rbb The German state of Brandenburg, which surrounds the capital Berlin, plans to quicken the controversial capturing, transport, storage and utilisation of CO2 to ...
14 Dec 2023, 13:24 Sören Amelang Industry Hydrogen 91tv Converting hydrogen to ammonia will be "the dominant transport technology" in order to ship the fuel to Germany, according to a report commissioned by the World Energy Council ...
11 Dec 2023, 12:20 Italy aims to become an important player once again at the table of international climate negotiations, the country’s recently appointed special envoy for climate Francesco Corvaro said. The university professor and engineer said that ...
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 ...
06 Apr 2021, 12:08 Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur Transport Julian Wettengel Cars EU dpa German transport minister Andreas Scheuer has reiterated ...
27 Nov 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Government 91tv The court ruling on the unconstitutional nature of Germany’s Climate and Transformation Fund (CTF) hits at the country’s “economic core” and urgently requires a resolute and joint response ...
30 Apr 2025, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal 91tv In the waters of the German North and Baltic Seas, the options for marine carbon dioxide removal and geological storage are limited to just a few approaches, said researchers from the ...
31 Aug 2022, 12:08 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv The southern German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria have joined forces to push hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and to ensure their industrial centres will receive sufficient supplies. ...
08 Jun 2022, 13:51 Kerstine Appunn Gas Security Reuters To counteract future gas supply shortages, the government cabinet has decided on new regulations for the provision of backup power stations and to minimise the use of natural gas in power generation, ...
23 Aug 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation 91tv New constructions and renovations in Germany are failing to sufficiently account for the growing effects of climate change, increasingly putting them at risk of overheating during summer ...
28 May 2024, 13:26 Edgar Meza Storage Business pv magazine / electrive German solar photovoltaics company Solarwatt is halting production of battery storage systems at its site in Dresden by the end of the year, pv magazine reports. The move follows ...
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 ...
17 Oct 2023, 13:33 Edgar Meza Gas Hydrogen 91tv The first long-distance gas pipeline in Germany is being converted for hydrogen use, gas infrastructure company Open Grid Europe (OGE) announced. Hydrogen is expected to play a key role in the ...
16 Jan 2017, 00:00 The best way for Germany to reach its 2030 emissions target for the power sector is by shutting down old coal plants, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) suggests. This strategy is more attractive than an additional CO2 levy, according ...
28 Aug 2024, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of people in Germany view renewable energies favourably, but many worry about costs associated with the energy transition and there are clear differences between the ...
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 ...
01 Mar 2022, 13:29 The world is already facing “unequivocal" consequences of climate change and damages will increase rapidly with rising temperatures, the United Nation’s climate science body IPCC is warning in its new landmark report. The paper on ...
08 Sep 2021, 12:30 The Left Party would enter negotiations to form Germany’s next government with a demand to abolish the recently introduced carbon price on transport and heating fuels, according to MP Lorenz Gösta Beutin, a climate and energy expert ...
09 Oct 2023, 14:24 Julian Wettengel Business & Jobs Cost & Prices 91tv / Reuters Germany should phase out its subsidy scheme to cap electricity and gas prices, introduced during the energy crisis, by the end of 2023, said the ...
03 Nov 2014, 00:00 Expert Agora Energiewende Think tank on German, European and international climate and energy policy Climate & CO2 Electricity market Energiewende International 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Tagesspiegel Online "Power in ...
30 Aug 2024, 12:47 Joey Grostern Coal Society Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / 91tv Bürgewald, an empty village on the edge of the Hambach open-cast coal mine in the western German state of North Rhine Westphalia, has been bought back by the local ...
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 ...
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 ...
22 Nov 2022, 14:05 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Finance 91tv Achieving a climate-friendly transition in the automotive sector will require better information disclosure by carmakers to make the sector fit for investments from financial actors ...
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 ...
20 Jun 2024, 12:02 Julian Wettengel Gas Heating Tagesspiegel Background Municipalities should expand their mandatory planning for future climate-friendly heating to encompass general energy distribution, think tank Agora Energiewende has proposed, ...
02 Oct 2024, 13:00 Germany’s three-party coalition government is increasingly fractured following a federal budget crisis and painful defeats in several elections, casting a shadow over the progress of the country’s energy transition. Energy industry and ...
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 ...
24 Nov 2023, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Policy Die Welt / Stern / NDR / Süddeutsche Zeitung Governments in Germany’s federal states are concerned that the recent ruling by the country’s highest court declaring parts of the federal government’s budget ...
01 Jun 2021, 10:25 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. Without the support of the feed-in tariff, power production ...
29 Apr 2019, 13:46 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Rachel Waldholz Coal Utilities 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German utility RWE announced this week that it was cancelling plans to build a new ...
28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union’s two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
22 Apr 2025, 13:31 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Heating 91tv The average heating consumption of oil, gas and district heating rose by over 23 percent in Germany between October 2024 and February 2025 compared to the previous heating ...
30 Jun 2021, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport dpa / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany's states are demanding substantial support payments from the federal government to fund the expansion of public transport systems in a bid to reduce the ...
14 Jun 2024, 13:02 Sören Amelang Adaptation Agriculture Frankfurter Rundschau Due to rising global temperatures, the first hobby farmers in Germany have started growing olive groves, which are on track to becoming profitable in the future, reports ...
German environment minister Svenja Schulze’s decision to back away from her call for more ambitious new EU CO₂ car emissions limits is “a defeat for the climate, and for the industry – once again – a Pyrrhic victory,” writes Michael Bauchmüller in an ...
23 Sep 2019, 14:12 The future of Germany's much criticised climate strategy hangs in the balance as the Green Party vowed to amend the package, and experts warned legal hurdles threatened the government's concept for a CO2 price. Yet, Chancellor ...
07 Dec 2023, 13:16 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices WirtschaftsWoche German finance minister Christian Lindner has questioned the need for generous state support to attract investments in future industries, such as battery, hydrogen or ...
18 Apr 2024, 13:11 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv The damaging effects of climate change are set to hit economic growth severely across most countries, said researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). ...
26 Apr 2024, 13:22 Sören Amelang Adaptation Renewables Changing weather patterns will boost the role of hydropower in Germany’s energy transition, Bavarian industry associations have said. “Due to increasingly rainy winter months, [we] expect an increase ...
31 May 2021, 11:05 Many of Germany’s early renewable energy pioneers were experimenters with onshore wind technology. Inspired by the example of neighbouring Denmark, which had already proven the effectiveness of wind technology in the early 1990s, a ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Cost & Prices 91tv Extreme rainfall in Germany between 2002 and 2021 has generated damages on residential buildings worth over 12.6 billion euros, figures by insurer association GDV show. ...
17 Apr 2025, 13:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Gas dpa / ntv / Handelsblatt Deutsche ReGas, the operator of Germany’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the island of Rügen, expects a much higher utilisation rate of the installation this ...
04 Oct 2018, 14:48 Germany’s shift from fossil fuelled and nuclear power will only succeed if the infrastructure is there to support a very different kind of energy system. But the country’s grid is just not up to the job of making proper use of all 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 ...
10 Jan 2025, 09:59 Croatian citizens ended 2024 with a first round of presidential elections, marking the finale of a super election year. In terms of the climate, it was yet another year of above-average warmth, accompanied by numerous extreme weather ...
03 May 2024, 15:35 With the sudden arrival of summer weather, Germans stream back into street cafes and beer gardens with a collective sigh of relief. On the way, they are greeted by EU election campaign posters, which have sprung up across the country ...
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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 ...
05 Aug 2024, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity market Cost & Prices 91tv Germany is set to reform its electricity market design as it moves to decarbonise its power sector. In a paper outlining fields of action, the economy ministry ...
10 Mar 2022, 13:20 Paul Gordon Solar 91tv The war in Ukraine and the associated energy crisis are pushing homeowners in record numbers to install solar power systems and batteries, the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) has said. ...
23 May 2023, 13:13 Carolina Kyllmann Gas Hydrogen dpa / ARD / 91tv Germany’s gas storage capacity is insufficient for the planned expansion of the use of hydrogen, according to gas storage network operator INES. Current gas storage facilities ...
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, ...
Germany needs a “reasonable readjustment” of its energy transition to get a grip on the “costs that are out of control”, Christoph M. Schmidt, head of the German Council of Economic Experts (Wirtschaftsweisen), says in an article on Focus Online. “With ...
14 Mar 2025, 13:15 Germany is increasingly at risk of failing EU-mandated climate targets for the transport and building sectors, show projections by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). The agency warned that despite shrinking overall emissions, ...
20 Apr 2023, 12:33 Sören Amelang Wind Hydrogen International Handelsblatt Nine European gas transmission grid operators have agreed to construct a pipeline network in the North Sea to transport hydrogen made in offshore wind farms, business daily ...
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 ...
06 Mar 2024, 11:53 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv All six eastern German states have set up a joint initiative on renewables-based hydrogen. It is intended to closely connect politics, business and science on the fuel "in order to fully ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:25 Expert 50Hertz Transmission Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert Amprion Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TenneT Grid operator Electricity market Grid Technology Expert TransnetBW Grid operator ...
24 May 2024, 14:08 Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche Umwelthilfe Climate & CO2 Society Expert IG Metall-Industrial Union of Metalworkers IG Metall Transport Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs Clean Energy ...
16 Nov 2017, 00:00 Germany ratifies Doha without joint EU move / “If the talks continue this way, we will reach our negotiation targets” – German negotiator / UK and Canada march ahead on coal exit, NGOs criticise Germany / “Move away from fossils if you ...
07 Mar 2023, 12:26 Carolina Kyllmann Utilities 91tv Municipal utilities are at the forefront of implementing the energy transition and should “invest in the green future of their business,” Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the annual ...
20 May 2019, 16:29 Financial markets are excellent processors of information- and they currently don't seem to expect that the global economy will be geared towards respecting the Paris Climate Agreement 's goals and give up fossil fuel ...
03 May 2024, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv Approval rates for the construction of new wind turbines in the vicinity of people's homes in Germany can rise significantly if local electricity prices would drop as a result, ...
24 Sep 2019, 13:40 Higher energy efficiency, a "paradigm shift" in the circular economy, innovative production processes, as well as carbon capture and usage or storage could make Germany's industry CO2-neutral by 2050, but the government& ...
19 Dec 2024, 13:15 Germany made significant progress in the area of climate adaptation in the past legislative period, said Andrea Fischer-Hotzel from the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). From the national to the municipal level, there is now ...
14 Sep 2021, 12:52 Kerstine Appunn Wind Die Welt Shipping, fisheries, offshore wind power, raw material extraction and nature conservation all have been assigned their space in the German waters in the latest plan of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic ...
08 Apr 2025, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Security 91tv Accelerating the transition to largely domestically produced sustainable energy such as wind and solar electricity is the only way to really ensure energy security in Europe, said the European ...
02 May 2023, 13:26 Jessica Bateman Grid Hydrogen NDR The German government and gas operators are putting together detailed plans for a nationwide hydrogen network, the country’s economy minister Robert Habeck has said. The Green politician said the final ...
13 Jul 2023, 13:38 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Policy Germany’s environment minister Steffi Lemke aims to better prepare cities and municipalities for the consequences of climate change with a national climate adaptation law, as many are unprepared to ...
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18 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Osnabrücker Zeitung / Dow Jones Newswires E.ON CEO compares cheap renewable power to “unpaid slaves” Current power market structures are not geared to taking up large amounts of renewable energy, E ...
05 Jul 2024, 15:07 Months of negotiations among the parties in Germany’s governing coalition about the country’s 2025 budget have ushered in “record investments” into renewable power, industrial decarbonisation, electric mobility and a faster transition ...
01 Mar 2023, 13:13 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The uncertain future of combustion engine cars is unsettling workers at German car industry supplier Bosch, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. Some 17 ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Government 91tv A monitoring system for the expansion of renewable energy sources and better planning tools for companies are needed to ensure a reliable transformation of Germany’s economy, ...
29 Apr 2024, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Electricity Hydrogen 91tv Eastern Germany’s largest lignite mine operator, LEAG, is ready to build one of Germany's first hydrogen-ready gas power plants. The company said the gas turbine power plant ...
03 Mar 2023, 12:55 By insisting on a future for new combustion engine vehicles after 2035, German finance minister Christian Lindner has upended hopes for those aiming to agree an effective ban for the technology at a vote on EU car emissions initially ...
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, ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Business & Jobs 91tv Almost six out of ten German companies (59%) say they do not see themselves affected by the negative consequences of climate change today or in the future, shows the ...
12 Jul 2023, 14:02 Differing views on the place of nuclear power in Europe have dominated public perceptions of energy policy cooperation between France and Germany for years. Given the urgent need to agree on European energy policy strategies in light of ...
04 Apr 2025, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv The volume and costs of measures required to manage the stability of Germany’s power grid decreased in 2024, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has said. These so-called re ...
