25 Aug 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Wind 91tv / dpa Electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion announced plans to build power lines to bring electricity from wind turbines in the North Sea to consumers in power-hungry ...
30 Nov 2021, 13:49 Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel Background The new Berlin state government consisting of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Left Party has presented its coalition agreement on Monday. The threey-party ...
29 Nov 2021, 13:24 Charlotte Nijhuis Business Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for German companies, according to a survey conducted by the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Peer School for Sustainable Development and the Chair for Sustainable ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:56 Sören Amelang Heating Policy dpa Germany's Green Party parliamentary group wants to support the country’s struggling economy with a 30 billion euro investment programme that focuses on energy-efficient building modernisations. An ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:29 Jennifer Collins International 91tv / Die Zeit Germany is planning to end export guarantees for oil and coal projects and will bolster support for green technology exports in an effort to align the country’s foreign trade ...
03 Aug 2023, 13:37 Carolina Kyllmann Hydrogen EU Handelsblatt / 91tv Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck and the European Commissioner for energy Kadri Simson have called on EU member states to join the ‘H2 Global’ initiative in a bid to ...
12 Mar 2018, 00:00 Car industry hub Germany is under increasing pressure to accelerate the shift to sustainable mobility in order to reach its climate targets and improve the quality of air in inner city areas. Against the backdrop of a looming ban on ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 In their coalition treaty, negotiators from Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed to set up a special commission charged with managing the phase-out of coal-fired power generation in ...
22 Nov 2021, 13:17 Expert Agency for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection (AEEPM, Romania) Bioenergy Transport Kerstine Appunn Citizens' energy Wind Many people in Germany, including those generally in favour of renewable energies, remain ...
05 Oct 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Several lignite power plants in Germany will be allowed to return to the market this winter to help secure supply and save gas during the heating period, said the economy ministry in a press ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:54 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Solar 91tv The number of bids in the ...
28 Aug 2018, 13:59 The expansion of a lignite mine that threatens a nearby forest has become a first touchstone of the German coal exit commission’s robustness. But despite fears that the row over the embattled Hambach Forest could gravely impede the ...
21 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Vattenfall Impairment losses and higher provisions for German operations Impairment losses and higher provisions for its German activities, as well as low electricity prices, widened losses at Swedish utility ...
04 Mar 2020, 11:02 The European Commission is unveiling its proposal for the EU's first ever climate law, which will form the basis of the EU's proposed Green Deal, and will provide a framework for reaching the bloc's target of becoming ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:41 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 BR The German state of Bavaria wants to be climate-neutral by 2040 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2030, according to the revised Climate Protection Act, passed by the state cabinet on ...
09 Aug 2023, 13:26 Sören Amelang Hydrogen 91tv / Table.Media The production of green hydrogen in Germany will not be financially viable also in the long term, according to a report commissioned by the European Commission. A hydrogen economy ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:59 Edgar Meza Elections & Politics 91tv / Spiegel Online Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has reelected Manuela Schwesig as premier of the northeastern coastal state, which is aiming for climate neutrality by 2040. A member ...
16 Nov 2021, 13:44 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
31 Aug 2023, 13:54 Milou Dirkx Transport 91tv The flat-rate 'Germany Ticket' for public transport has not led to a significant reduction in car use, said a report by the Technical University of Munich. Data collected via surveys and ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Tagesspiegel / t-online U.S. car manufacturer Tesla will have to revise its plans to expand its gigafactory for electric cars in the German state of Brandenburg over concerns the new buildings would be partly ...
15 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy New draft version of Renewable Energy Act released The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has released a new draft of the Renewable ...
18 Jul 2023, 14:19 Jack McGovan Industry EU 91tv The European Commission has selected seven decarbonisation projects in Germany as part of the latest round of funding from the EU Innovation Fund. The projects eligible for the funds disbursed ...
04 Oct 2023, 13:19 Jack McGovan Renewables Policy EU Handelsblatt The EU is responding to the expansion of the Chinese wind industry by developing a plan to make the domestic industry more competitive, EU Commission sources told business daily ...
17 Nov 2017, 00:00 The Bonn climate summit of 2017, a short way from Germany’s largest coal mining district, is almost over. But the COP will reconvene next year, 1,050 kilometres away from Bonn in Katowice, another traditional coal mining area located in ...
11 Nov 2021, 13:18 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Policy Elections & Politics 91tv More than 700 companiess are demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies in Germany in an effort to boost fairer competition and secure the country status ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:18 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Cars Cities 91tv One out of five cars in Germany's municipal vehicle fleets is now electric, according to a survey conducted by clean mobility think tank Agora Verkehrswende, which ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:55 Jack McGovan Cars Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The German government is aiming for 15 million electric cars on roads by 2030, but industry insiders say orders for EVs have dropped since the end of 2022, business daily Handelsblatt ...
08 Nov 2021, 13:58 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland Green party leader Annalena Baerbock has said that a veto option must be created in government for laws that are in conflict with the goal of ...
21 Aug 2015
21 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Network Agency / Süddeutsche Zeitung “Twelve minutes without power” The German power supply was more stable in 2014 than in any year since 2006, the Federal Network Agency said yesterday. ...
22 Dec 2017, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:10 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv For Germany to reach its self-set target of 15 million electric vehicles on the road by the end of 2030, at least double the amount of new e-cars than in 2022 will need to be registered every year ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:37 Sören Amelang Cars Manager magazin Tesla has searched for bats in the wooded area where it plans to build its German car factory and also plans to resettle ants living there, reports manager magazine. In addition, the US carmaker ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:33 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Society 91tv German health minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) aims to halve the number of excess deaths due to heat this year compared to 2022 with a nationwide heat protection plan. Lauterbach, who ...
05 Nov 2021, 13:37 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 Transport Cost & Prices 91tv / dpa Germany should kickstart the transition to a sustainable transport system with a range of drastic policies, the country's environment agency (UBA) ...
23 Feb 2015
23 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Tagesspiegel “Distribute radioactive legacy throughout the country” Because only two German states have volunteered to store nuclear waste returning from processing plants abroad, the radioactive ...
02 Feb 2016
02 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “The government, the e-car and the subsidy trap” Chancellor Angela Merkel would be well advised not to adopt a buyer’s premium for electric cars after her meeting with industry ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:11 Expert BMEL- Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (until 2025) Agriculture Edgar Meza Agriculture 91tv The adaptation of forests to the consequences of climate change is the most important task facing forest ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Lower liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchases by China may become a boon for Germany’s supply of the fossil fuel in the coming winter season, business daily Handelsblatt reported. In ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:38 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Der Spiegel Applications for heat pump subsidies in Germany dropped by roughly half in the first six months of 2023 following a subsidy cut, newspaper Der Spiegel reported. According to ...
04 Nov 2021, 13:33 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Kerstine Appunn Business 91tv German companies make up a high share of the dynamically growing green technologies market, a report ...
02 Nov 2021, 12:57 Taking her final bow on the world stage after 26 years of climate policy involvement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the opening of COP26 in Glasgow that progress in emission reductions has been insufficient to achieve the ...
03 Nov 2021, 12:35 Edgar Meza International COP26 91tv A new survey highlighting one of the main topics at the ongoing COP26 climate conference in Glasgow shows that 91 percent of Germans are in favor of industrialised nations supporting ...
03 Nov 2021, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Policy 91tv Climate action programmes introduced by the current and previous grand coalition governments under chancellor Angela Merkel aren’t enough for Germany to reach its greenhouse gas reduction ...
16 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Government 91tv Only about one in four people in Germany believe that the state is able to fulfil its tasks and implement effective policies to tackle the important topics of migration, education, ...
21 Jul 2023, 12:23 Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Expert DENEFF- German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz Citizens' ...
01 Nov 2021, 12:48 Edgar Meza G20 & G7 COP26 91tv The G20 summit in Rome has achieved good results on climate policy, said German chancellor Angela Merkel. “That is a good signal for Glasgow," she said. Ahead of the UN Climate Change ...
11 Aug 2023, 13:10 Sören Amelang Carbon market Policy Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s coalition government is committed to returning revenues from the country’s rising national CO2 price for heating and transport to citizens, reports energy and climate ...
28 Jan 2020, 13:48 Corrects third sentence: Energy use for cooling went up 30 percent, not for heating. Sören Amelang Efficiency Heating 91tv German households used less energy for heating and lighting in 2018 than 10 years earlier, but more ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Gas EU 91tv Germany will likely avoid a gas shortage in the winter of 2023/24, but reliable liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports are key to preventing bottlenecks, the Bavarian industry association vbw said ...
27 Oct 2021, 13:36 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Citizens' energy Renewables 91tv Citizen groups planning renewable energy projects in Germany should receive free advice and funding to enable their successful participation in the ...
23 Mar 2015
23 Mar 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Wall Street Journal “Germany’s Nuclear Costs Trigger Fears” German taxpayers may end up footing the bill for decommissioning the country’s nuclear power plants and storing radioactive waste, according to a study ...
22 May 2017, 00:00 Germany and China increased pressure on the US government to stay in the Paris Climate Agreement ahead of the G7 and G20 summits. The continuing uncertainty about the US position puts Germany’s aim to agree on a G20 energy and climate ...
27 Jul 2015
27 Jul 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) “Wind power blasts the limit” Onshore wind power development will exceed government targets, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Provisions in the 2014 ...
16 Nov 2018, 16:19 The German coal exit commission has debated a first draft that outlines how the country could start the phase-out the fossil power source in the coming years. According to a leaked draft plant operators could receive compensation ...
30 Aug 2023, 12:05 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices 91tv More than half of German companies say that the energy transition has negative effects on their competitiveness, shows the energy transition barometer survey by the German Chamber ...
17 Aug 2023, 13:45 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Society 91tv Residents in eastern German states are generally critical of the federal government’s energy and climate policies, while at the same time endorsing measures to reduce ...
07 Jun 2015, 00:00 UPDATE (7 June 2015)-- All eyes are on Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel during the G7 summit this weekend. Recent statements including her weekly podcast indicate Merkel intends to do justice to her former reputation as " ...
21 Oct 2021, 13:32 Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency 91tv More than 60 energy scientists call for improving energy efficiency policy in an open letter to the German government, arguing it would be as important as building more renewable power ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:37 Sören Amelang Adaptation Society 91tv / Handelsblatt German homeowners remain underinsured against extreme weather events like floods, which are ever more likely as a result of climate change. Two years after devastating ...
18 Oct 2021, 13:21 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background / Welt am Sonntag / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Die Welt The energy price hike across Europe is causing further worries among German officials and company leaders, ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv / Zeit Online Car registrations in Germany have risen by 13 percent in the first half of 2023- compared to the same period last year- with the number of newly registered electric vehicles ...
21 Jul 2023, 11:27 Switching to climate-friendly heating to keep homes warm requires both subsidies for clean technologies and restrictions on dirty ones, says Duncan Gibb, senior advisor at climate think tank Regulatory Assistance Project and founder of ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:32 Edgar Meza Carbon removal Technology 91tv NGO Germanwatch, which promotes sustainable development and climate protection, is warning against the country’s CO2 management policy opening the door to “a permanent extension of ...
20 Jul 2023, 13:19 Expert Siemens Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of German engineering company Siemens expects power prices in the country to increase for some years, as the country undergoes a ...
15 Oct 2021, 14:29 Three weeks after Germany’s election, the country is moving one step closer towards its first three-party government coalition. Following several days of intensive preliminary talks, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Free ...
15 Oct 2021, 12:32 Germany’s renewables levy will decrease to its lowest level in ten years as high wholesale power prices and support from the federal budget lower the need for payments from electricity consumers. This is good news for the economy and ...
21 Jul 2023, 14:12 Expert Greenpeace Czech Republic Climate & CO2 Renewables Expert Greenpeace Germany Greenpeace Deutschland Climate & CO2 Jack McGovan Coal International 91tv / taz / ARD A decision by Poland’s Supreme Administrative ...
10 Jun 2020, 12:15 Extreme droughts and prolonged heat waves have significantly raised awareness of climate change dangers in Germany in the past years. And the changing weather patterns are also having a huge impact on the country's environment, as ...
08 Aug 2023, 13:33 Sören Amelang Nuclear phase-out Start-ups Industry Technology Handelsblatt German nuclear fusion start-up Marvel Fusion has blamed a lack of government support in Europe for its decision to build a laser fusion facility in the US, in a ...
15 Oct 2021, 11:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen International Die Welt German seaports could soon become key sites for the development of the country’s hydrogen economy, according to a recent report by the German Maritime Center (DMZ) in Hamburg. Hydrogen is seen ...
13 Dec 2018, 17:40 Germany is under scrutiny at the UN climate summit COP24 in Poland: the country will fail its 2020 climate target and only the next year will show if a push to phase-out coal-fired power production will result in an end date for the CO2 ...
15 Jan 2016
15 Jan 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau “Full wind speed ahead” The reason why payments for renewables have increased to 24.1 billion euros in 2015 is to be found in their success, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in a Q ...
09 Feb 2018, 00:00 The provisions on climate, energy, and transport in the coalition treaty agreed by Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democrats (SPD) recognise the big challenges of Germany’s energy transition project, but ...
14 Oct 2021, 13:27 Edgar Meza Heating 91tv Funding requests for new heating systems, energy efficient renovations and renewable energy systems are increasing in Germany, according to the Intelligent heizen (Intelligent Heating) service portal ...
05 Nov 2014
05 Nov 2014, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt Steel industry says its concerns over energy policy go unheard Various voices from the steel industry raise concerns about the Energiewende in an article in Die Welt. Industry representatives are ...
11 Oct 2021, 14:02 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics 91tv The next German government must get a great deal of ambitious policy underway very quickly to put Germany on a path towards climate neutrality by 2045 right ...
21 Sep 2023, 13:37 Jack McGovan Mobility Transport 91tv / ARD The number of passengers using inner city public transport increased by 10 percent in Germany in the first six months of 2023 compared to the same period of the previous year, ...
05 Jul 2023, 13:53 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Table.Media Germany’s coalition government has agreed a higher national CO2 price for transport and heating fuels for 2024, news site Table.Media reports citing coalition sources. The ...
17 Jul 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Society Elections & Politics Süddeutsche Zeitung / 91tv The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party’s current high results in German polls can be attributed to mainstream political parties ...
11 Mar 2022, 13:03 As president Vladimir Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine and the U.S. is preparing to ban all oil imports from Russia, calls are getting louder for Germany and Europe to follow Washington’s lead. European countries are paying ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:31 Jennifer Collins Mobility dpa / ARD The number of rail journeys in Germany has increased since the introduction of a new nationwide 'Germany ticket' in May, according to a report by news agency dpa published by broadcaster ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:25 Sören Amelang Heating Politics 91tv In a setback for Germany’s coalition government, the country’s constitutional court has stalled the rapid parliamentary adoption of the coalition’s controversial heating law. The court ...
24 Jul 2023, 13:42 Jennifer Collins Company climate claims Handelsblatt The vast majority of consumers avoid companies linked to greenwashing, a survey seen by business daily Handelsblatt has found. Some 72 percent of respondents in the survey conducted ...
07 Oct 2021, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Elections & Politics 91tv / Dlf Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock has called for speedy coalition talks with election winner SPD and the pro-business FDP to make the next German government a ...
06 Oct 2021, 14:11 Edgar Meza Renewables Elections & Politics 91tv Renewable energy industry groups have laid out a series of proposals for the incoming federal government to accelerate the expansion of green power sources. "From an ...
07 Oct 2021, 13:57 Edgar Meza Gas Tagesspiegel Background Skyrocketing gas prices in Europe are triggering panic in the market and raising concerns in German industry, Tagesspiegel Background reports. On Wednesday, the spot market price for natural gas ...
28 Sep 2017, 00:00 A ‘Jamaica’ coalition between the CDU/CSU, the FDP and the Greens is currently the only realistic scenario for a stable government in Germany, and all parties must compromise to prevent “dreadful” new elections, says long-time Merkel ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:01 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Julian Wettengel Gas energate messenger / taz The energy group Uniper no longer believes in the construction of an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal in northern German Wilhelmshaven, reports ...
05 Oct 2021, 12:04 Kerstine Appunn Electricity market 91tv The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has imposed fines of 200,000 euros on Energi Danmark and 175,000 euros on Optimax Energy for market manipulation in the wholesale ...
04 Oct 2021, 13:44 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The German Environment Agency (UBA) has called to raise the country’s greenhouse gas emission ...
18 Jul 2023, 13:49 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Society RND Public health officers in Germany have proposed to introduce a midday break akin to the Spanish ‘siesta’ to protect workers during the hottest hours of the day, media network RND reported. “We ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:32 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s quest for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a substitute for halted Russian pipeline supplies entails significant risks regarding climate change mitigation, as the country’s demand could ...
13 Sep 2023, 14:20 Jack McGovan Cars Die Welt British oil company BP wants to build around 20,000 “ultrafast” charging stations for electric cars as part of a larger investment push in Germany, reports Die Welt. By 2030, the company aims to invest a total ...
01 Oct 2021, 12:53 Expert ifo- Institute for Economic Research Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (ifo) Climate & CO2 Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Clean Energy ...
30 Sep 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt The steel industry needs financial support of 13 to 35 billion euros to make the shift to climate-friendly steel production, according to an analysis conducted by think tank Agora Energiewende and ...
18 May 2020, 18:14 The German government has agreed to remove key hurdles to the rollout of renewable energies that had begun to slow the country's landmark energy transition. The deal between chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance ...
08 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
11 Dec 2019, 13:11 Freja Eriksen Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine / Stuttgarter Nachrichten The German car industry sees itself threatened by stricter CO2 limits planned by the European Commission, Volkmar Denner, head of German car part supplier Bosch, has ...
02 Aug 2023, 14:54 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices EU 91tv [Update adds link to report] Germany has generated a record 3.89 billion euros from the sale of allowances under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ...
28 Sep 2021, 13:40 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cars 91tv Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is calling for a faster increase in the CO2 price, an earlier coal phaseout and a greater expansion of renewables. The day after the September 26 ...
12 May 2017, 00:00 In what is often dubbed “the small-scale federal election”, voters in Germany’s industrial powerhouse and most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia decide on a new government on 14 May. The exit from coal-fired power generation – a ...
28 Apr 2020, 10:59 The coronavirus crisis has put a spotlight on deteriorating transatlantic relations as both continents focus on the well-being of their own populations and U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push his America First strategy. Over ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:18 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 ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:43 In a last TV debate three days before the German elections, the representatives of almost all major parties have agreed that more rapid and effective climate protection must be a priority for the next government. At the same time, the ...
21 Sep 2021, 14:04 The German state secretary in the environment ministry, Jochen Flasbarth, has called on wealthy nations to do more on climate finance and come up with a plan to reach the target of mobilising 100 billion U.S. dollars per year for ...
22 Sep 2021, 13:44 Jessica Bateman 91tv 91tv Cars Spiegel Online The German city of Tübingen has announced SUV drivers will soon need to pay six times the current parking fees. According to an article in Spiegel Online, local Green mayor ...
04 Jul 2023, 13:25 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Germany can still achieve its 2030 climate targets as long as a number of requirements are met, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) concluded in a new report. These include the expansion ...
26 Nov 2014
26 Nov 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv FAZ/dpa “Coal sector resists Gabriel’s plans” Germany’s energy sector believes it has already done plenty to increase efficiency and reach climate protection targets, according to the German ...
17 Sep 2021, 12:40 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Kerstine Appunn Cars dpa The government’s new eligibility requirements will make it harder for people to access a government subsidy on the purchase of a plug-in hybrid ...
15 Nov 2019, 13:42 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 COP25 Stern / 91tv The earth's surface temperature will rise by three degrees Celsius under current climate targets, meaning CO2 emissions targets especially of industrialised ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:02 Carolina Kyllmann Society 91tv There is high acceptance for ambitious climate policy in Germany, although many citizens are dissatisfied with the political implementation of the energy and transport transitions, the largest ...
15 Dec 2015
15 Dec 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Climate of disillusion” German environment minister Barbara Hendricks did not manage to carry the enthusiasm from the Paris Summit to Berlin, writes Cerstin Gammelin in ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:26 Jennifer Collins Cities Politics 91tv / Tagesspiegel / RBB Berlin’s Senate has adopted a five-billion-euro climate protection fund to flow into mobility, energy efficiency in buildings, power supply and the economy. The ...
30 Jun 2023, 12:18 Julian Wettengel Adaptation Agriculture EU 91tv / Dlf / taz German farmers have called on the EU to put more emphasis on food security in its "Green Deal" strategy to become climate neutral by 2050. The farmers& ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Policy 91tv Germany’s coalition government has greenlighted a controversial reform of the country’s climate action law, which is set to effectively weaken ministerial responsibility for excessive emissions in ...
25 Jul 2023, 13:34 Carolina Kyllmann Coal 91tv Lignite projects in Germany received around 1.7 billion euros worth of support throughout 2022, according to an analysis by think tank Green Budget Germany (FÖS). Despite the country’s ambition ...
14 Jul 2023, 13:41 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind Klimareporter Rapidly rising costs could jeopardise the construction of already planned wind turbines with a total capacity of several gigawatts, news outlet klimareporter reports. Up to 4 gigawatts (GW) ...
13 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Jessica Bateman Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Tagesspiegel The head of the Federation of German Consumer ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:13 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Society 91tv / Reuters / dpa / Frankfurter Rundschau This week a campaign addressing the “true” environmental cost of food products by German supermarket chain Penny is set to receive ...
13 Nov 2019, 13:53 Government plans to tighten distance rules for onshore wind turbines are a threat to Germany's energy and climate targets, according to stark warnings by industry, trade unions and environmental NGOs. Strict minimum distances to ...
16 Sep 2021, 13:15 Kerstine Appunn Renewables pv magazine Despite experiencing a comparatively cloudy summer, Germany’s solar PV installations have generated 40.7 terawatt-hours (TWh) worth of electricity between January and August 2021, roughly the same ...
21 Jun 2023, 13:22 Sören Amelang Technology Heating 91tv Cologne energy supplier RheinEnergie is planning Europe’s largest heat pump that will use energy contained in Rhine river water to heat homes in the city centre. “RheinEnergie has ...
22 Dec 2016, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
24 Aug 2015
24 Aug 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Deutsche Welle “Renewables shift wallops traditional power plants” According to an article in the Bild Zeitung, citing the Federal Network Agency, nine more conventional power plants will be shut down than ...
09 Sep 2021, 14:08 Expert DIW- German Institute for Economic Research Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Climate & CO2 Electricity market Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & ...
08 Sep 2021, 13:50 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Utilities 91tv Undecided political issues are by far the greatest ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Adaptation dpa / Bild Germany's health minister Karl Lauterbach is set to present first proposals for a national heat protection plan to better help the population in case of heat waves, reported news agency dpa. ...
03 Jul 2023, 14:13 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 Adaptation Rheinische Post / 91tv Germany’s environment minister Steffi Lemke has called for industry to save water as drought and water shortages continue to hit in the country. “The ...
24 Oct 2014
24 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Agreement at EU summit: Merkel’s rotten climate deal” The German government wanted ambitious climate targets but only partially succeeded in pushing them through, says Gregor Peter ...
31 May 2019, 12:16 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
02 Sep 2021, 14:03 Edgar Meza Cars Hydrogen 91tv The Monopolies Commission, an independent expert committee that advises the German government and legislature on competition issues, is urging the government to ensure fair competition in the ...
21 Jan 2019, 12:26 An internal working paper by the task force responsible for proposals to cut emissions from Germany’s transport sector has stirred public controversy. Federal transport minister Andreas Scheuer, whose own ministry appointed the ...
22 Jun 2023, 13:58 Carolina Kyllmann Technology 91tv Timber is set to displace other emission-intensive building materials like cement and steel as Germany looks to decarbonise its construction sector, according to a government strategy. ...
31 Aug 2021, 13:41 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Industry dpa / Der Spiegel Tough and lengthy approval procedures are slowing down the ...
30 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Edgar Meza Solar Elections & Politics Welt am Sonntag Armin Laschet, North Rhine-Westphalia’s state premier and chancellor ...
27 Jul 2023, 13:52 Carolina Kyllmann Climate & CO2 91tv The German government has agreed on a ‘lightweight construction strategy’ set to reduce raw material consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The strategy puts forth measures to ...
06 Jul 2023, 13:43 The EU is struggling to decarbonise its buildings, most of which are heated by fossil fuels that spew planet-heating gasses. But it has the technologies to go green. The bigger problem, experts say, is overcoming the barriers to rolling ...
26 Jun 2023, 13:26 Julian Wettengel Grid Spiegel / 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) is set to substantially increase the number of permits to build planned electricity transmission lines needed for the shift to a climate-neutral ...
25 Aug 2021, 13:17 Benjamin Wehrmann Coal Elections & Politics 91tv Nearly all parties expecting to gain seats in Germany's parliament are open to completing the country's coal exit well before the official 2038 end date. At a ...
26 Aug 2021, 13:43 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 ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:40 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 91tv The energy efficiency investment index by University of Stuttgart, which assesses current and planned activities in German industry on energy efficiency twice a year, has reached a historic ...
30 Jun 2023
30 Jun 2023, 12:20 Julian Wettengel NOZ / 91tv / Zeit German environment and consumer protection minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party) supports the European Commission’s push to reign in false “greenwashing” claims by companies, she told Neue ...
25 Aug 2021, 13:16 Kerstine Appunn Agriculture 91tv Humus build-up and a more climate resilient choice of field crops are among the main targets of Germany’s new “ Arable farming strategy 2035 ”, which was presented by the Federal agriculture ...
07 Jun 2023, 13:02 Sören Amelang Government 91tv The German government spent around 1.5 billion euros on energy transition research in 2022, an increase of 13 percent compared to the previous year, said the economy ministry. “This shows how ...
07 Jul 2023, 13:14 Carolina Kyllmann Carbon market 91tv Germany’s emissions under the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) remained constant in 2022 compared to the previous year, the annual report from the German Emissions Trading ...
07 Jun 2023, 11:48 Julian Wettengel Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has decided to improve investment conditions for new electricity grid infrastructure by raising the equity interest rates for new ...
23 Aug 2021, 13:29 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 International RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland The German government is pushing for the establishment of an international climate alliance aimed at accelerating the implementation of the Paris Agreement, ...
28 May 2021, 13:29 Germany’s push to replace conventional power with renewables like wind and solar PV has not only altered its energy system and shaken up established energy utility giants, it has also turned millions of Germans into electricity ...
28 Jun 2024
28 Jun 2024, 12:00 Carolina Kyllmann Julian Wettengel Associated Press: Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU’s top jobs European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the EU’s powerful executive branch. News agency AP ...
27 Jun 2023, 12:05 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Julian Wettengel Renewables Solar Wind 91tv ...
08 May 2019, 10:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
06 Jun 2023, 13:14 Expert WWF Germany World Wide Fund For Nature Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Industry 91tv Steel and iron production plants dominate in a list of the 30 most polluting industrial facilities in Germany ...
19 Aug 2021, 13:40 Expert Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Wuppertal Institut Citizens' energy Climate & CO2 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Transport Cars 91tv A ban on sales of new combustion engines by ...
23 Dec 2016, 00:00 Germany is heading into a year filled with international top-events and elections that will determine the future course of the country’s Energiewende project. The uncertainties about the new US administration and the exact details of ...
17 Aug 2021, 13:50 Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Agriculture 91tv Promoting agroforestry, reforestation, sustainable forest management and, in particular, the rewetting of peatland soils have an important role to play in preserving and ...
28 Jun 2023, 13:36 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv A new analysis shows that domestic green hydrogen is “more competitive than expected” compared to imports of the snythic gas made with renewable power sources, which are the focus of the ...
13 Aug 2021, 13:26 Kerstine Appunn Wind Hydrogen Germany's energy ministry (BMWi) has proposed a set of rules to determine which concepts are eligible for areas for the construction of new renewable energy projects in the offshore sector in the North ...
17 Mar 2016
17 Mar 2016, 00:00 (UPDATES with new quotes from the conference. Please note: this item will be updated throughout the conference)- The world has to move from negotiations to actions on climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy after the ...
21 Jun 2023, 09:00 The governments of China and Germany have agreed to introduce a “Climate and Transformation Dialogue” to speed up their transition towards a more climate friendly economy. Fighting climate change remained a main concern for the two ...
06 Jun 2023, 12:59 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Resources & Recycling dpa / Der Stern The lack of mineral resources could become a challenge for the planned ramp-up of hydrogen industry in Germany, Europe and worldwide, news agency dpa writes in an ...
31 May 2023, 13:24 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Bioenergy Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv ...
12 Aug 2021, 13:27 Expert Uniper SE Uniper SE Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Gas Security dpa / 91tv German energy group Uniper, which is involved in the financing of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, is seeing risks for the project even after ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:04 Kerstine Appunn Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv German households are spending some 18 percent more on their energy use than a year ago, calculations by comparison website Verivox show. Compared to 2020, when the ...
10 Nov 2021, 13:00 A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the courts into a new and powerful line of defence in the fight against climate change. An increasing number of judges now consider global warming a ...
09 Aug 2021, 12:08 Expert BGE- Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung Nuclear phase-out Expert BUND- Friends of the Earth Germany Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Climate & CO2 Kerstine Appunn ...
10 Aug 2021, 13:01 Kerstine Appunn Elections & Politics Zeit Online / 91tv Following parliamentary elections in June, parties in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt have agreed on a new government coalition, Zeit online reports. ...
19 Apr 2017
19 Apr 2017, 00:00 Operators have offered to build offshore wind farms in the North Sea without relying on support payments, in Germany’s first competitive auction for the technology. Instead, the operators only will rely on the market rate for ...
26 Nov 2019, 17:36 The effects of global warming are becoming increasingly felt in Germany, shows a government report on climate change adaptation. The average air temperature in the country rose by 1.5°C from 1881 until 2018, and more frequent heat waves ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:41 Carolina Kyllmann Adaptation Coal 91tv The planned coal phase-out in eastern Germany could threaten water supply in and around the country’s capital, as significantly less groundwater will be pumped into the river Spree ...
05 Jul 2023, 14:04 Sören Amelang Transport Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Germany is set to spend less than half of the funds originally planned on the modernisation of its ailing railway system, report business daily Handelsblatt and other media outlets. ...
11 Jan 2017, 00:00 2017 will be a year filled with a multitude of seminal events for Germany's energy and climate policy. Apart from presiding over the next G20 summit, Germany will be the venue for the UN's COP23 and see legal reforms of ...
14 Jun 2023, 13:10 Jessica Bateman Heating Table.Media / 91tv The German government has reached a compromise on the shift to climate-friendly heating by effectively postponing a ban on the installation of new fossil fuel heating systems, ...
20 Jun 2023, 13:20 Expert German Economic Institute (IW) Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv An accelerating trend towards electric mobility puts German carmakers’ success ...
05 Aug 2021, 12:20 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv On the path to making industry climate neutral, corporate decision-makers in Germany call for allowing the use of “blue” hydrogen made from natural gas where the CO2 is captured and stored – ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:50 Sören Amelang Transport EU ntv Germany’s government coalition disagrees about the EU Commission’s proposal to tighten vehicle emission limits with the so-called Euro 7 regulation. Green environment minister Steffi Lemke urged for the ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:51 Expert RWE AG Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG Utilities Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Bild Zeitung The head of Germany’s largest energy company, RWE, has warned that high prices for energy due to limited ...
04 Aug 2021, 13:55 Charlotte Nijhuis Freight 91tv Electricity-based synthetic fuels – so-called power-to-x fuels (PtX) – are a “central building block” in making maritime and air transport climate-friendly, environment minister Svenja Schulze ...
10 Apr 2015
10 Apr 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Die Welt “Gabriel risks losing the coal war” A heavy storm is brewing above Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, as unions, employees, industry heads and parts of his own party rebel ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:34 Julian Wettengel International 91tv The UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on 5-15 June are set to be marked by “tough negotiations under high pressure from the fossil fuel lobby,” NGO Germanwatch said. By all indications, ...
04 Aug 2021, 13:06 Germany's energy use in the first half of this year exceeded 2020 levels, as the economy recovers from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, figures by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) show. However, total ...
03 Aug 2021, 13:53 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv / Die Welt The earnings from selling allowances in the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the German state look set to reach a new record level in 2021 ...
20 Jun 2023, 14:40 Carolina Kyllmann Freight Spiegel / 91tv Low water levels in the Rhine river as a consequence of ongoing droughts in various German regions threaten to hurt the country's economy, economists at Deutsche Bank Research ...
02 Aug 2021, 12:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background After years of dependence on imports from Asia, the time is right to push for a renaissance of the solar industry in Europe, industry representatives Christian Müller ...
30 May 2023, 13:36 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Cars Tagesschau New cars registered in the first four months of 2023 are on average emitting significantly more CO2 than those registered in 2022, writes public broadcaster ARD. Data from Germany’s ...
26 Aug 2019, 13:39 Freja Eriksen Cost & Prices Efficiency dpa / Merkur The German Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community is in favour of introducing tax incentives for homeowners who want to renovate parts of their homes to increase energy ...
30 Jul 2021, 11:35 Expert BAFA- Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle Fossil fuels Renewables Jessica Bateman Heating 91tv The German federal government has approved over 2.7 ...
29 Jun 2023, 12:34 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany’s economy ministry has proposed to extend current regulation to the extent to which gas storage facilities have to be filled at certain times of the year, said the economy ministry in a ...
19 Aug 2019, 13:13 Freja Eriksen Coal Elections & Politics Spiegel Online / dpa / Tagesspiegel Background Federal finance minister Olaf Scholz has ignited doubts about where a promised 40 billion euros of support for German regions to phase out coal ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:09 Jessica Bateman Climate & CO2 Society Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A larger number of German voters have listed climate change as a top priority following the devastating floods in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:22 James Jackson Transport Travel Talk Lufthansa, Germany’s largest airline, wants to increase the number of domestic flights to compete with rail travel and video conferencing services, the company’s sales manager, Frank Naeve, told ...
26 Jul 2021, 12:29 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 EU Tagesspiegel The European Union has set itself “a damn ambitious” greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 and must therefore quickly negotiate and implement the relevant legislation, said German ...
27 Jul 2021, 13:39 Julian Wettengel Industry WirtschaftsWoche The option to enter long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) is a location advantage for industry in Germany, said Klaus Schäfer, chief technology officer (CTO) at chemicals company Covestro, ...
11 Jul 2023, 13:40 James Jackson Wind 91tv The rollout of offshore wind in the German North and Baltic seas can be reconciled with environmental concerns, but the location of specific marine ecosystems must become a core part of the planning ...
30 May 2023, 13:15 Julian Wettengel Heating Elections & Politics 91tv / ARD / Spiegel Ahead of talks with MPs from Germany’s ruling coalition today (30 May), economy minister Robert Habeck said that a draft heating law which would impose ...
10 Jul 2023, 12:10 James Jackson Adaptation Efficiency Heating Around one in eight German households already use air-condition units, according to a survey by price comparison website Verivox. “Eighty seven percent of respondents get by without an air ...
23 Jul 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Politics International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit Green party co-leader and chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock has criticised the Nord Stream 2 agreement with the U.S. government. On 21 July, Berlin ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:19 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Plans to sell the western German coal plant operator STEAG could present a significant hurdle to government plans to pull the country’s coal exit forward to 2030, unless the company puts in place ...
20 Jul 2021, 13:14 Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German politicians are calling for investments in urban planning to better prepare cities for extreme weather events, such as the ...
21 Jul 2021, 13:24 Expert KfW Bank KfW- government-owned financing institution Fossil fuels Finance Efficiency Charlotte Nijhuis Efficiency Heating 91tv The living space per capita in Germany has grown significantly in recent years which has ...
03 Jun 2016
03 Jun 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Julian Wettengel 91tv 91tv Recharge “Thousands protest in Berlin to save Energiewende” Several thousand protesters mobilised by the renewables sector demonstrated against current government plans to reform ...
13 Jun 2018, 00:00 Germany’s policymakers have not kept pace with the energy industry’s rapid transformation caused by the Energiewende, and must catch up urgently, according to the utility association BDEW. The utilities also say that Germany needs a ...
11 Apr 2016, 00:00 [Updated 11 April with results from fourth round of solar PV auctions] Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have driven the expansion of renewable energy in Germany, but in 2014 the government decided to gradually replace them with an auction system. ...
15 Jul 2021, 13:58 Expert BWE- German Wind Energy Association Bundesverband Windenergie Citizens' energy Electricity market Business & Jobs Technology Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Renewables Wind 91tv Germany will not add ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:47 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Hydrogen 91tv Norway has said it can supply industry customers in northern Germany with so-called blue hydrogen to push the ramp-up of hydrogen infrastructure in Germany, Norwegian government ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:11 As German stakeholders eagerly await the European Commission’s proposals on overhauling the EU’s energy and climate policy, the Institute for Economic Research (ifo) has said new EU laws could mean that the country has to once again ...
14 Jul 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Mobility Cars 91tv A broad-based coalition of environmental groups and police representatives is calling for Germany’s next government to impose a general speed limit on the country’s ...
06 Dec 2016, 00:00 According to Germany’s constitutional court, the government’s 2011 decision to speed up the nuclear power phase-out was in line with constitutional requirements. Nuclear power plant operators argued the move amounted to expropriation ...
13 Jul 2021, 12:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Industry EU Handelsblatt Proposed changes to EU state aid regulations are causing concern among Germany's most energy-intensive companies that are currently benefiting from rebates that shield them from paying the ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:46 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Cost & Prices 91tv / Tagesspiegel Background The collecting of German energy companies’ windfall profits will end on 30 June. "In view of the secure electricity supply, falling ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:27 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs dpa / Die Welt Around half of all e-cars made in Germany are being produced in the eastern states, despite the region only ...
04 Aug 2023, 13:05 Julian Wettengel Utilities 91tv The government of the southern German state of Bavaria seeks to take over all hydropower plants by energy company Uniper in the region, turning them into a state-owned operating company, it ...
09 Jun 2023, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating International 91tv The French city of Strasbourg and the German town of Kehl, which are located on opposite sides of the river Rhine, are planning to connect their heating systems in a cross-border ...
19 Jul 2023, 13:23 Julian Wettengel Society EU 91tv Policies on migration and combating climate change are the most polarising topics for people surveyed in several European countries, a report by the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:14 Sören Amelang Renewables Wind 91tv Investors are willing to build offshore wind farms in German waters in the Baltic and North Sea without state support, and will now even have to pay to be awarded a contract. In the ...
19 Jun 2023, 13:12 Sören Amelang Coal International 91tv / Tagesspiegel Germany has committed an additional 200 million euros to help Colombia reach its climate targets. During the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro’s, visit to Germany, the ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:37 Expert Green Party Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics Die Zeit The German Green Party's candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, has said her party would ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:32 Expert Vattenfall Energy company Electricity market Utilities Kerstine Appunn Coal 91tv / Tagesschau The hard coal power station Moorburg in Hamburg was closed down for good on 7 July, reported public broadcaster Tagesschau ...
07 Mar 2017
07 Mar 2017, 00:00 Regardless of who will win in Germany's next federal elections, increasing energy effciency in sector coupling and mastering digitalisation will be core aspects for ensuring a successful continuation of the energy transition, says ...
08 Jul 2021, 13:33 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices Clean ...
07 Jul 2021, 13:13 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert VCI- German Chemicals Industry ...
10 Jul 2019, 12:56 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert DUH- Environmental Action Germany Deutsche ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:39 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Heating ARD A large new power-to-heat facility, running on wind energy has come into operation in the northern German city of Hamburg which is technically capable of providing about 27,000 households with low ...
03 Feb 2016
03 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Federal Environment Agency “German greenhouse gas emissions fall considerably in 2014” New data shows that Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell to 901.9 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 2014 ...
07 May 2015, 00:00 Superfluous emission allowances will be put into a market stability reserve from 2019 onwards, EU institutions agreed. The German government’s core demands have been included in the reform. But the chemicals industry fears for its ...
28 Apr 2020, 18:30 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she welcomes the proposal by the European Commission to raise the bloc’s greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 to between 50 and 55 percent. In her speech at the 11th Petersberg Climate ...
04 Feb 2016
04 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung Decision on e-car support postponed The German government has postponed the decision about how to boost e-cars until March after a high-level meeting with ...
21 Dec 2015, 00:00 Germany’s CO2 emissions have inched up in 2015 despite a rapidly increasing share of renewables in electricity production, according to first calculations by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen. The main cause for the year ...
17 May 2023, 14:09 Germany’s Green energy and climate action minister, Robert Habeck, has suffered a setback for his decarbonisation plans with the departure of his energy state secretary, Patrick Graichen. Habeck’s state secretary left his post following ...
31 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Policy dpa / n-tv The German government coalition has agreed on a draft law for reforming municipal heating regulation as part of a wider package to decarbonise the country’s heating sector, news agency dpa ...
23 May 2023, 13:15 Edgar Meza Industry 91tv Energy prices are slowly stabilising in Germany but companies continue to see them as a business risk for the coming months, shows an economic survey by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...
05 Jun 2023, 14:26 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Cities Der Spiegel District heating could help to decarbonise up to 20 million of Germany’s roughly 43 million households, if the government introduced the right subsidies and framework conditions, the industry ...
15 May 2023, 13:17 Carolina Kyllmann Grid Cost & Prices 91tv Six German state leaders have spoken out against splitting the country’s power price zone because of geographically uneven wind power capacities. Northern states had called for ...
25 Jun 2021, 13:43 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv The Citizens' Assembly on Climate, formed earlier this year and made up of 160 randomly selected German citizens, has published a list of guiding principles and recommendations on how ...
24 Jun 2021, 13:55 Edgar Meza Efficiency Die Welt Climate-neutrality in the residential building sector cannot be achieved with ever-more efficiency and insulation requirements, especially if real estate prices are to remain affordable, says the Federal ...
24 May 2023, 13:28 Carolina Kyllmann Solar Policy AFP / Tagesspiegel Installing plug-in solar run ‘balcony power plants’ in German households should be simplified through a reduction of regulatory hurdles, the country's economy ministry (BMWK) has ...
08 Jul 2019, 12:08 Financial markets can be a great accelerator for developments in the economy, but without a clear political roadmap for emissions reduction, they are unable to unleash their supporting abilities, Gerhard Schick, founder of the German ...
21 Jun 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv NGOs have called on the German government to immediately start the process of phasing out fossil gas use and set an end date for 2040 to ensure a transformation in line with the Paris Agreement ...
22 Jun 2021, 13:45 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 91tv Leading experts and representatives from civil society, environmental NGOs and industry sharply criticized the planned amendment to the German federal Climate Action Law during a public ...
31 May 2023, 13:18 Benjamin Wehrmann Adaptation Transport Business & Jobs Die Welt Chemicals producer BASF is deploying a new freight vessel adapted for low water levels in the Rhine river, newspaper Die Welt reported. Shallower water in Germany’s ...
03 Aug 2018, 08:44 Conventional power stations, like hard coal, gas-fired or nuclear plants, are forced to curb generation because of the heat wave hitting Germany. While the stability of the power system as such is not in peril and most renewables are ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:49 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Fossil fuels Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s next government after the September election must quickly introduce measures and instruments to ensure the country reaches the ...
01 Dec 2016, 00:00 Calls for Germany to take on a leadership role in international climate protection grow louder as the country’s government is set to take over the G20 presidency from China on 1 December. Commentators and politicians see the ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:27 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Technology 91tv Aside from forests and other natural greenhouse gas emission sinks, negative emissions technologies will be necessary to reach climate neutrality by mid-century, said the ...
15 Jun 2021, 10:53 Julian Wettengel Cost & Prices Elections & Politics Reuters / Tagesspiegel Background The conservative CDU/CSU union of outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel aims for an earlier switch from fixed prices to market-based prices in ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:26 Julian Wettengel Energiewende 91tv A large majority of the German public continues to support the energy transition, but financial hardships as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could dampen households’ willingness to ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:21 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Renewables 91tv The German environmental NGO umbrella association DNR and 54 other organisations are calling on the German government to back up the soon-to-be revised Climate Action Law with ...
15 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy "State Secretary Baake: 'Target triad for 2030 is the most cost-efficient and effective route to decarbonising Europe's energy system'" Ahead ...
15 Jun 2021, 10:52 Julian Wettengel Hydrogen 91tv The German economy ministry will support building up a market for green hydrogen with 900 million euros through the H2 Global Foundation, newly-set up by German industry players such as ...
15 Jun 2021, 12:51 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry 91tv Taking issue with efforts by the German government to tighten climate targets in its decision to amend the Climate Action Law, which is set to be voted on in parliament on 24 June, ...
14 Jun 2021, 12:31 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Welt am Sonntag The German government is preparing the necessary regulatory steps to make it possible to export and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in seabeds outside Germany, reports ...
16 May 2023, 13:47 Sören Amelang Hydrogen Heating Zeit Online “Hydrogen-ready” gas boilers are nothing but window dressing because they delay effective climate action, are unlikely to be ever powered by renewable gas, and could end up being very expensive ...
28 Jul 2023, 13:06 Carolina Kyllmann Cost & Prices Augsburger Allgemeine / Rheinische Post Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck wants to extend the country’s energy ‘price brakes’ until the end of March 2024 as an “insurance against rising prices” ...
14 Jun 2021, 13:07 Edgar Meza Electricity market Renewables WirtschaftsWoche German economic affairs and energy minister Peter Altmaier has said his ministry will submit new calculations for Germany’s expected energy demand in the coming years due to ...
31 Jul 2023, 13:30 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 International Dlf / Spiegel / dpa The Paris Climate Agreement’s aim to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is “politically basically no longer manageable,” Stefan Rahmstorf, climate ...
08 Dec 2014
08 Dec 2014, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Der Spiegel “Power monster eats the Chancellor” Frank Dohmen und Gerald Trautfetter in Der Spiegel say the government is under pressure to draft and pass a law on the power market design by summer ...
11 Jun 2021, 14:06 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Gas International Handelsblatt / 91tv [UPDATE adds date for Merkel visit] German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Washington, D.C. to settle the transatlantic dispute between the U.S ...
09 Jun 2021, 13:26 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Policy International Tagesspiegel Background The EU's Fit for 55 package must reconcile climate protection with a prosperous economy and leave member states with enough flexibility, the German ...
09 Jun 2023, 13:36 Benjamin Wehrmann Gas Hydrogen 91tv Italy and Germany are pushing for the construction of a new natural gas and hydrogen pipeline via Austria to strengthen inter-European energy trade- the “ SoutH2 Corridor “ project. “The ...
25 May 2023, 14:01 Sören Amelang Grid Hydrogen 91tv / dpa The German government has agreed rules to build an initial “core” hydrogen network that is set to enter operation by 2032. "Our goal is the rapid ramp-up of the hydrogen market, ...
30 Nov 2015
30 Nov 2015, 00:00 91tv 91tv Agora Energiewende “German climate goals for 2030 and 2040 require extensive coal exit” Germany must reduce coal-fired power generation by 60 percent by 2030 and phase it out almost entirely by 2040 to achieve its ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:13 Expert BMU- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (until 2025) Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit Climate & CO2 Policy Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Clean Energy ...
02 Aug 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Efficiency 91tv German primary energy consumption was down a “considerable” seven percent in the first six months of 2023 (compared to the same period last year), due to high energy prices and weak economic ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:11 Edgar Meza Solar Cities pv magazine The German capital is a step closer in making solar PV systems mandatory on residential and non-residential buildings in the city, Sandra Enkhardt writes in pv magazine. In a special meeting, the ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:18 Jessica Bateman Society Focus Online German climate activists from the Last Generation ('Letzte Generation') group are turning their attention to the “super-rich” with a number of actions on the North Sea island of Sylt. ...
08 Jun 2021, 13:08 Expert VDMA- German Engineering Federation Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Transport Freight 91tv Germany’s shipbuilding and offshore supply industry is an " ...
13 May 2019, 14:06 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Agora Energiewende / Agora Verkehrswende [This article was based on the German version of the proposals. Agora Energiewende and Agora Verkehrswende published an English version on 15 ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:37 Expert VKU- German Association of Local Utilities Verband kommunaler Unternehmen Climate & CO2 Electricity market Utilities Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s local utilities ...
25 May 2023, 13:28 Sören Amelang Policy Tagesspiegel Background The German government could revive the neglected idea of returning revenue from the national carbon price on transport and heating fuels to the population to help lower income households, ...
31 May 2023, 13:22 Benjamin Wehrmann Heating Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung About four million fossil heating systems in Germany will reach their legal runtime limit of 30 years in 2024, newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung reported based on a ...
24 Nov 2015, 00:00 The final negotiations for a global climate treaty in Paris are just days away. What is the German perspective on an international climate agreement and what has the energy transition (Energiewende) got to do with it? The Clean Energy ...
28 Nov 2018, 15:20 If Germany manages its coal exit in a socially fair way, this will not only prevent the success of populists in the country, says Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the German environment ministry. It could serve as a model for other ...
16 May 2023, 13:41 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Business & Jobs 91tv Wind power subsidiary Siemens Gamesa is weighing on the business performance of energy company Siemens Energy. The turbine maker chalked up a loss of 386 million euros in the ...
01 Jun 2021, 12:35 Julian Wettengel EU 91tv NGO Germanwatch has welcomed the Franco-German statements on climate action after the two government cabinets met virtually on Monday (31 May), but called for greater speed of cooperation. “We are ...
12 May 2023, 13:52 Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Carbon removal Der Spiegel About half of the people in Germany would accept a carbon storage site in their region, an online survey commissioned by news magazine Der Spiegel has found. In the survey ...
23 Jun 2023, 13:05 Sören Amelang Company climate claims Society dpa / 91tv The largest beer tents at Munich’s famous Oktoberfest are to become "climate-neutral" within five years at the latest, reports newswire dpa. The ...
27 May 2021, 13:25 Charlotte Nijhuis Industry Handelsblatt German industry leaders expressed concerns that Germany will lose out when it comes to building a hydrogen economy, Handelsblatt reports. "It is five to twelve," Martin Brudermüller, CEO ...
20 Nov 2019, 13:04 Following intense criticism of the German government's planned minimum distance rules for wind power by industry and environmental groups, economy minister Peter Altmaier says the government has not made a final decision on what ...
15 Oct 2018, 14:44 Germany’s renewable energy surcharge that is paid by consumers with their electricity bill and supports wind, solar, biomass and hydro power installations, is to fall by 5.7 percent in 2019, transmission grid operators have calculated. ...
13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Süddeutsche Zeitung “Deserted” 100 works councils of the four big German utilities held a crisis summit in Berlin on Thursday, Markus Balser writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Because the big ...
08 May 2023, 12:48 Julian Wettengel Industry Cost & Prices 91tv Recent examples of investment decisions on climate-friendly technologies in Germany and Europe show that the continent is on the right track to respond to the U.S. Inflation ...
02 Jun 2023, 13:31 Julian Wettengel Coal 91tv Germany will likely need several lignite power units that had been brought back online from reserve during the energy crisis last year also for the coming winter, economy minister Robert Habeck ...
25 May 2021, 13:15 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Industry Handelsblatt / 91tv The German government’s goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045 has put companies from energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, paper and cement, ...
03 Dec 2018, 11:28 Politicians across party lines, environmental and industry groups and researchers alike are in favour of a price on carbon emissions in all sectors. There is debate on details such as the pros and cons of a carbon tax versus a trading ...
08 May 2023, 13:30 Expert German Association of Towns and Municipalities Deutsche Städte- und Gemeindebund Cities Citizens' energy Society Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Heating Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Municipalities in Germany expect the ...
15 May 2023, 13:18 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv The majority of citizens in the German state of Bavaria would accept wind turbines in their vicinity under certain circumstances, a survey commissioned by the Initiative Climate ...
10 Jul 2015
10 Jul 2015, 00:00 Sven Egenter 91tv 91tv Handelsblatt Experts disappointed by government deal on coal, grid extension Most members of the Handelsblatt’s Energy Academy – a group made up of around 230 energy experts – are disappointed with ...
21 May 2021, 13:14 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Expert BMVI- Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital ...
20 May 2021, 12:31 Edgar Meza Hydrogen 91tv A new masterplan developed by three Fraunhofer research institutes outlines how a successful hydrogen industry can be developed in eastern Germany. The transition from fossil fuels to sustainably ...
27 Apr 2023, 13:00 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices Policy dpa Cities and municipalities in the state of Bavaria have demanded more money from the state government for climate protection measures, according to a dpa report in Die Zeit. The state government ...
17 May 2021, 13:31 Expert FDP- Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Elections & Politics 91tv Germany’s pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) is putting a market ...
10 May 2023, 12:23 Sören Amelang Resources & Recycling Security 91tv Germany should make its landmark energy transition more crisis-resilient by increasing independence from raw materials that are needed for climate-friendly technologies ...
15 Aug 2016, 00:00 Germany's energy ministry wants to give top priority to saving energy in its move to a renewable future. It admits the long-term targets of the energy transition, or Energiewende, will be missed with current policies, and that ...
11 May 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Süddeutsche Zeitung Undeveloped rural areas should be replaced if construction happens on them, environment minister Steffi Lemke said, calling for the quick introduction of legislation to secure and provide ...
08 Feb 2018, 00:00 Germany's would-be governing coalition partners have concluded a treaty that is likely to result in a final deadline for coal-fired power production in Germany. The agreement reached after weeks of intensive talks largely confirms ...
02 May 2023, 13:34 Expert Aurora Energy Research Bioenergy Electricity market Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2016 Energiewende Cost & Prices Finance Jessica Bateman Solar Business & Jobs Tagesspiegel Background An analysis of solar power ...
27 Apr 2023, 13:02 Edgar Meza Industry Cost & Prices Tagesspiegel Background Germany’s economy ministry is planning to present a plan for an industrial electricity price in the coming week, Tagesspiegel Background reports. Speaking in Berlin on ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:53 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Germany is likely to reach its gas storage target levels early, but a shortage risk for the coming winter remains if average temperatures drop significantly, gas storage operator INES said in a ...
07 May 2020, 09:31 Slumping power demand due to the coronavirus crisis combined with April’s strong wind and solar power production have revealed that Germany's fossil and renewable electricity generation, as well as electricity demand, need to ...
12 Jul 2023, 13:28 James Jackson Gas Heating Rheinische Post Following a government decision to postpone a ban on new oil and gas boilers, German consumer protection groups have warned people against installing fossil-fuel based heating systems. Consumers ...
06 May 2021, 13:06 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices Handelsblatt Sectors of German industry are struggling with rising carbon prices and demanding help from the government, which has made CO2 pricing a key part of its climate protection ...
06 May 2021, 13:10 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Edgar Meza Finance 91tv The German Environment Agency (UBA) is calling for more detailed environmental and climate protection ...
12 Jun 2023, 13:41 Julian Wettengel Policy Security 91tv Germany’s government will present the long-awaited National Security Strategy on Wednesday (14 June), with critical raw materials as one focus, said chancellor Olaf Scholz at the East ...
10 May 2021, 14:32 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Renewables Utilities Die Welt Germany's largest electricity producer RWE has set its sights on becoming the leading provider of renewable energy in numerous industrialised countries. In an ...
03 May 2021, 12:55 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Edgar Meza Renewables Solar Wind 91tv Germany’s latest onshore ...
18 Mar 2019, 13:58 Expert IKEM- Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility Institut für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität Climate & CO2 Renewables Transport Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Frankfurter Rundschau The German ...
15 May 2023, 13:20 Benjamin Wehrmann Elections & Politics NDR / Weser Kurier The Social Democrats (SPD) have emerged as the clear winner of the state election in Bremen, Germany’s smallest state, while the Green Party suffered its worst result in the ...
30 Apr 2021, 14:05 Sören Amelang Climate & CO2 91tv The fight against climate change and environmental degradation continues to be a top concern for Germans even during the pandemic, according to a survey commissioned by the country' ...
10 Oct 2016, 00:00 German federal states want to ensure that the sale of new diesel and petrol cars in the European Union ends by 2030, in order to protect the climate. The surprising cross-party initiative in the upper house of parliament (Bundesrat), ...
17 Apr 2023, 13:58 Sören Amelang Renewables International G20 & G7 91tv The German government and NGOs have welcomed the first G7 commitment to concrete targets for the rollout of renewables, but environmentalists also warned that the ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:09 Edgar Meza International 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany expects cooperation with Indonesia to expand and intensify in the coming years, particularly in the areas of renewable energy and raw materials, the ...
25 Apr 2023, 13:26 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv Germany’s district heating networks should be planned more efficiently in the long term and operators need better financial incentives to convert the infrastructure, so that the technology can ...
26 Apr 2021, 13:26 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Der Spiegel The vice chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group Andreas Jung is launching a new ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:12 Carolina Kyllmann Transport 91tv / Die Zeit / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany is introducing a nationwide monthly 49-euro public transport ticket which will allow users to use any regional buses or trains across the country, ...
12 Apr 2023, 13:55 Expert Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag Business & Jobs Benjamin Wehrmann Industry Cost & Prices Handelsblatt / 91tv German companies increasingly ...
01 Jun 2023, 12:17 Julian Wettengel Gas Cost & Prices 91tv Energy consumption in Germany in the first three months of 2023 was almost seven percent below that of the same period last year due to high prices and a shrunk gross domestic ...
08 Jun 2023, 13:45 Expert Destatis Federal Statistical Office- Statistisches Bundesamt Energiewende Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Wind 91tv Wind power has become Germany’s most important electricity source again in the first quarter of 2023, ...
17 May 2023, 12:53 Sören Amelang Heating Policy Stuttgarter Nachrichten The leader of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) said it was the party's imperative to prevent sharp cost increases for tenants during the shift to climate-friendly heating systems ...
04 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas EU 91tv The European Union can cut its fossil gas use in half by 2030 and fully exit the fuel by 2050 while maintaining supply security and industrial production at today’s levels without disruptive ...
12 Jun 2019, 13:26 91tv is stepping up its business coverage and exploring how the commercial landscape is being transformed by Germany's energy transition. To showcase the upheaval underway in the world’s fourth largest economy, we' ...
22 Apr 2021, 13:34 Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Expert BWE- German Wind Energy ...
20 Apr 2021, 13:04 Expert BMW- Bayerische Motoren Werke Bavarian Motor Works Transport Cars Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business ...
27 Feb 2015
27 Feb 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv LichtBlick / WWF “German citizens against coal” A survey by green energy supplier LichtBlick and environmental organisation WWF, coinciding with the launch of a new coal-fired power station in ...
19 Apr 2021, 13:38 Edgar Meza Climate & CO2 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung The parliamentary groups of German government coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD are calling for forest owners to be financially rewarded for their contribution to ...
18 Apr 2023, 13:07 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany should ensure an orderly retirement of its gas distribution grid to avoid enormous costs for consumers and billions of euros of stranded assets for operators, as the pipeline network is set ...
27 Oct 2017
27 Oct 2017, 00:00 As expected, Germany’s future energy and climate policy has emerged as the main stumbling block in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s effort to form a government coalition of her conservatives, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party. Talks got ...
03 Mar 2016
03 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang McKinsey “Energiewende Index Germany 2020 – Tour de Force nuclear exit” According to consultancy McKinsey, the government risks missing most of its 2020 energy transition targets. “A majority of indicators are pointing ...
16 Apr 2021, 13:46 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Mobility Transport dpa / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany must ramp up its transition to low-emission buses, transport minister Andreas Scheuer has said. "In order to achieve our climate targets in ...
13 Apr 2021, 12:29 Expert CDU- Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union Policy Elections & Politics Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Elections & ...
29 Mar 2016
29 Mar 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Julian Wettengel Handelsblatt “Vattenfall delays coal sale” Vattenfall has postponed the sale of its German lignite operations, insiders told Handelsblatt’s Jürgen Flauger. The Swedish utility initially planned to make a ...
31 Aug 2018, 13:36 With its vast amounts of hydro energy, many would like Norway to become Europe’s “green battery”, supplying neighbours with steady power when there is little wind or sun. An extreme heat wave and dry weather in the first half of 2018 ...
08 Feb 2019, 13:29 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Efficiency Rheinische Post Heating energy consumption in buildings of the German government has been increasing in recent years, rising from 111 kilowatt hours (kWh) per square metre in 2015 to ...
06 Aug 2015
06 Aug 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv dpa “Green state ministers criticise Gabriel’s Renewable Energy Act (EEG) reform plans” Environment and energy ministers from nine German states have warned Federal Minister for Energy and Economic ...
26 Apr 2023, 13:15 Carolina Kyllmann Gas 91tv Asset managers active in the area of sustainability see investments in liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Germany as risky, said a report by the Science Platform for Climate Protection (WPKS). Germany ...
09 Apr 2021, 12:15 Expert CSU- Christian Social Union Christlich Soziale Union in Bayern Policy Elections & Politics Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Elections & Politics Spiegel Germany needs to do more on climate, Markus Söder, leader of the ...
04 Feb 2015, 00:00 The debate over grid extensions to balance over-supply of wind power in Germany’s north with high demand in the south continues as the consulting process in Bavaria fails to yield a concrete decision on their necessity. Grid The ...
27 Apr 2023, 12:57 Expert BEE- German Renewable Energy Federation Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien Bioenergy Citizens' energy Electricity market Renewables Solar Wind Business & Jobs Carolina Kyllmann Renewables Society 91tv Energy ...
10 Feb 2016
10 Feb 2016, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Spiegel Online “Internal market analysis: EU member states’ nuclear provisions more than 100 billion euros short” An EU analysis has revealed that the member states are not well prepared for the ...
03 May 2023, 12:04 Julian Wettengel Gas Table.Media / Spiegel Germany’s government has postponed a decision to include a planned new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of the Baltic Sea island of Rügen in the country’s LNG ...
13 Jun 2023, 13:39 Carolina Kyllmann Heating 91tv The German economy and buildings ministries aim to connect 100,000 buildings to district heating annually in a bid to bring the sector closer to its climate targets. “We believe that district ...
01 Apr 2021, 13:52 Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility 91tv The German government must take into account the heterogeneity of requirements in electric commercial transport when developing charging infrastructure, the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:16 Germany will spend over 40 percent of the farming subsidies it expects to receive from the EU on climate, biodiversity and other sustainability-related practices, the country’s 16 state agriculture ministers have agreed after 33 hours ...
31 Mar 2021, 13:40 Kerstine Appunn Renewables Renewable Energy Act | EEG 91tv The German parliament has let a deadline for implementing higher renewable energy capacity targets pass, causing both energy industry stakeholders and climate ...
08 Sep 2017, 00:00 As the current legislative period draws to a close, The 91tv asked key stakeholders to review the last four years of German energy and climate policy – and tell us what they would like to see from the next government. ...
29 Mar 2021, 13:52 Kerstine Appunn Electricity 91tv German households can expect an overall increase in their energy costs despite reductions in the renewables levy on power prices, comparison website Verivox says. Due to the new CO2 charges ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:27 Sören Amelang Cost & Prices Policy 91tv Germany is spending billions on becoming climate neutral by 2045 but has no idea whether this money is well spent, according to the country’s Federal Court of Auditors ...
04 Jan 2018, 00:00 Germany enters 2018 without having found a new government, a situation that casts a cloud over all of the country’s major policy endeavours including those dealing with energy and climate. But irrespective of the unprecedented ...
26 Mar 2021, 13:48 Expert Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA) Bundesnetzagentur Electricity market Grid Cost & Prices Kerstine Appunn Grid 91tv Germany’s Federal Network Agency ...
09 May 2023, 13:10 Benjamin Wehrmann Wind Security 91tv German energy policy in the Baltic Sea region has been a major failure that will now have to be corrected through a rigorous pivot towards offshore wind power, foreign minister Annalena ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:04 Expert UBA- Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt Climate & CO2 Citizens' energy Kerstine Appunn Climate & CO2 Cost & Prices 91tv The European Energy Exchange (EEX) in Leipzig has been mandated to sell ...
25 Mar 2021, 14:02 Kerstine Appunn Hydrogen 91tv With the aim to scale hydrogen technology and ensure its integration in the energy market, a new project partnership in northern Germany will invest 1.3 million euros to create a “Clean ...
14 Apr 2023, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Cost & Prices Efficiency 91tv Most homeowners in Germany support climate-friendly modernisation of heating systems, according a survey by non-profit consultancy co2online. Nearly 80 percent said it is ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:58 Expert dena- German Energy Agency Deutsche Energie-Agentur Grid Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Technology Efficiency Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 91tv / Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany must prepare different ...
25 Mar 2021, 13:57 Expert IG BCE- Trade Union for mining, chemicals and energy industries Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Fossil fuels Business & Jobs Utilities Charlotte Nijhuis Hydrogen 91tv Germany should use hydrogen ...
22 Mar 2021, 12:16 Expert IfW- Kiel Institute for the World Economy Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Society International Kerstine Appunn Cost & Prices EU The European Union should create a “climate club” with other large emitters instead of ...
23 Mar 2021, 13:03 Julian Wettengel Cities 91tv Germany’s municipalities and the federal environment ministries have agreed that municipalities will receive better counsel and support for efforts to adapt to a changing climate. The government ...
30 Jul 2019, 10:30 Markus Söder, Bavaria’s conservative state premier, has called for climate action to be enshrined in Germany’s Basic Law, according to German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. Söder has thus embraced a long-standing demand by the Green Party, ...
24 Mar 2023, 13:47 Julian Wettengel Carbon removal Policy 91tv A German strategy on carbon capture and use (CCU) or storage (CCS) – the carbon management strategy which is currently being developed by the government with stakeholder input – ...
28 Apr 2023, 13:21 Expert BDEW-German Association of Energy and Water Industries Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft Electricity market Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Utilities Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv Renewable ...
19 Apr 2023, 13:24 Julian Wettengel Gas 91tv Germany will be able to fully fill its gas storage facilities over the summer even if only a moderate volume of the fuel is available in the EU internal market, but there is still a risk of a ...
26 May 2023, 13:38 Sören Amelang Heating Elections & Politics Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / Table.Media / 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and finance minister Christian Lindner, who leads the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), have ...
03 Apr 2023, 13:47 Germany’s coalition government has reached an agreement over rules for the transition to climate-friendly heating, settling a months-long debate over the details of a law that would de facto ban fossil heating systems. From next year, ...
18 Mar 2021, 14:03 Expert BDI- Federation of German Industries Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Business & Jobs Cost & Prices Policy Charlotte Nijhuis Climate & CO2 Heating 91tv The Federation of German Industries (BDI) wants ...
04 Apr 2023, 13:56 Edgar Meza Cost & Prices 91tv Despite an extremely mild winter, households in Germany experienced the highest heating costs ever according to an analysis by price comparison website Verivox based on data from the German ...
20 May 2020, 12:30 Implementing social distancing in trams, buses and underground trains at peak times creates massive problems for urban public transport, says Barbara Lenz, who heads the Institute of Transport Research at the German Aerospace Centre DLR ...
27 Mar 2023, 14:01 Julian Wettengel Cars EU Handelsblatt / 91tv The deal between Germany and the European Commission to allow new combustion engine cars after 2035 – if they run exclusively on e-fuels – could upset politicians’ climate policy ...
17 May 2023, 12:59 Sören Amelang Start-ups Business & Jobs Finance 91tv Venture capital investments in Germany’s start-ups specialising in climate protection technologies fell to the second highest level ever last year, according to ...
16 May 2023, 13:43 Jessica Bateman Grid Heating Germany’s electricity grid may struggle to cope with the millions of heat pumps planned for installation around the country, experts have warned. The government is aiming to connect 500,000 heat pumps to the ...
08 Sep 2015
08 Sep 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Frankfurter Rundschau Nuclear decommissioning: Environmental activists worried about security An alliance of 76 environmental groups is demanding stricter security standards and more public ...
09 Mar 2021, 13:20 Kerstine Appunn Cars Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung In setting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gases, the European Union and its member states should be careful not to forget about the impact this has on the bloc’s ...
15 Jan 2015
15 Jan 2015, 00:00 Kerstine Appunn 91tv 91tv Reuters "Merkel dashes loss-making power plants' aid hopes" Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was sceptical about capacity markets that would give extensive support to old coal fired ...
09 Aug 2016, 00:00 A study identifying potential risks for the energy transition in Germany finds the project to be overall “robust and resilient”. However, falling fossil fuel prices could pose a serious threat to the decarbonisation of Germany’s economy ...
04 Mar 2021, 12:23 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv German lobby group Rail Alliance has called for a quick ramp-up of cross-border European express and night train services as a way to replace flights and thus combat the transport sector’s ...
